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but if Brees throws an interception there, you would REALLY be calling him an idiot.
No, I wouldn't. I thought when he got there, he should have thrown. Coaches like him, get way too conservative once they get in field goal range. The percentage of missed field goals (especially 40 yarders) is a lot higher than the percentage of passes that are intercepted.
So some might have called him an idiot for trying to make it an easier field goal. I wouldn't have.
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He had 6 blocks, as well.
When I went to the Green-White scrimmage in October, I was really impressed with Jeffrey. He is very athletic. But at the start of the season he was buried on the bench.
The good side to Barnett's injury: It's allowed Simpson to get some playing time, and come into his own.
(By the way the men's game was in Las Cruces........so most of us had to listen to it on the radio/internet. The women's game is the one that was in Denton).
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I didn't see the whole game, as I was back in the computer room....listening to the UNT hoops game. But, I did see the overtime of the Jets-Chargers game, and Marty Schottenheimer did something that a lot of NFL coaches do---he got conservative at the wrong time.
The Chargers had the ball on the Jets 22 (or so), and instead of trying to pass or do anything to make it more of a chip shot field goal (to win the game)......he hands off to LT three times, proceeds to lose a yard, and forces his rookie kicker to try a 39-40 yard field goal (on a wet field).
Why do coaches think that a 39-40 field goal is a gimme. I see it all the time (in the NFL)....get into field goal range......and do nothing else out of fear that an interception might happen......blah, blah, blah.
I didn't really have a favorite team in this game....but I do think Schottenheimer was an idiot to not to try and make the game winning field goal a little more "chip shot" length..... if you will.
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Hop and C Wat both had huge games (scoring 24 and 23 respectively). Simpson was great.....blocking 6 or 7 shots.
NMSU lead early...but we took the lead 10-7....and lead for the rest of the game (except one moment early in the 2nd half when it was tied 41-41). Our biggest lead was 11........it went back and forth in the second half (us with a 6-10 point lead; then they would make it closer) but they never tied it up (in the last 15 minutes)....and we pulled away at the end.
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Our women beat NMSU......I think the final was 63-55. NMSU had just beat a top 20 team (Houston) earlier in the week.
And the guys beat NMSU 79-69.....for our first win in Las Cruces since 1974
Way to go Mean Green!
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I'd say that tenative January schedule is a little Denver heavy.
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The Mean Green have not won a game in Las Cruces since knocking off the Aggies, 83-74, on Feb. 14, 1974.
Hey if the stinkin' Red Sox can end their curse........it's time for us to end this 31 year Las Cruces drought.
GMG!
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I have noticed that many of our fans have become quick to "fire everyone" if something is not working out immediately.
Coach Slinker started off her UNT career with a winning season.....followed by 8 straight losing seasons. I wouldn't exactly call our school impatient in this situation.
I don't think anyone is advocating making a change in mid-season. Personally, I'll wait and see how the season plays out. But I do think it's time we start taking another of our potential money making sports a little more seriously. If places like SFA and La. Tech can have great women's programs (as they have in the past) why can't we?
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Wow great article, where do you find his column?
Go to www.houstonchronicle.com
Once on the front page click on Sports........there on the left of the Sports Page are the columnists which they have on staff, or carry (Norman is syndicated).
If you go on there, you can read his archived columns (several months worth). Norman is very funny, IMHO.......and each week his column makes me LOL at least a couple of times (sometimes more).
Norman is also the color commentator on ESPN's poker coverage. And from the promos, you can see Norman has a role (maybe as himself) in the upcoming ESPN drama series about poker called "Tilt."
The Houston chronicle online edition, usually has Norman's newest weekly column posted on Tuesday of the week.
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(This is the weekly column written by syndicated columnist Norman Chad):
These are 24 (more) facts, tried and true, about the widening world of sports television:
1 — One day — and something tells me this won't happen in my lifetime — the breakup of ESPN will rival
the breakup of the Soviet Union.
2 — T-Mobile has a new cell-phone promotion: "Couples Talk Free." To be honest, this doesn't sound like such a good idea.
3 — Even though it's a medical improbability, I get a canker sore every time I watch I, Max.
4 — You know that look Tony Soprano has when he emerges from bed after a night of bad dreams? I wake up that way every week after Big Monday.
5 — The moment someone starts the Bowling Network, I'm a 24-7 shut-in.
6 — If he gets any more irritating, Dr. Phil is going to wind up on Crossfire or Around the Horn.
7 — I recently stumbled across the wedding video from my first marriage and completely had forgotten that Charlie Jones did the play-by-play.
8 — Who knew that the "P" in ESPN stood for poker?
(Radio Days I: Nothing's better than when you're on Interstate 70, driving through Pennsylvania or Ohio, and the truckers are bearing down on you and there's an SUV posse every which way and you're, oh, maybe, one bad lane change away from road rage and, suddenly, a basketball or baseball game comes across your AM dial, and, static and all, soothes the soul for the next hour or so.)
9 — I will jump into Lake Michigan with a DVD player on my back before I watch a single nanosecond of The Amazing Race or Aaron Brown.
10 — Today: Nanny 911 on Fox. Tomorrow: Vitale 911 on ESPN.
11 — Whenever he retires from broadcasting, you've
got to figure Craig Sager can parcel off his wardrobe on eBay.
12 — Lately, I fancy Red Vines and Slim Jims, aka "The Dark Side of Atkins Diet."
13 — I saw Vince Cellini on the Golf Channel the other day. I thought he had left the country.
14 — One of the times I was married, I had to put an "Authorized Personnel Only" sign on the remote.
15 — Tony Siragusa always looks like he's about to say something interesting. And then he opens his mouth.
16 — Sooner or later, I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN buys the rights to the sunset.
(Radio Days II: I hate it when a friend borrows your car for a day and changes the presets on the radio. That's like coming into someone's home and rearranging their furniture.)
17 — I have never smoked marijuana, and that, I believe, impairs my ability to appreciate Bill Walton.
18 — Sometimes, at 2 or 3 in the morning, I'll stop on an infomercial if it looks like it has a good story line.
19 — I crunched some numbers and it wasn't pretty: Since 1970, I have spent 1,750 hours watching Monday Night Football and 17 hours reading great literature.
19A — I crunched some other numbers and it also wasn't pretty: Ahmad Rashad has spent more time in my living room than all of my spouses combined.
20 — Oddly enough, sometimes I miss NBC Sports.
21 — Camera phones are nice, but I'd prefer a microwave oven with TiVo.
22 — The late Don Drysdale had a rule: "You hit one of ours, I hit two of yours." I wish that applied to watching sports on television.
23 — If there's an afterlife, I'm assuming everything will be pay-per-view.
Ask the Slouch
Q: I watched Celebrity Blackjack on GSN the other night — with not one but three Baldwin brothers — and actually liked it. My question is simple: Why?
JERRY NASSAN
Lincoln Park, N.J.
A: Is there is a more dashing figure in American culture today than a Baldwin brother at a blackjack table? I think not.
Q: I see Illinois hired Ron Zook as its head football coach. Is fireronzook.com up and running again?
BRENDAN WALSH
Chicago
A: I love it when readers do my job for me.
Q: Will Vinny Testaverde's Social Security count against the Cowboys' salary cap next season?
ROGER FIERST
Cleveland
A: Pay the man, Shirley.
Q: Did you make a New Year's resolution?
LARRY LASS
Houston
A: The same one I make every year — no TV on weekends.
You, too, can enter the $1.25 Ask The Slouch Cash Giveaway. Just e-mail asktheslouch@aol.com and, if your question is used, you win $1.25.
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The Hilltoppers are receiving 3 votes in the AP basketball poll. They are 10-1 and play at Virginia on Wednesday night.
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With as many injuries as the Giants had on defense....it's insane that Parcells didn't play Romo or Henson some tonight.
The big fat Tuna has proven that without Belicheck....he's average, at best. And he's a horrible judge of talent.
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31 turnovers pretty much says it all. (Bobo had 8 in 29 minutes; Mireles had 6 in 26 minutes).
A & M is now 9-1; we're 5-7.
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Looks like all the Fire Dickey people are bored.
Yeah its not a great record but the players have a lot of respect for her and I just dont think they have the talent RIGHT NOW to get it done. I say at least let her finish with the Erika Bobo, Mia Ajekwu, Amber Jackson days. North Texas is just now getting strong in recruiting and the last 2 classes show it. This isnt a bad team, they have potential to do big things...they hung in with LSU and Texas for the most part...but on this board everyone was gonna jump ship if we lost so this was expected. Leave Slinker alone cause lets face it...this has been a hard non-conference schedule....and the 4 players on teh court thing...is it Slinker's fault the player didn't leave the bench...id imagine at one point the players name came up in the play...no coach draws a play with just 4 people and NOT notice.
This bit of genius comes from the same guy who thinks that Marshall University is located in Texas.
Also, no one was gonna jump ship if our team didn't beat LSU or Texas.....where do you get that nonsense from?
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Thanks SUMG-But the question I was really asking is, were we out of players ? There some rule I'm not familar with ? Or did our Coach just not count correctly ? Did somebody screw up ? GO MEAN GREEN
No we weren't out of players. Our coaches just didn't send enough out on the floor.
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Slinker's overall record at this point is: 190-232
Down through the years:
1989-90 (16-11)
1990-91 (6-20)
1991-92 (8-18)
1992-93 (9-17)
1993-94 (10-17)
1994-95 (10-17)
1995-96 (11-16)
1996-97 (5-21)
1997-98 (10-17)
1998-99 (20-8)
1999-00 (17-11)
2000-01 (19-11)
2001-02 (21-9)
2002-03 (12-16)
2003-04 (11-17)
2004-05 (5-6)
Two WNIT appearances:
2001---lost to Oklahoma State 79-67
2002---lost to Washington 82-61
I would dare say, that if she wasn't fired after 8 straight losing seasons, she's not gonna be fired any time soon.
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1) Anyone notice that New Orleans (5-7 now) picked up a nice OOC win last night? They beat a 9-2 Southern Miss team, 67-56. The game was in New Orleans.
2) At 9-1, I wonder if WKU will start receiving some votes in one of the polls soon. They have a big game with Virginia (I think on the 5th)....where they could make a little more noise for the league. I think their only loss is to Evansville, with wins over the likes of Georgia, Austin Peay, Montana and a host of cupcakes.
Anyway....nice to be in a quality b-ball league. I remember years in the Southland and some in the BWC, where every conference team would be under .500 at this point, and there would be several winless teams. (Our least number of wins is 3).
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Lucy -- 'splain this to me . How is it that we only had FOUR players on the floor after the timeout ?
Joe....I wasn't at the game....just listened to it on the internet. But according to the announcer, after our player was double-teamed, tied up for 5 seconds forcing a turnover....he looked out and noticed that we only had 4 players on the court.
So with 9.2 seconds left, down by just two.....you figure to get off a shot to tie the game, or maybe even go for a three-pointer for the win. We didn't even get a shot off.
Then we fouled UTA on their inbounds, they made both free throws (that's why the final margin of victory was 4 points).
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I like Coach Slinker and her staff, too. As a matter of fact, they've done a great job recruiting for next year, as we signed 4 of the top 35 players in Texas.
But that being said.....if after a timeout, we only have four players on the floor (at a crucial time in the game), well that is one of the biggest bonehead moves I've ever seen in college basketball. (ranks right up there with: Chris Webber calling timeout when Michigan didn't have any; and Derek Harper dribbling the ball and running the clock out, at the end of a tied Mavericks' playoff game).
It's amazing to me, nowadays......teams (football and basketball) have more coaches than ever......and yet little stuff seems to be overlooked more often now, than when teams had skeleton staffs.
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UTA 59 UNT 55
The game is 57-55, our women make a defensive stop and have the ball with 9.2 seconds left. Tina calls a timeout. (which is our final timeout).
When we come out of the timeout, the player who gets the ball inbounds....is double-teamed, has no one to throw to, and can't call timeout (since we're out of them).....and gets called for a five-seconds violation.
One reason no one was open: WE ONLY HAD 4 PLAYERS ON THE COURT.
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UNT 75 Tennessee Martin 70
Hop had 20 pts. ; Watson had 20 also.
My player of the game: Quincy Williams: 15 pts and 11 rebounds. He also hit some clutch free throws toward the end of the game.
Mean Green now 7-4.......now time to pull for our gals against UTA.
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UTC 72 UNT 56
Even though the refereeing left a lot to be desired (in the first half).....we lost because we were incredibly cold tonight. Calvin Watson, who averages 14ppg......fouled out with zero points.
We play Tennessee-Martin tomorrow at 4:30.........
UNT's record is now 6-4.
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Sounds like we're really getting homered by the f***ing refs up there. I mean we go on an 8-0 run, and Johnny gets hit with a "T". I really doubt that JJ was that rude, considering that his team was hot.
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Geez....what a cold start for us. 5 points in the first 9+ minutes. Luckily, we're only down by 9....14-5.
C'mon Green!
B-ball coaches radio shows begin tonight
in Mean Green Basketball
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DENTON - The 2004-05 edition of the Tina Slinker and Johnny Jones shows premiere tonight at 6:30 p.m. on KNTU FM 88.1! Join Mean Green broadcasters Hank Dickenson and Steven Bartolotta and head basketball coaches Johnny Jones and Tina Slinker tonight from El Guapo's at 419 South Elm Street in Denton (the old Mercado Juarez location, just a few blocks south of Denton's downtown square). The hour-long broadcast begins with the Tina Slinker Show at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by the Johnny Jones Show at 7 p.m. The coaches shows will air live from El Guapo's every Monday night on KNTU FM 88.1.