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I think it could take her. I mean... aren't even the most muscular women intrinsically weaker than the most average men?

I can all but guarantee you that even after the new stadium's completion we won't be within 27,000 tickets sold of Nebraska's current number.

Thanks for the personal insight. Never had to deal with anything like that myself. The story from the USA fans a few weeks back made it sound like this was a complete tear and a slam dunk season ender. The fact that he hadn't played since then made me very surprised to see him on the "don't foul" list. Sherrer just keeps on impressing me. He put the Jaguars on his back and carried them to the Finals in last year's tournament. I was sorry when he got hurt, but I'm glad to hear that he (and presumably his superfan mom) are going to be in Hot Springs.

I tore my MCL and severely sprained my ACL in high school and played football 5 weeks later. As long as your knee isn't bent back it will be fine as long as you can take the pain.

I imagine a visitor from North Texas will be treated entirely differently in Tuscaloosa than a visitor from Auburn.

We've been through this topic several times on the magic portal part of the board. I've had two consitent takes thoughout: (1) Dodge had no idea about the competition level he was about to face (2) Villareal should have known As to (1), it manifested itself in several ways: - putting off taking the helm while the high school playoffs were ongoing, which I believe hurt the initial recruiting efforts - the inability or unwillingness to adjust to the opponent, as shown by trying to play man coverage against an OU team with three future NFL draft choices - focusing too much on things that have nothing to do with football, like wasting game time to have the receivers coach dress down a defensive back for cursing during a game As to (2), his background should have precluded Rick from allowing Dodge from putting together the initial staff - Rick had been a college football coach - Rick had been athletic administration for years I think quite a bit of hubris developed around Todd Dodge because of his high school success, and maybe Rick bought into it. I know from talking to more than a few parents of players that they were initially swept into what they thought was a "Dodge mystique." The problem was and always will be, given equal parts, who can make their machine run the best. Think NASCAR here. All teams have to follow the same guidelines and rules in putting together their cars for race day. We had the equivalent of the high school shop class and the shade tree mechanic neighbor we'd known for years (the DB coach from the business world) putting our car together. Meanwhile, our opponents cars were assemble and put to the test by professional mechanics. It doesn't matter now. If everything is as it appears, Todd Dodge has traded the old, top-down, high school model of running the team for the 21st Century CEO/delegate the power model. And, I truly believe we will benefit from it. I've said all along that the most ridiculous part of our losing so much was that we are in the Sun Belt. If Dodge had been hired by, say, Baylor and gone 5-31 in the Big 12, that wouldn't have been shocking. But, guys, two official Sun Belt conference wins in three seasons was ridiculous. As stated a couple of days ago, I don't think one Sun Belt team blows the doors off the others in recruiting. We're all behind the big, AQ conference dogs regionally. So, the other factor comes into play, and that's coaching. We now have a coaching staff with experience equal to or greater than every one of our Sun Belt foes. So, I think you will see not just a highly competitive team, but a championship caliber team - for this conference. There will be less missed assignments on defense, fewer dropped passes on offense, more receivers working open and also knowing what to do when a play breaks down...and the quarterback lining up behind the center on third or fourth and short and sneaking for the first down or handing off to a tailback to bang away for the first down or, dare I say, touchdown!

I'm pretty sure religion has the market cornered in this realm.

Tin foil keeps food warm AND makes a stylish hat...

Shut up you two. Everyone knows this is Lee Jackson's work.

Because this thread needed it :

I guess when you have a staff of 50 some odd people (??) constanly telling you how great and important you are, people giving you money for just being you, and a political party that makes you feel important to get your vote on every issue, you begin to think that you are not only above the law, but above the common decency and morality from which you were raised. A sad commentary indeed, but not necessarily specific to politics (see: Tiger Woods). I would love to see a 1 term limit (House, Senate, and President) with congressional staff capped at 10 people. This would kill lobbiest, shorten every single piece of legislation to where the American people could read it online (no huge staff to decipher the 3000000000 page bill), make every piece of legislation better, and much better assure that your congressman was working for you.

Texas Rangers baseball starting out in Arizona. Starting to feel like Spring! I'm expecting big things this year out in Arlington.

quoth Nolan Ryan

It is interesting that Dickey only ended up on one person's list, granted it was on both sides of the list but I digress. I am not an oldtimer, not yet, but when I was at school the joke was that we were going to the "Darrel Dickey Invitational" not the New Orleans Bowl. I don't care how much we might dislike the guy as a person or dislike his comments or attitude we can't ignore his success on the field. Overall losing record is a bad thing... yes... but 4 conference championships in a row is a great thing. I have to put him on the top 5 list for that. It might not have been the most entertaining football but we had some great players and a bunch of winning to celebrate. My favorite memory on campus was charging the field after beating NMSU to win the conference in 2002 and the heading to New Orleans for another win. good times. I can't comment on anyone else other than Johny Jones and Hayden Fry with any amount of intelligence... sorry

can't help but wonder if the fact that he was playing for the State Championship at the time hurt him in not only in recruitng but, also did not have the opportunity to interview "college experienced" coaches? So, the circumstances dictated that he bring along his H.S. staff to UNT?????

I threw up in my mouth a little looking at Dodge's original staff. He has done a great job of getting experienced college coaches in here to rectify that "high school" problem.

Let's start beating big name teams, in both football and basketball, and start making some noise in the tournament. Then people will figure our real school name out. People are ignorant by nature.

You simply cannot trust politicians. Ever. All politicians are for sale. Power will corrupt. These people are after one thing only... power. Regardless of which party you identify with, 99.9% of people who run for any kind of public office are power-hungry, untrustworthy, elitist a-holes with an almost non-existant desire to represent you or me. Sorry for the rant... I promise I'll never comment on politics again! Have a nice day. Go Mean Green!

In a nutshell, yes. We're at the bottom of the food chain conference-wise. No one really gets top recruits. Not even Troy. It's what you do with what you get. Whether anyone admits it or not, Darrell Dickey took some unknowns, unheralded players and he and his coaching staff turned them into a machine - in the Sun Belt. I'd match this coaching staff with any other Belt team. In fact, I wouldn't trade it straight up for any of the others. Every hire since Ron Mendoza and Robert Drake left have been 164% on target with what we need - Deloach, Gahagan, Nelson, Canales, and Peterson. Deloach: Has done it here, and produced NFL safeties at UCLA Gahagan: Experience at Southern Cal Nelson: Over a decade of the best Iowa State football in its history Canales: Part of taking South Florida from start up to giant killer Peterson: A decade during the remarkable Kansas State turnaround I mean...these are all guys with dozens and dozens of All-League, All-American, and NFL draft picks and signees under their belts. How can anyone not be excited about what is happening now? Look at it this way: except for Gahagan, all have been a part of "turn around" stories or "doing it from scratch" stories - North Texas, South Florida, Kansas State and Iowa State. These coaches have all seen programs that needed building up and played major roles in helping them do so. And, with the exception of Deloach, all did so in BCS conferences (Big East, Big 12, and Pac-10). Sorry, guys, but I'm legitimately excited about what's going on with football these days. And, you should be, too.

buh bye quitter!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_us/us_university_cuts_protests it would appear that college students would understand the word meaning of deficit, bankrupt and entitlement in state and federal government. are they not connecting the dots or do they want another "grecian senario?" people are going to have to realize that the american entitlement mentality has to end with deep cuts in "all" entitlement programs or we, as a nation, face selling off chunks of america like what germany is asking greece to do to pay its e.u. debts. who knows, the united states may have already done that by making natural oil, gas & timber lands off limits to drilling/cutting by making them natural wildlife reserves.

This was an excellent researched and written story. This is the type of stuff Brett Vito can produce if he is given some cooperation from people he is reporting on. Yes, this is meant as a direct shot at Rick V and Todd Dodge.

What about Saban's first spring at Alabama? There were over 10,000 people outside who couldn't get in. Now that their expansion is up and over 100K, that might be enough room but who knows.

She would be 69 years old.... I doubt she will run again... I think she just wants to come home to Texas ...thus she ran for Gov. Some of these retirements (both parties) involve age.... they have just had enough and want to take it easy....

Then you need to add a team blowing it in the 4th Q.

http://www.ntdaily.com/?p=6737

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100228/D9E4T02G0.html Hmm, still following a lot of those "failed policies" of the Bush administration. It's totally different from the other side of the desk, isn't it?

Does this not concern anyone: Greg Peterson enters his second season at Colorado State, his 26th year in the profession. He joined the Rams on Jan. 14, 2008. Peterson not only served as the Rams' offensive coordinator, but also coached the wide receivers... So he has gone from the Mountain West Offensive coordinator to a struggling SunBelt WR coach?!

I remember reading an article that his mom had major health issues and he almost left the program earlier because of that. I'm sure this is related somehow. Good Luck to you, Big Nate. Thanks for your time at NT.

They tried to make it as real as possible.

Gameday Live from Denton on the grand finale of Fouts Field - win over Kansas State and to the Sugar we go! I can dream, right! GMG

They probably just made it for the last game and leaked it now because that made the most sense. I would passive-aggressively question it until they hand you a marketing plan.

hmmm, you could be right.

. . . . . . . . . . . Rick

Would ya?

I think that in the new stadium with full concessions we might start averaging 6K or more. we just need to make it an "event". People don't need much of an excuse to hang out on a nice spring day with tailgating and "football". Notice I put football in quotes. Just watching this construction go up I can't help but think that the new stadium and surrounding areas are going to be a fantastic place for tailgating and letting the kids run around like maniacs. It isn't so close to major freeways and traffic like fouts is today and there is just so much open space out there. Going to be great.

If we can leave the cannon at home for the spring game that would be huge for maintaining a good attendance

The Obama administration lifted the veil Tuesday on a highly-secretive set of policies to defend the U.S. from cyber attacks. It was an open secret that the National Security Agency was bolstering a Homeland Security program to detect and respond to cyber attacks on government systems, but a summary of that program declassified Tuesday provides more details of NSA's role in a Homeland program known as Einstein. The current version of the program is widely seen as providing meager protection against attack, but a new version being built will be more robust–largely because it's rooted in NSA technology. The program is designed to look for indicators of cyber attacks by digging into all Internet communications, including the contents of emails, according to the declassified summary. Homeland Security will then strip out identifying information and pass along data on new threats to NSA. It will also use threat information from NSA to better identify emerging cyber attacks. http://blogs.wsj.com...0&post_id=11601 So where is the outrage? People were flipping out all calling Bush a Nazi because some wiretapping of known terrorists may have included listening to the phone calls of Americans. Obama's plan is to look at the contents of all emails, not just some suspect emails.