Eagle1855

Why don't you just email him and ask him about it?

I've been saying this for years. Our schedule would be chock-full of Texas programs. So many easy road game destinations. We wouldn't even know what to do with ourselves. But again, isn't up to UNT entirely. There must be mutual interest in a series between any other program.

Well this thread went exactly as expected.

I don't know why you continue to bang your head against my wall of reason.

Congrats on "signing an online petition." It's the least you could do. Seriously, it's almost impossible to do less.

You guys realize there's more to it than just making a list of teams you'd like to come to Denton and calling them and telling them to come, right? There's another party involved in the decision-making process that has to believe playing a game at North Texas will benefit to their own program and advance its goals and objectives.

I don't think pointing out that our QB play has to improve dramatically to beat a team that will be a heavy, odds-on favorite means that we don't want the team to win or that we won't root for it in the face of what will be called "certain defeat." I plan to be at all three games you mentioned. Recognizing poor play at a given position isn't mutually exclusive of being hopeful for a team victory.

To be exact. UT was asking to be beaten in the 2014 opener. They seemingly did everything possible to lose that game. And we went one step further with literally the worst QB play I've ever seen in college football. Ever. Not hyperbole. Truly, never seen worse QB play than that game, that day.

No. And we've not been beaten by refs in decades. We have, however, been beaten by 1) ourselves and also (and most always) 2) teams that are just flat-out better than us.

With any competency whatsoever at the QB position, we might have. Texas was awful for at least two quarters. We were just more awfuler.

I was under the impression Greek letter organizations were to blame for all of UNT's attendance failures.

LOL @ UConn.

I'm glad they're doing this, but I'm still disappointed we never see stops in San Antonio, Houston, or Austin. I know we dropped the "leading University in the D/FW area" slogan, but it seems we're still fairly content to being a mostly regional university.

We'd take him in a heartbeat. But we're sticking with what we've got so it's not even an option. And like many said, he's going to have a lot of options. First-class dude that basically put Texas basketball on the map.

Isn't the QB generally everyone's "most important player?"

According to the athletics department, the basketball team won the seventh most home games in program history, this past year. Of course, half of them were over places like Avocado State and Guacamole U, so take that for what it's worth.

Yes.

I mean, that's basically how I feel about almost everyone on social media.

I don't like it because it's got too much positive stuff in it. Just doesn't fit what I'm here to do.

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

If you win a lot of games, you'll get a lot of gimmick-free marketing at no cost by way of ESPN, FSN, local media and casual fans word of mouth. Which is the only reason we know anything about Boise. It certainly isn't because of billboards or posters. Oh, and people would show up. Because people like watching winners.

It's worth noting there are a lot of the positive aspects to Greek life that don't make for juicy headlines.

Pretty damning. I'd be interested to see how those stats look since we joined C-USA/started playing other Texas schools regularly. I assume not much different.

WOOSH

The ones that are still around are the deluded dreamers, drunk on potential, who still have faith in what is possible. (I am in this category.) We need to win. And we need to win regularly. That's what cures all of the rest. So if we win less than 5 games, should he be fired? I don't know. And I don't know if it matters because it's probably not going to happen. I don't understand why in the 16 years I've followed this program we haven't been able to get a decent QB to commit and stick around. I'm not talking about guys who came in, worked hard and against all odds (or by attrition), found some measure of success (Hall, Thompson). Rather, it seems every other non P5 program in the state has had at least one or two special multi-year starters at QB and we've had zero. To me, that's been UNT's Achilles'. To me, that's why we've never had an upset, program-defining win. Every year it's the same discussion: Who's going to play QB? What would it be like to have the same QB start a couple years in a row?