SilverEagle

It appears so. I'll have to adjust my statement to " But he would have had to acquire more influential/powerful people like Rex Cauble.......who were not under indictment."

Had he stayed he just might have. But he would have had to acquire more influential/powerful people like Rex Cauble. Jitter Nolan ran interference for him so that he didn't have to fight with the NT bureaucracy on a daily basis. But I'm guessing it still took its toll on him. SO, when Iowa came calling and offered him the opportunity of a lifetime with none of the institutional aggravation that North Texas always presented, he made a no-brainer decision. After all, who wants to deal with the institutional Borg on a daily basis?

With all due respect........ "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matthew 24:33-36). As Jesus explains in this passage of Scripture, nobody knows when the Second Coming will be except the Father. The Lord Himself didn’t know when the Second Coming would occur because only the Father is to know.

A Texas Rangers-style waving Battle Flag.

We hired one of two good/best candidates for the job. The other candidate would be Cody Carthel. Morris and Carthel each have head coaching experience in TEXAS. Which means that they have (or should have) a better idea of the "challenges" of coaching football at North Texas and therefore, recruiting players to North Texas. McCarney like Bob Tyler back in 1981 both came from Big Time programs.....well...bigger than North Texas. And neither of them knew what the real challenges were here. Tyler was the first coach that openly verbalized that challenge when he mused "what the hell is wrong with these people?" McCarney wondered the same thing, but he wasn't so willing to openly verbalize it. Morris is doing fine on the offensive side. He just needs to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with his DC and let him know that he expects the same level of improvement. Otherwise.........

Or worse. Since SMU will not see us any longer, they don't have to show the least amount of mercy in the final score.

Was one put out by the athletic department?

Hell, I don't even like beer with enchiladas. It's tea, or a tequila drink or water.

Interesting point.

My speculation is this. 1-AA was chosen because it was more affordable in the short run and joining a conference with local schools cut down on the travel expenses. Joining a 1-AA conference allowed for a clearer picture of what the future expenses would look like. Going the route of purchasing the aluminum bleachers (assuming that that would work) and then staying in 1-A as an independent, besides the extra cost of materials and installation, meant a lot of uncertainties and scheduling headaches. Not to mention the larger travel expenses that could go along with that. Hurley and/or people who were advising him might have mentioned that the students at North Texas, and many alumni as well, were not fanatic enough to be significantly turned off by our opponents in our 1-AA conference. After all, we never sold out the original Fouts field during the Joe Greene/Steve Ramsey era, but we did have a sell out for a big game with SFA in 1989, as well as a sell-out for the McNeese St. game in 1994.

,,,especially when a former defensive player, and a professional businessman is moved to post a rant demanding his firing, I was very surprised.

Also Mazin Richards (Eastern NM), Jordan Smart (UTPB), Kaylon Horton (Tarleton) Ridge Texada (McNeese) My all-time favorite who transferred from a small school was Jorden Case (78-79 starter) who transferred from Sul Ross U.

(heavy sigh) Look, I know that many out there are going to start rolling their eyes, but here goes again. When C.C. (Jitter) Nolan was President of NT and Hayden Fry came to the school. We had NO endowment fund and Hayden Fry started the Mean Green Club. So that would be 1973 when it started......one year ahead of our endowment fund getting started. We had no cultural concept of fund raising. Administratively, North Texas was stuck in the 40's, 50's,60's. When Hayden Fry was lured away to Iowa, and Jitter Nolan was run out of town on a rail by all the "old nesters" . We culturally reverted to that era. All things considered, we were lucky to have 1-AA as an option. Otherwise all those administrative :Mathews-ites would have had us playing against the likes of Sul Ross state and other non-scholarship schools. Grads from the 50's thru 70's had no cultural concept of giving to the athletic department.

It was my understanding that it was LaLa (they were called SW Louisiana State then) that took on the NCAA. I always wondered why NT didn't do the same. Did they not know that this NCAA ruling was coming so that they could designate Texas Stadium as our home field?

The President of the SGA ("Flyer") organized this vote. The first thing he did was to tell RV to stay the hell out of it. RV and his minions had organized a student vote that failed miserably. Mainly because it was obvious that the athletic department was behind it and was trying to shove it down the students' throats. AND he was warned that that just might happen.....but he wouldn't listen. So "Flyer" put together a team comprised of representatives of all the groups that you mentioned above and came up with a great plan to sell it to the students. And for all this hard work I don't think that anyone from that great team was ever given any credit when it came time to put a plaque up on the stadium.

I have always said that any Saturday when Notre Dame losses is a good Saturday. When Norte Dame AND SMU lose...it is a great Saturday. If they ever played one another in a bowl game I wouldn't be able to watch. I would have a meltdown brought on by extreme indecision.

BINGO! BINGO! BINGO!

😶 bless your heart. Gregg County here.

How about someone who can protect the QB, so that he has enough time to get the ball to these great WR's? And while they're at it, about some guys that will be stopping the run and chasing the opposing QB around so that he cannot get the ball to their star WR?

you are much more generous in your assessment. I am SICK TO DEATH OF THEM.

The Alumni association has had this logo for about 15+ years. It is one of the best logos that the University has in its inventory and (sadly) it's the most UNDERUTILIEZED. I see very little gear being produced and marketed with this logo on it. No hats, very few shirts, and no flags. The main representative from Pro-line once told FFR and I that a hat with the NT-Star on it would be a killer product. He said it would out-sell anything that was out there for NT. BUT someone in the long-standing dysfunctional NT administration or the decision makers(?) in the equally dysfunctional NT Alumni association have never seen fit, or had the vision, to market it. Besides hats and shirts, I would suggest the NT Battle flag with the NT-Star in place of the single star. Not the replace the Battle Flag, but as a flag for the Alumni who gather for tail-gating etc.

You forgot to "cc". president@unt.edu I am retired from a State Agency. I learned a long time ago, to get the e-mail address of someone's boss when I wanted to make sure that I didn't get ignored or didn't want boilerplate responses.

Phil, I have a feeling you would bring a bazooka to a knife fight.

I found Eclipse shades/glasses at Lowe's.

When does it start?