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Hello everyone, here's my lengthy breakdown of how North Texas won the CBI Finals and the adjustments that went into it. Plenty of clips in the story which I hope load for you. Let me know what you think, enjoy. -MB https://www.ntdaily.com/analysis-how-mccasland-and-his-staff-coached-their-way-to-a-cbi-championship/

Damn! Rick

"Perhaps the most impressive thing is he has assembled a leadership team that works collectively and cohesively." So important for UNT's continued success.

Even if he does retire (someday), I really hope that he helps with finding his replacement before he's out. I would highly trust his opinion in that regard.

I'm a huge fan of Dr. Smatresk and hope he stays for a long time.

Rick

got to keep him---best prez we have had

pay him!

He is underpaid big time! He is a stud!

It’s old now, requires constant maintenance and is a huge resource drain. They’ve been discussing moving the Regal Eagle out for several years now. Maybe they’re in the market for something newer?

Its a good rumor to put out there, if you think of negotiating up your salary ;)

DRC: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/04/03/unt-working-contract-extension-smatresk

Writer made predictions for 2020 in January of 2010. Some are amusing (Todd Dodge will get hired by Baylor) but a number of others hit well like Georgia Southern to Sun Belt and Charlotte and La.Tech to CUSA and Big East leaving the elites and taking Memphis. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/334329-25-predictions-about-fbs-college-football-circa-2020

Under what Prez has I 35 been 95% finished? Bam! Double the bucks!

What the hell does that have to do with you saying Colorado State is going to the PAC-12 because of their upgrades of their locker room and meeting rooms? somebody has been inhaling the laughing gas at the office for their own benefit, so it seems...

officially quoted.

To answer Fly's question... They do know about it, my understanding is that it was donated to the school but it ended up costing a good amount for repairs etc. so they were looking into options to sell or retire it with out offending the donor's family. That family has given generously to the university and endowed a chair etc.

Facilities like this aren't built to aspire to win the Gildan Bowl as a plateau. They'll be getting into the Pac-16 when it turns to 16, book it.

My top events that I've been in attendance for would have to be: 1. Tearing down the goal posts, marching them to Fry and proceeding to get excessively drunk and make plans to go to New Orleans. 2. The Stand 3. The Drive 4. Bowl win vs UNLV (first football game ever attended with my now wife) 5. CBI games 2 & 3 6. Final game at Fouts. Honorable Mention: Although not a favorite memory, sitting front row on the 50 at the HOD Bowl game against Army was a cool experience. And had a play or 2 gone a different way, it would have definitely been near the top of the list.

Football -- Won nine games and the division, played in the conference championship and a bowl game. Perfect 6-0 at home. Men's Basketball -- 20 wins and the CBI championship Women's Soccer -- Won the conference tournament and went to the NCAAs Women's Volleyball -- Won the conference championship and went to the NIT Women's basketball -- Improved to 17 wins and finished over .500 for the first time I can remember Softball -- Holding steady at 7-4 in conference, one game out of first place It's much easier being green these days.

#1 in Texas!

If roughly half of the FAU team quits, transfers, or shows up on an episode of Cops over the summer as most of America expects, then I am pretty confident that the gap will be sufficiently closed to where the game will be much closer than last season.

Ok guys...tell me your thoughts on your spring. Based on what I read on your comments the offense is tighter and only improved from a year ago. And your defense improved. So did you guys close the gap? Just assuming that FAU doesn't slip or doesn't improve at all and we just stay what we are. Too early to say if we can repeat our performance from last year but for this question just assume we are the same. Through six practices the offense has been very effective and fast temple is still the goal. Weis Jr is calling the plays but of course that can and probably will change when the season starts. I expect Kiffin to call the plays in the beginning of the season with Weis taking over as the season progresses. The defensive line has been dominating so far, but the O-line is rebuilding and apparently struggling mightily. We have a redshirt sophomore guard who has moved up the depth chart and taking snaps with the first teamers. So that either means he kicking butt and taking names or things are a mess right now! If you guys have another good year and we hold our end of the bargain up I am planning on flying up to Denton for the game in November. Should be fun.

Like many alumni, I went to high school in Dallas County and worked in Dallas County after graduating from NTSU. There has been so little coverage of North Texas athletics in the Dallas media, coupled with little to no communication from the alumni association, that I was simply not able to keep up with North Texas athletics. At different times, I had season tickets to Cowboys, Mavericks, and mini plan with Rangers. It was not until my office relocation to Denton County did I get caught up with UNT. All that to say, our huge alumni base in DFW outside of the Denton area is not aware of UNT athletics. Last week I learned that a casual acquaintance here in Flower Mound graduated the same time I did. He asked if we were still in the Missouri Valley Conference! I will make sure he stays informed from now on.

I guess we'll just have to wait until COSt gets that Pac16 invite to be sure on this one.

They used to use that to take the coaches to caravan stops. I remember seeing it multiple times. Not sure if that was just before Baker or if they used it last year. The problem with things like this is you never use them as much as you think you might and they always end up costing more to maintain than they seem like they should.

No, it really doesn't...

I would love to know if the President or Mr. Baker even know about the Regal Eagles existence?

350k. Seems steep to me considering the thing is more than 10 years old.

LOLOLOL. Benson'd.

There is no way the PAC-12 will take them. They want TV markets, which they already have the one CSU delivers with Colorado being in their league. CSU is like UH or Cincinnati—solid programs that could be Power teams but they can’t find a league to take them, so they are just stuck in the G5, albeit the Upper end of that level.

Simple formula for sucsex. Mass of the ass = the angle of the dangle.

UNT = Efficiency ?????

I've got three boys: 12, 9, and 8. Hopefully future UNT athletes!

The WFAA dude annoyed the hell out of me but outside of that I didn't care or expect much coverage outside of the local paper. As everyone has touched on, the CBI is not prestigious but NT's participation in it was perfect, useful, and definitely fun. It's great to see basketball in the Pit be fun again. We should make sure that it never reaches another five year run like we saw in the Benford era.

1.) Killing Baylor, 52-14, in front of a damn near sellout at old Fouts... 2.) Beating Tech in OT at the Super Pit in 2010 3.) Beating Cincy in the 2003 NO Bowl 4.) Beating UNLV in the 2013 HoD Bowl

You never answered this on the BBall forum. I too am curious as to what schools you are using as a measuring stick.

Thank you @UNTLifer I did a repost of this same topic in the football board. I will be sure to check out Sharkarosa, seems like a great place for the family!

Specifically which schools are you comparing? I know we are smaller than Houston and SMU but when I've glanced we are comparable to other CUSA schools.

No he did not.

It’s essentially an estimated number of wins a player led their team to. So without Smart we lose 6 more games according to the stats/metrics. https://www.sportingcharts.com/dictionary/nba/win-shares-ws.aspx

Congrats again Mean Green fans. I meant to get on here last night but didn’t. Looks like hella first year for McCasland. Nice start, a rough stretch when the schedule got very rough. One hella nice run at the end. You guys gotta feel good about the direction you’re headed. I know how we felt when we got rid of Ken Pol Pot McDummy McDonald and Ray Harper took over. It’s a relief to get rid of someone that you knew early on was a train wreck. I’m talking about McDummy. I’m sure some of you felt early on that Benford wasn’t the guy. It’s hard to go through it. So enjoy the championship. Hang a banner. Be better next year. With Middle having a new coach and with ODU losing Porter we’ll need everyone to step up a bit more if we’re to match what we did as a conference this year.

Hi Mean Green fans, I rewatched the bowl game a few days ago and decided to visit your board. Sorry, but I have to comment on this post. Troy's past questionable recruiting practices are over. It is not even possible to oversign these days (NCAA and SBC would not allow it), and we only sign a few JUCOs every year now (and most of these JUCOs have three years of eligibility left). We paid a high price for our past recruiting tactics. We were low on scholarship numbers for a while and had to endure 4-5 subpar seasons because of this... we totally lost momentum. Our head coach Neal Brown is doing it the right way (and when he took over the job from CLB, he stressed that he would recruit more in-state kids and sign mostly hs recruits instead of JUCOs). Actually we are signing more and more kids who also get offered by the service academies or schools like GA Tech, etc (this is getting better every year). We have a bunch of AL, FL, GA kids on our roster who had offers from schools like Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, Purdue, GA Tech, Cal, UCLA, Texas, Illinois etc. One of our QBs (who might start next year) had offers from Syracuse and Air Force among others and our newest 2019 commit (RB) chose Troy over Cornell (and USM)... We also signed a TE this year who had offers from Harvard, Yale, Navy (and Kentucky, Miss St)...there are more examples like this. There are some reasons for this: We have a pretty good coaching staff and pay them 2M a year. Further, major campus developments (new arena, new dining hall, new student recreation center, new dorms, etc), and later this year, we will open a brand new state-of-the-art fb facility (70,000sqft), and we have secured some nice home games vs Boise St, NC State, Miss St, etc - and of course, growing attendance numbers and winning also helps...many in-state kids who don't get offered by UA or AU still want to stay in the area - we benefit from this. ...sorry for the long post but FAU Con started this and this topic is too important (btw back in the days when FAU was in the SBC, Troy and FAU recruited the same type of (hs) players...)

What is a non-gender-binary student?

Considering Lincoln Riley is 5 years younger than SL, that would be a pretty poor career plan.

No, everything that I have heard Littrell is more valued among the college ranks than Wilson. Most look at Wilson as a Recruiter only, and Littrell as a guy with a ton of football knowledge. There is a place for both of them, however I think (non-MG goggles) Littrell will always be a better hire because of the way college game is evolving. If Littrell's staff were able to recruit at even a semi-close rate of Wilson I do not think he would be here today. I also heard he turned down multiple jobs (no I didn't ask which ones) because he likes Denton and the community. He knows he can win consistently here and compete for Championships. You move to a big time conference and have a bad year or two (5-7 6-6) you are probably getting canned.

Ya done messed up UTA-Aron!

When that game is against San Diego State instead of a 6:00pm tip @ UNC-Charlotte, I'm all for it. Now, let's take a closer look at what a 16-team (including NT/Rice/UTSA/UTEP) MWC schedule would look like for football: 4 home games, 4 away games in conference play would mean 1 (JUST ONE) game against a West Coast opponent. That game would be at home every other year. So there is a possibility that we would have ZERO games starting after 7:00pm. Taking a look at CSU's (a team we would likely align with) home schedule, several of their home games began in the early afternoons Mountain Time. Same with Wyoming. Same with Air Force & New Mexico. Those would likely be the 4 teams that would align with this Texas block of schools. Of course, this is all fan fiction. The worry about game times beginning at 9:00PM may only affect 1 or 2 games per year. MAYBE. It's also entirely possible we'd never see a game later than 7:00pm. Worrying about a 9:00pm start time is just not worth hanging around in C-USA, which is constantly talked-about being merged with SBC. If the opportunity ever arises, WB had better take it.