oldguystudent

It's both the Texan and the Christian thing to do.

I would "expect" more from you 90.

I only laugh to hide the hurt inside.

You know, San Diego State is on the verge of dropping football. Do I sense an opportunity?

The stadium is to be green, no? We package it as an environmental stimulus package creating jobs for concessions, security, parking and the maintenance and oversight of our new contribution to a meaner, greener North Texas. I really think $10 million should be added to the package just because he's kickass and full of win.

Why is that cheerleader holding a clarinet?

Here's how I see the big conferences. One of two things is happening across college football: 1) Defense is dead. Completely and utterly dead. or 2) In spite of the fact that when it comes down to it, a great defense beats a great offense, programs prefer to build up offenses because it's like getting a fake boob job that gives a sexier appearance.

Nah. He's not a proven winner. He's got a .000 winning percentage as a head coach! 2004 Florida 0-1 (*) 0-0 Peach Bowl Miami L 27-10

Just check their teeth. If they have any, they're not from Oklahoma.

Cornfed crying

I was thinking the same thing. I sure would like football to return to having some football in it.

Shhh! There's Jones' to be kept up with! There's whiny self pity to engage in!

I like it! Larry Flynt's Hustler Field and Men's Club! One free lap dance at half time with your scanned ticket stub!

Touche' good sir. Touche'.

That's exactly how I feel. Had there been no tailgating, I probably would've gone to one game and been done with it. As I understand it though, the former 1AA status had nothing to do with the absence of tailgating during that period. As far as I know, RV brought tailgating to (back to?) UNT and GB has backed him on it. That is a huge contribution to the UNT community as far as I'm concerned. Hell, if they'd open up the parking lot in the middle of march for tailgating with no event at all I'd probably go. There are few things in life more fun than drinking beer, throwing dead carcasses of animals that once freely roamed the earth over an open fire and standing around with friends over hot asphalt. Those are good times...good times indeed.

I'm sure our current coaching staff will be more than willing to stick around for the duration of their contracts.

Yes. They are kidding. It's Larry Flynt.

It would be easy to retort that I've been beaten down by the constant bickering and pessimism of gmg.com, but that isn't the case. Don't worry about me. You'll see me at the games come hell or high water. I was posing the question more from trying to take a step back and look at what the possibilities and objectives of the program are. As a guy who comes from a school with no football at all, if UNT had been a 1AA program when I showed up, I would have been quite happy. I do think that the status quo is unacceptable, and am interested in where this program is really going and what it really wants to be. If we're not going to be a national brand, and we're going to be in a conference that has less exposure than some 1AA programs while barely surviving on the pity money of body bag away games, I'm failing to understand the true benefits of FBS status. If you look at the list of teams in my dream conference for UNT, you should be able to see that I'd like to see us as a regional interest in lieu of the impossibility of becoming a national one. If that can't happen, then the school needs to acknowledge its limited means and play within them. So I suppose what I'm trying to look at isn't really something that can be classified into optimism/pessimism, but rather taking a look at the future of financial means and commitment in the long run. If it can be attained, then I say full speed ahead. If not, then acknowledge it and stop wallowing. I otherwise apologize if my aura of puppy dogs and unicorns fails to meet gmg nation initiation standards. ETA -- The bottom line for me is that I'm here for a degree and a job. Everything else is gravy, and I appreciate having it. That doesn't require meeting any person's expectations.

See the list of teams in the OP.

I suppose it's a break from finger pointing at individual coaches/players/administrators/posters/television networks/BCS overlords/imaginary football deities and thinking about a much larger picture over a much longer period of time. If not, then I guess I'm guilty as charged.

First, I'll restate that I'm not advocating the drop, but in response, if you're not a member school, Quick! Without doing a google search, who won the 2008 Sunbelt Conference Championship? What Bowl did they go to? Who did they play? Who won?

It's the off season. It's getting a little tiring with the repetitive threads on quarterback allegiances, stadium construction dates, coaching changes, the price of pot in the locker room, et al. I was sitting around yesterday thinking about the future of our beloved football program exclusive of current coaching regime. Here's what I came up with. It is, in my mind, unacceptable to continue wallowing, ad eternum, in the muck of the bottom of the FBS barrel that is the Sunbelt Conference. This leaves two distinct possibilities: 1) Spend some money (from where this money comes is no the issue at hand), improve the program, win some games, and either join another conference, or talk some other regional schools into forming a new conference that contains some decent teams that have been playing FBS for more than 30 days. (I'd love to see a conference of UNT, SMU, TCU, La Tech, UTEP, Rice, Houston, and a couple more schools TBA) 2) Drop back down to 1AA. If option 1 were to miraculously occur, I'd be pleased as punch. If not, I'm left asking myself the question if option 2 would be so bad. Here's why I think it wouldn't: 1) Given current (and apparently future) financial limitations, playing 1AA again is withing our means 2) Given number 1, we might actually be competitive in recruiting and play against our competition 3) Attendance would drop, but that wouldn't stop me from tailgating and attending games 4) Playoffs! 5) GMG.com members can bitch about postseason seedings rather than average margin of weekly blowout defeat Of course, the elephant in the room were this to happen is that siny new $60 million stadium that's supposed to get built one of these days. We would admittedly look pretty foolish playing games in that thing with 4,000 people in attendance. Of course, if we continue our current FBS ways, that may still be the case. In conclusion, this isn't about RV or TD or GB. It's about the bigger picture in the long run. So if we're to achieve option 1, how to go about it, and if not, what's so terribly wrong with option 2?

Does the BCS school EVER honor the return game? Every time I see one of these home and home deals, it requires the smaller school to go to the bigger school first. The bigger school mops the floor of its own stadium with the smaller school, big school alumni cheer, small school takes a check, big school renegs on the return game -- every time. This is not a statement about UNT. It's about all the non-BCS schools that sign these deals and never get the return end of the bargain.