Pen Yan Fan

None of this matters if RV is the one choosing coaches. The list of candidates RV was considering before hiring Dodge didn't sound much better than Dodge. The best sport in UNT athletics is women's soccer and that coach was in place before RV came around. RV has proven he can make tailgating better, but he has also proven he hasn't a clue about hiring coaches. By the way, has anyone checked out how bad the women's volleyball team is lately? One guess on who hired that coach

Meanwhile that national power Rice is getting hammered by Tulsa.

It was the only deep pass they tried all night in this Doge horizontal offense.

I wonder how much money they threw away tonight because they can't do anything right? Lots of refunds will have to be issued and this department needs all the money it can get.

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Yea, I didn't think you remembered all the coaches that were interested in the unt job when RV hired JJ. History is on my side.

I don't and I won't. Pretty soon RV will remove any reason for me to continue to be a fan. Do any of you remember the great coaches that wanted the men's basketball job before RV hand picked JJ? He picked the least qualified for the the job then to.

It's no problem. I am sitting in F next season. But the school lost my $500.

Not if you sit in Section d or f in Fouts Field. You can actually pay less this year by not having to donate anything. Also, the fact that you think sec e is a better seat than d or f is humorous to me.

"Big" programs are consistent. Either you have to give a donation to get a good seat or you don't. When demand is down you don't screw some fans for the sake of others.

How much does section e people get to exempt if they renew early? $0

I just got an email from the Athletic Department about the Scrimmage tomorrow. I noticed that it says if you have season tickets in section D or F you can renew your tickets and you don't have to donate anything. If you sit in section E you still have to pay a full $500. There should either be a donation requirement or not. Screwing a section of fans to carry the load of a few won't work. Former Section E fan

Vic is a great candidate. Capps or Vic should be the top 2 candidates and I hope one of them gets the job.

I'll take a guess... they are both around the .500 mark for their careers.

I didn't see Waters mention UALR or UNO in the article either. Does anyone remember that UNT was a 15th seed last year in the tourney. That was because they beat no one with a respectable RPI.

Since Jones took over, UNT has consistently had one of the worst/easiest non-conference schedules in the Sun Belt. Not many teams win 20 game and still have an rpi in the mid 100's. Waters is making a good point in the article.

Al Hurley and Norval Pohl

From an article in Football Review On the flip side, once you get out of the big leagues, we find places like North Texas. For the reporting year ended on Aug. 31, 2007, North Texas lost multiples on football, spending $4.2 million against revenues of $1.4 million. Attempting to turn that around, North Texas made a coaching change entering last season, hiring Todd Dodge away from Southlake Carroll. Dodge made an immediate impact on fund raising, but not on winning.

Do you really think guarantee money from road football games is in anyway going to be used for a new stadium? If so, I have some property I would like to sell you.

What a smart guy this Vito is. Who would have thunk a good rivalry is a good thing in college sports.

Since when does losing outstanding talent to a BCS conference team become a great Christmas gift? The Sun Belt needs all the talent it can get. This stinks.

Vito has fans?

Lean times at UNT A crowd of 10,129 actually paid to watch the last college football game at Miami’s Orange Bowl last Saturday night between the very bottom denizens of the Los Angeles Times’ Steve Harvey’s Division I Bottom Ten teams: The Lean Green of North Texas and the Golden Panthers (I wonder if the San Diego Zoo has a panther with a gold coat?) of Florida International University. Actually, this game was a dream come true for both athletic programs. They played in this year’s first college bowl game: The Toilet Bowl. Flush with the satisfaction — UNT surged below fired former football coach Darrell Dickey’s Utah State — Athletic Director Rick Villarreal’s buttons virtually are popping off of his shirt knowing next season’s opening game will not be with the University of Miami but instead UNT will begin its defense of the Bottom Ten title with the real possibility of playing the defending national Champions, LSU. My condolences to coach Dodge. How can he recruit bona-fide Division I players with the situation at UNT being what it is? Presently, he has only one Texas Rival’s top 100 recruit’s commitment for next season: His son. Roger Horrell, Denton http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...7.776e7340.html

So this bus thing was a scam?

It isn't hard to find a critic of the USU football program. With only six wins in the past three years and players being kicked off the team in that time span for various problems, one can understand this. How does head coach Brent Guy, who just completed the third season of his five-year contract, handle the firestorm of criticism? "To be quite honest with you, I don't," Guy said Tuesday. "People have a hard time believing that I (only) read USA Today, and if it's in USA Today I know about it. Other than that, I don't really read local (newspapers). I don't listen to any kind of talk radio, and I don't even know how to get on to the chat rooms." He pointed to the current situation at the University of Arkansas, where Houston Nutt - a former teammate and friend of Guy - resigned Monday as head coach to help correct a division among fans after the off-the-field problems were compounded by a difficult season. The Arkansas Razorbacks had begun the year ranked but failed to win a Southeastern Conference game. "I have seen it tear coaches apart, families apart," Guy said. "Nutt basically destroyed a good legacy there ... I don't get involved with (criticism). I really can't affect people's opinion other than winning and losing. I have to concentrate on making the team better and keeping the team together. "It's America," Guy continued. "They have a right to their opinion. I just hope that anybody that's a critic is also a donor. That would be the only thing I would say is I don't think you have a voice unless you donate money and have season tickets. As long as you do that, you have every right to criticize me in any kind of form you want. If you don't, I would think you'd have a hard time criticizing someone if you don't have a vested interest." Another important aspect Guy pointed out is the difference in the degree in difficulty between the Western Athletic Conference and the Sun Belt Conference, where the Aggies competed in during the 2003 and 2004 seasons. "I don't think people realized how far we were away from being a WAC team," Guy said. "I mean that by the level of play. I don't think we'll ever see a Sun Belt team play in the BCS. They're champion doesn't break the Top 25." The Aggies, who ended the 2007 season with two consecutive road victories, are the first USU team to win back-to-back games in the WAC, home or away. Even so, Guy said the nature of his profession makes it nearly impossible to feel a sense of job security. "You never really feel secure in coaching because anything can happen," Guy said. "You don't coach out of fear, you coach what you believe in and your fundamental philosophies. The administration came to me well into the season and said keep doing what you're doing." http://media.www.utahstatesman.com/media/s...e-3119721.shtml