SilverEagle

pro level? Desperados? whatever you say. I would settle for another player at the level of Sky Pruitt.....or even someone like....Rahagene Cherry (6'2" X 310)

Yep, that's exactly how it happened. The only other "logistical" matter was choosing the "mass band" tune to be played and making sure that all of the invited HS bands had the tune either in their music library's or send them copies of it. It would be even easier today now that everyone has e-mail. Hell, for that matter most of the local HS bands have their own web-sites.

....that and the coaching staff's inability to adequately plan for that eventual occasion.

Maybe Jackson will spend all his future micro-managing-time with this project.

So I guess the "adjustments" that the coaching staff will be making for the rest of the year will be "attitude adjustments"...such as "don't worry guys about not being able to stop the run.....we like you anyway"..... ....

I'm no expert on construction, but building a stadium at the new location will require a MINIMUM of preparation. There will be no old stadium to tear down or add-to (like SMU and Troy), there will just be dirt to move and utilities to put in, and then build. We should be able to get one (35K to 40K seating) built for around 40 to 50 mil.

You mean like those wonderful adjustments that were made during the Tulsa and Troy games. At the end of the 2nd quarter of the Troy game, my friend turned to me and said "why has Troy stopped running the ball? We haven't stopped them yet". We got our answer in the 3rd quarter, when Troy realized the same thing......and we obviously didn't.

......like it did right after Hayden Fry left. I'll spare you my usual rant on that one. .....

He retired from football a year or so ago after being made "assistant head coach" at Mary Hardin Baylor.

The best AD's ever.. Hayden Fry Rick V. Corkey Nelson The one with the least amount of support from above (the President that is)? tie between Rick V. and Corkey Nelson

How well are they coached?....

I'm not contributing to this"replace-the-coach" discussion. However...... He taught Marshall to catch the ball? .....when? Also, K-Mart not only coached Quinn, he was the one who lobbied for JQ to be given a "ship" in the first place. I don't believe that DD was inclined to do so until K-Mart pressed the issue with him.

"FFR, I think Silver Eagle can tell all of us on GMG.com how successful Band Days were at UNT during the Maurice McAdow (then Green Brigade director) since SE attended a few when he was in an area high school. With Dr. McAdow we had one on campus back in the day who said "we can do this at NT." Well, it looked like a big deal to me.....mainly because I had not participated in, or experienced, any sort of College game day experience before attending North Texas homecoming with my HS band. I suppose that it took a big coordinating effort on the part of the COM, as well as other departments to pull off getting around 10 or more HS bands to participate in the homecoming parade as well as the half-time show. The Denton HS band always participated, as well as the usual "local" bands, but every year they would get some new bands to participate. One year they invited the Waco Carver Band and MAN! were they ever a talented group. I would have stacked them up against many of the college bands of that era. Participating in the homecoming activities gave me an opportunity to watch D-1 football for the first time. It also gave me an opportunity to compare it to SWC football after I started attending some TCU games. I came away from my experience very impressed. Of course, I went to a 3-A (the classification was 2-A back then) school. It might also be noted that this band day event was organized without the use of computers or e-mail.

Someone needs to call JM and tell him where it is.

Since ArkSt fan has already addressed the MVC question, I'll add my answer to this question. And the answer is "ONLY IF THEY HAVE AN ADMINISTRATION LIKE NORTH TEXAS HAD BACK IN 1978!!!!" When Hayden Fry left, he recommended that Bill Brasher be hired to replace him. The administration basically said "thanks, we'll take that under advisement". Well, that pissed Brasher off so bad that he accepted Fry's invitation to coach his defense at Iowa. Brasher had been an outstanding football player and coach at North Texas. He was so good as a coach that he was one of the coaches that Hayden retained when he took over in 1973. That's pretty unheard of at just about every level of coaching. Anyway, Brasher went with Fry and put together some very outstanding defenses at Iowa that helped them go to the Rose Bowl. We could have had some continuity in our program by hiring Brasher, (in his best John Belushi voice) BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OUR KNUCKLEHEAD ADMINISTRATORS WOULD HAVE NONE OF THAT! They had to go and diss one of the most loyal and talented alumni/coaches in North Texas history and eventually hire "Mr. Excitement"....Jerry Moore.......AKA DD's twin. Moore proceeded to take a boat load of talent assembled by Fry and turn them into one of the most boring football teams that North Texas has had in several years. I seriously doubt that the administrators at FAU will be as boneheaded as ours were back then.

His wife gets on the fan boards? Yeah, when V. Young moves on Mac is going to be in trouble (again). Anyone who favored Chris Simms over a winner like Major Applewhite is not a good judge of QB's in my book.

Public private partnership? How does (or could) that potentially work with public Universities in Texas?

He's in the Adkisson family and he's 5'9" and 180lbs? Is he adopted?

I'm not sure what your point is about scholorship limits re: Hayden Fry. I've only mentioned those limits when I've talked about what Corky Nelson had to deal with....which is that his program was 20 ships lighter than his opponents when he played against D-1 Schools. Not to mention fewer assistant coaches than D-1 schools. I have to respectfully disagree with you about "anyone being able to get on TV back in the 70's". NCAA football was mainly shown on ABC. I think NBC showed some, but not many. Unless a school cut a deal with an "indy" station (of which there were few back then) you were at the mercy of big network decision makers who favored the SWC, Big 8, PAC 8, and Big 10. I don't think that North Texas was ever on TV during that era. I don't compare the facilities or resources of the two coaches, but I do compare the circumstances. As I said in my comments, Hayden Fry came to North Texas when it literally was on life support. Record-wise and morale-wise, the end of the 72 season was as abysmal as North Texas has ever been... and that includes the 1-AA years. The students almost voted out football, and the campus was full of people that couldn't have cared less for sports. Hayden Fry came in and literally gave it CPR. He brought the Denton community and the North Texas community together like I've never seen before.....or since. He took a 1-10 team and by the next season he produced a 5-5-1 co-MVC championship team....with what would today be called "football spares." He started the meangreen club and he started the NT Angels program. If there was ANY sort of speaking opportunity he would avail himself of it. If Hayden had had a game day atmosphere like we have now, he would have thought that he had died and gone to heaven. He would have had every player, assistant coach, and anyone else associated with the football program out there meeting and greeting the fans and thus creating an even better atmosphere for everyone. Hayden could out-recruit, out-motivate, out-bullshit, and out-coach ANY coach that we've ever had here at North Texas.

My thing about Meager is this. If the guy wants to make play with his legs then LET'EM! Don't chew him out for scrambling, especially if it keeps a drive going. He'll get used to reading defenses eventually and will be making better throws as a result. Just let the guy lead the team the way in which he feels most comfortable leading them.

Lets see. They've been negotiating with Lafayette officials, and they are going to make their announcement on the LaLa campus. I just can't imagine where they are going to have the game.....

My old High School/College friend who has started attending games with me comes for the tailgating experience......not the quality of the football game.

RV, gomeangreen.com, AND the Greenbackers are the reason that there are more butts in the seats.

For the record, I have not said that I want Dickey to be fired. But, let's not take shots at Fry with partial information. Fry didn't win any bowls (Dickey has only won one) because there were no bowl tie-ins to the *MVC, AND there were probably about half the bowls around then as there are now. We also didn't have cable with all the ESPN and FSN channels back then either. We went to the NO bowl because it was created for the Sunbelt. AND we only went to the first one because there were no rules preventing a team with a losing record to participate in the NO bowl. I believe, thanks to us, that that loop hole has since been closed. Geee, what an honor, the "North Texas rule". Fry came to North Texas after our worst record in modern football history (1-10)1972. That was also the same year that the students had a referendum vote about keeping football or not. As I recall, it barely passed to keep football. Morale couldn't have been worse amongst the football team as well as the student body. The next year North Texas went 5-5-1 and were co-champions of the MVC. They dipped to 2-7-2 the next year, but he NEVER had a losing record after that. Fry had to deal with a student body that was ACTIVELY ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT. There were protests against the war, a total lack of interest in sports, and a general distrust of ANYONE in authority. This was the era when "IT AIN'T COOL TO BE A FOOTBALL FAN" really got it's start. In light of all that, I would say that Fry hasn't gotten ENOUGH CREDIT for all that he did. As to the reference about the Corkey Nelson era. We may have beaten a "Post-death penalty" SMU team, but we also beat a non-death penalty TCU, Texas, Rice, Texas Tech, and New Mexico team........as a 1-AA SCHOOL. As far as I'm concerned, the New Mexico win in 1983 will go down in anals of North Texas Iron Man football lore. That team played Texas tough in a 26-6 loss and then drove home on a bus. They then got back on a bus and drove out to New Mexico to play UNM at their homecoming, and beat them 18-8...in the rain. We then got back on a bus and DROVE BACK to Denton. The next week we beat Arkansas State 17-0. The resources were abysmal back then. And not once did Corky Nelson complain about it. *North Texas left the MVC after Fry's first year as coach and went indy.

To put a little more reality on this. The 2001 win over NMSU took a timely (and miracle) hit on the RB to dislodge the football and then a miracle pass play at the very end. Otherwise we lose that game. The win over ASU in 02 required a miracle throw and catch from Smith to *Marshall in the waning moments of the game. *2The win over NMSU in 2003 took a last minute drive and a FG with seconds remaining. The win over USU in 04 took a miracle play by T.J. Covington to preserve the win. * let it be noted that any sort of catch by Marshall was a miracle. *2 yes, I realize that we didn't have to win that game in order to be champs and go to NO.