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Glad my alma mater finally made it into my tournament...now go on and win the CBL championship!

I remember when our participation in the CBI was announced, some questioned if the $40000 paid was money well spent on a lower tier tournament. Thank God the administration invested in this tourney. The extra playing time, practice time, home games with boosted attendance, the return of Duffy, and a chance to win a championship have been invaluable. Not to mention that we can expect boosted attendance next season due to the new winning ways and "fun" style of bball. Without the CBI, we would not have any of this and would have ended the season on a bummer.

My daughter wanted a pic with everyone. We had the best time. The team and the staff did a fantastic job creating a fun, exciting, and family friendly environment. Dilly Dilly!

Everyone wants to be a part of the winning. Just goes to show what real winning can do for any program regardless of the state of the program of fan base.

NCAA Tournament anytime over the CBI. I'd take a NIT Championship over a NCAA appearance though.

Bunch of whining in here. I have had more contact from the school and AD this year than in any year from the past 20... And probably more than just the last 5 years combined. Quit the pessimism

Yeah got my Master's in 2015, and was a manager with the MBB program for the 14-15 season under Coach Benford.

It's just an algorithm.

No, we break it this week.

Does CBS 11 have a lot of UNT grads working there? I see we get more love from CBS11 than any other channel.

You mean when Clinton left with a republican congress? ...but the Obama administration tripling the dept gets a pass from you, right? At least I try and hold BOTH sides of the aisle accountable. I'm sick of it from all of them. That's all I'm saying. The GOP ran as conservatives, then acted like Libs. They'll pay for it in November, and they should. Rick

Remember who won the CBI in 2015

7 of 8 of those were by George "The Archer" King, who I brought to the Jacksonville State game the other night. He kept saying..."I sure would have loved to have played in an offense like this". Rick

I think Gonzaga realizes that playing in a better league will help them more down the road when it comes to getting at-large bids. The screw job St. Mary’s has gotten twice as an at-large team has really been eye-opening to just how weak the rest of the WCC is perceived to be. Unless BYU has a decent team, nobody else gets much respect or attention.

I really hope they can get the ball in Guyton’s hands at least 8-10 times a game

There will be more reaction from North Texas Spring Game on CBS 11 News at 10pm (Should hit around 10:38pm)

He isn't ready and is under qualified for that spot. This has shaken the HS coaching ranks.

Positives.... O-line looks to be improved. I am not as concerned about them as I was at this time last season. Fine looks healthy and sharp. He has good chemistry with the receivers. I think we can continue to throw on most teams. Negatives... Our defense continues to worry me. When starters were on the field and everyone was serious, our D couldn't make plays. Tackling looked bad on too many plays. The secondary seems the weakest part of our defense...again. I don't believe we have a running back in on our team that can replace Wilson. In all honesty, I don't believe the platoon philosophy will be able to replace Wilson's production either. Our kicking game needs to get much better. We are probably still waiting for some late transfers and we have a long time before next season, so I'm not worried yet.

That was more of the defense making a mistake than the kid making a play. Seems like confusion over who had outside contain.

That's the thing, he's going to have to better shooting the ball from 18 feet and in. His FTs will need work as well. But athletically kid is pretty gifted.

I refuse to be cocky about this. I know they couldn't keep up with the speed/shooting we've demonstrated thus far, I just worry that at some point we'll get gassed and/or shooting simmers down. Hope it's not next week.

This is very true. How many of you: Have friends and family that are certain you are the biggest Mean Green fan EVER Find it as almost a novelty that you follow the team "You have season tickets?!" "You go to Every game??!" Ask you about the team with almost a smirk on their face

Until very, very recently, Athletics has been treated with disdain by the BOR and administration. He faculty hated its existence, mostly, so it easily spread to The student body/alumni. And the previous AD was lazy as hell, but kept his job for 15 years because he stayed in his meager budget every year and never complained about the lack of funding. Everything was all about cost...known costs, not opportunity costs. Thankfully, it appears that this line of thinking is finally changing at the top, so it will filter down accordingly.

No, but I don't think that there are many defenses that can dominate our offense; especially our second team defense. They did seem to improve as the scrimmage wore on but it appears that our offense is so good that many times when the defense was covering they were still able to make the play. Recognition seemed good but one cause for concern was broken tackles. We have some backs and receivers that if you don't wrap up, they'll get additional yardage or even break clear. To me, this defense seems a little quicker and will become even more so this fall when more speed arrives. Also, I'm still waiting to see English and hoping that he'll be both a dominant player and a spiritual leader for the defense this coming season.

I know it's a small religious school, but read about the school apathy and tell me it doesn't sound like NT. https://sports.yahoo.com/pandemonium-disbelief-loyola-final-four-run-even-loyola-never-dreamt-070608487.html

Our future. Rick

Just like the black uniforms? Boom! Down goes Harry. Plus 1 for DeepGreen. LOL!

Maybe there's hope after all.

It's about money. The Zags are bringing it in, the WCC is dividing it up.

When I was in high school, I played against Orlando Smart a couple of times. To this day I think he is probably one of the best basketball players I've seen in real life. I think he set the NCAA record for assist at San Francisco.

Dilly Dilly

Part of me is surprised, just because the WCC hasn't seemed to really hold Gonzaga back. They've made four straight Sweet 16s and played in the National Title game last year. However, the MWC is generally a stronger league.

I'll always take winning over losing. But going into a tournament, you never know what's going to happen.

I thought Greg White looked good. I'd like to see a set with Guyton, Bussey and White on the field at the same time. Bussey looked bigger/stronger than last year. Novil made some good plays on the d-line as did Siggers at safety.

Athletic Director reassigned. This is where TD or Lineweaver end up.

Mike Law was out due to injury as was Jaelen Darden. Torrey did look good but I thought all the RBs showed a little something. Hosley had some nice runs as did the kid from SFA.

@GreenGuy123 How much do you think Miller's new place in the starting 5 has impacted things?

The difference between us winning this thing or not is Duffy. Him healthy has been the missing piece to our offense. We look like a different team when he's on the court. If he can play like he has been, I'm confident.

He certainly could do that. And hopefully he learned a valuable lesson from his father's unsuccessful trajectory toward a college coaching career. The correct order is: Successful high school H.C. --> college assistant --> college coordinator --> college H.C. --> win

You have to pass it before you can read it. Where have I heard that before? Seriously though, this continuing deficit is like a bad disease.

Come watch the Mean Green Mens Basketball CBI championship this Monday at 9pm at East Side Denton, TX. We are the official UNT watching party. Championship is best of 3 so we will be giving away tickets for the home game on Wednesday at the Super Pit. #gmg https://www.facebook.com/events/1870257796380643/?ti=cl

It is a place for people who either are ready to buy into wide-eyed groupspeak nonsense or are willing to proclaim it despite knowing it’s nonsense. And I’m not talking about the actual spiritual stuff. All that sadness we read about Liberty and shutting down the naysayers; Liberty didn’t invent that.

It could get a little chippy. Here is a sneak preview of Eagles vs. Dons:

There is absolutely no doubt RV hid the numbers. When Cerebrus posted the article that showed we had increased membership by something like 764 in the MGC 2014, he figured out that we had gotten less than 1% of alumni in that 12 year time frame to join. That s almost impossible to do, unless you just aren't trying--which we now know he wasn't. RV knew that the BOR and administration didn't care, they just didn't want the thing costing money more than what they allocated. As costs still kept going up, he got 17 people to fund his extra stuff by selling them on "access". It took some time, but eventually, the right hire (i.e. Smatresk) finally corrected the multitude of wrong hires and wrong decisions that had been made under RV's watch. Wren Baker is breath of fresh air. He knows he has the full backing of Neal Smatresk. And Seth Littrell and Grant McCasland are the fruits of making legitimately good hires. And, no, RV had nothing to do with Littrell's hire. I really think the future here is about as bright as it can be for our athletic programs. Yes, we are still below where I believe we need to be, conference-wise, and there may not be anything we can do about it, to be frank. SMU keeps us from AAC membership. Who knows what ends up happening with TCU in the future, but the MWC could easily be their home in the years ahead when the Big XII GOR expires. If that happens, and we don't get into the AAC or MWC or whatever league comes from the remainder of the Big XII, I am not sure what that means. But, for now, for the next 5 years, in my opinion, things look really promising here. An we haven't said that about both main revenue sports, simultaneously, in forever. And it might just be what keeps us in the highest level of FBS play in the years ahead when the future culling occurs.

I have family members who went to Baylor. With the latest being a niece who graduated in 2015 and took my kids to games in Waco. My Daughter, who is a High School Junior and wants to be an Athletic Trainer in college on her way to becoming a sports medicine doctor. Has wanted to go to Baylor since 2011 with UNT as her second choice. Last week as she was working on gathering admissions info so she could apply and I asked her about the Baylor Sports Medicine program, she looked at me, shrugged and said "dad, I am not sure that I want to be associated with Baylor at this point". Now her top choices are UNT, UT, and A&M. My son who is a Senior this year, and had Baylor in his top five 2 years ago has said that he would never go to Baylor. Both have stated that most of their friends do not even have Baylor on their list of schools to apply. For people who say athletics is not a window in to the university the academics are, in my house Baylor has gone from top choice to not even apply in the last 4 years due to the behavior of the athletics department.

I think an impact 'newcomer' is already on campus. Umoj Gibson is going to be cutting into Woolridge's time next year if he recovers from his ankle injury OK. He's a really nice player.

Well...gee...imagine that! LOL!!

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You should factor in all the under thrown balls too Rico.