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I doubt anyone on the team had NT at the top of their dream schools to play for. However, that is different from Gaines who apparently had no other fb division offers openly expressing his desire to find something better. But, that is all water under the bridge at this point, and I hope he strongly contributes and is glad he finally made the right decision.
There is a vast different between quality and quantity at the defensive end position. NT certainly has numbers but that in its self screams desperation. The last minute signing of Gaines and before that fellow California juco Miller, is illustrative that NT doesn't think they have an answer at the position. Anyone remember how Cole was going to be the answer at de. I am surprised that they are once again trying Cantly at de when after started him at dt at the end of the season. I also have doubts that Anyiam or Weber will play outside. I do believe that Owusu-Heming if he can stay in good shape with the staff maybe a starter with the other being Akpunku with Obi and perhaps a better than anticipated Boutwell in the rotation.
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Vito's latest blog is that Tulane may come after Jones. Yes, successful coaches at any level are going to be in demand.
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It is very common for teams to go almost entirely with their starting five in the offensive line. The benefits of playing one unit and the increased familiarity with the defense as the number of plays increase can offset any benefits of being fresh in the offensive line. The downside is that secondary players get little experience . However, although it is difficult to believe with NT having the majority of it offensive line out for the Spring, offensive linemen are the least likely to have serious injuries; therefore teams think that a couple of backups are enough.
I disagree a little with Harry, I think that the offensive line is the deepest part of the team with the exception of wide receiver. NT returns four starters from last year with Santiago, Gill, Drake, and Johnson plus one starter from the year before in Freeley. Tomlinson also started several games at offensive tackle. The only losses were Bailey and Hollovay who alternated in the guard position. Redshirts Noble, Flax, Franklin and Bean along with Fortenberry should form a good back up unit. I think the offensive line was actually good last year at least compared with most of the team, there were few sacks and Dunbar had a heck of a year. No-one got any all conference recognition which is to be expected with NT's Belt record. There are no kept conference stats on offensive linemen. A skill position or a defensive player can sometimes get recognition on a bad team because there are statistics such as yards gained, tackles, etc. to highlight their performance, but it very difficult for an offensive linemen to get recognized unless he is truly dominating.
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Am I the only one that finds it arrogant that UCLA terms the non-renewal of a scholarship a dismissal? It is obvious they want to make room for another 5 star high school player but why make it look like the player has done something other than be as good as they hoped by terming it a dismissal.
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Yeah, I think he was only here his Sophmore and Junior years. Left to play overseas. Think it was Israel. Don't recall where he was his Freshman season.
Ronnie Morgan started for NT as a freshman that was the first year that NT played in the NCAA tournment. He played two more years and was not allowed to play his senior season reportedly because of health issues, high blood pressure. However, he did play internationally the next year. I do think NT did eveything they could to keep him playing, he missed a lot of games during his career because he could not pass physicals. He was a good player but NT could not take changes with his medical issues, apparently they did not have the same concerns then in international pro ball.
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Let see, Jackson has been primarily in charge of hiring two presidents and has apparently terminated both. Either Jackson hired people that were not competent or he has failed to be able to work with his own choices. I am sure that Jackson has some valuable political clout but he has done little to demonstrate that he is capable of leading a major university system. Hopefully the BOD will take time to evaluate the Chancellor as well as work on obtaining a new President. A "yes person" employed as the UNT President with an incompetent Chancellor is a recipe for complete failure.
The link is attached because it seems to me that Jackson working on so many Dallas projects is almost a conflict of interest with his duties as Chancellor. Why would an university system with it's main components being in Denton and Fort Worth want or ethically have a leader with such an obvious City of Dallas bias.
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When I worked with him back around 1980 I thought he said he was Iranian but I have been wrong so many times I lost count. Iseed is a great guy and deserving of being in our hall of fame.
So deserving that he is already in the NT HOF. Has all time longest field goal as well as being a great soccer player.
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This is exactly what I hate about watching these games on CBS. This Baylor game is obviously over, yet we have to sit here and watch it while we have an upset (small at that) in the making in the other game, far closer.
It all depends, I remember when NT played North Carolina in NT's first NCAA tournament that a lot of the game was not shown were more interesting and closer played games could be shown. Nothing worse than watching your favorite team and having several minutes long periods not televised. I actually think they are doing a much better job of that now showing most of the scheduled games and breaking away at time outs. Of course, the scheduled time-outs were not part of the game back in the day.
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As of last year it was still known as graduate assistant. The SEC proposed that graduate assistants be limited to no more than seven years coaching experience which I believe passed. I couldn't find anything about a restricted earnings coach being a part of the NCAA.
Unless they have changed, and that is very possible; they are or were referred to as restricted earning coaches. The Graduate Assistant title is still in common use whether that is official or just continued use of the older terminology.
No matter what the proper name there are a lot of debates and proposals such as the one you cited trying to curtail the use of employing veteran coaches in these positions. Graduate assistants positions were developed as a type of sports internship usually for students in post graduate programs at the universities but evolved into a limited earnings position by NCAA statue that can be filled by anyone.
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Did you guys skip reading the article that started this thread in the first place?? The guy transferred from Nebraska because he didn't want to play forward.. I see him caving in and playing some PF at times but he will likely play more like a SF.. So even though he has the body of Eric Tramiel he doesn't have the same skill set like I think a lot of you are thinking
He transferred from Nebraska because he was not getting any playing time not because he didn't want to play under the basket. I can't believe anyone thinks JJ signed Edwards to play the wing. Edwards averaged 6 points on a mediocre juco, why would anyone thing he is an outside offensive threat? If that performance coach had mentioned in his article that Alonzo really wants to play the point, some of you would be predicting less playing time for White and Johnson.
Edwards was a very good high school player, physical and with some skills. I would think that JJ and apparently other coaches believe with his physical ability he can become a force around the basket based on his high school promise and ignoring what he has done since. The interesting thing is that he was signed during the juco season and his numbers were only slightly better than at the end of the year. I thought he was a strange choice for NT's only ship at the time but he was signed to replace Tramiel at the 4. Tramiel was a first team juco All American, Edwards was not closed to being all anything. I do think that the coaching staff sees a little of Odufuwa in Edwards. Odufuwa in his sophomore year was a strong re-bounder but very limited offensively. Maybe Edwards can be a player that gives you adequate defense and 8 ppg and 6 rbg next year.
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My idea would be that the Belt and CUSA would in effect trade teams to get a geographical balance. In this manner the conferences would retain their NCAA points and basketball bids. Western Cusa and Sun Belt would merge and have a Northern Division of UTEP, Arkansas State, Tulsa , SMU and North Texas. The Southern Division would be Houston, Rice, Ull, Tulane, ULM and non-football UALR. I think this league would be attractive enough to lure one or more other football teams to it such as NMSU or La Tech or in a pinch UTSA. I don't think TCU is going to be willing to lower themselves to a regional conference for a while.
The other conference new members would be even stronger with an Eastern Division of UCF, FIU, FAU, Marshall, Eastern Carolina and WKU. The Western Division would be USM, Memphis, UAB, USA, Troy, and MTSU. The new configurations could retain the CUSA and Sun Belt names or be renamed .
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One great thing is that traffic on the basketball board has gone up an order of magnitude from prior years. A lot of HSO's being expressed.
Back to Edwards, I don't think there is any doubt he was recruited to fill Tramiel's position at the four. The question that has evolved based on a relatively poor juco performance is he capable. I don't believe despite sugar coating his performance at Lon Morris like Barnes attempted to do in his commentary that his progress has been promising. Numbers at Lon Morris are hard to come by, but it appears that Edwards was about fourth or fifth in scoring and third in rebounds on a very mediocre team, 16-15. For example, in LM's last regional game, Edwards started but only played 16 minutes with 0 points and 6 rebounds. I still can't believe that anyone thinks that JJ is going to start a 6'7 245 player with little demonstrated offensive skills at the wing or all of sudden go to a three man back-court with a team loading at the guard position. If he wanted to do that he would use Holmen. It seems to me despite what Edwards may think his correct position is, that his best change to contribute is being a rebound first interior player. The issue there is that with Spencer and Hogans, NT already has two similar players. A positive out of the article is that Edwards is working hard and wants to contribute.
Josh White will start and I question the BB IQ of anyone that blames him for anything. He has had more clutch performances than any recent player and is the heart of the club. As far as Thompson not wanting to be the go to player, I am not sure how anyone comes up with that conclusion. He has on the offensive end always been the one that seems to want the ball, maybe too much. This year, he also improved his defense and made more than a few good defensive plays. Thompson has substantially improved every year, if he can do that again he may be the best player in the conference.
Odufuwa, White and Thompson are obviously all great Belt level players and will start. Johnson before the injury was also close to that level. Magrum, Williams and Shorter provide great depth at the guard positions. The only critical issue next year is going to be the other front court starter. Holmen appears to have the best potential to be good on both ends of the court. Hogans and Spencer should be adequate depth players. I also would not be surprised to see Edwards come through. Knox did not play much but did show some promise, if he could gain some confidence he could really help.
It is interesting that the NT program is in such good shape that we are expressing concern over a fifth starter when we have three All Belt players
and two other players returning that probably would have been in the top six contributors if heathty on the team this year.
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So, for those who know his game, will he play the 4 or the 3 here?
Starting 5 I really like for next year:
1 - DJ
2- TT
3 - AE
4 - KH
5 - GO
Great size and athleticism.
No way that JJ with a loaded guard lineup starts 3 bigs. I think we are more likely to see a four guard lineup than 2. I remain mystified on the Edwards signing, he does not seem to fit this team needs at all. NT does not need a 6'7 245 three that has shown little offensively. Can you really see Edwards taking time away from Mangrum, Johnson, or Shorter? Problem, with his numbers and desire to play face to the basket can he even beat out Spencer, Hogans or Knox under the basket?
I'm not sure I like it but wouldn't be surprised to see a starting line of White, Thompson, Odufuwu, Johnson and either Mangrum, Shorter.
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This is just a guess but since the coaching staff is filled with the legal number of assistants we likely added him as one of the two GAs allowed. There are no specified duties for a graduate assistant. Often they film practices and assist other position coaches but I believe that they can also be a position coach as well.
Graduate assistant is no longer the term, it is restricted earning coach. Recent thrend is for experienced coaches that don't need the income or willing to work for little or perhaps are paid through other means to to get these positions.
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Nobody seems to want to focus on why the NT system needs a centralized financial function. In the business world there is an almost constant change from decentralized to centralized operations as management and views change. Centralization can work and save massive dollars but it can also result in disaster as decisions are made from a distance by people not involved directly with operations. The problem with Jackson establishing his empire is that he is not over a number of wide spread homogeneous entities that would normally benefit most from his proposed structure. The NT system is composed of a medical school, a start-up university and the flagship institution that contains the vast majority of the resources. Even if some functions are better served at a system not a campus level why in the world would the headquarters not be much better located in Denton where the leaders are closest to the most action?
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No. Holman has already put up better numbers as a freshman than Stew did at any point in his career. Whether or not they're good shots, Holman has legit range to 17 feet...20'9" with all kinds of time and space...and thats something Stew never had. Holman just needs to mature and vastly improve his shot selection.
Numbers yes, but Stewarts forte was defense, a part of the game Holmen is just getting aquainted with. Holmen if he works hard has the physical ability to be very good, but playing behind Spencer at the end of the year shows he still has a long way to go.
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Hindsight is always great. Scheduling teams from lower rated conferences based on who is going to be good might prove to be more than a little bit tricky. Was not Southeastern Louisiana the pre-season Southland favorite? I think it is a very good article and NT should schedule a more challenging oc slate next year because they should be a team that can handle bigger challenges. However, with the way that NT started this year, I doubt that scheduling more top 100 teams would have helped. NT has to win some of these games to benefit, a higher SOS with more loses would accomplish nothing positive. The problem this year was not the oc schedule anyway, it was loses in the Belt that killed NT's rpi. Only the Boise State scheduling fiasco hurt NT in the oc.
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Your posts gave me a thought that I maybe one of the few people to see all three NT conference tournament wins. The first in 1988 was held at the Superpit, so there were a lot of people that saw that one, over 4000 if I remember correctly. The one in Lafayette in 2007 was attended by very few, I would guess less than 50 NT fans excluding the spirit groups. It was nice to see a much better crowd in Hot Springs, however there should have been many more NT fans. The facts are that WKU and MTSU both had many more fans and they are further away. Don't mean to rain on a parade but I want this program to maintain and build on their recent success and to do that there has to be more support.
The team was great with all the starters strongly contributing. The bench was not used much but Mangrum played a lot and Williams had some great clutch plays. I do think the NT fans were instrumental in the wins as they significantly outnumbered Troy, Denver and ULM's. I also think the NT's women in their victory over FIU were helped by a good crowd. I almost felt sorry for FIU who seems to be supported by only two fans and their infamous but not very interested in the game eight girl dance team. Unfortunately, the NT fans were probably outnumbered 10 to1 for the MTSU/NT game.
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Girls played hard if not well against the MUTs. Way too many turnovers and blown layups. Big obnoxious MUTS crowd who seem to thrive on
watching their ass of a coach run up the score. I guess you have to give him credit, he apparently has no fear of his starters getting injured or any thoughts of resting his starters for the upcomming games. He did taKe out Clark after she scored 40 and MUTS up over forty with three minutes left in the game. You do have to give the MUTS players credit, they are good and pressed the entire game.
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Obviously, WKU is the team to beat. They have by a substantial margin the best basketball program in the Belt in terms of tradition and resources as well as results. Two straight years with NCAA Tournament success coupled with a great upsurge in play with the return of Sergio Kerush to the line-up make them the favorite. However, they can be beat; WKU was 7-2 in February with surprising losses to ULM and Houston. They have blown out several good teams but were taken to overtime by both ASU and FAU. They are a veteran team starting 2 seniors and 2 juniors. They have a very solid starting team but not a lot of depth. Slaugter their 6' 3 guard leads them in scoring at 17.7 but has recently taken a backseat to Kerush. Kerush and Pettigrew both 6'5 fireplugs are averaging 14.9 ppg with respectively 7.1 and 6.0 rebounds a game. Evans at 6'9 is averaging 10.5 ppg and 7.1 rb. Their fifth starter is Argyle's Dickerson, a freshman. I wonder if NT even recruited him. I think NT can beat WKU, they may have done that last year with a healthy Tremial. NT does have an advantage in WKU not getting a bye and can only meet them in the finals with them playing their fourth game in four days.
The other team I think a lot of NT fans are ignoring is Troy. Troy is 6-1 in February winning 8 of their last 9 games including beating the MUTS twice. They have five seniors that have started every game for them this year. Four starters average double figures with the fifth Jones avering 9 ppg. The good thing for NT is that Troy and WKU are both in the opposite brackets so NT only has to beat one.
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Not saying I agree with it 100%, but it isn't totally unreasonable. Our guys are pretty efficient scorers compared to much of the league, and Rohnert still shot fewer attempts but averaged more points (to say nothing of his assist and rebounding stats) than Tristan.
When you look at some of the other scoring leaders, many of them are up over 400 attempts on the year. Gantt and Pettigrew are the guys with the fewest attempts (other than White) to score more points per game than Rohnert, and they've got 370 and 360 attempts, respectively.
Rohnert, like Tristan and Josh, does a lot of damage from the line. And he's pretty much the one guy that every opponent can key on, so I find it really impressive that the guy can deliver the way that he does on a consistent basis.
Personally, I think Gantt should have made first team and Rohnert should have been second, but I can appreciate trying to honor an outgoing senior instead of a freshman.
I think Marvin Roberts from FIU got screwed over the worst. George deserved first team, but at least the guy didn't get left off entirely. Roberts deserved some level of all-conference recognition more than Yates, Pettigrew, Tramiel... Basically, every forward that DID get named other than Odufuwa and Tyren Johnson.
I don't know how that guy got left off.
Good points, but you are comparing Thompson who made the third team with Rohnert who was put on the first team. My point is although Denver run a variation of the Princeton offense, their scoring is not that far from the normal. Also Thompson's scoring numbers are much better than Rohnert's in conference play. It seems to me that conference statistics are a much more valid comparison for all conference honors than season's. I made the same point about Roberts, but that is just an example of how good players on bad teams are often overlooked. As far as honoring seniors, why? All conference honors should be based on the year not some type of career acheivement award. One of my pet peeves is Texas high school all district honors were almost every senior starter in any sport is all district .
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Someone on the SBC forum made a good point about Rohnert's stats...
Considering that he's doing it in a Princeton offense, you almost have to look at it like someone in a more typical attack scoring 20 ppg. If Rohnert has stats similar to Tristan or someone else in an up-tempo team's lineup, Rohnert is the one who's actually doing more.
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No way, Denver averaged 64.8 ppg which is only slightly lower than the conference median of 68.1. Rohnert took 254 shots only 24 less than the UNT leader in fg attempted. Whoever made that point on the Belt Board didn't bother to look at the statistics.
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Obvious bias for seniors which was not good for NT. No way either Rohnert or Yates should have been first team. Who chose this team anyway? Yates averaged 12.5 ppg in conference and was not even listed in leading rebounders but averaged 4 for year. A pick totally on prior years and I guess the fact that he played injured but why is that a factor? Rohnert averaged 12.6 ppg with 5.37rb and 3.4 assts., good all around numbers. But how do they beat out Odufuwa who lead conference by 2 a game with 10.8 rebounds and was second in shooting percentage and scored at a 12.3 clip in conference. Odufuwa and ASU's Reed should have been on the first team.
I think White should have been a second teamer although hid numbers are not that good. I doubt there is a better clutch player in the league. Third team though is not bad and White usually has big games in the tournament. Thompson also on the third team is about right. In truth, I don't think Tramiel had that good of conference year and him making the third team was somewhat a surprise particularly after ending the year with a couple of off games. Biggest blunder in my opinion was leaving FIU's Roberts off the all conference team.
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Actually, NT send him about three more years of checks.