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Speak for yourself. If RV can't handle a fan's opinion of the sorry-ass product he's put on display at Fouts, he should find another line of work. Bob didn't embarrass me by yelling about poor coaching to the person who thought we needed another high school coach to run a college program. He was telling the truth. Fun fact: Since 1980, only three high school coaches have been hired to run Division I-A (now FBS) schools. Two of them were at North Texas -- Dennis Parker and Dodge. RV bet the bank on a non-traditional hire and he busted.

So we're supposed to feel sorry for college football coaches now? Sheesh. Does Coach Dodge's job involve carrying people out of burning buildings? Doing life saving operations on kids? Flying a fighter jet? No. There are plenty of jobs more difficult than teaching college students to throw a ball around while thousands of people second guess you.

Keep saying it. It gets funnier each time you do. Yelling at the game seemed to get RV's attention pretty good about how much the coaching sucks. Score one for that a-hole fan.

The game isn't the proper place to yell about the game? Hilarious.

Work out a deal with them. You go to the same school. Those print journalists need broadcast experience because print is dying. I was Daily editor back in the '80s. I don't know how the departments are today, but back then it would have been useful to collaborate.

Those rationalizations are weak. This is Dodge's fourth season. Wins are all that matters.

If they're just doing rip and read AP stories, why not work a deal with the NT Daily and base some news on what the paper is reporting?

I see no reason to believe that Dodge has UNT ready to beat anybody outside of a few Sun Belt dregs.

We don't need to tap the brakes -- North Texas isn't going anywhere until Todd Dodge is fired.

Then why isn't Dodge off the ground in his fourth year?

The new stadium will bring people back no matter what happens this year, and there will be a whole new group of fans who are drawn by it. That's what happened in Orlando at UCF.

I'm positive that North Texas will never win with this head coach.

It's amazing how much mediocrity some North Texas fans are willing to accept.

Troy nearly beat Oklahoma State last night. They're a strong team.

What's truly embarrassing is for some North Texas fans to accept "we actually competed tonight" as good enough in a coach's fourth year. Close losses are not improvement. There are no more moral victories. If Dodge can't put together a winning season this season, we can't let him open up the new stadium. We're still waiting for the first Dodge season that's better than the 3-9 season that got Dickey fired.

You don't even know what the guy in Section C was yelling. How do you know it was classless? I'll have what he's drinking.

There's no way UNT should be bottom 10 after the way we played Clemson and Rice. I'm not happy to lose to Rice, but let's not pretend it's the same as losing to the worst of the Belt.

That's always a good sign, innit?

I think it's sad that sending an email is portrayed as an incredible burden.

Man I get sick of UNT alumni bitching about jazz. Having a great jazz station helps further the cause of our world-class College of Music.

Instead of assuming that the students on the KNTU staff are a bunch of people who wish they were at another school, it would be more productive to contact KNTU general manager Russ Campbell and tell him you'd like to hear more UNT football coverage. He's at russ.campbell@unt.edu. I've had dealings with him before and he's happy to hear from students and alumni.

I think it would be a huge mistake to jump aboard the WAC's sinking ship. Take away the history of the name, and it's another Big West -- a regional conference in a region that makes no sense for UNT to be in. The Sun Belt is regionally much better for us, and it continues to improve each year. I think the odds are pretty good the Belt will be a stronger conference than the WAC in five years.

At this point, the big conference teams have become so money grubbing and disloyal that I'm fed up with all of them. The Big 12 is being destroyed like the SWC was destroyed, Texas and other schools don't give a tinker's damn about conference loyalty, and they will never ever give the non-AQ schools a break. I'd like to see the non-AQ schools all enter into a playoff system with the Football Championship Subdivision. Let the BCS cartel have their phony poll-chosen title. I want to see college football champs who win it on the field.

I vote molehill on this one too. Morris Martin's in a position to know how Julia Smith felt about a piece she composed in her teens continuing to be one of her best-known works after she became an acclaimed composer of international renown. Smith thought enough of North Texas for her papers and other material to be contributed to UNT. One of the parts of her collection is a folder, "Alma Mater Correspondence and Papers," so anyone who is curious about how she felt can go read it. Smith also had lifelong ties to UNT. Her mother lived in the house that became Smith Hall, described here: http://themusingsofkev.blogspot.com/2003/1...smith-hall.html My guess is that she took pride in authoring the alma mater but was embarrassed at her composition.

Todd Whitten was our quarterback when I began college at Stephen F. Austin in 1985. He was sporting a pretty fierce Prince Valiant haircut, if I recall correctly, and was a pretty good QB. He went on to a brief NFL stint and some Arena ball and has been bouncing around Texas college coaching ranks for 20 years.