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I think we're already outrecruiting the rest of the belt.
This year's performance on defense makes me wonder if that's true.
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I'm not a Dickey basher, but I would take Ron Zook over him. I live in St. Augustine, Florida, and hear about Gators football all day long. Zook was an average SEC coach, one of the best recruiters in I-A, and a tireless advocate for the program.
Zook would immediately be the biggest name in the Sun Belt and draw a lot of national attention to the program. He recruited more Parade All-Americans than Spurrier did at Florida. Obviously, he wouldn't have that kind of success at UNT, but I believe he could outrecruit the rest of the Belt.
As a public face for your program, Zook would completely outclass Dickey. Zook was all over the place here, speaking to alumni groups and the sports media.
Though he was at best an average in-game coach and coordinator in the SEC, with a penchant for losing games in the fourth quarter, I think average coaching in that conference would probably be above average in the Belt.
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It's kind of sad that people who followed the football team when they were not doing too well dismiss the basketball team because they are not doing well.
I'm trying to jump on the basketball bandwagon after years of paying attention only to football. During all of the conference shuffling talk, it seemed to me that we would've been a much stronger player with a solid basketball program.
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WHY? would you leave 1A to go down to 2A?? Maybe for playing time, but Andrew has that coming. It doesnt make sense to me. I as well hope this is untrue.
If I recall correctly, an athlete can transfer to I-AA and play immediately instead of being forced to sit out an entire year.
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Well I would have to say that if this is true it damn sure shouldn't be about what a bunch of has beens or never have beens, have to say about him on this board.
Athletes transfer all the time when they lose their starting position. If Andrew Smith was leaving, which I hope is not true, it seems silly to place any of the blame on fans posting messages here.
Besides, if any player on North Texas was so delicate he could be driven away from the school because of a message board, would you really want that guy leading your team?
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Leaving aside the serious stuff regarding hazing, criminal charges and the like, when your buddy is pass-out-at-any-moment drunk, you don't let him wander off alone and choke on his own vomit somewhere. That's college etiquette rule No. 1.
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I don't think my school, the great Lloyd V. Berkner, ever had glory days.
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Dallas' unis are Black, Green, Yellow and.........Tomato Red with a Chicago Bull face on the front.
That's one ugly jersey. Apparently, AAC is stuffed to the rafters with merchandise that features it, from what I've heard.
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I think rcade has some Smith hatred lingering inside.
You sure got me pegged. In fact, I hired the guy to ride in the back of Smith's truck, and I told him to discharge the firearm in the air. I even tricked Smith into fleeing the scene -- I told him there was a sale on Booger Kennedy bobblehead dolls at Voortmans.
I live in Florida, where every year you can count on a few student athletes from Florida, FSU, and Miami getting into trouble with the law (or worse). Attitudes like yours contribute to it -- many fans here will either whitewash or refuse to believe any evidence that a player with on-the-field talent might be an off-the-field idiot.
A standard part of a college coach's spiel is to tell parents he will look after the welfare of his players. That's all I'm suggesting here -- Coach Dickey and the athletic department have a responsibility to make sure everything's on the level with this incident, and whether we hear about it or not, I hope they're taking care of business.
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"I think we're too quick to assume Andrew Smith is completely innocent in all of this."
I thought that was exactly what we were supposed to assume?
On one level, sure. A person accused of a crime should be presumed innocent.
However, people who have influence over Smith -- coaches, peers, the school -- should look into what happened for his sake as much as their own. As a general rule, I think it's fair to say that most student athletes who are involved in an incident with guns and police are not completely innocent. If this was one of those cases, I would expect the athletic department to find that out, rather than accepting at face value whatever the police were told that night.
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I think the police probably already asked all of these questions.
Perhaps, but the athletic department should be asking them too. That Bernard Jackson post shows why -- I'd hate to see another story like that unfold at UNT.
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You should give him a pass. He didn't do anything. If he were drunk and driving, the cop would have arrested him. If he really did have something to do with the guy in the back shooting, the cops would have charged him with aiding the person.
I think we're too quick to assume Andrew Smith is completely innocent in all of this.
First, I'm reminded of Greg Williams' rule that nothing good can happen to an athlete from being out and about at 3 a.m.
Second, Smith was driving a truck in which someone pointed a gun at police and fired several shots in the air. That's a big deal -- everyone in the truck could've easily ended up dead, and people die every New Years from idiots who fire guns into the sky.
More questions need to be asked about who the guy was, how Smith knew him, whether he knew about the gun, and why he left the scene and came back without the man.
Zook vs. DD
in Mean Green Football
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I disagree. The travel costs and TV times for a West Coast conference were damaging the program, as the Big West years proved. The Sun Belt has the right geography for UNT.