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Embarrassing loss. Regardless of the excuses you can come up with, a loss like this is an embarrassment, especially a team like ours. I'm sure the team realizes this and will start playing real basketball soon. Emmitt, ease up on your predictions there. This team hasn't proven anything yet this season.
There's nothing embarrassing about losing to a highly ranked Creighton team on the road. It's not as if you guys are ranked #2 in the polls, then maybe I could see it as being a little embarrassing, but come on now.
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Can someone give me a run-down of what all has been happening to your football program? It seemed early on in the year that you guys played hellishly amazing against both LSU and Kansas State. I was for sure that the fire I saw in those games would translate to a Sun Belt stomping. So what gives? Injuries? Coaching? Morale? Or were those two games against highly ranked teams more of an aberration than reality?
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Somebody pay very close attention to what kind of car Frazier's mom is driving.
Do they still make gold Trans Ams?
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Yeah Chip Brown is pretty much the worst person to pay attention to when it comes to realignment. Brett McMurphy however, that guy has been dead on more often than not.
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Different reports all over this place on this one. Anywhere between $4-13 million per team per year. Honestly, that sounds like a fair range to be in, and regardless of what some would say here, even the lower estimate is a significant upgrade from what we were making in CUSA. We'll see how this goes, this is the first report to really toss out low-ball figures.
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La Posta in Old Mesilla is awesome. Also, the Twisted Root near Mockingbird Station is really good, but you have to try some of their game burgers. Their buffalo burger is sooo good.
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Well he did poopoo all over Chico's Tacos, that took some restraint.
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Norm Hitzges showed some love on the air for Dunbar some days ago
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Small world, I was raised in El Paso. And I'm hardly what you'd consider an "SMU douche." Got my bachelors at UTD, working on my PhD at SMU. More like you than you know.
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UNTexas, UTEP has plenty of solid programs, just like UNT. Stop acting as if UNT is some paragon in state school academics. As someone who has been on both campuses multiple times, the vibe from the people at each university (and their respective cities, i.e. Denton) is incredibly similar. I understand that UTEP fans are acting like they're the Longhorns of the Big XII in CUSA, but they've got seniority and have gone to bowl games and NCAA tournaments in the last decade. That's usually enough to be prideful in. They also talk the way they do because they know UNT and UTSA pose a threat to them.
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I think what happens is, a coach says something like "I'm not looking for anything, but I'm open to offers" and someone writes an article that states "x coach is interested in the y job" because x coach didn't say he wasn't interested in the y job.
We can argue about which school has the better program (though I don't think it's much of an argument) and a million other things that are all subjective, but once LSU was in the picture, no one else had a chance.
Can't argue with that
Johnny has an agent who gets paid a percentage of whatever his contract is. Of course Johnny's agent is out trying to increase Johnny's earnings so he can wet his beak.. Whether or not Johnny takes the offer or not is up to him. I think there is some truth to both sides of this. I think some of fans frustration stems from the fact that some SMU ( not you Comet) fans act like North Texas is SMUs junior college or something. SMU has had a couple nice years under June Jones in football and their Bball has struggled under Doh. There is not as big a distance between our programs as they like to think. I am very happy about the long SMU football series we have starting in 2014 and think it will help attendance and interest in both programs. Now let's schedule some basketball!
I completely get the animosity from UNT fans. And I also think it's good for us to actually develop a rivalry on the field (hopefully court too). It's ironic, but actually working together is beneficial for both sides. If an SMU/UNT rivalry picks up heat, the area's media will have to start picking it up and start taking attention away from UT, A&M, OU, LSU, and other schools not quite situated in DFW.
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"Our Jones? " Not a chance he was going to SMU. You seem like a pretty nice guy, but I am tired of comments from your school stating how you all can just cherry pick our coaches, players, etc...because we are from a "lesser " conference. You all should pay Coach Mac for scouting half of your OL football recruits since your high toned coach was busy tending to his nonexistent inner city ministry.
It's not just us, the local and national media reported plenty on us looking at Johnny Jones. We could have made a run for him had we gone after him as soon as Doh was gone. There was even a Rivals article on Jones showing interest in our vacancy so it's not the most outlandish thought in the world that he could have ended up at SMU. That's not to say it would have been a guaranteed hire, I never stated that (I know other SMU fans do though, take it up with them, not me).
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I see no reason why you guys shouldn't be a middle of the pack or top half team from the get go.
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It's a gamble, and everyone knows it. Already rumors are indicating that potential transfers/recruits from Larry Brown have already eclipsed what Doherty has done. And unlike Doherty, Brown can actually coach. This has real potential for us, but also has the potential to blow up in our faces. I think it's worth it for us to take this shot because had we gone for the type of hire that everyone thought we should have gotten (Scott Cross, your Jones, Benford, etc), that is faaaaar from guaranteed as well. Young up-and-comers can look good as assistants or HCs of lesser conferences and not be able to cut it in the next level. It's a risk and a gamble either way, but if we're going to gamble it helps to get this kind of national attention. And not because of our supposed insecurity, but because it's getting coaches and recruits talking, something that hasn't really happened with us since the late 80s.
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That program is dying a slow death, as is their new head coach.
It's the first time donors, alumni, and administrators started caring about basketball since the 80s, I'll go out on a crazy limb here and say you're wrong on that (but right about Larry Brown).
And yeah, I don't get why SMU was mentioned, but I don't think it really was a dig at UNT at all. Perhaps just illustrating how these schools in such close proximity had something in common in their coaching searches? It could lead to interesting analyses going forward depending on how the programs develop from here.
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I think you guys made a solid hire. It will be very interesting to see how Benford handles coaching as the head honcho, I believe that is the question mark going forward. He'll recruit DFW very well though.
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That's what rivals.com said a while back - got an issue with the story, take it up with them. He showed interest, not sure about "campaigned for the job"- that seems to have a different connotation than saying "showed interest."
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It wasn't just their AD at the time, it's still going on today. Tulsa, along with Southern Miss, are capable of doing some amazing thing with limited resources.
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Let's be honest, the only reason UNT, FIU and UTSA are in the top three is their location. Miami, DFW, and San Antonio offer a lot more than the cities of the other schools trying to get in.
And all three have healthy student populations which means all three programs have quite the potential to grow into something like Louisville did in the early 2000s if it could string multiple winning seasons.
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Only if you take Todd Dodge first.
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I hear Matt Doherty is looking for work.
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I'd be shocked if LSU doesn't grab him first. And I'm not sure if money and the elevated basketball conference exposure would be enough to steal Jones from you guys. It's been a crazy few weeks for us, it's about to get crazier for the both of us.
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I am not sure it portrays very well on SMU when they offer a guy $3.5M when he was making $2M and he says "no thanks".
1. He's making closer to 3 million than 2 (2.6 I think).
2. I don't blame someone for staying at a place where he can win today and tomorrow as opposed to having to completely rebuild a program in arguably the toughest (or second toughest) basketball league. Another million might not be worth the career risk. Either way, according to those in "the know," it was a tough decision. Eulessismore is absolutely right, some reports have indicated that Mrs. Williams and their kids are more than happy where they are.
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A swing and a miss with Buzz, but at least SMU is trying. I'd rather they fail pursuing the top candidates than never even try. Even if it does seem absurd for SMU to go for these coaches (and trust me, if I wasn't affiliated with the school I'd be laughing too), all of this is at least tossing the name SMU into the basketball community. A good coach in a hostile environment (be that problems with the AD, fan base, city, w/e) might be interested in trying something new while still being paid really well. We'll see what happens, but I'd prefer if we didn't go for Jones, I'd like to see the Mean Green continuing their climb in basketball. It could lead to some truly fun rivalry games down the line.
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If it makes you guys feel better, you guys are going to whip us in football in the coming years. You guys are trending up, we are trending down. It is cyclical.