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I was at the Rangers game and got to go to the suite and meet Coach. He is great and has great plans for North Texas. He knows what we have, what we need, and how long it will take to get to where we need to go. It was great talking to him. He reminds me so much of Hayden Fry. After talking to him for about 10 minutes I truly believe he has what it takes to get the players up for the games and getting that 110% out of them. I truly believe we will be able to see a great difference in the team, maybe not in wins at first, but in attitude and output. He will truly impress anyone he talks to and he is great for the perception of NORTH TEXAS FOOTBALL.

<3 Johnny! Not disputing whether he deserves it, but it is crazy to me that a man can get paid 35K a year to do a weekly radio appearance. And only during the season! Heck I'll appear weekly during the entire calendar year for 20K and some post game at Fry St.

My kid is going to the highest bidder

Why wouldn't you? Great new coach, great new stadium and a great home schedule...other than that, I cannot come up with any reasons to buy season tickets. Oh yeah, helping the university might be fun, too.

This philosophy worked well for Mr. Newton!

I've already gone through this with my only son. I was open to any school that he wanted to attend, except for SMU. After he decided what he wanted to study (Business) we discussed all his options. TCU was the only private school that he had any remote interest in, but the cost was pretty prohibitive. In the end he decided on North Texas because their business school was well respected, and he felt that he could do fine in the business world as long as he had a degree. The college experience is what the individual makes of it, and North Texas can be as memorable or as forgettable as any other school in Texas.

Does anyone know why we at North Texas don't ever hold a basketball tournament and have N.T., U.T.A., S.M.U., and T. C. U. That would pull in T V coverage, lots of people in attendance, and coverage of the media. I have wondered this for a while, does anyone know why we don't hold a tournament of some type?

As in most good questions, the answer is, "it depends". As a general rule, yeah I'd like my son or daughter to go to NT. But if either of my kids could go to Stanford, MIT, Cal, or a few other choices, I would drive them to class. There's no way I willingly let them go to Tech, and A&M is only an option if Vet sciences is their field. Oh, did you say full scholarship? Lubbock is lovely in the winter...

Yeah, sheesh...so glad we're in the Belt.

Top 5 basketball states & their top 5 programs TEXAS 1. Texas: Rick Barnes has guided the Longhorns to a school-record 13 consecutive NCAA tournaments. 2. Baylor: The Bears went from the cusp of the “death penalty” to the Elite Eight in less than a decade. Next season’s team should be Scott Drew’s best. 3. Texas A&M: First Billy Gillispie and now Mark Turgeon. Someone in College Station has an eye for coaches. 4. UTEP: Tim Floyd will keep the Miners where they’ve been for years now – near the top of the C-USA standings. 5. Texas Tech: It won’t be long until the Red Raiders are back in the NCAA tournament. Hmmm. #5 is intriguing. Perception is reality? The score says no.

Somebody's got their guns up.... take it to the Tech board.

I assumed "heads-up" meant "head-to-head."

If I ever have kids... As long as it's not UT or SMU (sometimes Texas Tech)... I will support their decision fully. If they do decide that, I will never attend a sporting event with them.

Good to hear. We just need to put him in front of as many luke warm students and fans as possible.

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Ashton Lampkin DB, 6'1" 185 4.4 Dunbar HS. Ft. Worth, TX Rivals But, alas, he has committed to okie state. BTW, does this post format work for everyone?

Abuse of power?

i would never make them go, but if they wanted too, i'd love it. i want my kids to experience college away from home. we live in the area, so i don't want them to be used to everything around here and around all the same things. i want them to go out into the world and live their own experiences.

If my kid gets accepted to Stanford or Harvard or any school like that, I would walk through flaming broken glass to get him/her to go there.

My dad told me, "Travis, you can go anywhere in the state that you want to go to. But, you are paying for it." I came to UNT because I had a scholarship here. So I took it and then loved all of it. I plan to do the same with my child. She will go where she wants to and it will be her's to make. **My dad did help in many ways: paying for my car insurance, gas, and a lot of food. I can see myself doing something like this for my child.

$ ? I don't know , just a guess. I don't even think we've played in a tourny since we won the Lou Henson ( NMSU) I really wish we would play in the Puerto Rico tip off , I'd make a vacation out of it

I see somehow FAU made the Florida list... yet we cannot make the Texas list? What a crock!!!!

The definitive answer is whereever they want to go as long as they can afford it. Having said that, I would hope that they would go to a university where they can not only get a good education but associate with the average American. I have never been an elitist and too many times the Ivy League schools and the top private schools students thinks that their excrement has no foul odor. They may have a ton of intelligence but little common sense. I enjoy the "upper middle" where more people seem to have more of the right values. The University of North Texas has had their share of financially successful people who made it on their own. I'm not condemning networking. It can give you opportunities that would not be available to you ever. But, I have special admiration for the man or woman who makes it on their own.

i would not trade my experience at north texas [61'/66']. having said that, i found that in the dallas business world bein a ut,a&m,or smu grad opened doors and offered networking opportunities that being a unt grad did not. same applied in ft. worth, except substitute tcu for smu.

It would depend on what they would want to study, and where they would be comfortable (that's provided I ever have kids of course). My girlfriend went to Caltech, one of the most prestigious schools for science in the nation. She is currently teaching chemistry and algebra. Should she have gone to a school like NT with a great teaching program? She didn't even GET a teaching degree, so maybe so. But you'd never convince her she didn't go to the best school in the country and she's damn proud that she did - much the same way I'm proud to have gone to UNT.

The great music and incredible education programs (too bad nobody is hiring these teachers anymore) have been the biggest selling point for UNT for years. It's too bad that many of the other degree programs don't have the same reputations. I had no trouble starting my career (Finance - 2005) the moment I walked out the door and I truly feel that the training I received through my degree program had me ready to take on anybody from ANY school. The only thing I would change about my experience is that I should have saved some money by doing my first couple of years at a community/junior college. If my wife and I ever decide to have children, I would feel very comfortable sending them to UNT.

To address part of your question, I would actually prefer that my daughter not go to an Ivy League school even if money were no object. I have friends who went to those schools, and the impression I get is that they are extremely over-rated academically. I loved NT and my time in Denton, and I thought it was a pretty good school. I still support it financially occasionally (at least I did until the Jackson/Bataille episode). But academically, I don't think it's stellar -- although it has undeniable strengths in certain disciplines. So if she wanted to study Radio-TV-Film or Music, for instance, then yeah, I'd be OK with that. Otherwise, UVA or a liberal arts college would be my preference. But I still have 12 years to think about it.

Not sure what you're getting at, but yes--I would be happy for any of my children to go to UNT even if they were accepted at schools generally perceived as being academically superior. As long as they could explain their reasoning for choosing UNT over Rice, Stanford, etc., I would be thrilled for them to go to UNT.

I still have about 18 years before I have to make this decision, but I hope my thought process at that time is the same as how I'm thinking now: "Where does she want to go?", then we can hammer out pros & cons. Cost will probably be a huge factor... She'll already know how great UNT is because my wife and I will educate her, but if an elite academic institution comes calling, then that will be up to her to decide upon. Now, if she ever says she wants to go to SMU, I'll have to give her up for adoption.

What's the Brain Trust's take on Ron Paul? He certainly has some off-putting stances (women's rights, environment) but there are a lot of things to like here, and he appears to be the only potential candidate who actually allows cerebral reason and personal conviction to dictate his political stances. Certainly wouldn't want his son any where near the ticket, though...

Trump has also has companies that have filed for bankruptcy, is that how he will run America?

Who beats him..??. Palin, Gingrich (worse morally than Clinton), or Donald Trump?? .... So far the worst collection of party candidates ever...any party. Romney maybe but a lot of folks in GOP don't like him... and Huckabee would have trouble in a general election (so many don't like a minister in there because of separation of church and state and he is a birther ( aka wacko )besides) ... Maybe someone will show up but it sure isn't obvious. Besides this economic recession started in Bush years and has improved some but not as much as hoped. The same with the rapidly growing debt... but that hasn't not slowed down due to less taxes being collected due to recession and the tax cuts that took place about 2003...

If the NCAA would enforce the 15,000 attendance requirement FBS would clear out quite a bit.

SMU would have to catch us on a Butler kind of bad night shooting 18% from the floor. Even then I don't believe the upturned nose's from the Hilltop could win.

This is where I would say that I don't think we should play them because it would hurt our RPI, BUT that would mean we are scheduling someone other than the Southland and SWAC for our nonconference schedule. It would be fun to whack the piss out of the private universities. It would be less fun to see SMU’s two dozen fans rush the court if they catch us on a bad night.

Qualifying for the NCAA Tournament does that fairly well. We've got the best chance to do that on a yr in/yr out basis from any other team in the metroplex. Helps in recruiting, perpeutates the cycle. Metroplex hoops fans turn up around tourney time. I'm all for watching us whoop our cross town rivals and enjoying the passion and electricity, but they need it more than we do.

That is true, but such a tournament could inform everyone else where we stand.

We don't need a metroplex hoops tourney to let us know where we stand.

If you really want a Metroplex Invitational Tournament, you need to get some bigshots to form a host committee. Get a couple of big donors from each school to form an ad hoc committee and send feelers out (as a group) to the four schools.

Some of us have credit hours from TCU. He's just making sure he gets every possible shot in.

Yes, My 11 year old daughter currently wants to be a teacher, so naturally I have been pushing NT. No Baylor, No SMU, No Tech Aside from that, I am cool with all other schools.

Where did I say anything about SMUs schedule or playing 4-5 division 2 or 3 schools a year? I didn't. None of the conversations I referenced had anything to do w/SMU, other than them being a rapidly improving program. I understand why they scheduled that way this year, but it's not like it had my rubber stamp of approval. I'm one of the few that actually vented about the schedule, as it was being made, to the powers that be. You may want to beat the pants off SMU in hoops, but to say you're far ahead, based on what's on everyones roster next year, is a farce.

Rhoomes is a spring signee, far from a polished kid, and isn't even really a true Big East prospect. Bsed on the class at TCU, it's same day, same result. Everytime they sign someone, I chuckle a little. Its bad in Cowtown

Yep, this state began to go red with Reagan and culminated with the legislature following in the 90s. Support for democrats left with the death of the southern conservative democrat. It could be argued that Texas didn't leave the democrat party, but the democrat party left Texas. To say that Texas has been "historically repulican" is just plain wrong. It speaks to how much Pres. Obama knows and/or cares about this state. I don't mean that negatively. Why would he care about a state that he has zero chance of winning in 2012? Maybe he meant to say historically conservative, which would have been correct. Maybe he just misspeaks a lot, like another former president.

Wow, you talk about the deficit and never once mention spending. Here is an idea (for both parties, by the way), IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, DON'T SPEND IT!!! Seems a lot of people manage to live that way. Pres. Obama was elected because he promised to fix the economy. He hasn't. If there is not a dramatic turnaround in the next year and a half, he will be a one termer. As some famous democrat once said "It's the economy, stupid." Blaming Bush has grown to be a tired excuse and won't be accepted in 2012. As far as the Republican candidate, I think you will see a new face nominated. It won't be any of the people you mentioned above. Pawlenty, Rep. Ryan, Gov. Walker, or Sen. Rubio could be the guy. If not, it will be someone in their mold. Any of the candidates you mentioned could beat Pres. Obama if the economy isn't better, but hopefully the Republicans have learned their lesson (NEVER a given with this spineless group) and go in a different direction. I don't think the voters in the Republican primaries will give them a choice.

Im not really a trump fan and I can think of several candidates that 'd prefer which weren't mentioned, but Trump, being a businessman could probably do alot for this economy.

Judging by the people that keep getting elected I don't think that would automatically be an issue that will cause him problems.

So has Olympia Snowe. Though her and Ron have very different political views they both run as Republicans despite the fact that it could be claimed they are Republicans In Name Only. just saying...

I can understand why yall are crying about not being on the top 5 list but in reality All about Unt is right, I dont think right now we are a top 5 team in the state. Once the players are on the court and beating top teams and not going .500 in the sun belt, then we have something to complain about. Im pretty sure all of those teams have gone past the first round in the tournament, I know we have a great class coming in but it doesnt matter whats on paper its what we do on the court that matters.

the prez gets a little testy with the conservative dallas reporter. http://www.wfaa.com/news/texas-news/President-Obama-talks-with-News-8--120141169.html in other interesting news: Rbt. Paul for Tx. Congress: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110415/ts_yblog_theticket/ron-pauls-other-son-robert-might-run-for-texas-senate