Monkeypox

No, seriously, nobody knows who Don Carthel is. I'm willing to bet most on this board had to look him up. I think he's a great candidate, but you're talking about a guy who's spent 90 percent of his time outside Div 1A, not just the Big 12. So no, you won't get the publicity bump you would from a Dodge or a Glanville with Carthel.

Okay, here's the deal. I don't know how many of you played sports, or particularly football in Texas, and admittedly,I didn't play it a whole hell of a long time.... By the time you're in junior high (though it starts earlier), there are your parents and your coach. The sad reality is that for many, the absence or unsuitability of the former means there is only the coach. I saw things at the age of 13 that would make your skin crawl, but I didn't (and don't) go outside of the locker room and chat about it because the team is a family and it is a tribe and it is as important to you as anything else. Right or wrong, it is the nature of the beast, and without that, you will not HAVE a team. Now, that doesn't mean that everyone will always have a good relationship with their coaches, just as you don't always have a good relationship with your parents, and, in the end, blood is thicker than water. But THAT is the coach. THAT could be your future. And if you're a smart player, you put that jersey on, because you know sometimes in life you have to do things you don't wanna do. You are a part of a machine. So the decision-making here doesn't fall on these kids (and trust me I have no qualms being critical over play). The choice isn't theirs. They never should've been given the option of black jerseys, because the second they said they liked the idea, the coach, an adult and superior and theoretically intelligent being with leadership qualities should've explained to them what many alumni believe... that it isn't right. Again, this team, the university it represents, and all the alumni and students it extends out to... is your family and your tribe, and you don't go changing the colors of such a thing on a whim. Silly as it sounds, it has meaning. It is your identity. It is your battle flag, and somebody wanting you to wear something other than some variation of the green and the white should come as a slap in the face to you. But I can't expect a bunch of 18-22yr old kids to get that. It is, however, one of the critical responsibilities of a head coach at my alma mater.

sorry, but he IS terrible in coverage. yeah, i'll take him working a shortfield game, but the guy gets blown away back there far too often. he's a big-play safety, but he gives them up as often as he makes them.

Notre Dame has been using the green variant jerseys since the Knute Rockne days back in the 1920s, and they DON'T look like something stolen from the local high school's laundry bin.

no, these are the little things that matter in building a tradition. no big-time school would pull out some random non-traditional uniforms at the end of the season for no good reason but "it's fun." and, apparently DD gave a crap about it since he went through the trouble of choosing different jerseys. just another reason to say GOOD RIDDANCE.

yeah, i don't think we can make TOO much out of the QBs given what coaching we have.

we're the Mean GREEN and it's a silly, unoriginal gimmick and waste of money. we're trying to build tradition here and we're not using one of our trademarks in our final home game. it seems like a minor misstep, but they add up over time.

well, he's also been the defensive line coach to some very good defenses and has been the assistant head coach for the past five years. and he's also the recruiting coordinator as well as the TE coach. i think it's a little odd that people are in love with someone like Sonny Dykes, who has arguably limited experience, but someone with 28 years makes them want to jump off a bridge. now i KNOW the importance of a name and all, but step back from the ledge a little bit.

He hasn't coached in the region in years, few people have heard of him, and his overall record is inconsistent. That's not saying he'd be a bad coach, but those are all immediate red flags.

Yep. As evidenced by the hiring of Butch Davis already, you need to get your name out there ASAP with the coaching vacancies. With the team headed nowhere this season, it was the right move at the right time.

Yes. Whereas one man's love for Quinn gave us a Quoner, Mattress Mac was our biggest DDoner.

again, you have a problem with reading comprehension. i said we're not trash talking him for giving us money or wanting to name the practice field (to which you had falsely attributed our ire)after a losing head coach. we're trashing him because he's a whiny jerk who supports his buddy more than the football program. reading comprehension.

No. Texas became a perrenial top-5 recruiter with the hiring of Bruce Chambers and his pipeline to the obscenely talented DFW area and specifically Dallas-Carter. Yes, it wouldn't be as easy for him to recruit here, but he has connections all over the place, and it would certainly get us on a lot more players' lists of consideration - particularly the type of players we routinely saw considering the SMUs and Baylors and UTEPs and Louisiana Techs and couldn't understand why not us. And as someone else pointed out. Stealing someone as important to UT's staff would have an impact on the landscape of college football in the state. Trust me when I say there's no one on that staff they're more afraid of losing.

way to miss the point. i haven't heard anyone bitch about his request for a name change. i have heard people bitch because MM is basically a whiny punk threatening to withdraw support because his friend, who had a sub-.500 record at UNT, was fired, and then tried to act like his interests were really in the success of the program itself. yeah, i'm glad for his money, but he can keep his bs between his ears. you make an awful lot of assumptions about the people on this board. you know what they say about that. the "big picture" is exactly what the university is about and MM is not. for the BIG picture, getting rid of Dickey and potentially losing the most-talked-about $1 million in any school's history is in the best interests of the programs long-term. if we kept Dickey and his losing ways, it's that many more years of hardship for not making a committment to winning. we've probably, over the course of his tenure here, easily lost a million potential dollars in donors. the reason people are complaining is NOT that MM donated money and makes a perfectly reasonable request to have the practice field named after a losing coach. they're complaining because MM acts like a spoiled brat and talks out of both sides of his mouth. And like I said before, I've given a much higher percentage of my net worth to UNT than MM will ever dream of. Maybe I should threaten to withdraw support if they don't hire my buddies. But then I'd look like an ass.

i know, right.... powerhouses like Air Force, TCU, Baylor, Houston, Kansas, UNLV, Nevada, South Florida, Troy (State), Arizona, FAU, Memphis, Tulsa, Louisiana Tech, Akron... between those juggernauts and the yearly SBC schedule, it's no wonder he can't compile a winning record. he can change the name to whatever he wants as long as he's paid for it. that's how it goes. but it doesn't change the fact that he's full of crap. and quite frankly, i've given a much higher percentage of my worth to UNT than MM will ever come close to. and i hope that none of the people who criticized those threatening to withdraw their financial support throughout the year are hypocritical enough to support MM's decision now. at least the true fans of this program were basing their decision on the product that was being put forth. MM is sitting there saying that the football program needs more financial support and at the same time threatening to withdraw his own. yes, he's welcome to his opinion, but so am i, and in MY opinion, MM is a hypocritical blowhard who i wish will continue to donate to the program.

Start with a winning record. That's a bare minimum, especially with damn near a decade to compile it.

I think I'd want a coach to have a winning record before I went and inducted them into the HOF.

yep... i can't think of any better combination. he's a UNT alumnus, he's coordinated at practically every position, won championships at the High School and collegiate level, coached in the area, proven track-record recruiting... now, he's probably in love with his job at UT, and he's likely to eventually get offers at a bigger conference school. but you just don't ever hear his name come up in these sorts of conversations, and it's a frickin' crime when you look at his resume.

I've been pointing to Chambers as well. See the coaches thread.

I'll re-open the Bruce Chambers file...

Costly penalty on a long run. on 2nd and 3rd and long guess what we do?

it was deflected into a pick on his first play back in after Meager got busted up. 31-31, LaTech ball on their own 27.

Phillips doesn't run around, so he's not a sexy QB choice around these parts.

They don't really have football now. They've got some coaches, and people wearing a uniform, but there's no football program at the University of North Texas. At this point, I probably would be fine with it. If they're not serious about it, they shouldn't waste everyone's time and money on it.