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Man I get sick of UNT alumni bitching about jazz. Having a great jazz station helps further the cause of our world-class College of Music.

Instead of assuming that the students on the KNTU staff are a bunch of people who wish they were at another school, it would be more productive to contact KNTU general manager Russ Campbell and tell him you'd like to hear more UNT football coverage. He's at russ.campbell@unt.edu. I've had dealings with him before and he's happy to hear from students and alumni.

I think it would be a huge mistake to jump aboard the WAC's sinking ship. Take away the history of the name, and it's another Big West -- a regional conference in a region that makes no sense for UNT to be in. The Sun Belt is regionally much better for us, and it continues to improve each year. I think the odds are pretty good the Belt will be a stronger conference than the WAC in five years.

At this point, the big conference teams have become so money grubbing and disloyal that I'm fed up with all of them. The Big 12 is being destroyed like the SWC was destroyed, Texas and other schools don't give a tinker's damn about conference loyalty, and they will never ever give the non-AQ schools a break. I'd like to see the non-AQ schools all enter into a playoff system with the Football Championship Subdivision. Let the BCS cartel have their phony poll-chosen title. I want to see college football champs who win it on the field.

I vote molehill on this one too. Morris Martin's in a position to know how Julia Smith felt about a piece she composed in her teens continuing to be one of her best-known works after she became an acclaimed composer of international renown. Smith thought enough of North Texas for her papers and other material to be contributed to UNT. One of the parts of her collection is a folder, "Alma Mater Correspondence and Papers," so anyone who is curious about how she felt can go read it. Smith also had lifelong ties to UNT. Her mother lived in the house that became Smith Hall, described here: http://themusingsofkev.blogspot.com/2003/1...smith-hall.html My guess is that she took pride in authoring the alma mater but was embarrassed at her composition.

Todd Whitten was our quarterback when I began college at Stephen F. Austin in 1985. He was sporting a pretty fierce Prince Valiant haircut, if I recall correctly, and was a pretty good QB. He went on to a brief NFL stint and some Arena ball and has been bouncing around Texas college coaching ranks for 20 years.

Dude is the perfect word for a large number of situations, as the Bud Light commercials demonstrated. Making an issue out of is pretty weird, dude.

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As I've already said twice, I did move on. The topic of the station came up, so I mentioned why I gave up on it after many years as a P1. Why are you so defensive about The Ticket? The fact that you like it is no skin off my nose.

What's so hard to understand about wanting to hear sports talk on a sports talk station? The fact that they are successful with a format that's heavy on shtick and man talk doesn't matter to me. I tuned in to KTCK to hear sports with some occasional shtick. Now that it's shtick with occasional sports, I tuned out. Rhynes and Greggo had the perfect format for the first five years they ran the Hard Line. Lots of sports with some brilliant or amusing digressions into other matters and plenty of callers and faxers. The last time I heard that show, it was a bunch of twentysomething slackers talking to themselves for three hours, with Rhynes chiming in once in a while as the grumpy old man. Snooze!

Other schools don't care about UNT fans fighting amongst themselves, dude. They are too busy fighting with their own fans to notice. Your comment smacks of an inferiority complex. We are just like any other college fan base, except that we have so freaking little positive history to talk about after eight decades of football. Some bowls in the '50s, Fry's run in the '70s, a little I-AA success under Corky Nelson and Dickey's bowl run in the '90s. And a great band.

The player didn't say that until after he told his high school coach (a deacon) and another player, both of whom have gone on the record with what he told them. It sounds to me like he backed off the story to get the heat off Leavitt, not because it didn't happen.

I don't think Saban called off the dogs. Their field position sucked in the third quarter and Ingram was out with injury, so they had trouble getting out of that hole. The play calling was more conservative than it might have been, but McElroy's rib injury was hampering his effectiveness. Saban did what he had to do to win when Texas' offense showed zero sign of life, and ultimately it worked out. If he asked more of McElroy in the third, he could've thrown a pick and the whole outcome of the game changes.

Because of your magic power to read facial expressions over the Internet?

I thought Brown looked pretty pissed at the time the touchdown was scored, but I don't watch enough UT football to know for sure.

I don't think Brown would have called a timeout after Saban took a knee.

If Brown takes a timeout on first down, Saban has second and third down to get another TD.

Leavitt's a terrible human being, from the reports out here in Florida. No one wants to coach for him and he treats players and people at the school like crap. I'd hate to see UNT bring that guy on.

If Dodge can't get it done, UNT should never hire another high school coach again. Only two FBS schools have ever hired a coach directly from high school. UNT has done it twice.

College football has a 40-second clock. If Bama takes a knee on first down and Texas does not call a timeout, it runs down to 1 minute. After second down, to 20 seconds. On third down, game over.

How is it not safe? 1:41 left. First down and 5. Texas with two timeouts.

Then you pound it in on second and third down, and nobody questions the decision.

Why do anything when the game is won? All Saban had to do was take a knee, run out the clock and the game's over. He took a needless risk.

Texas helped keep UNT out of the SWC back in the day. It got the benefit of a ridiculous call in the '80s that helped the Horns avoid the embarrassment of losing to us back in our I-AA days. It also, along with the other big Texas programs, uses its juice in the Texas Legislature to keep athletic programs at schools like UNT from getting too big. Finally, it attracts UNT students and alumni who should be rooting for their own school first and foremost. All of those are reasons why UT doesn't get much love here. No matter how nice their fans might be when we go down there for a body bag game.

Bama was up by 10 with 1:41 on the clock and had a first and goal on the Texas 5. UT had two timeouts. If Saban tells the team to take a knee and Brown does not use a timeout, Saban could take a knee two more times to end the game. If Brown uses a timeout, Saban could then call a running play without anyone complaining he ran up the score. If Bama fumbled the ball with 1:41 left, Saban could have left Texas a slim chance to win. Taking a knee was the smart -- and sportsmanlike -- thing to do.