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  1. I'd like to go on record that I'm glad that were having DD back on campus and hosting a reunion for some very special players during that era. I've stated on here many times that DD's run of conference titles and bowl games are largely the reason that sparked my interest in the athletics program at North Texas and turned me into a going on two decade supporter of the program. The first time I walked down Canal St. and turned onto Bourbon to see a sea of my fellow Mean Green fans in another city supporting our team when we took on Colorado State in our first bowl game during that run was my "holy shit, North Texas can be a real football program" moment. We basically took the Fouts Field average attendance of the day and relocated it to New Orleans for a few days every year. The shared experience, friendships made on these trips, along with the unbelievable memories have lasted me all these years and will continue. My friends from school that experienced all this with me have become MGC members, season ticket/club level holders in football, travel to away game, host pre-game tailgates for fans at home game ect. With our kids now, that group has ballooned to about 25 or so. I also worked on campus for a number of years in events management as a student and often got to interact with DD before and after athletics related functions. As maddening as some of his public comments could be at times, as @Cerebushas pointed out over the years, he could be super personable, engaging, funny and accommodating in person. I always thought it was cool that he would take time out to talk football with the spare student employee (me) just like he would with any of our donors and administrators. Watching some of the best players from his era like Kennedy, Cobbs, Galbreath, Quinn, Buckles, Jones, Awasom, Kassell, Spencer, Jamario just to name a few, was a real treat. Kennedy and Jamario especially. I've still never seen players more dynamic than those two in my time following the program. Got to watch them thanks to DD. Dickey and his teams also gave us something important as a fan base during that era . Hope as a program. That we could build on a foundation of success and take our program up the ladder. That belief that we can achieve more as a program, at least for me, has sustained me for the entire duration that I've been a fan (coming up on 20 years) even when it's been really tough to hang on at times. TL:DR Version - I like Coach Dickey and enjoyed watching his teams. In my eyes hindsight has been kind to his tenure. We could have done and certainly did worse than DD. I hope he enjoys his visit back to campus. I truly think he'll be floored with the athletics program and facilities progress since his departure. Appreciate his time here, flaws and all.
    7 points
  2. 6 points
  3. Hinted at this last night @GMG24.. this time I got lucky πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
    5 points
  4. I don’t understand the hate for Dickey. Without that run of SBC titles while was in college, I might be a uninterested alumni today. What had program won at the FBS/1A level before he got here? Some winning seasons 1973 and earlier? The parents of some of the kids he recruited were in elementary school when UNT had last had a sustained succeful Div 1A run.
    5 points
  5. The more I read about this guy, the more he seems like a hell of a stand up human being.
    5 points
  6. That may be a makeup game that was cancelled earlier in the season due to the hurricane. EDIT: Nope, I guess it was always scheduled for 12/2. I guess FIU was confident they wouldn't be in the championship game.
    4 points
  7. Except that Dodge had Riley playing WR with Vizza throwing to him. As much as people keep thinking this... the writing was not on the wall for Vizza. He was going to be the starting QB... if he wasn't so scared. Hoping he can impart some of his "transferer" knowledge to the Roadrunners.
    4 points
  8. I honestly can't figure out why bowl projections even exist. It's not like the old days where the Big 10 winner would play the Pac-10 winner in the Rose Bowl. There is little rhyme or reason for any of the bowl placements anymore. It's damn near random, so just sit back, relax, and wait for the invitation to arrive. We'll go where we go.
    4 points
  9. Dickey got hired by Helwig as a favor to his K-State Dad, who he knew from their time in Manhattan. Nobody else got interviewed. Simon was fired, Dickey was hired. RV came in and replaced Helwig and he wanted the Dickster fired after we started 0-5 in 2001, losing to ULM, and having garnered an overall record up to that point of 5-22. But Bobby Ray of the BOR stepped in, reminded RV that it would cost a lot of money to get rid of Dickey right now which we didn't have, and told RV to wait it out and remember why he had that job as AD, to stay in budget and not make any negative waves. So RV consented, DD realized that he was probably on borrowed time, and that the schedule ahead was very winnable in 2001 IF we could beat the first place visiting MUTS at Fouts that next week. And that is just what we did. Now, with the schedule ahead including the rest of the SBC teams, we then beat Arkansas State, ULL, NMSU, and Idaho, which got us to 5-5. We then lost our last game at Troy, who was moving up to I-A at the time, but wasn't in the SBC yet, meaning we finished 5-6, but still got to go to the first ever NO Bowl, which we then lost to Colorado State by about 4 TDs or so. Bobby Ray got to keep his buddy on board, getting RV to give him a raise and extension. Then we went into 2002, where we played the big name OOC teams well (UT, TCU, Arizona) and beat Nicholls State, then beat the other 6 SBC teams, to earn the second NO Bowl and our first winning team in 8 years. We upset Cincy in the NO Bowl and that was when we thought Dickey might be gone soon, since he had a lot coming back in 2003. We then play a great OU team closer than anyone else in the state of Texas that year, and the crushed Baylor at Fouts, before losing at Air Force and Arkansas. We then beat the 6 SBC teams again, plus a Troy team who had moved up to I-A for good and would actually make a bowl. We go back to the NO Bowl and lose a frustrating game to Memphis, who had DeAngelo Williams at RB and we couldn't stop him. It was at this point, with the victories in conference play building up, the Dickster really believed he would get another job. That, however, was not to be, since the rest of the college football world realized something that the diehards here didn't want to realize--the SBC was looked at as the absolute dreg of the college football world and none of those accomplishments mattered to anyone else in an athletic department outside of Denton. He doesn't get an interview anywhere... So we go into 2004, where we lose badly to everyone that is not in the SBC, but defeat all 7 of those teams, winning the SBC again, before getting annihilated by USM. All that did was confirm to the rest of the world that winning the SBC was not exactly a huge accomplishment worthy of even interviewing the head coach at the top program in that conference. As you can now see, some here consider this the Glory Days of North Texas Football... Even worse for us, because it was obvious that DD thought he would be gone, recruiting really starting dropping off, while we were losing good assistants and keeping bad ones (see Ramon Flanigan). And then, after beating MUTS in the opener in Tennessee in 2005, for the 26th straight SBC win, the wheels fell off at a much hyped game for a Fouts hosted game, as Tulsa, came here and squeaked by us 54-2. We would one game the rest of the season, and all we ever heard was a completely beaten down DD put down the university at every chance possible. The next season, with even more give-up in him, we went 3-9, which included a great early season win at home over SMU, which kept them from going to a bowl game, but included more ass-kickings and a DD heart attack, which RV used as a convenient way to get him fired. The Dickster then decides to go out in the last home game by buying about 80 Hutch Black Jerseys and proceeds to have the team wear them at home as if it was a funeral, which it was...as our program's worst uniform of alltime was worn. There were also rumors that a flat screen TV was taken by DD from the athletic offices, which in 2006, when our budget was roughly the equivalent of buying clothes at a flea market (apparently), losing something that cost a few hundred bucks was a tough one to overcome. So, with that in mind, and a school president in Gretchen Bataille in believed that a football coach shouldn't make more than her, the ever-faithful to his job duties, RV, hired a high school coach named Todd Dodge to a five year contract that paid less that $300k per year. And when Todd Dodge went 5-31 in his first three seasons on the job, the powers that be reminded RV that we also had to buyout Dickey's contract from a few years ago, which cost us a few hundred grand, so be mindful of that point before you even think about firing Todd Dodge and costing us an extra $300k, so we rewarded TD with that extra year, where he rewarded us with a beautiful 1-6 start before RV fired him, since it was after the fiscal budget had been passed for 2010. But under RV's visionary leadership, which was made even more clear by the fact that a poster/student named UNTFlyer took over a campaign and ran it stealthily to get a new stadium funded and kept RV absolutely as far away as possible, we got clearance to build Apogee Stadium, which would get us out of the toilet bowl known as Fouts by the 2011 season. And, thus, a bright future laid ahead, as we paid the most we ever had for a coach with skins on the wall, a fellow named Dan McCarney, who went everywhere he could in 2010 and 2011 to make the UNT faithful actual believe that greener pastures awaited us...and they did...but then they didn't...but now they do...we think... And that was how the entirety of the decade of 2001-2010 played at here at UNT.
    4 points
  10. Since I live in New York, I just hate New Jerseys
    4 points
  11. Mason has thrown 18 TDs and 9 INTs this season. I believe that's the most TDs anyone's thrown here since Mitch Maher threw 26 in 1994. I don't know where that ranks him, but it's out of the top 5, all of which is owned by Maher and Steve Ramsey. He is theoretically on pace to throw for 24, which would tie him at #2 with Ramsey and Maher. Also, he has 2599 yards this season, putting him 6th for a single season at UNT. He's currently on pace to throw for 3465 yards (in 12 games). Single season record is Maher's 3103, also in 1994. For total career passing yards, he has 4171. This puts him at #7, behind Giovanni Vizza, who finished with 5146.
    3 points
  12. As of right now, ~25% chance. The dust will settle on 11/18 after FAU plays FIU. We all should be Bulldog fans this weekend.
    3 points
  13. Not gonna lie, I actually got some goosebumps with McConnell Tower's lighting there at the end.
    3 points
  14. One of our past UNT A.D. staffers whose a regular poster on GMG.com made a comment that a drop of rain or sleet could affect our attendance and we've all seen that happen in the past. Saturday weather? 70 degrees at kickoff! :) EagleMBA, this meme was sent to me by a lady friend from New Jersey whose now a full fledged Texan. She thought it was funny & I got a little chuckle out of it, too.
    3 points
  15. WOO! Looks like mean, green, touchdown-catchin, 1st down dealin, sonofagun.
    3 points
  16. Just stop talking about it.....bad juju...
    3 points
  17. "Assault weapons" are, and have been, illegal. The use of the term always sets off an alarm that the user doesn't know his firearms very well. There is a reason why the scary-looking black rifle you can buy has a selector switch for "Safe" and "Fire" only, not to include "Burst". The weapon you buy that looks so scary can be bought in a not-so-scary configuration that functions the same. It is just a common semi-automatic rifle. A handgun is a handgun; most are semi-automatic, some people like revolvers. The price of the handgun should not come up, unless you're trying to imply socio-economic discrimination should play a part in gun control. I don't buy cheap shit...but to each his own. Shotguns are semi-auto or pump, usually limited to five or six rounds before reloading. Unless you are a collector of old weapons, have given the Government tons of paperwork and paid huge sums in "Stamps", and waited for months, plus forked over thousands of dollars for the weapon itself, you have one of the above. One that goes bang once each time you pull the trigger. My opinion is that all of this drama has ultimate goals of infringing on the individual's right to keep and bear arms and creating a national registration database. This, while diverting attention from the mental health problem in this country and the bureaucrats' inability to enforce the existing laws and manage the data they already have accumulated. Further affiant sayeth not.
    3 points
  18. This is gonna be awesome! McCasland is going to get this ship turned around quickly. (No Facts, just speculation)
    3 points
  19. Heard FAU just signed a naming rights agreement with Summer's Eve for their football stadium.
    3 points
  20. not if ESPN reads this board!!!
    3 points
  21. Yeah, this is old news. It's been hard for me to place blame on Giovanni. He played for freaking Todd Dodge with zero offensive line and basically got hit like a Mack Truck forty times a game. I don't think I would've stuck around for four years of violent futility.
    3 points
  22. he's also had his toughest stretch of opponents. i think he will do well against utep, army and rice.
    3 points
  23. Jones would play in front of both of those. JD doesn't know what he's talkin about.... he just guesses and is right every now and then. :)
    3 points
  24. You know, I have always felt the same about Corky Nelson and how well he might have done if he had been given the same budget that DD worked with......modest as it was. During his tenure, Coach Nelson with his 1-AA budget ( and 20 fewer ships), beat the following D-1 schools, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Kansas State, TCU, Texas Tech (after spotting them 21 points the first half), Rice, and SMU. Many argue that he also really beat Texas in 88. And one of the most impressive years was his second year (83) when he won the Southland conference and the only time the team flew to any game was the last game when they played Nevada in the 1-AA playoffs. That mean't that 1983 started with a home win against West Texas, then a bus ride and a close loss (13-20) to Okla. St., then a home win against NMSU, then a bus ride to Texas and a 6-26 loss, then a bus ride to New Mexico where they won 18-8, then a bus ride to Ark St. where they won 17-0, and finally a bus ride to McNeese St. where they won. And NOT ONCE did he ever get up in front of a group of alumni the night before a game with Texas (or anyone for that matter) and say anything like this...."I hope that when Dr. B looks up at the scoreboard at the end of the game tomorrow she remembers how much we are getting paid for this game".
    3 points
  25. How many times did DD go into one of the nations top 5 programs every year to start the season? Didn’t NT play the previous year’s National Champion 3 years in a row under DD? RV set up DD for a machete to the nuts every year he was here...
    3 points
  26. He never faced an OOC schedule that DD did, nor did he have to coach in and recruit to Fouts. DD may have had the toughest G5 OOC schedule in a 9 year span than any other coach since? Rick
    3 points
  27. And this happened, I was there!!
    3 points
  28. Yeah, beat the hell out of that Steve Ramsey, Joe Greene, etc. group of recruits. He did have an amazing class, problem was he never came close to it before or after. Black uniforms was not the problem, killing his own program with his negativity and blasting his employer is a lot more pertinent.
    3 points
  29. The reason the soccer game is at 5 pm on Friday is bc it is on LHN. UT has basketball at 7 also on LHN.
    2 points
  30. I'd support punishing/court martialing the clerk that failed to enter Kelly's horrific background into the FBI data base. Rick
    2 points
  31. This is a fan board. We can talk about this stuff.
    2 points
  32. Lots better to do all the speculation now than in the past when the last few games were for pride only, and we had terrible basketball to look forward to after terrible football.
    2 points
  33. Did he take his hookers with him?
    2 points
  34. Looks like he has really come on this year. 2016 stats: Games: 8 Catches: 16 Yards: 258 TDs: 2 2017 stats: Games: 7 Catches: 40 Yards: 619 TDs: 10 That's crazy improvement! Thinking we may have caught a "sleeper" here... at least, a "late-bloomer". Welcome to the family Austin!
    2 points
  35. Of course not! See my statement above. Trying not to get attached means not reading everything that comes out about him.
    2 points
  36. I think he's going to win and be gone within 2 years. So I'm trying not to get attached. How do you classify that?
    2 points
  37. DRC: UNT coach Seth Littrell said this week that his team hasn't put together a complete game yet. It will this weekend http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/11/09/prediction-unt-will-win-c-usa-west-division-title-win-utep
    2 points
  38. If the Independence Bowl has interest in us, we need to take it. That is right in the middle of a recruiting footprint that LaTech has owned for sometime. We'll also travel very well to the game and it will be vs a quality opponent. It's a win-win.
    2 points
  39. I'm sorry Withers that was a one time deal I promise!
    2 points
  40. I mean, there's not much that this particular POTUS "gets". I agree with the first part of it. That is clearly an issue with this guy, as well as most other dudes who are doing this same thing. He loses me when he says, "This isn't a guns issue", like we can just move on past any kind of examinations of our laws around guns.
    2 points
  41. 9-4 UNT vs 6-6 Ole Miss in the Independence Bowl Mark it down
    2 points
  42. Voted "going to take some time." I hope he can at least TRIPLE Benford's conference win # from last year. Who here wouldn't take a 3-fold improvement in 1 year? However, that would only get us 6 conference wins. I'll take the growing pains this year since he's got an entirely new roster (just 6 guys from last year's team return, thankfully Woolridge & Lawson are 2 of them). Who knows? Maybe he can get the whole team to buy in and gel quickly, and we could make a run to somewhere around .500!
    2 points
  43. I miss the sexy MUTS and their pajama wearing coach, Andy Mac. Oh, and don't forget Hicks 4 Heisman....until he got tkred of getting hammered by Booger, Spencer, etc...
    2 points
  44. Sure, winning all those SBC games (it was such a terrible starter conference) was great. It got us some Dallas News love... Maybe a local news segment. We had that magical win against Cinci. But man. There we so many bad losses under DD too. We just couldn't win out of conference. We would even lose to provision Div-1A teams (USF, Troy, ?). Teams I was pumped to see how we matched up against, we would get destroyed -- Tulsa (multiple), Tulane, etc. He also led teams that should have won (against USM and we had Jamario in his prime) and had the most wheels offense game plan ever. One that we got in because everyone else was so bad (5-7) and lost. Memphis, just beat us. It's not even close -- his teams only had a winning percentage against the SBC. Record of (vs conferences) Conference All Sites Home Away Neutral Win% gm W L T Avg.Scr Win% gm W L T Avg.Scr Win% gm W L T Avg.Scr Win% gm W L T Avg.Scr SunBelt 0.711 38 27 11 25.9 18.3 0.684 19 13 6 30.8 20.2 0.737 19 14 5 21.1 16.5 BigWest 0.312 16 5 11 17.6 26.9 0.444 9 4 5 17.7 20.8 0.167 6 1 5 18.8 36.0 0.000 1 0 1 10.0 28.0 CUSA 0.222 9 2 7 11.6 25.7 0.250 4 1 3 10.0 27.5 0.000 2 0 2 6.5 22.0 0.333 3 1 2 17.0 25.7 BigXII 0.105 19 2 17 11.3 34.9 0.500 2 1 1 29.5 17.0 0.067 15 1 14 9.5 37.2 0.000 2 0 2 7.0 36.0 MAC 0.000 1 0 1 13.0 33.0 0.000 1 0 1 13.0 33.0 MWC 0.000 4 0 4 11.0 35.8 0.000 1 0 1 3.0 26.0 0.000 2 0 2 10.5 36.0 0.000 1 0 1 20.0 45.0 PAC-12 0.000 2 0 2 12.0 24.0 0.000 2 0 2 12.0 24.0 SEC 0.000 4 0 4 4.2 43.0 0.000 3 0 3 3.3 47.0 0.000 1 0 1 7.0 31.0 WAC 0.000 3 0 3 16.0 33.7 0.000 1 0 1 31.0 34.0 0.000 2 0 2 8.5 33.5 That's MAC, WAC, MWC, CUSA ... places I would have loved to be in... but we just couldn't compete outside the SBC. That's the truth. And this may just be me being picky, but I always considered that loss to Troy in 2001 as a loss in the SBC. They were joining the SBC next year as planned. We all talked about it like it was a SBC game to prove who really has the dominance and they beat us (the SBC champ) the game before our bowl game. Ouch. His teams were fairly wild off the field, but it was mostly kept in house. During those days I kept a running mugshot gallery that I would farm from the Denton County Jail. He ran an us v. them style of team building that I just didn't respect too much. But, that's whatever. Whatever works. His guys were loyal too him, so it must have worked. I just never really liked it. So I am with @Monkeypox on this one -- stats are stats. He didn't have the overall stats. His time came, he was let go. This isn't about not recognizing. I recognize the SBC wins at the beginning of the SBC (then Troy took over). I recognize the fun parts.
    2 points
  45. Don't even show this "woe is me" article to the team. We need to put the pedal to the metal and curb stomp the Miners. Too much at stake. Beat the crap out of UTEP!!!!
    2 points
  46. I like the CB from the tradition standpoint. I'd like for UNT to be associated with it just as OU, Texas and smwho are.
    2 points


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