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Yes, I think our defense was our biggest weakness this year.
Even if the offense gets a lot better, we are not going to win games giving up 45+ points!
I still think a new DC is more important than a new OC.
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I haven't seen the actual numbers yet - I don't work as much in that area anymore - but according to Arkstate Fan, this New Orleans Bowl had the highest ratings ever. ESPN should be pleased.
While being the first bowl is inconvenient to many, it certainly helps get viewers.
Merry Christmas!
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The only real negative about leaving the MVC was basketball.
If we'd been in a conference with the record we racked up in basketball back then, we would have gone to the NCAA or NIT several times. And back then, the NIT really WAS something! Remember, the NCAA only took 32 teams back then.
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Last time I saw NTTV, they were running a repeat of some little hippes sitting in a circle, eating, whining about the start of the Iraq War.
Sure you weren't watching MSNBC?
It would be nearly impossible to pull off sports broadcasts on a regular basis with student volunteers. Unless you are an announcer, you really can't work the game and watch it at the same time, so you need volunteers who don't want to watch. Then, the need to be willing to give up prime relaxation time as that is games tend to happen.
The First Methodist Church of Dallas has around 50 people who have volunteered to help with their Sunday TV recording. They have 3 cameras and it takes 9 to 10 to do the broadcast. They have a hard time some weeks finding enough people from their pool - and that's once a week on Sundays!
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WOW! That is a fascinating idea, but with huge challenges
First, I don't see how you can do a baseball game with just 3 cameras. You need one in the outfield, just past 2nd base and just past 1st base. That means never have a picture of your announcers, nor a picture of the pitcher facing the hitter. And don't even think about a replay tape deck!
Second, the lens on cameras for baseball games need incredible zoom lens. It is not uncommon for the LEN to cost $35K, not counting the camera, or the view finder, or the tripod, or the cabling. Yet Rice is using an entire system that costs $20K. People who build remote trucks spend more than that on the cables!
Still, the University will completely control the broadcast and thus most of the ads. I'm sure the cable company is getting some of the ads in exchange for giving them the channel, but most of the add will be theirs. And after they tape a game, they can re-run it over and over for a week or so.
It will be interesting to see their viewer numbers. I don't think they'd get many casual fans because of the lower quality of the broadcast, but a Rice alum who can't get to the game can watch it - or buy the DVD for $10. Sound like a great way to tie back in their fans to what's going on.
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I was rooting for Carroll as well.
I've never liked Katy.
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I agree with NT80 about Moore.
However, after a year of Bob Tyler, I was wanting Moore back!
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We should have signed a JUCO QB last year (and I know about the one that got away to Neb...many other JCs out there).
Very true, but at least we are getting one now. We can't change the past, but at least we aren't repeating the mistake.
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Thanks to Arkstate fan, I have the answer on NT's move to purgatory. We were forced down, but could have come back in '83, but we didn't!
I-AA was created in 1978. After the 1981 season the rules were changed and UNT was forced to move down. With the schedule they had in 1982, UNT could have rejoined in 1983 if the stadium had been expanded and the minimum attendance had been met in 1982. -
I've heard from more than one say we could have stayed in 1-A, like La Tech and other smaller schools that never dropped down, but the administration muffed it. We were using Texas Stadium as a designated home field and I'm not sure there was an attendance requirement back then. Regardless, we dropped down, and have been paying the price ever since. We were on the level of Cincy, Memphis, Tulsa, Louisville, and USM before the drop to 1-AA.
I remember there was something about the staduim, but I can't remember the exact details anymore. I know the athletic department would not have dropped down if it did not have to. The faculty were in one of their periodic "football hurts academics" moods, so they were in favor of the drop down.
But, I'm pretty sure the NCAA forced us, not that we chose to go.
And La Tech did drop down to 1AA for a while. U La La did not which makes me think it had something to do with stadium size.
I've seem something from Arkstate fan a while back that explained the creation of 1AA, but I haven't seen it lately.
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I don't see how adding one extra game is that big of a deal.
If you are in Div. II, then the Championship game is the weekend before Christmas. Some years it's less than 7 days before Christmas.
I had a niece who went to Judson in the 80s. She was a Cheerleader. Besides all of the normal multiple uniforms my sister had to buy, every year when they got deep into the playoff, they had to get a "santa" version of their cheerleading uniform! Of course, it was never the same from the year before.
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No, I meant odd to not had a formal meeting since before the first SBC Championship (2001), if that's what the article meant. I thought most coaches were annually evaluated?
Wow! Your right. I understood all of the coaches/programs were evaluated for progress after each season. At least was the impression I had gotten from RV in the past.
Hopefully, the writer just wrote the sentence wrong and this is the first formal meeting since the END of the string of conference championships.
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That seems a little odd not to have a formal meeting until now.
Not really. DD would want to do his evaluation of the entire program first. Then he'd want to go over things with each coach individually. RV would also do his evaluation.
Only then would both sit down together in a formal situation.
I'd think there would be some imformal discussions before the formal one.
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(This info from a friend who spent 5-6 years in school there in the greek system, and no he doesnt have a masters
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6 years of education down the drain! Let me guess, after 6 years he's just 24 hours from graduation!
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Even if every other school in the TSUS changed their name, the San Marcos campus would still be the only one known simply as "Texas State" because it owns the copyright to that name and all the associated logos and marketing rights.
No, the State of Texas owns the copy and other rights. I simple majority vote of the legislature would strip these from TSUSM.
They are and will remain Texas State University AT SAN MARCOS. Some will shorten the name when talking about them to Texas State, just as other schools get their names shorted to Texas, Tech, A&M and North Texas.
They won't get their name shortened to just State as there are too many other "States" in Texas. And no one is going to just call them by the initials TSU as that is what Texas Southern is already known as.
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He'd be in a class all alone.
He's a real class act.
How many of you remember Bob Tyler? We got rid of him before he had time to violate TOO many NCAA rules.
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As Arkstatefan has pointed out before, comparing 1AA and 1A through the Saragin ratings is questionable. There is not enough games between the two to get an overall valid result. Neither one plays more than two of the other: 1A's would play no more that two 1AAs and 1AAs generally don't play more than two 1As. Generally, each only plays one team in the other division. Many do not play any.
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Chuck may be a great guy, but his son Curtis was an @sshole delux during the filming of "NR". He brought in two of his steroid freak buddies from L.A. to do stunt work. I had the pleasure of catching one of them stealing equipment from the locker rooms and had him kicked off set. Curtis didn't care for me much after that. Afterwards it came down to a face to face standoff between me and the thief and I thought we were going to go after it for a second there until our own Sydney "Mad Dog" Bradford stepped in. He turned and told Curtis and his buddies if he didn't like it to tear their @sses back to Caly. Pretty funny.
Rick
Curtis is still the wonderful person you describe. I've yet to meet one person in the film business who has worked with him who wanted to do it again!
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I'm impressed we had an increase with the terrible year we had. Sooo much better than that last game a few years back when everyone could have watched from the Deck and easily fit!
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This is ASU's first D1A bowl ever. Alumni will be coming out of the woodwork eventually to get tickets. According to Arkstatefan, ASU folks are notorious for waiting till the last moment to buy tickets, then will buy quite a few.
ASU will be fine. Let's hope they win. I don't think So Miss is not as strong as they were last year.
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I don't think we should have agree to a "home and home" with the School for the Blind, the Little Sisters of the Poor or Texas State @ San Marcos. While some might think our two schools are on the same level, most of us know that is not the case.
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They are TEXAS STATE. Just like if San Angelo State wanted to change their name which they will not , they would be TEXAS STATE @ San Angelo just like a UTA,UTEP,UTSA,
They were the first to do it now they set the rules for their own system. Just like UT will never become UTAustin. They are the flagship!
Did the legislator change their name again this last Spring? I know when Southwest first did the name change, they were Texas State @ San Marcos. That could have changed, but I know for certain when they made their first name change that was what it was.
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Going WACy would be a very, very bad idea.
Their commissioner will not do anything to help a school in the Central time zone. That is not the case in the SBC where our's goes out and works.
Plus there is the near total lack of publicity in the local media. Tech beat a ranked Fresno and got almost no mention. Huge travel costs that are NOT offset be additional funds from the conference.
And unless a Central time zone team wins the conference, they are not going bowling. Just ask Rice or La Tech! The Hawaii Bowl keeps saying Hawaii MUST be the host team or the bowl is going to fail!
I read some of the threads over there!
Let's not go WACy!!!
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Don't forget the ammo!
More importantly, keep you head down! Next time we get to New Orleans, some one need to sport that bad bathrobe!
don't know if you noticed
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During the Citrus Bowl the announcers were complimenting the SBC refs.