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I think it's a shame that we're honoring Coach Dickey so soon after he intentionally tried to embarrass the university with the black uniform stunt (and succeeded). He'll be remembered as one of the best coaches in school history, but I would've preferred to see the school drag its feet as long as possible before recognizing this fact. He went out like a clown. I think any school that hires him as a head coach should look long and hard at the last six months of his tenure at UNT.

Yep. One meaning of the word is "to reveal unconsciously (something one would preferably conceal)," as in "Rcade betrayed himself as a dork by posting this comment."

I was attending UNT when the name changed, and it conveyed the size and scope of the university better than NTSU did. It was a welcome change, though I do wonder what it would've been like if we were allowed to be Texas State. If I were at Middle Tennessee, I'd be pushing for the UMT designation. The combination of "Middle" and "State" in your name has to be marketing poison, both nationally and how it's perceived among the potential student base there in Tennessee. Although the direction "Middle" gets some mockery, it also gives you something unique in Division I-A (as Mean Green does for us).

I'd prefer it if we stopped rethinking our identity, uniform and helmets all the time, which betrays a lack of confidence in our school and athletic programs.

Sheesh. There was no challenge to his integrity. I've been called worse, but he's out of line with all the F bombs. No one was questioning him personally; they were questioning what Coach Fry told him.

I'm in St. Augustine, and I'm tempted to get some season tickets to see that place open. It's going to be black and has been dubbed "The Dungeon" by the UCF fans. Where'd you get that photo?

That's a good assumption most of the time. When a story's this good, 99 percent of the time it's total BS. As a reader of Snopes.Com, you ought to appreciate that fact more than most. What would that Mustang be worth today if he kept it? And how has SMU not made the naming of the Ford Mustang -- an incredible, legendary American car -- a well-known part of its lore?

Celebrities travel as a herd. I witnessed this when Jacksonville got the Super Bowl a couple of years ago when the Eagles played the Patriots. Famous people didn't show up here, outside of well-known NFLers, because there weren't enough of their camera-whoring kind planning to make the trip. The local media was so celebrity starved that Woody Harrelson's appearance was top story material. If North Texas wants the Stone Colds and Doctor Phils of the world to get involved, they have to find a way to lure them in groups.

GoMeanGreen.Com is not what I'd describe as a PC crowd. If the shirt has offended this many people here, I think it's guaranteed to offend some people if they're actually printed and worn at the Navy game.

I agree. It's in bad taste to show a Navy ship sinking while the country's at war. Imagine how that shirt would make UNT look if we lost a ship the week of the game.

This is an interesting idea. Comerica's going to put its headquarters in downtown Dallas and will be receiving $3.5 million from a state incentive fund to pay for relocation. According to this story, the bank's growing fastest in Texas and three other states. The biggest negative I see is that Comerica's bought the naming rights to the Detroit Tigers ballpark, so any name it chose for a stadium in DFW would cause confusion with the other investment. It also might call attention to the perception of disloyalty in Michigan -- how do Tigers fans feel now about that name?

I was on board with that sentiment until the uniform stunt. I don't wish ill on the guy, but I'm not going to pretend I hope he does well elsewhere. He's lucky to get a new gig that close to a head position.

If our current stations reach across DFW, the issue is getting the word out about them. Do KNTU or KWRD have bumper stickers that advertise the fact they are the place to hear UNT football? If not, maybe GoMeanGreen could help the cause by leaning on them to produce some.

True, but a runnings back gig at a mid-major like UNT might be a reasonable dues-paying job for a former NFL player with a Super Bowl ring (Pegram was on the Steelers in 1995). I can understand why he'd not be hired if he's been vocal about paying players, but it's a shame there's not a place for him somewhere at UNT. Maybe he could do some color commentary on the radio broadcasts.

I love the statue of liberty, hook and lateral and wide receiver option pass that Boise State pulled off, but those kind of plays make you look really bad when they fail. If OU keeps contain on the statue of liberty, Peterson looks like an idiot. They've made the game one for the ages by pulling it off. Dickey tried a couple of weird plays in a New Orleans bowl, including one where he lined the minimum number of allowed players under center and put a bunch of players wide. We looked goofy.

I need to find all of my friends from when I was eight years old, and tell them "see -- I told you the statue of liberty play works!" That game is the reason you watch 1,000 games to the bitter end, because occasionally real magic happens. The proposal at the end was the icing on the cake. Big West, baby! A mid-major just became the first college football team to go 13-0!

The constant efforts within UNT to change our nickname, colors and helmet demonstrate a lack of confidence and tradition. We're much better off sticking with exactly what we have today than to embark on yet another change. The marketing power of a school that has kept these things constant for decades, like UT, Nebraska and Penn State, is worth millions.

UNT needs to stop changing the logo, uniform and colors every couple of years. It tells the world we're unsure of ourselves. The only thing we needed to change was the coaching staff. Any time that Dodge or the rest of the athletic department spends on uniform-related issues is time that should be devoted to recruiting.

I'm glad Dunham sounds fired up about Dodge. I was worried that his personal friendship with Dickey might sour him on the new guy, whoever it was, and rob us of a great college broadcaster. After the game ended, Dunham seemed to hint in the final broadcast that he thought it was time for a new coach.

This may be the best ink UNT football has gotten in a Dallas paper since the Fry era.

We've already taken the bad PR hit over the Dickey renaming and are looking forward to the new coach hire. Renaming the field again so quickly makes UNT look like a joke. They should wait a year or two before even considering it. There's plenty of other ways to honor Andrew Smith.

Sportswriter Mike Lopresti included a Dickey swipe in his college football wrapup column: Link

There was also the "Troy is gay" rumor that came from Switzer's people and was used by Skip Bayless in one of his Cowboys books. Aikman dealt with that clown regime with a remarkable amount of poise. I didn't realize until he began broadcasting how savvy he is. I just figured he was a hell of a quarterback who stayed away from the press because he was somewhat camera-shy. Clearly, he was carrying out a strategy to keep himself out of a bunch of Switzer-era BS.

Sounds like a good idea to me. Here, Jacksonville University wanted to start a football program even though they didn't even have enough resources to build a stadium. They began a non-scholarship program that played in a field with a raised berm around it. After around a decade, they're now building a stadium. It ain't much, but it's a start, and UTA has an adequate stadium already for non Division I-A football.

Cheap shot. I was at UTA right after they lost their football team. The school had terrible leadership and placed absolutely no priority on things that enhance campus life and school spirit, like football, nice campus housing and support for Greek row. To give you one example among many of how incompetent they were, the school has two incredibly busy roads running through the middle of campus. Both have bridges for students to cross, but in both cases it took the death of a student to finally get them built. The second fatality was a wheelchair athlete who competed nationally. Female athletes deserve a chance to pursue sports at public universities as much as male athletes.