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Everything posted by untjim1995
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I am really starting to believe that the Cubs and the Mean Green have alot in common...
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Thanks for correcting me on the deal with Locksley. All I know is that UNM could have gotten about 1000 other guys that could do a better job than this guy. At any rate, other name that I wouldn't mind throwing into the mix is Dan McCarney from Iowa State fame. He, like Mason, also turned a ragdoll into a good program only to see the school dump him.
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Kragthorpe basically said that UNT didn't have the facilities or the desire to be at the i-a level. Keep in mind, back then, Helwig was the AD, we still were a long way from even contemplating having a new stadium, we were traveling to all parts of the Western US for conference games, and the OOC games were murder. Plus, Kragthorpe's experience at UNT was under Matt Simon, who was delusional at best. If I worked under Helwig and Simon as a coach, trust me, my view of this place wouldn't be very good, either. I am willing to bet you that his opinion has changed and that he would be open to coming here, assuming that his wife's health situation doesn't preclude him from being a coach again. After all, he had to leave A&M this summer to be with her. He would be a great head coach here, IMO. He had great success at Tulsa and would help with recruiting immediately.
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Here is what we need to see as a fanbase to really feel like the university wants to have a competitive football program--a head coach with experience as a winner at the FBS level, unless it is a coach who has won a title at the FCS level. Whether it is Kragthorpe (my choice), Franchione (2nd on my list), Mason, one fo the Bowden Boys, Barnett, Koetter, etc..just give us someone that can instantly bring some name recognition to the fanbase as a winner. What I fear is that we go cheap---again. We get the OC at Troy or the DC from Southern Miss, or worse, we hire a position coach from a BCS school (i.e., the WR coach from OU). Think of how well that has worked for New Mexico after hiring Locksley from Illinois, where I believe he was a position coach. I don't want coordinators or position coaches or even FCS head coaches from this area. I want a name coach. We need the second coming of Hayden Fry to show up in Denton very soon!!
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Bob Tyler as a Division 1 coach, but Dennis Parker as a i-aa coach was putrid. He might have been a great HS coach (sound familiar), but he was in way over his head as a college head coach.
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We could do a helluva lot worse than to hire Glen Mason. The rebuilding jobs he took over and turned into winning programs are Kent State, Kansas (which went from 0-11 in his first year to being 10th in the final poll of 1995), and Minnesota, where he always had the Gophers in bowl games. His team blew a huge lead against texas Tech in some meaningless bowl game and fired him. Since Minnesota went to another meaningless bowl game last year and lost to Iowa State and their first-year coach, and has now lost to a FCS school at home, I think Glen Mason looks better than ever to some of those Gopher fans. That said, even he might not want to take over this thing and its myriad of issues.
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Uhhh, I think we differ on our definition of mediocrity. 10-52 in the last 5 years is beyond pathetic. It screams, "We Don't Belong at This Level"...
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To me, someone who is not in the media and has never studied broadcast journalism, here is what I see, which I believe reflects a STRONG majority. UNT sports should always come first when sports is reported--no excuses at all. If we are talking about campus stations in Ft. Worth, College Station, Lubbock, Stillwater, El Paso, or Houston, I can almost guarantee that those schools are reproting about their teams first. I don't care about protocol, I don't care about your "vision" for reporting on sports, and I don't care about audio/no audio. I want reports and if it needs to even be commentary from the students that are on air, that is fine. Just lead with UNT sports. This is just as big of a reason why apathy runs so deep at our school. The culture is just so rotten here, even with the improvement in attendance. I really wonder if that culture can be changed in Denton ever. In all seriousness, are their other places like UNT and Denton where the culture has changed as drastically as we need it to change here?
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Don't forget to mention if we were in a better conference, too!!
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At the same time, I wonder how many games it will take for Dodge to stay around as coach. Anyone have any thoughts on what it will take? /sarcasm for those not sure of context...
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New U Of Houston Facilities Upgrades
untjim1995 replied to All About UNT's topic in Mean Green Football
I will almost guarantee you that if Texas, A&M, and Tech end up bolting the Big XII, the north schools will scoop up TCU and UH in a heartbeat so that they can keep the BCS label. That is the only way those two schools will get a move up anytime soon, but it is possible. -
I love the word "loost" that you used here. Bravo!! I get tired of reading the words "loosing" or "loose" to describe our performance during a game. Apparently, its very similar to the confusion some on here have for the word "opinion" (or is oppinion?) Spelling rant over!!
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I don't think its a problem, either, per se, I just think it occurs more often when the team is not competitive or is playing someone (WKU) that very few care about.
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OK--if that is true, why didn't that litigious threat keep those driven to I-AA purgatory back in the early 80s from stepping up to challenge the ruling by the NCAA or why aren't those schools that are pining to move up to 1-A (i.e UTSA and Texas State) not suing right now to get IMMEDIATE inclusion into 1-A status. Why haven't the non-BCS schools sued successfully to get equal footing at the BCS trough every year without any restrictions? The truth is that $$$ talks here. Not to mention that most of the legislators in this country are graduates of those big schools. Look at our fine state for no further example of power grabs. How in the world can UT and A&M be the only schools in the state to get PUF $$$--talk about litigation ready to happen, except for one small thing--the legislature and the judiciary system is predominantly made up of Longhorns and Aggies.
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The folks that I know that went to Rice are amazingly smart, but I will never forget what my wife's uncle, a Rice alum who is an engineer for KBR, once said about the place: Its where all of the HS nerds collectively gathered to break away from the rest of society!!
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I think we will have an announced crowd of around 23K, assuming weather is good. If not, then we will have to see how much rain we get before or during the game. As for the halftime exodus, unfortunately, this will always be at hand for us because so many of the folks in attendance only stay at the game until the band finishes. I remember going to the WKU game last year where two parents came into the ticket office and said that they wanted the cheapest tickets they could get because they were there to watch the band and were leaving after halftime. I even remember hearing some parents complain at the Tech game at Texas Stadium in 1998 about having to drive all the way to Irving to watch a half a game before the band performed. Its part of having a great music school, I suppose.
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Plumm, I agree with you 100% about Fouts being the gorilla on our back for years, but the administration didn't even try to address the program's other needs for so long that by the time we have gotten to where we are with this new stadium approaching, I fear it will stil be too late for us when it comes to playing football at the highest level possible. I do believe that the Super BCS will come within the next 5 years, will be made up of around 50-75 schools, and won't include any of the current non-AQ schools, with the exception of the top teams that are non-AQ (i.e., BYU, Boise, TCU, and Fresno State). I even think that some current AQ teams will get left out.
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I have a very good friend who works for ESPNDallas and he is a very fair reporter. He likes UNT a lot, even though he is a TCU guy. He tells me all the time that it will take UNT winning the SBC and beating a big name in OOC to get the DFW media to even consider talking seriously about UNT regularly. The history of our program is so sad that most of the old SWC types in the media here have passed on their snobbery to folks like Newy that come here from other locales. You can argue that he is a reproter and should not show bias, but I have oceanfront property in Arizona if you believe that on any level of media these days you can get unbiased opinion. And when you send Newy or others like him emails complaining about this stuff, he goes to the air and makes your school and its fans look even dumber for calling him out. What is the biggest killer of all, though, is that other than George Dunham, the other journalists in the area that have UNT ties, by and large, are apathetic to their university. We get mad at Craig Miller or others like hime for not having any love for the university, but our alumni and administration for the most part having acted like North Texas football was nothing more than a necessary evil, so those folks have taken that to heart. It is just going to take baby steps, unfortunately, for this to change with the DFW media. We have so far to go that it is what we are going to be dealing with for a long time, though. We need to get out of the bottom of the SBC first, get back to the top of the SBC regularly again and go to bowl games, beat the non-AQ teams we play (SMU, UH, etc.), and then get to where we can actually beat an AQ team someday. I will tell you this--if we ever beat a ranked AQ team and then win the SBC and the NO Bowl in the same year, I truly believe that this negative BS we always have to deal with in the local media will start to dwindle. Until then...
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Please except my apologies to SEC tennis!! I also hear that Pac-10 golf can be just short of WWF some weekends...
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Are you and Playmaker related? Oh wait, don't answer that...
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Dude, give it up. I am sure that it won't happen again and he learned a lesson from it. I know that you probably miss the days of receivers just scoring a TD and going back to the sideline in a proper manner, but today's game is totally different. It doesn't matter what level you are watching, from pee wee to the NFL, this celebration stuff happens ever game. The officials have discretion on making these calls. Even the Clemson fans thought it was BS. If it so hard to get over, I suggest finding another sport to follow--golf or tennis might be a little easier for you to enjoy--along with some geritol.
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I am starting to believe that the Rice game two years ago just might have been the lowest point we reached as a Division 1 team since we moved up in 1995. That is a good thing in that the worst SHOULD be behind us going forward and it is good that the team still remembers how humiliating it was to get beat by almost 60 points to Rice. We have played AQ teams closer than that and got a helluva lot more cash for it. The only problem I have is to say that our team's players FEEL like the score got run up on them. I am sure that to so many of those guys, that day is one that still burns in their hearts for how embarrassing that day was to everyone associated with UNT, so feelings probably aren't being balanced with reality. I will say this, the worst butt kicking I have ever seen a team take was when in 2003 when Oklahoma beat Texas A&M 77-0. With 10 minutes to go in the 4th quarter it was 77-0 and the 3rd team was playing was for OU. A&M couldn't even cross the 50 on the 3rd string defense and kept turning the ball over. I will never forget how sorry I felt for the Aggies when after a fumble return by OU to about the 5 yard line with about 8 minutes to go, the OU reserve QB knelt down--on 1st down. That looked so bad, though, that Stoops ordered the FB to just go into the fetal position when the QB gave him the ball on the next 3 downs just so they wouldn't score anymore. I thought to myself that a BCS school with A&M's resources and tradition should never get beat so bad that they never crossed midfield during a game while getting less than 100 yards of total offense that day in Norman. I bring all this up because I believe that the Rice-UNT game probably ranks 2nd to me because we are supposed to be competitive with schools like Tulsa, Rice, La Tech, and SMU. Rice easily could have scored 90+ if Bailiff wanted to be a jerk. That UNT team quit that day and it is why I believe that we will look back on that day as the lowest point we reached as a FBS school.
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Rice 44 UNT 34 I think we will stay with them for most of the game, but I think that a late TD by Rice will ice the game. I think this will be monumental improvement compares to us playing them two years ago in Houston. I think we will get our first win next week against the Cadets.
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What amazes me about 1999 was that we went 2-9 under dickey, but our two wins were at Texas Tech and at home to Boise State, both of whom finished with winning records and beat some really good teams. That is why just beating name teams doesn't get the fanbase going, nor does just winning conference games in the SBC and nobody else. It takes both.