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Doug Meacham Reverend Jim

This game was too much like the SMU game in that the opponent kept making catastrophic errors and North Texas' inept quarterbacking kept it from being able to capitalize on the mistakes. All three quarterbacks were horrible.

Then clock expires with UTEP again inside La Tech 5 yard line with no timeouts. La Tech 17 UTEP 15 Well, it looks like there will be no bowl game for UTEP this year. I guess they'll have to make the North Texas game next week their bowl game.

Those stories about what happened, it's true, all of it.

Just out of curiosity, why are you opposed to scheduling Army? That's a pretty well known opponent, lots of pageantry, and the media loves to cover them.

Please don't interpret my post above as not wanting to play against P5 schools. We should play those, but only the ones that will play us in home&home series. We just need to stop selling ourselves to schools that refuse to play road games.

We have a long history with NMSU, Texas St, Tulsa, Arkansas St, and Louisiana-Lafayette. Those are all schools close enough for UNT fans to travel, and they would all bring decent crowds to Apogee. Rivalries would soon develop. Other teams to consider would be UNM, Colorado St, Memphis, Hawaii etc We theoretically have SMU and Army series for the next few years, maybe add in one non-regional team per year for h/h and any one of the above for a competitive 6 home 6 away all FBS schedule each year. A real schedule (one without purchased victories or sold defeats) is the only way to succeed. It allows our team to win against teams that fans care about beating and gets us to bowls where we may have shots at P5 conferences. 1)Hire a coach and staff that we feel will field the best team possible. By Chico's admission North Texas has done a horrible job at this as recruiting and player development were neglected. 2) Schedule to win. Everyone else does it, some with 8 home games, and it works quite well for them. North Texas has done a horrible job at this by scheduling destructive bodybag games every year. 3) Promote the game as the "big event in town this week" and North Texas as "Our Home Team". Louisiana-Lafayette went from being a school with extremely low attendance to averaging twice what we do. How? They flooded their market with ULL gear and got people to come out to the tailgate parties. This was the same tactic employed by USF in its initial seasons. It worked at those schools and countless others. Until the last dozen years UNT merchandise was severely overpriced and only available through the two campus bookstores. Residents of Denton County are aware of North Texas but they have never become emotionally connected to North Texas. 4)Promote the games. This means finding ways to fill the seats with not just homeless, orphans, kindergartners, and detained immigrants, but actually marketing the promotions to people that may actually return and buy tickets. 5) Make the gameday the best that it possibly can be. Fans will not pay to come back if they have a bad time.We can't control the weather, but we can certainly forecast that it will be hot in September; schedule those games kickoff no earlier than 7:00. Searing temperatures bake our biggest contributor base, the students. No late summer games starting before sunset. Schedule more wisely around events, nobody wants to be at a football game on Halloween night but we keep scheduling games at that time. North Texas has so much potential; beautiful facilities and a huge disengaged fanbase looking for any solid reason to support the program. It could be quite a successful program with some very basic adjustments.

Hopefully tonight is an indication of how good a coach Jalie Mitchell will be for North Texas. Great job ladies! From NewsOK: Terra Ellison had a team-best 15 points for North Texas, which avenged last season's 68-39 loss to OU in Denton. She was 6 of 16 from the field, and three of her buckets were 3-pointers. Kelsey Criner added seven rebounds and seven assists for North Texas. The Mean Green (1-1) led the entire game, allowing the Sooners to tie it just four times. North Texas led by a game-best 12 points midway through the second quarter.

UNT 61 - OU 57 North Texas and new coach Jalie Mitchell have beaten 17th ranked Oklahoma!!!!! First win over a ranked team in UNT Womens Basketball history. UNT never trailed in the game.

Silver lining...we are not publicly perceived as the least desirable opening anymore. (ULMo is) I read that too but figured the grammar issue and word omission were probably iPhone related. I hope that our potential offering price is enough to separate North Texas from some of the schools that will be offering at a lower pay level.

I would love to have Fritz or Babers as both are outstanding coaches and either would quickly turn North Texas into a winner. Fritz won again last night, again in dominating fashion http://espn.go.com/college-football/recap?gameId=400787472 Applewhite has never been a head coach but he is bright and he's gained enough experience that I am reasonably confident that he could assemble a competent staff. It wouldn't be as quick as the other two but I believe he would field a winner.

ESPN and SEC network make UNT the joke of college football No, that should read, North Texas athletic administration, in constant quest to grab easy cash, has made UNT the joke of college football It is impossible to whore your team into prosperity yet we have been trying for decades.

Last night KXAS 5, our local NBC affiliate, ran through all the college scores. They didn't announce the North Texas score though, they simply stated that "North Texas went to Tennessee to collect another paycheck". The whored games are not worth the damage to our institutions reputation regardless of how much money is left on the nightstand.

You guys are bragging because your team's honor is being sold to the Aggies so your team can be abused like some prison bitch? It doesn't matter what kind of whore program you are, it's just that you are not truly Division 1 if you have to whore out your sports teams. Keep Calm and Whore On

The Muntheinator-inator sounds even badder, possibly the baddest of them all. Now for a quick back story...

I am in no way suggesting that the extension will not happen, and I hope it does as it seems as if the series will be mutually beneficial to both schools. What I'd like to see is ALL future whore games and ALL future 1AA games get cancelled and replaced by home-and-home with Texas State, NMSU, Arkansas St, Louisiana, or any regional AAC, Big 12, or MWC schools. The days churning the schedules to accommodate whored games need to end because the process is killing our program.

Really? Or is that just a rumor based on a potential series which has been discussed between the two schools? Please enlighten us if you have information regarding contracted games because the last game that I am aware of is for SMU to play at North Texas is September 3 2016 and anything beyond that is pure speculation.

SB Nation is speculating that Houston expects to lose their coach and that the Cougars are proactively pursuing Sonny Dykes. http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2015/11/11/9716594/sonny-dykes-tom-herman-houston-cougars-coaching-rumors Hopefully SB Nation is wrong and it's actually North Texas messing in Cal's affairs. Yeah right, but it would be nice.

41-27 final. BGSU has averaged 590 yards offense this season, has over 500 yards offense in each of their last ten games, and again had over 500 in the rain tonight in Michigan. Bring in a coaching staff like this and eliminate the worthless whore games and North Texas will soon be selling out Apogee on a regular basis.

How about this, JUST SAY NO TO WHORE GAMES. Schedule all non-conference games only as home-and-home contracts with the best schools available, and sell enough tickets to make the budget work.

That's terribly sad to hear. Tony was a fantastic basketball player but an even better person. Our prayers are with his bride Renee and their family at this time. .

Thankfully that game was rescheduled so our team could be whored out to Alabama for an embarrassingly noncompetitive contest in 2011. That's the ol' North Texas spirit! Never schedule home-and-home series when you can whore out your team for easy cash.

This week's Tennessee game is an opportunity for our athletic department to prove that whore games are beneficial and enhance the image of the university.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20151109-football-canales-wants-better-recruiting-development.ece Coach Canales gives a little bit of detail how he and other members of the North Texas coaching staff have simply neglected to perform their duties recruiting and developing players during his six year tenure. Now he has a surefire, but secret, method for improving the situation if he is kept around. “We need to step back and look at ourselves and ask, ‘How do we fix this?’” Canales said. “I have a plan to fix this.” Seriously? What's this, a midnight stay of execution request because of partial admission of guilt and a pledge to do better? “It’s no knock on coach Mac or anyone else, but I think we need to do a better job of recruiting and in development of our players,” Canales said. “We have had players come in and not grow much since their freshman year. Somehow we have to get that fixed."

Vito would love this guy. He does interviews and press conferences without relying on all the old coaching cliches. Babers has possibly surpassed Fritz at the top of my football wish list. Discusses coaching searches at 6:00 mark. (not commenting)