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Not a fan of fake Christians. You know, those that are outwardly Christian because they think they can make it work to their advantage by claiming to be Christian when their actions in private are anything but Christian (e.g. racist actions, cover up rape, etc.)

I don't think what he was saying was a sleight at Christians. What he is saying has merit to it. If they want to be at this level, they should operate on the same basis as everyone else.

Man, I’m thrilled by the progress in recruiting this cycle. Our overall average rating per recruit measures quite well against the top end of the non P5 programs, which is what I feel like we can reasonably ask for at this point. We can win CUSA Championships with the recruits currently committed if we continue this trajectory. Think there’s more well regarded recruits that’ll end up signed with NT as well.

Thank you for the correction. I've just reallocated my rent payments to go to the scholarship fund.

For you, unlikely.

This 2019 recruiting class is right about where we “should be”, given the recent success on the field and overall momentum of the program. Head to head on some kids with UH, Texas Tech, and SMU, and beating the bottom dweller out of state Big10 and Big 12 schools on local kids. Tops in the conference and 5th-ish in the state is, in reality, ideal. Great class assembled thus far, and with this coaching staff’s proven ability to develop talent, the sky is the limit in the coming years!

I think all us in the Houston area should pick a game next season (tsu), meet up for dinner/drinks and then head to a game to show support for Johnny. He is class act and would appreciate it.

Paciolan must be the real deal, Wren used “synergy “ in his statement.

Yeah well I got a hand sign for anyone that uses that hand sign while wearing my school's uniform. Rick

It's not throwing them under the bus, it's just bringing their guidelines up to public universities. They can keep their christian stamp labeled on their university, but they have to operate with the same transparency as public universities when it involves athletics. But not Baylor, they should be dead.

Why is this on here? Oh yea, thanks Skipper.

Says he played college and semi-pro basketball. I’m pretty sure it’s him. Looks like I remember. I’d have to pull out an old basketball poster to be positive. GMG!

I believe you meant to ask: "How can I shut up and give more?"

#ThreadDerailed #Thanks..

Anything has to be better than Ticketmaster. The online interface was terrible

They are a recent purchase of Learfield. From what I can tell, they’ve been a monster in the collegiate ticket world for a while though (OU, UT, Texas Tech, Mizzou, Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan, just to name a few of their clients). Thought this His was interesting too: “Under terms of the deal, Ticketmaster must license its ticketing software to Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) to help it become a viable competitor instead of a customer of Ticketmaster. In addition, Ticketmaster must sell its Paciolan primary ticketing division to Comcast-Spectacor, which currently controls much of Philadelphia’s sports, venue and ticketing ventures.” LINK

A quick search shows these guys are the real deal, just have a name that is foreign to the great unwashed, such as myself. I would expect a good business decision from TheWren, and this looks like another winner. They are apparently owned by Learfield and have some high profile clients, besides us. https://www.learfield.com/business/paciolan/ https://www.paciolan.com/

You don't get to be a whistleblower after the fact. If there was so much rotten stuff going on when he was at Baylor, why was he not standing up for women and helping them get justice? Is he trying to imply that he's somehow a victim in all of this?

When your regents are involved, this does pertain to the University as a whole. Never was a fan of Baylor and now especially so.

Well Joe certainly did not help dispel the rumor of how we became the Mean Green.

In the world of college football, I think most would agree that he is showing a "hook 'em" hand sign.

I understand your sentiment, but I also know and understand Rick's passion. Trust me, you would never see a young man from Houston playing for Texas A&M flashing that sign when crossing the goal line against UH or Rice because he was in his hometown or in front of friends and family.

To add to Rick's statement, These countries only comprise of 8% of the world's Muslim population. If Trump was trying to actually ban Muslims, he's doing a real bad job of it.

Nah, you do it to yourself,...just like ScreamingEagle66 always does, stretching one thing from another based on leftist emotion instead of facts and logic. The Trump travel ban doesn't ban Muslims or Buddhist. It upholds and enforces visa application requirements from Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen in an attempt to keep our country safer. Rick

why would anyone want to play for baylor?

My wife noticed a person named Tristan in an Instagram add for the new season of Married at First Sight looked quite familiar. In looking at his bio and the one pic on that site it sure looks like Mean Green great Tristan Thompson. In Lifetime’ Meet the grooms preview it sure seems to look like him. I’ll count on my wife to watch and tell me about it, but in case any of you and yours wanted to know...

It is 100 percent him.

He knows that, he just doesn't want to say it.

Get the Emerald Express bus up and running, pull up, tell those kids it is the bus taking them to dinner, bring em to the Apogee Club Level and sign em' up.

Natural armpits too?

Not sure what military they will be serving in, but it most certainly wasn't the same one I did. You get into the 100K range once you attain Lt. Col (05) at the 20 year served mark. Now, there are incentives pending job status, but those incentives are boosted for very specific roles such as doctors and certain types of aircraft pilots. A generic supply/intel/transportation/ordinance/infantry etc. officer, like many of these cats become, won't flirt with 100K unless/until they advance up the ranks AND serve years of time. And, again, it takes sometimes easily a decade to get to 0-3, Captain. And a captain in the military caps out at 80K after 14 years served and never changes up to and through 40 years in that same rate. There is nothing wrong with going the academy route, but let's not push false information into naive ears. Maybe, juuuuust maybe, he Mr. Irons chose this route because he wants to serve country and not self? And not chase the imaginary money you're referring to?

Agreed. This seems like a small, simple step yet one we haven't taken for years. These little things on the field, off the field, all over the dept are adding up and building momentum. Really fun to watch.

Except when that kid finds that to be his calling...?

Graduate from any Academy and one is fast tracked to leadership spot... haven't had a kid recruited their lately. However buddy of mines son is going there from Allen over plenty of offers bc once he graduates from Air Force he'll make 80, 90, 100, and 110 his first four years.. I'm fairly certain Army and Navy are the same let me do some checking.

If that were true, then I guess, sort of... https://www.militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-o1_o5_2018 And it typically takes 6-10 years to attain captain/0-3 pending MOS/NEC and cutoffs. But I won't condemn anyone ever going the academy route.

Not many programs find competing against the service academies for football players much of a challenge.

with the offer list on most of the kids we've gotten ... absolutely we're recruiting better.

More sloppy reporting. The Eagle was not a nickname, it was our mascot.......and still is. Mean Green was the nickname for the DEFENSE. It wasn't until Hayden Fry took over and decided that Mean Green was better suited for the culture change (winning and ATTITUDE) that he was going for. Many people thought that he tried to get rid of the Eagle. He didn't. He just emphasized Mean Green.

Are there or are we just not paying attention to them since none are signing with us?

I lived in Houston for 5 years. I never heard of a Houston universal hand sign. Well, other than the honk and one finger salute in traffic.

The NCAA has the perfect piñata to beat the hell out of in Baylor. They are a pissant P5 school, that will not be in a P4 league in the years ahead when the Big XII and Pac 12 eventually merge and other pieces find homes. Yet the NCAA doesn't seem to look at this as their chance to pound them. This is worse than SMU--by a large margin. They aren't Penn State, whose problems were worse, yet they are a bigtime program with a huge enrollment in a big state. This is a freaking small, Baptist school that doesn't even register on the national front--even when Baylor was really good, their ratings were terrible for their games, unless they were playing UT or OU. Baylor sold their souls for the $$$ that athletic success brings. They deserve everything that the law can throw at them.

The rating services seem to be pretty consistent with their rankings from what I can tell. Top 1%-2% = 5* Next 8%-10% = 4* Next 40%-50% = 3* Remaining rated players (roughly 40%-50% of rated players) = 2* From what I have seen, it looks like they try to rank about 25 players (NCAA signing max per school per year) per FBS school. As the number of FBS schools has increased so has the number of rated players, thus maybe the perception of star inflation. With 130 (131?) FBS schools this equates to about 3,250 players rated. This means roughly 50 5* players, around 250 4* players (notice 4* + 5* equals about 300 players and thus lists like ESPN 300, which represents the theoretical top ~10% of a particular signing class). The numbers are never exact, but they provide a reasonable approximation. In order to maintain the breakouts and help maintain some consistency, this is why you will see players ratings change. As players move up the board, someone may have to move down. Physical measurables certainly help a player's initial ranking, but the number of supposed quality of offers (i.e. P5 offers, blue blood offers) will certainly impact the ranking of a player as a nod to the recruit evaluation capabilities of top coaches at the most competitive schools.

Anyone below the super conference level would be hammered by the NCAA. Every new rule that comes out of the NCAA is to favor the big boys. They are slowly killing college football. Remember the day when playing field was level and the upsets that happened. Those are becoming fewer and fewer. College football is a lot better when the playing field is level for all. The new redshirt rule- Lets take UTSA Davenport for an example. He has a great freshmen and sophomore year, one or more of the power conferences notice him. What if a player on the power conference made a call to Davenport and said" hey, you are good you should play here". The wheel starts turning and the lower division schools become a farm league for the power conferences. I know there is a rule about coaching talking to players but a coach can always put his player up to it. I am sure the good players will drop down to the non power conferences for playing time so they can show their skill to the NFL scouts. Maybe it will be a wash but something tells me the power conferences will win the battle.

You're accusing a fan willing to travel to an away game as being the problem? Makes sense...

The Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban.html Rick

19 is Kenny Washington,

That what happens when you end up with a record crowd.

I have never understood Bret’s obsession with the cost of Apogee. Like that guy that never would scrape the window sticker off his new car. There wasn’t one other mention of price in any of the other stadiums mentioned. By the way this phone cost me $89. and I’m spending $7.99 in the morning for breakfast. GO MEAN GREEN