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Dave Serrano, Tennessee's baseball coach, looks like Dave Serrano, Cal State Fullerton's baseball coach, who looks like Dave Serrano, UC Irvine's baseball coach Who looks suspiciously like this guy every time you hold out a burger or a five dollar bill.

Tier 1, here we come, baby!

It bothers me immensely when calls to action use poor math. 850 of 72,000 is 1.18%, not 0.01%. There's a mighty big difference between the two.

Given that the spread is 41, is this some seriously juicy insider Vegas tip?

You bring back Todd Dodge, I immediately and irrevocably stop payment on all checks and never set foot on the UNT campus again. UNT90 : RV :: Oldguystudent : TD I'd rather people talk about banging my sister while the pile of ashes that is my late mother looks on than hear even the slightest jest of Todd Dodge coming back to Denton.

I don't have much of a rebuttal to this at all. I suppose there is good reason I'm not a civil engineer. Incidentally, I live south of the bridge, but F me for looking at it from my own perspective, eh?

But think of the entertainment in watching a bunch of Mary Kay conventioneers wandering in to Rubber Gloves.

I think it's current location is fine. Easy access to downtown, the jazz festival, pretty much everything that ever goes on in Denton that isn't UNT football. I feel it's underused (including by yours truly) because it only runs every fourteenth Thursday of months ending in F exactly 7 minutes after the fiftieth hour, and NEVER ON SUNDAYS. That and the stops between Denton and its terminus at, what, trinity mills? are all completely useless and not within walking distance of anything.

I do a search for "Miami football fights" on youtube, of course I get the famous FIU brawl. And who, might I ask was the coach of that Miami team that was kicking players in the head and body slamming? None other than your favorite UTSA coach and mine, Larry Coker.

The real fan effect I put blame squarely on these guys:

Too hippie. Needs more fracking What, encourage people to engage in sinful acts in university sanctioned dens of iniquity? You don't remember the fate of the Ramada, do you? That'll never happen while RV's here. Of course, it'll never happen if he's not here, either. Make up your mind! My favorite option. I'd like to see slip 'n slides going down the sloped concrete where the randomly sized seating once stood.

TIL Anne Rice went to UNT. I had no idea she did a stint in Texas, of which the greatness of wiki has just informed me.

I'm gonna need weeks, maybe months to figure out #14

***Disclaimer: I may be using inaccurate sources and reading said sources incorrectly. The following may be completely false.*** I've been pondering this issue a bit lately. Student fees are up and paying for the stadium (BUT RAISE IT MORE DAMMIT!) Alumni big donations are up and paying for ancillary facilities and increased coaching salaries. CUSA television revenue is considerably higher than SBC television revenue was (I wanna say I heard somewhere in the $1.4 million per year range, but correct me if I'm wrong) USA Today is telling me that we're running at about a $31.6 million budget with $19.8 million in subsidies (I assume this is from student fees and state funds?) If I'm reading the historical tables correct (and I may not be. they are ambiguous) that's up from a $18.9 million budget on $5 million in subsidies in 2011. So we're getting an extra $12.7 million per year if I'm reading these tables even remotely correctly (and again, they're a bit vague, so I may not be). If we're getting that much extra money, then why, oh why do we continue to sell ourselves to the SEC for under market paychecks? Why do we still need them? With the large increase in revenues we now have, could we not play our road games at MAC and MWC schools for $500k and do just fine with our budget? ***Repeated disclaimer: I may be reading inaccurate information incorrectly. The above is merely thought, not proposal or cited indictment.*** Did I mention that I may not have accurate information on this and that I may be entirely incorrect?

This guy gets it. We want to simply place further financial debt and burden on the shoulders of a bunch of teenagers because the 30-something "professionals" tasked with raising that money out in the world from the gainfully employed are either too inept or too disinterested to bother.

Before I spend any more money. Before anybody spends any more money. And especially before we soak the students for another dime, SHOW ME THE VISION!

OK. I'll have meaningful dialogue. If throwing money at the problem is the solution (hint: I don't think that's the end all be all), then I really, really, really don't think that unilaterally imposing that responsibility on the students is the answer. It's tiring to see that thrown around time and time again when I look in the program and see so little money from so few alumni. Thing is, no matter how much money we throw at it, the university and athletic department will find a way to spend it that will still require us to go whoring every year. Kinda parallels the meteoric rise in tuition over the past couple decades. Has the quality of a college education increased with the cost over that time? I mean, the students are bearing the brunt of that, and what are they getting for it that we didn't 25 years ago?

Then you came up, ate 17 slices of pumpkin cheesecake, and fled.

I don't know if it's the second paycheck game, or if it's that the season is a complete and utter failure, or a combination of both. The fan base is either vitriolically pissed off to the point that nothing short of Jesus Christ coming down and running the program will make them happy, or they are numb because they can't take anymore pain. (Or they are blindly supportive and wonder why all of us don't simply throw 80% of our gross income at the problem) I'm curious if you're able to look up user trends that are comparable between today and this time in 2008. I think it might be worse. I don't think we had a sub 10,000 attendance game until the last game of the year on Thanksgiving weekend that year. This year, that trend began in the middle of October, and I surely don't see 10,000 people coming to the last home game of the year to watch the worst program in the country on the weekend of Thanksgiving against perhaps the 10th worst team in the country. There's just such little incentive for anybody to participate anymore unless they want to bash RV into the six foot whole full of multiple dead horses, or they want to bash their other fans for not doing it right, not giving enough, not caring enough, or generally not being as good as them. Conclusion: Well what the hell do you expect?

This is making me chuckle because I physically couldn't give my tickets away for the last two games.

I don't know much how women's soccer works, but I am somewhat familiar with NCAA post season for non-revenue sports. Yes. They are probably trying to limit travel as much as possible for at least the first two rounds. Yes. There is probably some bias against teams who are there for the first time or who don't have a recent history of tournament wins. Make some noise, get better treatment next year. You don't think the NCAA be like it is but it do.

This belongs and is already posted in the Eagle's Nest.

Wasn't the drinking age 18 when that particular establishment was open? I imagine there'd be a ton more liability today. Frankly, I'm surprised that they'll have alcohol at all. I feel very fortunate that I was able to work my way through undergrad entirely debt free via slinging drinks in an on-campus pub. I just don't know if that opportunity would present itself today.

This sounds remarkably similar to our athletic department. Force the head out, expect drastic, instant changes.