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I expected him to get another head coaching job. Maybe word got around about the black-uniform stunt, his hostility to fans and some of the other crap from the end of his time here. Even if you thought Dickey's run at UNT was a strong one, if you were an AD would you want to take that risk?

I think Dodge has a 25% chance of winning enough games next year to save his job and increase attendance. I hope he does it, but until we see some results on the field I wouldn't be bold enough to predict it.

I'm taking that news hard. She's stolen my sweet childhood memories of fictional familial love and turned them into a seething orgy of hedonistic sapphic lovemaking.

RV's quote means that anything less than 7-5 in 2010 is an unsuccessful season. He's making that the yardstick for success. That ought to be fun to remember in one year when we are arguing on GoMeanGreen. This year, people who expected more than 2 wins have been called a bunch of haters.

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein

I think you know where you can put your concern for the priorities of other Mean Green fans. Following your alma mater should be enjoyable. It's not all that much fun to see the team do the same thing over and over and expect different results.

I think we might win one of those games, though it won't be Kansas State and it won't be Clemson in Death Valley. So that leaves Army and Rice. If Dodge comes back, Riley is healthy and we get the kicking game together, I could see UNT starting 1-3. I don't think 0-4 would be the end of the world if we beat most of the Belt.

"I didn't have confirmation on the tip, which is why I mentioned right up front that it was only a source that was not solid enough to put in print and only blogged about it." At what point does Brett Vito realize that blogging has the same requirement for accuracy as print? Most people are getting their news online, Vito. Don't throw rumors out there if you don't think they are solid enough.

It happens all the time with floundering programs, college or pro. Here in Jacksonville, Jack Del Rio fires a few assistants after every lousy season. I don't know how he gets prospective new hires to take his calls. Any OC or DC worth a crap would know to avoid the Jags.

Unless he gets caught with a dead girl or a live boy -- as the saying goes -- I don't think RV could do anything that would get him canned before the opening of the stadium that was approved during his run as AD.

Florida State isn't automatically reloading talent any more because of the mess of recent years. It is the fourth best program in the state behind UF, the U and USF.

Hogwash. This is empty cheerleading. You've got spirit, yes you do. The fact that RV claims to see improvement is not a surprise. He gambled his credibility on hiring a high school coach. It hasn't worked. It is completely absurd to use "close losses" as an excuse in a 2-10 season. Close my ass. Teams lose 10 games for a reason -- they're bad teams.

OK. I see your point now. Burning a bra still means what people think it does ... free love hippie chicks who might have low standards.

Did you not get a chance to see the last 12 games?

Stop being such a hater. UNT would be 12-0 with Vizza.

I think you're trying too hard to be upset. It was a metaphor, not the end of the world. Oops. I just compared this to the end of the world. I am sorry.

Would anyone here trade places with Troy, Arkansas State or Louisiana-Monroe? UNT has 7,000 more students than Troy, 25,000 more than Arkansas State and 29,000 more than Louisiana-Monroe. We also have more than double the endowment of all three schools. I'd be embarrassed for UNT if we needed an exception to the APR to educate our athletes.

Vito's a good reporter who has covered the Mean Green professionally and fairly for years. I don't get why so many fans bash him.

If a coach is capable of killing excitement for the new stadium, wouldn't it already be dead? I don't think changing coaches now would be appreciably different than changing two years from now. There are arguments for keeping Dodge, but I don't think that's a good one.

I think you're wrong about how the term is used. The term "burn his redshirt" means to withdraw a player's redshirt status by playing him in a game during that season. It doesn't mean to use his redshirt so that it can't be used in a future season. Examples of usage: Georgia Tech's Wright may burn redshirt Saturday http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/722/...dshirt-saturday Haphazard burning of redshirts real reason Groh needs to go http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/sports/ot...ds_to_go/46460/ Utah May Decide to Burn Freshman Jordan Wynn's Redshirt http://www.mwcconnection.com/2009/10/28/11...o-burn-freshman

I've been in favor of a change, but if Dodge comes back for another year I will approach it with an open mind. At the beginning of Dickey's stampede through the Sun Belt, who would have thought that might happen?

I hate the decision to burn Derek Thompson's redshirt. But I'd like to play devil's advocate with benefit of a little time to think. In fairness to Dodge, how much would Thompson have played this season if he wasn't redshirted? He got the third-string quarterback's practice time and a year of prep in Dodge's offense. If Dodge hadn't redshirted him at all this year, he would've gotten the third-string quarterback's practice time and a year of prep. As a non-redshirt freshman, he would not have played this year unless the number two goes down in a game. That didn't happen until the final game. Although Thompson has lost a year of his collegiate career he thought he'd have, we don't know how all of this will play out. If Dodge is gone and Riley follows him out the door, Thompson goes into next season as a contender for the starting job. He didn't hurt his chances with that short, flawless touchdown drive. If Dodge stays, Thompson competes with Tune for the backup job behind an injury prone starter. The year this decision hurts Thompson most is in 2013. By then, who knows what the quarterback situation is like?

Calling people haters is stupid. Anyone who has stuck around for another pathetic year of Dodgeball is a loyal fan of UNT and a masochist.

I think it was a chump move by Carroll -- and he made it worse by dancing around afterward like USC won the national championship. So many USC players were jumping around like Kris Kross that the sidelines cleared and it almost became a brawl. Check out the video:

Veteran LA Times sportswriter Bill Plaschke says that Carroll didn't go for another score until after he took a knee and Neuheisel called timeout to stop the clock. http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/...,5628166.column "In the end, while his players deserved better, Neuheisel got exactly what he deserved. ... By calling a timeout, Neuheisel was making it clear that he did not agree with Carroll's decision to take a knee. So Carroll said fine, he would keep playing."