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2 hours ago, Harry said:
If true that is so wrong that they are protecting Art Briles....Starr deserves blame too but Briles shouldn't get a pass.
Could be just the first domino to fall.
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Hank is a lackey?
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On 5/19/2016 at 10:00 AM, greenjoe said:
I agree that NT should at least make a presentation, but without baseball, I don't see us moving anywhere.
Okay...but, you know not all P5 schools have baseball programs, right. Not every school in the Big 12 has baseball.
As far as the top two G5's:
AAC: 12 football playing schools, but only eight baseball playing schools.
Mountain West: 12 football, seven baseballBaseball is the least of our problems when it comes to attractiveness.
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16 hours ago, FirefightnRick said:
It'll tell we were dumbasses in recruiting for not signing a kid down the road who had just won defensive POY,..just like we were dumbasses for not signing so many others we could have had.
Rick
Look, you are talking about a kid with no other FBS offers. We already have plenty of those on our roster. You're now wanting to compare two rosters full of kids with only one FBS offer, such as UTSA and UNT have?
And. what's more, to say we missed out because a kid ended up at UTSA...and who hasn't played a snap of college football yet?
Nuts.
The goal of Littrell, hopefully, is to not have to entice kids without FBS offers. That's the goal. The goal isn't to sweep no offer kids away from UTSA.
I mean, can we raise the bar just an inch or two? Fighting about who got a no offer kid?
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46 minutes ago, RaiderEagle said:
It boils down to money and politics. OSU and Tech are both little brothers to OU and UT respectively where the private schools don't have that luxury. There will be political pressure from each state that their little brother state-funded-school isn't left behind. Also, OSU and Tech are top 30 in terms of value so they do have monetary appeal...granted nothing compared to their big brothers but still better than over 100 other FBS programs. They also have large alumni pools and stadiums that house just over $60K which doesn't hurt their odds of tagging along with OU and UT. And of course if a conference wants OU ad UT for the money that comes along you once again have political pressure for the little brothers to tag along. It will be just like it was in 2011 where the PAC was willing to take OU, UT, OSU and Tech and made it painfully clear that Baylor would not be part of the deal. Had it not been for the Longhorn network already being in the works those four schools might currently be out west.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-much-is-your-favorite-college-football-team-worth-1452473476
But I am not holding my breath this will happen. I think the Big 12 is willing to do whatever it takes to remain on life support for the foreseeable future.
Sand Aggie and Oklahoma Aggie have no pull academically or athletically. They will be left behind when OU and Texas decided to jump. KU will be saved by their academic and basketball reputations.
And, if politicians couldn't keep A&M and Texas from separating, It's comical to think they'll keep Texas and Texas Tech from separating or Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
At that point, expect the P5 to become the P4, and the P4 will give the Big East treatment to the Big 12. Big 12, at that point will be SWC 2.0, severely watered down without old Arkansas, Texas, and Texas A&M to lead it.
I expect the NCAA to either blow up or for the four major conference to just split off and do their own thing, leaving everyone else with the NCAA.Whether any of this is right or wrong is irrelevant. I personally hate it. But, there really nothing the schools with no pull can do.
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3 hours ago, UNTFan23 said:
I think the normal people that might talk about this are keeping quiet because the mob-squad has done a good job of making those people not feel welcome ... but that's just my opinion.
Screw the mob squad. My family had fun at the Plano Caravan. Again. Because the athletic department was nice and helpful to us, I was supposed to be blind to their failures. Stupid.
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Yes, I suppose time will tell. What it will tell on the minuscule college football stage of UNT versus UTSA, I'm not quite sure, but....
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<sigh>
I'd insert Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" video in honor of RV, if I thought it would help, but...lord have mercy. I f*cking sat in dilapidated Fouts Field as a UNT student from 1990-1995 watching us play the likes of Southwest Missouri State year in and year out, and I'm supposed to now sit in Apogee and pretend nothing has changed in 15 years.
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Here I'll say more:
https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/8145
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/206829/josiah-tauaefaDoesn't look like anyone else wanted him either. So what? We've already got a roster of kids with only one FBS offer. So, because we didn't add one more because he was local, you and his little brother are miffed?
Give it a rest. If he turns out to be a good player, that's one thing. But, kids with no or few offers to FBS schools are a dime a dozen.
2 minutes ago, MEANGREENCOACH2 said:It was more out of frustration that he wasnt even looked at by a school less that 10 minutes up the road. Everyone of his brothers played college ball they are as big as houses. Josiah is a respectful young man and we surely missed out.
Now we will see how he pans out first hand experience. Time will tell
Well, from the looks of it, our analysis of him was no different than 126 other FBS schools. Kudos to UTSA...who waited until the week before signing day to offer? I mean they beat everyone from Alabama all the way down to Eastern Michigan for this kid, then. And, they did so at the wire.
Please. Congratulations to him for UTSA taking a flyer on him when no one else would. But, man...ease up. I'm sure every high school football coach in the country has stories about kids who played hard, were nice, etc. not getting scholarship offers from FBS schools, near or far from home.
UTSA recruiting trash talk. For a kid with no other offers. Wow. This how bad it is for us.
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I don't care where you sat, personally. I'm just saying, if his offers were from the likes of us and UTSA, what's the difference? He hasn't done a damn thing yet on the field, so I don't understand the upheaval.
There are a sh*t ton of kids who aren't heavily recruited, year in and year out. So, what's the big deal? The kid's brother goes off on twitter over a game between UTEP and UNT, and that's supposed to trigger some kind of remorse out of us?
I mean, what kind of pitiful life must he be leading to take time out for that? He's rehashing his older brother's recruiting woes through the one game misfortunes of the UTEP's, UTSA's, and UNT's of the college football world? Wow.
Recruiting trash talk among UTEP, UTSA, and UNT? Does it get any more pathetic than that in the big picture of FBS football? If that's what gets little brother hopped up, I'd drug test him immediately for the presence of meth, bro.Seriously, step back and gain some perspective.
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1 minute ago, Cr1028 said:
Wow, that is very well said. I truly like your response.
Another question, are the teams becoming more competitive by taking on these players or does their being competitive bring more scrutiny and light to issues that may have already existed.
I think a program would know whether there were multiple rapes/sexual assaults occurring.
Our problem has been the opposite - if you consider it a problem: because our donors don't hand piles of cash to our players, some have resorted to pilfering at Wal-Mart. Hopefully, the stipend now provided will be the end of that.
Sexual assault and rape, which beget public records, are harder to squash.
Look at the whole deal going on at OU where their broadcasting association has had to go to the Oklahoma Supreme Court to get the release of the video of the RB Mixon breaking the girl's face. The DA is full of OU Law grads. The local judge is an OU grad.
OU's president, athletic director, and head coach visited the DA's office together when the event went down, which played no small part, I'm sure, in the eventual Alford Plea.
It's dirty self-dealing with the Big Boys. Baylor is Waco, much like OU is Norman. Fort Worth probably has too many other fish swimming in the judicial pond to get away with too much more than they have, but they're tried. If only they could stuff the local courts with TCU Law grads, like Baylor and OU...oops! No TCU Law School...and A&M bought the nearest one a few years back!
I doubt there was a rape/sexual assault problem under Grant Teaff, Roberts, or any other failed Baylor Big 12 head coach before Briles. Unfortunately, often times the toughest, most aggressive sons of guns make the best athletes. And, the aggressiveness often doesn't stay on the field, but follows them off the field.
Happy that we not in those situations. Baylor can have them - and the wins - if that's what it takes.
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One thing is certain in all of this: we will someday share a conference with Abilene Christian. Mark my words. It will be the ultimate thrill for them, and the ultimate defeat for us.
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Hasn't this been asked before in another thread, whether with the rise of Hulu and whatnot, that we find someone who will stream?
Or, am I dreaming? Dreaming is free.
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Did we not beat UTSA last year? So...why do we care about a kid who plays MLB on a team that couldn't even beat us last year? I mean...come on. Texas State probably also has some starters that we didn't recruit...and vice versa.
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2 hours ago, Cr1028 said:
I believe you all may have misunderstood my point. I'm am not diminishing the severity of rape, I have a problem with the scope of the article. The article was written specifically about the football program. The problem is way, WAY, bigger than just the football program. Firing Art Briles doesn't make the debate team and tennis team stop committing sexual assault. This is a Baylor problem, not a football problem.
Okay, and here is my problem: we're not talking about the debate or tennis team. We're talking about what Briles has control over - the football team.
I had the same problem with Littrell here earlier in the year when the WR involved in a hit and run was still working out with the team. The head football coach is the head football coach. The players are his responsibility. If he doesn't like that, he shouldn't be a head football coach; he should be an assistant.It's a big job. And, if the kids under your charge feel like they can get away with stuff or cut corners, they will. It's happening now at Baylor. It's happened more and more at TCU as they've gotten more competitive. OU has the RB Mixon who broke a girl's face.
Georgia just dismissed a player after his third marijuana arrest. First two at Georgia apparently earn you free passes to test the system again.Briles is responsible. To make Baylor more competitive, he's taken on players with off the field problems. It's what competitive schools do. But, he can't sit by, throw his hands up in the air and say, "Man, I'm just the coach."
I guarantee you that everyone of these coaches sits in the players' mamas' living rooms and says, "Don't worry, Ms. Momma of Four and Five-Star Recruit, I'm gonna make sure your boy doesn't get into any trouble at our school. We're like family at Bullsh*t U., moreso than Horsesh*t U. and Chickensh*t U., who also want to sign your boy."-
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Everyone knows the Big 12 is dying. Would love to be a fly on the wall at the BOR meetings for Texas and Oklahoma to know which conferences are currently wooing them.
Although SEC makes the most geographic sense, my bet is Texas to the Pac-12 or ACC. OU to either the SEC or Big Ten. KU to ACC or Big Ten.
Everyone else in the Big 12 is left sucking hind tit.
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15 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:
Realistically, what should be done? Who does this fall on? This issue goes far beyond football as a debate team member and tennis team member were implicated as well. Should Art Briles be fired? Should the AD be fired? Should Ken Starr be fired? Should the Board of Regents be fired? Should the Baylor PD and Waco PD chiefs be fired? That is the question. This article ignores all of that. This is a hatchet job targeting Art Briles solely because Baylor is relevant and a threat to UT and A&M. I guarantee you that if this had happened under Guy Morris, nobody in the media would've even noticed and nobody from UT or A&M would've cared. Baylor football is not occupying their spot in the Big 12 cellar like they should and "the powers that be" are doing their best to put them back there.
Reporting police report shenanigans with sexual assault files is a "hatchet job?"
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1 hour ago, UNT90 said:
Long time to opening kickoff. Let's see where the betting public puts that line, shall we?
Long time to opening kickoff. Let's see where the betting public puts that line, shall we?
Yes, we shall. And, as the season draws nigh upon us, and the non-mushroom consuming people begin to scrutinize the depth charts even more closely, the line will probably increase to OU being favored by double digits...
...and, hopefully, when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. on September 4, 2016, both SMU and Houston will sit at 0-1 to start their seasons. That will put the proper damper of their respective unrealistic fanbases.
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1 hour ago, GrandGreen said:
I for one don't care if OU or Houston wins. Houston is riding high right now and that is great for Houston, but I wonder any Houston fan would waste their time on a NT site. Go to a Houston or OU message board or at least someone that Houston is actually going to play.
Um...Harry started the thread about Houston's coach thumping his chest over lowly SMU. So...ask Harry why on his NT site he'd start a thread about Houston. Although, I think it was to produce just what we have produced...
...easily drawing the Couger lurkers offsides in a conversation about where they really stand against the Big Boys, no matter what their hashish-smoking head coach proclaims.
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NMSU needs to drop football and just concentrate on basketball. They have some history of being competitive there.
Then, pick up the other futbol for men with the scholarship difference between the men and women, for Title IX's sake.
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54 minutes ago, UNT90 said:
Houston will probably be favored on this game.
Except that, uh-oh...Vegas can read depth charts as well:
http://www.wagertalk.com/news/early-2016-college-football-lines/
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20 minutes ago, Cougar King said:
I can't wait to see Mailbox's excuses when UH beats OU.
Also NTX, even though you throw shade my way because of Coogfans propaganda, I still think you're a good poster.
You'll have to live a long, long time to see that day. Better focus on the more realistic for 2016 - repeating as AAC champs. Unfortunately, OU's Mayfield and Perine are both Heisman candidates, so Stoops may leave them both in til midway through to fourth quarter to pad their stats during the blowout.
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Here. Here's is what UH's DC will have to contend with in Mixon alone...a back big (6'2, 215) and athletic (4.5 40) enough to play WR, where OU sometimes lines him up, and makes a habit of trucking LBs and DBs. This is OU's second string back:
Do not feel bad. Perine and Mixon will run over and around many defenses in 2016. Houston's will simply be the first.
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NO ONE FROM THE CURRENT AD!
in Mean Green Football
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Wow. Just google his name and file through his deep involvement in the community. He's been totally dedicated to UNT and Denton as well.
Amazing that anyone would question Dickenson. This is a sad place.
That's where I've got to jump off, questioning the motives and career of Hank Dickenson.
Whew.