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ESPN.com will also have us starting the season on the Bottom 10 poll.

We're just a head coach away from turning this ship around.

Cold beer and football? I can't even complain about that.

?Que? Are you talking about the same Boise team that lost to TCU? You can't play in a soft conference like the WAC and have cupcakes like fbs Idaho State on the schedule and expect to be taking seriously.

Dodge is a complete disaster. The High School experiment has been a total failure. I won't give a penny to the school until they bring in a real football coach. It doesn't matter how good of a job RV is doing to grow the program with Dodge at the helm. I refuse to support a losing effort.

If you think a fly over can replace the worst coaching era in school year then I don't know what to say. Me, I'm with-holding any support from the university until there is a coaching change.

There is no positive spin to being ranked last in D1.

[Comment From Mark Miller ] Are there any special events planned for the Army game….such as The Golden Knights droppingin with the game ball, a march in by the Corps of Cadets, etc., etc. For me, this will be a very special games…as was the navy game a couple of years ago. Anything special in the planning stages? I thought the NAVY Game was special because it proved Dodge can't win.

Yes, the recession will have an impact on college football. Schools are going to sell less season tickets, less merchandise, and receive less donations. FIU and UNO are good examples of schools having to react to the economy. No, the recession is not going to force a new round of conference re-alignment. The Big East didn't jump to pick up Marshall a few years back because they were blowing up the MAC and pulling big ratings for ESPN. The big conferences are committed to their current alignment.

Give Dodge one more season. The Dodge era is already the worst in school history.

LA Tech.

And I got UNT into the Big 12 on the playstation. Conference re-alignment/the Big East split is a myth that keeps college football message boards going during the off season.

I'm sure Urban Meyer is worried about your recognition of the national championship. The BCS does exactly what it was designed to do; match #1 vs. #2 and preserve the bowl system.

A two-tiered post season would starve the lower tier bowls. UNT took a loss the last time they went bowling, a two-tier bowl system would mean less sponsor money and more losses for the smaller bowls. Teams don't go from no bowl to the top 8 over night. It takes small bowls to build better teams. A two-tier post season kills the small bowls.

The BCS is good for UNT and the SBC. The BCS preserves the bowl system, which gives us the the New Orleans Bowl. A two tiered post-season would crush the second tier "other" bowls.

Why not the WAC? Because the Big West failed. And why throw LA Tech a life preserver. Tech's isolation is going to force them out of the WAC and into the SBC in the next round of conference re-alignment.

I'll be having a big party at my apartment right before the start of the camp ... oh, wait.

So he was on the team when they stole those VCRs?

4 wins next year would still make the Dodge Era the worst in school history.

Why is setting a date for ground breaking a bad thing? We were told late 09-early 10, isn't February early 2010? All I know is Dodge's first game in that stadium will be with a high school team.

So this all comes down to Dodge thinks he's better than he really is. Dodge gambled and put off last year's penalties and didn't cut this year. The Dodge Era is the worst era in UNT history.

There's a thread about a guy getting a job at Target.

You want to be more like Texas State? Then start by requiring all students live on campus the first two years. The school is able to bank off housing revenue and indoctrinate school pride at the same time.

UNO is broke as a school. A little thing called Katrina did an number to the campus and budget. Enrollment changes and cut in state funding and the school is facing fee hikes across the board. No wonder they said no to an extra fee.

There is something like 21 new D1/FBS head coaches for this new season, not one of them is coming from a high school program. The Dodge era is the worst era in school history.