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Ashlan Davis, I believe. He killed UTEP last year. -gm

You beat Vandy?

TEXAS!!!

In a less-than-shocking result, the NCAA has now banned any use of the mascot "Dr" from OU games. Including post-season play, you will only see "OU Peppers", because Native-Spriters believe it too exclusive to those who only drink that particular carbonated drink.

Point taken. The irony of the whole CU situation is that usually when the team is WAY behind, they start thinking pass. Like I pionted out earlier, Thomas had 117 before CU went up by 2 scores. That's Dickey-ball for ya. -gm

An interesting fact from the UNT athletics preview (not really significant, though). UNT has a 16-0 series advantage in sacks over MTSU. And this "could" be our best o-line yet. ##crosses fingers##

interesting find. what can we learn from this? -gm

FWIW, Thomas had 117 yards in the Colorado game last year when CU went up 28-14. I would think coaches lean towards slinging around a bit more when they're down 2+ TDs. Dwone Hicks got front page in USA Today in 02. It doesn't mean he's the best in the country, but how many MTSU posts did we read claiming he could start for [insert SEC team here]. BTW, we finally have a competent secondary coach. I'll take this stat: 2001, UNT (0-5) 24, MTSU (5-0) 21 I was FAR more concerned back then than I am now.

*slaps forehead*...completely forgot about the change. And yes, Mumme could use a haircut. -gm

I read that article and immediately thought of UNT. I hope that Dickey and Co see this and have the team prepared. We (UTEP) are lucky that we have a bye week before our next game against UH; it afforded Price to let the players have the day off and heal from those nasty blocks. On a side note, it's just as exciting to be a Miner fan right now: the defense completely destroyed NMSU on Saturday. Particularly in the first half. They finished with negative total in the rushing yards department! We've got a beast in our Dave Campbell Defensive POY LB. Thomas Howard is 240 and runs a low 4.3 40. The guy is a monster out there and showed it against the Aggies. His impact is in line with what Booger was doing his jr year. From the same paper as above: The 6-3, 240-pound Lubbock native registered 10 tackles (five solo, five assisted), two tackles for losses (minus 12 yards), a sack ( minus 9), an interception (20 yards), two pass breakups and a fumble recovery against the Aggies. He moved into eighth place on the UTEP career list with 29 tackles for losses, as well as a tie for 10th place on the sack list with 11. Howard article And he fits the UNT player mold to a boot: the guy was under-recruited and over-looked...coming into the Miner program as a walk-on DB.

The starters on a decent-to-good mid-major could very well make their case for starting at any school in the country. With the exception of the bottom feeders each year, the difference between them (the BcS) and the rest of us becomes significant at the 2-3 string level. Say what you will about the SBC, but leading the nation in rushing at any level can't be dismissed as if accomplished by an average back. Seems like last year we had WAY more questions on the o-line than this year. Am i remembering wrong? And we've got BOTH runninng backs back behind that line? AND...this year we have Quinn with (do you remember this guy) Nwigwe... I have this cartoonish image in my head of Meager throwing the worst rainbow pass ever, Quinn leap-frogging all the MUTS in the field before he catches and laterals to a streaking Thomas. *cough* sorry..back to reality. You all couldn't stop a 2002 offense that had a rFr at QB, no Quinn, no Thomas, no Nwigwe, and Cobbs watching Galbreath start from the sidelines. Your D may be vastly better, but so is our O.

twenty one knockdowns. Not good enough! Give me 100 pushups then deliver 30 pancake blocks -gm

maybe this 2-5 you saw was just a variation of the 3-3-5 they run: I wouldn't be suprised if they brought up one of their dbs and took a lineman and dropped him back a little. But I'm only the couch coach...never mind my opinion -gm

Too general. Give something Dickey can build on; to be specific: We need to open up the game with a touchdown and then answer with another if/when they keep scoring. That way we'll always be one-up on them. -gm

Interesting sig you have there, 2$ -gm

Sounds good to me: 8 passes the first quarter 1 in the second Total game passes: 9 UNT win: priceless. There are some things that sexy MUTS can't buy. For conference winning streaks, there's DickeyCard.

If there's a way to get a poll into a signature, Plumm is going to find out. *In my best Agent Smith voice*: IT IS INEVITABLE, MR ANDERSON.

The board's true devil's advocate...

Didn't Bill Braskey play for us? I heard he sneezed and accidentally blew the opposition off their feet. Man I miss him. TO BILL BRASKEY -gm

goto your controls, then "edit signature" I suggest typing out your message before doing any formatting. Now, make sure you're in "normal mode" and not "guided mode". Highlight the text you want formatted, then just use the drop-down menus 'size' and 'color' to adjust as you please. That should do it for you.

Going against the thread's grain, eh? This may have long-term implications, i.e. the OU-UT game. Typically, OU has shredded every opponent leading into every UT game during this Red River streak they own. This may be the ice breaker that UT needs to go in with the mentality they've lacked before. I really don't give a flip about UT, but I like anything that steals Adrian Peterson's thunder. -gm

I thought there were about 20K in attendance...seems about right to me.

Sorry, Plumm; I still don't think I've heard a convincing argument otherwise. I'm just playing devil's advocate at this point, but the comparison to last year's MTSU results just doesn't parallel ours: that second game at home was against an FAU team that had 2 games under it's belt. We won't have any going into next weekend. -gm

Top 10 after one season. freakin' ridiculous -gm