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I'll say it again. Our need for a stadium has nothing to do with the team's performance. It's about the maintenance issues with Fouts Field and the urgent need to build a stadium before Fouts is condemned.
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.
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Here's the exact link to the Students "For" Facebook page:
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I want the new stadium, too, but when he says things like, "For 50 years, Fouts was left to sit there and rot,” I think he's being disrespectful to Hayden Fry who made a great many improvements to Fouts some 30(?) years ago.
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.
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Not literally taught...or not literally the same players?
Ohh...both are probably true.
I meant not literally those players/athletes back then, but players/athletes in general.
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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.
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PSLs...what a brainiac. What does this guy think luxury suites are for?
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At least it's our dump.
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Interesting how the administration can taketh/giveth from or to athletics with the fluctuating amount above the $3 per hour. What a terrible system.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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He injured himself the week before K-State. Not back on the field yet, but hopefully not too much longer.
EDIT: You might be thinking of Justin Edwards.
Adams wasn't available for either game.
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where is this blog? was it pulled down? any idea why I'm not seeing it? hmm.
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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.
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no the questions that "the fake lonnie finch" ask are not interesting. they are pretty stupid. since his post are so long, let me sum it up for you and you will start to understand why he makes no sense and he is just ranting here it is in a nutshell...
In college football, you have to have a good offensive line and defensive line. you have to kick off, receive kick offs and make extra points. in most occassions you have to have a "deep snapper" in order to make said extra points. also the person receiving a punt for your team can't just be fast. he has to know where to go after he catches that punt. defensive backs in college are fast. todd dodge doesn't know any of this because he is egotistical.
see when you sum it up and you take away the novel he wrote to say it, you realize how stupid it really is.
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.
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You questioned BV's credentials in making that call; but then go on to discuss (later in the thread) the situation that Kragthorpe's team. So my questions is: did you want to debate Vito's qualifications as a journalist; or that he came to a conclusion that you disagreed with?
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.
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I thought Graham came up from Rice? Was he an assistant under Kragthorpe?
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?).
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I, like many, am growing pretty weary of letting college kids decide if they should pick up the tab for something. There are too many that don't want to contribute to the betterment of their university at all for the sake of saving them a few bucks on a total bill that is still less than most comparable universities.
WARNING...HSO.
If the students vote no, I say impose it without them...and make it double what is proposed for the trouble.
Amen. But I have faith in our students. I really believe they'll do the right thing, and they won't regret it.
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On the field results.
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?
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I know, but it compares it to the athletics fee for some of the other schools. It gives the wrong impression.
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.
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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.
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And the figure for North Texas is wrong. Man, of all the things to make a mistake on...
We do not charge $14/hr for athletics. We get $3/hr from the student service fee.
It doesn't say $14 goes to athletics. Read the intro. It says a PART of general fees at those schools goes to athletics.
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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.
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Uh, you ever heard of the internet?