For anyone still in the BCS area, the Aggies take on the Blue Devils in mens tennis tonight at 6:00 at the Mitchell Tennis Center. It looks like the weather will hold, so it should be a good night for college tennis.

Tough, tough loss! Matt loses a 2nd set tiebreaker 7-5 that could have won the match, then dropped the 3rd set 6-1, just couldn't get it going. Duke has four players ranked in the top 100, we have 0. All four of those 4 players won. We simply need a couple of more players.

That was a tough one. What happened to Jerry? Is he injured. I saw him last night and he didn't look like himself...

Jerry hasn't won in a couple of months (seems like it anyway). I think his confidence level is down and his frustration up. He was supposed to be a Top 25 Player and he's out of the Top 100. We're getting killed at the top of the lineup. Not sure what we can do about it except recruit some more players. Luka has been a huge bright spot in singles while Beatty and Wooten and have come up big in doubles.

There is NO excuse for Wooten to lose 6-0, 6-0 like he did.

We don't really need more players, we need to have the right players playing in the right spots against the right opponent. We lost 2 players and 2 coaches from last years team that finished in the top 20. We gained several new players, redshirts and foreigners and 2 coaches this year. Now we are ranked 46.

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Easier said then done. I would start by trying to figure out why my top pure talent player has turned into mental mess that looks sub-par on a regular basis, and why I have a senior player losing 0 and 0.

Maybe Denton should pop in some old tapes of El Dorry. What a machine.

Ags40luv, I don't think that I can agee with you. Bryan played the #36th ranked player in the 4 hole! Go figure. There were A LOT of very long points, but Bryan just couldn't get over the hump. It wasn't like he was losing 40-love over and over. Jerry started out the year ranked #51 in singles and he's probably not in the top 200 right now. Show me a Top Ten team that does not have one ranked player. Not one! We've got a buttload of 3's, 4's, 5's and 6's, but zero 1's and 2's. It's ALL about players and we don't have them. Time to get some.

With the new coach, is this just a "throwaway" year?

IMO - not at all. There is plenty of fight in these players, they just haven't hit the chemistry and line-up needed to be great. If Denton and his players find it come Big XII play - they can be dangerous.

With that said, talent is talent. And when it doesn't show up, you lose.

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Jerry hasn't won in a couple of months (seems like it anyway)

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Anyone have any insight here? Is it all confidence, mental, work ethic? Can he turn it around this season. Would a drop down the lineup help?

Another tough one against LSU. Jerry was very tough. I enjoyed his match....

The men showed a lot of heart against LSU to keep fighting after dropping such a close doubles point.

Still haven't beat a ranked team...

#6 Illinois: L 1-6
#13 USC: L 1-6
#6 UCLA: L 2-5
#16 Duke: L 3-4
#13 LSU: L 3-4

Maybe we can take #22 Tulsa at home today.

it is no longer a maybe!!

Aggies 4, Tulsa 0 with three singles matches still on.

Looks like the lineup has setled down to a steady set. That will help a great deal from here on out.

Joelson just made it 5-0 with a two set win. 7-6, 6-3.

Two matches on - line one and line 3. jerry is playin gthe number 3 guy in the nation and is in the 3rd set.

5-2 on number 22, we will take more of that, gig em

Have had a couple tough ones vs. tough teams. Hopefully this will be a turning point for this team going into Big 12 play.

A turning point indeed. The collective breath of Aggie tennis fans is being held as we role into Big 12 play...

They really, really needed the wins over Tulsa and New Mexico. Like Coach said, maybe we can get some momentum. We really need to tak care of a business against #73 TCU. What I can't figure is why are we ranked 49th, when we have beaten Michigan (#22 at the time) and Tulsa (#22) and our only losses have been to #6, #6, #13, #13 and #16? Seems like we should be around 25.

The college rankings are driven by having 4 wins over schools ranked in the top 25 or 30 positions. Until you fill all 4, the team carried a zero in the tally. The Aggie ranking should move up quite a bit this week with their 4 slots now filled with victories.