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  5. bleed green basketball and bleed green merch.

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    40 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

    HUGE addition!   PG spot is solid now.  It was shaky before.  Wendell Mitchell (former Aggie) is a good PG, but not quite at Woolridge's level.

    But we lost Jordan Williams somewhere along the line.

    @flyonthewall, what happened to Williams?    Looking good on the website, btw...

    https://thetournament.com/teams/bleed-green-north-texas-alumni/

    Williams couldn't get here for some reason.  You cannot believe the work that D.J. and J.J. have done to put this together, then keep it together.  Another new add last night that should really help also.  Practice should be fun this morning.

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  6. bleed green basketball and bleed green merch.

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    9 hours ago, greenminer said:

    Love how this is bringing Mean Green players old and new together.  Lots of potential here to get alumni/fans engaged in ways the traditional sports/student athletes can't match.

    When/if we find it this is really hard to win, does this thing fizzle out or grow into something incredible?

    no fizzle, grow.  We have built the back end to repeat this again next year.  

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    bleed green basketball and bleed green merch.

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    Training camp starts Monday.  We have added a couple of players.  You can check the roster out at https://thetournament.com/teams/bleed-green-north-texas-alumni/

    Also, there is a merch store.  link is https://store.thetournament.com/shop/category/403980/?subcategory=22543

    If we get to 150 pieces sold the team gets a piece of the merchandise sales.

    First game Friday at 1 p.m. in Wichita

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  12. Spring Game - Saturday April 9th

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    6 hours ago, Pavlovs Eagle said:

    Some of the people at the AD remind me of the wives of partners in law firms downtown who work 20hrs a week at Neiman's to get their husbands a few thousand dollars off their next $10k Brioni suit. It seems like a fun job where they get to watch sports while chasing 5 to 10 donors who would probably write a big check even if they didn't work there.

    At some point more people are going to realize how true this is......Within any organization, there are strengths and weaknesses.....and there are many positives with the current state of the athletic department......BUT.........

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  16. The Little Dribblers are interested in McCasland

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    17 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

    With the sudden and unexpected departure of their coach Jackie Moon to the PIP (Players in Progress), the Albuquerque Little Dribblers are hoping to fill the vacancy with an up and coming star.  
     

    The step-brother of the wife of the cousin of the Little Dribbler’s owner said he had a dream that Grant McCasland is their #1 target.  

    Actually, the local little dribblers coach in fact actually retired this year.  His actual name is Mike Mcleskey.  He got tired of the grind of hauling @100 4,5, and 6year olds around to area gyms.  He actually "misplaced" a couple last year and the parents were getting a little agitated....

    so.....there is some truth to this....

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  17. Texas State (3/15/22)

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    57 minutes ago, meangreen11 said:

     

    I feel like I was just listening to my wife from another room, she is telling me things I need to do, and I am just saying, "Yes" and "ok" and "I got it" on every sentence pause having no idea what she is telling me...

    Then I just get in my truck and go to a bar, with her thinking that I went off to run and errand...only to consume 2 or 3 servings of brown water, returning home satisfied that I did my job......

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  20. Super Pit Question

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    4 hours ago, Green Otaku said:

    Or maybe he's trying to do his job and elevate a program to a national caliber level? 

    Again we just built an indoor practice facility.  Half on the back of two families the other half with a student fee.  Without a major naming rights deal, a new Arena just will not happen with the current donor pool.   We "they" need to mine new donors.  

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    Super Pit Question

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    24 minutes ago, Clinetort said:

    AD's looking to move on to bigger and better jobs are judged on facilities built, not programs added.  I've agreed with every move Wren has made to this point.  If he prioritizes an unneeded arena over a baseball program, then there will be pushback.

     

    To your point.  A lot of this depends on what donors will buy in to as a need.  At this point everyone sitting on that front row at the super pit are heavily invested in other projects.  As i have stated many times, if donor x "pledges" or "donates" 1 million, just as an exemple the payout of that commitment could work many ways, but in the case of north texas it is usually five years.

    This is why it is so important for us to mine new donors right now.   Current large donors are somewhat tapped.

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    2022 C-USA MBB Postseason Awards

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    1 hour ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

    You may want to revisit where MT was predicted to finish because the rest of your qualifiers fit.   I'm sure McCasland himself would agree (seeing how modest he is by nature).

    https://conferenceusa.com/news/2021/10/21/mens-basketball-mbb-uab-picked-first-in-preseason-poll-11-student-athletes-recognized.aspx

    Mccasland did a horrible job.  In fact, he shouldn't even have been considered.  There also is no reason any other schools should even consider interviewing him.  It would be a waste of their time.  He just cant coach....

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  24. Why can't we be the next Houston?

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    Allright.....ill bite on this topic.  Because it was discussed this morning.  Let's just say for argument sake, we need to raise 100 million across the board, for upgrading facilities nil etal.....

    Throw out lovelace, kuehne, McNatt, and a few others, because they are potentially still paying off other commitments they made for other facilities here.  

    Now assume that people are willing to donate 5% of their net worth....you would need to find an individual or group of individuals with 2 billion dollars in net worth to raise 100 million.  

    How many of you would write a check right now for 5 percent of whatever your savings is?  And do we have 2 billion of net worth sitting around undiscovered?  

    What if the number is 2.5%?  Now we have to mine 4 billion in net worth?

    Now, let's just say you ask people to donate from their current income, and out of that 10 percent of annual income is reasonable.   You would need 10000 people  making 100000 a year to donate 10000 a piece to raise 100,000,000

    Have fun in your fundraising career.

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