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Another turnover...about to be 46-6.

39-6 now.

Don't ask...

25-6

This camera crew looks lost. I can't tell wth is going on.

Got it back....another INT.

F%&*%(^)!!!! Fumble.

Nice...we return a kick-off to the 7-yard line. But nice play to get out to the 43.

It's not real good either but....I guess it'll do as long as I can keep from getting dizzy. Thanks for the link.

This is really cool. Thank you to all who will greet the team. I would love to join myself but my wife would kill me.

Could this be a new recruiting strategy designed to hide the horrible on-field performance from potential recruits? Or, maybe Dodge wants to monitor the off-field activities to better gauge whether prospective athletes would pass his drug tests?

Ok, I'll play along with your format. Here's my before: Year 1: 6-6 Year 2: 8-4 Year 3: 9-3 Year 4: 10-2 And my after (1 1/2 seasons): Year 1: 2-10 Year 2: 0-12 Year 3: 0-6 - Dodge gets fired mid-season and his replacement wins 1 game making our record 1-11 Year 4: 2-10 - Everyone tells us how we need to be patient while the new coach gets his players in place. Year 5: 0-12 - Do you see a pattern here?

Wow, what are you eating before you go to sleep?

My definition of "turning it around" would be simply to stop getting our ass kicked week in and week out and actually start winning a few games. We've sunk sooooo low that turning it around shouldn't be hard to do because we have no other direction to go. However, my expectations for the "long haul" differ quite drastically from simply turning it around. My expectations are that we become what Todd Dodge assured us we could become; "The team of the metroplex". In order to become that we need to have a winning record, conference championship and go bowling. We need to eventually get to the same level that TCU currently enjoys. I don't expect us to be a Top 25 team in the next two years but I would hope we could be Top 50 again, as we were just a few years ago. Our SBC brethren have been upsetting BCS schools over the last two years while we've been getting our asses handed to us by Rice, Tulsa and FIU. I can't remember a time when I've been more embarrassed of UNT football than I have been these last two years.

Yes, thank you to those students who voted for the referendum. You have renewed my confidence in your ability to foresee a bright future for UNT through the window that is college athletics. I hope this a major step in the right direction in gaining national recognition for our fine university.

I could watch these highlights 100 times tonight. I really miss that breakaway speed.

PC had a great game. If you miss PC and you'd like to enjoy seeing him score a couple of TDs, here are the NFL video highlights of the Texans vs. Dolphins game.

I finally saw a reason for optimism last night. I don't know where the offense was the first five games of this season, but it returned last night. As for the defense...no comment. We need speed, size and, above all, we need to learn to tackle all over again. We're a bad football team. Dodge still has some learning to do but I'm not giving up yet. I think the motivation is starting to show but our team still lacks confidence. If the offense continues to gel like they did last night, we may be able to outscore one or two teams this season. I think our defense is just going to be overmatched against every FBS school we play. We'll have some defensive highlights but we'll still be killed by the big plays because we lack the necessary speed and ability to make the open field tackles. To fire Dodge now and scrap everything this team has been learning for the last season and a half is a sure way to guarantee we will be a bad football team for another two years. That being said, I cringe each week I see SMU develop and improve under June Jones...but we can not even find the support to fund a new stadium so there is no way in Hell we'd be able to find the funds to pay a coach's salary in the range of what Jones is making.

My biggest concern with this vote is that students won't have to "get out in droves" to go anywhere, because they will vote online. It doesn't take much motivation to go the website, sign in and cast your vote.

Can we go back to the silent phase? We've got too many people trying to drive this bus and most of them don't even have a driver's license.

student body, that we're practically having to beg to get an athletic fee passed. An athletic fee that would be a fraction of what other FBS schools currently have. If I had to pick one, I'd definitely go with the student body. I am simply amazed with the selfishness and the complete lack of vision some members of our student body are currently exhibiting. I'm hoping that this anti-stadium, what's-in-it-for-me, make-the-donors-pay-the-entire-bill crowd is not remotely representative of the whole. I guess we'll find out soon enough. I just don't understand how these students can form such a strong opinion on something they don't even bother to research and understand. Some of the arguments I've heard against the referendum are just absurd. "Why should we reward a crappy team?" - So, if the team is good in three years, you're just going to hope for a stadium to sprout up overnight?? Because that's about the only way you could "reward" a team with a new stadium. Why didn't we "reward" the SBC Champion teams we had a few years ago? "Why should the students have to pay for it if we don't use it?" - I have to pay a hell of a lot of money for city school taxes too. I don't use those and I don't have any kids in school right now either. Maybe I should write to my tax assessor and complain that it's not fair to expect me to pay for something I'm not using? "Students don't go to UNT for the football team." - Well, I didn't go to UNT for the music program either. So what. I'm not even going to respond to that one. "If the alumni want the stadium, then they should pay for it." - Well, I'll contribute as much as I can possibly afford. But, I want a signed affidavit from every student that votes no, stating that they will never be allowed to attend a UNT football game or discuss UNT football, or otherwise benefit from the addition of a new UNT football stadium, as long as they shall live. I just don't understand why the concept of utilizing a student fund for the purpose of athletics is so foreign and repulsive to these students when every university already does this. Or, I guess they would prefer that the alumni pay for everything to do with athletics like Sam Houston State (I think that was the school) had to collect money from their football forum members to pay for new shoulder pads. If this referendum fails, I will forever hang my head in shame when I mention that I graduated from UNT...at least during football season. Because a vote against this referendum shows that our students really don't care about anyone but themselves and, little do they know, they will be handicapping themselves for years to come...to what degree is really anyone's guess. However, I occasionally have to hire fresh college graduates and I've hired a couple of UNT grads. If this vote fails, that will be the second question I ask them after learning that he/she graduated from UNT. A "no" will result in a thanks, but we have plenty of other applicants to interview response.

I see "checkfacts" is hanging around again, posting comments on the nt daily article.

You mean they didn't give him a "free pass" for the first four years, so he could get his offensive players in place? How RUDE.

Harvard gets $125 million, record-high individual donation? Posted: Tuesday, 07 October 2008 7:16PM Harvard gets $125 million, record-high individual donation mjw Cambridge (AP) -- A business school alumnus has given Harvard University its largest individual donation ever -- $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday The mission of the Hansjorg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is to discover the engineering principles nature uses to build living things, then use that information to create devices and technologies to meet medical needs. "Hansjorg Wyss's vision for the potential inherent in newly emerging areas of bioengineering will allow Harvard to integrate the worlds of biology and engineering to develop nontraditional solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges," said Provost Steven Hyman Wyss, an engineer and entrepreneur, earned his MBA from Harvard in 1965. He said Tuesday he was humbled to be able to contribute to an effort he believes will change the course of science and medicine. "Little did I dream when I began my career in engineering that we would reach a point where engineers and biologists would be using nature's templates to create solutions to our medical and environmental challenges," Wyss said. The institute will build on the work of the existing Harvard Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge. The new institute will bring together experts from numerous disciplines, including robotics, biology, computer science and surgery. It will be located in a science complex being built in Boston's Allston neighborhood.

Since when has any politician ever been held accountable for empty campaign promises?