DeepGreen

Shocked that Texas Tech did not make the list.

Hate UNT? Hardly. Tired of all the losing? You bet! Good game against USA coach Shanice? There, Laurie, make you feel better. Oh, Laurie, you seem like a loyal UNT fan just like me. Maybe we can have a beer together in the Club Seating section of the new stadium. Will you? My point is, I have a vested interest in UNT and want to see it successful in all sports.

On the other hand, it's possible that UTSA already has overtures from some established conference that would add the upstart program in the near future. Add to that the "University of Texas" @ San Antonio name recognition and war che$t they could possibly have, an aggressive AD, a huge stadium to play in, and a name coach like Coker. I truly expect tha MWC to add Boise State within a year or two, and the MWC to be crowned a BCS AQ conference shortly. That will make the Utah politicians (Hatch) happy. After all, don't think for a minute that Hatch is looking out for the SBC, MAC, CUSA, and other non-AQ conferences. He's looking out for Utah, BYU, and the MWC. So......when the WAC loses Boise State, I predict the conference will snap up UTSA. San Antonio is a big market, no NFL team, and no college football team to compete with. Sure, the evil empire is right down the road, but SA would welcome their own team to root for.

RV, cut your losses and move on to a new coach. This is embarrassing.

Probably means the Obama administration will force the Big Ten to add the Univ. of Chicago to the conference.

I'll man up too. I thought UNT would screw this up too. I apologize for thinking that way. Good hire Todd Dodge and RV.

"Mikey" likes this hire. The world as we know it....oh, never mind.

Make that Time Warner Cable.

Watched the game on cable and really enjoyed UNT come out on top. In front of the Hilltopper home crowd no less. Great game.

If you have Roadrunner.

Regardless of your politics, if China continues its "...efforts to lock up oil reserves" while we continue to do nothing, the U.S. is going to be in real trouble. Now might be the time to learn Mandarin. By Michael J. Economides, Editor-in-Chief From Investor's Business Daily "It was a rubbing-the-eyes-in-disbelief headline even from an administration whose energy secretary, Steven Chu, suggested that America's energy dilemma could be solved by painting roofs white, and whose interior secretary, Ken Salazar, talked of garnering 3,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity off the East Coast. (The current total electricity capacity from all U.S. energy sources is about one million megawatts.) Under the title "U.S. raises concern over China oil policy," David Shear, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told the House Armed Services Committee on Jan. 13: "We are pursuing intensive dialogue with the Chinese on the subject of energy security, in which we have raised our concerns about Chinese efforts to lock up oil reserves with long-term contracts." Shear was responding to Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, who said he was "worried that the Chinese were aggressively buying up oil all over the world and might not share it with other countries in the future." Well, what do you know? The Obama administration, whose entire energy posture going back into the presidential campaign has been both ideologically and practically stridently anti-oil, both as an industry and as a form of energy, has suddenly become "concerned" about China's oil grab. This is, to say the least, disingenuous. The U.S. government under Barack Obama has yet to acknowledge once, in spite of widely held estimates, that oil will continue to account for 40% of world energy demand 25 years from now ­ this while total world energy demand will increase by 50%, at least. Nor has the administration, mired in Kyoto and Copenhagen global climate rhetoric, acknowledged that fossil fuels, oil, gas and coal will still account by then for over 85% of world energy demand, a largely unchanged contribution from what it is today. Instead there is constant rhetoric about solar (the president's favorite during the campaign), wind and "advanced biofuels" which, when combined, are not likely to account for more than 1% or 2% of the world energy demand over the next several decades. In a Newsweek editorial last April 4, Chu expressed the administration's energy philosophy and policy: "We must move beyond oil because the science on global warming is clear and compelling: Greenhouse-gas emissions, primarily from fossil fuels, have started to change our climate. We have a responsibility to future generations to reduce those emissions to spare our planet the worst of the possible effects." The Americans should not be surprised by the Chinese moves. A far more pragmatic nation, China is acutely aware that energy, in short domestic supply, will be the "choke point" in its future development unless resources are secured throughout the world. That's why the very capable Chinese oil companies ­ CNPC, Sinopec and CNOOC ­ have fanned out in dozens of countries, making hundreds of billions of dollars of oil and gas investments, including in America's backyard, Argentina, Venezuela and Canada and a country America presumably dominates, Iraq. Their quest does not preclude unsavory countries such as Sudan or Iran. The major Chinese oil companies have the full support of the Chinese government and, very importantly, they are admired and praised by the vast majority of Chinese people. In discussions with Chinese intellectuals, government officials and company executives, the Chinese are often incredulous, all asking essentially the same question: Why is America letting us have a free and uncontested ride in all these energy ventures? In contrast, American "Big Oil," (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron ­ the only companies really able to play along and compete with the Chinese) not only are not supported or encouraged by the U.S. government, they've been routinely vilified by politicians. To the sizeable portion of the American public that's unaware of the role energy plays in the modern world, they are the devil incarnate. What the world is witnessing is the largest peaceful transfer of power in history. Energy means power, and while the U.S. is consumed by environmental ideologies and climate rhetoric, it is committing economic hara-kiri in the process. China, riding on energy acquisitions with little competition, will propel itself into the economic stratosphere. The U.S. should be concerned, but doing something about it will require an unlikely sea of cultural change in the Obama administration."

CMJ, you have to agree that was an embarassing loss tonight. 94 feet of heat baby!

I have no ounce of respect for that woman.

What's the over and under that UNT screws up this hire?

Can I get a copy of you avatar chick?

Last time I checked, we have no recruits, nada, zip, coming out of Oklahoma. Don't look now but ULM, so far, has 25%(5) of their class coming from Oklahoma. Anyone see a pattern here? Seems like we use to have very good recruits coming across the Red River into Denton.

I like what AZCoyote had to say- "That’s a nice bank you’ve got there, Charter. Be a real shame if something bad were to happen to it . . . . Chicago politics go national." This is similar to all of the well-run auto dealers that were closed when BHO and his mob friends became involved. Remember the 99 year old dealer in Houston(?) that had the GMC line pulled.

Someone needs to tell Obama that the unemployment number in my hometown hit 15% according to newspaper today.

Tale of Two Houses House #1 A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern 'snow belt' area. It's in the South. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- House #2 Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape. ~~~~~ HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville , Tennessee ; It is the home of the 'Environmentalist' Al Gore. HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ; it is the residence of the Ex-President of the United States , George W. Bush. . . . an " inconvenient truth " !

It's the arrogance of the Democrats that are in power that makes my blood boil. I'm paraphrasing a John Kerry comment after last nights victory by Brown, "he won the Kennedy's senate seat". No, he won the Massachusetts senate seat!!! Pompous bastard.

Two defensive ends? Where are the defensive linemen? Seems like we've had a little problem at that position for a few years.

Can we use him? Sounds like he's going FCS. Transfer

I thought I read where Sumlin just signed a new contract?

Payback is hell!