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It's going to take a miracle for the Bears not to finish 6th in the Big 12 South (Baylor, Oklahoma, Ok. St., Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech).
They might finish ahead of Ok. St. once the next 10 years. They will never finish in the top 3 of the division. Let alone even sniff a shot at the Big XII Championship game.
Briles is a good guy and a great coach, but he is going to coaching purgatory.
If they schedule right, get the dreadful defense somewhat fixed and steal a few annually in B12 (like the winnable one at Missouri a few years back when they used the wrong QB until it was too late), they'll bowl almost every year. Houston was in pretty bad shape when Briles got there, to the point it could have been a coach killer, too. The dude was Dodge before Dodge, one of the best high school coaches in the country who needed time to figure it all out. Lucky for Briles, he had two years at Tech to cut teeth, but Houston basically hired him as a newbie. Sucks for the UH folks, but I can see it being us someday, too.
Nice call, Baylor. Thumbs up.
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I'll guess Army, Rice, WKU, FAU, ULM, & Muts.
Would prefer Army, Rice, SMUt, Houston, Tulsa, Tulane, USM.
Would settle short term for Army, Rice, Boise, NMSU, La Tech, Fresno St.
Rice is not on the 2009 schedule. We're at Rice in 2008 and host Rice in 2010. Army is the only home nonconf game in 2009 that's set. Still a home date to fill.
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DAMN...a sledgehammer? I've seen guys take off helmets to use as wielding instruments, but where do you just pick up one of those things after a football game? That's some seriously medieval behavior. Just imagine if someone had left an axe laying around instead of a sledgehammer...oh, the humanity!
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Did I miss something? Was that some kind of uber-sarcasm, so difficult to detect that it flies over the most nuanced posters? You questioned TCU's decision to "leave" the WAC, and all I did was explain in painstaking detail that they did not leave, and that the WAC's former makeup is irrelevant to its current success.
You, though, chose to go the smug, childish sight-gag route to apparently CYA unless, again, I missed something. Care to explain yourself in a mature manner?
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has anyone really looked at Kansas' schedule this year to see who they beat? Baylor remains the Smut of the Big12. The privates just need to join together in their own conference and pillowfight amongst themselves for a Bowl.
You/I/everyone here should kill to be in that conference with the privates and pillowfight for a bowl.
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Read again. TCU didn't leave the WAC. The WAC broke up when it's more established members (BYU, Air Force, Utah, etc.) left and formed the Mountain West. TCU then went to a league (C-USA) that better suited it from the standpoint of television (ESPN), bowls and geography. The newly formed Mountain West invited TCU back about three years ago, selling a model of potential growth and the first conference-specific television network (The Mtn.) that, unfortunately for them, is still not carried on sattellite or cable in Texas. The television end hasn't worked out, but TCU has won or competed for that league's title (not so much this year) and will go to something like a eighth or ninth straight bowl when it wins at San Diego State on Saturday.
As far as the WAC hindsight stuff, doesn't apply. Boise wasn't in the league then, and Hawaii didn't have Colt Brennan. Timmy Chang was a pretty good QB, but they didn't play any defense. Then, no one could predict those two programs being as good as they are now. Hell, Hawaii still has no recruiting budget. It's a completely different WAC now, so you can't say TCU screwed up; SMU, Rice, UTEP and Tulsa were WAC schools, too. Hawaii, Fresno and San Jose State are the only remaining original WAC schools.
You hear the MWC get trashed for its bowl partnerships, but in three years, TCU will have gone to Houston, San Diego and probably Albuquerque this season. The league champion goes to Vegas, and TCU is an attractive at-large team in years when Houston or El Paso can't get all of their conference tie-ins filled. Both have invited TCU in past years under that scenario.
I find it funny reading on this board more than occasionally how crappy TCU's situation is and what dumb moves they made. Other than not being able to break through that BCS ceiling, they appear to have things under control. We need to worry about our situation, which is quite a bit more dire these days. The idea of us being in a conference with them is ludicrous; you can't argue that they "should be" when they 1) won't even play us in a nonconference game and 2) practically lap us in budget, facilities, fan and donor support. Just because UNT says they should do it doesn't mean TCU should. I'd say we already have a full plate of issues.
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Let's dream, shall we?
Hawaii
Fresno State
San Jose State
Nevada
Idaho
Boise State
Utah State
New Mexico State
North Texas
Arkansas State
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana (ULL)
Even better, bye bye Idaho
Hawaii
Fresno State
San Jose State
Nevada
Boise State
Utah State
New Mexico State
Texas State
North Texas
Arkansas State
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana (ULL)
This would rock.
Also, getting San Antonio to host a second bowl game for the E-WAC would be easy to do, especially if Texas State were included at some point.
The SBC would survive. They could easily add App St and Georgia Southern to get back to 8.
Interesting dream, but consider that an expanded WAC already failed (miserably) once when the current MWC schools told the eastern half of the WAC to go F itself around 1998. TCU apparently maintained some relationships there and wriggled an invite back into the fold. San Diego as the largest TV market apparently didn't cut it. Most of those East WAC schools are now in C-USA after a serious domino effect of conference shakeups. I'm curious as to what goes down next time, but a (likely) non-BCS, two-division setup...seriously doubt it.
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Man, those black unis really pissed me off. Just when I thought I'd forgotten...link.
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At the time of my post in this thread, I had listed a lot of the information previously shown. Please read the dsclaimer I had put on the Tulsa information (I have included it below). This clearly shows that, I knew this was not mentioned be me, but by someone else within the same thread.
As for my website having this information, pleae revisit the site... go to the left side of the page and scroll down to the 2007 schedule. Above this is a selection box, where you can choose any schedule from 2001 - 2010. If you would choose 2008, 2009, or 2010, you'll see the information is available. Just click on the expand/collapse ('+', plus sign) and you can see the schedules.
I think one needs to re-read before posting.
Hope this helps.
I think one needs to take his condescending attitude elsewhere.
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I believe I posted this same info (for the 2008 schedule) a few days back in a previous thread, with dates even.
Uh, no you didn't. Your original post doesn't even list the Tulsa game. Also the link to your "very own" website doesn't pull any of that stuff up.
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Fact is, Parcells asked Dodge to interview for a position-coach job and then didn't hire him. Wasn't that Parcells couldn't hire him; he just didn't.
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Wonder if they play any defense. Resumes'??
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Now, I don't personally own any firearms, but when academics start wanting to tinker with the 2nd Amendment...I've got a problem with it. I've never been convinced - and this particular professor cemented my feeling - that people who know nothing about firearms should tell people whether or not they can own firearms.
Pretty sure the Startlegram wasn't trying to make this a gun-control issue. Way to veer off the cliff.
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Look familiar? This is from a few weeks back.
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Because of our lousy record.....
...which wouldn't matter if the game were still on Saturday.
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It sounds to me like the game's being dropped had more to do with UNT's record than anything else. I don't think we can blame ASU for any of that, at least not yet.
Point is, if the game stays on Saturday, it's on. Ultimately, Ch. 21 didn't want to interrupt its weekday programming, which is their option.
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This pretty much sucks.
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How many off our defense from last year moved to the other side of the ball this year? Any starters?
Victor Gill moved from offense (TE) to defense (DE) and back to offense (TE again). Doesn't exactly qualify, but close. Draylen Ross (the huge scout-team kid from Fort Worth) has also moved twice. DD moved him from DE to TE, and he's back at DL, but I think DT this time. Santiago was also a DL under DD, but TD moved him to OL.
Damn, lots of abbrevs. in that post.
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Funny how high school/college football in this state is such a small community. Dodge sees this kid play while scouting another opponent, and then Washington falls in his lap at UNT. From memory, he realizes this is the same kid that torched people at QB a few years back and right then moves him to offense. Small world.
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If Leach goes to UCLA then the Houston job will be open.
Leach isn't going anywhere. Every year, the same baseless rumors about him leaving for another program never come true. Besides, you couldn't fill one hand with meaningful victories under him at Tech. He's a defensive know-nothing (which UCLA doesn't need) and half-certifiable, too.
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Casey for all-American...that's cool. He deserves it, 1-8 or not. There must be a 10 or so all-Amer teams out there with three teams each plus hon. mention. I say go for it, UNT. He's got the numbers and skills.
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"Mendoza’s squad ranked 20th in total defense in 2004, 10th in 2005 and third in 2006."
Where do these defensive rankings come from? Ranked among what?
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You can throw Greg McElroy on that list, too. People forget about him in the Carroll QB lineage.
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Is there anything to read into this? I admire the way TD handled himself in this interview, though don't totally agree with him holding RM back.
Johnson To Smu
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A little stunned that SMUt didn't give Jeff Bower at S. Miss a serious look. 10 bowl games in 11 years...pro-style offense...just what the doctor ordered at SMU, and for the right price. Just can't see them running the triple option, though as earlier posted maybe Johnson will use something more conventional. Bower was right there for the taking, but Navy and SMU have had a past relationship, so from that aspect I'm not surprised.