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33 minutes ago, greenminer said:
There has been no official announcement that UNT is CUSA champ. Because we are not (yet).
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On 2/21/2020 at 8:01 PM, Mean Green Matt said:
There are plenty of schools that somehow manage to make it work. I have to believe we are working on it. I’d love to add a new women’s sport as well. The more teams the better.
Bowling is what we need. I swear I saw ODU on TV for women’s bowling
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13 hours ago, FirefightnRick said:
Thought I’d start an open subject & discussion thread just for 🥎 independent of the game threads..
So here we are at 12-2 following a 4 game sweep of A&Mcc and Southern.....as we should have. But it still burns me that we’re not 13-2 and ranked after letting the texas game slip away last week.
I know we’ve moved on from that game but you have to give that and the ULL games greater consideration because those are two teams who are at the level we greatly inspire to be at and in my opinion are very close to becoming.
Did you know that prior to our game with the horns they were averaging 10 runs a game?
Going into their game against us they were 10-0 and just slaughtering opposing pitching with wins over Ol’ Miss and an 11 run win over #12 Tennessee and had scored 100 runs....until they faced North Texas where they were fortunate to get two unearned runs to win it. For Trautwein to hold that group to 1 run for 7 innings was a phenomenal effort.
And their defense is just as good. The two girls they pitched against us, Elish and O’leary are two of the top pitchers in the nation.
Elish, an All American at Oregon was 37-2 with a 1.18 ERA before transferring to Austin. She has been and is currently on the 2018, 2019 & 2020 Top 50 Preseason Watch List for USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year award and that’s just the start of a long long laundry list of her recognitions.
O’leary at six foot two is right behind Elish in accolades, though just a sophomore, she was the Big 12 freshman pitcher of the year last year and is the reigning 2019 national ERA champion with a 0.65 ERA
Enough cannot be said for how the Mean Green battled the horns and those two pitchers because it shows what we’re capable of. What separates us and a team on texas’ level besides millions in funding is the micro plays that you see in softball.
The main thing that stood out to me was our inability to successfully lay down a bunt to move a runner over at the most critical times in the game.
When your playing such a tight, small ball game that is the game of softball those type of tiny things have to be automatic to play top 25 ball. Every time texas laid a bunt down they got the runner over. We didn’t when we had to have it. That cannot happen. It just can’t to win games against a top program.. The great thing is that’s correctable and I know we’ll get better at it.
Moving on to this week...
As Lifer mentioned already UTA is up next and we play them tomorrow at The Lace. They have a couple of wins over an 11-5 A&M Aggie team. UTA has since cooled off a bit, is 7-7 and is currently on a 3 game losing streak dropping two games to a struggling Kansas and one game to UTSA.
UTA keeps a large pitching staff usually but looks to be only using 4 so far. Their top two pitchers have a combined ERA of 2.56. Still they are a very solid team like they always are. They have combined for 11 home runs already and have turned 5 double plays. As usual I suspect we’ll have our hands full tomorrow night.
Speaking of UTSA,..they appear to be our current nearest in-conference challenge so far. Not so much because they are 11-5 with wins over Kansas and UTA but because last years CUSA co-champion La Tech is sitting at 3-11 with losses to Montana, Central Arkansas, Austin Peay, Evensville and Houston Baptist. They have also lost to Texas Tech, LSU, Houston and Syracuse. Still, I had expected when I peeked at their schedule to see them no worse than .500. So that’s something to keep an eye on.
Rick
Now receiving 34 votes in the T25 coaches poll.
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On 2/23/2020 at 9:08 PM, Venson said:
Well, they hammered UTSA yesterday so that should help. When you only have three bench players available and a ton of Freshman playing. You tend to have a tough season. Those Fr got a lot of experience this year.
And that will help so much next year.
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28 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
I agree. Get somebody to sponsor cheap t's. Baylor had "Basketball Gameday" for their game this past weekend against KU and it was a whiteout. Everyone was wearing the same shirt, so you know their AD placed them on seats.
Exactly! Southern Miss had one several years ago and they had white shirts placed on the wooden seats! It’s a piss poor effort most of the time by our AD and the whole department
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Some of these freshman have a chance to make a big impact. Also I know Darden isn’t new, but he also has a chance to be one of the best offensive players in the conference
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10 hours ago, NTEX91 said:
My guess is coach Mac won’t be organizing a pool party on game day. I’am quite sure he will have them focused on the task at hand. Won’t be much time to fool around with Sunday’s game looming in the not too distant future.
Didn’t Littrell do that in Boca the first time?😂
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12 hours ago, TheNewEra said:
Late response but that was a great basketball game. We shot terribly from 3, got in foul trouble, & still hung in there. We should’ve played through Simmons more in the post but that’s all that bothered me. That kid went insanity at the end & hit one more shot than hamlet. Would rather this happen now than in conf tourney. This team has the guard play, defense, & shooting to win it. Could even make noise in first round if not matched up with a team that has elite bigs. Most excited I’ve been watching a team since I’ve been enrolled or alumni.
Speaking of Simmons, I get frustrated (I know sometimes he can’t help that he gets switched) when he guards the perimeter. He’s too slow, and it happened several times last week and of course the Doolittle Dagger
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19 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
Who is "they" and what was the problem other than it didn't appear anyone wore white?
My context of “they” is the athletic department. Usually you see these type of themes with shirts on the seats because not many people have white UNT stuff clearly. I mean they could’ve put it on the bottom bowl. Idk
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So last thought on the La Tech game.
The “wear white” thing sucked because they don’t know how to properly do a theme. That is all
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1 hour ago, Andrew said:
How so? It would be better for WKU to lose to the MUTS on the road? All year people were praising our tougher schedule even when we lost but suddenly when our conference schedule is tougher people want to whine...
I mean I’ve never been a fan of this, and last week like stated above the top 2 teams lost at home.
Once Judy is gone, we might be a normal conference. We might actually play in a basketball arena for championships😂
(I’m not against the championship at the Star by the way)
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25 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
If we only get 1, it's gotta be an every-down, double-team-commanding, block-eating, QB-pressuring, Run-game-disrupting, Defensive Tackle.
If we get more than 1, then that same guy, plus any number of stud O-Linemen.
We're fine at WR with Darden and the emergency of Shorter. Simpson will only get better as well.
DL or LB. If I really think about it, I want another OL just because 😂
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22 minutes ago, CMJ said:
If he's correct, AND we manage to get two upsets to make the Sweet 16, it'd be here in LA.
HOLY COW, that would be the highlight of my sports life.
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1 hour ago, VideoEagle said:
Pod play does increase the strength of schedule. Strength of schedule is the chief determiner of bracket rankings. Thus pod play DOES give teams in the top pod the best chance of being ranked ranked higher if they get into the NCAAs. It's math, folks.
However, it is still up to the teams to actually WIN.
The thing is, to some teams (like us) it doesn’t treat us fair because we have so many long layoffs. FIU will have not played in 12 days when they play us, and before the actual tournament we don’t play for 8 days. To me that’s just a thing they need to work out (and other things like TV) but if they don’t this system will be gone.
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They will have played in over 12 days. That’s a very long stretch, and to play a good team is hard .
I hate playing there because that stupid court distracts me from the game 😂
Should win
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6 minutes ago, Mean Green Matt said:
We have a deeper problem as a league than bonus play. The quality of teams right now makes it a one bid league. Not the fact we do pod play.
Get that stupid woman out of the commissioner’s chair, and then some problems go away. She is so delusional it’s not even funny
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5 minutes ago, Mean Green Matt said:
So who would hold the tiebreak between us and La Tech now.
I’m pretty sure we do since we have the win over UTSA. Both lost to WKU
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Just now, Venson said:
The score was 72-70. Bracy hit the shot and then got the foul shot making it 73-72.
No that’s wrong. The final was 72-71
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36 minutes ago, GoMeanGreen1999 said:
I agree shooters shoot. But none of them were hitting for whatever reason.
Mo has just been so inconsistent in the last 6 games
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I was shocked by the amount of terrible shots thrown up too
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Ok very disappointing loss in front of a solid crowd, but HOLY SHIT THE REFEREES SUCKED!
I don’t ever like to blame the refs for a loss, and sure we didn’t have that 2nd half fire and answer to stop Bracey, but HOLY SHIT THE REFS ABSOLUTELY SUCKED
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5 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
We win by 5 or more, mark it.
Line is currently -4 UNT and Over Under is 133. I agree we win by 5+
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1 hour ago, Big Z said:
Is this game on tv tomorrow or Facebook?
Just the main Stadium. No Facebook. There is a channel for Stadium (DirecTv is 47)
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43 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:
When all is said and done, it seems that uniform options are very important to a lot of young men. While I would like to have a standard, if the kids like the changes so be it.
That’s very true.
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Florida International (2/27/20)
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Sounded like a bunch of sarcasm