Greenrex

I heard Dan McCarney is going to be interviewed by Sean Penn.

fewer than two dozen of the 350 Division I athletic departments make money. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/sports/a-way-to-start-paying-college-athletes.html?emc=edit_th_20160109&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=61843218

B-...for now. We'll have to wait and see how many empty Grey Goose bottles he finds around the office.

Good catch, H.E...dude even displays the Arabic Mean Green Battle Flag.

istant and ociate

We've been beating this horse for two years now.

I am by no definition notably knowledgable regarding such things but, it seems to me that if everything else is pretty much okay, nothing is more important than recruiting. Nothing except player development.

I took it Littrelly.

Okay, so we can't get much worse but on the bright side, the new coaching staff will almost surely be able to make "better" things happen.

Buddy Hackett

Littrell or Meacham.

Okay...I'm going to hang up and listen.

http://oregon.247sports.com/Bolt/Report-Scott-Frost-to-be-named-UCF-head-coach-41593255

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Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

Okay. Now I'm starting to get sort of tingly all over...and I'm not kidding.

Don't know if this has been posted yet... http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/lsu-tigers-les-miles-texas-a-m-aggies-coaching-final-game-112715

Me too...it's pretty much the only game in town.

Whoa! Funski! Thanks!

Going forward 4-5 years it will be interesting to compare the new North Texas coach to whomever is coaching at Georgia Southern whether it's Fritz or his replacement. The difficult realization for me is that history indicates the comparison will not even be close.

Big-time college athletics departments are taking in more money than ever - and spending it just as fast. These 28 schools operated at a loss in 2014. In September, Auburn University’s football stadium debuted one of the largest video boards in North America. At just shy of 11,000 square feet, the high-definition screen is roughly the size of a five-story building. During a test one night this summer, the glow was visible in the skies over the rural plains of eastern Alabama nearly 30 miles away. When he announced the purchase, Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs said the new board would help recruit star athletes and sell tickets. This convinced Auburn’s board of trustees to approve the $13.9 million expense even though the athletics departmentposted a deficit of more than $17 million the previous year, an analysis of financial records shows, one of the worst fiscal years in Auburn athletics history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2015/11/23/running-up-the-bills/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening

This is my nightmare: I don't know if it's possible for some of you who are far more knowledgable than I about college football but, what are the chances that the new coach will be someone that no one knows anything about?

Agree, Harry and I hope he is someone who is wanted by most of us.

The AD seems to have a perception of the new head coach's profile is to find a young, wide open, offensive minded, gunslinging boy genius (read: my last hire didn't work so well therefore I'll go for the exact opposite) from a reasonably successful biggie program. That only serves to establish preconceived notions about what a super candidate must look like which might require pounding a square peg into a round hole. But, the that fact is every school is unique and North Texas is no exception. Seems to me that we should be trying to identify the very best coach we can afford who has demonstrated success as a head coach and recruit the hell out of him. Briles might someday be the best coach in the land but, nobody knows how he would do, he's a lottery ticket. Fritz has the record and although he doesn't come with Dad it doesn't matter because he is the dad. I have been sort of a Fritz fan for a while and went to the UGA game last night just to kind of scout his game management mojo and came away thinking evermore strongly that I'd like to see him wearing our green. I feel very strongly that he would be successful here. I think we have the right situation, enough money, and overall appeal to get him here. Unfortunately, we don't have an inspired AD and he's certainly not a creative AD. So, I don't think there's any way on God's green earth that Willie Fritz will ever coach for us...it's just another one of this old man's dreams...like the one where in a few short years we would have had to add another 30K seats to Apogee and name that new facility The Willie Fritz Indoor Football Practice Complex.

I think you make a good point regarding the current AD. I must say though, hiring Derek Dooley would probably be the straw that breaks this old man's back.