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I believe we did…but when UH came calling, he went their way

This is the new toilet bowl of FBS now that Fouts is gone

He’d be a great choice…

If I was at Georgia Tech or Auburn, Deion would be on my short list. SE schools and lots of talent around him to coach up.

One thing I’ll always appreciate about him was that he constantly spoke up about being promised a new stadium when he got hired. He kept it in the forefront of the fans and administration to do something.

Speaking of BYU, they got pounded last week at Liberty, who then gave Hugh Freeze an 8-year, fully guaranteed $40 million extension.

I wouldn’t call Odus Mitchell our “standard”…I mean he’s basically our Bill Snyder, winning here when nobody else but Fry has been able to accomplish. He must have been a damn miracle worker compared to almost everyone else after him. I don’t know who is the “standard” here, but since 1995, SL seems to be the standard bearer for what we all hope is a baseline and not a ceiling.

Probably UNLV, too

I did admit that I never thought RV would leave back when he did--back when I thought we had made an awesome hire in Seth Littrell, too. Want me to admit it again right now? I never thought I'd see the day that the UNT 17 would get tired of being fleeced and that he would get fired in the way he did. We made a solid hire with Wren Baker, I know that. I think that if you find me insufferable, then you should ignore my posts.

I guess so. You got me.

Staying beyond 2018 is lifetime to you? Because that is what you claimed above. Imagine being so mad that you went back and researched posts from 6 years ago to try and get someone? Internet posting is serious business apparently. If I ever do that, I'll know that I should go ahead and end it all.

I have never ever said that. Not once.

In their 12th year of existence, no less. In our best years, we have gotten a few votes to be ranked.

6-7 would surely get him fired…although I really fear a 6-win threshold gets SL an extension and the AD gets more Lovelace cash to pay bills and bonuses.

We better hope this isn’t true or we are going to the wrong conference.

I read the whole thing...great article. Never mentions one time he's been back here to watch us play in a sport in which he was a letterwinner. Never mentions another penny given to the athletic program. I'm certain that if either has occurred, we'd have known all about it.

I'd love him to be the next member of the UNT 18. Hell, I think he'd stop some of the stupidity we do in athletics. But I am unaware of another penny he has given to the AD since he held us hostage for that $1 million gift unless we named it after Darrell Dickey, a coach who left here with 6 losing seasons out of 9, a 42-64 record that was built almost completely on SBC spares, and a guy who continuously talked down about the university and its fans at any chance he could. He's a great person, a great businessman, and a wonderful humanitarian. But I've never known him to once show an iota of interest in our football program since 2006, which seems very odd for a guy who played here and loves to self promote himself. This place would be his version of T. Boone's OSU Cowboys if he wanted it to be. But obviously, he doesn't, which is nothing new for most of the graduates we have had from the 50's thru the 90's.

The same guy who made us put Darrell Dickey's name on a practice field because we fired a guy who went 42-64? The same guy who hasn't come back here one time for a game at a new stadium that overlooks those wonderfully named fields that he blessed us with? I won't hold my breath on getting him back in the fold ever again. He loved Darrell Dickey, not anyone else here.

Again, Jeff Traylor knows a ton of HS Coaches. He is selling them on a young program that is not carrying decades of suckitude and apathy to these recruits. I remember when we hired Todd Dodge, the two HS head coaches I knew both said that Dodge was gonna find out that he had a much easier job at SLC, with better facilities and support than UNT wouid give him. I thought they were being jealous and petty. Then Dodge tirelessly reminded everyone that he was promised a new stadium when they hired him, thankfully, as these coaches' opinions on UNT came true. Traylor will eventually get hired away, probably as soon as this off season. But I also think that a new coach there SHOULD be able to recruit there fairly easily. That job has major advantages in the G5 that just don't exist at many other places. Like UCF, USF, or SDSU, you are recruiting to major cities with no other schools immediately in your market. Add in no losing history or apathy to fight against when recruiting, it all is a ton easier to recruit and succeed in that environment with the right coach than at many other G5 schools.

That’s what happens when you have 17 people who have bought the Athletic Department.

I’m telling you all that this is nothing more than DickeyBall 2.0. We beat teams that cannot compete with our running game and lose to anyone who can bottle it up.

Well, those schools are the ones that most of Denton follows and care about. Im certain that UT has more “diehards” with UNT degrees than we have.

SL ain’t going anywhere until a 7th loss makes an appearance on the standings. Wren knows he can’t because he already would have if he could. He’s no idiot like the last guy. He knows we suck and have very little support and very little media for the money we spend now. But here at UNT, the BMDs, all 17 of them, have an amazing amount of influence, since they have money and have basically bought the program on the cheap. They like SL, one of them call him “like a son”, and he’s given every chance to “earn” that extension. And make no mistake, a 7-win season against the easiest schedule in our history since returning to FBS is the curb-level hurdle SL has to step over to get another 3-4 years. And the Lovelace Bash will be Lit…

Aune is every bit as spare as McNulty was…ironically, when SL took over here, the guys who couldn’t beat McNulty out for the job were ALL run off and we brought in a backup QB from Bama and found some kid in Oklahoma that was a 2A all state QB, named Mason Fine that nobody wanted. If we are really, really lucky, this exact scenario will play out again in this next offseason.

The final nail isn’t until he loses 7…Lovelace Cash is the keeping agent here.