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No parent with kids who want to go trick-or-treating is going to make them miss that for 0-7 UNT vs 1-6 UTSA. Get real.

Rick Villarreal doesn't deserve our support. He fired Dan McCarney for a failure to produce on the field. He fired Todd Dodge for the same thing. Why should Villarreal be retained when he's failed to produce wins? Here's the win-loss record of all FBS schools from 2004-14: http://football.stassen.com/cgi-bin/records/calc-wp.pl?start=2004&end=2014&rpct=30&min=5&ss=on&se=on&by=Wins UNT is tenth from last at .318 (42-90), and that's before this season is factored in. He needs to be fired if UNT is ever going to stop being a factory of failure in the big sports. He had 14 years to turn things around, but all he's producing now are excuses.

I don't think we'll be able to run on their front seven well enough to win this one, and our passing game will continue to struggle. UTSA 27, UNT 23

As a followup to my comment, I was curious whether Hansen's daughter got her degree from UNT. She did. Terre (Hansen) Evans graduated with a bachelor's in criminal justice and corrections and a master's in education and is now a Dallas ISD assistant principal and former teacher: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/terre-evans/52/400/778 Dale Hansen set up a scholarship foundation at UNT in 2006: http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145350/m1/5/

I don't think he'd mock the school his daughter attended in the '80s. When I was at The Daily she got mad at us for an editorial we did about her dad. He had shown a clip of Robin Givens talking about her troubled marriage to Mike Tyson and joked, "Now if my wife said that about me on national TV, I'd slap her upside the head too."

I am in favor of UNT raising the head coach's salary if that can be accomplished. I just don't want to see the current salary level used as an excuse if we pay the next coach the same that McCarney was paid.

You might have thought we'd beat SMU again this year after putting a 43-6 stomping on them a year ago. How'd that work out for us?

McCarney had the fourth-best salary in CUSA. Even if we don't increase the head coach's pay, our salary is not an excuse for being stomped in our conference. It's good enough with our other advantages for us to compete for the championship on a consistent basis.

The RV chant is "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Win But It Was Bad When I Got Here So Don't Blame Me Even Though I've Been Here 14 Years."

You think Portland State would wager the $450,000 we just paid them on a rematch?

Bruce Barnum is on a nice run this season, but it's just one season and he's only seven games into his head coaching career. He has zero ties to Texas or any state near Texas. He beat Washington State and UNT with his predecessor's recruits. I don't think he merits consideration.

I agree. It has been money well spent, and the plane hasn't even flown yet.

I will support either one, but my preference is a billboard. Smatresk doesn't get it yet. This isn't just an outspoken minority. Most Mean Green fans are tired of RV producing more excuses than wins.

I'm glad The Daily did fact-checking on this claim by RV. The press should check everything he says to defend his dismal record as AD.

I would enjoy seeing UNT beat Portland State, but I don't think a future matchup will ever happen. Our school would see a new game as a no-win situation. Either we beat an FCS team, which is expected of us, or we lose again and pile new embarrassment upon old.

UNT has 37,000 students and a new football stadium. We're in DFW, which at 6.9 million people is the largest metropolitan area in the entire south and is the No. 5 TV market in the U.S. Suggesting we can't make football work with those strengths is completely ridiculous. Put a competent AD in place and we can end the decades-old tradition of punching below our weight.

They're 45 minutes from my house, so I know this one: It's a historic black college in Daytona Beach. But I've lived in North Florida 18 years without hearing a word about their football program. They don't even generate any interest around here. Another RV fumble.

Fritz makes $500,000 a year at Georgia Southern with a max bonus of $287,500. He made $35,000 in bonuses in 2014-15. McCarney made $721,600 a year with a max bonus of $945,000. He made $0 in bonuses in 2014-15. Source: http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/

You didn't read the second line. The engraving reads: Never Forget This Was a Good Hire

I want all of the Texas schools in CUSA to build decent programs so that our games with each other increase in stature. But do I feel sympathy for their failings? No. I'm too focused on ours.

HELL NO to Mangino. Mangino's out of head coaching six years and only lasted 21 months as Iowa State OC before he was just fired. He had a great 2007, but was dumped two years later. At Kansas he was notorious for his lack of self control and anger issues. In one incident, after getting 21 parking tickets on campus at the same spot, he saw a student employee had written him another, chased him down in his car, then got out and screamed at him for over 10 minutes. Given his extreme weight, I'd say he's a pretty old 59 for a build-from-scratch job that needs a lot of vitality. And he'd start bad-mouthing UNT when things got tough faster than you can say "I saw Coach Mangino at Golden Corral Buffet."

I don't think other openings matter too much, unless they're at schools and conferences close to UNT/CUSA in the FBS pecking order. Any coach who might be offered a job at a big school isn't going to take our offer just because we made it quickly. He'll wait to see what's out there for him. A bigger factor is whether we offer more than we did McCarney. His compensation was good for a CUSA coach (fourth overall), but it seems like $1 million is where we can start hoping for a splash coaching hire.

It was a mistake for Canales to kick a field goal when we were down by 21 in the third. But I do think he's done some good things since he became the first head coach we've ever had twice. I like the way he talked after the game today too. I hope he can make our beaten-down team believe in themselves.

I lived close to TCU's stadium in 1994. I don't remember a football culture like the one that video depicts. Instead, the place was cavernously empty on game days and the team had two winning seasons out of the last 10 under Jim Wacker. Media attention was sparse and general fan interest in DFW was low. While I agree with you that UNT should have developed a better football culture, a lot of TCU's came about because of winning. We have to win to see those kinds of changes.

You have an inexhaustible list of suggestions for work somebody else should be doing. This isn't a professional PR campaign. It's a grass-roots effort by some fans that will either spur other fans to action or not. We're not going to plan out "messaging" and "strategy" like we are trying to get Americans to switch from Bud to Coors.