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[quote name="lu cards" post="766179" timestamp="1267115960"]i agree we need to strengthen our non-conference schedule but do it with teams willing to come to beaumont.teams that come to mind are ull,la tech,north texas,smu,ul-monore,ark st,tulsa and south alabama. [/quote] Tulsa, North Texas and SMU do not have baseball teams...  ;) Surprised that ULL is not willing to do a mid-week game with you, but the remaining teams are either needing to get guarantee situations AND/OR buy teams to come to their place to get easy wins. Just look at their schedules...plus, outside of weekends, they are a bit too far to come your way OOC, when they have plenty of options closer...

Congrats Lamar! Big win for the SLC. Let's get two teams in! We need wins like this from every school. A shame McPoke fall short at LSU.

[quote name="UNLV" post="764439" timestamp="1266893265"]I knew you would love this. [/quote] Not a fan, actually. I mean - where would it stop? Football it makes sense, but where would it stop? I was just poking fun at it all...

If this happens, perhaps there will actually be a recognized BCS championship! Lamar, you could actually contend for the [b]BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SUBDIVISION[/B] title and claim something that Texas did at one point - a 'BCS national championship'. Though, unlike theirs...yours would be recognized by the NCAA!

[quote name="time2time" post="764232" timestamp="1266873079"]Just get hot at the right time see SHSU last season.[/quote] Or the last [b]three[/b] seasons since Mark Johnson is 12-0 in the postseason...or for that matter, Lamar basketball in what was it, 1999? I really think the SLC is on verge of becoming a two-bid league again. If TXST can carry the flag OOC and if schools like SHSU, UT-Arlington and UTSA can make good with their OOC schedule - we could be talking. SLU's SOS is a bit weak at 141, but they have the potential to get rolling as well and get a top 40, 50 RPI.

[quote name="coachacola" post="761731" timestamp="1266495734"]SHSU's best players are seniors and juniors and their guards can shoot.[/quote] SHSU's "best players" may be seniors and juniors, but we reload every year. There's a reason SHSU is in the top 3 each year over what, the last five? Our best player - Clavell - returns next year, as does the "glue" that is Crow - both will be seniors. Murray is a sophomore and has shown that he can fill the Mitchell role. If we get the one big-time JUCO transfer that we have the last two years (see Allmond, Clavell) - we'll be fine with the much adored HS players coming in.

Not sure SHSU executed brilliantly. SHSU had 22 turnovers. In men's Div I basketball, you don't often win if you have 15 and SHSU had 20. I figure if SHSU had half as many turnovers, they win by 20, 25 based on the shooting percentages. Kats won with two of their top players - Mitchell and Almond - not producing. Kats got surprise lift from Preston Brown. Even more thrilling than SHSU MBB over Lamar was SHSU WBB stunning Cards to pull of the sweep...

Bearkat 41 of [url=[Hidden Content]] is reporting that Todd Whitten will take over the offense at Lamar. Whitten took over the helm of the SHSU program in 2005 and served as the head coach through 2009. He had previously served as a head coach at Tarleton State, in addition to stints on the staff at Wyoming and Texas Tech. Whitten is one of the top quarterbacks in Stephen F. Austin history. Whitten is a good fit for the position, considering one of his assistants was the offensive coordinator at Lamar (Tommy Mainord), prior to Mainord's departure to Texas Tech. Ray Woodard wanted to keep the same offense and this was the way to do it. The former Bearkat head coach had also talked to Todd Dodge regarding his OC job at North Texas, before taking the Lamar position.

Got our game thread up on KatFans.com... [Hidden Content] Feel free to come on over, especially if you got info on the status of players who could potentially be out for you. I know our last MBB game had the Cards questioning the availability of players...

[quote name="UNLV" post="759829" timestamp="1266184467"]Good...it was stupid moving back and forth. Although this does give Terror a reason to bash LU.[/quote] Well, it's true. Being in the SLC East benefits SFA or Lamar - whichever is in there. This is across ALL sports. The funding gap continues to grow. Also, Lamar's #1 rival - McNeese - is in the SLC East. For SFA, they lose their two contests against SHSU annually.

Posted on the TXST board... [quote]Thought it was weird, the Lamar coach went and shook the hands of all the Texas State players and coaches with like 17 seconds left in the game and just went to the end of the Texas State bench and neeled the rest of the game. Probably wouldn't have been a big deal, but a Lamar player got fouled with like 16.7 seconds left. They had two shots, and all the players were looking over to their bench for their coach.[/quote]

[quote name="UNLV" post="759604" timestamp="1266097786"]Is it true that Northwestern makes more TV money in the Big 10 than Texas in the Big 12?[/quote] Wouldn't doubt it... Vandy makes $7-10M more per year than Texas from TV revenues per a CBS sports article that came out recently.

Per [url=[Hidden Content] World[/url] Out of Conference Strength of Schedule 2 UTA 15 TXST 42 UTSA 63 SHSU 76 NWST 101 McN 121 TAMU-CC 126 Nich 141 SLU 144 UCA 252 SFA 261 Lamar Other Regional Teams of Note 3 Houston 7 TCU 9 Baylor 10 Rice 33 Texas A&M 41 TSU 46 Tx Tech 58 Texas 73 HBU 159 Prairie View

[quote name="LemonGello" post="757001" timestamp="1265661395"]I'm convinced if they keep their nucleus in tact, get a JC bruiser on the boards and a JC perimeter player they will be in the mix for the conference in '10-'11.[/quote] Doesn't Lamar go back to the SLC East in '10-11? If so, there's no reason NOT to be in the mix. Lamar will find success in the East.

[quote name="coachacola" post="756420" timestamp="1265520017"]What I've read is that UNT has had an open invitation to the WAC, and since they are building a new stadium, joining the WAC would really get the fans excited.  UTSA is aggressively pursuing FBS status and will probably not join the SLC so the WAC might see this as a great opportunity.  Having Boise State play in the Alamodome would probably draw big crowds.  With UNT giving the WAC the DFW market and UTSA the San Antonio market, LU would give the Houston/SETX market and their 12th team. [/quote] NT does not want into the WAC...their fans echo the sentiment all the time. They'd prefer C-USA and with their facilities coming into place and the likely addition of baseball in the next five years, look for them to get in.

Looks like Lamar is loading up on transfers. You can say that UTSA might do it next year and you are probably right, but I doubt it will be anywhere near the rate that Lamar has. Thoughts? Do you think this may not be the best approach? Lamar (NOTE: this information based off SLC site - seem to be missing a few FBS transfers) Year One: 10 JUCO Year Two: 10 JUCO, 1 FBS, 2 FCS UTSA Year One: 1 Div II, 1 FBS

UTSA's fan site is reporting... 2013 home games against K-State (opener) and Houston. Also reporting they are to play Lamar in '11 and '12 - in addition to refusing to play TXST!

Credit: [Hidden Content] How does someone not mention Lamar and SHSU in any of these categories??? Favorite: Southeastern Louisiana Contenders: Texas State, UT-San Antonio, Northwestern State Darkhorse: Nicholls State Thoughts on this nugget with Lamar? [quote]Schedule Note: 18 and 2. The Cardinals will only play 18 games away from Vincent-Beck Stadium all season long and just two of them will be non-conference roadies, at Rice and at Houston. Taking a page from their Big 12 brethren Texas, Baylor and Texas A&M, the Cards border war weekend with McNeese State will see the two square off in Lake Charles on Friday the 30th of April. The next two games are going to be in Beaumont on May 1st and 2nd. By the way, with home games vs. Maine, North Dakota State and Penn State before SLC play kicks in, my only question is: What, Univ. of Iceland wasn’t available?[/quote]

Try this link... [Hidden Content]

UTSA may be leaving the Southland Conference in all sports, as they have decided to charter a course for FBS football - whether that means being an independent for a few years or finding a conference... This all comes courtesy of the [url=[Hidden Content] Antonio Express News[/url]... [quote]Switching gears from a tentative plan to join the Southland Conference in football, UTSA has charted a new course for its fledgling program. University of Texas at San Antonio athletic director Lynn Hickey said the school, which is slated to begin play in 2011, would attempt to reach the NCAA’s top flight as an independent by its fifth season in 2015. Should they do so, the Roadrunners would become one of just four independent football teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A). They would remain there indefinitely until an opportunity to move their entire athletic program into an FBS conference presents itself. “We have worked really hard looking at all our options,” Hickey said. “As a start-up program in a major city, with the aspirations we have, the facility we have, the head coach we have, the best thing we can do is move as quickly as we can to FBS status. And until we’re in a conference that has FBS football, we need to stay independent.”[/quote]

Another one...from the [url=[Hidden Content] Report[/url] SBC – North Appalachian State Arkansas State Kennesaw State Middle Tennessee UNC Charlotte Western Kentucky SBC South Nova Southeastern Georgia Southern Lamar Louisiana – Lafayette South Alabama Troy

Eh, it's the [url=[Hidden Content] Report[/url], but I enjoyed this one, posted by JoshUCA... [QUOTE][b]Denied entrance into the Sun Belt, the Southland to FBS trio—Texas State, UTSA, and Lamar—will create their own conference, The "Texas League," known in coaching circles as the "I Hate the Sun Belt Conference." The trio will be joined by Central Arkansas, UT-Arlington, and TAMU-CC.[/b] Central Arkansas will be a core member of Division I by 2017 or 2018 if memory serves, and the conference basketball automatic qualifier rules allow a two year cushion, so those six schools could likely break away by 2016 and land an AQ basketball bid. [b]TAMU-CC and UT-Arlington would go with the four breakaway Southland football schools because they are small budget programs that would be very much regionally isolated by remaining in the Southland. [/b]Plus, the money and exposure is generally better being a non-football school in an FBS conference than in an FCS one (especially a football-centric conference like the Southland). Central Arkansas will start the process to move up to the FBS level and will give the group 4 football playing members. [b]At the turn of the decade the new conference will be well into negotiations to add ULL, NMSU, StAte as football playing members. The multiple exposures to Texas recruits, the lucrative Texas TV markets, and the cheap travel, will lead these three conference outliers to imagine a future as the Boise State or Troy of this new conference.[/b] UNT will also be offered a slot, but might initially pass hoping against logic for a slot in the new SWC. UNT may feel real pressure to join the Texas League or risk further isolation in the region. UTPA will be offered a slot only on the premise that they add FBS football. Their consistently underfunded and unorganized athletic program will be scrambling to generate funding for a stadium.[b] Likewise, DII schools TAMU-Kingsville and Central Oklahoma will also be considered as all sports members pending status upgrades. Denver, UT Pan American, Houston Baptist, Utah Valley University, and Oral Roberts will be under consideration as non-football members.[/b] [/QUOTE] My response... The Southland Conference's current membership features quite a few schools that were rejected by the current schools in the Sun Belt (most of which are former SLC schools). It's the reason that the Gulf Star Conference was formed in the mid 1980s as schools like Southwest Texas, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin and Northwestern State made their transition to Division I...

CSN looks inside the 'title fight' with the latest [url=[Hidden Content] of the Southland[/url] blog entry. From the sounds of it, Frisco just has one thing to prove to the NCAA selection group while Chattanooga may be showing a poker face, hoping that Frisco can not prove that one thing or really be in for a knockout blow!

[quote name="Green Menace" post="750147" timestamp="1264564827"]Isn't South Alabama coming to Beaumont?  Maybe the SBC rule doesn't apply to a provisional school like USA.[/quote] South Alabama is going to several FCS schools. Those deals come to an end the year they enter the Sun Belt Conference. If you check out USA's scheduling, there's a "change of pace" as they get older. Some of the programs that 'buy' visits by the Jaguars for now have home-and-home deals once they become FBS.

[quote name="NorthoftheBorder" post="750061" timestamp="1264560971"] The old stadium seated 17,500 per all the info that was put out in years past.  Why the drop of 1,500?  Only explanation is that the chairback section is expanded to the point that it eliminated that many but that sounds way to high.  16,000 will not get any CUSA schools to come play.  Maybe a Sun Belt school will come.  I hope they expand it after the second season.  Haven't got my tickets yet but I am in.[/quote] Per Sun Belt rules - they can not play at Football Championship Subdivision schools. I believe C-USA has the same policy.