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5:29 to go LU up by one 56-55

Lamar down 3 at the half

Game was replayed on TimeWarner channel 15 following the Big 12 game between Kansas and Nebraska

Maybe the rest of SLC has improved.  Also sometimes it is hard to place the impact of some players.  Brittney Williams may have had more of an impact than a lot of us thought.

And his ranting started before the first game.

Lazeek, when your dealing with recruits you can never be sure until they are signed.  Don't worry about missing one.  I watched a special a few weeks back about one of the Selman brothers that wound up at Oklahoma,  UT thought they had him until signing day when he changed his mind.

Who cares?  The only games left on the schedule that I am interested in is beating Sam and SFA.  Lamar needs to win these two so we don't have to put up with comments from them and can focus on Lamar Atheletics.

It's easy, call it Roc's dog house of the moment.  How many times this year has a player played a good first half and virtually gets no playing time the other half.

Glad I didn't make it to the game,  bad enough having to listen to the end of another loss that should have been a win.

Make free throws you win.

LU does not know how to win.  I like Mike James but when you are up by one point with under two minutes you don't take a quick a shot unless it is a layup.

Ladies loose by six.

I may be wrong but I believe Roc has the longest tenure since Pat Foster left, so he has had plenty of time to prove he has the program moving ahead.  I might be convinced that he deserves another year or two if his actions both on and off the court were somewhere toward the humble side.  But it is not.  He berates the officials, he berates his players, in post game comments it is the players fault.  Yes sure the players play the game, but in college the coach chooses the players more than at any other level.

LU looses another winable game Nicholls 78 - LU 71

29 left and LU down by 3 Nicholls ball

51 seconds to go and Nicholls up by 5

LU    52 NSU  55 6:43

Can't stand prosperity  back to Nicholls 52 - 50

Nicholls up 33 - 23 at half

With the right kind of coach, assuming the players are not as basketball stupid as they play some nights this team could very easily only have two losses.  Heck last night they were still in the game until the last two and half minutes shooting 23%.  Old sayin a great coach can always produce a decent team even with mediocre talent a bad coach can make great talent loose.

That is why they need more bottom feeders in FBS.  One more thumping of an FBS bottom feeder and Texas would have had a winning record.

The NCAA is loosing its leverage.  First Notre Dame was allowed to make its own deal with NBC several years back and just last week UT and ESPN announced a 20 year $300 million tv package.  Do you really think the big schools will allow the NCAA to undermine their revenue.  I think the UT - ESPN deal was in the works and when the talk was of the B-12 breaking up following Nebraska and Colorado's departure Texas wasn't willing to have to share this revenue potential to play in a different conference.

MFFL's comment is correct the only point in the game that Lamar looked like a team was when Custer and Brown were in the game together in the second half.  Don't misunderstand I don't think Custer is anything special but why won't Roc try to play with three big guys in the game at one time?  Harris's game is driving to the basket and throwing up wild shots hoping to get fouled.  Miles is simalar.  Adams is very streaky, his shot is too flat.  Lamb hustles like mad but was too undersized compared to Northwest.  No one shoots the ten to fifteen footer.  No movement on offense.

I think it's great that these former players are back to finish their degrees, but don't bash Roc for being please about graduation rates.  The NCAA has already punished LU once for poor graduation rates which caused a loss of at least two scholarships during Roc's tenure.  These weren't because of graduations not happening during his time but because they are cummulative.

Looking at Northwestern they have won all three games against the east and lost their two games against the west.  They won at CA by one point, beat Nicholls by 9 at home and defeated McNeese in overtime.  Depending on how we match up player to player it could be anywhere from a close game to a blowout win.