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I remember the Super PIt hosting Baylor the first year Scott Drew was coach (2003). I nearly ran into him in the tunnel as I was making my way to my seat from the pregame Mean Green Club reception in the Letterman's Lounge. Granted, Baylor then wasn't the Baylor of today, but UNT can get Big 12 schools to come to Denton. It just takes relationships and phone calls.

Jeff Goodman is a slime. Don't forget he's the first one who broke the news about McCasland to Tech right in the middle of the NIT. Yes, the Lubbock TV station tweeted it a few days later when they found it was official, but Goodman actually tweeted it either just before the Okie St. game or the Wisconsin game. Totally uncool thing to do to try and distract the players like that. He's a HUGE supporter of Chris Beard, too. I can't stand that guy.

It should be free. UNT Athletics needs to be building a fanbase, and one way to do that is to have an app...but it should be free.

A lot of what Leach says in that lawsuit is blatantly untrue. I am a Leach fan, my source is a Leach fan, but much of his version of what took place is not true at all.

I have had the fortunate opportunity of meeting Lincoln and getting to sit in a film session with him at the Leach Fantasy Camp a couple of years ago. He is extremely smart and, like Leach, has a very good appreciation for the little nuances in executing plays that most people do not even notice. It is those little things that make all the difference. Todd Dodge would be crazy not to hire him and hand over the reigns. Lincoln is one of the best young offensive minds in the country right now, and one helluva recruiter. He's one of those people that you can't help but like the moment you meet him. I think Tuberville made a huge mistake not retaining him on the Tech staff.

Yes, Saturday was a disappointing loss that didn't have to be. The mistakes and bad luck just took its toll. HOWEVER... the team NEVER QUIT. They played hard and played with their heads on straight until UNT was firing off celebratory fireworks for Ohio (we are so nice that way....but that's another subject*). At the end of the game, soaking wet, I just stood there in awe disbelief at what I had just seen. Very mixed bag of emotions...I was disappointed at the loss but very, very proud of the players and coaches for perserving and never quitting. Hell of a job by everyone on that team. UNT teams of the recent past would have folded up and rolled over when the adversity hit...but this team didn't. If that game is played 9 more times, UNT wins 8 of them. Ohio, let's face it, got damn lucky. I cannot wait for the next home game. I cannot wait to welcome MTSU to the 2009 version of the Mean Green. Stomp. Mudhole. *Another subject: Do we have to shoot off the fireworks after a loss? I realize they are using the fireworks as an added game experience to entice the families out, but I just hate walking back to my car and seeing us celebrate another team's victory at Fouts Field with a fireworks show.

Coach DeLoach Not taking anything away from Coach Dodge. Hell, the whole damn coaching staff deserves the honor!!

Yeah, I think the real wild card in the OU situation is Missouri's rank come Big XII Championship time. I think that ranking and OU's "style points" make all the difference between OU or UT going. There is still so many ways this can play out. Florida and Alabama could also stumble with one of their other opponents, and both of them did, USC could be back in play. I think another interesting scenario would be Tech winning out, the SEC schools stumbling and self-destructing, and UT winning out. Could we really have a Tech-UT matchup for the MNC? Crazy...and I kind of like it, I admit.

Longjim...in scenario #2, if Tech beats a top 10 ranked Missouri team, which more than likely would be top 10 by the Big XII game, it's not out of the question that that victory alone would put Tech ahead of UT for the MNC. But again, with the BCS, who knows. I don't think anyone really understands the formula very well. OU goes to the MNC if they win out from here. Either Florida or Alabama will lose a game. The loser is out of the picture. The winning of the Big XII Champ game would put OU in front of UT most likely in the BCS rankings. They play the winner of the Alabama-Florida game.

1. USC is not the best team right now. The competition they have played has been downright horrible. Their signature win is against a very overrated Ohio State team. Not only did they lose to Oregon St., they were dominated..absolutely dominated...in the trenches. Oregon State ran the ball right down USC's throat. I think USC would lose to OU, Okie St., UT, Tech, and Florida very easily. 2. If Tech loses to OU, but then Okie St. beats OU, Tech goes to the Big XII Championship game because they would be tied with UT for one loss (assuming Tech beats Baylor and UT beats KU and A&M), and Tech goes due to the head-to-head victory over UT. 3. If Tech loses to OU, and OU and UT both win out, whoever is ranked higher in the BCS goes to Kansas City. I'm willing to bet it will be OU, but who knows? Stranger things have happened. 4. I think whoever represents the South in the Big XII wins the Championship game and will be in the MNC, as long as whoever that is only has one loss. I don't see a scenario where a South team goes to KC with 2 losses at this point. If someone held a gun to my head and said make a prediction, I would have to say OU wins the Big XII and faces Florida in Miami for the crystal football.

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Ditto. Ditto. Ditto.

I'm willing to bet that you would find the exact same percentages of players testing positive for drugs at any other D-1 program as UNT had. No doubt in my mind. Difference is UNT actually conducted the tests and the results were made public (not saying UNT made them public, but they were made public). UT, A&M, OU, Tech, OSU, Nebraska....you name the program, and I guarantee you they would have just as many test positive.

I saw a college game sometime this year where the cheerleaders were in the back of the endzone and they had their giant megaphones lined up in front of them. Sure enough the receiver comes through, trips over the megaphone, and somehow popped it up to where it left him a nice little reminder of their meeting in a not-so-nice place for a guy. I was thinking that someone at that school's athletic dept should have had the sense long before then not to allow cheerleaders to line up their megaphones in the back of the endzone like that with players coming through there at breakneck speed. Sure enough, someone did tell them after, and you didn't see anymore megaphones lined up in the back of the endzone the rest of the game. That was just a megaphone. The idiots at Marshall allowing those wagons back there were, in my opinion, criminally negligent.

Kram...I put a winky face after it...the winky face out-clause absolves me of poor form. I think the Obama crack was below the belt, though. Honestly, if I'm a coach and one of my players appeared to score a TD and didn't get the credit for it, I'm throwing the red flag. Not because I want to run up the score, but because I want a kid who's busting his tail year round for the program to get credit for a TD if he scored the TD. He put his player first. I can't disrespect that. And besides...it was the aggies. Don't think for a second they're above running up the score against UT or Tech. The past is evident of that.

He didn't call a timeout to stop the clock to score another TD. Did you even watch the game? He challenged the call on the field that his RB didn't score. The kid ran hard all game, but didn't have any TD's to his credit (the other RB that he competes with had 2 in the game). He ran hard on that play and it appeared the ball might have crossed the goalline. So since it looks like it might have, Leach challenged the call in case his RB might have scored. Since the two RB's are competing with each other, I thought it was a great thing for Leach to do...and I would have done the same thing. The next play he called to have the ball given back to that same RB...the QB kept it. Leach even said so in the post-game press conference that the only reason he ran that last play was to try and get his RB the TD that he thought he deserved. Yeah...that's a horrible coach alright.

You got one thing right in your rant (had to swing at the softball)! Game is 60 minutes long. Leach's philosophy is to play all 60 minutes, whether you are losing close, losing bad, winning close, or winning bad. I don't think the man ever even looks at the clock, to be honest (look at last week before halftime of the KU game...calling plays like they had 5 minutes left rather than 20 seconds left). But his teams have come back from more huge deficits than any other team I have ever seen. They were down by over 24 points IN THE FOURTH QUARTER against A&M one year and came back to win. Came back to win down by over 30 in the 3rd quarter against Minnesota. Came back to win down by nearly 20 to Virginia. Down 21-0 to TCU and UTEP both in the past few years and came back to win. I think that mentality he has to play to the end is what gives his teams the mindset to come back from huge deficits. Spurrier was no different. A lot of people hate Spurrier and hate Leach, but I think if you're going to preach a mindset of playing to the end no matter what, then you have to do it 100% of the time, winning or losing, in order for the team to buy into it. Reps build confidence. Confidence wins games.

The worst of the worst fans have to be Colorado. My wife and I vowed to never step foot on that campus again after attending a football game there back in 2002. Though, if Western Kentucky's fans are anything like their football team from last year, I may have to move them up the list.

Leach is the best thing to happen to college football in years. Dry humor, tells it like it is, and hillariously stubborn. I've been fortunate enough to have a beer with the man, and he's the kind of guy that can and will talk to you about anything and everything under the sun. He truly is one of a kind...and in a positive way. If you don't think he's made a major impact on not only the Big XII but college football in general, then you just haven't been paying attention. Go Tech! Time to get some monkeys off your back.

I would just go to the main Student Development office in the Union. They oversee the elections. If you are not associated with a particular college in your degree plan, there's a good chance that could be the problem.

I just would rather have the largest pool of candidates possible to draw from the next time we have to fill that post, and a reputation of "2 and done" would hurt our ability to recruit the best possible candidates out there. Stadium/Sun belt/Salary are going against us already...we don't need to add another strike to that list.

Ok, would it help if I said I don't care what the name of the coach is in the situation, or the name of the school? I have no vested interested in Todd Dodge. I don't know the man, I was not a fan of his prior to his being named the coach at UNT, and I really have no personal interest in his future employment. My argument would be the same no matter who the coach in the head position is. You simply don't give up on a coach 1.5 seasons into the job, with only one recruiting class, who has changed the offensive philosophy as drastically as it was changed here. You simply don't do it. You have to give a coach, ANY COACH, more time than that. Not for his sake, BUT FOR THE PROGRAM'S SAKE. You do not want a reputation of being so impatient that you can't stick it out with a new coach longer than two seasons.

I don't think I could be called a "Dodge apologist". I'm a college football fan, an alum of a D-1 school in a different conference altogether (along with being a UNT alum), and an amateur history buff on the game. That makes me no or more less qualified than anyone else, but I do think that it gives me more of an impartial view of things than some here. Second season turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule. Yes, maybe UNT could be playing better right now than they are, but some of you have very, very short memories. Just this summer wasn't everyone bemoaning the fact that the team took so many hits at defense, particularly the d-line, that everyone here was wondering how on earth we would be able to survive the season with the defensive personnel coming (or rather not coming) back in the fall? And now everyone acts surprised that the defense can't stop anyone? How can you be surprised? Everyone this summer saw this coming. Add to it that by hiring Dodge you have changed from a ground attack, control the ball, eat the clock offense to a quick strike, high risk-high reward, bound to put your defense back out their quicker offense. It's a perfect storm for the season UNT is having, and it should not be a surprise to anyone here who follows this team that it has played out the way it has. But everyone wanted a more exciting, higher scoring offense when the decision to hire Dodge was made...well...this is the side-effect to that type of offense. It can lead to major blowouts. Look at Texas Tech and some of the blowouts they've been a victim to over the past few years under Leach. That style of offense can lead to that. Lastly, some of you are saying that Dodge has had two classes, which should be more than enough. I beg to differ. In reality, he's only really had one...2008. That was the only signing day where he benefited from a full recruiting season. So his first, full, class are TRUE FRESHMEN. How can anyone with any logical sense want to fire a coach after 1.5 seasons and only one real recruiting class? You just have to be patient. Give the man time to build a program, not just try to magically resurrect one. There is a difference.

No, you're right, there is no guarantee. Just like there is no guarantee that if you fire Dodge after only two seasons that you'll find anyone else to come in and magically "fix" the program. Like I said before, once you set the precedent of firing a coach after only two seasons, the list of people willing to come to your program dwindles dramatically, because you have shown you will not have the patience to allow them to build their program. The hiring of Dodge was a dramatic, and I mean, DRAMATIC, change in football philosophies. When you do a 180 like that, you have to be (1) 100% committed to the new philosophy and (2) take your lumps. We are taking our lumps, with the hope/gamble that it will pay off big down the road. It may not, and that I concede. But you cannot determine that now in the middle of year two. You simply can't. Let's give the man a real chance first. Two years is not a real chance.

Hypothetical questions for all of you impatient doom and gloomers: 1. Would you trade zero wins this year for 9-10 wins, including a bowl victory and a conference championship, in 3-4 years? 2. Would you trade zero wins this year for a possible Top 25 ranking in 5-6 years? If you have to play younger, less experience players now for a bigger future reward down the road, wouldn't you do it?