DeepGreen

NT game plan for Memphis: Foul the sumbitches all night!

I just hope they don't use a mostly empty Super Pit for game action during the interview.

Damn good point. The high schools down here live and breath spirit. At Port Neches-Groves, the cheerleaders visit all of the elementary schools during football season. They teach these 5-6-7 year olds the fight songs, etc. These youngsters then go to middle school and high school bleeding purple and white. So, it's not like they don't know what school spirit is or shy away from it. I truly believe that the reason my three daughters did not attend NT is due to it's not being on par with the aggies and frogs in school spirit. After all, I introduced them to NT when they were in their early teens. I guess those empty Fouts afternoons took their toll. God help us if 90% of all NT students were the spirit rejects from high school.

Quoner, that's the most annoying avatar I have ever seen on this board.

Screaming Eagle touched on what I truely believe is the root cause of NT's failure to garner sustained student, Alumni, and Denton support for it's athletic programs. The "hex", known as the "elite" Southwest Conference, continues to plague North Texas. We were never in that group and are not even associated with former teams of the SWC, to this day! What we have is the Sun Belt conference, comprised of teams that students could care less about. Even in good times, our football crowds for games with Arkansas State or ULL were only 17,000 on a good day. Bring in a Baylor, TCU, or an smuT and the crowds get to the 22,000+ plus mark. Sure, hardcore fans will attend games regardless of conference affiliation. I'm talking about the borderline fan, or those students that come to UNT whose Aunts and Uncles went to TxTech, a & M, UT, TCU, U of H, etc. I'm not attacking the SBC - just stating what I believe are the real reasons people don't support NT sports like they should. And when you can't even compete in the SBC, support really dwindles. Throw in a couple of 2-9 football seasons.... Well, you get the picture. Unless North Texas can be the conference king pin in just about all sports, we will continue to have limited support.

Hmmmmmm. Rice knocks off CUSA's #2 team. Didn't we beat Rice? This may not mean much, but I'd think NT's stock went up again.

A draw play?

NCAA Tourney Info

Did you, by chance, ask them to buy season tickets to basketball and football and actually attend games?

FOX Sports on-line has us as a #15 seed in New Orleans.

Wonder if the AD has ever tapped Valero Refining? I believe they are a Texas Corporation based in San Antonio.

We had two wins over WKU.

I would think that the sites would make tickets available to the participating schools' fans once the brackets are determined.

I don't know what to say.

No audio for me.

Our Tourneyment MVP

The helmet from the mid-sixties was white with green stripe down the middle, and had a green football with white NT on each side.

That pimp green jacket he was wearing is classic! Showed up real well on ESPN2 last night.

Anyone remember Michael Sturns' statement about "going to Lafayette and staying for a while". He was sure right. And I thought the green uniforms looked especially sharp on TV.

You don't think DD left his copy of "Stealth Recruiting" in his desk drawer at his former AC office and Todd Dodge started reading it?

ASU will be tough for us tonight, but can we conclude anything from the results of their OOC schedule. How good/bad was Old Dominion, Monmouth, Lyon, Tenn-Martin, Austin Peay, South Dakota St, E Illinois, or Arkansas Tech? I don't have time to look up each teams' results; just posing a question. at Clemson L:44-83 at Old Dominion L:61-69 Monmouth L:67-69 Bowling Green W:64-54 Lyon W:87-51 at Tenn-Martin W:68-63 Austin Peay W:77-70 at South Dakota St L:78-84 at Memphis L:60-86 at E Illinois L:70-73 at Bowling Green L:72-81 Arkansas Tech W:86-74

Can't find anything in the Denton RC. I hope he's at 100% tonight.

And who might that be on the receiving end?

Just returned home from the game. The way we played the first half, I didn't think we had any chance of ending up with a win. Nothing was going in the basket. But, the second half showed what this team is made of. Lots of hustle and athleticism on our team. Bad night for Davis and Watson, but the rest of the guys really stepped up. Harold Stewart was awesome! Great win tonight. Watched the second half of the MUTS vs USA game. We should beat MTSU. As for the overall crowd, pretty pathetic. Not much help from the host school, ULL. MUTS, USA, and ULM had fair fan support. NT? Pretty bad. At the end of the game, the players came into or as close to the stand as they could to high-five the NT fans that were there. They seemed very appreciative of the support.