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  1. So...heard some interesting news regarding (in a round about way) the Atkinson verbal. It seems that Arkansas is currently in literal Hog-heaven right now as both the Auburn and Tennessee coaching vacancies are helping them steal players from both teams. It sounds like they already have a top 20 ranked class and it is looking to be possibly the best they've ever signed. How does that affect us?.....maybe they won't actually have room to offer Atkinson and he will honor that verbal afterall. See, I used to think this....until I watched that undersized dline of ours in '06. To run a traditional 3-4 you'd need exactly what you describe....but we didn't have those type of players in '06 and did fine. TCU usually has one of the smallest dlines in the country (running a 4-2-5) and always has a good defense. I think that we should be looking at ways to limit our built in weaknesses (recruiting lots of top level dline talent) and find a system that we can play to that will enable us to turn that into a strength. Instead of going after top ranked dline recruits, we would instead be recruiting very good athletes with room to grow (not unlike what DD used to do to some extent) like TCU does now. The tweener guys that don't fit the BCS specific height/weight chart by position on the dline.....
  2. Not sure I'd move Nwigwe from MLB when you'd be giving up a starting lineup of Scott/Nwigwe/Robertson. Both of those guys would be ridiculously quick on the outside. That, or try a move back to the 3-4 like Bliel did in '06. Never understood why we moved away from that in '07 when we clearly didn't have the personnel to run an effective 4-3. Why not move Gilmore back to OLB (like a true Demarcus Ware) where he basically doubles as another DE for pass rushing duties? Or do that with Nwigwe instead? Seems like we don't have the depth at LB that we used to have, though. For the life of me, though I will never understand why we don't run a 3-4 or a 4-2-5 (like TCU with smaller linemen) when we consistently have issues recruiting impact dline players. All we've read about in OTs recruiting updates is how hard it is to recruit good dline players. Why make it even harder on ourselves by running a 4-3 and requiring MORE linemen to be on ship? Am I crazy or just vastly misunderstanding the needs of the 3-4?
  3. When did anyone say that we're not even competing with them?? This year, SMU has 2 oline players ranked in the area 100 that have orally committed. Last year we had 1 (Troy Franklin). As far as overall recruiting we still have landed more area 100 kids in the last 2-3 years than they have (or if not, very close to a tie). You've been going nuts in this thread claiming that our staff cannot recruit, but over the last 2 years they have done better than every mid-major in this state other than maybe TCU. You want to be able to continue along with your fire and brimstone rhetoric, but it makes no sense to criticize this upcoming recruiting class when not a single player has put pen to paper and signed for any school. Wait until after Feb., and if this class turns out to be a turd, then by all means open up the criticism.
  4. I was talking about linemen.....SMU has 2. Overall they may have 5, but we have 2....so far.
  5. What the hell has happened to the I-Bowl?! Thought that used to be a Big 12 vs. SEC game.....LaTech vs. Northern Illinois??? That's awful. Oh...and I'll go on record and say that FAU is going to get spanked up in Detroit....and will bring 300 or less. Pathetic fan support over there. BTW, I hate FAU.
  6. Refusing to acknowledge that the recruiting class that has yet to sign is worse than the previous two?? Come on, man. Have some patience and wait until Feb. to see what transpires. We still have almost 2 full months to go. SMU has got 2 commits from the DFW area 100 list, Baylor 1, maybe 2? You have to be kidding if you think that's just leaps and bounds ahead of us. It's one or two players and in any given year we might get lucky and get the same. I have no idea how those schools do in Houston/SA/Austin, but I imagine that DFW is their main point of emphasis. From what I can tell (attempting to follow OT's recruiting updates) Dodge and staff are going for immediate commits from top (JUCO) guys, but still courting quite a few players. I think that as things start getting closer to the deadline, commits can change and the schools around us are going to start juggling guys as well.....I still think we're going to be fine in Feb. We have something that no other school in the state can offer in quite the same capacity---IMMEDIATE playing time as evidenced by our terrible defenses of the last 2 years. If you're just ticked b/c we're not out there landing top 100 guys in our early commits, I don't know what to tell you other than what I said in my first post. I think UNT's season results have a lot to do with that as well as the shape of Fouts. If we turn dirt on the stadium by this summer, then I'd expect to see us land a couple big studs next recruiting season (though it could be by a new coaching staff if Dodge comes out of the gate in 09 like we did in 08).
  7. Why don't we wait until after signing day to rip Dodge for this upcoming class?? We have rarely gotten any top lineman off the area and state lists---but neither do TCU/SMU/Baylor/UTEP/Houston and they are at least 1-2 rungs up on us conference wise. You MIGHT see those schools land 1 per year, 2 if they're lucky. I'm not sure why you had expectations that we'd suddenly start landing highly rated linemen when not even the best of the non-BCS, in this state, rarely do. I'm not trying to make excuses for Dodge, but you have to be realistic. You sound like you just sit around looking for reasons to attack our coaching staff. If you had realistic expectations about "who" Dodge was likely to up our stock with (ie---skill players, duh), he has done that in spades. We are going to have to continue to do what we've always done, at this school, and be good evaluators of linemen prospects and have some of those guys pay off. Hiring Dodge was never going to be the magic pill to suddenly start stealing lineman from the BCS schools....that is going to take time to develop a history of producing good lines and then sending guys on to the NFL---something we haven't done since the early 70's?
  8. We should be able to land some decent playmakers at DT and DE---based SOLELY on the obvious need we have and the prospects for IMMEDIATE playing time. There is no other school that is in as bad a shape as we are. I cannot understand the difficulty here and I still think we'll pull in a decent haul in Feb. despite alot of doom and gloom being spoken on the board.
  9. I'm going to start a dogpile on the idea to get rid of looking back to the sidelines for the playcall after getting into position. That sucks. Big time. Hated it when ULL did it to us a few years before Dodge got here and hate it MORE now that we have to watch it every game! Die fake no-huddle! DIE!!!
  10. I'm not really sure where the idea came from that the seniors getting to play on Saturday is what kept us in that game. Chad Rose played on the Oline, but did not start---I honestly don't know when he went into the game or how many plays he got. Stickler played his guts out (literally after taking one to the nads!) as did a few other WRs. Either way, our defense not completely folding is what kept us in the game...moreso than the offense. The defense had ONE senior player show up in the top 11 tacklers from the game---Colt Mahan, and he's been playing all season on 3rd down in passing situations. I'm not trying to knock the seniors and I liked that Dodge put in Phillips and Meager in a tight game b/c they deserved it.....but the notion that the senior class (that supposedly didn't play all year---so throwing out Casey, Stick, Ike Thomas, Mahan, etc b/c they DID play a large percentage of plays this season)kept us in that game is a giant stretch.
  11. Any chance the fee gets us out of one more bodybag game per year??
  12. DD being the best thing to happen to the program and DD being the best thing that the program could hope for are two different things. I don't understand why we can only have one or the other here at NT. Why can we not have everything?? We have to start somewhere and if we're just happy with the best we've gotten then we have no incentive to improve and keep pushing forward. Regardless of this current team's lack of success on the field, this program is IN THE MIDDLE of an upsweep in support. Don't lose sight of the whole picture. Even during these last 4 years we have grown our MGC memberships, season ticket sales and gameday attendance. Why take a step backwards when the entire program is moving forward?? Just for the record, I'd rather have fans like Plumm and GGII stick around any day of the week---b/c they DO expect and hope for more for UNT.
  13. I think much of this article is not that bad and generally pretty honest. But, again, Vito goes over the line and seems to try to hammer home the idea that Dickey was right and UNT and everyone else was wrong for firing him. I guess I just don't understand why there would be a need to write this article....which will appear in the town paper (DRC) and the backyard of supposed support for UNT. Is the purpose to slap us all in the face so that we get up and take action....or to merely pile on while UNT football is down?? I really don't get it....Brett is either a die-hard fan like the rest of us on gmg and is just using his editorials as an outlet or he's just a guy that needs a change of scenery.
  14. Fixed.... and...I wonder how much of this is related to the AD just not wanting to give up on a hire that he stuck his neck out on?? No insider info coming from me, just wondering aloud.
  15. 4 games isn't just a stretch, that's a giant stretch while full on the green kool-aid! It's not just the loses anymore....the circus came to town halfway through last season (racism charges) and hasn't left (players leaving/APR scores/drugs/arrests/etc). This program is a train wreck.
  16. Jeez....ok, swiping a card 3 times for cookies, a coke and some chips.....?! How do you get to 26 all that quickly?! Unless you have 8 friends standing in line as you're doing this (and giving them all free cokes/chips/cookies), this is STILL more than a one time impulse thing! I'd rather have my taxes go to bigger and better things, but I can't say that taking care of small situations, like this, doesn't help deter people from taking bigger risks the next time around. I agree that I'd try to work this out myself, first, before going to police for the same reasons you've been covering. That didn't happen here for whatever reason and the people who reported this are certainly within their rights to do so. I'm not sure why we have to spend time trying to make up excuses for some pretty stupid actions of one of our football players. What purpose does that serve? Make him feel any less dumb/guilty? Screw that. Everybody makes mistakes (though not always this big), but it's healthy for there to be consequences to face so that you won't keep making the same mistakes again and again.
  17. You watch too many NCIS/Law&Order/etc shows! Seriously, though...if that turns out to be what really happened, then I scratch my last post entirely!
  18. The dude used the card 26 times. TWENTY SIX. That is not an impulse decision...that is a repeated behavior. Getting in credit trouble is understandable in some instances (like losing your job and getting behind on student loans). Stop making apples to oranges comparisons, people. TWENTY SIX times he used the card. He's guilty, turned himself in and he'll receive a fair punishment. Should society throw him away for good? No...but hopefully he'll learn from this and someone will give him a chance to prove he has.
  19. Yep. "Flax gradually went from a solid commitment, to a soft commitment to being back on the market, according to his high school coach." Got to give Vito credit here as the opportunity to tie this to our on-field performance is certainly there....follow the trend line...
  20. Weird timing for this article to appear. Wonder if Dodge started on this track on his own or if he was specifically asked, by Vito, whether or not he'd return for his 3rd year...
  21. From the thread, 'Todd Dodge....Please complete this sentence': "Todd Dodge.....should have remained a high school coach. Todd Dodge..... is no Darrell Dickey." Ouch....
  22. Agreed, for his recruiting alone. Stoops walked into a talent pool that he has not been able to duplicate since....
  23. Outstanding post....I agree with every single word.
  24. I used to favor a playoff scenario, but have absolutely no faith that we'd ever be given access. Therefore, I hope this plays out in a fairly civilized manner. I think a +1 game would be the best option out there right now b/c I truly don't believe you'd ever see a playoff with more than 8 teams invited--which would ultimately just seed teams under a similar formula to what the current BCS uses. Now...if by some miracle, a playoff that allowed each conference champion access were to come about.....I'd definitely like to see it.
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