TheTastyGreek

Don't worry, I took care of it for both of us. Good line.

53 DAYS.

No, he didn't. And half the starting offense at the beginning of the season was STILL Dickey recruits.

Maybe Zombie Landry smokes, and maybe he doesn't. But Zombie Landry doesn't have a gear for reverse. It's a constant, steady forward shuffle of progress. No turning around, no going backwards. See the goal, and stumble towards it vacantly until you have it in your grasp. No amount of adversity will deter Zombie Landry.

I'm just a sucker for someone who can honestly look at both tenures and acknowledge the good and the bad in both, in a calm and conciliatory way. Call me a softie, I guess...

And in the rare instances where we might get outcoached, Zombie Landry can feast on the brains of the opposing coach. Problem solved. This thing could work, people.

Very good post.

Got a little tangled. For those of you on Career .500 watch... Dodge can lose one more game than I gave him credit for between now and New Year's Day 2014 to get and stay above .500 on his NT career. So make that 8-2 this year, then 10-2 for 3 straight years. Break out the party hats if you're using the .500 benchmark.

Todd Dodge is 5-33 through 3 and a quarter seasons. Do you realize what he's going to have to do in order to get above .500 by the middle of HIS theoretical 9th season? And I mean, just barely, one game over, skin of his teeth, bare minimum over .500. To get there by the end of his 7th year (matching the end of the bowl run), it's even worse. He has to go 9-1 to close out this year and then go 10-2 every year for three years straight. Just to get above .500 on his career. If that's the standard, be real about it. Everything else you wrote is somewhere between mostly and completely irrelevant to the issue CG and I were raising. Don't talk about everyone else's low standards and miserable expectations when YOU are the one who's dropping YOUR standards in this case. Another short question: If you want Dodge out if he doesn't "cut the mustard", why do you want HIM to get his "full SBC schedule" when you didn't want that 4 years ago? And when, even with the benefit of hindsight, you changed your mind and said you didn't want it 9 years ago?

I don't know, but they LOVE it when people ignore deletions and repost something that was previously eliminated.

This always turns out well.

Then, there's also the fact that despite the miraculous turnaround... We still fired Dickey at the first semi-viable opportunity. It wasn't exactly roses and sunshine, and the streak wasn't enough to make people (administratively or in the fan base) forget the overall track record. And Plumm (among others) was adamant that that turnaround wasn't enough to merit the man keeping his job, that RV should have followed through on his termination instincts and forced Dickey out BEFORE that miracle run. That it would have been better for the long term health and ultimate success of our program. That even though a miracle DID happen that saved his job, Dickey was still a godawful coach who nobody wanted and only managed to "succeed" against our terrible conference mates and a very rare OOC game, usually low-grade competition. If I had it in my signature, this is where I'd defer and point out that if a Dodge miracle DOES happen, it will now have to come almost entirely against our conference mates and possibly/hopefully an OOC game against low-grade competition. I, too, still hope to see Dodge turn the ship around and pull off what he needs to accomplish to keep his job (and, by extension, get us back on track as a football program). But even more than that, I'd love to see a little intellectual honesty here, and perhaps an admission that we're playing by a completely different set of rules then what was vocally (remember the rants about "fishin' with Bobby Ray"?) set forth just 4 short years ago. Especially in light of the relative track records and circumstances leading up to the Moments Of Truth for each coach, as so astutely put forth by CaribbeanGreen. One more time: I want this season to finish with 7 or more wins, and I want for all of this to be a pointless waste of virtual breath. But if it wasn't good enough to make people forgive and forget the start (not the end, which had enough ugliness in the Flanagan situations alone to justify Dickey's termination) of the last guy's tenure... Why would it be good enough now? I don't ask for myself. Because if and when Dodge does start winning, I will very quickly and happily put all the godawful shame of the past 3 and a quarter seasons in the past and embrace the wins and the coach leading us to them. But I still remember what people said 4 years ago when they looked back on Dickey's inauspicious start. What does it say when the same people are now using that as the benchmark for potential success?

I don't know that I'd say he lost to the SAME team... Dodge lost to an SMU team that didn't manage to beat anyone else all season and finished 1-11. Dickey beat an SMU team that would have made it to a bowl if it hadn't been for their loss to UNT. Of course, that 2007 SMU team did have Julian Herron...

Zombie. Landry.

Excellent news. Thanks for posting, SUMG. As he said, this is the guy that Cooley said would be his most desired commit that's realistically on our radar. And he said this even when we were in the mix for Jordan Williams, the recruit everyone was so excited to get the verbal from last month. I don't know anything about Petteway other than Cooley's enthusiasm for him, but that's good enough for me.

No thanks. I want someone that's going to stick around and really build the program, not run off at the first opportunity. Loyalty is important. We don't need a coach that runs away when things go bad.

This is what got Dickey fired. And besides, I don't see color. It's why I threw so many interceptions when I played in high school.

Seriously. He was legitimate enough to make Daunte Culpepper an MVP candidate. How about Ty Willingham? Hmmm? Any problem with him?

Is this a racial thing? I'm not cool with the direction you're taking things here.

4 years ago, I said we ought to reanimate the corpse of Tom Landry. Did we hire Zombie Landry? No. This time, I'm sticking to my guns. Zombie Landry or bust.

Full body cramps from heat and flu-related symptoms. He'll be back for the next game. Thanks, Todd Dodge Radio Show!

Check with someone before giving the Mrs. any necklaces as a gift, KRAM.

Pfft... I saw that Pat Tillman movie. I don't believe Army press releases anymore. And I had the doctor take my vaccinations out, too.

He means the start of basketball season. 57 days, people! 8 weeks and a day, to be precise, until early signing period opens and basketball season begins!