UTA UTA did we miss the boat?

Wag Tag · November 24, 2015

Cross was in the loop for the coaching position, what happened? Are we to late to grab him this year?

untjim1995 · November 24, 2015

Cross was in the loop for the coaching position, what happened? Are we to late to grab him this year?

RV happened...and continues to happen...

UNT90 · November 24, 2015

Depending on what happens the remainder of the season, Cross may have bigger fish to fry.

BillySee58 · November 24, 2015

Depending on what happens the remainder of the season, Cross may have bigger fish to fry.

Which would really be unfortunate. Not only would that have been a better hire back then, RV has had the chance to atone and let Benford go, but he has continually chosen to ride him out. Possibly past the point of having a shot at Cross.

FirefightnRick · November 24, 2015

Cross wasn't from a well known name school like Benford. So oviously he doesn't know what he's doing.

Rick

untjim1995 · November 24, 2015

If UTA continues to have an awesome year--and beating Ohio State and Memphis on the road is unbelievably awesome--Cross will be coaching at Big XII/SEC team next year. If I were a booster at Okie Lite or Arkansas, Cross would be on my call list come March if their current coaches don't see any improvement.

BillySee58 · November 24, 2015

Cross wasn't from a well known name school like Benford. So oviously he doesn't know what he's doing.

Rick

Yet another case where RV's extremely unnecessary predetermined parameters took out really good coaches and led us to a guy who had a somewhat flashy resume but doesn't get the actual results.

untjim1995 · November 24, 2015

Cross wasn't from a well known name school like Benford. So oviously he doesn't know what he's doing.

Rick

BTW, it seems preposterous to imagine this, but had Benford actually been even a decent head coach with the team he inherited here, I have zero doubt that he would have been hired at his alma mater in Lubbock. RV hiring Benford was always going to be lose-lose--if he won (HAHAHAHA!!!), he would be gone to Tech or somewhere like that, if he lost, we were stuck with him for 4 years. Unfortunately, for us, the recruiting assistant coach for Marquette has shown a complete ineptness for x's and o's (Shocking!!), so we have enjoyed his losing for 3+ years, in front of a Super Pit that rarely gets a quarter full.

MeanMag · November 25, 2015

I have not and do not plan on attending a game in Denton this year. I'm looking at the uta schedule instead. It's a 10 minute drive for me. Might as well.

UNT90 · November 25, 2015

Yet another case where RV's extremely unnecessary predetermined parameters took out really good coaches and led us to a guy who couldn't recruit or coach.

Fixed

BillySee58 · November 25, 2015

Fixed

He actually has done a lot better the last two classes, including winning recruiting battles. And the old argument that Benford can't get his signees/freshman to actually suit up is outdated, since that really only happened for him with the 2013 class and he's had two straight classes end up on campus just fine since then.