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This post was a complete failure, stop trying to stir everything up and then refuse to give any details. Exhibit A why family members don't need to be revealing info on the boards. Bad for both parties.

Everyone on this site knows who he is and how vital he is. But you said his situation is not good. Players sit out for all kinds of reasons especially in spring ball. It is impossible to know a players exact situation by just seeing they are not playing or in a boot or on crutches or whatever the situation is. Antonio Johnson isn't practicing because he is so valuable the coaches don't want him to reinjure his knee problem from the season. So I guess his situation isn't "good" either because hes on the sidelines watching. The bottom line is you cant tell whats going on from the stands so either admit someone told you what his problem is or stop speculating.

Unnecessary speculation.

Then the solution to your problem seems pretty simple.

How do you know his situation or extent of his injury by just looking at him?

I really hope coaches have anything better to do than read a bunch of fan speculation drivel on the Internet. Me thinks you overvalue your own opinion.

Id rather not read ur posts.Waste of time like this one was, sweetie.

Im not going anywhere. I was here before you got here and Ill be here when your gone. Its just a piece of advice to watch what you say. Ive seen many crash and burn before. Coaches read every word written on this board, if you didnt know that. Its not helping your brother out at all.

Where's Lee at? Didn't know he wasn't participating in spring ball? I just figured we weren't hearing a lot about him bc he is a staple in the D. Kind of like we haven't heard that much about Akunne. What's going on with Lee??

Yeah, Derek Thompson played QB. It is a difficult position to just plug someone in and keep the train rolling. With that said, if we can't fill the void of a TD/INT ratio of 1:1 and 2500 yards passing, we are in lack of a better term, deep shit.

Arm strength. Turnovers. We've seen a lack of one and a multitude of the other when he has taken the field. I believe the one meaningful pass he threw last season was intercepted. In the red zone. Unless he has magically increased his arm strength by 20%, we will be hurting at that position. No one recruited this kid to play QB because of his arm. I'll be rooting for him if he turns out to be the starter, of course, but I'll also know that we are woefully under talented at the QB position. My credentials are I'm a UNT fan. On a UNT fan board. This isn't quantum physics. It's a football fan board. Where we talk about things like this...

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What is kind of odd is that so many on here seem to be calling for the dual threat QB. Go back and look. McNulty has shown that he is the most dual threat of any of the QBs. It seems like most assume DW is faster than Mini Mac. I don't happen to be one of them and MM have proven that he can run, more so than DW based on game results. It's not like we are suddenly going to require a QB to throw it all over the field. We need some to make accurate 0-20 yard throws with the occasional downfield attempt, plus add some threat of running. Time will tell. Lots of time and opportunity for DW to show what he has before these types of decisions have to be made. I will admit the 2011 Tulsa game and the one attempt against Idaho are hard to un-see.

Who said they were second guessing?

So let student athletes work. Let them sign their own endorsement deals. If video games use their likeness, pay them a royalty. But universities should not pay them.

Only one sentence apart. Quickest inconsistent statement in the history of GMG.com?

I am so disappointed in you. I can't believe you would make it about race. And at a time like this...

I think if you check, the comparison to a pit of snakes was made by Ralph Miller, head coach at Wichita State in the early sixties.

well... do you have any info on Ray?

You have got one serious internet hard-on for that girl.

How is a horse gonna throw a football? Running back. Ever tackle a horse?

I take it nothing but speculation is left unless someone spills the beans.So here are the options: If he is not on the side lines this means that he is - ineligible because of bad grades or something similar - or that he did something that he was kicked off or suspended, and the coaches would not say - or he is currently not at the university, maybe due to family reasons - he has a medical problem, that is so bad he can't get to the side lines - he decided to transfer out for some hard to know reason that is about the only options I can come up with. It is bad when you almost got to hope a player flunked, because it is still better than the other options that are left .

Well, apparently none of us picked either of these teams to win, so the winner of the bracket challenge is JJ's Benford'd bracket (I believe that's Army of Dad). Nobody even broke 100 points. What a weird tournament year.

So Laramie Lee had a mental breakdown? That's a real bummer.

This is all so disappointing.... My husband has a injury to his sternum and injuries to his rotator cuff that were due to college football. He knew about them thenbut they have grown increasingly worse in the past 10 years since he stopped playing football. I played college basketball for three years. My knees sound like bubble tape crackling everytime I sit down... should we sue the same institutions that paid for are very very expensive education after we knew the risks involved as far as playing these sports?? This is a kind of discussion that is opened up with topics like this... Domino effect... as it always is when you get legislation involved.

I would say yes... It's not that in common for a coach to question what a player will do after their career is over. I think it's sad that somehow people think that it's a joke. I rather have 13 scholarship players who become productive and involved citizens then 13 players who win a national championship. Now if we can have both that would be fantastic. However mocking someone because they actually acre about young men's futures is unbelievably rude and immature.

Me thinks the uninformed masses (myself included) focus on the 40 times and bench reps because we an process those pretty easily. I am sure there is a reason the people doing the evaluations put them through several additional drills, tests, interviews, etc...

I'm not gonna look this up, but I think there's a rule of company provided housing as a required geographic proximity to a job not being considered income. I could be wrong. Don't quote me on this, and do not take this as tax advice. Engage your local CPA for further details.

THIS is exactly correct. I KNOW that for a fact that players get EVERYTHING down to the free contact lense, though....

Mac has shown me that I can trust him to put the best players on the field. Or more accurately, the best prepared players on the field. You gotta earn your spot with him. I don't believe for a second that there is any nepotism going on.

That's kind of what I was thinking. Of course if most of it is considered "pre-tax benefits" then they may only tax everything other than the tuition, fees, and books...and if they're housed on campus that might be exempt too. There are ways to skirt around getting most of it taxed but I do think that it's kind of a dangerous bet to hedge.

Correct. Unless strings were pulled to make it seem that he had to redshirt his freshman year (09) due to injury. Which wouldn't have been true but, as you said, we would've maybe had a chance at an appeal. I don't think we would've won the appeal, and not just because we are North Texas. Very few schools, if any, would've won that appeal. My point again is that we didn't get gypped and Dodge burning DT's redshirt in 09 is not the reason that his eligibility is up.

If this will get rid of NASCAR,I'm all for it.

DT would have been a RS Fr. when he broke his leg at army if dodge hadn't burned his redshirt at Arkansas state in 2009. Are you saying he would not have gotten the medical RS in 2010 if that were the case? We would've at least had a chance for an appeal. It's all ancient history now, but if that game against ASU had been for bowl eligibility or something like that no one would've ever complained.

This is correct. Dodge wasted a year of eligibility on the last quarter of the last game, which was unwinnable, of a terrible season. He should have put in anyone else. Yes, I know DT was the only QB left, but he could have ran the wildcat the last 2 series. I really really football hated Dodge at that point and really wanted us to fire him at the end of that year (wasn't Army awesome?). But. as is currently being demonstrated, we don't fire people until year four, regardless of how deserving they are to be fired.

I can just see it now: "Ladies & Gentleman, it has been an exciting past 24 hours here at the 2050 Daytona 500. We're only on lap 160 out of 200 and we've seen these supercars reach a speed of 75mph a few times so far, but they're averaging a much more manageable 55mph! Jimmie Johnson Jr and Dale Earnhardt III are neck & neck at the front right now, but they're about to come in for their 40th pit stop of the day. The plugmen have the fast-chargers ready, they also have frappuchinos & Kindles ready for their respective drivers during the 15-minute charging downtime. It just doesn't get any more exciting than this folks!"

Unless my memory fails me, he got a medical redshirt the year he broke his leg at army, so he burned one year of eligibility in 2009 (on about 6 snaps), medical redshirt in 2010, and then played 2011, 2012, and 2013. If he "still got to play 4 seasons" he would be our starting QB this fall as a 6th year senior...you know, as long as we left "north" off of the application to the NCAA.

He was a true Freshman, and he is not the type of athletic talent to come right out of one year of starting in high school and rock it against a speedy D1 defense. I don't think that's cause to worry.

My opinion is based on the game at Tulsa a couple of years ago where I had very good seats. I know it's shortsighted, but I just can't get that performance out of my mind. If he's our starter I sure hope he has reinvented himself.

Totes conspiracy.

That's a bit unfair. There are many things that have not been strengths of Benford.

We will definitely miss DT next season. Some of us have been saying that all along.

It would be bad for this football program and indicate a lack of talent at the QB position. I think either Greer or DW wins the job.

USA Today? Don't I find those on the floor at hotels?

if the players are going to get paid...why require them to go to school...why even require them to enroll...if they are paid employees, let them decide if they want to go to school??? the whole student/athlete thingy is a farce anyways...look at all the academic fraud that goes on with athletes...just pay players to play...

While these things sound good and all...except the last two...these are students, not employees.

And that will probably end my interest in sports. I watch less and less NFL and virtually no NBA. MLB seems to be the only one that I can stomach anymore. The NCAA, despite its flaws, has been where I have been able to find a product I enjoy and this would just kill it entirely.

Reclassifying student athletes as semi-professional from amateur really muddies the waters. Would (or should) a semi-pro athlete still be considered a student-athlete if they are getting paid for their likeness being used in a video game and apparel sales? Paying college athletes will transform college sports and I don't think it will all be good. There will be winners and losers and I fear NT and its fans will be losers.

I disagree, this type of thing will only serve to separate the big boys even further. They will become minor leagues for money sports and there will no longer be a need for 'scholarships' because the players won't be playing for an education, but for a job like a minor league baseball player. At that point why bother with NCAA regulation and then things like scholarship limits and roster sizes can be skewed in favor of the new minor league schools. I do not watch pro basketball as I much prefer the college version where there are still players that give it their all every game and aren't playing for the money. Should this come down then I just don't see how college basketball will be able to keep its current draw for me.