[Fort Worth Star-Telegram Report]

Today's print edition of the FWST has an article with the title "North Texas Expected To Hire UNC Assistant"       In the body of the article it states "A person familiar with the thinking at UNT said Littrell would be the choice.  Insiders believe that the Tar Heels want to wait on Littrell's announcement until after Saturday's ACC Championship game against Clemson"   The article goes on to state "That time line perhaps led to a rise of confusing reports that had sources in Ft. Worth believing that Meacham was headed to North Texas"

Those of us who read or post on GMG.com would probably say that this was only one of the many things that have led to confusion about this situation.

[MGB: Canales' heartfelt statement at presser]

I agree with UNT86.  He did the best that he could in two tough situations.   He seems like the kind of man that you would like to have as a friend.   I also wish him the best for the future.   He will land on his feet.  He has lots of friends coaching at the college level and will be helped to land his next job.

[Slightly Different Take On The Schedule Question From Earlier This Week]

If money were not part of the situation option 3 would be my choice.     If money were not part of the situation I would be driving a Mercedes instead of a Ford.

[11 job openings as of today]

The good thing about so many openings is that there will be LOTS of assistant coaches looking for a job because their head coach just got fired.  Some of these will be good coaches who ended up in bad situations.   Our new head coach should be able to put together a good coaching staff with lots of college coaching experience in a very short period of time.    This will be really important because they will need to hit the ground running to get a decent recruiting class signed for next February's national signing day and/or get some decent junior college signees that can get here for the Spring semester.

[Question For @FlyOnTheWall Regarding Scheduling]

Several years ago I was at a school board meeting where a hot top was being discussed.   The discussion moved from the topic to more personal thoughts about some of the members.   An older, wiser fellow said "Gentlemen, I think we need to remember that it is possible for good men to disagree".  That calmed things down a bit and the discussion returned to the topic that needed to be discussed.    We have some posters on this message board that need to remember that.  We all want the same thing - a strong athletic program.  We just have some different ways to go about it.

[Gotta give Chico credit here]

I thought the coaching staff had a good game plan and the kids gave a great effort.    Sometimes you get beat by a better team and that is what happened today.    We have nothing to be embarrassed about after this one.       I agree that Chico will make somebody a good head coach if they will give him a chance.   It won't be at North Texas but I will root for him wherever he ends up. 

[Live On Fox Sports Southwest]

North Texas leads 1 to 0 early in the game.      If that announcer does not quit referring to us as North Texas State I may have to fly to Florida to whip his tail.

[Hayden Fry: Head Coach and AD]

Well, I hate to admit it but I was wrong on this one.    I did a little internet research and found that Dr. Cearly was Athletic Director from 1962 through 1969 - Rod Rust was Athletic Director from 1970 through 1972 - Fred McCain was Athletic Director in 1972 and 1973 - then Hayden Fry became Athletic Director in 1973.   He stayed through 1978 then Fred McCain returned as Athletic Director for 1979.   Bob Tyler was Athletic Director for two years then Fred McCain returned to the Athletic Director's job in 1982.    I did not realize it but Fred McCain was our Athletic Director on three separate occasions.     How strange !!!

[Hayden Fry: Head Coach and AD]

I believe the answer is Jess Cearley.    Dr. Cearley was the head of the men's physical education department and in those days also had the job of being athletic director.        At that time the coaches were also on the faculty and taught classes.   The football coaches - including the head coach - all taught football coaching classes.   The basketball coaches all taught basketball coaching classes and the head track coach taught that coaching class.    Hayden became the first head coach that I know of who later became the athletic director.    The world was a different place in those days. 

Fred McCain was one of Odus Mitchell's assistant coaches who became athletic director several years later.

[Mike Canales ready to be a head coach]

I think he will be a really good head coach for someone if he gets a chance.   It won't be here but I sure hope that we do not have to play against a team where he is the head coach. 

 

[Players are calling MGC members...]

Guys I don't think this has anything to do with RV trying to cover his tail.   This has happened each year for the last several years.   We also got a call tonight.   It was from a young lady on the tennis team.   I knew that we recruited a lot of kids from Europe so I asked her where she was from.    She laughed and said she was proud to be from the US of A and was the only one from the US of A on the team.   We had a nice visit.   She seemed like a really nice young lady and was very appreciative of the help that was received from the Mean Green Club members.

[Another Banner or billboard?]

Neither

 

[Al Golden anyone?]

In the past we have hired three men who had been fired from their most recent head coaching position  -  Hayden Fry, Bob Tyler, and Dan McCarney.  Only one of those had any real success here.   Maybe we need to look in a different direction this time.

[Darrell Dickey]

I like Coach Dickey and enjoyed watching his teams play but bringing him back would not be the right thing to do.

 

UNT90 I am surprised that you are not heading up the Hire Dickey campaign.   Under the umbrella of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" Coach Dickey's return might be more than RV could stand.   If he were forced to hire Coach Dickey RV might just quit.    No buyout.....no golden parachute.....just gone.    If you want to know of a place to get bumper stickers printed up let me know.

[NOW MORE THAN EVER - BE AT APOGEE !!!]

1. My grandson's baseball game is higher on my list of priorities.    We have probably attended our last game for this season and have not yet made a decision about next season.  

[Question about attendence]

The official attendance was listed as just over 19,000 but they must have brought somebody in from SMU to come up with that number.    There were very few seats in our Club Level section that were being used.   Some people filtered in from the Hill during the first half but very few.   If there were more than 10,000 butts in seats I would be surprised.

 

 

[LEGENDS OF THE MEAN GREEN : HOMECOMING COURT]

The 1988 Homecoming King was Major Greene.......the son of North Texas legend Joe Greene.

[Homecoming Excitement?]

You could actually substitute the phrase "a season" for the word Homecoming and say it for me.    I once really looked forward to the start of the season and each week that we had a game.    The last twenty years have pretty much sucked the excitement out of it for me.   

[McCarney says UNT’s sticking with McNulty]

I once heard a motivational speaker who said "if you keep on doing what you've always done then you'll keep on getting what you've always got."   I think that applies to our quarterback situation.    If we are happy with the results that we have seen with our current quarterback then we should stay with him.   If you are not happy with the results that you have seen, perhaps it is time to look at a different option. 

[Are we back in Dickey days]

Rick there is a phrase "my mind's made up.....don't confuse me with the facts".   That certainly applies to some of our fans in this situation. My wife says that is often applies to me, too.     I enjoyed watching Coach Dickey's teams play.   They played great defense, had a sound kicking game, and used a ball control offense with a solid running game and a few play action passes thrown in.    I enjoy that type of play but understand that not everyone does.    Coach Dickey could be a jerk at times but so can I so perhaps that is why we got along so well.    I would love to go back to those bad old days of winning conference championships and going to New Orleans for bowl games but don't see that in our immediate future.  I had forgotten how brutal those nonconference schedules were.   Thanks for the reminder.  Keep up the good work.

 

[Positives heading into Iowa]

• The only positive that I can think of is that I am positive that I won't set my DVR to catch this one.

[Why this year is so important for UNT Football]

Another thing to consider is that this is the fifth year in the five year commitment that people made for Club level seats or Suites.   I think most folks anticipated more in the way of wins and in the way of quality opponents in these past five years.   It will be interesting to see how many choose to renew that commitment and how many say "no, thank you" for next year.

 

 

[Ryan Rentfro's Summer Gig]

Although we live in Azle our grandson lives in Flower Mound and plays baseball there.   In the Spring before he graduated from high school Ryan umpired a bunch of the games for Christopher.    We got to visit with him several times.   He was really excited about coming to North Texas.   He is a good guy and one that we have enjoyed watching.   We hope that he continues to develop and gets even more playing time this season.

[Podcast coming this Thursday night]

I think you should have UNT90 as one of your guest hosts just to liven things up a bit.

[UNT Night @ Rangers Ballpark]

• We had a group of ten that sat down the left field line in the Lexus Level seating. The air conditioning inside was sure worth the extra cost prior to the sun going down at the start of the game.   There were lots of green guys and gals there.  The line to get the caps was VERY long but moved pretty quickly.    After the game we were leaving the stadium and two people tried to buy some of our caps from us.   One lady was very nice and one gentleman said that he had been trying to get anyone to sell him one with no success.  Who knew that the Mean Green would be in such demand ?