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Value is the pivotal word in this whole discussion. Some people are experiencing difficulty differentiating between Value and Cheap. A Value is when you get a product that you believe is comparable for a lesser price, Cheap is when you are willing to sacrafice quality in order to get a better price. North Texas has significantly lessened the perception of it's quality by failing to adaquately fund it's athletic programs for the past 50 years; stating that it has a lower slightly price doesn't enhance it's value. It's just advertising a less desirable product at a slightly lower price: the cheap alternative. As displayed above, North Texas could maintain it's price range and still significantly improve it's product. Why hasn't it?

The solution to The Problem? Change that $6,100 per year per student to the same amount that Texas Tech or Houston students pay. Create a top tier athletics program that students, alumni, and the community are proud to support. Within a few years it would change the perception of the university. The Problem would be fixed, forever.

We are getting there? Really? Would you like to recite that long list of bowl game victories in the last 60 years, please also count the 1AA playoff victories? Please add all the NCAA Tournament victories and NIT victories to that lengthy list. Having some organizations give away free tee shirts doesn't signify arrival at anywhere. All this at one of the tree largest colleges in Texas, a school that has one of the largest undergraduate enrollments in the nation......... Where we are is perpetual futility. Until real change is instituted, nothing at all has changed. The goal isn't just to eventually become competitive with the better programs in the Sun Belt, but it's to become competitive with the schools that people actually care about beating. The goal is for students and alumni to be excited to be associated with North Texas. The solution really is simple. Having someone in a leadership position exhibit the courage to actually correct The Problem is the difficult part.

There's no pride in a no frills institution. Result: no alumni involvement, no donations, no respect, no loyalty. An institution which is treated strictly as a discardable educational appliance is regarded only as a diploma factory. Of course this is an over simplification of The Problem, but it is the real issue.

Would I hire her to coach a college women's basketball team? Yes. In three years of coaching, Chatman led the Lady Tigers to three consecutive NCAA Final Fours. Chatman’s 47-3 record is the second best record through 50 games in women’s basketball history. Look, even if the allegations are true (which I believe they probably are), she would be guilty of having a relationship with a former player. Not anywhere has there been mention of anything innapropriate happening with a current player. These are two adults, which would have known each other for several years, ran in a lot of the same social circles, and had an interest in basketball. I really don't see the reason for the big fuss, it may not have been the family values image that LSU wanted to promote, but it is the reality of women's sports.

I am still holding out for Dana Chatman. Dana Chatman She is the best coach availible.

Funny, wasn't that the same reason that he would not leave Southlake for a college job?

I think PT Barnum would really be pleased with this thread. People, if a BCS program calls and offers their average rate (about 4 or 5 times what North Texas pays), Coach Dodge will have his office box packed before he even hangs up the phone. If they call, he's gone. Bank on it. Leaving Southlake for North Texas was a much more difficult decision.

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What a non-issue. OK, so the same expenitures will now be monitored more closely by the university. The facts are that the money that the university has been investing in athletics has been an incredible investment. So, 32,717 students pay roughly $12 per credit hour...UCF has in the last year...costructed and opened a 45,000 seat football stadium, a 10,000 seat basketball arena, been on national television several times, hosted the UT Longhorns (you know, the big school from our own state that we have never hosted in 90 years of football) and won the conference championship of the conference that we can only dream of gaining admittance to.... Those people spending the money should be given awards for spending wisely. In this case, the ends do justify the means. The Athletic expenditures at Central Florida have significantly raised the stature of that school. Alumni from Central Florida are proud to be associated with their school and that's been reflected in increased donations. To quote Robert Dinero in the film Awakenings "LEARN!!!"

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That ideology always made North Texas comparable to the product on the right; the low cost, no frills, alternative to what you'd really want. Unfortunately, I don't think campus leadership is really interested in changing the perception.

Pokey Chatman has signed to coach in Russia with top club Spartak Moscow for the 2007-2008 season. Chatman will hopefully take her college experience to the professional level in Russia and Europe in general. Coach Pokey's experience spans from 2003-2007 where she coached at LSU and led her team to three straight Final Four appearances. Last year she resigned as coach of LSU and in August signed with Spartak Moscow . Last year the team captured the 2007 Euroleague's Final against the Ros Casares from Valencia (Spain). The 1991 Kodak All-American point guard played for LSU from 1987 to 1991. After completing her 13th season as a Lady Tiger coach Chatman took over the team in the middle of the 2003-2004 season and led LSU to a 15-5 record and the first Final Four in school history. Chatman led LSU to three consecutive NCAA Final Fours in 2004, 2005, and 2006 Chatman has won the Black Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2005; the 2005 USBWA National Coach of the Year, the 2005 Russell/WBCA National Coach of the Year; the 2005 Naismith National Coach of the Year and has been inducted into the LSU Hall of Fame in 1998. Spartak Moscow Speculation on what happened at LSU

I doubt that Jeff will be reliant on the junior college ranks for tallent. I think his father may be of some assistance with that situation. Rivals and Rexas Football seem to reinforce my point. Oh well, we needed a defensive coach familiar with coaching linebackers and special teams, and one that had been coaching those at North Texas, at the BCS and NFL levels, excelled playing at both under Gary DeLoach, is a faithful North Texas alumnus, and has about as many recruiting ties in Texas as could legally exist.......additionally, a four year college honor student that had also played his high school ball for Elizabeth Dodge's father at Austin Westlake... Well, if North Texas did inquire and just couldn't meet the salary requirements, well, that's one thing. If North Texas didn't even inquire, well, that's another. I don't know what all happened or didn't happen, but I hate to think such an opportunity has been missed.

Arkansas St. schedules announcement amid talks with ex-LSU coach 3/18/2008, 7:14 p.m. CDT By NOAH TRISTER The Associated Press AP-file photo LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Former LSU basketball coach John Brady has emerged as a candidate for the Arkansas State job. Brady was fired Feb. 8 by LSU, less than two seasons after leading the Tigers to the Final Four. He has been in talks with Arkansas State, which has had an opening since Dickey Nutt resigned Feb. 19. Arkansas State scheduled a news conference for 11 a.m. Wednesday at its Jonesboro campus to announce a new coach. Board of Trustees Chairman Mike Gibson said around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday that he couldn't confirm that Brady would be introduced. "We've been talking to John Brady," Gibson said. "As of a few minutes ago, no contract had been signed." Arkansas State's athletic department had no comment on the coaching search, spokesman Jerry Scott said. School President Les Wyatt and Chancellor Robert Potts did not return calls seeking comment. Brady also did not return a call seeking comment. After Nutt resigned, former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson expressed interest in the job. Richardson, who has been out of college coaching since being fired by the Razorbacks in 2002, spoke with Arkansas State officials and went to the Jonesboro area for a visit. Last week, Richardson said he was no longer a candidate for the job. Brady led LSU to the Final Four in 2006, but the team fell to 17-15 the following season. He was fired after the Tigers started 8-13 this season. Brady, 53, went 192-139 in 11 seasons with the Tigers. Before moving to LSU, he went 89-77 in six years at Samford. Nutt stepped down after going 189-187 at Arkansas State. He was in his 13th season there. Arkansas State went 10-20 this season and hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 1999.

SMU did not win a national championship 25 years ago. Having some insolvent former polling organization name your team as national champions has about as much merit as having it written in a bathroom stall. About the only history that exists of them in that insignificant poll is the Wikipedia entry that was surely written by the same SMU dumb-ass that wrote the Wikipedia reference to the Ford Mustang being named after the SMU team. There was a reason that the 1982 team wasn't in contention for a national championship; they were caught for repeadly violating NCAA rules. The violations were so severe and widespread that every revenue sport at SMU eventually earned the NCAA Death Penalty, but the NCAA took pity on the jackasses and only imposed a one year ban on football. That the 1982 team was 'honored' as national champions by SMU this past season was an insult by Steve Orsini to every person that is a fan of collegiate sports.

There certainly are some sour grapes in those west Texas whines.

Well, the leaders of the university don't see anything wrong with the current course; it's the same course that has been taken for the past 60 years. Our President and the members of our Board of Regents should each be fitted with a pair of Clockwork Orange eye fittings and forced to watch our own NTTV's feature on North Texas becoming the state's third largest university. They need to watch it repetitively until they discover that UNT is not viewed as "a thriving university with a legacy of excellence" and decide that they need to be part of the solution. If they can't reach that conclusion, then they should never have been given the leadership positions.

Yes. Ours is much better.

North Texas should form a television package that broadcasts every one of it's games on television in the Dallas / Ft Worth market. Western Kentucky broadcasts all of their games and it has certainly worked well for them. Can you imagine what this would do for North Texas recruiting in the Metroplex and all of northern Texas which receives those stations? Kids love to be on television and they love to be able to have their friends watch them on tv.

NCAA, NIT, CBI,............they're .............all................DANCING!!!! OOOOOoooooooooohhhhhhhHHHH!!!!!!

Seton Hall has supposedly declined, Valpo in instead. Houston is reportedly scheduled to play at Nevada.

Unfortunately the teams seem to have been selected as much / more for their ability to sell tickets as for their season record. Well, North Texas will continue to be overlooked as long as the university continues to treat athletics as an afterthought. Fix THE PROBLEM and these symptoms will go away.

Tulsa fans are announcing that they're in.

UTEP has been guaranteed a home game. UTEP in CBI