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How did A&M's players do? /GMG'd

It is simple when you have the cats to line up and do what they do...now if we could just get those guys on campus! Ha

"Coach, with an older, deeper, and more talented roster than last year, how do you explain the team's lack of results on the court?" That's how you ask a question like that.

"I think the thing is still wide open".

The five "mid major" conferences remind me of the guys I used to interrogate after a drug warrant. Each of them, in a separate room, could be convinced that there was only one who could "save" him/herself by cooperating. Each an every time they sold eachother out...and all still went to jail. Often times, if they'd all just kept their mouths shut, they'd have all been ok.

There is no try. Only do or be substituted. And, yes, a miniscus tear can be recovered from. I tore mine about 5 years ago. After seeing a sports medicine and having a scan done his prognosis was "we could work on it or you could let it heal on its own."

I don't care about the Cowboys (although prefer to see the local team make good) - I root for a non-Texas team and rarely bring it up. But, big news, I am specifically rooting against *you* this weekend because you are terrible (at least in regards to this crap.) Funny how we rarely heard about the inferiority complex here for years until America's #1 bad boy of in-game cussing showed up and learned us a lesson or two about sports rootin'? I also blame you for Cougar King.

I'll be sure to let my superiors know that my being assigned to work is frowned upon by UNT athetics' resident unpaid mouthpiece. I'm sure they'll get right on allowing me to show up so that I can ask the tough penetrating questions. Tell me, since you believe that NOBODY should be fired for lack of performance...if DPD decides to let me go because I didn't show up to work, will you pump some sunshine up their asses on my behalf? I know, why don't you suggest to them that I was underperforming because they didn't throw more money at me? You know, a few of them are NT grads. Don't miss your chance to tell them how our sports teams are underperforming because they're not writing checks. Oooor, you could finally come to the realization that a great many people are frustrated...don't give a rat's ass about your browbeating...and will continue to vent on a FAN MESSAGE BOARD, despite your silly protestations. I don't respond to you because I dislike you. I think you're swell. Silly, but swell. I respond because it amuses me to see you perpetually trot out the same company line as if an "S" is gonna magically appear on your chest and you'll get a cookie at the next quarterly meeting (those still happen, right?). You're a caricature, a sadly skewed depiction of a cheerleader chanting to an empty stadium.

It should. I seriously doubt UNT markets its Athletic Dept like these people do. UTSA knows what they are doing as evidenced by their seamless entry into FBS football.

A green light, if you will.

Well, how can you expect to compete in the ratings when you are up against the beginning of the 24-hours of A Christmas Story marathon on TBS?

LOL! (but not too loud lest the kids hear, right)? GMG!

Just a question....would you be leading the exodus?

He's our only hope?

There's some good news/bad news as it pertains to Antoine and TCU. Bad News is Josh Boyce is leaving early for the NFL and S Jaime Byrd is transferring out. So that both pushes a WR up their depth chart and opens up a scholly for Antoine. Good News is Quincy Adoboyejo decommitted from A&M and likes TCU and Tech. If TCU decides to target a WR he would definitely be their priority over Antoine. While TCU is still stacked at WR, they could use a 2013 recruit as a redshirt guy as their WR corps will consist of 5 JRs and 2 Sophs.

I've been in favor of a "draft" of some sort for years. I think all kids should either sign up for military duty as a full time or a reserve, become a police explorer or junior fire fighter, volunteer at a hostpital, join the peace corp, habitiat for humanity, etc. for a couple of years. Some of those options would allow for kids to go to college or join the workforce while they complete their requirement. I think all of us need to learn that we should serve our fellow man.

The tournament?

That might not be so bad...

I'm a North Texas fan, thank you. Which is not exactly a glamorous title. But it's where I CHOSE to go to school. It wasn't a backup plan. It's where my money goes. It's where my heart lies. I find it strange our alleged super fans are posting topic after topic fawning over the Aggies, but hey, maybe that's just the Mean Green in me.

The following full page shows how seroius UTSA is in marketing their football program. Below you will see a full marketing department staff & services found on their official athletic department website. _______________________________________________________________ Anyone else want to chance getting as blown away as I was after I finally got thru reading UTSA's entire page about their athletic marketing staff and all ancillary service groups under its banner? With their success at the turnstiles, didn't we all kinda' figure they might have a full marketing department? With our CUSA membership, is it finally time for UNT to get in the game? We can only hope. Anyone else want to make a small wager that this UTSA marketing staff has already begun marketing 2013 Game Days and ticket sales for Fall, 2013? http://www.goutsa.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=13100&ATCLID=205499850 UTSA Athletics Marketing They can't do all this--can they? No 5 to 10 year plan? UTSA Athletics Marketing’s primary goal is to promote and increase support for all UTSA athletics programs and our student-athletes. The marketing focal point is on the development of sponsorships, programming and advertising opportunities that engage our teams, university and community; to promote the Roadrunners brand on campus; create a home-field advantage with an exciting yet respectful game day atmosphere; strive to maintain a positive public image and continue our work as the external affairs department to reach out to San Antonio as a whole and develop Roadrunners fans throughout the city and South Texas. Corporate, Community Relations, Marketing, Promotions & Ticketing Staff (Hide the razor blades, please) Name Position Phone (area code 210) Email Jim Goodman Associate AD/Marketing 458-5026 jim.goodman@utsa.edu Stephanie Hill Senior Marketing Associate 458-4182 stephanie.hill@utsa.edu Jason Gregory Spirit Coordinator 458-6662 jason.gregory@utsa.edu Sara Wright General Manager/ Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. 458-6243 swright@nelligansports.com Kevin Kassian Sales & Marketing Coordinator/ Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. 458-8035 kevin.kassian@utsa.edu Sam Planto Assistant/Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. 458-8042 sam.planto@utsa.edu Brian Fox Assistant AD/Ticket Manager 458-8872 brian.fox@utsa.edu Charles Pettis Assistant Ticket Manager 458-6750 charles.pettis@utsa.edu Aaron Johnson General Manager/IMG Learfield Ticket Solutions 458-4188 aaron.johnson@utsa.edu Jon Blackwell IMG Learfield Sales 458-4164 jon.blackwell@utsa.edu Jeff Eisenbaum IMG Learfield Sales 458-8511 jonathan.garfunkel@utsa.edu Jonathan Garfunkel IMG Learfield Sales 458-8036 jonathan.garfunkel@utsa.edu Sammie Martinek IMG Learfield Sales 458-4646 samantha.nakama@utsa.edu Internship & volunteer opportunities UTSA offers a unique opportunity for interested, motivated people to work within its athletics department. Our Roadrunners Internship and Volunteer Program provides professionals and students with valuable experience that will benefit their pursuit of a career in almost any field. Our internship and volunteer opportunities are awarded to people with initiative, dedication, a strong work ethic and a sincere interest in UTSA Athletics. For available positions, contact Senior Marketing Associate Stephanie Hill atstephanie.hill@utsa.edu or (210) 458-4182 . Roadrunners Sports Network The Roadrunners Sports Network (RSN) works with Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc., the marketing and multimedia rights holder for UTSA Athletics, to ensure our sponsors and our fans are provided with a quality broadcast and fan experience with our various media platforms. RSN, in conjunction with Lone Star Productions, produced “UTSA Football, The Birth of a Program," a six-part episodic show that ran on FOX Sports (FS) Southwest. That collaboration is continuing with “UTSA Football Insider,” which will air on FS Southwest, along with other media outlets. For sponsorship opportunities for “UTSA Football Insider,” contact RSN Executive Director Jim Goodman at jim.goodman@utsa.edu or (210) 458-5026. Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. Interested in becoming a sponsor of UTSA Athletics? When you join the Roadrunners team as a corporate sponsor, you become affiliated with a university as solid in its athletics as in its academics..............Tabbed as “the rising star of Texas,” UTSA is en route to becoming the nation’s next Tier One University. As an athletics sponsor, you have the ability to target specific groups and demographics, including a population of more than 30,000 students and 3,500 faculty and staff members, as well as plenty of loyal fans throughout the San Antonio area and the Lone Star State. By partnering with an athletics department committed to excellence, you can be assured that your sponsorship will effectively endorse, advertise and market your company not only locally, but also regionally and nationally. Known for its involvement in hosting NCAA Championship events, UTSA, along with San Antonio, has hosted three Men’s Final Fours, two Women’s Final Fours, a pair of Women's Volleyball Championships and a total of 14 NCAA Championship events since 1997. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor for UTSA Athletics, contact Sara Wright at swright@nelligansports.com or (210) 458-6243. About Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. UTSA has partnered with Nelligan Sports Marketing, Inc. (NSM) to manage its exclusive athletics marketing rights. NSM provides sales and marketing expertise for sports properties worldwide. NSM is dedicated to building long-term relationships with clients through exceptional management of the properties represented and by maximizing growth through their corporate relationships. NSM’s high-level sales executives have a proven track record of exceptional revenue growth and management of the sports properties represented. How to become a UTSA Athletics corporate partner If you are interested in being a partner of UTSA Athletics and reaching the college sports demographic, please contact Sara Wright at swright@nelligansports.com or (210) 458-6243 to discuss the current opportunities available and a potential corporate sponsorship program. We customize every sponsorship to maximize your organization’s goals and objectives. UTSA Athletics offers a wide range of options to reach your market, including radio, signage, print, Internet and promotions. IMG Learfield Ticket Solutions IMG College and Learfield Sports have formed a joint venture providing colleges and universities nationwide an outsourced ticket sales solution designed to increase attendance and revenues generated from athletics events, as well as choice and convenience when fans purchase tickets. UTSA toppled South Florida’s start-up program inaugural game attendance record with 56,743 fans in the Alamodome on Sept. 3 and it was a larger crowd than several programs from Bowl Championship Series conferences. In fact, it ranked 23rd among all NCAA Division I schools on the opening weekend of play. The Roadrunners drew a total of 213,126 fans in their six home games for an average of 35,521 and that broke the previous NCAA start-up program record of 33,038 set by South Florida in 1997. IMG Learfield sold more than 10,000 group tickets for the 2011 season, which translated to more than $150,000 in revenue. UTSA has added more than 1,500 new season ticket holders for the 2012 season in addition to the 12,000 from its inaugural campaign. To date, IMG Learfield has generated more than $2.7 million in ticket sales to go along with $1.7 million in donations.

Thinking back over Harry's Epistle on realignment which was a great hammer/nail effort. The Gang of Five (particularly Big East) are being driven by trying to do what the Rich 5 do. The problem with that is there is apparently insufficent value to drive a big national contract. Clearly nothing that remotely touches what the Rich 5 have and debatable that it can be significantly greater than CUSA much less MWC. The only hope is that a newer player to the market (NBC Sports, the new Fox) will pay a premium merely to secure content and believes that there are enough national viewers vs any other available content to justify paying extra to lock that content in. This would require an NBCS vs. FoxS bidding war because ESPN will drop out quickly unless they want to pay a premium to keep NBCS or FoxS for getting it. I think ESPN drops out early because they aren't going to over-pay after Big East rejected the big offer. So if you have a Big East that is now in the CUSA/Sun Belt/MAC realm of the nation deal being less about money and more about exposure, how do you drive maximum revenue? With regional TV. Drawing 1% of the national audience on a national channel gets you no premium, but let's say that you can draw the same number of viewers by only being available in 10% of the national market. Now you are drawing 10% of potential households for the network. That makes it more valuable for the network. Look at Fox SW. It's divided into five zones that will carry different pro-content based on the NBA territorial limits but otherwise runs identical content across the zones as long as some black-out restriction or schedule conflict does not arise. The Fox SW coverage area is: Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas with all but a sliver of Arkansas (during the NBA season due to territorial limits), parts of the Gulf Coast regions of Mississippi, Alabama and northern Florida (mainly again NBA territorial limits). With a teams in each of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas you've covered virtually the entire Fox SW system. Add a school near the Mississippi gulf coast and one in the far edge of Texas or southern New Mexico and you've covered every area of Fox SW coverage except the Alabama/Florida gulf coast area receiving Hornets coverage on Fox SW. Fox SW covers 10.898% of the nations market. With UTEP, Houston, Rice, SMU, UNT, UTSA, Tulsa, Tulane, ULL, La.Tech, Arkansas State, and Southern Miss you have a league that is present or reasonably strong in markets that make up 7.977% of the national market or 73% of the Fox SW market with areas I consider absent being Oklahoma City, Austin, Waco, Baton Rouge, Tyler, Corpus Christi, Amarillo, Lubbock, Wichita Falls, Abiliene, Laredo, and San Angelo. I would think it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to assemble an over the air syndicated network across a big portion of this area and tap into local advertising dollars.

I think their marketing plan is actually very similar to what we should have. We already do a good bit of this and just don't tell everyone about it. I had a marketing internship with UNT Athletics in oh, 2002 I think? Emmitt helped me with my projects and it was awesome. The one big thing that they are doing that I haven't heard of us paralleling (who knows, maybe we are and I just haven't heard) is the partnership with the firm. Paul L--something, the guy who turned our Career Opportunities Center around and helped direct it towards what it now has become, this is the kind of thing he really made a push for us to do. I don't know if he left for something better or got pressured to leave, but he was one of those guys who really passionately believed that North Texas could be the bigger, brighter, better version of ourselves than we had ever been. I think the big key to efficiency behind a plan like this is to have one or two internal marketing people liaise with the firm in order to provide direction as to the overall desired breadth and depth of the plan and then have the firm provide the legwork and details, with payment in the form of revenue sharing so that they are driven to do well and we are not paying anything out-of-pocket if the results are less than was desired.

And I had a geology professor who believed if the arctic ice melted from global warming it would just cool the water...seems kinda comparable.

We are starting the ceramic tile in the bathrooms on Monday. I will take some pictures and try to upload them then. I have had some trouble in the past compressing them and getting them to post. So any help on how that is done please let me know. Otherwise I will email them to Harry and he can put them up for me.

Have no idea of a timeline, but at some point I really do think ASU and ULaLa (or U of L) will be part of the new CUSA. I also think when that happens that the Sun Belt will have to hustle to stay in business. GMG!

On the bright side, Benford can only sub so many times with limited numbers on the bench...

This will look awesome next to my Marcus Dupree poster....

Yes and no. 25 is the max per year. But this could make sense if A&M somehow offset the other 9 in another class. I don't know what's going on, just suggesting that numbers from previous classes can have carryover.

Jim, I'm delighted that you got your shot. You still have to avoid crowds of people for two weeks, which is the how long it takes the vaccine to get into your system. In light of the business that you're in, that could pose a problem.

Bowl-less again nasty? Or another, you're not still blithering on about false Houston hopes on a North Texas message board, kind of nasty?

Sweet, thanks

always cracks me up when someone uses that comparison. Maybe could make some money letting people spread their ashes or for enough cash bury 'em like Reville.

He's definitely good for sage advice. Not sure that can help us beat a 2-3 zone however. I do think his quote about "Who is the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" is apropos is regard to those that defend Benford though.

Will we ball on Shabbos?

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player/gamelog/_/id/28332/tony-worrell Come on, coach!!!!

Congratulations! Well deserved.

The women are playing for first place in the west. Way more important of a game.

And then the Cardinals, Rams, Panthers, Seahawks and Falcons fans are going to realize this is the rare argument that they can show up to unannounced and just laugh at everyone.

And I'm going to tell them about our 2 playoff wins in 11 years and their 1 in 16 years. And the fact they haven't won a Super Bowl during our existence.

Are the pictures invisible?

I think we can all agree that the winner of the SEC should automatically be awarded a NC Trophy. Also whoever wins the BCS NC Game should be awarded a NC Trophy. Also whoever may have happened to defeat either the winner of the SEC or the winner of the BCS NC Game during the season should also be awarded a NC Trophy. Its the only fair way to do it.

Well, if you ever came you would know that the open mic is indeed "open". At times they all but beg for folks to come to the open mic...at least they did during the Coach Mac Shows..hard to "censor" a guy's question that just walks up to the mic. And, FYI...I have never asked an open mic question...so, have no clue if mine would be answered or not or if I would be "turned away". Have never seen anyone "turned away". You know, Sarge, folks do come from Dallas for the shows, so the highway is open for you to come and see first hand how these things work these days instead of just throwing out some childish barb at me all the time. What's interesting to me is that all those who "want answers" and have all this, often negative, stuff to say here on GMG.Com never seem willing to show up and ask those questions to the coach or someone who might could actually answer them. And, like GrandGreen said...what in the heck do you want them to say anyway? You want RV to throw Benford under the bus in public? Not going to happen and should not! You want some public mea culpa from RV or from Benford or from Mac? Not going to happen...what dream world are you living in? And, again, FYI...I rarely attend the BB Coach Show. Probably should, may well, this season, but just have been a tad busy...but did make all but one of the Coach Mac Shows...unfortunately the one where Coach Mac bought everyone in attendance a beer! Bummer. But, you are free to attend and see how this works now, and so is anyone who wants "an answer"...try the open mic. They can't ignore the question in an open mic very well, but the real question is...will anyone ask that kind of question in person in public? Hmmmmm..I am certain of one thing, however, you will find yet another way to send a little positive comment my way. Things

... so those regional rivals i have been extremely excited about could be gone after next year? I don't know how... but I know Benford was involved in this...

Maybe the experienced assistant coaches are reporting rules violations in order to keep only 3 scholarship players on the bench, therefore limiting the mass, confused substitutions of the head coach.

Benford having to suspend players is a sign that he is losing the player's attention and losing control of the team. But I wouldn't expect you to understand that, Skivandude.

I completely understand, who isnt very interested in coming to UNT...we're on a 8 year bowl less streak