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MeanGreenZen

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  1. Imagine you are a movie producer and you want to make an action movie. The movie is going straight to DVD so you can only pay the star of the movie $175,000. And the movie isn't artistic enough to get a major star to do it for a discount. That rules out Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, etc. However, Kirk Cameron is willing to do the movie for what you can offer. He was great on Growing Pains and he's stayed in front of the camera convincing people they are going to hell if they don't join his church. Let us also imagine, that for whatever reason, black actors are having trouble landing leading roles and Will Smith would also be willing to star in our movie for the same money as Kirk Cameron. Would you cast Kirk Cameron or Will Smith to star in your action movie? This is what is going on in college football with black head coaches! Schools are hiring B-list clowns like Kirk Cameron while guys like Will Smith are available. Yes, I just found a way to reference Kirk Cameron on the topic of UNT's next head coach. I challenge anyone to beat that!
  2. Absolutely. Hell Yes! Ask Johnny Quinn why none of the big schools came knocking on his door and he will tell you because he is a white receiver. That is probably the biggest reason he ended up at UNT. Unfortunately, there aren't that many great white receivers or white running backs at the college level. But if we can find them we should jump all over them. I hoped Dodge, with his Southlake/Austin Westlake roots might be able to find some of these guys. Because white receivers and white running backs ARE overlooked. I am disappointed Dodge hasn't done a very good job in that department, although he probably has tried to exploit this market inefficiency with Micah Mosely, Breece Johnson, Sam Dibrell, etc. While white running backs and white receivers of FBS-level talent are rare, there are many black assistant coaches who are being overlooked right now who would make stud head coaches
  3. According to a survey by The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports, 12.2 percent of coordinators are black and 30.6 percent of assistant coaches are black. If the coaching market was not so inefficient, the percentage of black head coaches and the percentage of black assistant coaches would closely mirror each other. Please note that I am not interested in fairness, right and wrong or any type of social agenda. I just see an opportunity for UNT to get a stud coach at a huge discount simply because that coach is black. Considering all the disadvantages the UNT athletic program faces, isn't that smart?
  4. Correct. In the purest economic sense, black coaches are not worth as much as white coaches in the current marketplace. But this is an inefficiency that I encourage UNT to exploit. Black head coaches are a great value right now. All coaches must be judged as an individual. But, for many reasons that I disagree with, talented black football coaches are not being given very many opportunities to be a head coach at FBS schools right now. This is creating a backlog of talent and an opportunity for UNT to get a guy who, based on ability alone, would demand more money/better facilities/better conference affiliation, etc than UNT can offer, but since he is black, he doesn't have as many opportunities to be a head coach as he should have and he would be willing to accept the UNT job for an amount that we could afford to pay him as a chance to prove himself.
  5. Yes. Ramon Flanigan. No, wait.... Kelvin Martin. Hahahahaha. Just kidding. No. I do not have names of specific candidates. But I would look for a young, energetic coordinator of a mid-major FBS school who excels at recruiting.
  6. Exactly. Which is why it is crazy these black coaches are being excluded from jobs. We should target a black coach for the same reason the Texas Rangers invested so heavily in scouting Puerto Rico in the 1980s (yielding All-Stars such as Ruben Sierra, Juan Gonzalez, Pudge Rodriguez among others). No one else was scouting Puerto Rico at that time, so the Rangers came away with all the elite players. The market for a black head college football coach is untapped and oozing with potential. We can find an elite coach for cheap in this market.
  7. Here is a quote from you in the Mean Green recruiting thread: "Classes should never be graded after two years." You seem to be contradicting yourself. PS: TCU is almost competing in BCS bowls. I don't think we are recruiting on the same level as them. Also: June Jones has a few more skins on the wall as a college coach compared to Todd Dodge and from what I have seen, any UNT fan would trade recruiting classes with SMU so far.
  8. Six of 119 coaches (5 percent) in the Football Bowl Subdivision are black. Compare that to the 28.5 percent of coaches in major college basketball who are black and almost one-quarter of NFL coaches are who black. Is there something about college football that makes blacks ineffective head coaches? No. Therefore we can conclude that the college football marketplace undervalues black head coaches. This inefficiency in the marketplace is an opportunity North Texas should exploit. UNT is at a competitive disadvantage compared to other FBS schools because it lacks resources in a number of areas. UNT has to find ways to maximize its strengths and minimize its weaknesses. Weakness: Little money to hire a great coach. Way to minimize weakness: Hire a super-talented black head coach who the market unfairly undervalues and can be hired for an amount we can afford. Blacks and whites have equal ability to coach a college football team. With UNT’s limited resources, isn’t it a better value to hire the 7th best black head coaching candidate as opposed to the 114th best white head coaching candidate? Of course, North Texas has hired a black head coach before and that coach failed. But did Matt Simon fail because he was black? No. Among the reasons he failed was because, at that time, UNT made a half-hearted commitment to moving up to Division IA and did not have the money, facilities, game-day atmosphere, etc. to be successful. Would Vince Lombardi or Mack Brown have been any more successful than Simon? Probably not. (Another reason Simon failed was his reliance on out-of-state JUCO transfers, which is a mistake Todd Dodge is repeating, but that is another topic.) Recruiting quality players is a current weakness of the UNT football program. The majority of college football players are black. A black head coach would give us an advantage when recruiting those players, especially locally. UNT is competing with SMU and TCU for local recruits who are attracted to the idea of playing college football close to home. Both SMU and TCU are private schools with small African-American communities. A black head coach would help UNT maximize its strength of having a large, diverse campus community. UNT has to be different to win. If UNT chooses to compete “apples to apples” with other schools in the FBS, the other schools are going to eat UNT’s apples and the Mean Green will continue to lose. Hiring a black head coach is one tactic UNT can use to build a successful college football program.
  9. The SAD thing about your post is that Tim MacMahon leaving the UNT beat for the Collin County High School beat a few years ago was a SIGNIFICANT promotion complete with pay raise. Tim never "let his emotions get in the way of being professional" at UNT. He covered the beat so well he caught the eye of the The Dallas Morning News editors, who wanted him on their staff, not the Denton Record-Chronicle's. Tim jumped at the opportunity to work at the Morning News and is now their signature blogger. If Vito was offered the Collin County High School beat he would leave the UNT beat in a second because it is a better job: not necessarily a better beat. Any journalist would much rather cover a college, but the Collin County High School beat is more important to The Dallas Morning News and therefore they place their better journalists in that position, feature their stories more prominently, pay them more, etc. That crow you ate a few years ago must have had some hallucinogenic properties in it if you think Tim MacMahon leaving the UNT beat for a high school beat at The Dallas Morning News was anything but a great opportunity to move up in the world of sports journalism.
  10. Once again, Dodge going out of his way to make Vito look bad. Why can't Dodge play nice?
  11. People are mad at Todd Dodge because they feel him and his coaches do not understand the college game. They are also mad at Todd Dodge because he was able to milk the college football rules to give his son a year of FBS experience AND an extra year of eligibility. I am glad like hell he was smart enough to do that. Now we can have four years of Riley Dodge as starting quarterback and Riley will enter year one already being familiar with the speed of the college game. Great job Todd Dodge!
  12. DeLoach has never been much of a recruiter. So not worried about that.
  13. Yes, it would be a good idea for UNT to get McDuffie. It would also be a good idea for me to sleep with Scarlett Johansson. The odds are about the same on both.
  14. Another thing to add: There are also different kinds of scholarship offers: You have a standing offer or a take-it-or-leave-it offer. A standing offer allows a recruit to take a few days or weeks or months and think about it. These are for top targets, the kind of recruits a coach just has to have. Other times, a coach will see 100 running backs at his camp, decide three of them are decent D1 prospects, but only has one scholarship available for a running back. The coach will invite the best of the three recruits in to his office and offer him a scholarship, if the recruit takes it, the coach is finished recruiting that position and the other recruits never get an offer. But if the top running back recruit declines, the coach will withdraw the offer and make it to the next-rated RB recruit and so on. So is it really that impressive if one of our recruits had a take-it-or-leave-it offer from a Big 12 school that expired the moment he asked the coach if he could think about it? Also, just because a recruit had offers from big-name schools does not mean we necessarily beat that big-name school in recruiting that player. For example, one of our players got a take-it-or-leave it offer from, say, Virginia Tech, when he was a junior in high school, but the player declined thinking maybe Texas A&M or Texas or someone better would offer him his senior year. The player then gets hurt or has a disappointing senior season and ends up taking a scholarship from UNT. Both Virginia Tech and UNT offered the kid a scholarship and the kid signed with UNT, but did we really beat Virginia Tech in recruiting that player? No, Virginia Tech's scholarship offer had been revoked way before the kid settled on UNT. But all the newspapers will report that he had an offer from Virginia Tech and he signed with UNT. And another thing, coaches cannot comment on who they have offered scholarships to before signing day, and rarely comment on who they offered scholarships to after signing day. So kids can claim to have had scholarship offers from whoever they want to and nobody will ever try to prove them wrong. And many times a small-town reporter will ask a kid who is recruiting him and the kid will tell the reporter every school that has sent him a letter and the reporter, being an idiot, will report that all of those schools offered the kid a scholarship while in reality they only sent him a letter. Trying to follow recruiting is a very inexact science.
  15. Navy is certainly at a competitive disadvantage for the reasons you mentioned, but remember: Navy also has strengths to play to: a HIGHLY valuable degree, a wonderful tradition, a nationwide fanbase, they can also get around the NCAA scholarship limitations easier than non-service academies and they even have a JV team to develop players. My point is: Navy is different. They cannot land the top tier of talent (just like North Texas, but for different reasons) so they installed a system that does not require the top tier of talent. Their system values a different type of player than Notre Dame, USC, Texas, etc therefore they are able to actually find those players that make their system work. North Texas is running the same system as everyone else in the state and while we are in the most fertile recruiting hotbed in the country, it is also the most picked-through recruiting area in the country. And unfortunately, for many different reasons that we are trying to correct, North Texas is low man on the totem pole when it comes to where recruits chose to play. So let's find a offensive system that values a specific type of player who might not be coveted by another school, but who, in the right situation, can defeat that TOP 100 all-everything recruit who is being signed by our competitors.
  16. Since UNT is at a competitive disadvantage in the college football world, shouldn't it seek to succeed "Moneyball" style by finding the NEXT innovative offensive system instead of trying to be "ME TOO" with the spread? Texas, Tx Tech, Baylor, SMU, Rice, Houston (just off the top of my head) are all running similar versions of the spread. What is special about us? How can we succeed picking through the leftover recruits who fit into the spread? Why not install a different type of offense that defenses ARE NOT used to seeing every week? The spread is so successful because it was different. It is not different anymore. The New England Patriots have been so successful in the NFL because their offensive and defensive systems value players differently than other NFL teams. They can pick players off the scrap heap for cheap who fit perfectly into their system. If UNT was running a different type of system than everyone else, we would have the opportunity to target recruits with different skill-sets than the recruits being targeted by schools that consistently beat us in recruiting battles. UNT could target undervalued recruits that fit into our DIFFERENT system. SMU had it right last year when they unsuccessfully tried to hire Paul Johnson (who runs the triple-option, a radically DIFFERENT version of the spread everyone else runs). Georgia Tech went 9-3 and Navy went 7-4 this year with the triple-option despite suffering from competitive disadvantages compared to their peers (of course, they are not as disadvantaged as North Texas.) My point is North Texas can't compete straight up with other D1 schools in the state and win. We have to be DIFFERENT. Our current offense was adopted with the intention of being different, but it is really the same as everyone else. In 2003 Jerry Moore just wrapped up a 7-4 season at Appalachian State. Unsatisfied, Moore scrapped his I-formation offense in favor of the spread and was rewarded by winning three straight Division I-AA national championships. It is time for Todd Dodge to realize his spread offense is not going to make North Texas special. It is time to see if Todd Dodge's offensive mind is innovative enough to come up with something else. Here is the best article I have ever read on the spread offense and what makes it work ... http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/colle...1s15spread.html
  17. Isn't the Missouri offensive coordinator the same guy who was asking Todd Dodge for advice on how to coach the spread offense a few seasons ago? Why hire the student, when you can hire the teacher?
  18. With Cam coming back and the depth at running back with Mathis and Mosely, wouldn't it make sense to get Dunbar on the field at receiver in a kind of Jamel Branch-role where he can be utilized on short passes and reverses? Our depth at WR sucks. We need to get our best players on the field.
  19. would he continue to try to prove himself at the college level by taking an offensive coordinator position at a D1 school? Could he even still get such a gig? Or would he target some one-school high school town where he could chase more state championships?
  20. Does the "AD" in your name ADman stand for "a douche"?
  21. Star-Telegram says VIZZA declined interview requests. And I can understand being upset in the heat of the moment, but Todd Dodge and UNT's sports information department needs to have some scene control and make sure the Quarterback of the the football team is available to the media. Unless everyone over there is overwhelmed and giving up on turning this thing around.
  22. Everyone is frustrated with this team. No one has invested more and gotten less in return than the players themselves. That must be wildly disappointing for them. But Giovanni Vizza is supposed to be the leader of this team and he is ducking interviews with the press after the game. Is that how a leader acts? Did Scott Hall do that? After throwing three interceptions and getting blown out at Homecoming shouldn't Vizza have the courage to answer the questions about what went wrong and offer his take on how they can get better? During a disappointing season, I understand not wanting to talk about it and I would forgive a guy who didn't want to participate in some mid-week press requests (since he has school obligations and filmwork and so on). But right after a game, a leader needs to step up, face the press and take his medicine. Especially after throwing three interceptions. That is an opportunity for him to demonstrate his character. Vizza's failure to do that is also an indictment against Todd Dodge, who should know better than to let his starting quarterback behave that way. Vizza sure was available to answer questions from the media last season when he was setting freshman passing records. I would feel much more certain about him being the man to turn this program around if he could stand up and be a voice of accountability and hope for this team's future. If he can't do that, maybe it is time to give someone else a chance. Even a spineless wimp like Chris Simms had the balls to face the media after a tough loss when he played at Texas (even though Mack Brown answered all his questions). I've seen Vizza run over defensive linemen who weigh 100 pounds more than him. There is no doubt about his physical toughness. I'm just starting to question if he has the mental toughness to remain the starting quarterback of this team.
  23. Yesterday I had two extra people who were willing to come to the game with me. We didn't have tickets for them and they didn't want to wait in line to buy tickets or wait in line at will call to pick them up. They wanted to order their tickets online and print them from home. But apparently the UNT athletic department does not have that capacity. The freaking dollar movie theater near my house has the capacity to let you print your tickets at home and skip waiting in line, but the UNT athletic department does not. It is 2008. This pisses me off.
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