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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.

Going through it on Page 2 I see the CUSA schools showing their Total Alumni and athletic donors and the annual fund contributions. I was shocked and saddened by the chart. UNT has the largest Alumni and fewest donors to the athletic department and we are dead last in Annual Fund Contributions. What is our problem and dont say winning is the answer, UTEP and UTSA are both killing us. I don't understand our alumni base and the city of denton.

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/law-policy/rhule-baylor-football-players-separated-from-team.html I feel for Coach Rhule, but I disagree with his comment stating that this is not a "Baylor" problem. Hmmm, it appears it is.

Interesting article North Texas is mentioned as well as UTEP, UTSA and Rice. https://mwwire.com/2018/03/19/a-16-team-mountain-west-maybe/

DRC: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/03/24/five-quick-thoughts-unts-spring-game

Don't like the early start to Spring ball, but it gets me pumped nevertheless. I was not able to attend unfortunately. Out of town. Can someone give a little more in depth analysis of today...No offense @Brett Vito. #GMG

Noticed converted TE, Jamie King, on the field at LB a lot. Will be interesting to see if he can crack the 2 deep in the Fall.

Good Lord I love football but it's these stories that make me think this is the greatest post-season in all of sports.

Only question that matters: Did our defense dominate the day? Rick

NT final four 2021!

Our crowd against Jacksonville State (2,800) is actually the third biggest home crowd of the CBI and CIT this year. Grand Canyon had 5,900 (all numbers in this post rounded) for their CBI round of 16 loss to Mercer. Drake has 3,600 for their CIT first round win against Abilene Christian. If we win in SF tomorrow I think we top 4,000 Wednesday.

We have shot over 70% from 3, three times. The highest is .818 against Texas State in 2010 (only 11 attempts), followed by .722 against Nichols in 1994 (not sure how many attempts but no more than 12 makes so less than 20 tries based on %), and .714 against Denver in 2011 (7 attempts).

Ah ah duh!

Wonder if Lineweaver was an insurance add on?

It wouldn’t be a North Texas softball game without a little drama involved and there was plenty to go around as the Mean Green topped the Louisiana Tech University in View Full Article

I lean towards NCAA, but I have some thoughts I think our exposure might be greater if we are a 8-14 seed, rather than a 15-16 seed. The latter is rarely given a second thought because everyone just expects you to get plastered by the 1/2 seeds. So, if we'd be a 15 or 16 I would lean more towards NIT. Totally guessing though and I like this thread.

Really? Can't they just tell us the players' names?

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I hope his relationship with North Texas is good. He was a warrior here but the fact that his degree is from McNeese always troubled me. I know why. I just wish his degree was green rather than blue. GO MEAN GREEN

Time after time this spring season, the North Texas men’s golf team has shown a certain resilience which has caught the eye of teams around the nation. Not only are View Full Article

The USF-Campbell score (I kinda wanted to play a school that had a Camel as a mascot. And what is a Don ? ) indicates that these teams were closely matched. While I have heard of San Francisco, I don't think I really was aware of USF. Campbell, Mercer, Jacksonville State, etc are all teams that don't seem to get a lot of press, at least in this part of the world. I think North Texas is easily the class of the College Basketball Invitational tourney. I can't find the attendance stat for last night's game. I would assume the Thursday night attendance would be about the same we would expect on Monday night in San Francisco. Where, by the way, little cable cars climb half way to the star. Beat Don Corleone, Don Drapper, and the SF Dons GO MEAN GREEN

I'm going to go over this again.......for the umpteenth time. Please pay attention. We are in this situation because HISTORICALLY we have been the "best-little-teachers-college-we-can-be-so-there's-no-reason-to-solicit-outside-funds......for anything-school". It's been that way since North Texas was founded and continued on until the Presidency of one James Carl Matthews (1951-1968). So that has been 78 years. All of those presidents may have been very religious men, but when it comes to the outside fundraising issue.....they've all been a bunch of heathens. I've heard more than one story from credible sources where Dr. Matthews refused to accept money, or refused to consider accepting money, from alumni to start scholarship funds etc. Dr. Matthews attitude was "we get enough money from the state to run this school and we don't need to raise any additional funds". I'm told that he refused to allow a Mean Green Club-like organization to be created. He (allegedly) stated that the University gives the athletic department an adequate budget to operate under and there is no need for additional funding. Finally that changed (in theory) when Dr. Matthews retired and whoever was in charge of replacing him decided that we needed a President who was more in the present. Initially that guy was John Kemerick who only lasted until 1970 when his anti-Vietnam war views got him in trouble with the Governor and he was forced to resign. John Carter served as interim until the next president was hired. C.C. "Jitter" Nolan was hired next. And it wasn't because he was an outstanding academic. He was known to be a very good fund raiser and that is what he set about doing. He had only a bachelors degree, so all of the "academics/ Dr. Matthews minions" at North Texas were very unhappy with the hire. During his tenure he was the one who figured out how to hire Hayden Fry. Fry subsequently started the Mean Green Club.....around 1973. I don't know this for sure, but I suspect that Nolan was responsible for the University creating it's endowment fund. Anyway, to shorten this rant, not long after Fry left for Iowa the academics ganged up on Nolan and ran him out of town. Since then, any attempts to have a consistent fund raising program for athletics has gone in fits and starts. IMHO, thanks to the "old nesters" still embedded in administrative posts, fund raising for athletics has never been either a priority, or consistent. It's only been in very recent history that that "cultural" change that we've needed to happen for decades is finally happening. SO, to summarize, it's been in our DNA to not fund raise and getting that out of our system has been/will be a long process. But this Mean Green guide represents (IMHO) a significant change in engagement with fans.

I think Tope will surprise alot of folks by next year. Kid is still pretty Green to the game of basketball. I like how strong Tope is around the rim. We need Simmons to adopt that same approach to the weight room.

DRC: UNT will host two games in three-game series http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/03/22/north-texas-face-san-francisco-cbi-finals

PG - Ryan Woolridge SG - Roosevelt Smart SG/SF - Chris Davis PF - Tony Mitchell C - George Odufuwa Bench PG - Josh White SG - Calvin Watson SG/SF - Tristan Thompson PF - Jeremy Combs C - Shawnson Johnson Maybe Jordan Williams instead of Jeremy Combs as a stretch 4 off the bench. Leaving Combs because I think I have enough shooting on the bench with these guys.

I'd rather see several other projects completed before a new b-ball arena though. Tennis still needs a Center court, upgrades at ALL facilities on the old Liberty campus. Upgrades to the Athletics Center (especially the weightroom & lockerroom). Heck, I'd rather see baseball started up before a new b-ball arena.

Bullshit. There is no denying that Baylor has a special version of such problem. They just need to be shut down. I mean, not just the athletics; the whole place.