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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.

Football schools All schools, including non-football Wichita and football-only Navy. .

Dickies arena has been fairly empty for many AAC games during this year's tournament. Hopefully they will offer discount ticket incentives to students like CUSA did last year.

Those tournaments provide invaluable time for developing the team for the next season. It certainly worked for us. Barring an awful season, we should go to one any year that we do not make the NCAA or NIT. And, they're a lot of fun if we get to host games.

Why do the stands at the Star look so dark on television? Are they intentionally redirecting lighting because the facility was practically empty for last year's final when North Texas wasn't in the game? You can't see any of the fan support on ESPN+

Jalie is not going anywhere this year. She just earned an extension after last year's NIT season and she's a very popular North Texas Hall Of Fame icon on campus. I do think that next year is is the year she needs to show what she can do. I think that she'll be up to the challenge.

The team wasn't prepared for the end of the game. McGruder was saddled with 4 fouls and was the only person covering the UAB ballhandler and it was a "foul immediately" situation. Of course Kendall was was rightfully tentative because her team needed her shooting ability out there, but there is no way that she should have been the player forced to sacrifice that foul. This was a costly oversight by Jalie. She lost her best outside shooter and 15 valuable seconds off the clock.

Poor UTSA. Poor, poor, UTSA. .

I was.

The Big 10 will not be meeting until April and they will then have a new commissioner in place. They will then be able to vote on whether to issue invitations.

Thank you for the stats and the insight. I had noticed incredible improvement in Kai's game, but I hadn't seen the figures clearly stated like this to support it. Good post. That said, I still want to see Aaron take the shot whenever he's open.

Yes, it would be humiliating for UConn to come crawling back. It would be like SMU applying to return to the AAC now after they've proclaimed to the world that they're moving to the PAC. UConn has far too much pride for that, and rightfully, SMU does too. Let's let them both be gone to do their own thing elsewhere.

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