emmitt01

High school camp as I understand it. Great chance to get out some offers and maybe a commit or twelve.

And their schedule also COMPLETELY negates the complaint you'll hear from fans of a lot of our Big XII neighbors that "they don't have to play in a conference so they shouldn't get an auto bid to the BCS." Tell me, who would want to play in a conference that included Michigan, Michigan St, USC, Penn State and UCLA? Or, tell me how that lineup isn't at least the equal of Tech, Baylor, UT, aTm and Oklahoma.

So now you're suggesting that Woody WILL start? I don't get it. In all seriousness, what makes you so convinced that Woody won't be our starter this year? I'm not convinced that he will but you won't see me throwing it out there that he has no chance...unless I offer up some really damn good credentials or it's announced that I've been made a part of the coaching staff. And don't give me this "he played the least in the spring game" crap because so did J-Mo. Also, don't give me this "he's an athlete but he's not accurate enough" because, if you've seen a shred of tape from our games last season we didn't exactly have John Elway under center at ANY point.

For what it's work ArkStfan I feel your pain. To many on this board any conglomeration of schools, so long as it has the Sun Belt name, is satan. That you never suggested that the Sun Belt would have the exact same lineup it does today (and in fact stated that it would look drastically different) is inconsequential I guess.

I'm still trying to convince my wife to go to that football clinic for women. Will you be coaching there?

Note that nowhere on it does it say exes. http://www.lids.com/pid/20089566

All the griping we do about people still being in the parking lot during games...here's a part of a TCU conversation abouts selling out ACS: And as for people showing up to Fouts, or even knowing who we are, another quote: Point being, there will always be those who are ignorant to what is going on at NT (even on campus) and we will not see a quick fix (no, not even a stadium). All we can do is invite everyone we know, travel well on the road and stay the course.

Add to this 6 WR commits in the 07 class plus Evan Fentriss. That's now 9 WR's in addition to any currently on scholarship that won't be seniors this season.

Is Dodge preparing to institue a 10 wide formation?

And the gap between us and even the lowest rated of 1A schools gets larger.

Just ordered a pair of tickets.

Tell me you are not talking about "pride stickers." If so, even I will laugh at our team when they take the field.

Can anyone verify that the helmets shown for 63 and 64-66 are authentic? If so, I have to buy those.

And I think this is where our frustration comes from. Saying a "a team from the Sun Belt" implies that all teams from the Sun Belt should be inferior to all teams from CUSA. Should we then say Baylor is superior to Boise State? In a round robin tournament the Big XII would wipe the floor with the WAC but head to head Boise is the superior program. Likewise, it is very possible (and has been borne out if you look at Sagarins cumulatively from the last decade) that NT has the superior program when compared to SMU...again, not bias just going by rankings. I agree, SMU should have the better program for all the reasons you note. Have you, though, considered the enrollment size, availability of a wider array of majors, hotter coeds (you'll never get me to say NT's women aren't superior), or just love for the campus when it comes to NT? Recruiting rankings, if they always bore out who would be successful, should have had UT winning back to back to back national titles in recent years. Bottom line...SMU and NT are comparable in terms of football strength. If you think your coach is holding you back then so be it. But don't cast aspersions on a conference you were 1-1 against last season. Oh, and speaking of Rice...since you use them as a program that has "managed to generate a turnaround"...they got hammered by the champion of the lil' ol' Sun Belt.

Well coach, by your logic Jamario is in some BIG trouble. He played the least of the running backs.

My favorite quote was from the Plano QB: "Hopefully coaches will realize we can pass the ball...." Sorry, the forward pass is still just so new to me. Makes me wonder something. If Todd Dodge came out during the kickoff cookout and gave the NT tradition of the "we're gonna open up the offense" line, how exciting would that be?

Be careful. This goes against everything that those "in the know" on this board have been preaching.

Prepare to be disappointed.

-They lost their season opener last year 35-3 to Tech. Then turned around and lost to a DD team that was about as vanilla as can be. -Demyron Martin had 55 yards against us in the first quarter before spraining his ankle. (that's on pace for 220 for the game) He won't sprain his ankle this year so we better have a run defense. -Justin Willis was a baby by collegiate standards when he played us. Hell, he hadn't even committed his first hate crime yet! -We will be breaking in a new offense. Let's be honest, playing OU will tell us little to nothing about this offense...they're just that much faster and stronger. Soooooo, by my unscientific formula we should win 24-20.

I keep looking for your photo on the meangreensports.com site and have yet to see it under "coaches".

These are far and away better prices than the bookstore or Voertman's if you even remotely like what they have to offer.

Hey, that's the hat I have!

I think CUSA in its present alignment is where we should be shooting for. If any of the dominoes falls (BSU or FSU to MWC, Anyone to Pac-10, TCU to Big XII) then it benefits us but I would prefer CUSA...yes, even over MWC. The reason being is this. I think if we were to join CUSA (and don't bother with the "SMU wouldn't let us talk" because they would be quickly outvoted if we have our ducks in a row) then it would push the eastern CUSA teams to look for greener pastures. Those greener pastures just might be alignment with the eastern belt schools leaving the UL-? teams and possibly Arky state and La Tech to come into CUSA. Those basketball schools in CUSA are barely tolerating the layout of the conference as it is and I think they could convince some of the basketball/football schools to defect with them. SMU would have to stay with us in CUSA because, let's be frank, nobody else wants them. TCU changes conferences every time SMU comes nipping at their heels and no other conference is beating down the pony door.

All I can say is, if we did recruit either of these kids: "We didn't want them anyway. They probably would have never seen the field here"

Wow!!! They outrecruited the mighty Idaho for the Gunn kid.