MeanGreenDan

That free tailgate last year was epic. Best event I've been to put on by the alumni association. I guess they don't want to lose their sh*t for a second year in a row!

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2011/08/12/unt-gets-20m-stadium-naming-rights-deal.html 20 Year $20 million, but I think I heard there was an "out" that might have been exercised.

Was just wondering about that! Agree!

Also if they liked him as much or more than someone else who might have commanded 2 million, they could have seen this as a way to have more money for assistants. If that's the case, not a bad strategy. If HC salary is in the bottom 3 (of current AAC), let's see what total coaches salary looks like compared to the field.

Probably need to wait for Vito and his FOIA request.

I am not sure what he was making at Incarnate Word because it is a private school, but he was making $750,000 at Washington State, and I am guessing that is a bump up from a small new FCS program. It is obviously up for debate, but I would think many would see a coordinator position at a power 5 school as being a higher level position than a head coach in FCS. Shoot, this year we even saw an active FBS head coach take a coordinator position at another FBS school!

He never recruited at Tech or WSU?

Isn't it fun to laugh a little bit?

He put his hat in the Texas State ring, why would he not in ours?

I have been a member for years, yet every time I show up at the alumni pavilion they can't find record of me, and act like I am some outside intruder trying to break into Fort Knox.

With the latest list of names from Football Scoop, who are you rolling with on this fine Monday?

Hello even more new names into the mix.

These look a lot closer to Littrell numbers than I thought they would. Of course minus the won championships and bowl win.

It's almost as if you purposely left out the very next sentence from his post. "The only way I could rationalize it if its a young (ish)up-and-coming coach that could inject excitement (ex. Emmett Jones)."

Many of us have been burned by buying tickets for a higher price than retail to sit in a high row corner section, when we could have just bought directly from the retailer on the 50 yard line for the less. I wish it wasn't that way! I still do buy mine through the university, but I don't blame anyone who doesn't.

This looks like the same tailgate that was posted in the other thread, just a different price point?

That's curious that he didn't travel with the team for sure. Maybe he knew going into the game what the results meant. As in, not just suspected, but was told.

Whenever @TheReal_jayDdamn well pleases

RV was a lame duck already and had no say in the hire.

You can stop saying WVA. he was at VA Tech, and Memphis before that. And often when a coach gets fired from the higher level school, their next position is for less money. My only question is if he's still receiving payouts from the buyout, and if so, if our salary would offset that, then he'd only be coming back because he wants to coach, and not because he'd make any more money.

Doesn't it have to be posted, and for a particular amount of time?

Is he also someone that was a good traditional recruiter, but is unproven when it comes to the portal? He seemed to fall out of favor right around the time the portal business started, and it seems like a consensus that at this point working the portal is equally as important as traditional recruiting.

While I think he would be one of the better options to set us up for success, I think the optics of hiring a fired coach from what we perceive to be a lower level program would not be great.