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If Brown takes a timeout on first down, Saban has second and third down to get another TD.

Leavitt's a terrible human being, from the reports out here in Florida. No one wants to coach for him and he treats players and people at the school like crap. I'd hate to see UNT bring that guy on.

If Dodge can't get it done, UNT should never hire another high school coach again. Only two FBS schools have ever hired a coach directly from high school. UNT has done it twice.

College football has a 40-second clock. If Bama takes a knee on first down and Texas does not call a timeout, it runs down to 1 minute. After second down, to 20 seconds. On third down, game over.

How is it not safe? 1:41 left. First down and 5. Texas with two timeouts.

Then you pound it in on second and third down, and nobody questions the decision.

Why do anything when the game is won? All Saban had to do was take a knee, run out the clock and the game's over. He took a needless risk.

Texas helped keep UNT out of the SWC back in the day. It got the benefit of a ridiculous call in the '80s that helped the Horns avoid the embarrassment of losing to us back in our I-AA days. It also, along with the other big Texas programs, uses its juice in the Texas Legislature to keep athletic programs at schools like UNT from getting too big. Finally, it attracts UNT students and alumni who should be rooting for their own school first and foremost. All of those are reasons why UT doesn't get much love here. No matter how nice their fans might be when we go down there for a body bag game.

Bama was up by 10 with 1:41 on the clock and had a first and goal on the Texas 5. UT had two timeouts. If Saban tells the team to take a knee and Brown does not use a timeout, Saban could take a knee two more times to end the game. If Brown uses a timeout, Saban could then call a running play without anyone complaining he ran up the score. If Bama fumbled the ball with 1:41 left, Saban could have left Texas a slim chance to win. Taking a knee was the smart -- and sportsmanlike -- thing to do.

James and his son were just an excuse for Tech to fire Leach. They would have found another excuse otherwise.

Texas didn't get exposed at all. Their defense played incredible during the second and third quarters when the offense was completely hopeless, and they fought back to 24-21 and had the ball with three minutes left for a go-ahead drive. All with a freshman quarterback who had never thrown a touchdown pass in college before this game. Considering how good Alabama was, I don't think the Horns have anything to be ashamed of. Take away that fluke shovel pass pick 6 and it's an entirely different ballgame.

Alabama lost Ingram for most of the second half and that hurt their ability to get a score that would ice the game.

I don't know who you are, but I can't believe somebody at The Ticket would flip out like you have in this discussion over the word "garbage." Making fun of Rick because he wears a UNT fire helmet? Weak.

It's great for you that you're #2 in the market and tops among men 25-54, but why should that matter to sports fans who want to hear the sports talk station we thought we were getting in 1994? I had waited FOR YEARS for DFW to get its own all-sports station and was listening to KTCK from the first second it broadcast. I can still remember the first newspaper ads: "Food. Water. Shelter. Sports." For many years, The Ticket was a good mix of sports and other stuff, such as comic shtick. But in recent years, it feels to me like The Ticket is filled with people who grew up listening to The Ticket, not people who grew up following sports. The balance is off.

I was a big Tickethead for a long time, but they started to sound more like a guy talk station and less like a sports talk station and I got bored with it. The day Ted Williams died, I was listening to the Hard Line and they barely mentioned it. Three hours of shtick, but no time at all to talk about a baseball legend on a show where that was their favorite sport.

That non-call was terrible. The defender mugged him.

I watched that play on Tivo a bunch of times. At the point of your first picture, he didn't have control of the ball yet, so his knee being down didn't matter. He had to cradle the ball and keep it off the turf, which he did, and by that time was either over the goal line or extremely close to it.

You keep making this about academics, but I'm not talking about academics. Some people point out that Troy and ULM have an advantage because they don't have to follow the APR. But even with that advantage, would anyone want to trade places with them considering their other disadvantages?

So by your comment, you'd rather be Troy University than UNT. Smaller endowment, smaller enrollment and a poorer economic area to draw students from. Seems like a bad trade to me.

Would anyone here trade places with Troy and Louisiana-Monroe, though?

Kentucky's not chopped liver. They're in the SEC, which has that massive TV deal, and pay the current coach $1.25 million.

Well said. UNT football fans who crap on the rest of the university have no right to complain if they don't think the team's getting enough on-campus support. We should take pride in everything that's good about the university.

It's not an either/or proposition. But UNT has been an acclaimed music school for 70 years. We won't be an acclaimed football school for 70 years until 2080 at the earliest. Maybe it's time to respect some of what we have, instead of trashing it because of what we'd like to have in athletics.

Anyone who doesn't know about UNT's school of music doesn't know jack about UNT and should be disqualified from being taken seriously on the subject. The prominence and size of UNT's music program is one of the main things that distinguishes the school from every other public university in the state. Denigrating that is just foolish.

Considering how much has gone wrong with UNT athletics, it's a shame that we're ragging on our band, which has to be one of the most talented musically in the country. UNT has the largest school of music in the nation by enrollment and the band is a reflection of that status. Playing "Fly Like an Eagle" is a tradition that goes back at least to the '80s and probably longer, so it's strange for tradition-minded fans to suggest they stop playing it.