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Box and one

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Damn,its cold up here.It was in the 50's...called my wife in Austin and it was in the mid-70's...called home in NY and its 5 degrees..my next door neighbor has my water dripping in the down stairs kitchen and bathroom...if any of you are from the Nannok of the north states you guys know what I mean..our pipes freeze...anyway tonite going to the Ark St- North Texas game...about 6 of my buddies from this area are all showing up...they want me to go down and tell the North Texas coach to get the ball to Mitchell...I swear I might do it...just bs with him...

Don't have a great computer and don't have my 300 index cards with me but here we go..

Hofstra -1 over UNC-Wilma *****
Love this game...Hof is ranked in the 300's in FG%,Pts,FT's,3 pt% and of course burglaries. Four players suspended,2 of their top scores...but Casara has done a prety good job holding them together...{ his cousin is a math teacher at my HS}...Buie has stepped up and at his last 2 home games scored 24 and 29 pts..Mejia is a solid pt gd and Imes is tough.Nwaukeni in last yrs 93-64 win had a double double...At home the pride beat W&Mary by 11 and Ga St by 2.. Wilma on the rd is 0 and everything...lost by 22,28, to Ga St and JMU...Wilma ranks in the high 200's and low 300's in everything....think Hof wins this by 6-10 pts at home...this line is way off...

Towson +1.5 over W&Mary **
Northwestern -1.5 over Neb ***
Brown +5.5 over Yale **
Columbia -7 over Cornell ***
Houston -3.5 over UAB ***
think Coogs wake up..
Memphis -15.5 over Marshall **
Damn,the Herd all have whip lash from the So Miss game..they will get it again today.
Long Beach St -4 over Cal Irv **
Fordham +2.5 over URI **
Rams are a covering machine...not sure how they are doing it...could be from the car fumes on Fordham road...slows down the vistors...but I'm riding this train for a few more games...

North Texas -2.5 over Ark Little rock *
Ark beat them at their place a few weeks ago..NT is down to 7 players...they were getting killed by M. Tenn the other nite...MT let them score at the end and won easy by 9{ of course I had MT -9}. I have so much faith in this team I'm taking them for one *....only because I want to cheer my ass off tonite..maybe should pass but my record attending home games from 1969-1973 was...freshman yr 14-0,soph yr 8-4,jr yr 7-7 and senoir yr 8-5....Mitchell is a big stud..any he doesn't touch the ball. I had one of the best players in the state of NY for 2 yrs...I saw some of my players freezing him out because he was getting all the headlines..." we can win w/o him attitude..." but after one game maybe 2 when I realized what was happening the Box put a new rule in..." every 3rd pass must touch him or you were sitting next to PAPA..." by the way I was Papa...never had a problem again...wish the would do that with Mitchell tonite..NT taking 3's from all over and they shoot 25% from the line..344th in the country...but still taking my Mean green tonite..
went 4-0 last nite..love that MAAC..GL today
 

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Good to see you are in Big D. I may have to
Join you at the game. Unbelievable how disappointing this North Texas team has been. With all the returning talent I seriously thought they would be cracking the top 20 this year. We really miss Johnny Jones!!
 

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Seeing this year's team and performance I understand your wise ass comment but obviously you didn't pay much attention to this team last year or know the players they had coming back. Just goes to show how much Johnny jones meant to this team. By the way I think my crack pipe is in the pocket of current UNT coach.
Box can chime in on this conversation. Nobody knows the Mean Green better.
 
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Box and one

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bettinman...most pre-season polls had UNT winning the Sun Belt.This coach is his 1st head coaching job and he has all 5 guys back from last yr...he is a big time disappointment and has a big problem with adjustments..that is the key to coaching..your kids can have off nite sesp playing on the rd,no stops on defense,etc...I have watched NT play 3 times and they are poorly coached...the MT game was just unreal...no time outs to adjust,Mitchell shout down by the box and one....Box and one is a great defense but there are many ways to attack it...believe me I know this...and as soon as a good coach attacks it I'm out of it....but NT didn't attack it,Mitchell got frustrated and went 30 ft out taking 3's when he touched the ball,etc...a few games later Mitchell played 35 minutes,scored 0 pts and a few rebounds..
Hopefully this coach will learn..Johnny Jones was an above coach but not great...little discipline on the shot selection and a few other things but he could recruit his ass off.....at LSU he should get some big time players there...
if your going to the game I'm with about 8 guys and wearing a NT green hat and will be probably sitting some where behind the NT bench a few rows up....I want to be close to help coach..
 
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