CaribbeanGreen

He had a couple... it WAS Epps, then Montgomery, and now, yes, he is in fact Umar Muhammad. He's a scary, scary man...

no chance in hades. Belhaven just doesn't hold the weight some wish it did, I'm afraid.. it's win or go home.

PMG, did you just envy SFreakin'A in that post, or have I gone crosseyed?

Agree on the Vols. They are loaded year in and out and the results haven't been there lately.

You're wasting your time, ol' buddy. There are no shades of grey on this board. There's black, white, and Darrell Dickey with the little ghostbusters symbol over his face. That's it. The fact that your posts here were interpreted as just pro-DD and caused comments having ZERO to do with this discussion (that he was disgruntled?!? that he called the fans f'ers?!? this is the argument we're falling back on?!? what does that have to do with KSU?!?) speaks volumes. Basically, and correct me if i'm wrong, what you were simply saying is that KSt of the 80's was a totally inferior product to KSt of the late 90's/2000s, and that at both times KSt had equal economic advantages over NT, yes? I think it's universally accepted that KSt was, if not THE worst team in all of D1 in the 80's then bottom two or three, and last I checked Bill Snyder was credited for engineering one of the biggest turnarounds of a program (if not THE biggest) in CFB history. A LOT of people got their tails kicked by the Cats as bad as we did around 2000 - while in the 80's, they didn't beat ANYBODY. They were awful. A laughingstock. They were Temple. They were Buffalo. I enjoyed the hell out of those early 2000's teams here at NT. They were damn good squads, and we all enjoyed the ride, no matter what the hell anyone thinks personally about their coach. I wasn't around during the Fry days, but I know those teams were the proudest I've ever been of NT football. I'm not going to let someone with a silly personal grudge piss all over that by illustrating how much better we were in the 80's when we split with the worst team in D1. The only thing similar about KSt then and now is the purple & silver. This has nothing to with Darrell Dickey. Don't belittle the accomplishments of one of the bright spots in NT football history by making ludicrous comparisons with no basis in reality. A lot of people got blown out by KSU. And you know what, I'll bet you dollars to donuts the 2000 team would have whipped the asses of the worst team in D1 10 out of 10 times. I gotta go. Darrell Dickey is lurking around my backyard wearing a cloak made of dead babies and a sword covered in what appears to be virgin's blood. I need to go stop him before he siphons my gas again.

nope. CLEARLY Peter Gardere... I mean, DUH...

Fair points some, but the dude really didn't need to recruit much at all. He turned that thing completely around in year one with Watkins' leftovers. God Bless Tony Barone. I'll take a large, extra pepperoni.

A snowball's chance in hell USA gets an at-large if they tank in the SBC tournament. Ain't gonna happen. A 7 loss team from a conference with an overall RPI in the 200s and no real competition - no chance. They better win the tourney, or we'll look even worse in the Big Dance. As for CUSA, what he said.... and at least they have a legit Final Four threat in Memphis.

What are you DOING, man?!? Haven't you learned???? A little Valentine's Day masochism, perhaps?

I'm not even sure he should be the starter next season (or should have started last), but he's a no brainer HOFer.

I think you're right (maybe #13?), but this year there's really not a clearly superior/stronger team in the Belt like those Felton WKU teams... it'll be a 14 or 15 - probably a 14.

I bet she smells a little like hummus. Just my two cents.

hell, I still miss the paradise web board. And Loyalfan! Most reviled poster ever. Period. Loved him.

I walked through GTM the other day, and it has gone on a downward spiral of epic proportions even since I graduated in '03. Empty stores, those awful non-chain horribly cheap looking "independent" stores like "LEATHER CHAIR GALLERY!", and shoddy one-story trashed out anchors. It's a dead mall. The renovation would have to be massive with so many good options close by. Believe me, I have fond memories of GTM (back in the Old Country Buffet/Oshman's days of the late 90's) but it is a festering pile of s at this point. At this rate, maybe it could rival that "thing" in east Plano where the Garden Ridge anchors this one creepy hallway of like 3 stores... or Richardson Square Mall.. is that thing still around??

with the frequent flier mileage LT racks up in a given year, I hope they're in comfortable suits on those flights....... (figured it was time for some more anti-WAC humor... too soon??)

A more valid comparison may be to find a D1 school coach with a tenure of 6 years or more who hasn't advanced beyond the 2nd round of their own conference tournament and hasn't placed first at any point in regular season record. No, really. I mean it. I'm genuinely interested.

hey, if anyone can point to the black alternates helping to get any solid recruits in here, I say blackout, baby...

whaaaaat??? A JJ team choking late??? NOOOOO!!!! I'd have never seen it coming!!!! We ran DD out of town after 4 titles and 2 bad years. Still waiting for JJ's first moderately competitive team.... running out of excuses, folks...

riiiight... and the same Insall situation, with Todd Graham, Mack Brown, or Darrell Dickey, and we just wouldn't believe that either, right???? We'd feel the same way, huh?? And Drew Pearson is the only REAL #88, right??? And no one is supposed to question the shallow, short-sighted, self-righteous BS, right???? That's what I thought.

wow... and we just belittled 4 straight SBC titles... if Dodge only wins 3 in a row, will we hate him too?

Matt Simon is a good coach. Period. It just wasn't a good fit here at that time with that administration. Unfortunately.

whatever the real story, I just think it's funny how so many of us get all high and mighty and play the "high moral standards" card with our open letters and manifestos WHEN IT SUITS US... but when it's the great Todd Dodge, well, "that's the real world, kid."... everyone loves to talk about "doing things the right way".. well, the old school crowd does anyway -- but when it suits us, when Vizza spurns Nevada, when we leave Insall hanging -- it's cool. That's life, baby. I support NT, I support Coach Dodge, I can't WAIT for this season. But i'm sure as hell not going to Pollyanna anyone about "doing things right"... please. Give me wins, baby.

Yep.. sounds to me like some wavering.. could come down to the last minute on this one... fighting for a big piece of the puzzle down to the last second on signing day... that's the recruiting game, folks!

Thanks for sharing the message, BA. My condolences and thoughts are with you as well.

hell, i was on staff at NTTV for 2 1/2 years, the first 1 1/2 or so housed in a tiny corner of the GAB... we had these old, duct-taped SV SuperCams, and a broom closet of an equipment room not even in the same building. We had one linear editing reel-to-reel machine and one Media 100, which was our pride and joy. We had a great time and made the best of it, though I know I made an effort to try and minimize our limitations as much as possible. You had to think substance over style, and dress up the ugly girl at the dance as best you could.. sometimes, I'd feel like we really pulled it off.. others, hey, it was why I was in college... learn from your mistakes. As for the basketball games, running hundreds of feet of the shoddiest coax cable you've ever seen in your life through the Super Pit and then shooting with things I hesitate to even call cameras made directing the things (using the one portable switcher we had) tougher than it should have been - but we had a hell of a time, and I know I learned a lot and met some great, talented people. Unfortunately, one year the equipment was so bad it wasn't even adequately prepared for us to do a single live game broadcast, orders which came directly from the dept, much to my anger at the time. Anyway, point is, my senior year is when the new RTFP building was built. I remember putting on a hard hat and touring it when it was half finished, and just feeling like a kid in a candy store. The place was AMAZING compared to what we'd called home the previous two years... shortly there after, I know the station purchased new cameras and loads of new equipment, and the new studios opened up a whole new world... so, anyway, things have gotten EONS better facility-wise in the last 5 or 6 years, for sure...