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I did that for a very short moment. But I spent more time looking at the golfstat rankings. I trust those stats more than any narrative people have. Also -like the other poster you quoted- I also did not say it could not work. It might. But I call em as i see em, and to me it is not a home run that it will.

Also hope that Mosely saw something that isn't obvious from the base. <it could work out, but it might also not get NT to where it ought to be (making NCAA regionals about every other year is the measuring stick I would say). Yes he improved his program and did well compared to his conference brethren, but in golf that is not as meaningful as in other sports, as you generally are not competing with your conference mates all that often compared to other sports.

This was probably necessaryy. Stracke did much for the program, and he will leave probably leave it better than he fond it. Had some really nice successes including the development of a number of guys who went pro, two of whom won pga tour events. But the last 5 years just were not great in terms of national rankings, and it was not looking like clear improvement was about to arrive.

That depends. Is the escort company paying for NIL services or is it included as part of the NIL remuneration to the athletes? Come to think of it, he probably is not calling them anyway, likely just sliding into their DMs

Wish him the best, hope he makes it. Feels somewhat an indictment on the NFl to me though, that he gets a shot and Mason Fine did not.

you can do that when you are not afraid of the next two hitters that are up.

1. FAU (I think people will be surprised) 2. Tulane 3. UTSA. They clearly have one of the better HC and bring back a great QB. but they also lost a lot everywhere else 4. East Carolina. Moving in the right direction 5. SMU (The most talent...but I don't believe in Lashlee as an HC) 6. USF. not convinced on their new HC, but there are resources etc. 7. UNT (this is an optimistic take) 8. Memphis (people have them high because of history. Other than history I don't see much reason they ought to be good) 9. Navy 10. UAB (It will be an interesting experiment, and could go much better. UAB has the resources now. But until he proves he can replicate Clarks success i am skeptical) 11. Tulsa (I am not a believer here either. i could see Kevin Wilson do ok as a coach. But I honestly think Tulsa is a bad place in the long run to have an FBS program, and will be overtaken by pretty much all the newcomers eventually. Tiny enrollment, not enough investment, a University that is gonna get hit haard by the enrollment cliff) 12. Charlotte 13. Temple 14. Rice

Day two is not really going much better than day 1 did 😞 Currently 11th out of 12 8 shots behind even tenth. Emilie Ricaud is the only one playing at her level. Currently she is tied for 20ieth, likely to move up a bit more when the rest of the field finishes. Shreya Pal is having a semi-okish day, +2 for the day after 17. The rest should probably be silence. Coach tried something by switching the number 5 position player, but there was no jolt there either.

Sadly this is a total disaster day so far. Still dead last at +16. Not sure if it is the course or a psychological tailspin. Arizona who is in the same group as UNT is at -2. 5th (5 move on to nationals) spot is at -1. Gonna take some real great effort the remainder of the way to find a way back into this. Individually only Emilie Ricaud is in the top 40. Fairly disappointing.

Tournament is underway. https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=28079 It appears the start wasn't great (currently in last place), but plenty of time to improve things and several teams have barely started, so what the current +8 (after 4-7 holes) means is yet to be determined.

That bracket is stupid. Really not thought through. Time to get out of C-USA. Why should the losers of game 5 and 6 have to play each other in the same stage as loser of game 3 and 4 play each other. penalizes you for winning game 3 or 4 and then losing later. At the very least game 5 loser should play game 4 loser and game 6 loser game 3 loser.

Personally I would rather have the version where schools and players agree to how many years (between 1 and 4) the players get a guaranteed scholly. Then players cannot transfer and play elsewhere during that time and coaches cannot cut them. In an ideal world their scholarship would also not free up again towards the limit even if they do leave / get pushed out. That would stop coaches from pushing players out. Everybody would know where they are at, and it would still be a free market. Some players may prefer a 4 year scholly at a less powerfull (sportswise) school over the 2 year offer, while others may only want one year to then jump (i.e. betting on themselves but not betting on their school). Alas even that (same as El Paso eagles proposition above) is probably tricky to get past the courts, even if you still allow NIL along with it.

Sadly it ended 3-2 in favor of charlotte.

Prone couldn't get back to tie. 3 matches done, Charlotte leads 2-1. On the course is still Winkler up by 1 after 15, and Marzilio, down by 1 after 14. Need Winkler to hold on to his lead and Marzilio to at least tie his match.

down 3-2 right now Tucker Allen has already won his match up 5. Winkler went on a heater and won 4 holes in a rowturned his match and is now up 2 with 5 to go. That is the good news. Definitely need him to hold on to that lead to have a shot. Prone is down 1 with two to go. Probably need that one to get tied in order to be in this. Marzilio is back to down by 2 (with 6 to go) after having tied it earlier. Can at least imagine that he might turn it back around. Bergson is down 4 with 4 to go, not much hope in that one.

Matchplay day: after 3-6 holes UNT is up in 2 matches and at least two holes down in three. Need at least one of those (maybe Marzilio) to move back into the right direction. At least there is still plenty of holes to go.

UNT is the 6th seed with 5 teams advancing. If they keep being in that region, as they have been for 2-3 years now, eventually they will push through and make the final tournament. Could very well be this year. Might have made it 2 years ago, had they not been robbed by the Louisiana grounds keepers.

Hadn't seen that. 25 shots worse on par 5s than Charlotte....wow. I mean not all of those counted, but still. That HAS to get better if UNT wants to advance from its semi agianst Charlotte tomorrow. In the end, despite a lot of parity (like worst ranked WKU having the best day on wednseday), it is still the 4 highest ranked teams who made it to the semis.

The last three holes went pretty badly. especially for Diego Prone who went +4 on the last three. UNT finishes the day at 5th one shot behind 4th placed UAB. gonna have to overtake them tomorrow.

First three holes weren't great, but since they are doing awesome. particularly Bergson -who sat out yesterday and was subed in for Winkler who was +9 on the back nine yesterday- is having himself a day. -3 after 12. Need to stay focused though, lots of stuff that can still go wrong before the semis.

Had a fairly decent finish, and after everyone was done finished the day tied for 3rd, 2 shots ahead of Charlotte and UTSA who are 5th and 4 shots behind UAB -who leads. You couldn't win the tournament today, but it was possible to lose it. Three teams lost more than 14+ shots. 7 teams are within 4 shots of the cut line, so plenty of suspense remaining. On the individual side Marzillio is tied for second after day 1.

down to fifth, with 3 players have still some holes to go. since 4 will qualify for the semis, that is right at the line. currently 2 shots behind fourth.

Starting today. You can follow the scores at: https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=27668 After a very inconsistent season there will be no NCAA regionals unless UNT wins the tournament, and they are not the favorites. It looks pretty open though in the sense that almost all teams may think they have at least a chance, with nobody really good enough to get an at large and almost all teams A-game good enough to beat a top 70 team who itself has an average day. So given that it is first qualifiers and then semifinals-finals match play, I can really see it being the team that gets hot at the right moment rather than any team just being outright and consistently better than the rest. That is probably good news for UNT as it comes off one of its better results with a runner up finish at a decent tournament a week ago. Golfstat rankings prior to the tournament: MTSU 69 Charlotte 82 UNT 109 La Tech 119 UTSA 124 UAB 125 FAU 126 UTEP 136 Rice 139 WKU 164

And its over. Rice won 4-0 with the non-finished matches also looking like Rice was going to win them (match #3 being the potential exception). The tennis program at UNT used to be a perennial conference championship contender until about 6 years ago. I feel Lama had multiple problems hit him at the same time, so he may still get this back on track. But I assume the AD will want to see some tangible progress at getting back to that prior level in a not too distant future. Since the pandemic it has not really appeared as things are getting back to where UNT competes for the championship

I don't fully get it either. but it appears that there simply is no regular season conference schedule, teams just "happen" to play each other sometimes, hence UNT having played 5 C-USA teams, while FAu has played only two, making it pretty much impossible to take direct games into account in any form.