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I haven't seen finish this year but last year we had our highest finish ever in CUSA (3rd place). Rice and FIU are both really good programs and head and shoulders above the rest. https://www.collegeswimming.com/results/118549/ But yeah, my guess is its to balance the male female ratio. Not sure on the facilities but if they still use the facilities in Physical education building, they were an issue 20 years ago when I last stepped in there. 🙂

With a full week before our 1st conference games, I wouldn't rest them at all. My biggest concern is rust heading into CUSA tournament. We've lost our last two games after 7 days off. Play to win. They have a full week to rest after that which is a lifetime for a college athlete in the condition these guys are in.

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Honestly, I haven't seen much calling for her head. Are you talking about on GMG.com? I'm a fan and want Jalie to do well. I think she's not that far off. My biggest worry is the number of transfers out she seems to have in the program. But I believe if any other coach at UNT had her overall record, this board would be on fire. It seems most of us are pretty patient with her given she's one of ours and inherited a mess. But McCasland also inherited a shit show, has won considerably more and has taken way more criticism on this board than Jalie.

I'm guessing it was overall pitch count and how he figures schedule shakes out tomorrow. Hope was starting to struggle. If you leave her in and we lose, then you may not have her much, if at all, tomorrow. This team has come a long way. Our pitching behind hope isn't bad, but it's nowhere near her. We have a great chance to beat a Northwestern with Hope. We saw the game without her.

I haven't made it to a game yet this year. I will when the weather and my schedule line up. I made it to a half dozen or so last year and I agree. Night and day. They play hard but it's obvious they're having fun. I think the previous coach just kept them too uptight.

You do know you can make a gift to the University and restrict it to whatever you desire including the softball program. I haven't got this specific but I would think they'd accept gifts towards softball salaries. I agree DeLong is doing a hell of a job. WB hired him so I'm sure he wants to keep him. Posting on here 2-3 times a week does nothing. $$$ towards it does and I'm sure every little bit helps.

You have to use the link in the social media posts. Try https://offer.fevo.com/mens-basketball-vs-western-kentucky-flkps5y-35f24bf?fevoUri=mens-basketball-vs-western-kentucky-flkps5y-35f24bf%2F

LOL. When people complain about our crowds, I'm always like "Do you watch these other games?"FIU is having one of their best seasons ever hosting the #1 team in conference in pod play. There might be 500 people there counting the band and cheerleaders. They're Miami with 55,000 students. Ours could be better no doubt, but it could damn sure be a lot worse. ODU, Marshall, WKU, UTEP consistently draw. UAB and MTSU draw when they're good. We do about as well as anyone else.

I'm not sure why you say that. We're recruiting better than every before. I'm pretty sure when Rodney was hired he was given a 5 year contract with pay in the top of the league range. If anything, the current philosophy on contracts has been too aggressive. Definitely hasn't been not being aggressive enough. I wouldn't be surprised if they extended Rodney after last season although I can't recall seeing anything on it.

I didn't try yesterday, but have never had an issue.

Agree. I'm heartbroken we lost although I'm 4 beers into making it better. However, that was a BIG time game. Anyone that wasn't entertained didn't know what the hell they were watching.

Man, there's a lot of people on this board with low basketball IQ. That was a HIGH level game between two really good teams. Every analytics program out there predicted this to be a tossup. We came into the day 12-2 in conference play. We've never been 12-2 in any conference. And for those of you only bitching about 3s, the reason we were 12-2 was we shoot really good from 3. We're top 10 in the country shooting 3s. The two by Zach and Deng were bad (even though wide open) but most of the others were good looks. We hit even 1 and we win. La Tech is an experienced team with something to prove. It's the two best teams in the league in my opinion. If we played 10 times, we'd be 5-5. There's a reason La Tech won at Miss State. We still shot over 50% from the field overall which is really good. We're 12-3 with a 1 game league on the two teams tied for 2nd. We control on our own destiny. Bracey made some incredible shots with defenders in his jock strap. Last time we played he was 2-15. Chill out and help the team win a damn trophy.

If I'm looking at it correctly, I think we're assured at least top 4 seed which means we've earned a 1st round by no matter what. We have 2 losses. Even if we lost 4 games we'd end at 6 losses. Charlotte and FIU both have 6 losses but they can't both win all four of their games since they play each other. One of them will end with 7 losses so we are for sure top 4.

No they don't. My brother-in-law is a season ticket holder. They did "sell out" Saturday with 10,305 announced and he said the vast majority of seats was full. The venue seats 10,084 and I think it's really similar to the Super Pit. Only one other time this season was announced over 9,000. My brother-in-law says they are "very" generous with what they announce there as well. The number that really pops out is the 6,000 for Texas. School was out then but that's shocking low. DATE OPPONENT W/L SCORE ATTEND ------------ -------------------- --- ----- ------ 11/05/19 CENTRAL ARKANSAS W 105-61 8805 11/15/19 TEXAS ST. W 72-63 7640 12/03/19 UMES W 78-46 6195 12/07/19 ARIZONA W 63-58 7872 12/10/19 BUTLER W 53-52 7270 12/30/19 JACKSON ST. W 83-57 6773 *01/04/20 TEXAS W 59-44 6063 *01/15/20 IOWA ST. W 68-55 8500 *01/20/20 OKLAHOMA W 61-57 9217 *02/01/20 TCU W 68-52 8830 *02/08/20 OKLAHOMA ST. W 78-70 7675

This!!! And look around the rest of the arenas around the country. Lots of people struggle with attendance. Baylor can't sell out right now and they're #1 and won something like 24 straight.

I love how the court looks on TV. Really better on TV than in person and I like it in person.

I believe you're correct. 2nd pod teams can't pass us but all pod games count in league standings.

Seems strange to me if you accused someone of raping you that you'd get close enough to them at a party for them to touch your groin. So hard for colleges to determine these. I have a daughter so I'd want her protected. I also have a son so I wouldn't want him falsely accused. Let's take it surface value. If he wasn't responsible for first accusation but indeed was responsible for the 2nd. Should he be blackballed for that? Or should he pay price and be able to receive a second chance? Hard to say.

Agree. Non power 5 would have to be 35 or higher to even have a shot at an at-large. I don't think winning out would move us quite that high.

I don't think that's true because the last two year there were deficits. I think the University decides up front how much they are willing to allocate. Depending on your POV, that number growing could be good or bad. If you think athletics is a good investment for UNT, then it's a good thing especially when guarantee (body bag) revenue and conference distribution combined to decreased by over $2 million. As a sports fan, I'm pleased.A non-sports fan probably wouldn't see it the same. But I think everyone knew the University had put more into athletics the past few years. The University contribution was $15,192,262 in FY 2018 so it only grew by $300k from last year.

Last year the athletic department started putting all of these online as part of the transparency part of the strategic plan. RV's last budget would have been FY 16. He was here through almost all of 15/16 school year. Would definitely have been his budget. That report can be found at https://s3.amazonaws.com/meangreensports.com/documents/2019/10/17/2016_NCAA_Report.pdf The FY 19 report is up too. It can be found at https://s3.amazonaws.com/meangreensports.com/documents/2019/10/17/2016_NCAA_Report.pdf I took a snapshot below. Of note, pretty much everything category is up with the exception of conference revenues 😞. Contributions are down from FY 16 but up the past two years. However, Vito has mentioned several times contributions count as a revenue only when they also count as na expense. So if someone gives you money and you don't spend it, then it doesn't count. I'd expect to see the contributions number climb in a hurry when the IPF debt service payments kick in. Overall, I think the trendline is positive. Revenues are growing across the board. Looks like University took up the slack of the lower conference revenues and lower body bag game revenues plus a little. Student fee is helping. Ticket sales: FY 16 $985,735 FY 19 $1,761,878 Student Fees FY 16 $10,713,469 FY 19 $12,613,611 Direct Institutional Support FY 16 $9,509,556 FY 19 $15,489,411 Guarantees Revenue FY 16 $1,983,325 FY 17 $1,136,570 Media Rights FY 16 $0 FY 19 $439,667 NCAA Distribution FY 16 $1,040,503 FY 19 $1,342,891 Conference distribution FY 16 $2,255,251 FY 19 $957,903 Royalties, Licensing, advertising and sponsorships FY 16 $2,008,208 FY 19 $2,042,939 Contributions FY 16 $3,438,225 FY 19 $2,682,814 (FY 17 - $1,020,052; FY 18 - $2,278,816)

We have by far the strongest resume in CUSA. Here is the data line in order. The reality is the entire league has 1 Q1 win (La Tech at Miss St). We've played by far the most Q1+Q2 games and have the most Q1+Q2 wins. We played 9. ODU had 8. No one else had more than 7. We have the best Q2 record in the league. To put in perspective, the Big 12 has 3 teams with winning Q1 records in Baylor (9-0), Kansas(10-3) and West Virginia(5-3). After that, they don't fare much better Oklahoma (3-7), Texas Tech (3-7), Texas (2-8). Interestingly enough, if we moved up from 89 to 75 in Net Score, we'd be a Q1 win for Oklahoma. Team Net Opp overall conf noncon road SOS noncon Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Net SOS [] Charlotte 165 200 225 14-9 8-4 6-5 2-8 312 341 0-0 0-3 5-3 9-3 [] FIU 166 204 238 14-8 8-4 6-4 5-6 273 337 0-3 0-1 3-2 11-2 [] Fla. Atlantic 198 192 204 11-11 6-6 5-5 2-8 271 339 0-1 0-3 3-4 8-3 [] Louisiana Tech 98 203 232 15-7 8-4 7-3 6-6 298 276 1-2 0-1 3-4 11-0 [] Marshall 181 167 132 11-13 6-6 5-7 3-7 132 109 0-3 1-2 3-7 7-1 [] Middle Tenn. 289 156 113 3-19 2-10 1-9 2-8 121 47 0-1 0-2 1-14 2-2 [] North Texas 89 159 118 14-9 10-2 4-7 6-5 116 27 0-5 2-2 3-1 9-1 [] Old Dominion 160 168 134 10-15 6-6 4-9 2-8 153 127 0-3 1-4 0-5 9-3 [] Rice 218 180 166 10-13 4-8 6-5 4-7 144 85 0-2 0-4 4-1 6-6 [] Southern Miss. 278 137 82 4-18 3-9 1-9 1-10 109 19 0-5 0-2 2-8 2-3 [] UAB 209 188 185 12-11 5-7 7-4 4-5 194 238 0-2 1-1 4-5 7-3 [] UTEP 190 171 142 10-12 4-8 6-4 1-9 142 18 0-1 0-3 5-7 5-1 [] UTSA 196 173 147 8-14 5-7 3-7 3-7 190 144 0-2 1-2 3-6 4-4 [] Western Ky. 121 172 143 15-8 9-3 6-5 3-5 110 23 0-2 1-1 5-5 9-0

Winning at La Tech would probably be it other than CBI championship. La Tech had a 50s Net score and kenpom when we won there. That was a road win at a team in the upper 15% of D1 teams. In football, that would be a top 25 team (out of 135). I can't recall Seth ever being a team that high but obviously Arkansas was huge because its SEC.

I think I remember someone saying the kids get texts the day before and day of every game. I think this is why the AD went away from paper tickets for students. They get with an app on their phone. When they register for the app, the AD has email and phone info. Only reason I remember is there was a lot of griping a couple years ago because some students had a hard time registering when it was first unveiled.