TheTastyGreek

This is not accurate. We got a show for about as cheaply as anyone conceivably could have made it (that's what happens when you have a passionate alum willing to do something like that as a labor of love), but it was indeed a budget expense.

With a conference (and an auto-bid) to win, Bill Blakeley takes North Texas State University to the NCAA Tournament two or three times.

We did what we could. I'm focused on Smatresk now.

Fixed.

(that's a picture of Giovanni Vizza)

Pfft... This Saturday, someone is getting punched in the face. FACT.

James Mosley, ValleyBoy, MeanGreenPOP

Funny you should ask! If you're wondering how often things work out well in year 6+ for a coach that has losing seasons in four out of his first five? ...I'll let you know after we have our 7th loss.

BigNTex, PitMagic, and whatever sock account one of our receivers made a few years back that I can't remember the name of.

CougarKing, TulsaFanInTexas, and Antonio Durrandreon

Pen Yan Fan, LoveMG, and eulesseagle.

Just talking about process, not protocol or propriety... As an admin/mod, you have to really be looking to see that a thread has been locked, because we automatically have the ability to reply in locked threads. In the past, I've posted in a thread that was already locked and didn't realize it until later. And, I almost posted a comment in the thread you're referring to, but halfway through I saw the little bitty line saying "this thread has been locked" and stopped.

It's a reassignment-driven campus. Think of it as an Arctic military base for our least desirable UNT-Denton assets. Install McCarney as the Dean of Students (Which students practiced the hardest on homework and sample tests? A+!). Install Rick Villarreal as the AD (Architecture Director - let him plan and fundraise for new facilities and infrastructure, keep him away from hiring anyone that has to actually work with and generate results from college students.) Install Tony Benford in some sort of airtight container, bury him in the ground, encase the container in concrete, use that concrete as a structural slab for a new student rec center. That way, we get the added bonus that Benford can legitimately and literally be the foundation for something positive related to college athletics. Which will otherwise NEVER happen at a UNT campus. Avoid buyouts, replace them with others when they inevitably move on.

We should lead by example.

Tyler Hall

Spoiler alert: Go ahead and do the same.

I'm not really interested in watching the golf team. And with respect to your second suggestion? I don't know what the privacy situation is like up on the club level... But I sit front row, and I'm not interested in doing anything that will get me put on the sex offender registry. Rick V.? Is that you?

As a wise, beloved old North Texas legend once said (and I'm paraphrasing here, because I'm not going to bother looking up the verbatim)... When you blitz, you're about to hear someone's fight song get played. And it usually isn't yours.

The reason I bought into this thing was Dickey. The reason I fell in love with it was Johnny Jones. The reason I fell out of love with it was Tony Benford. And the reason I'm on the verge of cashing out and moving on completely is because I have no idea what the hell I can expect to enjoy within the next 2-3 years.

I bolded and enlarged a sentence to expand on the comment. Disclaimer, this is my own opinion, and I'm definitely not trying to assume or imply that MG93-98 shares this assessment. I think that during the Dodge years, there were two things that made the rage and frustration more limited and focused. One, it seemed like we could and should be better, but stupid things or incapable people were holding us back from it. Replace Mendoza, stop that nonsense where everyone lines up and gives our formation away to the opposing defense, then looks over at the sideline to signal in a play (and gives the defense 10-15 seconds to adjust and space to counter our offensive alignment)... Don't kick a field goal in a game where you're down 12-16 points with less than 6 minutes to play. Don't call two timeouts just to screw up a special teams play. Don't leave undersized DBs in unsupported man coverage against future NFL receivers. Try sending a 5th (or 6th!) pass rusher once in a blue moon. We were 10 loss teams that seemed like they ought to be at least mediocre, and the path to it seemed pretty clear and obvious. Plus, for most of that time, we had a new stadium to look forward to, and all that was supposed to come with it. There were a lot of problems that weren't easy to fix, like all of our low ceiling, undersized white skill position recruits from wealthy districts that had "learned how to win" but never seemed to apply those high school lessons at North Texas, or refusing to line up Eddrick Gilmore at his natural strength position of DE, or needing to start a guy like Charlie Brown at defensive tackle due to recruiting failures and injuries. And, as if to prove that point, Canales came in and won as many games in half a year as Dodge managed to win in any full season on his own. So, even if you were furious and hopeless with Dodge (and I was!***), improvement seemed possible and ways to get there were clear. Whereas right now, as things stand and with what we seem to inevitably carry into next year... If DaMarcus Smith lays an egg, then I honestly have no clue how we get to a winning season before 2017, if then. And the second thing that made the overall tone happier and more optimistic was that during the Dodge years, at least we had basketball. Before he started, we made the NCAA tournament. And the second game of basketball season during Dodge's first year, we followed the NCAA berth up by beating Oklahoma State, largely thanks to a true freshman recruit, and proved that the success wasn't just a fluke. And, every year that Dodge sucked and continued to suck, at least we had 20+ wins and usually either an upset win against a big school or a deep conference tournament run to look forward to (sometimes both!). No matter how terrible a Dodge team looked, we were 9 or fewer weeks away from sweet, sweet basketball. Now, we suck at everything, and the basketball picture is even uglier and more hopeless than the football situation. You can't suck this bad at everything and without offering people at least the possibility of a fresh start, or this is what happens. When all people can see is a future filled with more despair, misery, and torture... This sort of rage is not an inappropriate reaction. I already put a post in another thread, so I won't rehash all of it. Basically, what is there to be optimistic about? What the hell are we supposed to look forward to? Even if you want to be a starry eyed optimist about our future as an athletics program, what the hell are you supposed to use as the fuel for your own self-deception? *** - I was trying to link to the Todd Dodge Equivalent Futility List and the 4th Time's the Charm research project, but I'm having trouble getting links to insert and format correctly. FIX THE PROBLEM! UPDATE: Problem fixed? I guess that the new software doesn't like to format well if you haven't loaded posts made after you started your comment, but before you posted it to the forum.

Your first mistake was trusting an Iowan.

Depends on who you ask, apparently.

Same. We tailgated a total of zero times last year. MeanMag and I even went to a TCU tailgate (as guests) once last year, compared to zero for dear old UNT. Would have been there for Rice, if not for the timing of the rain and the early kickoff. Portland State will be the first time we've set up a tailgate in exactly 700 days.