meanrob

Good grief.

Wrong board.

I believe you.......but I don't believe you.

He was the offensive coordinator at UH when Keenum was there. He was the offensive coordinator with Manziel. I might be a genius with those QBs. He may turn out to be a great coach but if I could call a play that breaks down/doesn't work and then my quarterback breaks off a 25yd run or throws for a 25yd td, I'd be pretty smart too. I don't like when kids or coaches break committments but it happens. Hope the kid lands somewhere and it works out.

Isn't the student fee somehow tied into women's sports? Because no way, no how do the women's sports bring in that kind of revenue.

Helwig. Guys like you made excuses for him too.

Man, you just don't get it and obviously never will. You and I will always be fans but when you are trying to get other people involved and the Athletic Department doesn't do what they say, it's a tough sell next time around. You think I give a damn about a plaque? I wanted the AD to keep their word. It's not for you to decide what's better or not. The next time you come on here and talk about how you are a MGC member and brag about how much you try to get people involved, you might want to remember that once upon time there was no MGC. Go figure, people other than you have done something for our University.

I bought a couple of green seats and was pretty upset I didn't get the individual seat plaque I was promised. Then again, maybe I misread the fine print and was actually promised a plague instead of a plaque and this year is the plague I was promised. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past NT Athletics.

Corrected.

However, I doubt the movers and shakers of college football care. Louisville crushed Florida tonight. Yeah, that Louisville that was a 15+ point underdog and wasn't given a chance by anybody. Look, you can't decide the best teams by polls, computers, comparing schedules or even the eye test. The big bad SEC got beat by Clemson, Louisville, Northwestern, and Georgia struggled with a Nebraska team that lost it's last game by 40+ points. South Carolina barely beat Michigan and Michigan is ordinary. The SEC is still the best conference top to bottom but champions shouldn't be determined by reputation. Or certainly not by one game. Until there is an eight team playoff, the system is still a joke. It gets proven every year when a team that no one thinks can win a BCS game, wins one. The list is so long it would take too long to type. Instead we get the "experts" wrong......again.

We still need a quarterback. (I'm through with the donor/money issue but I'm not stopping commenting on the QB situation until it's rectified. No matter how long it takes.)

Wow, go figure. A really good quarterback leads to wins. Maybe we should try that.

All i've ever asked for was to compete at a high level in the Sun Belt in football. We haven't been doing that for a long time now. And yeah, I could run the MGC. Pretty confident in saying that.

Nice try, keep on preaching but your logic makes no sense. In fact we dominated the Sun Belt with less support than we have while getting our asses handed to us. You want to explain that to me? ArkStFan might have the correct numbers but I doubt they have outdrawn us by much if at all the past couple of years. Or could it be they've made good coaching hires and have had outstanding quarterback play. Naaahhh.

You may want to be better than Northern Illinios but at this point I would love to have multiple 10 win seasons and playing in the Orange Bowl. And we may aspire to be better than ULM or ASU but the cold fact is that we aren't better and haven't been for a while. That isn't any donors fault. It's the AD and coaches fault. I talk to people all the time about the MGC and/or bring them to the games and for the most part it is a tough sell because they see losing football and besides parking (which you only get if you give more) they don't see the MGC as a good deal. You and I may give no matter what but most people want to see something for their money. That's just the way it is and to not acknowledge that is just sticking your head in the UNT sand. The truth is, the big donors move mountains, not "if only %10 gave at the minimum level". Not saying having a lot of smaller donors isn't a good thing, but it won't move North Texas to where you aspire it to be. In the end my view is simple as this. If we were winning 8+ games a year, going to bowl games and having a new stadium and still had lackluster attendance and support, then that would be a fan/supporter problem. If we are one of the worst football programs in the country and complain about fans/supporters, that is a leadership problem. I'm glad we have fans like KRAM, but I prefer to hold the people who get paid well to do their job accountable, not the people who actually give money to the program. Or people who don't give. Even if the people who don't give never complained, it still wouldn't change how the football program has performed. Or the BBall program this year (3 points in the first ten minutes last night!?). Lastly, and only because this point makes me a little crazy, I didn't vote this year. My vote needs to be earned, I don't just pull the lever because somebody thinks I have to vote. I have that right and earned it by spending six years in the Marine Corps. Just in case that card is played.

I know this isn't popular opinion but even as a MGC member and season ticket holder, I don't buy the "you have to donate to criticize" or if you don't donate you're part of the problem, not part of the solution. The coaches and AD get paid good money to do a job and a public job at that. They know what they are getting into and criticism, especially well-deserved criticism goes with the territory. Every program has a larger percentage of fans who don't donate a single penny to the program. How come for us it is such a crutch? You think Northern Illinios has dough rolling into their program? Look at their record the past 10 years. I'm afraid to look it up but are we the worst football team the last eight years? Even Idaho went to a bowl game. I'm not even talking about competing with the big boys of the collegiate football world, I'm talking about competing in the frickin Sun Belt. Is anybody really going to tell me that the reason we've had 8 non-winning seasons in the Sun Belt is because of money? Or because we don't have enough donors? Somebody isn't allowed to complain about losing because they don't donate? I'm about the most reasonable fan going. I'm not a fan so I can have bragging rights over other people. I don't live or die by the actions of 18-22 year olds on a playing field. I'm a fan mostly because I love North Texas, have some great friends who I can hang out with at the game, and love college football. But even with being level headed, it's still competition and the point of the game is to win. And to watch year after year of bad football and then someone try to tell me the reason is money is just horseshit. Most Sun Belt schools don't have a pot to piss in and yet continually whip our ass. You think ULM and ASU or FIU are beating us because of money?? Hate to tell you this but you and I are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution. Unless you want to start giving T Boone level of money we are just nice little donors who get to see our names in the program. At the end of the day it's the Athletic Departments job to get more MGC members. I've been a fan for almost 20 years and in that 20 years I've done more than my part to get people involved. Time for the AD to do his. Only in the myopic world of message boards is "i think we can, i think we can", a strategy for success. And lastly, to say that the football program is turning around after a 4-8 season and all the holes we have is absolutely ridiculous. And that's from a guy who has been on board with Mac from the beginning.

I'm not sure who played college football longer, Ramon Flanigan or Sam McGuffie.

Somebody said to be successful a mid-major needed to shoot the three well and play tough team defense. That person was obviously not talking about North Texas.

I always though mid-major teams succeeded by shooting the three well and/or playing tough team defense.

I don't know any school in the country (including us) that isn't taking this approach.

I dunno about that.

Wow, doesn't even rate the lit tower? Must've been a REALLY ugly win.

They didn't uninvite Temple, they full on kicked them out. No way that happens in CUSA now.

I don't see any way that CUSA gets enough TV money that after splitting it 20+ ways it will entice UH or SMU back into the league. It makes no sense financially for them to rejoin CUSA.

This. Give me Craig Thompson any day.