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The Cowboys are neither here nor there for me, so here's my outsider's view on the matter. The way I see it is that Jerry Jones fits in a class with Al Davis and George Steinbrenner. All three are owners that have the following: 1) Past championships 2) Incredibly well developed brands 3) A stranglehold on respective markets and revenues 4) An ego too big to realize that they should be on the business end of the organization, not the operations end 5) A steadily declining ability to understand the dynamics of team play over throwing money at individuals When an organization fails, it is only right to start at the top when looking for a reason. Unfortunately, just as things go in the corporate world, and increasingly in our culture in general, Jerry and his personally chosen cadre of yes-men will probably fire the kid who drives the golf cart and fills the Gatorade buckets before they'll take a look at themselves and how things are being run from the top down. For those of you who are Cowboys and/or Yankees fans, I hope those $40,000 seat licenses, $1,500 per seat per game tickets, and $12 beers are worth it (Raiders excluded from this because they still play in the Oakland Mausoleum)

I'm beginning to think that in spite of no precedent, anything short of a national championship will be sub par for some fans.

Even in the first two years, the winning percentage beat 3-21.

All I have to say is, "Go Dragons!"

It was just announced that Florida St has the youngest offensive line in college football. Of course, that's not a fair comparison.

I'm taking credit for that thank you veddy much.

Yeah, I saw Southern Miss do it again and again in the New Orleans Bowl. WVU appears to be running the spread as it should be though. It's fast, and they're not confused about what they're doing. I did, however, see a snap under center a couple minutes ago, but then again, they just did a failed shotgun on 4th and 1. I'll just never understand the mentality of running that play.

So educate me. Other than beating us every time they've played us, what is it about FAU that brings such ire among the Mean Green Nation?

WVU's offense looks a lot like ours with two notable exceptions. 1) I haven't seen the players looking over to the sidelines like a bunch of confused lemurs. 2) They're firing on all cylinders and scoring like crazy. This game's gonna' end up with a basketball score. UNT got a mention in this game -- as one of the only two teams in the nation with worse kickoff coverage than West Virginia.

Maybe the issue at hand is that our players aren't young enough. They've all actually graduated from high school and therefore can't be kept in line with a note home to the parents and a trip to the principal's office. Nah. It's all just Fouts Field.

I don't know who you are, so this isn't meant to be a personal attack, but dude, that's a severely self limiting philosophy to have. Set goals, achieve them...on time. It's really amazing how much can be accomplished with a few simple goals.

Well of course it is, hence my use of the word hypothetically. Well, they could, but would they? This isn't UT or even SMU in terms of long standing support. I think it would take more than multiple New Orleans Bowl wins to get the band wagoners coming 'round. To become the "Team of DFW" as someone once promised, I think it would take a decade of winning, a change of conference, and a couple bowl wins over BCS teams. No matter how good we get, the reality is that we're competing for fans with UT, A$M and the Cowboys. Based on the fact that the UC Irvine basketball team once went 25-5, I now know that even a broken clock is right twice a day. A good team will at some point in time be assembled by a good hire here even if by accident. The question is can we sustain it when it arrives.

So let's say hypothetically that we were to come across a head coach who got along with the players, administration, fan base and the media. This coach is winning 9-10 games every year, and UNT's starting to get some notice. The attendance at home games starts to grow towards the 30,000 mark. At $275,000 a year, would said coach stick around for a contract extension? I know that UNT has a limited athletic budget, so hoping for the million dollar contract isn't realistic at all. The question is whether a coach sticking around for more than 5 years is realistic. A loser won't get renewed and a winner would likely move on.

Rose Bowl or bust! Accept nothing less!

I don't think mediocrity is the best choice of words for where this program has been miring the past couple years.

It's sad to see someone who was once such a pioneer of football slowly lose his mind as he ages. If there's an owner in the league whom the NFL should forcibly remove, Al Davis would be the guy. At this point, I'm pretty sure he's hearing voices when he's alone in his office.

UNO's not a Louisiana school?

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That would be right here. TD comes on about the 14:33 mark. Hmm. The link doesn't go directly to the video. Click on the NTTV video in the lower left hand corner to get it.

As long as we're talking conferences, I can't believe this is the best the Sunbelt can do. Our conference can get no better contract than to send our champion to play a fourth place team? And lose half the time? That's pretty poor.

Fixed.

Anybody watching this? I think that Southern Miss player just broke his leg in half. It looked like he had a second knee. As for overall play in the game, I'm beginning to develop a special hatred for the spread offense and the players looking over at the sidelines several times. It is a hatred normally reserved for puppy kickers and war criminals. That said, it is refreshing to see snaps under center every once in a while.

MTSU is in trouble. That's a crappy margin over UCI this year.

MTSU is not playing well if that's all they're leading by.

It would be a bad loss for Lake Dallas Middle School. You have no idea how horrendously bad Irvine is this year. Bad year for Pat Douglass' contract to be up. They haven't offered and extension yet. Sigh. I've got UNT football and UCI basketball. When the heck does baseball season start?