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Besides the obvious fact that he's developed games plans for I-A/FBS school for well over a decade, I think Canales would give us the opportunity to open the recruiting up beyond what we've seen in the past - even moreso than when Dickey was here. The guy was at Snow JC for years, and they are a regular JUCO power. His years of service there, added to what Gandy is already bringing to the table, would pretty much give us JUCO pull from coast to coast. Like Texas, Florida is a state that produces a wealth of football talent. Canales has been helping USF recruit against the instate Florida powers with some success. I like the idea of having that known connection to Florida prep coaches. There's alot of speed in Florida and if Canales could just bring in one per year that'd be a plus. And, Florida kids - like Texas kids - seem to have no reservation about leaving the state to get playing time. Sorry guys, I'm just excited that we really may be getting this guy on board. He's got experience in the Pac-10, the ACC, the Big East, and the NFL in additional to coaching with one of the godfathers of the college pass game, LaVell Edwards at BYU. This would be the biggest coaching hire at UNT since we had Hayden Fry on the sideline. I'm really hoping this dream comes true. We've needed some really great news here for a long time.

I would open up all positions in the spring. The experience we have is false. UNT 3-21 the last 2 years, our experience is knowing how to lose. If these guys want to start, (that you have listed), Then, they need to pay the price in the off season and earn thier jobs. Basically,these players have not done the job. Dunbar and Carey I feel are the only players that proved by thier game performance last season. Sorry posters, it is a fact. Play the players that would put it all on the line everyday and you will win. If you miss the spring, you become second team.

The multitude of reasons as to why UNT hasn't waltzed through conference play or forced any halftime resignations has been discussed ad nauseum...but what our lack of effort and lowered expectations have created is a potentially very exciting 5 weeks of basketball heading into Hot Springs. The way I look at it we have a 9 team race...both ULM and FIU are only a half game back of the 9th place team, but I don't really consider either in competition for their division or the conference titles. So screw them. East Middle Tennessee (6-3) - 5 home games (UNO, UNT, Troy, UD, USA) 4 road games (USA, Troy, FIU, FAU) East tie-breaks - 2-0 vs. WKU, 0-1 vs. FAU Florida Atlantic (6-3) - 4 home games (FIU, ULL, WKU, MTSU) 5 road games (USA, UNT, UD, FIU, Troy) East tie-breaks - 1-0 vs. MTSU, 0-1 vs. WKU, 0-1 vs. USA, 1-0 vs. Troy Troy (5-4) - 5 home games (ULM, USA, FIU, MTSU, FAU) 4 road games (MTSU, WKU, UALR, ASU) East tie-breaks - 0-1 vs. FAU, 1-0 vs. WKU, 0-1 vs. USA Western Kentucky (4-4) - 5 home games (UNT, UNO, Troy, ASU, USA) 5 road games (ULM, UALR, ASU, FAU, FIU) East tie-breaks - 0-2 vs. MTSU, 0-1 vs. Troy, 1-0 vs. FAU, 1-0 vs. USA South Alabama (4-5) - 5 home games (FAU, MTSU, FIU, ULL, UD) 4 road games (Troy, UNO, WKU, MTSU) East tie-breaks - 1-0 vs. FAU, 0-1 vs. WKU, 1-0 vs. Troy West Arkansas State (6-2) - 6 home games (ULL, UD, ULM, WKU, UNO, Troy) 4 road games (UALR, UNO, WKU, ULL) West tie-breaks - 2-0 vs. UNT, 0-1 vs. UD Denver (6-3) - 3 home games (FAU, UALR, ULL) 6 road games (UALR, ASU, MTSU, UNT, UNO, USA) West tie-breaks - 1-0 vs. ASU, 0-1 vs. ULL UL-Lafayette (5-3) - 4 home games (FIU, UALR, ASU, ULM) 6 road games (ASU, ULM, FAU, USA, UNT, UD) West tie-breaks - 1-0 vs. UD, 1-0 vs. UNT North Texas (5-4) - 4 home games (FAU, UD, UALR, ULL) 5 road games (WKU, MTSU, FIU, UNO, ULM) West tie breaks - 0-2 vs. ASU, 0-1 vs. ULL Nobody has any real seperation...in the East FAU could essentially knock this down to an 8 team race with a win over USA...if MTSU and FAU can protect the home court the rest of the way, especially against East division teams, their last game of the season @FAU would decide the East. In the West, I'm 100% on the side of ULL tonight...if the Cajuns can pick up a win they'd bring ASU back in to the pack in the west, but definently have the toughest schedule coming home. If ASU just protects the home court (assumes losses to to UALR and UNO), UNT would have to go 8-1 in their last 9 to win the West.) Denver will have to win at least 2 road games to keep pace (11 wins). The UNT schedule sets up pretty well. 3 road games against the bottom 4 teams in the conference...home games with the worst team in conference and 1 that cant win on the road. Clearly the goal is win tonight...but this is setting up to be a fun ride.

To honor Walt Parker? How about the possibly going real old school at homecoming and having '68' as the logo of the helmet for that game a la Alabama? RV's board-droppers...get his attention for something like this. Also, the new stadium...Walt Parker Stadium? Think about it. Who did more on and off the field for more years for North Texas than Walt?

Really? I want these guys tried in an open court so there can be no backlash of it being a "kangaroo court". As a matter of fact shortly after 9/11 I heard the same thing from the White House. Holding them in a cell with no hope of a trial is only fueling the fire. If they are guilty, what do you have to hide? Vengeance is not justice.

someone is lying

My only real qualm is at DE. In my opinion, if AK-47 is anything more than a dedicated pass-rusher our defense is in big time trouble again. I wouldn't even venture to forecast WR and LB with as many unknowns in the mix. It's probably pie in the sky, but I'd sure love someone to show up and steal Santiago, Feeley, or Gill's job. I know many saw the o-line as major bright spot last season, but I saw it as a unit that was completely overwhelmed at times against teams with even average defensive fronts. Had the QB they were protecting not been so overly shifty and fleet of foot their sack numbers would have been vastly different.

If Cole is 100%, I have no doubt you are right. He was one of the most exciting offensive players I have ever seen in high school. As far as Stradford, he would have been a starter if he had been ruled eligible last year, so you may be correct. However, based on the spring game and a few pre-season practices; I question his hands. I though he missed too many balls that he should have caught. Over the years, NT has not got a lot of big name transfers, however there were a few of the bluest of blue chips comming out of high school that utimately ended up at NT. Anothey Bridges, Reggie Finch and J.C. Hollins were all highly lauded and none really turned into stars for the Green. I hope Stratford, Cole and the others really excel but it is far from a sure thing.

Because here how it usually goes when someone calls a sportsbar to ask a question Pretty Hostess : ABC sportsbar this is Kelly , how may I help you ME : Hi kelly , I was wondering if you guys will be showing the North Texas vs Western Kentucky game on thursday night PH : Um what game ? ME : The North Texas game on Thursday night PH : Oh , the Texas game ...let me check ME : no , no the NORTH TEXAS game PH: Um ..... what kind of game is this ? ME : Basketball , they are playing on the Fox College Sports Channel PH : Oh yeah , we get Fox. We should be showing it then ME : No , it's the FOX COLLEGE SPORTS CHANNEL PH : I don't think we get that channel , but I can ask someone ME : Ok , yes please do PH : Um , yeah I don't know for sure if we do or not , but we do have fox and espn and we usually show all the Longhorn games so we will probably be showing it here. ME : ah.... forget it

Along with Buck, he's of my all time Mean Green favorites. Disappointing to hear he's gotten tangled up in this mess.

Thats very fair and very logical. I do remember hearing, but don't have time to look up, that the founding fathers specifically penned the Congressional rules so that progress would be slow and so that one administration,or congress etc couldn't do to much damage to quickly. That definitely makes sense if that is the case. However there are issues in the country that do need to be looked at such as health care, over regulation (or lack thereof) of business both small and large, intentional deficit spending in the budget, the national debt and energy policy. These things, especially energy, budget deficits and the debt , are issues that we can't afford to slow play for to much longer. At some point these guys are going to have to do something together and accomplish something so we don't drown in our debt to China and others, so we can continue to have ample energy at rates American's can afford and so we don't end up saddling future generations with bills that they will never be able to pay. Perhaps the difference in party numbers is to great to overcome currently and leaves one party thinking they have a public mandate mandate so they are inflexible and the other party constantly on the defensive. That sort of atmosphere would not be a good incubator for cooperation or open minded thinking from leadership. Everything reaches a tipping point though, hopefully when it does we will have logical and patriotic individuals in legislative positions that can make decisions for the betterment of the entire union.

And we all know the great credability of Craig James. Being a liar will probably work to his benefit as a politician, not to mention being used to taking under the table money in his collegate days. What a great representative ESPN has chosen for college football. Note that he and Dickerson are the honorees at Th SMU Athletic Forum. As D magazine once said "if you want to be rich and powerful in Dallas--you should have gone to SMU". Having any scrupules never entered into the ESPN position and it won't in politics, afterall he learned from then Gov. Clements while receiving an annuity to play. And you wonder why they got the death penalty?

Specifically...what freedoms and opportunities have I lost in the past year?

Did you over hear this? Or are you just trying to remind everyone on every thread of your dislike of our coach? It gets old.

I wonder what this board would be saying about Patrick Cobbs about now if he were on the board. The best we can do is a small running back with not one other D 1 offer. How terrible.

I totally see you typing "board-droppings" and then correcting yourself before submitting post.

We are 7.5 or 8 point dogs in this one... A little more than I thought we would be. Dallas Morning News Matchup Page

A brief comment - When the MWC was formed they did not invite UTEP. I believe it had a lot to do with the amount of commitment UTEP was placing on athletics at the time. As far as CUSA they (UTEP) saw it as an improvement over the WAC and a way to be in with other Texas schools. Also, and they will not admit it, there was no way UTEP wanted to stay in the same conference that NMSU was going to be in.

I and the Bureau of Labor Statistics take issue with those numbers you are reporting http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?series_id=LNS14000000 Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual 1999 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0 2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7 2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0 2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7 2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4 2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9 2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0 2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 5.0 5.4 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.9 7.4 2009 7.7 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.4 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0 Has unemployment gotten worse? Yes! I think part of what you are seeing is a trend continuing from late 2008. Arguments could be made that Obama has not done enough (or anything) to stop this trend, but I think he could hardly be blamed for "doubling the unemployment rate". It also appears that job losses may be stabilizing, hopefully to start decreasing soon...

I have fixed this coding issue now Gangrene. The Topic Description should now be in gray. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Regardless of your politics, if China continues its "...efforts to lock up oil reserves" while we continue to do nothing, the U.S. is going to be in real trouble. Now might be the time to learn Mandarin. By Michael J. Economides, Editor-in-Chief From Investor's Business Daily "It was a rubbing-the-eyes-in-disbelief headline even from an administration whose energy secretary, Steven Chu, suggested that America's energy dilemma could be solved by painting roofs white, and whose interior secretary, Ken Salazar, talked of garnering 3,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity off the East Coast. (The current total electricity capacity from all U.S. energy sources is about one million megawatts.) Under the title "U.S. raises concern over China oil policy," David Shear, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, told the House Armed Services Committee on Jan. 13: "We are pursuing intensive dialogue with the Chinese on the subject of energy security, in which we have raised our concerns about Chinese efforts to lock up oil reserves with long-term contracts." Shear was responding to Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland, who said he was "worried that the Chinese were aggressively buying up oil all over the world and might not share it with other countries in the future." Well, what do you know? The Obama administration, whose entire energy posture going back into the presidential campaign has been both ideologically and practically stridently anti-oil, both as an industry and as a form of energy, has suddenly become "concerned" about China's oil grab. This is, to say the least, disingenuous. The U.S. government under Barack Obama has yet to acknowledge once, in spite of widely held estimates, that oil will continue to account for 40% of world energy demand 25 years from now ­ this while total world energy demand will increase by 50%, at least. Nor has the administration, mired in Kyoto and Copenhagen global climate rhetoric, acknowledged that fossil fuels, oil, gas and coal will still account by then for over 85% of world energy demand, a largely unchanged contribution from what it is today. Instead there is constant rhetoric about solar (the president's favorite during the campaign), wind and "advanced biofuels" which, when combined, are not likely to account for more than 1% or 2% of the world energy demand over the next several decades. In a Newsweek editorial last April 4, Chu expressed the administration's energy philosophy and policy: "We must move beyond oil because the science on global warming is clear and compelling: Greenhouse-gas emissions, primarily from fossil fuels, have started to change our climate. We have a responsibility to future generations to reduce those emissions to spare our planet the worst of the possible effects." The Americans should not be surprised by the Chinese moves. A far more pragmatic nation, China is acutely aware that energy, in short domestic supply, will be the "choke point" in its future development unless resources are secured throughout the world. That's why the very capable Chinese oil companies ­ CNPC, Sinopec and CNOOC ­ have fanned out in dozens of countries, making hundreds of billions of dollars of oil and gas investments, including in America's backyard, Argentina, Venezuela and Canada and a country America presumably dominates, Iraq. Their quest does not preclude unsavory countries such as Sudan or Iran. The major Chinese oil companies have the full support of the Chinese government and, very importantly, they are admired and praised by the vast majority of Chinese people. In discussions with Chinese intellectuals, government officials and company executives, the Chinese are often incredulous, all asking essentially the same question: Why is America letting us have a free and uncontested ride in all these energy ventures? In contrast, American "Big Oil," (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Chevron ­ the only companies really able to play along and compete with the Chinese) not only are not supported or encouraged by the U.S. government, they've been routinely vilified by politicians. To the sizeable portion of the American public that's unaware of the role energy plays in the modern world, they are the devil incarnate. What the world is witnessing is the largest peaceful transfer of power in history. Energy means power, and while the U.S. is consumed by environmental ideologies and climate rhetoric, it is committing economic hara-kiri in the process. China, riding on energy acquisitions with little competition, will propel itself into the economic stratosphere. The U.S. should be concerned, but doing something about it will require an unlikely sea of cultural change in the Obama administration."

Attaway to post during a loss and never once post after a nice win.

Just heard on the radio that the released portions of the upcoming speech have Pres. Obama talking about Gays in the Military (what the ???), spending for education (???), continued push on health care, and more typical left issues. If this is true, it means nothing was learned from Mass. and there will be a complete massacre at ballott box in November for Dems. Side note. I live in Chet Edwards (D) district. Imagine how shocked I was to learn that I moved to small town America and am represented by a Democrat . Drove by a Republican's campaign headquarters on the way home and there were about 100 people inside and the parking lot was full. Just found it interesting. Chet Edwards has barely retained his seat in the past 2 elections, and is a target of the Republicans in November.

..but not unless some powerful lobbying organization pushed for it.

I agree with having DC in the starting lineup. The WR spot should be solid this season. The battles to watch will be pretty much every position on D. I think that there are very few spots on D that have anyone locked in. O-line should once again be a very strong position for us along with RB.

We need to keep Carey in the Starting lineup over Outlaw, he is still very young and produced very well towards the end of the year last year. Lets keep him on the field and developing and if he keeps up this pace there is no telling where he will be by the end of the season, or his career.

In every game I watched and attended last year, our offensive problems (aside from turnovers) seemed to be throwing the deep ball and moving the ball in short yardage situations. Has either of those been addressed in the offseason? I guess we can also finally kill the "this team is young excuse" with the majority of the guesstimated starters being upperclassmen.

I would take Darius over Outlaw at this point......But I think all of those guys will get alot of chances....

I don't doubt the talent on the team, my concern is the use of the talent, construction of a sound game plan, and the execution of said plan. I feel the talent has increased tremendously with Dodge, but talent alone won't get us wins. We have to plan for success, and so far I haven't seen it. My expectation of this year is to continue doing the same thing but expecting different results. For instance, in a 3rd and 1, I still see us failing to line up under center and somehow failing to get a 1st down. Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Especially considering the fact that Hugo Black, a lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan, a direct enemy of the Catholic Church and Roosevelt's first Supreme Court appointee wrote the 5-4 dissent that became what most libs today refer to when they attack religion. Read here, from the middle of page 40 on down to page 47. Rick

It's funny to hear fans from BCS conferences talking about how down and out their program is when they have gone to 5 straight bowl games , yet here we sit at 5 - 31 in the worst conference in football and people get mad when a poster says that our sky is falling here

Let's talk for a second about this "separation of church and state thing" as it gets so very confused and misstated quite often. The fact is, this provision refers ONLY to the establishment of a state...read national...religion (such as was in place in England at the time). In fact, several of our original states did in fact have official state religions...Mass being one who was probably the strictest about it all. The bible verses on the rifle sights has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Constitution or the "separation" clause. Although, I will admit, that this provision gets so turned on its head so often that I would imagine that the vast majority of folks (including Congressmen, Senators and Presidents) have no real idea what it was originally intended to do. Even the courts have misinterpreted the provision. Not saying I am a great Constitutional scholar or anything like that, but those that are have stated this fact many times....the confusion over the intent of the "separation" provision that is. Whether it is good or bad, whether it incites our enemies or not, etc. to have the verses on the sites, is, in fact, NOT an issue of "separation of church and state". The framers of our great Constitution must turn over in their graves on a regular basis due to all the misinterpretation of the great document they crafted. Either that or they are laughing their rear ends off on a regular basis.

Leaving all the political crap out of it, do you seriously think that the militant muslims will see this as more of a religious war than they already do because of inscriptions on gun sights? Really? When just about every muslim suicide bomber yells "God is Great" in Muslim just before detonating themselves? When the hijackers of 9/11 yelled "God is Great" in Arabic into the cockpit recorders before ramming planes into the World Trade Centers (which, by the way, were free of bible inscriptions)? I think the other side already sees this as a religious war. That's the only way they can sell it to their recruits. Yes, Christian values. Bad people do bad things in the name of religion all the time (see your militant muslims), but that doesn't mean the religious philosophy is itself bad or perverse. Wake up. The people we are at war with ALREADY consider this a Religious war. The inscriptions are really harmless and mean every little, either way, to what is going on in this war. Why do you have such a problem with this? Just asking.

I didn't know our founding fathers were still alive in 1947? Rick

Yes it is. Rick

Shhhh. Don't post anything negative. Recruits read this board. Don't worry, theres an app to fix it.

Does seem a bit "out there", but these are the absolute best gun sights in the world. Our soldiers are much better prepared to face the enemy with these sights than without. That being said, I do think it to be a very good idea to remove the verses from the gun sights. I would not want to give our enemy any "bulletin board" material so to speak to use against the coalition forces where ever they may be. Interesting, too, that no one noticed for many many years. Must have been hidden very well. I did hear a bit of a counter argument to the issue the other day on the radio while driving to work. Went something like...well, if you are going to shoot at any of God's creatures...man or animal...isn't it a good thing to have the scripture top of mind? The thought being that you never kill/shoot man nor animal without serious thought and darn good reason...such as to protect life, liberty, etc., and to shoot/kill for food. Shooting to kill should never be taken lightly and this gentlemen was saying that perhaps that was the point of the verses. To remind folks of the serious nature of what they were doing. Not judging one way or the other, but there is a side to the story that it was not done to be offensive to anyone. The guy walked and talked his faith, was proud of it and produced a great product. He certainly "risked" a good bit placing the scripture verses on the sights. In this day, that is a pretty risky business decision I would think. Especially if one of your largest clients was the US government...knowing, of course, how the PC thing could well come back to bite in a big way. Bottom line. I am personally glad to see the verses removed, but am also glad to see the best sights in the world being sold to the US government for our military...and for that of our allies. I wonder if the Israeli army used the sights as well. That would be "interesting as well, would it not?

yep they have warmed up with the team every game all season...even cameron

Yeah, pretty "maverick" to jump on the bandwagon everyone else is jumping on. I guess to you, "maverick" means whoever agrees with SilverEagle?

Me thinks he dost protest too much! As usual.........

Darn those monolithic hard-hearted Republicans who want to take us back to the 19th century! Silver, you just crack me up. This...this is what you want to hang your hat on and jab the opponents of gay-marriage with? By the way, not all opponents of gay-marriage are conservatives and Republicans. I know that might just surprise you, but it's true. There are plenty of folks on the left and in the Democratic party that support a traditional view of marriage. But, you might have missed that little fact. Last time I looked, Dick Chaney had a gay-daughter. Do you really think just because one is a Republican that they cannot have any interest in supporting gay issues? And if one is a democrat or liberal that they automatically support gay-marriage? In case you didn't know it, there are gay republicans, and even straight democrats . Shock of all shock to your system I am sure, but it's true. Imagine that! Thanks for bringing this to our attention...big news story, might just have missed it. Do you think this will swing the deal in California? All those folks who support the traditional view of marriage in California will now just give it up because McCain's wife has decided to come out in support of a gay issue referendum in California????? It has been absolutely no secret that McCain's daughter was active in this area and has been for some time. Breaking news, here, Silver. Quite the scoop.

Chicken fight!

No, I was dumbing it down for the masses you East Coast simpleton. The prefered title is "cinema"

I wish film theaters would institute this sort of punishment for patrons who answer their phones and/or texts during the movie.

Axelrod, Pelosi: Full Steam Ahead. Rick

They simply don't get it. The B.O. administration still thinks it's ok to attack it's citizens, the Tea Party movement etc.... Just look at Obama's stump speech for Coakley on Sunday, making fun of Brown for driving around in a pick up truck? How more American can you get than driving around and working in a pickup truck? Rick

Obama to stick to agenda despite Massachusetts defeat You may be right. Axelrod, after blaming Bush for the reason Coakley lost, indicates it will still be full steam ahead on the issues. Rick

Did you hear that it took Luntz till late this afternoon to even find enough Democratic pollers willing to sit in with his panel and admit they voted for Coakley so that he could have a balanced panel for the show? Rick

http://www.boston.com/ Coakley won 70% of the vote during her AG election. There wasn't even any statewide exit polling scheduled because Kennedy held this seat, unopposed for so long. So this is a huge blow to the Democratic party and to any candidate, Democratic or Republican, who chooses to ignore this nation's history, traditions and constitution. This is only the beginning of the bloodletting for the libs and truly is a statement that this country wants no part of the marxist agenda that Obama has been pushing. Rick Rick

A "shill for the rich"...now that's laughable. Just where do you come up with this stuff? Comedy Central perhaps????? BTW...the banks were all for your idea, but then that pesky Community Reinvestment Act I mentioned was enacted. You can trace the "risky" loans and housing lending practices right back to that legislation. AS "good" of intentions as it might have had in its conception, the reality and its use became something much different in reality. Much of government regulation turns this way...check out that masterpiece called Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that folks were so quick to pass after Enron, etc. Nice in theory, but in reality has cost lots of jobs, increased prices for the consumer and put lots of folks "at risk" for jail time who are far removed from any real decision making. Interestingly enough, Congress is looking at a repeal/revision of this ill-conceived and ill-executed regulation. There Congress goes again, in Silver's definition, "shilling for the rich". Never mind that all these bad "rich folks" (man, how I do wish I was actually in that catagory) pay the vast majority of taxes in this country and employ the vast majority of workers...shame on them for working hard and actually hiring folks...Shame, shame...