flyeater

Uh, you ever heard of the internet?

No one here disagrees with that. But if a large block of students vote with their emotions or God forbid their ignorance...I don't want to think about it. Results on the field (or lack of) are part of the PR process, much as I hate the fact. I'm curious if the stadium fee passes, are we still looking at another coaching change between next month and 2011? I can see this being so large a reclamation that the natural progression is to hand it over to another coaching staff, but that seems pretty far down the road. How long is too long? I honestly don't know.

Here's the exact link to the Students "For" Facebook page: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26119370759

What improvements? Really, I'm unaware of any, but maybe there were. I don't think RV meant anything other than to say Fouts is beyond point of no return.

I meant not literally those players/athletes back then, but players/athletes in general.

Looks like things between RV and this Ebertin guy got a little heated. Ironic, it seems, that as a kineseology prof at UNT he taught the same football players (not literally) and athletes that he's now in a sense working against. Maybe he's not against a stadium per se, but attempting to hinder an honest & fair effort to build it is puzzling on his part. Man, this thing's gettin' a lot of media coverage now. Wonder what's next? Someone call Jub.

PSLs...what a brainiac. What does this guy think luxury suites are for?

At least it's our dump.

Interesting how the administration can taketh/giveth from or to athletics with the fluctuating amount above the $3 per hour. What a terrible system.

Guys, while you're railing at the NT Daily mistake on the stadium capacity, that's hardly the most alarming thing I saw while reading the comments. This is: "Sure, we're not giving our pathetic football team enough money - let's foot half of the bill to build them a $60 million stadium for them to play (read: lose) in 3-4 times a year... " I'm seriously pissed if there are people who believe and/or put forth the notion that students are being asked to pay HALF of the $60 million for this project. That's absolute garbage and one of the worst untruths I've seen hatched by the other side. The athletics fee is a means to not only fund UNT sports in a modern way, but to bring revenue into the stadium coffer. No formula has been derived as to what percentage of the total cost an athletic fee would bring. It's part of the formula to get us off the ground, with donations and corporate help as the project's backbone. Do UNT students honestly believe they're to be responsible for 50 percent of this project? God, I hope not.

thx

"Wide receiver Sam Dibrell did not make the trip to Baton Rouge because of a bad back. Dibrell took a shot in practice and couldn't recover in time." Pretty sure he was out there. Anyone know? They never came back and corrected it.

kid's had quite a ride in just three years here. ironic the weekend of a hurricane, this story is about a former Katrina evacuee and his road to UNT. guess the other kid's nards turned out OK.

Adams wasn't available for either game.

where is this blog? was it pulled down? any idea why I'm not seeing it? hmm.

Of those 62 underclassmen, wonder what the scholarship count is. If you took that as a percentage of the 80 on scholarship, it's probably higher than the 60-plus percent of the total roster being underclassmen. Crap, we are just too young right now.

Hey Fake, why don't you grow a pair, go to the Pour House and ask Dodge himself some of your "questions"? Oh, I forgot, you already have all the answers.

i want to know how a wide gap in talent, which unfortunately you will see tonight, translates into Graham having some kind of "edge" or superiority over Dodge as a coach. other than Graham being more experienced at this level, they both were texas high school coaches and they use spread offenses. graham's actually a DEFENSIVE coach, so that makes it an even more pointless, useless comparison. and yes, I'm saying BV couldn't gauge one coach's ability over another. as far as his "journalistic" qualifications, I could care less one way or the other.

yeah, Kragthorpe hired him, I think, from West Virginia, and they built Tulsa up before Graham went to Rice for one year and back to Tulsa. Remember the "Todd Graham's Inferno" bit the Rice band did last year when they played Tulsa? I think the band announcer called him a douche (sp?).

Amen. But I have faith in our students. I really believe they'll do the right thing, and they won't regret it.

Dumb comparison, Fake. Graham took over a team he helped build and coach under Kragthorpe. I don't need to explain our situation. Quit oversimplifying. Conservative gameplan last week notwithstanding, what the hell makes this an "edge" in coaching?

Not to me. The schools that levy an athletic fee send that money specifically to athletics. The other five, us being one of them, obviously fund athletics on a smaller scale. We need to change that, so as to be forward thinking.

I don't know what I'm supposed to read into it, but was THIS necessary? Coaching Tulsa's Todd Graham and UNT's Todd Dodge are both in their second seasons, but there is no comparison when it comes to the situations they encountered in their first years or the results they produced. Graham took over a Tulsa team that finished 8-5 and lost to Utah in the Armed Forces Bowl in 2006, and took it to a 10-4 season and a win over Bowling Green in the GMAC Bowl last year. Dodge took over a team that has struggled since the end of the 2004 season and had a rough first season, finishing 2-10. Edge: Tulsa Love to know what qualifies BV to make this judgement.

It doesn't say $14 goes to athletics. Read the intro. It says a PART of general fees at those schools goes to athletics.

There was a list in the paper, not online, that showed how student fees in the Belt go to athletics. From what I could tell, only Troy and the two La-La's have more penny-ante methods of tying student fees to athletic funding. My guess is they also have to fight the big-boy bias (LSU, Bama) in state government to get athletic funding, which is allowed in those states but not Texas. Point is, we're behind in the way we do things, just in our own conference.