NorthTexan95

I'm just glad they turned the direction so fans wouldn't have to stare into the afternoon sun. Looks like a grassy tailgate area. I wonder if this would be in addition to the hill or replace it.

I'm not really worried about KU. If I was Seth I'd rather stay were I already have things rolling and wait for a better job offer.

The benefit we get from our name is history is AP voters asking "Where's North Texas State? I don't see them as an option."

I agree that having the game at a neutral site is a bad idea. However, there may be only 5,000 at FAU considering they only had about that much for Homecoming.

I wasn't really comparing Ashton's situation with Littrell's. I was using her as an example that it only takes one school to fall in love with a coach to offer him a better job.

No, I just quote you saying "not necessarily bad". Perhaps you need to go back and read my post ... or your original post. His hires were a big part of the issue. I don't give RV much credit for Seth as it's debatable how much influence he had on that. He other football hires in 15 years combined for ZERO conference titles ... ZERO division titles ... ONE bowl game ... ONE bowl win. The thing is, not only did he hire people who didn't win but they were program destroying. I like to think of it this way ... "RV was here 15 years. During that time we won four conference titles ... went to five bowl games winning two ... AND IT WAS STILL THE WORST 15 YEARS IN THE HISTORY OF UNT FOOTBALL. So RV gave us a great volleyball program ... yeah ... a great soccer program ... year ... and totally destroyed the three money making sports: football, mens basketball, and womens basketball. The other thing that the Post- RV report highlight is what an awful administration he lead. He was an inept leader and emotional to the point of being immature.

"not necessarily bad"? Dodge? McCarney? Benford? His hires were one of the biggest issues. Let's not forget the scathing report made after he left which leaves to doubt he was in way over his head. The one thing that really sticks out in my mind is he had someone with NO ACCOUNTING DEGREE handing the millions of dollars in the AD budget. RV was awful.

Two years ago today I posted images on Facebook of the "Fire Rick Villarreal" banner flying over Denton. I'm assuming the banner was actually flown on that same day. Two years later we have a division winning football team, a conference winning soccer team, a conference winning volleyball team, hope for both basketball teams as they start their seasons, a new soccer/track facility under construction, a IPF that's close to ground breaking, and an athletic department that is doing more than the AD staff has ever done at North Texas. I was a proud supporter of this banner. Perhaps from now on we should refer to November 12th as "Banner Day".

The Chicago Cubs make it a big deal to have a big name guest to lead "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch. Perhaps we could do something similar by having a special guess lead the crowd in the North Texas chant at a specific time.

I'm with BillySee that Seth needs another year to get the kind of job offer he would want. However, Karen Ashton is the cautionary example. After one sub .500 season at UNT she gets offered the Texas job. It only takes one school to fall in love with Seth and offer him a job he can't turn down.

I'd make sure you let Baker know this. I'm sure they'll figure out this out but it never hurts to reinforce it.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/349/army-black-knights They are 8-2 though their schedule isn't exactly a power house. The got blasted by Ohio St and lost a close one to Tulane. The beat UTEP 35-21 which was a lot like our game with UTEP: close at the half and then pull away. The difference is UTEP scored a late TD to make it look better. They pounded Rice 49-12 who we have not played yet. Just looking at their schedule I'm definitely not scared by them. If we don't bring our A game they could run us out of the building but I'd like to think we're better prepared for them this season.

You cannot comprehend the power of Mississippi State to blow a game.

They mentioned that we were going to the CUSA title game.

UTSA's five wins have come against Baylor (1-9), Southern, Texas State (2-8), Rice (1-9) , and UTEP (0-10).

ESPN just mentioned us going to the conference championship game during halftime of the Alabama - Miss St. game.

If FIU loses tonight it won't clinch the Eastern Division for FAU but it will come as close as possible. If FAU were to lose to FIU next week I don't see them losing to Charlotte the following week.

Yep.

Agreed. If we can take the second half kickoff and score you may see them start to give a little.

zzzzzzzz ... so far this is one boring game.

You can watch the highlights here:

You can watch the entire game here: http://conferenceusa.com/watch/?Archive=17412

So was this a big win for us? I can't tell by everyone's understated responses. :)

He may get the Florida job.

Now the pod cast is going big time with a post credits scene. Woo hoo!