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VideoEagle

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  1. You are close to right. If their commitment to academics and athletics is EQUAL, then they should go! North Texas is a University. One of the biggest windows for outsiders to our university is the athletic program. It is one of the easiest, fastest and overall cheapest ways to let potential students, teachers and donors learn about our university. However, we should not drop to the level of 1940s OU and hope “for a university the football team can be proud of.” If for no other reason than the bad grammar in the quotation! The persons in the highest giving level at universities are generally in the “President’s Council,” not the “Athletic Directors Council.” And those of us who have been around since the 70’s can tell you beyond question the current BOR is more open to helping athletics than any BOW in a great many years. I don’t think a lot of you realize the option is not keep or fire DD, it’s keep or lose football.
  2. I just looked at ArkstateFans thread on the Middle board and he points out Dwaynes analysis as well. La Tech wants to do ANYTHING to avoid a return to the Sunbelt. But if they don't get invited to CUSA, it is going to be very, very difficult for them to sustain the cost of being WACy.
  3. The guy who runs to La Tech fan board ran the numbers himself and found that La Tech's "official" numbers could not add up. During the two years of transition from the old WAC to the new, La Tech was going to get lots of extra money. The schools leaving did not actually pay anything - they just did not get their shares of the conference revenue. And the next year the schools coming in did not actually pay anything - they, too, gave up the conference revenue. Now, all the schools are sharing the same pie of money.
  4. First “bitter and hateful” was probably a bit much on my part. Just because the team is losing it is not the end of the world. On the subject of corporate sponsors, I have at least some experience in getting sponsors for PBS programs and for non-profit events. I started doing some of that in the late 80s and still do. While it might appear that you can get a sponsor for anything, when you actually try it is MUCH harder. In the late 80s, you could make just a couple of calls and come up with a sponsor or two. In the 90s, you needed to have a nice looking package of facts. Now, if you don’t have a professionally produced multimedia presentation, no one will listen. They want to know how many eyeballs they are buying. The large companies want really big events only. Smaller companies don’t have the dollars to buy naming rights. With the mid-sized companies, you not only need enough eyeballs for the price, they have to be the RIGHT eyeballs for their market. And all of them are told daily by other potential beneficiaries that THEY are the right buy. There was a time when companies wanted made large charitable donations for good PR. Now, those companies get hammered by their stockholders for doing just that! Fund raising today is very, very difficult. As for the bowl being a ratings problem, I really doubt that. I don’t remember the exact details, but at least one of NT’s New Orlean’s Bowl appearances was the then highest rated bowl ever one ESPN2. As a general rule, college football gets higher ratings on Fridays than Tuesdays. ESPN would not have agreed to moving the game unless they thought the viewers would be there. The bottom line is someone did a lot of very hard work to get a sponsor for the bowl. Bowls without sponsors do not last. And, again I point out no one turned down going to the Weed Eater bowl because of the funny name!
  5. In really good coach is in control on the side lines. Landry set a record in the NFL for consecutive playoffs and for consecutive winning seasons. How often did he lost self control and get visibly angry on the sidelines? Jimmy Johnson won a lot of games in a very short period while often losing his self control. Just compare the number of winning seasons. Get the guy who doesn’t worry about the last bad play as much as picking the next good play!
  6. They are not going to beat Tulsa, but either Houston or Rice is going to cave in.
  7. Yes it did. It brought us out of the lawsuit range. Dropping all of those sports dropped the total number of scholerships down to a point that is was not worth the femenists suing. They knew no new sports would be added and they would just get bad publicity for killing existing ones. At least that was the logic at the time.
  8. Despite what the bitter and hateful crew might think, a new sponsor is great. I notice no teams turned down going to the WeedEater bowl because of the title sponsor. And none of the teams turned down any of the money either. Wasn’t there once a Salad Bowl? Did anyone turn down that bowl because of the name?
  9. High school coaches, no matter their record, do not do well jumping to D1 Head Coaching positions. Not sure why, but it never seems to work. Better they are a college coordinator for a year or two, then move on to Head Coach.
  10. I didn’t actually hear it, but my cousin heard from his girlfriend that her grandmother heard it on the radio while switching stations.
  11. He had a tendency to stand in the middle of a bridge and set fire to both ends. Then he would complain about the fire. You might get the feeling I’m not exactly a Matt Simon fan. You would be right, although I did like some of those 5 receiver sets.
  12. One of the pluses about giving DD all of those extensions and pay raises is now the base salary for the NT Head Football coach is significantly higher than it was when either DD or Simon was hired.
  13. Simon was not reassigned till after Christmas, maybe lat January.
  14. That’s certainly true - the Big West doesn’t sanction football! You don’t need a coach at all if you don’t have a team.
  15. Unless someone else is named “head coach” by Saturday night, yes.
  16. Here’s what Buc fans think of Lamar It pretty much says it all!
  17. Sorry, I miss interpreted a post from last week as meaning he was on the staff. That, combined with his oft made quotes of RV, and I thought he was a staff member who was cheering for North Texas to lose. If he's just some fan, then never mind.
  18. After Miami beat Texas in the Cotton Bowl one year, the NCAA made a video to explain taunting rules violations. Over 3/4 of the examples were Miami players!
  19. You can tell there is no NFL presents in Idaho or New Mexico if they are playing a game on Sunday!
  20. While I'd still rather be in CUSA, building up the Sun Belt seems to be working. The new CUSA is certainly not so far ahead of the Sun Belt that we can't compete with them.
  21. Really? What about the AD's staff members who actively hope NT will LOSE football games? People on the AD's staff who hope and wish for bad things to happen to the athletic program to further their personal agendas of revenage no matter how it hurts the fanbase or school. I'm sure RV is working hard to build up the program, but some of his staff are best gone.
  22. When I first read the headline, I thought for a moment "Church Secretary" was yet another school to which we would lose!
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