Will to Win

I predict that JQ will be the Marques Colston for the 07 year. I would like to see JQ in a Cowboy or Saint uniform. That means he should be drafted. I hope JQ is invited to the Scouting Combine, I have NFL network and they have full access on the combine. We will be able to see JQ up against the likes of high profile receivers form other BCS conferences. Hope he also plays at the Senior Bowl in Mobile.

not dancer, spirit facilitator . Dancer's, you find those at The Lodge, BabyDolls... so I hear

If we get Dodge, then we won't have to worry too much about recruiting. Trust in Dodge!

How long do you think Fisher will stick around if he comes to UNT?

an SEC coach coming to the SBC. Will you consider JF over TD? Who carries more weight? Who would be a better fit? High School Coach vs SEC Offensive C. ? I pick ... TD, but if he baulks - JF is my #2

and he comes from the Nick Saban coaching tree, whom I love as a coach.

I don't think anybody in the Mean Green Nation is turning thier backs on our favorite back! Nobody questions the high character gentleman J-MO is, what is being brought up is, despite the 4.3 speed and 460 bench press why has is production tailed off so sharply since his freahman year? When that is solved, we will be on the edge of our seats again.

no worries mate, It was not his son who has won 40+ at SLC, it was Todd Dodge.

recruiting, skilled coach, recruiting, a winning attitude, recruiting, exciting offense, recruiting, oh yeah and recruiting!

would it be PC for UNT not to contact TD until after his High School coaching season is over? It worries me that everytime TD is quoted, he says "I have not been contacted by UNT" hmmm?

Yeah, on question 13, I replied that it was not a good question, too negative! We will raise new corporate sponsers with all the new businesses sprouting up around loop 288!

enough with the black jersey's and trying to decipher the intent, symbolism and conspiracy theories. There are more interesting and important things to talk about. 1. Next Coach 2. Pending large donation to UNT Athletics announcement. 3. Who is making the donation? 4. Where will Quinn go in the draft? Will he get drafted? 5. Cronyism with Southern Miss. and RV (Randy Butler) 6. What is the symbolism behind the nameless black jersey? WHO CARES! MOVE ON!

Scrappy vs FAU Owl Scrappy wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the uni's were no big deal. DD is on his way out, last home game, getting a check from UNT for 530,000 what do you expect! I look forward to the off season and the new coaching staff.

The reason Robertson is running well vs J-mo is because Robertson is running with quickness, one cut and he is moving forward ( North & South) Thomas is running (East & West) when he touches the ball. JT runs 10 yards at a 20 degree angle and gains 1-2 actual yards. Defenses are catching him before he can make the turn at the corner. Yes, Robertson is smallish but he is making the right decisions on the field. Maybe new coaches will help JT run with better technique. The better back in practice & games should start next year actually that goes for all players. The best players should play no matter classification!

University of Hawai'i defensive coordinator Jerry Glanville might very well be a candidate to fill the head football coaching job at North Texas. He just doesn't know it. -- Honolulu Advertiser http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/sion...lege/index.html

we have 5 home games, Mavs have 40+ home games. We are not competing for the same events! It makes sense that Cuban would donate to UNT after spending a week here. That is the kind of guy he is. He loves sports!

and espn 103.3 radio ************* It just occoured to me that the Dallas Mavricks were here using our facilities during thier training camp. I would like to guess that our "TRUMP GUY" is Mark Cuban!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree

I would suspect that RV had this large donation secured before DD was let go and knew he could use the annoucement to sooth critics and get them, as well as the new coach(s), excited about the new direction we are headed!

Updated: Nov. 16, 2006, 4:29 PM ET North Texas names new facility after axed coach Associated Press DALLAS -- A booster's unusual ultimatum has placed the University of North Texas in an awkward position: Rename its new athletic facility after the football coach that was just fired or have the donor's $1 million gift redirected to the music department. To keep the peace, and perhaps keep open the big-money pipeline, school officials say they will honor the odd request from Houston furniture magnate Jim McIngvale -- known locally as "Mattress Mack" for his goofy TV and radio spots. A school spokeswoman cited the school naming policy, which states that a facility "may be named in keeping with the wishes of the donor." Thus, the McIngvale Practice Facility will get renamed for Darrell Dickey, who was fired last week. No timeline for the renaming is set. It was either rename it, McIngvale said, or redirect his money to the acclaimed One O'Clock Lab Band, the showpiece at one of the country's top music schools. Mattress Mack was serious enough to take out a one-page ad Sunday in the Denton Record-Chronicle explaining his demand. "Right's right and wrong's wrong. It's the right thing to do," McIngvale said. "I don't think firing a guy three weeks after he had a heart attack was the right thing to do, either. Even Wall Street is not that callous." Dickey suffered a heart attack Oct. 12. McIngvale admits his demand is largely symbolic, as his donation was made two years ago and already spent. He made it out of frustration with Dickey's firing and what he said is a lack of adequate athletics funding from the school. "If they want a big-time football program, then step up and spend big money," McIngvale said. "Wishing and hoping don't get you any toys on Christmas." The school's capitulation underscores the influence held by boosters bearing checkbooks, such as T. Boone Pickens at Oklahoma State and the late Ralph Engelstad at the University of North Dakota. McIngvale's $1 million gift means a lot at North Texas, where the football program's budget is about $3.7 million and the music school's is about $8.7 million. It has placed the school in the strange position of defending the record of the coach it just fired. Athletics Director Rick Villarreal talked about "the number of good things" accomplished by Dickey, including four straight Sun Belt championships and bowl appearances. The Mean Green went 2-9 last season. The team is 3-7 in 2006. Dickey is 42-62 overall. "You have to keep the boosters' best wishes in mind," Villarreal said. "But I would never put myself in a position as an A.D. to allow boosters to tell me who needs to be hired who needs to be fired." Dickey, who was under contract through 2009 and will receive a $560,000 buyout, did not respond to telephone messages from The Associated Press seeking comment. McIngvale's $1 million gift is the second-largest since Villarreal became athletics director in 2001. The school will soon announce a seven-figure deal that trumps the others, Villarreal said. A university spokeswoman said the school remains appreciative of McIngvale's contributions. "Donors may be influenced by the relationships they have with coaches, but it's how donations are put to work that really matters in the long run, " spokeswoman Deborah Leliaert said. Last year at Oklahoma State, Pickens donated $165 million to the athletics department. At least publicly, Pickens' gift has come without conditions. That wasn't the case when Engelstad built a $104 million hockey arena at North Dakota -- and then threatened to stop construction if the school gave into NCAA demands to change its mascot from the Fighting Sioux. Money-hungry programs are rarely in a position to turn down boosters, said Rudy Davalos, the recently retired athletics director at the University of New Mexico. When Davalos ran the University of Houston athletics department 15 years ago, he received a $32 million, no-strings-attached donation from businessman John Moores. "If he would have told me that he wasn't going to give the money unless we named something after him, rest assured we would have named something after him," Davalos said. McIngvale has spent his furniture fortune as if he's the world's richest sports fan. The newspaper ad he paid for to express his displeasure about Dickey's firing echoed his antics earlier this year when he took out a two-page newspaper ad begging the Texans to draft Houston native Vince Young first in the NFL Draft. He threw a giant victory party for the Houston Rockets after their NBA title in 1994 and later built them a $3.4 million practice facility near his world-class tennis center, which has clay, grass and hard-surface courts. His store was the title sponsor of the Galleryfurniture.com Bowl in Houston. McIngvale's urging for North Texas to better fund the program hit home with Villarreal, who is trying to rebuild a program that played in Division I-AA from 1983-94. Villarreal said he can take away at least one lesson from this incident: "We have to continue to build a wider base of support," he said. Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press

Start with Mike Taylor (UNT Alumn) on ESPN 103.3 He always has negatives about UNT when he talks about us on the air.

Yeah, but does Todd want to come to UNT? I have read TD's quotes, in regards to coming to UNT, but his intent might be to leverage more money from SLC or another 1-A school that has a job opening.

when we are down 7 or 14 pts and our offense has the ball, what song do you want to hear to pump the crowd and our players up? "Fly like an Eagle" or ______________?