James Mosley
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Micah is doing great. Graduates this May with his Mechanical Energy Engineering degree in hand with 3.6 gpa.... Anyone looking for a young engineer hook em up....Went to the Houston game with Micah and could see the pride he has in his team and school. Rough 4 years with injuries. Strange feeling looking out on the field and not seeing your son play for the first time since he was 8 yr old. miss it, but then again it was fun in the stands with him...Good to hear from you! How is Micah doing?
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UNT wins by 9 points....
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Jim Leavitt WILL BE the next head coach at UNT. Good luck!!
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I didn't see a pick for "none of the above". lol
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These are the facts:Really? You haven't made an argument yet. The obvious facts overwhelm your opinion.
Dickey did more in his last season and half than Dodge has done with his 3.5 seasons.
Dodge is proven loser and I'm sorry you can't see past your personal blinders. UNT has a pretty good debate team, maybe your kid can join that so you can learn what a argument is.
1. Brought in a proven college DC
2. Brought in proven college position coaches
3. Brought in a college strength coach just for football team
4. Brought in a proven OC
5. Gave up offense completely
6. Recruited a nationally ranked kicker
Debate what? Facts or facts
the only fact you hang you hat on is the past. I say the present would have changed due to the healthy team we started the season with. there is not one Sun Belt team who could beat us if you take the same player for player, positon for position off the field. Again, i fully understand now who I'm wasting my time with. By the way, isn't it time for bed?
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Wasn't that the game we lost our 1st and 2nd string QB and had to play the 3rd string to finish the game? That might have had something to do with it plus going behind two scores early in the game.If it's all about the injuries then why did we lose to ASU last year ?
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Totally agree with all the past years, the last three years, terrible, no reason why it should have been that bad, totally agree. now, look at the freaking changes that have been made over those years. All the right things have been done to correct the problem. program is better now, team was prepped to show you how much better it was. so now look at the program today. Dickey won 2 games one year and 3 the other during his last two years of coaching at North Texas. dodge walked into a system which was already losing. I agree with someone elses post, there were some great players on those teams. To me it's simple, I look at where the program is today, not at the bad years getting here but where it is today and all the changes made to get it here.Wins wise it is actually worse. So, I don't agree with your assessment.
Not to mention this is not some sort of under .500 record we're talking about. This is not even a under .200 record we're talking about. He has won less than 15% of his games. No coach in the country, no matter WHAT is was replacing, would be safe with that.
Not even SMU coming off the freaking DEATH PENALTY did this bad in their first 4 years.
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program wasn't winning when he got here, took three years to turn it around, it turned around but injuries took away the chance to prove it on the field. simple if you look at it with football since. Ask any coach across the country who has had to deal with this they would agree. Program is better today than it was three years ago. simple.Mr. Moseley - name one school in FBS football that would be okay with 6-36.
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Do you really understand how good this team was set to be? NO YOU DON'T GET IT. no one will because this team didn't get a chance to prove it on the field due to the freaking injuries. Big difference in my job and a coaching job. I'm not judged by people not in my profession and who have never coached in their life or much less even played the freaking game of football. What would be your next move as a head coach at north texas. Pleae give us some examples. Maybe bring in a proven OC, done that, maybe bring in a proven college DC, done that, how about staff all position coaches with proven college experience, done that, or maybe find a field goal kicker to help with kicking, done that....Again I'm repeating all my points and getting nothing in return except the same ole, look at his record. I agree the record sucks but again, changes have been made each year to improve. Let him go, he will be fine, North Texas on the other hand will still be riding the same roller coaster....The people who you are debating are people that have been linked to this program for decades and will be linked to this program for decades to come. Look we get it...you love TD because he offered your son which is great because I happen to think he's a hell of a player. However you can't ignore a 6-36 record! Do you really understand what kind of record that is? There is no doubt that historically this has not been a winning program but dammit it is time to turn that tide because if we aren't then we are wasting 80 million dollars on a stupid stadium. I don't know where you work or if you work but if you needed 4 weeks or 4 months let alone 4 years to even be semi competent in your job then you would be fired because you have no use for a company. The same thing is applied here. In year 4 we are still saying oh well he is still learning and we need to give him another year. Why? If he is a good coach then he will be able fight through injuries and still produce SOMETHING in the worst football conference in the FBS. What about the 3 years before this? There weren't injuries like this year and what did he do then? Oh yeah he went a brilliant 5-31.
P.S. - you gotta like and agree with the changes made over the last three years right? if not why?
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32 years of coaches packing up and leaving without winning records. One more year must really seem like an eternity to some haters. i have a clear understanding who I'm debating with. Time to move on....
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1978 - Hayden Fry
Last coach to coach at North Texas with a North Texas winning record better than his losing record. Every coach North Texas has had since Fry in 1978 has left the school with a losing record. Every single coach brought to North Texas has left with a losing record. Get over the hump people stick with one man who knows football, who knows how and accepts how to make changes, who can stand up against adversity without pointing fingers, who can actually lead, who can win and will win, who, if let go, WILL move on and do great things somewhere else while the proven track record of North Texas will continue. Sometimes you gotta make a stand and fight through. If all of the naysayers can not see the difference in this team and program today compared to three years ago I say again, Dodge haters. Not one coach since 1978 has left North Texas with a winning record.
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I rolled it out last year because I believed in the team and coaching, I rolled it out this year because this team would have kicked butt if not for injuries. I can still stand by win and end of argument or lose and end of argument, not a problem here. Just remember, UNT has a longer history of losing and not keeping a good coach than Coach Dodge has of not being successful. It is simply my opinion that UNT has a coach who could be a long term solution to stability and winning if everyone could just hang on.Stick to what you said last season. If the wins don't come, END OF ARGUMENT.
Your impassioned plea for patience might carry more weight if you weren't working from a script that seems to roll out every year around this time.
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Special Teams - today we have better starting field position each game than we did three years ago.Olen looked great last week, but fielding a good player at kicker and punter is not nearly enough. Prior to Dodge taking over, our special teams were used to attack and/or take field position and turn momentum in our favor. Now, we all hold our breath and hope that the opposition doesn't do that to us.
We NEVER rush a punt. Why? If we know we're undermanned (which being down to our #4 QB qualifies), why are we not trying to make plays in the ST? Also, our coverage is better now than it has been in the past 3 years, but it's basically improved from embarrassing to adequate.
Punter - I'm told is currently #4 in nation
Kicker - Nationally ranked kicker knows how to kick off of turf now so much much improved today and better than three years ago.
Kick off coverage - teams are not having starting field position as they did three years ago.
Punt coverage - read note above - #4 ranked punter, less punt return yardage as three years ago.
Have I missed something about special teams that is not better now than three years ago.
Again, changes have been made throughout the three years to set this program in the right direction. Injuries and injuries alone are the only thing keeping this team down right now. Say what you want, but it is turned around.
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I told you the reasons, proven college OC, proven college DC, etc... did you not read it or did you not agree with it? Heck Coach Dodge to me is also a proven OC, so throw that in there too as a reason.In reading the bolded statement, I don't see the reasons. Six wins in 3.5 seasons just doesn't make a very good argument. I want Dodge to succeed here, but it is just not happening. He didn't fill up the win column in past years with a healthy team. I just don't have much evidence to suggest that it would have happened this year under the same circumstances.
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So how does he correct the special teams problems he goes out and recruits a highly nationally ranked kicker/punter to take care of the kicking. problem is it took all year for the kid to learn to kick off the ground. Look at the last game and you can see where the special team problem has taken care of itself. #4 punter in the nation I'm told also. Funny how many of the starters who are hurt also played on the special teams and they are not on the field now..... I say special team play is better today, I mean today not two weeks ago but today.....Two words: Special. Teams.
2 losses lay directly at the feet of this unit. Even with the rash of injuries we've seen, this is a .500 team if the STs aren't breaking our backs.
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Let me help you with the next couple of weeks. Middle Tenn and Troy would have been tough with all starters, so how do you really think we will fair against them now? If we win this Saturday it would be one of the all time greatest wins at UNT due to injuries. Kansas St. even if healthy would have been real tough to hang with them. Once again I will break it down, Dodge has made all the changes asked of him and other changes not asked of him to turn this program around. You have all the reason to believe he can win games at this level I mean heck look at what he brings to the table. Proven college OC, proven college DC, proven college position coaches, Experienced Head Coach, proven recruiting record, can stand up to adversity without making an as* of himself, not many coaches could handle the things he has gone through without trying to throw blame everywhere else. Measure success by wins and wins only and this university will continue to struggle. This man can win, this man has won at every level except head coaching at UNT. Not many have had a success story of winning at UNT so ride the storm and let him finish what he started. Better than that let RV and TD finish what they envisioned three years ago.You are right on here. He IS a good guy and MAY have the ship turned around. However, we have no reason to believe that given the chance he could win games next year at this level. Maybe he'll win out this year and save himself, but it is unlikely that it will happen. It will be interesting to see how the next couple of weeks play out.
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I know exactly which play or set of plays you are talking about and believe me there was no wrong in the coaching during that situation. Again, we had the ball on the 29 yard line and had a play set up to win the game on and a penalty cost us a shot at it. The right call was made but the play never came about due to penalty. I will hopefully get a chance to talk to RV and let him hear my opinion. Everyone wants a change because of the new stadium, fresh start you call it, I say grow a set and hang with the man who has stood tall through all this adversity and you grow a program with a leader and strong foundation. The wins will come the rest is here now.Mr. Mosley, you probably have a heftier say on the impending decision than any of us here do. If you feel this way about coach Dodge, be sure to voice your opinion to Rick V. All he is hearing from the fan base, and for good reason, is how coach Dodge is not getting it done.
As for the bolded statement above, I agree that the coaching STAFF appears to be corrected, however, we're still seeing some goofy head coaching decisions by coach Dodge himself. I don't profess to be a football coach, but going back to last week, after a timeout (due to injury I think) late in the game to draw up a long pass play, with a chance to take our first lead, Baine completes a big pass. However, shouldn't they expect that play to work and call another play during the same timeout, that way they are ready and can hurry up? Instead, another timeout was taken to draw up the next play. We went backwards for the remainder of that drive.
How 'bout the defense holding them in the closing seconds only to have precious seconds wasted off of the clock because timeouts were not taken at the right time? Unless the offensive or defensive players see something they don't like, timeouts are head coach decisions... Let's not go back to the 2 timeout disaster in last years Army game.
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Answer one question:
What has the man not done over the last 3 - 4 years to make this program better? Please show your football intelligance and come up with something other than win football games as your answer. Winning was coming until they slipped down to #4 QB, #3 center, etc.... I can say this team would have won with confidence simply because of how they are hanging with each team they are playing. This is how I measure where the program is NOW and not where or why it was 2 - 3 years ago. Bring in Leach next year and he wins and you give him all the credit. STUPID! freaking stupid. I'm done with this, I just felt I needed to blow off some steam. Coach Dodge and staff is right for this school.
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I am looking at the record over the last 3 - 4 years and I too see a losing record. I also see a Head Coach who made changes along the way, brought in college coaches, gave up his OC duties, brought in JC players, a coach who has done everything to correct the wrong over the last 3 - years is what I ALSO SEE. I also see a man who is exactly what this university needs heading into a new stadium. One who still can recruit some of the best available Texas talent out there, one who believes in his players, one who teaches them more than football. What I see is people giving up on someone just because they had a terrible win record over the past 3 years and they don't SEE all the changes and moves made to correct the problems. The moves and changes have been made, this team would have proven it if the injuries had not happened. Again, everything anyone can think oh this coaching staff has corrected.James - everyone on here appreciates you and your family and what you have brought to this program as supporters and fans. You guys are the best and I will never forget when we first met at the football banquet several years ago when you guys made the long trip from the Golden Triangle. I was so impressed by you and your wife and of course Micah has been a warrior for us and represents the school so well. No one, and I mean no one on here has EVER had one complaint of Coach Dodge and his family in terms of how he has represented UNT, he is a CLASS ACT and inherited a lot of issues that he didn't deserve and couldn't have prepared for. I have said it before, this Stadium is a blessing and a curse for Dodge. For UNT this stadium is the single biggest capital expenditure that they have ever made and this school has been around a long time. To allow that stadium to sit empty due to the lack of success on the football field would be a travesty. The new stadium has the ability to generate much needed revenues that will allow our athletic and academic programs to move forward and compete. I believe that if the stadium was not part of this equation it might be more plausible to reconsider the Dodge situation. I also think that you have to look at the record over the past 3-4 years as well when you make your assessment even though the arguement could be made that there were a lot of close losses along the way. I certainly appreciate and respect your loyalty and support of Coach Dodge but in the end, this is not a decision you and I make, it will fall on RV, President Rawlins, The BOR and Chancellor Jackson. GMG!
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The point I'm trying to make is, sure Coach Dodge made some mistakes along the way, BUT, the way he has handled and adapted to correcting these mistakes speaks volumes of his character, his coaching abilities and his freaking leadership towards our players. The man is exactly what this college needs to go forward. Again, get past the past and look at where he is NOOOOOOOWWW. Look at what he had prepared entering this season. Get over the wins not coming fast enough and look at the long haul. So what if it took 4 years to get here, it's here, he fielded a winner, he has a college experienced coaching staff, he gave up his OC duties and hired a college experienced OC. I don't think he agreed all this needed to be done, but he did it anyway. He has dipped into the JC ranks to get players, he has done many of the right things to turn the program around and IT IS TURNED AROUND other than 7 freaking wins. If the team stays healthy, wins 7, goes to a bowl everyone thinks the corner has been turned, but since the wins are not there, "injuries", everyone thinks he failed. EVERYONE who thinks this program is not better now compared to four years ago has lost connection to what this program should be built on. If I was doing all this over again and I knew ahead of time my kid was fixing to attend a program which would lose as much as it has over the last four years I'd still encourage my kid to attend simply because of what I knew he would learn from Coach Dodge and Coach Gandy. Experience is what Coach Dodge has gained over the last four years he already knew how to coach. Let the past go and look at the program right now and stay focused on the plan set four years ago.
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I was going to wait until there was a, "without a doubt", chance of North Texas winning the conference to write this but thought, what the heck, write it now. This team without a doubt would be sitting undefeated in conference play right now and probably would have beaten Rice and Army if not for the freaking injuries. With that being said all those who think Dodge has not turned this program around are simply just Dodge haters and will always be Dodge haters. The man has turned the program around. The football program is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was four years ago. Injuries have cost this team a chance of proving all naysayers wrong. Look at the bandaid team which plays each week. Not one player has given up on their coach or school. If the players played like they wanted the coach gone you wouldn't see the attitude and effort on the field you are seeing right now. You can look at it as WIN 7 or else if you chose but to me the program has arrived. The deck is stacked against North Texas winning those 7 games this year but it's not because this team was not prepared. Coach Dodge and his staff are the right combination for the future of this football program. The AD is put in a hard spot but hopefully it is one he can figure out by looking at the program itself and not the wins. The wins were there this year but so were the injuries! Name one team in the nation who could have survived this. Heck, University of Texas loses one QB and a few defensive guys and now they struggle. No I'm not comparing us to them.....just saying.....
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+4 = 32
I like the number 32!!!
Plan on making em all this year. Last go round!
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I'll pick two positions:
Field goal and H-back
I hope both positions put up big numbers!!!!!!!
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AAS: Todd Dodge to Westlake beyond rumors
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Congrats Coach Dodge and the family. Good luck!