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Reggie for President!

As you know, I don't know a thing about basketball. If they fire Benford over the summer, do they put in an interim for the 16-17 season, or is there a viable market for a new long-term coach?

I hadn't thought about the Benford issue. That's an interesting sticky wicket, isn't it? Should be a good indication as to who's running things. Also, short-term, mid-term, and long-term, will be interesting to see if there's a "We can't do that" mentality.

Let's be fair about something. There are a whole bunch of bridges to be mended and new relationships to build. Ain't gonna happen in a week.

Wait. What investment? How much does it cost to give out a few thousand tickets for an otherwise completely empty wingzone? The price of printing and maybe a couple yellowjackets to keep the wingzone peasants in their place?

Why even have an NCAA anymore?

Man, I hope I can get punished like that some day.

How the hell does transitioning to chancellor accomplish anything?

They've already announced the new coach.

I believe that even Mike Leach got paid from Tech, didn't he?

So Ken Starr saved himself with a sacrificial lamb?

Damn, that just gave me traumatic flashbacks from my publishing sales days. Fortunately, or unfortunately as the case may be, I don't recognize too many of those that are used in accounting, though we certainly have our own industry specific cliches.

I'm not going anywhere, but I refuse to unconditionally toe the line with rainbows and butterflies when there's fundamental dysfunction, and as of late, hostile class warfare. It's gonna take quite a bit of time to regain my trust and enthusiasm.

So we still get Mr. Redshirt man interrupting the games, but with YouTube quality production? For $500K less? Yay! Edit: I fully realize and acknowledge that this isn't a matter to blame UNT or any of its staff. It's the landscape of television and college football.

I've been invited to lunch a couple times by AD staff over the past year, but declined because the times I have gone have mostly been sessions of being told I'm wrong. So tell me how much better things are, tell me how much you care, the scars of mistrust and lack of faith run deep in my veins right now. The experience has been blow a whole bunch of smoke up my ass and promise me the world until the day I signed the agreement. Then I'm nothing and they resent my very presence. Get the signature and the credit card auto-pay, then disregard. Don't mail me my parking passes? Make me drive to Denton to get them, and maaaybe you'll be there, then when I do drive up, you still can't find them. Tell me I have rights to purchase guest passes? Good luck with that. I end up getting spares from the tailgate. Offer wingzone ticket sales via my account? Act of GOD! Misappropriate my ticket money to unrestricted gift? Better invoice me double for that! I make any statements of dissatisfaction? HOW DARE I CRITICIZE THE UNIVERSITY! I'm not asking for any special treatment or recognition or privilege. I simply want what I'm paying for, maybe with a smile instead of a sneer. That's how things have been. (Notice no mention of hires, coaches, or win/loss records. I can weather through being the Cubs of college football just fine)

The story I've gotten is no matter how inept, it takes an act of Congress to fire a full-time AD employee because of the UNT state employee red tape thing. Don't know how much truth there is to that. Hope not much. There are definitely some basic operational functions that I don't see getting better unless some of the staff changes over.

We're....paying them?

A) Man I love listening to Spanish sports announcers B) I can't believe they walked out on the floor to effectively end the game with a full thirty seconds left instead of stretching it out for a couple hours in a foul/free throw shooting fest.

See my sig line.

Yikes!

I wish it were still 1974 and that I could post a Blazing Saddles quote as response to that.

I passed through Waco a number of times back in my former life. I'm not gonna say that I've ever had a bad time, but I will say that I've seen a whole bunch of student shenanigans that have nothing to do with the Baptist representations of Baylor the institution.

If your name isn't Reggie Johnson, and you try to call me about my club seats, my mgc donations, the weather, the condition of 35E, your favorite flavor of chewing gum, or how much you miss the beer cooler in Sack N' Save (RIP cooler of cheap shitty beer), I ain't taking your call. Period. Unfortunately, I don't think Reggie was necessarily tasked with dealing with club seats, so I would always have to call him. Even though it wasn't his job, HE got shit done. With a smile and a thank you. Every time. Without Reggie, I'd still be waiting for guest passes for the 2014 season. I genuinely hope going forward that they get their shit fixed on the mean green club website so I can just do everything online, have a nice paper trail so nobody misappropriates my money, and I don't have to talk to anybody with saccharin smiles who looks down on me and calls me a dumbass behind my back or tells me I'm too inept to use a website to my face.

Is GTBGone a twist on Greattobegreen?

Were there institutional hummers involved in this? Because I really want to see Ken Starr disgraced over institutional hummers.