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This poster makes a terrific point. Who among the North Texas faithful has not dreamed of the day we could host Fresno State?

This is Dodge's third season. It's ridiculous to blame Dickey for this.

Oscar Wilde was stupid?

Didn't see that one coming. Such a biting rejoinder. You're a regular Oscar Wilde.

Sorry to bust chops, but calling something "gay" when you think it is stupid is a cheap shot. Why throw gays under the bus because somebody posted a stupid message on a sports forum?

You could argue that going for the field goal there would've been running up the score. The 4th and 1 call at least gives the opponent a chance to stop you without points.

It can't happen soon enough for me.

If the football team was a joke to 90 percent of the school, why did the students vote to increase fees to pay for a new stadium? Losing a body-bag game to Alabama says *nothing* about the football program. Our win against Ball State and the close loss to Ohio are more indicative of where the program is at today.

Do North Texas fans ever chant "bullshit!" after a controversial call?

The refs shouldn't have asked them about the penalty until the review was over.

Thanks. I pull for the Belt also when we play OOC.

I disagree. Coach Dodge's move will come back to haunt us. Point differential will be an important factor in whether we get a chance to play in the BCS national championship after we go 12-0.

Realistically, I'm expecting something like Ball State 40, North Texas 13. But I've still got hope we can bring home a shocking upset.

I'm watching at home in St. Augustine, Florida. My sons and I have been throwing around a North Texas football all week. Took it to the beach too. Go Mean Green!

Absolutely. If you post something here that damages someone's reputation and it is proven false, you have a moral obligation to do everything you can to correct it. This is a well-read message board within the North Texas community. This is particularly true when you're talking about people who work at the school. Posting disparaging material here can hurt their careers.

The Belt rival I miss the most, hands down, is New Mexico State. They are the closest thing North Texas has to a historic rival. We've shared a conference with NMSU three times (Sun Belt, Big West, Missouri Valley) and have played them 32 times, compiling a record of 21 wins, 9 losses and 2 ties. We also met them in a bowl game, the 1959 Sun Bowl at El Paso. The five years since we played them last is the second-longest span in between our games. The first was from 1983 to 1996.

Amen, brother. I enjoy reading his coverage in the DRC.

Until we prove otherwise by racking up some wins, yes. Under Dodge we're 3-21 the last two seasons with 10 losses of 30 or more points, and we play in the weakest conference.

The story's about scheduling creampuffs. How could he write about it without mentioning our record?

On this we can agree. I've been in Vito's position, covering a beat for a newspaper. It is not hard to sway a beat reporter simply by communicating with the reporter and editors. If even one-tenth of the people who read GMG made a practice of contacting the papers in response to UNT coverage, both positively and negatively, they'd get the message. Most people don't contact the paper. This is particularly true of people within a program. If UNT athletes, coaches and others involved don't like something Vito wrote, contact him. (As I say this, it's been many months since I took my own advice.)

Figures. Wrestling *is* fake. You're glad a reporter got his ass kicked by someone who was lying. No wonder you want Vito to tell you UNT football isn't in the crapper right now.

No kidding. I'm in Florida, and if you think the press is tough on little UNT, you should hear how things get when Florida or FSU are losing.

I worked for the Star-Telegram for eight years and was a UNT journalism grad. Your understanding of the beat reporter position does not match mine. Beat reporters have to be skilled at maintaining a relationship to the teams they cover, but that doesn't mean they're cheerleaders who never write negative stories. That also doesn't mean they never do things like filing an FOI when the team is hiding something. Also, these days, any reporter left at a paper is likely wearing more than one hat. So Vito would have to do the tough stuff as well as the daily beat coverage. Why does Vito owe anything to Dodge? Dodge owes it to the readers of the DRC and Dallas Morning News to talk to the reporters covering the team in those papers. If Dodge froze him out, he'd be losing the biggest platform he has to communicate with fans, and ultimately hurting himself and the program.

There are very few working sports reporters who would describe themselves as "fans" of the teams they cover. If Vito said he was a Mean Green fan, as you seem to wish he should, he'd be opening himself up to considerable mockery within journalism. To each his own, but I think a team beat reporter who is a "regular cheerleader" isn't doing the job right. Let the team and school sing their praises. Reporters should cover the teams good and bad.

Show me one specific example where he "made it personal." I bet you ripped Vizza on this board in stronger language than whatever Vito wrote that made you so mad. Why is it OK for you to say that Vizza is "not a gamer" and makes stupid decisions but it's not OK for Vito to state his opinion about players? As for being his puppet friend, I'm Rogers Cadenhead, an alumnus and longtime fan. I don't know Vito at all. Who are you?