emmitt01

This "juggeraut" beat SMU by 6...and put up a total of 29 on them. By no means am I saying I take them lightly, but also by no means am I saying they can't be beaten. Especially when their bread and butter seems to be "pass the ball all over the place and hope your defense makes stops." Sound familiar?

10-2 Close loss to K-State

I'm wondering, who would you try to go get that is not a superstar? Considering that the Mavs have pretty much given away any players/picks that could net them a "difference maker" who would you get to be an upgrade at the role player positions? My first pick would be Rajon Rondo.

Just keeping this alive as I will have more in the next day or so.

Assuming a Texas State game at home could come close to selling out if they were our home opener (I know a big assumption) would it be financially wise to replace one of these "body bag" games? If you figure 25,000 at an average of about $15 per ticket...man, we're a good "value"...then you get a gate of $375,000. This number though is highly inflated because it includes the students who would get in free, so we're talking less. Out of that you'd have to pay Texas State something. I know you also throw in parking at concessions but I just don't see where we could replace a $700,000 pay day.

I try to make at least one Ranger game a season. I'm accustomed to being surrounded every day by those who are hopeless and make excuses for their titanic failures...it's nice, even if only for a day, to see someone in the same situation who makes more money than I can dream of.

Just posting what the rivals article says. Here it is.

Everyone can tap their brakes on the optimism...it's UCLA.

I think it boils down to just a few things: 1)Do you believe that coach Deloach's schemes and ability to make adjustments mid-game will produce better results than the schemes we saw last season? Was it, as most of us assumed, a case of having adequate talent but just putting them in the worst possible positions? 2)Do you believe that with a full year under his belt Giovanni Vizza will make less "freshman" mistakes and more of our drives will end in the end zone and not in turnovers? Will coach Dodge resist the temptation to tinker at this position and allow Vizza to be "the man" without question all Fall? 3)Do you believe the attrition we suffered along both lines can be recovered from? Will Fall be long enough for those who were out in the spring to come back and get up to speed? 4)Do you believe our kicking game is improved? Will we now be able to think about 3 points instead of knowing we have to put it in the endzone to come away with points? 5)Is three games long enough for this team to "gel"? Of the games that most of us expect are winnable, all are after the first three weeks. 6)Do you believe the Belt is about the same strength it was last season? Last season's Belt schedule was loss by 10, loss by 9, win by 10, loss by 38, loss by 20, loss by 4, win by 1 and loss by 19. If the other teams stand pat as far as strength do you believe it was just the defense that was the issue last season? I think, with no kool-aid anywhere in my house, that I can answer most of these questions in a positive manner. 6 wins is not out of the question...neither is 8 nor is 4.

Ummm...he did rhyme. Or was there some unseen sarcasm in your response?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3380764

Yes, because June Jones realizes that the easiest way to build a mid-major school into one with national appeal is to rack up the wins...to pad the win totals with the SFA's of the world instead of ensuring several losses by taking on LSU, UT, OU, etc.

Is it sad, or telling, that you could post ANYTHING related to coach Stephens or the women's program and it wouldn't bat an eyelash compared to talk about what Johnny will do with the last scholarship.

What are you talking about Rick. He fits the UT model for a student athlete perfectly.

The board mods are quitely discussing moving it as we speak.

Perhaps because the fans of the other teams are confident they can show up to see their team win during the real season? I'm not sayin....I'm just sayin.

The '02 Mean Green vs. this year's SMU was 55-0 in favor of the good guys and K. Galbreath went for 247.

That's just what he was trying to live in...the "free" world.

We'll have a stadium before this happens.

As a lifelong Dolphins fan I must disagree. No matter how hard I try I just can't "coulda, woulda, shoulda" them into the Super Bowl right now.

And I think that's all anyone, Vito included, is trying to say. I really didn't take Vito's blog entry to say that the belt would be leapfrogging any BCS conferences any time soon...just that Troy's history of sending first rounders to the NFL allows Sun Belt coaches a concrete example or two when they say "You can still go to the NFL from here."

Your incessant and unnecessary pessimism aside do you think it's impossible that Todd Dodge might say to a recruit "if you come to play at North Texas you can aspire to the NFL, we've sent players and a sun belt just sent a first rounder"? Or would that be too logical a leap for you to make?

Today's Entry: When you break up with your "baby momma" move to a different area code Last night I got the call of all calls. A cutting came out, a code 3 call so I got to drive all fast and stuff, and I was just down the street. I arrived to find this 20 year old male standing there holding his right shoulder which had been sliced almost down to the bone...and he had a small stab wound on his stomach as well. I askeed him what happened and he replied "she cut me so I broke her window." Not exactly the material needed to solve this particular whodunit so I delved deeper. I asked "who?" and he says "she's over here in this apartment" and starts to walk away. Mind you the paramedics are trying their damndest to hold him up long enough to bandage his shoulder and telling him he really needs to get transported...but he's a little too pissy to listen. So we walk to an upstairs apartment and when I knock on the door I am greeted by an irate 21 year old who starts screaming "Look what he done did to my window!" I ask "why did he break your window" to which she replies "I don't know." I asked "you didn't stab him or cut him in any way?" and she replies "nope...I aint touched him." We asked her if there was anyone else in the apartment and she says "no" but we're obligated to look anyway. Lo and behold we find a second female in the back bedroom who is tending to 5 children in there. I ask her "what happened" and she tells me something about this guys new girlfriend attacking her at the corner store...but nothing about a stabbing. Strangely enough when I ask "how did he get cut?" she tells me that he stormed into this apartment and hit her in the face then ran away so she chased him downstairs and cut him. Now we're getting somewhere. They apparently have a 1-year old together and she is 3 months pregnant. She says he has hit her before. Unfortunately for her, even though he did commit family violence, once he left the location and gave her a chance to lock the door and be out of danger the abusive episode was over. That she chased him downstairs and cut him now makes her guilty of aggravated assault...which is commited in the course of a family violence episode is a felony 1. So I went downstairs to have him corroborate this story and he insists that the cuttting happened inside the apartment....which would make her stabbing him an act of self-defense. So I've got baby momma copping out to Agg Assault and baby daddy copping out to Misdemeanor A assault...both of whom are spinning the story, unwittingly, in a light least favorable to themselves. Luckily I was able to find a string of independent witnesses who could put the string of events together for me. And here's what really transpired (I can't make this stuff up): Baby momma and her friend are at the corner store when they run into baby daddy and his new girlfriend. New girlfriend and baby momma's friend exchange mean looks and bumping into eachother and a cat fight ensues. Baby momma and friend go back to friend's apartment. Baby daddy shows up at the door knocking loudly and yelling "give me back my cell phone." (I'm not sure how this cell phone plays into the whole ordeal but you'd be surprised how many fights start over a cellular phone) Friend answers the door and says "we don't have your cell phone, go away!" Baby daddy pushes her out of the way and walks into her apartment uninvited where he then punches baby momma in the face. [Legal lesson #1- Entering someone else's home by force with intent to commit an assault is Burglary of a Habitation...a second degree felony ] Baby daddy runs down the stairs and baby momma grabs a kitchen knife and, along with friend, gives chase. They catch up to him near the leasing office and she slices him across the shoulder. He runs away again and they chase him further, back to the corner store where this all started, and she stabs him in the stomach. [Legal lesson #2- If you stab someone whom you have a familiar relationship with that is Aggravated Assault against a family member w/ deadly weapon...a first degree felony] Baby momma and friend go back to friend's apartment, stopping to get into a fight...again...with baby daddy's new girlfriend and one of her friends. Baby daddy comes over a few minutes later and breaks one of the apartment windows. [Legal lesson #3- Willful damage to another's property if the damage is >$50<$500 is Misdemeanor B Criminal Mischief ] Needless to say baby daddy and baby momma both got to go to jail...and baby daddy will have 10 years to serve because he was already on probation for Manufacture or Delivery of a controlled substance. And just to make sure he stays at Lew Sterrett long enough for his probation officer to revoke him I went personally to the magistrate and put in a request for higher bail. But don't fret all of you lovebirds. At jail he did apologize to her for his being in jail because "I woulda bailed you out." Aint love grand?

Why? Nothing about this post has a thing to do with SMU. I'm starting to think the paranoia over other people's SMU paranoia is getting a little overdone.

I'm dead tired right now but I will have a very interesting new entry later today. Thanks to my many readers who keep this thing alive.