TheTastyGreek

I don't know what you mean when you say "in McCarney's office". Dan McCarney built Apogee Stadium, laying in each brick by hand and forging the steel and aluminum himself. His reward upon completion? Rick Villarreal chained him to the exterior of Apogee. When each new day breaks, awful redesigned Scrappy shambles over, and he pecks out McCarney's liver and devours it. Each night, McCarney's liver regenerates, and the process repeats, forever, each day more agonizing than the previous one. So, my question is... Does McCarney have this coffee table next to his Apogee shackle anchors? Because if Mac has an awning or a work surface or something to ease his torment, I think someone should email Rick V. and let him know that Dan Mac's torture for bringing us such a splendid gift is not proceeding as designed.

Great article.

Not quite. A little less than they could handle. Definitely not more.

I think everyone has forgotten how it started for Mac. There were only 3 people at his first home game: Mrs. Mac (who left at halftime), Rick V, and the mayor of Denton. And when it looked like we might beat Houston... The mayor of Denton pulled out a rifle and shot Coach Mac right in the spine. Cost us the game! When I think of Coach Mac in that wheelchair, and how it hasn't stopped him from building this program... Well, I get a little misty-eyed.

Trade?

It doesn't matter. If he's not going to support you, then the problem is him.

Hey, I get it. And I'm proud of him... Not just for winning a bowl game, but for being the first black female coach in major college football to win one. Frankly, it's amazing he can even call a play, since he's been hiccuping non-stop for 9 years straight. But he can, and I think we've got a bright, bright future here with him as a coach. Assuming we find a cure for AIDS, of course.

Akron, Idaho, New Mexico State, UAB... To say we're a worse job than any or all of those (just off the top of my head) is flat wrong. Turning around a program that's one of the 10 or 20 toughest places at the time you were hired is an amazing achievement. Saying it's the worst is just hyperbole, and not necessary, because the actual accomplishment is fantastic enough. Not that Mac did, but it's the point of disagreement at the moment. Anyway, we're getting away from the real point. Dan McCarney, a deaf-mute afflicted with leprosy and two kinds of hepatitis, managed to make this program a winner in just three years. Even when his genitals were destroyed by that flesh-eating bacteria and the mad cow disease started destroying his brain, he didn't give up. And we're in a much better place for it. Fan-speak!

It's... Pretty much just you. UNT90 doesn't hate Mac, and I sure as hell don't. What he's done since he got here is fantastic. He shouldn't have to bullshit or exaggerate it, because the turnaround is a tremendous accomplishment in reality. Doubling the spring game turnout in 3 years is something to be very, very proud of. Misrepresenting things to make it sound even more significant is pointless and off-putting. To me, at least.

??? What the hell is Coach Mac talking about? There were over 2,600 people at his first spring game, and that was an off-campus game.

The difference between a JUCO or a High School recruit at this stage of the game is that a JUCO recruit will only have one year left if Benford gets fired next year, rather than three. It gives a new coach a shorter window of time to turn over the roster without screwing people out of an education. If Benford is signing guys, our best case scenario for the future is JUCOs. We'll need the next coach to be someone already out on the trail, ready and able to bring in talent IMMEDIATELY. But, this shortens the turnaround period when the firing inevitably happens. Since we're apparently going to let Benford restock us next year... The more JUCOs, the better, until he's gone.

UTA could be pretty damn scary in a year or two.

Similar question for racial homogeneity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States Non-hispanic white people were 83.5% of the population in 1970, 63.7% in 2010. If it's about racial diversity... Why isn't violent crime higher now that America is more racially heterogeneous than ever?

Serious face... UCR statistics from the FBI are tough to link to cleanly directly, though looking at year-by-year stuff through the FBI data, it all seems to sync up with this compiled table here. NOTE: I have no idea what that site is all about. I'm not worried about getting hit by a tornado or stockpiling seeds for the apocalypse... It's just nice that they took all the violent crime data from the UCRs and put them on one screen together. If it's some sort of weird doomsday/Stormfront type site, let me know and I'll go through frustrating individual links on the FBI site. Violent crimes rates (meaning: murder/rape/robbery/assault) for 1970 - 1979 (per 100,000 inhabitants) High: 548.9 (1979) Low: 363.5 (1970) Average across 10 years: 451.7 Violent crime rates for 2003 - 2012 (per 100,000) High: 475.8 (2003) Low: 386.9 (2012) Average across 10 years: 441.6 Murder in particular tells a very different story... During the most recent 10 years where data is available, the rate per 100,000 inhabitants has never gone over 5.7. From 70-79, it was never lower than 7.9 and peaked at 9.8. And again, that's coming from FBI statistics. If we're a violent culture today because of rap music (the earliest recorded hip-hop music having been released in 1979), Quentin Tarantino (who didn't release a movie until 1992), or because people are watching The Walking Dead instead of Hawaii Five-O... Why is it that violent crimes are happening less frequently than they did back in the 70's? If internet porn is making us violent... Why is the murder rate lower at every point in the past ten years than it was at any point in the 70's?

Big +1s for both of you.

Shut your filthy lib hole, you worthless hippie. Don't tread on me. You can have my knife when you pry it from some teenager's cold, dead rib cage.

No argument here. Kids sure love to dish out stab wounds... But one or two pokes to the chest with an itty-bitty knife, and they go crying to the teacher. I blame the "Participation Trophy" mentality. The Junction Boys could take a broadsword straight to the heart and run laps around the practice field without skipping a step. No water breaks, either.

Tip O'Neill on Mount Rushmore?

Was it a concealed peeler? Was anyone wearing a hoodie?

Hey, it always sucks to lose a big east caliber center. Maybe Tyler JC has an available post? Pipeline is wide open...