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  1. rcade
    The first tough question RV got in the podcast was at the 29:17 mark. He was asked about low attendance in 2015 and what would be done to address it. RV immediately got defensive and gave this response: At this point he finally got around to answering the question on what is being done to improve attendance: I said after the Monday presser welcoming Littrell that RV sounded fatigued and defeated. This furthers that impression. A new football coach has just been hired, and when RV is asked about how he'll improve attendance, he says "I'm not sure exactly" and "I'm not sure what it's going to take for people to respond." What a confidence builder! If we were hiring a new AD and this was an answer he gave in a job interview, he'd never get the job. UNT desperately needs new energy and optimism in the AD position. If we wait too long to make this change, we're hanging an albatross around Littrell's neck.
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    Vito went too easy on RV in his summary of his AD career. He shouldn't credit RV with the 2001-04 Sun Belt run. Dickey was hired three years before he became AD. He also shouldn't just fault RV for Dodge, Stephens and Peterson. UNT is 35-85 in football from 2004-14, a 29% winning percentage that is the seventh worst in all of the FBS. It'll be even worse when this year's record is added. It makes no sense that the AD is still in place with a record like that. We're still being called a minnow because of how our football and basketball teams have performed during RV's tenure. The facilities improvements will never help our reputation until they produce winners.
  3. rcade
    My condolences on your loss.
  4. rcade
    Yes our facilities and finances are better, but that's all for nothing without on-field and on-court success. I don't think we should wait until RV turns anything around. He had his shot over 14 years to do that, just like Dodge and McCarney had their chance as coaches, and it's time to look for new leadership. Littrell's chance for success is hampered by RV running athletics. Phase out RV and begin the search for a new AD who knows how to build a fan base and support a winner in G5. I question whether RV is putting the effort in any more. His remarks yesterday were off-the-cuff and rambling, and full of odd stuff like his opening comment "I don't want to do this any more" and that remark about his CPAP machine. He acted like the press conference was a small gathering of UNT insiders and friends -- not something that would be seen by the outside world and covered by the media. Maybe he did better at other gatherings yesterday, but the presser made him look fatigued and defeated. By contrast, Smatresk's remarks were concise, forward-looking and confident. He sent the message clearly that his goal is for UNT to make a national name for itself through hires like Littrell.
  5. rcade
    Where's the fun in that?
  6. rcade
    Thanks for the explanation. I talked to my friend, who had been student body president in the late '80s, and he didn't remember ever performing the alma mater with all the gestures or even singing the alma mater. So kudos to Dennis Parker for breathing new life into that tradition in the early '90s.
  7. rcade
    I don't remember the alma mater being as big a deal when I attended UNT from 1988 to 1991, and I was in student government and helped a friend become student body president, so I was at a lot of campus gatherings. It's cool to see it today.
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  9. rcade
    What about when Dennis Parker promised that North Texas would be 5A Division I State Champs within 3 years?
  10. rcade
    I'm glad Dickey is doing well, for several reasons. One is because I want his success to help show that Denton isn't always a career-ender for a head coach in FBS.
  11. rcade
    I have a positive first impression of Littrell, but have no idea if he's the right guy. He's the fifth youngest head coach in FBS and has never been one before. I think he's got some chops as an offensive mind, but the rest -- recruiting, leadership, refusing to continue the culture of excuses that RV has created -- is an open question.
  12. rcade
    I liked a lot about the presser. He has youthful confidence and was in command, his talk about the offense he wants to run is exciting and his family is charming. His daughter stole the show. But I didn't see the kind of dynamic personality where you believe a coach is going to wow recruits and their parents to get players to buy into his vision. He seems more no-nonsense and hard working, and I wonder whether he's got the salesman gene at all. He seems to put a particular emphasis on coach/player camaraderie and respect, reaching out to former players and presenting a united front inside the locker room. All good. The bottom line to me is whether he can get the horses to run his kind of offense. If he can, he'll have some success here early. If not, it'll feel like the start of this season when Coach Mac's up-tempo meant the fastest three-and-outs in the FBS.
  13. rcade
    He didn't give any details in response to the question about whether any staff will be retained, but I got the impression from his expression that he's going to clean house.
  14. rcade
    When RV was talking about all the out of town trips he made in the coaching hunt, did he mention a CPAP machine? I thought I heard that.
  15. rcade
    Littrell also was a captain on that championship team.
  16. rcade
    The Green Brigade marching band needs to play "Okie from Muskogee" at the home opener next year.
  17. rcade
    I'd rather see something along the lines of this, where he's defied the laws of gravity and is about to kill poor Walt Garrison while Craig Morton can only look on in horror:
  18. rcade
    Since he went to Oklahoma, played for the Sooners and was a Texas Tech assistant for four years, I hope he has some awareness of the challenges we face at UNT and what it's like for us to compete and recruit in Texas.
  19. rcade
    For the Mean Joe statue, don't pick this pose: It makes him look like a Ferguson protester.
  20. rcade
    Both of the Musers graduated from UNT. Junior Miller does a better job of hiding that than anybody in local sports media. George Dunham's a huge UNT backer, of course, but he only rarely talks UNT on his show. I guess he's decided that the P1s who listen to KTCK don't want to hear it.
  21. rcade
    A Mean Joe statue outside the stadium is a great idea. We could raise the money through someplace like GoFundMe, but before that starts we need someone with a lot of credibility in the UNT community to lead the effort. We also need to know that UNT's president and board support the idea and will allow it to be placed on campus, presumably somewhere fans can see it outside Apogee.
  22. rcade
    Don't confuse me with facts, Meangreen16. I'm trying to make a point here.
  23. rcade
    If we weren't fresh off the war between the 17 and the Pissants, I could say that it's cool we are flying a fat cat's private jet to bring our newborn head coach back to Denton. That's some big-time college football right there. All we need is a couple fans on the tarmac to boo and yell when they land -- like when Auburn hired Gene Chizik. (I'm up for it if you are, UNT90.) When we hired Corky Nelson in 1982, we drove a school bus to get him in Waco. And we made him drive it on the trip back and go halfsies on gas.
  24. rcade
    From USA Today: "With several jobs still open in major college football, Littrell becomes the youngest coach in Conference USA and the fifth youngest in FBS." http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/12/05/ap-source-north-texas-picks-uncs-littrell-as-head-coach/76832904/ Here's an official press release from UNT on the hire: http://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2015-12-05/north-texas-football-seth-littrell-named-head-football-coach I thought the wording of the first paragraph was interesting: "The University of North Texas has named Seth Littrell as its 19th head football coach, University President Neal Smatresk and Director of Athletics Rick Villarreal announced Saturday." Smatresk was included as part of making the announcement, which suggests to me he wants his fingerprints all over this decision. Or that he made it.
  25. rcade
    The guy in the black shirt and green collar is Lovelace, per this other photo.

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