MeanGreenTexan

I guess there's something to be said for 'skins on the wall', even if it is wrinkly, 75-year-old skin.

Having a Papa John also helps.

This is starting to look like a much more realistic goal. But this is still a huge disappointment.

Dont forget that Cross always brings his lunchpail to work. I saw it there on the bench next to him. Probably had a hot ham 'n cheese and maybe some funyuns... I don't know.

I think the people out they're who may not know CMJ might think he posed nude.

Agreed. I actually saw a pretty standard lineup out there of: CJ, Alzee, Jordan, Franklin(until he fouled out, then it was Holmen) & Mitchell. And the idea behind those line changes was to keep guys fresh because of the pace we're supposed to be playing... and our guys certainly did not look gassed.

Obviously we weren't very good in the RZ, but I know the Troy game really torpedoed this number. FG's and TD's both.

Yeah, but money talks. I don't know what he makes there, but do we know what the gap is between his salary and Benford's?

A train that was about to pull into the "top 25" station to pick up votes, then continue on to the final destination of "Noise in the NCAA tourney". Now, we have something similar to this: Still time to put on the brakes and maybe reverse course, but it aint looking good.

McCollum averaging over 26ppg!! Yikes! Tony is just over 15ppg. ...IMO, T-Mitch has 2 more chances to instantly redeem himself in the eyes of the media. SLU & Lehigh. Otherwise, he'll have to rely on a tough sled of sheer, consistent dominance in SBC play. With the way the team is playing right now, I don't know if he'll have the opportunity to do this, unless he just takes the ball away from CJ and drives the hole on his own every possession or something. Need more TAKE-OVER from Tony because the system he's playing in appears to be letting him down.

Probably for fear of losing Mitchell to the NBA. It seemed like Mitchell (and everyone else on the team) wanted coach Forrest to get the job, but when Benford was hired, due to his previous relationship with him in recruiting, he was ok with that hire.

I thought it was the other way around where JJ was here for a few months before RV arrived?

RV has made some FANTASTIC hires. Unfortunately, they are in sports that do not garner attention nationally except for niche fans, and for the sports that are relevant nationally (FB, MBB & WBB), the hires have not been good so far (sans the Aston hire, and I'll still say the jury is out on McCarney/Benford/Peterson).

This X a million.

LOL!! No. For everyone thinking that Mitchell is losing draft stock, I can only beg to differ. Tony Mitchell's draft stock is high and will remain high simply by what he did this summer and all of the buzz around him at the Amare and LeBron camps. NBA personnel were there and saw what he can do when competent people are handling him. However, if he's gonna be a 3 in the league... those airball 3's will need to stop and he'll need to get back to his 50% shooting from there.

glass house bro. We live in a giant glass house.

Yeah. Wasn't Dodge's offense one of the most prolific offenses between the 20's? Then, it's like the red zone is made of quicksand. Terrible.

The guys look fragile out there. All it takes is for a team to come out and punch us in the mouth and our guys kinda fold. Lots of frustration, and I think that is evidenced by our best 3pt shooter tossing up 2 airballs while going 0-6 from beyond the arc last night while not being fed down low. Almost half of his 13 shots were 3balls. He had good looks on all of them. This time, instead of going down WAY early (a-la Creighton, & VA), the guys hang around for a while (as they should against freaking UTA!!), then get frustrated that they're not winning by 20 (as they know they should be) and kinda... *gulp*... quit? Very little transition offense. And once again, where the heck was Coleman and Patton? For me, I'm getting dangerously close to jumping on this Benford-bashing bandwagon.

Well crap. I'd rather have WKY, or *gulp* even TX St! It's OK. C-USA is still a great spot for us to be... for the time-being. If UTEP/Tulsa/LATech/Rice decide to go somewhere else, we need to hope to follow them.

any post trying to use a point Colin Cowherd makes to validate, is completely rejected by me. Dude is an uber-dummy.

You bring up an interesting point... I just don't see this happening anymore. And if it does, C-USA needs to be in viewed as a better landing spot for the remainders, otherwise, they'll go MWC (especially KS, KSSt & IASt.) Else, they will form their own conference and we need to be in a position to join THAT one.

...or WKU's football, or WKU's any-other-program-besides-Softball...

Watching all of this movement, I think UNT would be wise to join itself with LA Tech, UTEP, or Tulsa so that when MWC comes calling for one or more of those schools, UNT will have an ally. MWC as it currently stands, is not quite as good as what we would like it to be as compared to the current C-USA, but if by chance some of the schools who bolted for the Big East reneg, and the conference starts creeping East to Tulsa/UTEP/LATech, then it makes it look MUCH better than a depleted C-USA.

For me, it's either UTSA, OR TXSt. One, or the other... not both. I'd like to guage interest in some MAC schools. Wonder if some of those schools would consider moving to C-USA? N. Illinois would be a nice target. Ohio, Miami (OH) would also be targets I would be interested in, especially if WKU joins up.