VideoEagle

First of all, it doesn’t matter if he pays tuition here, his father pays or Big Red Sports/Imports pay s- the NCAA says an athlete can not transfer to another school at or above the level he is currently enrolled at (this case 1A) without sitting out one year of eligibility. They might count the 2006 season as the missed year, but historically, it is the year AFTER you transfer. So that could make it 2008 without any further punishment. The NCAA has not said how long he will be suspended from playing at ANY NCAA institution. Any NCAA institution (that’s 1A, 1AA, Div. 2 or Div. 3) than takes him will have to apply to have him reinstated. The NCAA could easily choose to make an example of him and give him a year or two beyond the normal transfer year. In other words, his career at NCAA schools could be over. No one knows that yet. His legal case against this would be hampered as NAIA schools are still open to him. As for “if you pay back the money they won’t punish you” theory. First, I doubt either he or his high school coach Dad have $18K just laying around. In the past, giving back a car has not been enough to get out of trouble with the NCAA. The idea is you aren’t suppose to take it in the first place. I’ll agree that the under age drinking is not as big a deal. Although it is now MUCH more significant that back in the 70s when I was in school - just as driving drunk used to be minor but now is much more serious. Still, I wouldn’t exclude someone for a one time MIP. Opps, Bomar’s got two MIPs that we know about! I think the TCU coach might be right - the negatives probably out weigh the positives of taking him.

They can’t fault the SBC for playing a strong OCC schedule!

I thought I read the NCAA itself has (or is going to after an investigation) suspended him so no NCAA institution could take him without a reinstatement. Reinstatement for knowingly violating the rules in not a certainly. A NAIA school can take him right now without problems. That is other than the personal problem he has.

We tried several quick slants and screens and they didn’t work. We didn’t have the personnel then to run those plays under pressure.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if he ever plays against/for the OKC farm team.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him study.

If the NCAA suspends him it applies to all NCAA schools. After a year or so, so try to appeal for reinstatement. But that is almost always given only at a lower division school.

First of all, if these kids are suspended by the NCAA, it applies to all 1A schools and all NCAA schools at all levels. No one get reinstated back at the 1A level, but sometimes after a year or two at a lower level. So it’s sit for a couple of years and hope for the Southland, not the Sunbelt!

I knew two different people from my home town who were pined down in stores for the duration.

The WAC is a very nice conference for schools out west. But schools in Texas don't fit. That's why all of the previous one's left. Let's not go WACy.

Isn't it more fun to pile on before you actually have a clue what you are talking about?

For you beer lovers in Fort Worth, the old Rick’s on the Bricks is becoming a Gingerman with 40+ different beers on tap. sometime this Fall/Winter. And don’t forget the Flying Saucer in Addison with 80+ different beers on tap. Besides editing videotape, for about 2 years I did a radio show about craft and imported beer!

No, until the finish widening I35, there is going to be many, many construction delays around the area. Plus, expansion anywhere within several blocks of 35 or where 35 will expand or even where 35 could potentially expand if some highway engineer changes things must wait till all of the road work is finished. It’s not that we’re a commuter school, it that the school is build next to a highway that is going to expand in width.

I would not call SMU students "thugs" ever. As far as painting the Ad Building, they probably sent their chauffeurs to do it as it would require both manual labor and hand/eye coordination.

I have serious doubts any Aggies have EVER showered twice! I don’t think they have tied their shoes even once - unless you count those Velcro shoes.

WW has said he doesn't want to add a second bowl till the SBC consistently has two qualified teams. To have a guaranteed spot in most bowls, the conference would need to put up some cash. Our basketball schools don't want to do that and it is a waste for the others if we only have one bowl qualified team. Most of the posters on the CUSA boards have a much, much lower opinion of BB!

Take a vacation day Friday. Go to Austin and start drinking at noon. By nine you'll have done a full nine hours - that's a work day with lunch! Bed by 10 and you can start a tailgate at 7:30 while still having time to shower and take a few aspirin. Beer and eggs don't go well? When's the last time you had Migas? They're great with a beer.

Thanks for the reminder! I forgot it was today. I just got off the phone with my renewal!

I don’t think it will have a lot of sway with our Aggie Governor.

Back to the original question - anyone remember that - “Is this the biggest game ever?” No, it’s not. The first New Orleans Bowl certainly was bigger as it broke the longest time between bowls appearances in NCAA history. (That is, to that point. I think both New Mexico State and Rice have past it now.) The game back in 78 or 79 when the Independence Bowl folks were looking at us also was bigger. If more than 15K fans had shown up, we could have gone to the I Bowl and gotten a lot of positive notice. Showing we could get to a bowl game as an independent would have been more reason to include NT in the SWC, even over the objections of SMU. Remember, SMU fought against Tech and Houston getting and and eventually they did anyway. Instead, the I bowl folks saw a sparse crowd, pasted on us for the bowl, Hayden was frustrated and got a timely offer from Iowa, and the bottom dropped out. Win or lose, the SMU game next year is not likely to have decades of effect or make history like both of those games. I don’t hate SMU, but I would be happy is we score more on them than Houston did back in the Run and Shoot days!

I saw a very interesting message from Arkstatefan on the Sunbelt board as to why the SBC didn’t try for one of the new bowls. It boils down to putting up $350,000 and who has to put up the money. Here’s the link.

That would make sense. Plus, the football schools in the Big East need to be together for a certain number of years before they could break away from the basketball schools and still have an automatic entry into the NCAA basketball tourney. I think it is six years, but I’m not certain.

It's a bit late when I'm reading this, but from what I can gather, this entire "article" from the MT website is a post without any attributes to someone who could actually make a decision for MT or Western. There are references to "secret closed door meetings" - come on! Did these magical meetings take place on board a UFO in Area 51? As for being ready if CUSA expands tomorrow - they are NOT expanding tomorrow. There is not the possibility of a chance they are expanding tomorrow. They have 12 teams now and the money from the title game did not equal the added drain of dividing revenue by the added schools. They do not plan to expand and if they lose a school the economics right now say they would not be too fast to find a replacement as the remaining 11 schools would get more money if they don't! Please relax folks, the world in not about to end.

This sounds like a very good idea!

From what I've read in the paper and heard on the radio, Chow would have preferred Leinart, but he doesn't have final say.