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---McCasland won the national Junior College championship (as the head Coach) at Midland College several years ago ..... A few years earlier with a different Coach they had made the NJCAA finals and had been well ahead in the semifinals but kept the starters in the game... Near the end of the semi-final game a player (I think Mookie Blaylock, future NBA player) screwed up his foot and was not available for the final and MC lost the final...barely ... No doubt McCasland knows that... It likely is a factor in his decision to not play starters so much when near nothing is at stake. Midland should have won their second and consecutive title [also had Spud Webb the previous year] if he had not been injured . Three players on that defeated team played in the NCAA final two years later .. OU vs. Kansas, including Mookie Blaylock... --------- It is tough to not play your best players but there are risks.

I was WATCHING the "ODU game" on ESPN...

I saw the TV broadcast ... I am pretty sure that is what they said..." If UNT wins.. they would be the conference champ." Maybe it wasn't correct but that is what I heard. ( UNT won it)

----A wall away from populated or areas with roads is not worth the money .... I notice no one mentioned what to do with the rivers and streams that run into the Rio Grande in those isolated places or what to do with wild animals and cattle that depend on that water. . There is a huge difference in building a wall along a river with streams flowing into it compared with what can be built across the southern border of N.M. and Arizona where no large river exist. Even on the personal level, ranchers build fences much different near creeks than where there are none.. the city-types here just don't seem to "get it".... plus not considering 1000's of wild animals depend on that water to survive. Additional ... Didn't Trump PROMISE to make Mexico pay for it and on their side of the River..??? ( a campaign lie}

I guess I don't get it all then.. Why are they called bonus games then... if they count.? UNT had already been called conf. champs in what I read.

Not really ... they do not count in conference standings... .. Just the same weight as pre-conference games ..

----A wall make sense in some places especially populated ones or near good roads that people travel . ... but completely ... How STUPID ... It would cut off water supplies for wild animals including deer and cattle and take the ranchers land. Plus there are other ways to get in.. tunnels and over the wall in isolated places, boats across lakes and by ocean. by air .. etc... Besides a lot have crossed legally then didn't return.... There are 100's of streams that run into the Rio Grande ... so dam ALL of them up or what ...and some carry lots of water at times and would take a HUGE area of rather flat land to hold the water.*** ..... This sounds like some CITY-SLICKERS answer that has no understanding of the outdoors or the area along the Rio Grande. ... or of the other ways to get in. . *** IMAGINE THE COST OF THAT .. VERY EXPENSIVE COMPARED TO THE WALL's COST.... don't say fix the wall so water can run through ... have you ever seen the trash [ limbs etc} that float/run down a stream. It would block up or just wash the wall away..

I still think these BONUS games are harmful .. no fan of them .. Who thought this up.??? . Winning the tournament just became more important... ....

--- The mostly likely way to get two bids ( to me) is the regular season champion fails to win the conference tournament... so both are likely to get in... if the regular season team has a good record. . I think the bonus games are worthless.

Rick -----Thanks for reposting the truth (the graph) .... Unemployment has been dropping for 10 years and not just Trump years .. It has just continued what was already happening. . It went to hell in 2008... and which party controlled Congress and the White House then.?? --- note the sourse ---- the BBC (British) and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics .... not some political site.

If honesty or morality matters to you ... he is terrible . It seems everything is entirely about him (ego, arrogant) ... not about America or anyone else. Also no one else has used their entire family run things like a royal family.. Ever wonder why so many of his original staff are long gone (unlike other administrations) ... quit or fired

---Saunders is far from the typical Democrat ... but does have his fans.... and I hope Trump is far from the typical GOP person ( lies constantly, immoral, calls people immature bully names (Little Rubio, Lying Cruz, Mini-Bloomberg etc) I just hope someone elected is more in the middle.... I get tired of hearing that Demos want to take up your guns (not true, but control those guns that can shoot 30 people in 30 seconds as happened in Ohio), no "normal" person needs one of those ... also better background checks .[not anti-gun, own several] .. Demos are not the socialist that they claim either but at the same time are not so backward they resists all change.... I am rather old but in my lifetime when I graduated from HS no blacks could attend ANY SWC, SEC or ACC school or even attend the Baptist College in my hometown even if they lived there... [unbelievable now] . UNT was about the only Texas D-I school that they could attend , maybe the only one ... Houston and West Texas State were available soon afterwards. (before I graduated from college) I even saw the first black guy play in the SWC..Baylor Fall 1966 and no black athletes at TXTech in 1968 when I was there , UT even later.. I even remember my Mom getting nearly irate at times because of restrictions on her (female) .. Once she asked for the bank balance and they told her they had to call my father first... she had just deposited HER check.... The damned "LIBERALS" which the GOP loves to call them passed civil rights bills which made changes... Just be honest about things is my entire point... To me, except conservative financially.. which I absolutely am, conservative means "no change " and in fact let's do it like it was once done. ... ie. go backward. . My entire point -- be honest and don't claim people believe things they don't really believe PLUS if just one or a few in a group are very "liberal" (nuts to the GOP) that doesn't mean the group is.. .. If so ... DO all GOP lie like crazy because Trump does constantly and have been extremely immoral during their life .. (ask two ex-wives) ... Is that what all GOP are ..??. NO.. When are we going to see those tax forms he promised .. what is he hiding. ... He is and you know it. One is how much his tax cut made for him and also . likely some illegal or very questionable things on those forms .. what is he hiding ?? ... No other Presidential candidate of EITHER party since 1956 has not revealed theirs .... so why is he... ??? .... You know, may not want to admit it .. but you know. He is such a financial wizard his companies has gone bankrupt at least seven times ...... but he pocketed money... and people that was owed money by them were never paid.... That is what he is...!!.

Bonus games .. no count games ..??? Seems weird ... Why try..? .. Does anyone else do this?? I wondered why conf play ended so soon.

Democrats ..???. That sounds like like Rush Limbaugh and these extremist right wing guys on radio that spew hate and distrust of those that don't agree with them... They even claim main stream news they that don't agree with or don't want to be true is...... FAKE.!!...

--- Yawl may not believe but in the mid 60's we used the old Men's gym and if you wanted to see the game you had to show up very early to get a seat ... well maybe not Saturdays so much ... We were in the Missouri Valley with Cincinnati, Louisville, Drake, Tulsa, Bradley, Wichita, etc. At Christmas my senior year 5 of the top 10 teams were Missouri Valley ones.. We saw a lot of future NBA players including Wes Unsuld of Louisville. (NBA Hall of fame)...

You are gullible to crazy claims by the far right .. A lot of hate sites are put up by foreign countries trying to divide us ... Some more were taken down today (Iranian) ... Some others by SOME of the super wealthy (maybe Koch ) that just can't get rich enough, --that want to get legislation to reduce their taxes or regulations on their business removed. ... The Koch bros (one died recently) even opposed a minimum wage .Notice-- the corporate taxes was cut by 40% on the last cut by Trump ..from 35% to 21% .. a 40% reduction... [ever wonder why he doesn't reveal his tax form like all other Presidential candidates have done since 1956..?? ] Mine went down 1%.. whoppee.!! One thing UNT really taught me was consider the source and do they have anything to gain from what they are saying ... I hope they still emphasize that in social studies dept and in education one also. PS: .. do you consider public schools socialism ... people pay school taxes even if they have no kids ... how about parks... or many other things our taxes support... I am glad my wife was able to collect survivors Social Security benefits.. her father died as the result of WWII when she was 3. ... or would you have preferred she beg on the street like they do in India..?? Just think about what you really support and where you read things. .... [ not super-wealthy .. how much did your taxes drop.? ..was it 40% also?? ]

Must have been SMU grads coming up with the list....

Miami is bad .... the Jets are bad ..... The Cowboys are not great but bad .??? The loss to the Jets was a weird one... more first downs, more yards, more time of possession and better in most other stats ... but lost. Strange things happen...... Houston once defeated indy with Peyton and only had about 50 yds total .... I witnessed a HS playoff game in which the winner had 2-3 first downs (one earned, the others penalty) and less than 50 yards... the other team (Brownwood) was ranked #1 had 200-300 yds and lost 14-0... as a result of a punt return and a 4 yd drive after a fumble ... .The worst Cowboy game I remember was Dallas 13 -- Minnesota 53... 1970 ... the Cowboys made it to the Super Bowl that year. . They also lost to St. Louis 0-38 that year on Monday Night Football.. QB's -- Staubach and Craig Morton.. .The year is not over. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/1970/gamelog/

They took athletic scholarship money ... give it back or part of it if they refuse to play. .... The real world, if you refuse to work , you don't get paid.

----Me pity Trump.???? I have ZERO respect for all the things he has done and said... How do you read that into what I wrote. ?? Plus which party he is a member of has ZERO to do with what I think of him...

Larry McMurtry -- author Last Picture Show, Term of Endearrment, Lonesome Dove, Hud, and many many more... ..Many awards.. https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/McMurtry-Larry.html .Texas author Larry McMurtry is best known as a writer of western novels, many of which are set in the Old West, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Lonesome Dove. Some of his novels focus on life in small town Texas, like The Last Picture Show , while others focus on relationships, such as Terms of Endearment. McMurtry also adapted several of his books into films and television productions, wrote other original scripts, and occasionally adapted other authors' work. In 2006, he won an Academy Award with long-time writing partner Diana Os-sana, for their adaptation of a short story by E. Annie Proulx into the hit film Brokeback Mountain. Born Larry Jeff McMurtry, June 3, 1936, in Wichita Falls, TX; son of William Jefferson (a rancher) and Hazel Ruth McMurtry; married Josephine Ballard, July 15, 1959 (divorced, August, 1966); children: James Lawrence (a singer). Education: University of North Texas, B.A., 1958; Rice University, M.A., 1960; Read more: https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/McMurtry-Larry.html#ixzz61Len5Q1E

Lay committed suicide ... my lawyer son said as a result people could not really sue his wife or family to get the money he took ... So the family kept the money he had pocketed illegally.. . He knew he had had it and was going to prison and not for a short time either.... Likely like Madoff.. for life... and he was pretty old. .. He would have gone to trial but was DEAD..... suicide. I think Madoff claimed the same ..innocent. ... His son later committed suicide. .Maybe the news did mention he was a Democratic supporter .. but they did not write the headline of this thread. There are crooked supporters in both parties .. and the one in DC never paid a lot of people after his companies went bankrupt (6 or 7) and he pocketed money in those deals. He had to money to pay ... Dan Patrick did the same but on a much smaller scale and even changed his name. It was Daniel Scott Goetz until then.

Ok .. I wondered about that comment .... I have heard that maybe twice ... and never by the major networks or by any late night comedian ...[exclude Fox which I rarely watch has made a lot of bogus claims also including Obama attended a Madrasa [Islamic terrorist school ] The school he attended in Indonesia was a Catholic one .. plus he was living in Hawaii from age 9 on and living with his white grandparents. His real father had abandoned the family at age ?2?. I have not heard that stupid comment about her since he left office. Some people are so gullible they only believe what they want to be true.

You sure didn't hear comedians making fun of him constantly like they do Trump and his tweets and crazy and often untrue comments. . Most times in past they were just funny comments in mainstream media ... Ford Falling down, Carters accent, Bush Sr." points of light" and Bush Jr. pronunciation etc.. Not bitter.. hard-nosed comedy if you want to call it that. .. Not even Nixon was made fun of as much.. If you think so ... you are not listening to them or paying attention very much.. .Yes extremist did say a lot of crazy things about Obama..[ even claiming he was born in Kenya while his mother was a student at Univ. of Hawaii .. how could that happen. ] . but it was not night after of night of comedy stuff about him as is happening now.

Surely you don't believe that nonsense... She had kids. Yes she is a tall and athletic woman .. but so you think all tall women are..?? That is terrible.