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I hope Scott is able to find the compensation that he is looking for right there at UTA. He has already proven himself and shouldn't need to go somewhere to prove himself all over again. I hope that North Texas will find a coach that, in part, can create a rivalry by making the games against UTA worth watching.

Transferred to OU. http://247sports.com/Bolt/Murray-finds-new-college-destination-42261483 "Interestingly enough, A&M could be the beneficiary of a quarterback from the Sooners as graduate transfer Trevor Knight is leaning to the Aggies, a program he was committed to out of high school." So, they traded quarterbacks. P5 is becoming more like the NFL each day.

Terry Bowden went out there with all he's got, ............and won one for the Zippers.

Awasom was an marginal prospect that became a dominant football player after he signed his LOI. Born in Camaroon, Adrian was an unpolished 6-4", 220 lb blocking tight end that only caught 22 passes his senior season at Stafford High. He wanted to play college ball, especially at Houston where he'd attended many games as his mother was a UH professor. North Texas signed him as a project as Awasome was muscular and had a big frame to build on. Awasom devoted himself to the weight room after signing with North Texas and reported to fall camp at a very lean 248 pounds. He was subsequently moved to the defensive line, and with further weight room dedication eventually became an NFL prospect.

http://sports.yahoo.com/uga/football/recruiting/player-Jerod-Evans-176177 Evans committed today (12-12-15) to Virginia Tech.

Most people predicted Fritz would get the Iowa State job. It would have been a very bad idea for us to have placed our eggs in that basket and waited. I think Fritz is an outstanding coach, and would have been very happy if he'd been our selection, but we could also have been left without a viable candidate if we'd waited. Thankfully everything worked out with Seth and we are already rebuilding.

This news, if Kyle Allen is transferring from A&M to OU, may be what made Trevor Knight expendable at OU. Knight wants to play somewhere that he will start, but Stoops sees more upside in another player that he had recruited that will be at OU through the 2018 season.

Hey, I winged it with that one. That was Riley Dodge's job title at Texas after he graduated from McNeese. I believe it involves assisting with recruiting and developing the quarterbacks. Whatever it is I am sure that Walsh would make a great one. That is what I thought also but I took the information (which is probably inaccurate) directly from Wikipedia. Either way, I think he would be an outstanding addition, and his name value would serve better at the college level than at the high school level. He's like Graham Harrell in that, not only has he had record setting success, he has been raised all his life to be a coach. .

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/report--trevor-knight-granted-release-from-ou--will-transfer-235612868.html Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight will reportedly be playing for a new team in 2016. According to SoonerScoop.com, Knight, a junior, has been granted a release from his scholarship by coach Bob Stoops. He's scheduled to graduate at the end of the semester and would be immediately eligible in 2016 for his new school as a graduate transfer. Does North Texas have any coaches with ties to the Oklahoma Sooners? Would North Texas want a quarterback with immediate eligibility and 2 years eligibility remaining?

A couple of ideas for offensive staff: Bring in Riley Dodge as Quarterbacks Coach. Although young (27) he is incredibly familiar with the intricacies of the spread offense, is a local hero, has collegiate coaching experience, has done an excellent job as offensive coordinator at Flower Mound Marcus, and is one of our own. The kid can teach the position and can certainly recruit for it. Try to get J.W. Walsh from Oklahoma State as a Quality Control Quarterbacks Coach or even as a grad assistant if he chooses to go that route. Walsh is a local star quarterback from Denton Guyer High who became the Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year at Oklahoma State prior to injuries that wound up knocking him down the depth chart. He is the son of Guyer head coach John Walsh. Walsh has been at OSU for 5 seasons including a redshirt year, has graduated, and may even be eligible to petition for a sixth year to play since he was injured so early in the 2013 season. .

This is great news. I hope these new coaches know that they'll need to evaluate the team's needs and hit the recruiting trail hard immediately. Dodge lolligagged and it wound up ultimately destroying his collegiate coaching career.

Trilli knew he'd be fired as soon as the last game was over, he'd known it without a doubt since Gene Stallings stated at the open forum " I'm sitting at a division 1 basketball game watching a team with 13 scholarship players being outscored by a NAII team with no scholarships and wondering how this could possibly happen". There was no good time for firing Trilli as it couldn't be done before the funeral for one of his players. At the time it was the lessor of Trilli's personal issues. Imagine the guilt felt when a player that he'd chastised and run off a couple weeks prior for lack of effort, a player that had recently complained constantly of feeling too exhausted to practice, dies suddenly of some rare internal complications. And for the record, I think both Trilli and Pohl were wonderful people. They were friends with each other and they both loved this school. It was just a terribly sad situation that got horribly complicated. Pohl made the decisions necessary to salvage athletics at North Texas, and for that I will always be grateful.

Your memory deceives you young Greenbowler.

Villarreal did not fire Trilli. Dr Pohl believed that athletics were under-emphasized during previous administrations, that the current horrific results were unacceptable, and fired AD Helwig not long after he conducted a formal review of the program (Gene Stallings Group). Pohl then fired Trilli because he didn't want his new AD to have to deal with firing the basketball coach as his first order of business. Pohl then hired RV from USM and RV hired Johnny Jones from Alabama. As far as Dickey, he was dammmmmmmn lucky to still have a job after the 5th game of the 2001 season.

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At the HOD Bowl the two guards at the staircase in our section requested that the fans wait until the UNLV team had a chance to congratulate the winners and vacate the field. They then invited everyone down the steps, even reminding them to be careful and hold onto the handrail. As for the CSC Event Services at North Texas, I have never had any run-in with them but they tend to make Apogee Stadium an over-enforced less pleasant place to attend a game. I wish that North Texas would follow Houston's lead and also terminate their contract immediately.

I don't want to wait for another Dodge to screw around coaching his Southlake Dragons playoffs while the North Texas program falters and starves. Seth needs to know that he becomes a leader tonight and is no longer working to feed Fedora's ego.

Announcement made at 8:44 tonight. Also stated that Fedora wants to keep Seth through bowl season if Carolina qualifies for the playoff. Uh-Oh

Anything, and everything, is more important than uniform selection. Todd Dodge may have been a successful college coach if he had paid as much attention to coaching as he did to his Underarmor contract and it's incentives when he started. Recruit well and develop those players to be the best football players possible. That is the coach's job. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A VERY, VERY DISTANT SECOND PRIORITY. Unfortunately Dodge and McCarney both believed differently.

If he is interested, we should borrow a ploy from the other Texas colleges and see if Elliott has any ill relatives living in the region. That enables the NCAA to grant instant eligibility without the athlete having to sit out a transfer year.

Benford said he cannot pinpoint why his team has been so inconsistent, but said it is something they needed to fix quickly. “We have to figure it out,” Benford said. The team has been consistently bad since Johnny left. Let's see if we can pinpoint that reason and how to fix it.

From Brett Vito: Jalie Mitchell picked up another big win early in her tenure as UNT’s head coach tonight when the Mean Green beat rival SMU 60-57. http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/12/unt-women-pick-up-big-win-over-smu.html/

There's a certain Denton coach on that list that would make an outstanding college offensive coordinator. By sheer coincidence, that coach has a 5th year senior son that was a starting quarterback, and doing incredibly well, before he was injured in his second game of his junior year and missed the remainder of the season. That son could be eligible for a hardship 6th year to play a fourth season, and as a graduate would be eligible to transfer anywhere and play immediately. Maybe just a pipe dream, but possibly a great opportunity for all involved.

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/11/sunday-night-coach-search-update.html/ "There is no definitive word yet, but it appears as if the school will turn to Meacham." If true, Meachum seems like a very good hire.