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Abbe is a good kid, probably not too bright when it comes to personal choices. He drinks some...like most college kids. The thing is, if you knew him personally, you'd laugh this off and move forward. He's not a mean guy beating up frat rats or offending women...very likeable. Maybe not the PC answer you're looking for, but it is what it is. Mac will take care of this and he most likely won't ask us for our opinion of his process.

It is very unfortunate that Richard Abbe has been arrested on such a serious offense as DWI along with the other offenses reported on this board. He was my son's roommate for one summer and his teammate for two seasons. My son liked him a lot and said he was a good person. He is a mountain of a man that is indeed a very likable guy. He was always polite and very respectful to my wife and me when we would talk to him. Hopefully Richard will learn from his mistakes. Coach Mac has a tough decision to make on his future with the team. I for one hope that he is allowed back on the Mean Green football team.

Kids make dumb decisions. Sometimes they make 4 of them. He is not beating up women or children. He is not robbing someone at knifepoint or gunpoint.he is not raping co-eds or dealing drugs. He has done what I bet a majority on this board did in their youth. He just got caught. Mac will decide whether or not he is too big a distraction to stay on the team. Hopefully Abbé (and some of our younger posters) can learn from this. The $40 cab ride is cheaper than the $6000 DWI EVERY time. I hope his parents make him get a job to pay the legal expenses.

Ouch! Would "having a brain fart" do for an excuse? Todd Dodge = bad hire, no college head coaching experience, and he brought in a "crack team" of high school coaches as his assistants at the FBS level. Brilliant strategy! And I actually thought this hire "might" be worth a gamble, given Dodge's HS record and connections He definitely created a stir in Denton. Oh, I haven't been to Vegas since!

Yeah, some people aren't real slick and get caught at most everything they do, while others are slick as ice and never get caught doing anything even though they do stuff constantly. Let Mac decide where Abbe falls on the slickness scale.

This is retarded.

Hope he shoots better than he dances.

is this a joke? the UT Football program generated $103.8 million in 2011-2012 and TAMU was not even in the top 10 and the #10 program was Nebraska at $55.1 million so TAMU better figure out a way for their program to generate 48 million more if they want to get to where UT is in 2010-2011 total athletics revenues were $150.3 million for UT and 75 million for TAMU so TAMU better figure out a way to bring in 75 million more to get close to UT and ask Tennessee about the big time SEC revenues.....Tennessee has the third largest stadium in the country and they have been in the SEC for decades and even with all those big rivalry games they are just breaking even financially and have a large amount of debt and spend every cent they bring in and they brought in $102 million in 2010-2011 so they are already well ahead of TAMU and have been playing for their larger stadium for years.....hell just a few years back TAMU had their president at the time demanding the athletics department pay back an $18 million dollar loan from the university for "all that TAMU has done in the SEC" at the end of the day the reality is they were still only 11-2, they were 3rd in their division, did not win their division, did not play in the CCG, did not win the conference, and did not play in a BCS game......since 1999 TAMU is 0-1 in BCS games while Texas is 3-1 with a MNC and having played for a second one even in 2010 with a 5-7 record Texas still had a home attendance of 100,654 which was #5 in the country and that is with the OU game in dallas and it is Texas that likes to keep the game there by the way it is OU that would go home and home in a heart beat, but Texas likes the exposure and the revenues over and above the ticket sales.....and by the way TAMU and Arkansas are going to go back to playing in dallas pretty soon as well so there goes one of those "big SEC rivalry games" from Kyle Field as well since 1996 when the Big 12 formed Texas has been ranked 14 times and 7 times in the top 10 and 5 times in the top 5.....TAMU has been ranked 5 times and only one time in the top 10 or top 5 and that was last year @ #5....and the big joke is if they had stayed in the Big 12 they most likely would have been undefeated and played for the MNC and clearly they could beat Alabama because they did in the regular season.....so by making their "century move" they most liely cost themselves a conference championship, a BCS game, and a chance at the MNC and instead they setteled for 3rd in their division and the Cotton Bowl.....so yea that was a "great move" there Aggies....Texas has had 6 seasons when they were 11-2 or better since 1996 while TAMU has had the one (and 11-3 in 1998) and all they have to show for it is a ranking lower than Texas has had twice since 2008 #4/3 and 2009 #2 and a Cotton Bowl.....so yea that was a HUGE season for Texas A&M, but it was an average season for Texas of for a top SEC team and as for the SEC network just like the "big contract lookin" that never materialized for the SEC those numbers are dramatically inflated for the SEC network just like they were for the PAC 12 network as well......cable TV subscribers declined for the first time ever in the USA in 2011 and it is only going to continue to decline as other means of watching programming materialize and as people get tired of paying for crap they don't want to see stuff they only marginally care about the PAC 12 network started in 2012 and here is the Oregon Athletics Department take on their total TV revenues http://www.goducks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=500&ATCLID=205705405 so in fiscal year 2013 OU expects tot ake in under 20 million for ALL TV revenue, bowl revenue, and NCAA basketball distributions...so witht he "21 million per year" TV contract and the "huge new" PAC 12 network OU expects tot ake in less than 20 million INCLUDING bowl revenues and basketball distributions......because their "21 million per year TV contract" is back loaded and people ignore that and because the PAC 12 network had huge startup cost and has so far not signed on with a large number of cable TV companies or with Dish or Direct TV so the idea of conference networks making huge TV money is dramatically over stated and even if the amounts for the SEC or the PAC 12 ever come close to being what is mentioned Texas will still have a huge lead in total athletics department revenues over TAMU and the vast majority of the SEC and over all of the PAC 12 Texas could have gone to any conference in the country over the last few years so the idae that they are suddenly going to regret not doing so in the next few years because TAMU had a top 10 ranking and made the Cotton Bowl and placed 3rd in their division in the SEC is laughable much less that Texas signed their TV rights away only to turn around and face a huge lawsuit and a potential loss of that lawsuit a few years later because they suddenly changed their mind because TAMU had a single top 10 finish in the last several decades there have been several other periods when TAMU was doing better than Texas and the response by Texas was simply to hire a better coach and watch TAMU fire their mist successful coach ever and replace hime with a succession of other coaches so the idea that Texas is suddenly in panic mode because TAMU did something once that texas has done many times in the recent past is laughable and Texas has all the needed resources to compete with anyone in the country even if the vast majority of teams in the country could double their current TV revenues and Texas can easily add 12,000 or more seats to their stadium in a year or two if they need to and they would have the largest stadium in the country with no one else being close to being in a position to grow larger especially TAMU so before anyone crown TAMU the bestest football program evAR and world dominators how about they mix in a division championship in the SEC, win the SEC and maybe play ina BCS game or even for a MNC which is somethingTexas has done twice in the last decade and even won one and went 3-1 overall in BCS games Texas is not going anywhere and TCU, Baylor and Texas Tech are not going to be left behind even if Texas was to go somewhere in 12 years when the Big 12 TV contract and GOR runs out.....and TAMU is far from guaranteed to be a dominant team in the SEC just like Nebraska learned they are still a ho hum middle of the road non-BCS team playing in the powerful Big 10 with even revenue sharing, a huge money making Big 10 TV network, and out from under the shadows of evil Texas....and now playing games soon against powerhouses like Rutgers and Maryland and Texas is not going to go west they know that is a stupid idea and the PAC sucks anyway and is only going to get worse (which will further hurt their TV network) and the PAC has terrible NCAA distributions especially VS the Big 12 which is not huge revenue, but is still a few million here and there season after season Texas has no problem scheduling big name teams if that is what they desire to do even with 9 conference games and Texas is even less interested in the Big 10 with Rutgers and Maryland added in and just an FYI the CIC does not have money, they have no endowment and they do not give grants or award any money.....they are simply a COOPERATION agreement that makes it easier for the member universities to write grants togather and conduct research together, but the provide ZERO actual dollars and they have no dollars...and Texas already has plenty of abilities to cooperate with any university out there as it is now and they already do on things like the GMT and while the CIC did 9.27 billion in research in 2011 the UT System did 2.1 billion just in that system and with the austin medical school and the south Texas medical schools coming on line that will probably go up about 400 to 500 million over the next decade and the Austin school especially gets rolling....and UT has research cooperation agreements with members of the CIC and the PAC already as well and with TAMU still.....so being a memeber of the CIC might make some things easier, but not being a member does not preven them from cooperating on major research projects with others including members of the CIC you vastly underestimate the ability of the UT Athletics department and the UT Austin leadership to look at, analyze, and understand the various options open to them and what those options REALISTICALLY mean VS all the "news reports" and message board BS says they mean...Texas did not get to where they have 20+ million in revenues over and above the next highest program and 25 million over the highest SEC program because they did not listen to the hypsters and BS artist on GMG or because they missed out on something that TAMU might finally "accomplish" and as the link directly from the Oregon Athletics department states news reports are GROSSLY overestimated about revenues and potential revenues.......understanding that is why UT is where UT is even when they have off years VS where other programs are where they are even when they have their best season in decades once again get a clue you know nothing about UT and it shows in your recent post based on nothing but BS and easily disproven garbage

Some fans won't even have to edit their love letters.

I'd like to see him with the bulls. They look like an organization that understands what a rebounding/shot blocking forward is supposed to be...and won't crucify him as "overrated" for not putting up 20 a night.

FIFY

Franchione was my favorite at our last coaching hire. I also liked Leavitt and the Pirate but each of those two had some encumbrances. My only negatives with McCarney were that it took him a very long time to turn the program around at Iowa State and that he had always been at a BCS program. But, one superlative for Mac is the enthusiasm that he generates. He will meet with any group virtually anytime, anywhere. I don't think that Dan realized the malaise that grips most of the NT alumni. There has been improvement across the board but if this sleeping giant ever awakens it will be due to winning. I haven't given up on him yet but this year is critical. Six or more wins and I believe that we pick up some additional fans and donors. Less than six wins and the fair weather fans are gone. I think that Franchione is the better coach but McCarney's enthusiasm might be better for North Texas in the long run.

Based on that police blotter, they'll probably arrest you in Denton for spitting into the wind.

How could u leave off Dodge on that list

Not hiring Francione or Jim Leavitte will always be a mystery to me.

Yep. He's just tearing it up on the local AAU circuit. He went out and got Greg Wesley and....and.....and, oh yeah, also.....

If it's a slow-pitch game I can work the plate. I did that for about 5 years up at North Lakes when I was still living in Denton before switching to football.

Agree with 90, baseball is to be played outside. That was never more obvious than my first time at the Astro Dome, and my one visit to MM. I've been to Old Yankee, Old Tiger and Old Comisky. What impressed me most was while there in Detroit they told us that at one point in the 40's I think?,... that Tiger Stadium sat 80,000 people. I thought, how in hell could that be because the place was so small? Simply amazing! Regardless, none of the other parks Ive visited are/were as nice and cozy as The Ballpark simply because it has everything many of the older parks had, it's open and easy to get into and out of, its very cozy and just a beautiful place in and out and mostly its here near home in Texas. Rick

(perhaps we need to move this thread, or start a new one on the FB board to get some traction, but I am really grateful to RAGEMASTER5000 for a great idea) I reached out to Coach Hubbard to see if he would like to be involved. This is what I got: We can play the game at Lovelace! He may be able to get some alumni to play, and possibly some of the coaches. I asked him if we could play the game to benefit Mean Green Softball, and he would appreciate the help adding a few things around the stadium to make it better for recruiting. Coach Hubbard may be able to help us get some items for a silent auction, i.e. signed batting helmets, game jerseys, etc. Just thinking out loud, but it would be fun to see how us guys could hit fast-pitch softball collegiate level pitching....maybe, before or after the game, we could raise some money by selling AB's against an alumnus pitcher for $0.50/pitch, or some such. I will try to reach out to Mark Miller to see if he would mind organizing the game...we need a date, t-shirt design, captains, umpires, etc, but we got the field! GMG

You have low standards, but We are NT fans.

But would Mac? You know he's the one on the hot seat this year.

Matthew 6:34 - the original YOLO.

Second. It's also a lot less sterile when the team isn't garbage. And there used to be better food in that park, I'm sure of it. Whatever Jim Crane's crew is doing now just isn't cutting it (though the club level offers a lot more to eat and drink). The beer selection sucks, which seems easy to remedy, given Houston has several high-quality local breweries. Texans games are infinitely better experiences than the current Astros offering, which breaks my little blue and orange heart. And while I prefer open-air stadiums like The Ballpark (which I think is a great park), I'll enjoy my July and August baseball in the air-conditioning, not melting to the seats.

I'd be in

Fixed it for you.

Hey! I'm 62, a newly diagnosed diabetic (no more pizza darn it) and still very susceptible of rambling--of course I also did that at ages 52, 42, and 32. Why on earth can we ever expect all the pieces of our very complex UNT athletics puzzle to fall in place if we cannot regain our habit of having continuous winning seasons at North Texas? Ever tried to promote and gain new fans with losing teams that lose much too often? What is UL-Monroe, ULaLa, La Tech doing that we cannot seem to copy their kind of success in Denton? Football-wise, the missing ingrediant at UNT is still our abysmal W/L record in football the last 18 years which has produced 3 big winning seasons which all that alone creates a climate for such quotes as................. "if UNT cannot win with Dan MaCarney then we should drop down a level." Pleeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...................spare us more "the sky is falling in Denton" logic. That is tantamount to saying that if we cannot get this Boeing 747 airborn with Rick V at the helm we should just abandon athletics, all foreseeable hope and just say this will never get done in Denton. I (and many others on this board) actually knew a day when North Texas had (obviously) NCAA Division One talent running a NCAA Division One operation and that's when we were shakin' and bakin' in Denton................such personnel "you will know them by their fruits" to put a religious tone on it and at most NCAA outposts winning on a regular basis are those fruits. Yes, yes, yes.............I know that some of you Young Gun Alums who all but look down on my generation of UNT grads because we've had a glimpse of how exciting NCAA football can be, when Mean Green footbll was even the talk of one particular NCAA winter convention, etc, etc, ect, yet...........you still only know about any of this because you've heard all the stories. To quote Bill Clinton: "We can feel your pain." The sad part of all this is how some of the youngest set of UNT alums at this rate may very well live their entire lives without ever seeing one UNT head football coach leave Denton with a respectable record that may even have gotten him a higher up job. I hope for all of us Dan McCarney will break our drought but the jury is still out until it happens--I think it will.. Still, I'd wager that our program and what he has to put up with on a daily basis up there "stress-wise" most likely caused him to already have one stroke---we all hope its his last. It's one thing to die for your country, but i'm not sure anyone should die because of their job. It's just not worth it for anyone or their family. GMG.com...........A Divided Forum............ I had a fellow alum & GMG.com poster who I had to block off my Facebook yesterday because of his ludeness & crudeness who actually had the b@lls to come on my FB page, insult me and then doubt my patriotism. Yet I suppose because I do not concur with his kind of politics that I am not a patriot? Even U of North Texas came into the cyber/discussion with my never going to agree with anything coming from the "isolate & demonize" crowd. He went on to pronounce that suddenly (to him) I have also become an embarrassment to North Texas? Do I still say it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know the difference between a rising NCAA FBS level program versus one whose trend highly suggests that it is still-borne and going anywhere and my then me expressing an opinion on an opinion board is causing "ME" to be an embarrassment to UNT? If so, then I'm by God just going to keep embarrassing a few on this forum who really seem to me to be way too easily embarrassed. In fact, if freedom of speech still lives here I will continue to express my doubts until the present UNT Board of Regents (most of whom know how to run a business since most of their own businesses were successful); but until they get their heads out of the clouds and apply their own business (for profit) practices for North Texas' athletics to emulate I guess I will keep voicing concern. (Anyone venture to guess how many of our elect don't care to even do that anymore)? Yet it will be a happy day when our UNT powers that be figure out how their collegues at most other NCAA FBS outposts who seem to have no struggle whatsoever as far as to who to hire or fire. All this really is sort of embarrassing when you think about it, now isn't it? http://[url= GMG!

A year ago? 90, I go back to opening night at Apogee, some much hope in the air. While I did not think we had quite arrived, I thought we were close being relevant in college athletics. Johnny's team had been winning and the future looked bright. I thought we finally had hope in football. Fast forward, and the curse has only gotten a firmer hold.

I think this is great news because the new regulations where basically no regulation at all.

I am glad we could count on you to make a bad situation even worse. Maybe one of these days you can surprise us with a positive outlook.

You get arrested for having those weapons? Those are stupid arrests and shouldn't be counted. Unless he was doing something dangerous with them. So, two for "weapons" and one for this DWI. What was the other one for?

All I knows if we get him and he is able to play next year we should be a very deep team again. Benford has a lot of excuses to fall back in last year and Many of them were very viable (injuries, lack of chemistry, no 3pt. Shooting etc...). If we are not a .500 team this year then I will call for his removal. .500 or better and I could see a solid 3rd season. Add some good recruiting and we have a bright future. This will be the year though. Only a fool would think a coach could ruin a team in one year, but two is very possible. If he does not meet this goal I will be the first to throw 100 bucks into the "fund".... That seems fair enough to me.

Bill Self is a class act

The truth is that Kansas has no interest! They had recruited this kid since 8th grade. Zach committed as a soph. Zach just didn't get any better and his stock started falling. Kansas, to my surprise, kept their commitment. I don't see much difference in Zach and Voss. Both are about the same size (give or take an inch) and build. Zach is a little more polished down low and has a better mid-range jumper.

Would it be a disappointment if the New Orleans Bowl was the first CUSA bowl game UNT gets an invite to? I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd take ANY bowl game now but if I had my druthers, I'd want to go someplace else. I've been to the NOB 4 times and I'd like to go someplace different.

Insanity never ends. Not that I'm really a bleeding heart type, but think of all the good that could be done with the overblown budgets for these overblown barely used stadiums. Really kind of sad. At least ours was a mandatory upgrade.

Getting and spending we really do lay waste to our powers. Emerson was right. A sordid boon, indeed.

I really like our 78 million dollar stadium...I have no.desire to ever have our school have 100,000 fans...

Like many grads, many former players just are not connected to UNT.

I can't believe this fact eluded me until now. Students, take note...yes, you get in free to all athletics events anyway, but sports, girls, AND food? There's something for everybody! Definitely not saying you should skip all of your classes to go to more games and matches (and I've seen that happen), but hey, if you are available, don't worry about meal plans, etc if you're a broke college student - you can support your fellow students and get something to eat! Not sure about you guys, but I was pretty broke for most of college and food at events was a big draw whether I was interested or not! Pretty sure I would've skipped a "normal" lunch on my meal plan to go to a tennis match if I'd known!

I don't sense the same commitment to Benford that I did with Dodge. I sense pure economics right now instead of blind faith, ever chasing the dragon.

I just did.

perhaps we only have 18 because the smart students don't want to get on a bus to Little Rock, they know the tournament is in Hot Springs

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/02/its-never-been-this-cold-this-late-in-the-spring/ Someone see Al Gore go by or something? Rick

Heading to Chicago and Wrigley Field for two Cubs games later this month...never been. Should be great fun...got tickets in the bleachers for one game (who can go to Wrigley and not sit in the bleachers at least once...baseball blasphemy if you did).. Love Camden Yards. Got to get to Fenway soon as well. They keep screwing up all the great ballparks. Arlington really is a great place to watch a game...no "history feel" for me, but a great place to enjoy a game. My favorite fields: 1) Wembley and Anfield 2) Munich 3) Ibrox 4) Celtic Park 5) Cardiff City 6) Coventry Oh, sorry...wrong sport...now, where was I???? Oh, yea...I am with you on the Brat thing UNT90...but at Wriggly I best i go for the Chicago Dog with the nuclear green relish and poppy seed bun.

It has everything to do with a hire. Don't have to look far to see what happens when you hire coaches who build trust with players (Harper & Pitino). Even Brady's team shows up everyday, plays hard & executes. Green fans didn't make it uncomfortable enough for decision makers. Now stuck...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/29/justice/pennsylvania-abortion-doctor Where is the congressional outrage? Where is the massive media coverage? Where is the call to ban scalpels? Something MUST be done!!

Hmmmmm, well...THAT sucks. Do the Olympic sports folks have to sit out a year if they transfer to another D-1 program? I would guess so, but this just sucks for UNT. I know Texas has a strong program so good luck to Kimmy,. I know this stuff happens both ways, but, darn...just darn!

Learn from this? Like he learned from the previous legal issues?