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This is the kind of hor$hit WB and the AD Dept has to deal with in regards to the Denton Record Chronicle. Our softball team and it’s new coach Rodney DeLong traveled last Friday to College Station and kicked ass. They went 4-1 overall in the Aggie Classic that included a run-rule curb stomping Saturday of the host and 20th ranked A&M team 10-2, our first win over a ranked team in three seasons. We won 9-0 over UNC and won 8-7 in an extra inning marathon (12) over Cal Baptist Friday evening. We then run ruled A&M Saturday afternoon then lost by 1 in extra innings (9) Saturday evening to Cal Baptist. Then we run ruled Northern Colorado 8-2 Sunday morning. So what do the morons at the DRC put accross the top of the sports page this morning? They print a headline teaser across the top of the sports page that UNT Softball “lose in tourneys”. No DUMBASSES!!! North Texas WINS in tourneys! North Texas outscored their opponents 40-17. North Texas won Sunday’s game and went 4-1 in the tournament and kicked the crap out of the ranked team. And yeah, I know it’s the printed version and not online. Despite what you may think or say a lot of potential donors/season ticket holders/supporters of NT Athletics still read the print paper.....but that’s completely beside the point here. It’s the mindset and the negative attitude this paper has always had and always will as long as the Patterson (Ok State Alumni) family runs it. North Texas spends a lot of money advertising in that POS rag. North Texas is Denton’s largest employer. You’d think the days of the constant little negative jabs and back stabbing would be over? It’s not. Effing pisses me off man!!! Rick

I don't mean this to be bashing GH, because I really have a lot of respect for him and his family, but did we just upgrade at OC? Obviously time will tell, but I feel really good about this.

Y’all are getting a good one! Here’s a good article on him. https://pistolsfiringblog.com/chalk-talk-why-bodie-reeder-should-be-osus-next-offensive-coordinator/

home run hire. Love that he went out side the box and got a very bright young mind. He is not afraid to branch out like so many coaches are.

http://footballscoop.com/news/sources-seth-littrell-makes-offensive-coordinator-hire-north-texas/ North Texas: UNT will hire Eastern Washington offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder as its new offensive coordinator, sources tell FootballScoop. In addition to the Reeder hiring, sources said Littrell will promote associate head coach, passing game coordinator and inside receivers coach Tommy Mainord to co-offensive coordinator. Mainord is an original member of Littrell’s North Texas staff.

Rick is on point here. The DRC, the smaller online news sources, and even our own NT Daily do not always paint the school in a great light. Which is a shame, most cities rally around their schools. I think we all see the progress and good things happening, but it would be nice if media outlets gave less "opinion" pieces and more actual fact based reporting. It is not journalism to start with an agenda and then print things that fit into your already held beliefs. The NT Daily is critical of the school for not "supporting" it pretty often, when its funds were cut by student government (not the school itself but students) to provide additional funds for other areas. They don't mention that the new areas are things like academic support, that other orginizations also had funding cut and that that they get paid when most student orginizations don't. It is not a ton of money to be sure, but I feel like they have let this frustration seep into their journalism a bit more than they realize. As for the DRC it makes no sense, as a growing orginization and a huge Denton employer you think they would really cover the school well and highlight the positive a bit better. I think this is why things like the Athletic have taken off, good journalists writing in depth, researched articles is a winner. Edit for clarity: My comments are about the DRC as a whole, not Brett's coverage.

That is just being lazy and assuming that UNT softball team was already going to lose. I’m surprise Wren didn’t go down there and throw the newspaper at them.

I agree with you about the stupidity of the headline, but not the motivation. I think part of the problem is writers that really do not know enough about sports to be writing about them. This is particularly true for the student newspapers' current staff.. The headlines are also usually not written by the sports writers but rather the editors. NT beating a ranked team should obviously have been the headline or even NT softball starts season well. Highlighting one loss out of 5 games is totally absurd.

UNT split its doubleheader, TWU lost. The teaser was written by a designer looking to tie both stories together. It might not have been the best choice, but it was accurate. We are not overly negative. Here's our post from Sunday night on UNT posting huge wins in softball and women's basketball: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/the-sunday-leftovers----unt-softball-women-s/article_176881a1-2383-5d17-a448-0f7f1b7d6953.html Here's our season preview on UNT's softball team and how a coaching change bodes well for the future: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/softball-unt-hoping-new-coach-delong-can-be-missing-piece/article_2869684c-ae45-5835-bb07-5c893d8076dd.html The inside headlines highlighted the positives from the weekend.

Great hire. I’m very excited. But I can’t wait to see the headline for tomorrow’s DRC Spprts Page. ”THOUGH UNABLE TO WIN EVERY GAME HE’S COACHED IN, UNT OFFICIALS ARE EXCITED TO BRING IN A SUCCESSFUL AND EXPERIENCED OC IN BODIE REEDER” Rick

Two quick points: The guy made about $60,000 last year - so we are getting a steal financially His recruiting area is DFW - so he already knows the area well A+ on the hire!!

Bodie Miller will fix it.

Good Mic'd up video of him at practice last year:

Can you give an example of what you mean? I'm not challenging you (you're far from alone in feeling this way), I'm just wondering if I could start to spot it if you explained what you mean. I've given Vito a jab on numerous occasions for spelling and grammar errors, but with an appreciation of how quick the turnaround on articles has to be. I probably also have a subconscious bias in favor of him because he was giving me a consistent stream of UNT sports info before there were actually multiple journalists covering it.

I just served a felony arrest warrant on a guy for theft. DRC Headline: “Police still haven’t caught Zodiac Killer”

So I look up what TWU did this weekend at the OC/UCO Invitational. They had 4 games scheduled. TWU played three games and lost all three getting outscored 8-22, and one game was canceled due to weather. But according to Vitto....in his and some other person’s mind ”The teaser...was accurate” because TWU going 0-3 and getting outscored 8-22 is the equivalent to North Texas going 4-1 and outscoring the opposition 40-17 and a win over #20 in the nation.. Again...BIZAARE! Rick

I think the point is that we can pay a guy who made 60k last year, 250k this year, versus paying a guy who made 250k last year, 500k this year. My grammar was probably atrocious right there, but you hopefully understand what I'm saying.

Only someone with your ability would take a 4-1 record,....of which the final game of the tournament resulted in a win for us.....as a loss. No one......NO ONE in their right freaking mind takes a 4-1 tournament result, in which we outscored the opponents 40-17 and applies the word LOSE to describe it in a headline. Rick

Very nice hire. He was in charge of recruiting DFW for EWU. So he should have relationships with area coaches.

I don't know his exact role at EWU (if he called plays) but Eastern is a yearly offensive juggernaut and is a quarterback factory. And the Big Sky is no joke. How they did last year- https://goeags.com/cumestats.aspx?path=football&year=2018&

To me it’s directly intentional. It’s been going on for far too long in regards to the university. If there’s any chance at all to diminish a Mean Green accomplishment they’ll do it. Been going on for years. Going into Saturday evening, about the time our basketball game with wKYj was finishing up the first half’s its game,... NT Softball was 3-0 in that tournament. How anyone comes away with “lose in tourneys” at that point is just unbelievable? Afterward, we lost in extra innings by 1 late that evening in a cold, miserable drizzle but came back and run ruled CB the next morning finishing 4-1. The DRC had almost 30 hours to decide to print that head line. Again...how in hell anyone paying an ounce of attention to the area sports results gets “Lose in tourneys” from a 4-1 tournament result is just bizarre? Rick

The Vito Vibe infects the entire sports section.

Exciting hire. Also of note, included in his recruiting area at Eastern Washington... https://goeags.com/coaches.aspx?rc=119 He seems to bring a new creativity that I think will serve our squad well. The leadership of next season's seniors wouldn't allow for a relaxed spring practice anyway, but I think having new blood on the staff will force players to be more engaged as they learn new schemes/plays while also giving our defense new looks and wrinkles when they scrimmage. The continuity last year served us well and I will root for Harrell in Southern California, but this hire looks very promising.

DRC accurate teasers: Mean Green miss on Major OC FCS OC comes to visit soon-gone NY Sub Hub. might hang around and win games Tune’s dog still missing: former EWU OC could help UNT loses OC. Still nothing at Oak Island.

The headline will read. UNT Makes Non-Dream hire. What the offense could have been with Major Applewhite.

I doubt he'll be making less than $200k at UNT, so I'm not sure what your point is here.

I like that he doesn’t sound like an overexcitable 13 boy like GH did.

Wow this is incredible. Wasn't Gundy considering this guy for OC at some point? Huge get, and a perfect transition with a senior Mason Fine

Focuses on the pass AND the run! Looks like a solid hire. Hunter likey! GO MEAN GREEN!

Looks like Bodie Reeder, EWU OC, will be the guy.

I can't give you a specific example. Can't say I archive his pissing on UNT. But I've noticed it over time. And he does put out good stuff from time to time. Not trying to bash Brett too hard. And it may just be the tone in which he writes that gets under my skin. But I think it's more than that. I think he does or used to have an axe to grind and he grinded it with subtle blows in his writing.

If I were Wren I would demand a printed apology by the DRC. Maybe a sitdown with the Sports Editor. This type of reporting is unacceptable! Fake news at it's best!

The writer should know this is not NT's last home game.

DRC: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/report----unt-to-hire-bodie-reeder-as/article_d51d1e51-b91c-5aa5-b879-9a09a7c19399.html

And it sounds like he is pretty philosophical as well... solid

Then he obviously came to the right place!!

How about a headline stating "UNT Softball Beats #20 A&M 10-2 To Start the Year 3-1"? How about putting it on the front page? I know the DRC is worried about putting UNT on the front page too much so as not to upset Div. 2 TWU or any of the high schools, but that was a hell of a win. A person not following the team that wasn’t teased in to reading it would never know. Little Lovelace should be packed when they return home.

I just watched EWU highlights for 2018 on youtube. The offense was very fast and explosive. They line up in the pistol, and often have a H-Back in motion or in the backfield. Their QB was small and very fast. Some of the plays looked very similar to our offense. I am interested to what new wrinkles they add as well.

It is bizarre beyond belief to me. And here Vitto is doubling down that the teaser is accurate. No it’s not! I mean...the final game for us in which the first pitch was at 10 a.m. yesterday morning resulted in a run-ruled 8-2 win. How anyone looks at an overtime(extra inning) 1 run loss that was sandwiched in between 4 wins and labels a three day event as “lose” ‘ing....8 to 10 hours later(or whenever the next day’s info must be turned in for print?)...is mind blowing. Rick

Ejiya, Hall, and Brooks are going to be very difficult to replace. Plus Rod Young.

Hate those damn Yankees! /settles in to hoover an Italian sub under a picture of the '86 Mets groping Rudy Guliani on September 18, 2001 while Patrick Ewing claps one last tearful time

No surprise Devin Singletary is #1. As much as Rice was/is terrible, Jack Fox had some INCREDIBLE punts in our game against them last year - This is also coming from a girl whose younger and older brothers were FG/kickoff kickers and punters, so we notice kicks in our family. They were extremely high, which is obviously good strategy to give your players more time to get down the field, but he had distance on them too. He had a great year, even though Rice as a whole was bad. Definitely an under-rated kicker. Prediction: We will see Mason Fine and maybe 1-2 others on here next year.

Playtime is almost over CUSA tournament in a couple of weeks and we have the home court advantage. Time to man up and stop doing stupid stuff.

Something to be proud of!

I don’t think this would have been a huge leap, but there were surely some people that came out for the first time in a while...motivated to see a 20 win team beat WKU and start a serious run into the CUSA tourney. Now the AD will have to work their butt off to get them back again. I think a mid-season win over WKU has a different weight than a post season title. We are already a 20 win team, and we still have games to go after this. the CBI run seemed to come out of nowhere and the off-season was right there.

Guyton should have stayed one more season and played lights out. Just dont think his numbers were enough to impress the NFL. I wish him the best.

I still hate that the city balked at partnering with NT to build a hotel next to Apogee. Would have been amazing.

I'll say it, this is straight bullshit.