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[quote name="Nederland Dog 2006" post="1199689" timestamp="1332272708"] It's a long, long, long, long shot but just think about it. St. Louis lost 40 HRs and 120 RBIs in Albert Pujols leaving for the Angels. Milwaukee lost 30+ HRs and 100+ RBIs in losing Prince Fielder to Detroit. The BIG SLUGGERS of our division are no longer in our division. Pittsburgh is on the rise, I believe. The Reds are gonna get better. And who knows what the Cubs are gonna do with their new GM. Yes St. Louis is the defending champs but it is very hard to replace 40+ HRs and 120 RBIs. Who said this young Astros team is just completely out of this division race before the season starts? You never know. 2 teams lost their big sluggers and you never know what might happen with a young team. We will see. Go 'Stros! [/quote] also Braun may miss 50 games depending on the MLB suing over the overturn! Astros could win 50 games! TOTAL. Gonna be a rough year, but I do enjoy seeing the young talent make it up to the bigs. Kinda like Christmas each month with a new prospect at MM Park.

[quote name="ShlyKBMT" post="1201867" timestamp="1332705485"] PN-G Harrington's draft year was 2007 Stutes was 2004 Wes Cooksey signed a FA contract with Yankees in 2001 Ryan Robertson was also in the Marlins organization and Ben Weber played for multiple MLB teams. [/quote] Robertson and Webber both started their Pro careers prior to 1993.

So Lamar played three outta the four teams in the Final Four! How tough was that schedule now!!!

[quote name="GCMPats" post="1199501" timestamp="1332250509"] per Texas High School Football: 2012 THSF Schedule Facts & Figures: Odessa Permian Panthers (2-5A) - Total Road Mileage: 2,074 mi.; [b]Average Road Trip: 414.8 mi. [/b] Wow! That's a long haul. [/quote] Sorta misleading... This year they travel to El Paso - Non Dist Abilene - Dist Amarillo - Dist Abilene again - Dist Lubbock - Dist Next year they mostly travel local Odessa High Midland High and Midland Lee They do go to Friendship (near Lubbock) and San Angelo But Amarillo really gets shafted! All of their away games will be 350 to 600 miles round trip year in and year out.

Whatcha wanna bet Carthage is doing the same thing!!! Sounds like someone internal that had probably been conspiring against him for a while ratted him out and he just had enough. By internal, it could be a parent, teacher, student, admin, etc...

Livingston, PNG, LCM, and Vidor are all 4-1 Nederland is 3-2 Pretty tight race!

Isnt Gilligan responsible for the talent? This is not High School!

Good point! Of Course PK can point to the Nicholls game pregame and get them fired up! Also I get the sense that these young men don't want to let each other down at this point after being called out on national TV. They know everyone is watching now.

[quote name="Rockin A" post="1196507" timestamp="1331617944"] 3 weeks ago, we were all up in arms after getting beat by SFA and Nicholls State.  Now we're whining about a play-in game?  Really?  I'm thrilled just to have Big Red still playing.  Let's go Big Red!! Geesh [/quote] BINGO!!!! I'm just glad to see an LU team finally play up to it's potential, even if it took 2/3 of the season to get to that point!

[quote name="ndn2016" post="1196241" timestamp="1331583755"] Hate to sound like a whiner. I've worked for 1.40 /hr,but $125,000 wont pay for their travel expenses. Which leads to another beef of mine. Go to Dayton and win then you get to travel to NC and play them in a 'home' game while NC gets to hang round their home court for 3 days and get ready. Why not make LU  or Vermont wear ankle weights during the game too. Hey I am the eternal optimist, stay till the bitter end, hope against hope kind of guy. It will be a historical win comparable to the shot by Laetner?sp and the win by NC state if they(LU or Vt.) beat NC. [/quote] Don't forget VCU made it to the final four last year as a playin 11 seed! and $125K will more than pay for travel expenses!!! It will cost them less than $30K to make the trip to Dayton then NC including hotels airfare and meals.

[quote name="baseball25" post="1196061" timestamp="1331561530"] Lol but close Utah rpi 274 and nic st 298 lol lol [/quote] Whats the biggest difference...Harvard beat Utah, We lost to Nicholls. [quote author=baseball25 link=topic=97389.msg1196063#msg1196063 date=1331561658] If Lamar would have beat tcu or mason they would have gotten a 15 seed, if they would have went 2-1 maybe a 14 seed [/quote] The bigger win would have been Ohio. A W over Ohio alone might have gotten us out of the playin game as a straight 16.

The tough non-conference schedule didn't help a whole lot in the end as far as seeding and that was to be expected since we didn't win any of those games, but what it did do is better prepare this group for what is to come in the Tourney. they shouldn't be overwhelmed after playing at UK, at OhSt, and at Louisville. Also that OT loss to Ohio would have been a big plus had they been able to pull it off. I can count about 4 or 5 games LU should have or could have won had they had there heads on straight like they do now. 28-6 with W's over Ohio, GMason and TCU would have garnered a 15 seed. And Coachacola I wasn't necessarily calling you out specifically, I was just calling all LU fans out for not being realistic. [quote name="baseball25" post="1196058" timestamp="1331560951"] Actually Utah was one of the worse teams in nation this yr [/quote] Not as bad as Nicholls! ;D

[quote name="82 5A State Champs" post="1195931" timestamp="1331509444"] I'm really proud for Lamar, this year, but I'm sorry, if you win your conference, you should be automatically in the Tournament. What is this "play in" BS? Lamar has 23 wins! The last time they made the tournament, they got in with a 15-15 record! This is totally disrespectful to Lamar, IMO! The NCAA selection committee is a joke, plain and simple......and I hope Lamar crushes Vermont! [/quote] Last time LU made the tourney there was no playin game. And LU was the 64th seed then! Yes LU has 23 wins, but who did we beat and we lost 11 to teams like Nicholls!!! [quote author=coachacola link=topic=97389.msg1195953#msg1195953 date=1331514158] But what I don't get is how Norfolk State and Detroit get 15 seeds when neither team won the regular season, just their tourneys.  Neither team really has a marquee win, but they do have some solid wins which Lamar does not.  I think what hurt Lamar is going 0-6 against top-100 teams and having some bad losses in conference (like to Nicholls State). [/quote] Lamar was the 3 seed in the SLC! The committee got it right. Take off your Cardinal Red glasses and you will see it. I happen to agree that the AQ's should not have to play in these extra games, but until they change the rules it will be what it is. The rule will never change since its not in the best interest of the NCAA power conferences (where the big money is). Now lets focus on Vermont! Should be a great matchup.

He aint going nowhere for a while. He has to get his recruits and win. Also if he leaves now and fails again at a Major he is done. Gotta stick around a while and build a steady winner first.

Nope a playin game can be anyone of the 68 teams. Of course the NCAA doesn't want them refered to as PLAYIN games, but we all know what those extra four teams were added for. And it weren't us low Majors!

Correct. And Nova also has Football, just not FBS football. Sux to have to play-in to the tournament!

The play in games should be for non-AQs since they went to 68 teams! [quote name="ForeverADog" post="1195050" timestamp="1331321113"] Keep in mind there are 6 total 16 seeds. I don't think Lamar will get a play in game but it will be hard to get a 15 seed. [/quote] Not so. Last year only two of the 4 play in games were for the 16 seed. One of the others was VCU/USC as an 11 Seed! WOW. VCU had a play in and made it to the final four.

[quote name="NorthoftheBorder" post="1194872" timestamp="1331309874"] One Bracketology I saw this morning has LU a 16th seed facing Syracuse in Pittsburgh!  Ugggghhh! [/quote] That would mean that LU would be the 67th seed! Behind either a SWAC team or a 15-18 W. Kentucky.

Based on RPI - Im Guessing the 16 seeds will be: SWAC Champ American East Champ MEAC Champ other than Norfolk State Western Kentucky If Mcneese wins then they would replace either the AE Champ or Norfolk as a 16. If LU Wins I would suspect a borderline 15 seed. Depends on if Norfolk wins the MEAC or not.

[quote name="LAZEEK" post="1193711" timestamp="1331138205"] LU has already been invited to the CBI and the CIT Post Season Tournaments.  I would think that LU would have to make it to the SLC CHampionship to possibly get a NIT invite.  I would much rather see the NCAA Invite though!!!! ;D ;D [/quote] It would also probably depend on UTA's status. If LU makes the title game and loses to someone other than UTA in that game, then UTA would get an automatic NIT Bid for winning the regular season (new rule from a couple years back). That would mean that LU would most likely not get in the NIT. Only hope for NIT/NCAA bid would be to play UTA in the Title game. Win LU (23-11)NCAA & UTA (25-8)NIT Lose UTA (26-7)NCAA & LU (22-12)NIT(maybe)

Thats what I figured. The first McNeese loss comes back to bite us in the kisser just like we thought when we walked out of Burton!

So no matter what the best we can do is 3 seed! or if SFA and LU end up tied records wise would LU get the 2 because they won the division or would SFA get it due to head to head? No wonder PK was so pi$$ed after the SFA game! ;D

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1186923" timestamp="1330378485"] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=96729.msg1186921#msg1186921 date=1330378401] [quote author=BLUEDOVE3 link=topic=96729.msg1186899#msg1186899 date=1330375096] [quote author=Dick Vitale link=topic=96729.msg1186863#msg1186863 date=1330372862] I love what he did in that press conference rant! His recruiting just went up! National Recognition! Great strategy by Coach Knight.....what do you guys think? Was it worth it? [/quote]Oh man, give him an A+ for taking advantage of situation and turning it into a gold mine. On a side note, got word one of his recruits is ready to leave Texas Tech and head to Uof H. [/quote] Kid from Bellaire? Jamel Outler? He should transfer to Lamar...Better fit.. [/quote]The kid from Ball. Pettaway (?) I think. [/quote] That would be LU Alumn Terrell Pettaways little brother?

I would point to the fact that Crosby made some decent playoff runs under Flanigan with teams that were not loaded with talent. They also seamed to get better as the season progressed each year and played there best ball at playoff time. These are both signs of a well coached team.  I agree he will need a good DC hire though. I like the WB hire.

I am sure Price left for more money, but I will say from a local perspective, the HF Football program was improving under Price. Folks from BH want to point out the record (and it wasn't pretty), but the fact is HF 2011 was not an easy out for local 3A district! Ask WOS Fans and they will tell you in a heart beat that HF improoved tremendously. HF went from an 0-10 team that was getting beaten 60-0 routinely to a 2-8 team that was a few plays away from being a winner (and mostly with the same kids). Also HF has a group of Freshman next year that Price could have hung his hat on and won lots of games over the next 4 years.