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That interview sure paints a different picture of Lyons than the televised interview done a month or two ago.

It's a humorous quote, but can really call a fan-base that supports their team so strongly that they could command their own network "pathetic?" I mean, I'd go from 6 to midnight if a mean green network was announced. As far as all the rest of this stuff is concerned, my thoughts are as follows: 1.) We need a baseball team. 2.) We need to win. We can control those two things. After that, the conferences will shake up at least once more and when they do we'll want to have a good resume/compelling case to present.

This doesn't make any sense. OU had no winning seasons from 1994-1998, five years. Yet, they were still landing future NFL players during that time period. The hire of a real coach had them winning a national title within two years of his hire. OU gets players from all over the country. The recruiting advantage of Texas is an overplayed hand in these type of discussions. Their recruiting is basically finished by April. So, what is the new television channel going to accomplish? Tipping it so they're basically done in March instead? Same with OU. They're going to get top recruits early and often whether or not Texas has a network. The network doesn't give Texas more than 85 scholarships, so they can't just give a scholarship to every football playing kid in the state or country. The reality is that there is always a bubble on things. The BCS schools will eat themselves in their race for greed. Notre Dame is the prime example. Own network. NFL coach. It didn't matter. At some point, you still have to have your 85 scholarship players get on the field against other schools with their 85 scholarship players. There's nothing more to gain. Texas and OU already have state of the art stadiums, work out facilities, and coaching. More money gets them no more advantage than they already have. The proof is Texas' 5-7 record in 2010. The money doesn't lift weights, practice, coach, or play. The Longhorn Channel will be nothing more than a masturbation station for their pathetic fan base. And, I expect the OUs of the world to follow suit. They will quickly be as irrelevant as MTV has become. There's a saturation point, and college football is sweeping headlong blindly towards it.

Just because one guy jumps off a bridge doesn't mean everyone should. My mom taught me that early -- probably even before I fell out of her prom dress.

Denton. Thursday, Jan 12

That's what she said.

I totally agree....Riley is not a quitter. I went to all 12 games last season. He played to the best of his ability while dealing with a number of injuries. Considering the circumstances, transferring from North Texas was in his best interest.

So, yea... I'm kind of a big deal.

and they will be teabagged by Dmac himself.

You say that, but there will people in burnt orange. It's ridiculous, right?

The SEC is already starting to make inroads into DFW thru scheduling. Arkansas plays A&M annually in Arlington, plus will play at TCU in 2016. LSU plays this season at JerryWorld against Oregon and will also play at TCU in the future.

Anyone else notice that NT has not got commits from any Texas class 5 or 4 A players? Not sure that has any significance but a little odd because the vast majority of recruits come from the bigger schools.

If he does jump of the bridge, it's okay to label him a "jumper", not that there is anything wrong with that. It just means he jumped, regardless of his reasoning.

UT & TAMU are joined at the hip. Who's going to perform the surgery down in Austin where our politicians gather? It would be intriguing to see both go independent, though, because we should already know what one does the other soon will duplicate? For those 2 schools to go Indy' would IMHO open bigger doors (better conference/better known opponents all season long) for UNT quicker that otherwise most of us 'boomers will be long gone to see happen in Mean Green Country. The stadium is nice but for what has been going on in the NCAA last few years to the present we're still behind where we should have been. NOTE: Who is going to invite Gene Stallings to our new stadium debut game? Former UNT Board of Regent Winn Brown (now deceased) told me at a North Texas function that we should have made our dramatic move upward post our Abner Haynes/Sun Bowl era. I always wondered why it didn't happened post Joe Greene era teams when North Texas should have vaulted upward to never look backwards again; and that was while Hayden Fry was still at SMU. The UNT Mean Green had as good a college football team in NCAA D1 in 1968 that there was when our level of talent had all but defeated the "almost" NCAA National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks that same Fall. Wouldn't we all (who were around) have loved to have also seen seen North Texas play the Houston Cougars back in that same 1968 season? From Good Will Hunting the word...Ironical was that....neither UT or Arkansas had 1 black player on their 1968 teams while UNT and UH had already integrated. UH with Warren McVae in 1965 and UNT with Abner Haynes 10 years earlier. Darrell K. Royal's 1969 Texas Longhorn NCAA National Football Championship team would the the last year UT had an all white team, too. Nevertheless, there are just some things about our program's athletic history I know many of us will never quite fathom; that is, why our leaders always seemed to want to retreat after we had reached some fairly impressive plateaus. That modus operendi on our leaders part became enough to have made many, many, many of our alums through those decades just say....screw it; so they fell in line with many other Texans to support the 2 Permanent University Funded state university darlins'. Just sayin'..

north texas/dallas til i die!!!

Well, “Bro”, thanks for taking the time to provide such an enlightening response. I don’t agree with your, and others, belief that Riley was a quitter……. But I do believe this……….. Those of you that feel this way, who keep badmouthing the kid – that you in a similar circumstance, with all that was swirling about him – would do EXACTLY what Riley Dodge chose to do! I do believe that, Bro………

Derek Thompson is going to have a great season this year.

So funny to see those that are in complete support of the Iraq and Afganistan war to be against the Lybian action. Even more funny to see those that were so against the "Bush oil war" in Iraq be in complete support of Pres. Obama's unilateral, non-congressionally approved action in Lybia. If Bush had done the same thing, these same folks would be going ballistic with the fascist rhetoric. As long as it is "my side" doing it, I'll defend it, critical thinking be damned!! Quite amusing.

From Soccernet's transfer blog: 18.16 Rangers have signed USA international Alejandro Bedoya on a pre-contract agreement subject to a work permit, the Ibrox club have confirmed. Good news...chance to team with Maurice Edu and improve his international stock.

I was listening to the Ticket on the way home from work and some reporter from Aolfanhouse is saying that its almost a certainty that A&M will bolt the Big XII to join the SEC. The Longhorn network has apparently rubbed some Big XII schools the wrong way. The reporter went on to say that the SEC would love to get there foot in the door of Texas recruiting ( no shock there ) and all SEC schools would gladly vote for admitting A&M into the conference. He also points out that Texas A&M will never win a national championship playing second fiddle to Texas in the Big XII.... I will try to find the author and article but the rumors are spreading like wild fire. What does this mean for UNT? Does the Big XII raid CUSA? Does CUSA then raid the Sunbelt? http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-07-20/oklahoma-texas-am-may-look-at-moving-to-sec-because-of-texas-tv-network

Go back to TCU's recruiting 5, 6, 7 years ago. Similar scenarios and tactics. Big, fast small town kids who didn't bask in the limelight of 10,000 seat multi-million dollar high school programs. Just hard working, athletic, country strong kids who were developed by great coaching.

I don't bring this thread back up to renew the whole debate on Libya. I just read a small gem of a story in the LA Times over the weekend and wanted to share it. Finally got around to finding it on the net (yeah, I'm old school and still get the paper). http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/16/world/la-fg-libya-military-cemetery-20110716

Maybe they don't need A&M per se, but it is a fact that they are drooling at the prospect. A&M has an open door anytime they want. Clemson is already good to go as the 14th team whenever the Aggies are ready to jump ship.

Brek Shea is ready.

Not surprising, but I wish they would give us a couple of years to prove our worth before starting the next shuffle. Right now, Houston, smu, UTEP, MWC teams, and possibly even a "return to the region" TCU would have a leg up on us as far as any fantasy Big 12 entrance is concerned. We would be a perfect geographical fit to replace the Aggies, but somehow I suspect the Big 12 will totally fall apart without them. Who knows where Texas would go.

2-10. Sorry guys. Coach Mac is going to need 3 years.

Chip Brown: "ABC/ESPN...didn't want to see Texas and Oklahoma disappear to the Pac-16 conference network likely to be run by Fox. ABC/ESPN, in my opinion, also saw the possibility of realignment coming if the Big 12 fell apart, and that could have led to remodeling the SEC and ACC, conferences in which ABC/ESPN has more than $4 billion tied up in TV contracts. If the SEC expands by four or the ACC gets picked apart and then remodeled in some merger with the Big East, ABC/ESPN likely has to renegotiate those deals, possibly for more than the $4 billion it had already committed. So why not just honor the deal it had struck with the Big 12 despite losing two teams and a conference championship game? By comparison it was a relative pittance to keep Texas and Oklahoma away from Fox and protect its investments in the SEC and ACC. Texas became the first to blink, backing away from its Pac-10 invitation and reaching out to Texas A&M at the bargaining table. Credit both the Aggies and the Longhorns for realizing the time wasn't right to break up a 100-year rivalry that even includes mentions of each school in the other's fight song. TEXAS A&M - Aggies' athletics are $16 million in debt and are one big dysfunctional family (How else do you explain Bill Byrne at a family reunion in Idaho when the Ags are contemplating their most important moment in the last 100 years?). Say what you want about Gene Stallings and A&M system chancellor Mike McKinney zeroing in on the SEC, they didn't waver, and it finally got to Texas. As UT officials began having doubts about the Pac-10 deal, the Longhorns didn't want to be seen as the drivers in ripping apart the Big 12 and a 100-year rivalry with the Aggies. UT officials ultimately blinked first and said they'd go back to the table for the Beebe Plan if A&M would. The Aggies did and walked away with $20 million guaranteed - the same as Texas and OU - because it had a real suitor. Not bad for a destitute, non-performing football program for most of the past decade."

DId you 2 score after that beer? Get a room, already.

It is just flat embarrassing to me for people on this board to EVER refer to Riley Dodge as a "quitter"! Friggin' unbelievable!!!

Personally I think we are a perfect replacement for Colorado and Nebraska in the Big 12. I know most will disagree with me, but NT is not that tiny commuter school some have thought of us to be in the past. We are a good size school that is growing bigger and stronger every year with a massive alumni base. We finally have our facilities in place and we offer the best location and market there ever could be. Rick

Socialist Obama: Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-budget-deals-of-reagan-bush-clinton-and-obama-in-one-chart/2011/07/06/gIQA98w11H_blog.html

Wait a minute ……. Didn’t Aikman “quit” on Oklahoma?????

Sounds like you're literally quitting on anything non-Mean Green.

The upside is that he won't have to drive very far to see us in the New Orleans Bowl in December.

Now you know what its like for girls at bars with Ben Rothlisberger around.

Ragarding future so called "body bag" games, I'd like us to go 2 pricing levels. Option 1, $1 million each for 2 games and a return game in Denton. Or, option 2, $2 million per game with no game to be scheduled in Denton. If we can't cash in and/or get a big name school at our place, I'd just as soon play a SFA or West Texas State here and have a 6th or 7th home game. The big name schools schedule us for only one reason. Let's make them pay.

Riley Dodge is no quitter. That kid is one tough QB and has a good deal of character. Good luck to Riley. I hope he earns the #1 spot and sets records galore for his team. Appreciate all you did for the Mean Green.

I wish RD the best of luck at McNeese. That is one tough human being.

Exactly what David Kopay, Roy Simmons and Esera Tuaolo used to say.

No... we are the only Western nation that still uses the death penalty. But hey, it is a great deterrent! America - Last in abolishing the death penalty, and #1 in murders!

Too bad Italy doesn't have the death penalty...that bitch Amanda Knox would certainly get what she has coming to her...

If you don't think America has its own culture and is a culture that is influenced from every other culture then you're blind. The multiculturalism of this country is what makes this place so great. The the stuff discussed in this thread happens...I'm not denying that but its not the norm. You're looking at a small percentage of the "Immigrants" and assuming everybody is like that.

People, please! 5 pages of bickering without addressing the important issues! What I would like to know, nay, need to know, is how tasty is Libyan pie, and do they make a sour cream blueberry?

It is Tunisia (next "door" and the West of LIBYA) not Tanzania (not even an Arabic country).... This all started there first...and many credit an odd incident there with getting the locals all upset and wanting to change things. No one but you and those few who still want to credit Bush for everything good, thinks Iraq had much to do with the current mid-east revolutions. That is about as crazy as crediting all of this to Obama who has a middle eastern name which gave them hope they could be a democratic nation. Iraq was not a revolution by the locals against SADDAM but was an invasion by a foreign country.. unfortunately it was us and not really justified... no WMD and no terrorism against us by Iraq and the local citizens were not being killed at the time (slaughtered) like is happening in Libya.. Pretty much all of Western Europe and NATO is involved in this "no-fly" situation (wasn't true in Iraq) plus ground troops are not being sent in.... it is up to the locals to control their destiny... not a foreign country that just invaded it. The no fly zone just helps the many from being killed by the few that want to control them.

Not really that complex.

This from a guy that gets his news from the Karl Marx Compound Daily? Great to know you are finally beginning to see the light.

The issue is very specific. The last President was BBQed for playing golf while the troops were at war, so much so that he stopped playing completely. Pres. Obama does the EXACT same thing when we are still at war, the economy is in the crapper, and our friend Japan is facing a triple tragedy of unimaginable proportions. No consequences from an ever idolizing media. Like I said, just let me know when the rules change again. Oh, and thanks for coming out to play

--Try using the freeze frame button on your TV.. you will get some realy strange results. ---The entire video shows him turning around to help the lady behind him. The still frame shows him a an odd point in the turn... It isn't what it looks like as a still picture. ---Even if it was true then it is not as bad as the guys from the other party hitting on the young male pages, or trying to make a "contact" in a men's restroom, or even disappearing to Argentina for a week for some "fun and recreation"and even without letting ANYONE where he was.. So much for the party of family values, and morality.. Yeah I know both parties has their bad boys but one doesn't claim to be morally superior and Holier than Thou. ... Amen

--Scoring so low in soccer because it is always 10 offensive vs 11 defensive on the offensive end (goalie doesn't go down and help very often) .. The defense has a big advantage. Restricting the two "wing" positions to one of the field would really increase scoring and interest. -- I will never happen....