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I think they may have been able to bring a larger pep band because they didn't bring any cheerleaders. The NIT closely monitors how many spirit personnel are allowed. ( I heard something about that last year)

Tipoff is Tuesday at 6:00 Buy your tickets ASAP as the OSU people will try to shut out our fans, at least from the lower bowl seating.

We're somebody now! Millions of people look at this wall every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, our slogan in print, that makes programs. We're in print! Things are going to start happening to us now!

We'll see. It was like dejavu all over again as UAB embarrassingly shut us out to start the game just like La Tech did last year. We desperately need some inside strength to relieve some of the pressure on an often undersized Abou and provide some high percentage scoring. That's what having a second capable big power forward could provide. We absolutely tanked in games in games when Abou fouled out. We were up 46-37 on FAU when Abou fouled out. FAU then went on an uncontested run and won 50-46, that 13 straight points in the final 3:54. We need interior strength and depth. A player like Jacob would have provided that difference, and in the Rice game too, and in the Charlotte game...

Yeah, I don't predict another upset by FDU. FAU has a high chance of making the Sweet 16. Too bad all that tourney money will be left for the future CUSA schools.

That's some great sportsmanship Anfernee, great sportsmanship.

Where are the UNT colors? Was he not allowed to use them?

Former North Texas recruit CJ Noland is leaving Oklahoma and is in the Transfer Portal. 2021-22 Big 12 All-Freshman Team https://247sports.com/Player/CJ-Noland-46100041/high-school-248882/ https://soonersports.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/c-j-noland/15466

Pretty good player abandoning a gawdawful program. Jacob Germany is a 6-foot-11 senior center from Kingston, Oklahoma right up 377 across Lake Texoma. The three year starter earned honorable mention All-Conference USA honors last year. https://247sports.com/Player/Jacob-Germany-46047896/

Hey, we've done it to ourselves with the NTSU uniforms, logos, and merchandise. Otherwise the former school name would have dissipated over the 35 years since the change.

Build your fan base. I went to the North Texas game at USF in 2001. Before that season I had never even heard of the existance of USF. All I learned was that it was a large commuter university that had recently started sports, played FCS ball and had committed to moving up to FBS football. And they were playing their games in the new 75,000 seat Raymond James Stadium 20 minutes from campus. I went expecting to find a few thousand at most ragtag misfits rattling around in an oversize venue. After all, given the conditions, how could this place have any school spirit at all? I was shocked. I arrived at the stadium parking and the fencing at the entrances was covered in USF Bulls banners. I had never even seen their logo before. Upon entering the parking lot there were thousands of people tailgaing, ALL wearing green and gold USF gear, and there were USF 3x5 flags flying over most cars. How in hell did THIS school get THIS popular? It was like being at a Nebraska or Michigan game. At the stadium entrance I received a major hint. They had thousands and thousands of USF shirts in school colors with their new logo for sale, $3 each. This wasn't just a college, it's billed as THE home team for Tampa. They had thousands of USF baseball caps for something like $5. And they were selling the big USF Bulls 3x5 flags for $5 each. All tax free. It was like Mardi Gras the rate that these items were being handed out. At that price people were buying USF shirts for their friends, family, and neighbors. I bought one of the 3x5 flags as a souvenir and asked the university employee selling them how they could sell them so cheaply. He said "we buy them in the thousands for around $6 each and sell them at a small loss at $5 each. These flags wind up flying at tailgating events, displayed in front of homes, and on the walls of our student's dorms and apartments. It's promotion and advertising at really no cost." And he said "we're doing the same thing with the shirts, hats, and other logo merchandise." I went into the stadium and saw that Buccaneers was covered up by USF Bulls everywhere they could. All the red banner lighting was switched to green, and the enormous jumbotron continously displayed a slowly spinning 3d model of their logo. And never-heard-of 1AA South Florida torched North Texas 28-10 in front of 25,156 fans that day. It was the first time that they had ever beaten a FBS team at home and they celebrated. USF was drawing huge crowds playing at Raymond James Stadium by the early 2000's So, that's how USF went from being a non-entity 1AA school in 2001 to an invitation to CUSA in 2003, and then to join the then P5 Big East conference by 2005. They built a united cohesive fan base which star players wanted to play for. Please remember this when somebody adds their fashion color to your school colors, when somebody's gameday attire is gray of black but with a UNT logo, when substitute logos like throwbacks and interlocked TN's are used, when season ticket gifts are license plate frames that will never be used, and freebie give-away tee shirts are printed on white shirts instead of green. There is a right way to do it, and there is a wrong way. USF was doing everything right up until the slap incident and firing of Leavitt. Since then, the crowds have dwindled, winning has decreased, and they are planning to build a new undersized 35,000 seat stadium which will better serve their current needs but forever keep them at the G5 level. The dream has ended, and they've had to sit and watch close rival UCF achieve that dream.

One of those is a basketball game, but still thanks. I'll try to watch the remaining 4 in person and then come home and watch the highlights on ESPN+. I never thought that softball games would be exciting but the Mean Green games really have been a lot of fun and I have even purchased season tickets the last couple of years.

Oh, I saw that and I agree. It's that we had separate clocks which should have been synchronized, providing differing results which could theoretically impact the final results of the game. I say "theoretically" because Texas State's demise was already determined when they selected those disgusting uniforms for a televised game.

Winning is a goal, not a strategy.

The ticketing system may have recognized you as an ID: Ten-T customer. The NIT owns this game and requires to be paid for every person that gains admittance. The Athletics Department, Student Affairs Division, and many boosters are just being incredibly generous by covering the costs for the students.

I guess we can safely talk about it now. Watch the "official clock" closely. It's displayed directly between the scores on the display. Full screen, pause and toggle to where the clock shows 00.1. Where is the ball when the official clock shows 00.1 remaining? .

Jalie has taken a historically awful women's basketball program and over eight years (111 - 126) elevated it to being consistently mediocre with a combination of successful and disappointing seasons. She may improve in the final years of her contract or she may tank. Either way, I hope we don't spend our limited budget buying out contracts in non-revenue sports. I don't see a need to grab torches and pitchforks. Every coach in every sport is evaluated at the end of every season. This will be Jared Mosley's decision when/if the time comes.

Please understand, I am comparing programs that advance, and those that stagnate. USF has been a striking example of both. What allowed them to climb so quickly, and what has bogged them down in the dozen years since the infamous slapping incident?

This is exactly why USF is a perfect example of the razor's edge that is football at our level. The "sleeping giant" G5 schools that have either made all the right moves to become nationally respected, and the ones that have floundered in relative obscurity because of their poor decisions. USF has now spent a little over a decade on each side. Many of those "sleeping giants" big schools in big markets that had been perpetually locked out of the big boys club have worked their way in; Cincinnati, Louisvile, Houston, UCF. Others like Memphis and UTSA are getting noticed because of their limited success and their large bowl game stadiums capable of hosting P5 teams. And then there's the rest, the FIU's, the Texas States, the Georgia States, and now USF, the schools that everybody always talks about their potential but they're just busy treading water. In which group do we fit? Are we content there? That will determine where we will be a decade from now. .

That's horseshit. USF joined the Big East P-5 crowd almost instantly after starting FBS football during the Jim Leavitt years and were quickly ranked as high as 3rd in the nation. They had a commitment to winning, an excellent marketing and promotions campaign, and a 75,000 seat Raymond James Stadium for hosting P5 level opponents. How tough was their challenge? Prior to 1998 they didn't have a single football facility so they had to buy some portable buildings for coaches. Their team had to dress at university gyms and bus to a local practice field and have team meetings under trees. The students voted on a mascot, the Brahmas, and it wasn't until months later when all initial promotional material was already printed that somebody pointed out the obvious; a Brahma is a breed of chickens, a Brahman is a breed of cattle (don't tell the Lone Star Brahmas). USF just changed to Bulls and forged ahead. As an FCS school in 2001 they won their first ever home game against FBS competition when they stomped the incredibly poorly coached North Texas Mean Green. By 2003 USF had joined CUSA and in 2005 South Florida joined the P5 level Big East conference. So it can be done quickly if planned correctly. Get a facility truly capable of hosting FBS competition, promote the hell out of the program, and hire coaches truly committed to supporting and winning at their school. That was when the paths of our two programs initially crossed. They went from being totally unknown to winning regularly against Top 25 teams while North Texas was stuck as an FBS pretender competitive against the other lowly Sun Belt schools and being cannon fodder for everyone else. There have been a lot of improvements at North Texas. A new G5 level stadium has been built, but it's being left at G5 capacity even though we have games scheduled that we know will have demand that far excedes the current seating. Can we get to P5 consideration quickly? Yes, but it's going to take real facility improvements and dedication to the school. I don't see either being planned, just a lot of "not my job", "that's how it's always been done", and "why expand it and make it functional if it's not currently selling out?" .

Thank you, and thank goodness that somebody defends our university and respects its traditions. We fought a similar battle a few years ago against all of you that wanted to make Lucky the White Squirrel our official mascot. Unfortunately a hungry hawk can't as easily make those "anti-Mean Green" uniforms go away. .

Are you guys absolutely sure that we have a #2 seeding, not a #3? Both of these are from the NCAA site, and they run the tournament. They've flipped all the #2s and #3s. OK, found sort of an explanation... we're #2 seed. North Texas in NIT . Hopefully it is correct, but nobody is talking about all these changes.

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It was awesome. So many North Texas fans did such an excellent job of representing and promoting our university this week. The rest wore gray and black for some reason.