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  1. I should start by saying that what EM has started with on his staff over the last couple weeks looks great, no complaints here. 

     

    I should end by saying that if Garrett Riley was the incoming HC and he was about to coach for the Natty, whoa. EM may end up our next McCasland, but Riley would've started with higher regard considering TCU has a punchers chance at winning it all. 

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  2. I would love baseball at UNT and I would absolutely be a season ticket holder. But for so many reasons mentioned above, I've all but given up on that being a reality anytime in the next 5-10 years. Basketball should be the priority in my mind. I've heard some semblance of the quote before that "the fastest way to change the growth of athletic program at any University is with 5 scholarships on a basketball court" and I believe that's where we are and should be headed to try and change the trajectory of our athletic program. Football will follow and benefit from that too ultimately. 

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  3. 18 hours ago, wardly said:

    TCU, SMU, and UNT are only football options in Metroplex and I don't see many DFW  kids  playing for us. Same for basketball.

    I don't think you can compare NCAA Basketball/Football to NCAA Baseball. Every year, the College World Series has some Northside Barber College team with a shot to win it all, which in and of itself makes the landscape of College Baseball very different. While March Madness generally offers you a team or two as a Cinderella, you don't get the Coastal Carolina, Cal St Fullerton, Rice, etc. universities as Nat'l Champions like you do in baseball. Football is even worse where I would almost argue that there are about 3 teams from 3 conferences that really have a chance to win it all. I'm sure other legitimate arguments could be made. 

    I do think you can compare the need for a good coach to be competitive, but I think the advantage is that there are more good baseball coaches available to you than there are good football/basketball coaches. (And the basketball coach we have is undoubtedly the best we've ever had). But UNT could compete for those baseball kids. If you look at UNT softball, they're littered with talent from TX and OK and they're highly competitive. Much credit deserved to DeLong for that, but I believe we can get a guy in here with the same recruiting and coaching ability as DeLong. 

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  4. After watching basketball get way to close with UC freaking Riverside, the wife and I headed to Plano for the evening, still wearing my UNT gear.

    It may not sound like much but I at least 10 random strangers tell me how they enjoyed our bowl win and congratulated me. I also had 2 guys stop me and want to talk about the season we had. It took me off guard everytime but it's great hearing people around DFW (I guess I mean more specifically outside of Denton) generating a little buzz about UNT.

    GMG - Beat Texas

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