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I'm looking forward to kissing your sister next year. Has UNT ever shared a conference with this many Texas and border state schools?

Northwestern was bad for 30 years before Gary Barnett took over in the '90s.

People will get behind Mac when UNT starts winning.

I wonder if the non-AQs would be better off forming one giant megaconference with four regional divisions and a four-team playoff to decide who they send to the BCS playoffs.

I was still treating the Big East as an AQ. Does the playoff system mean this is no longer true?

The Sun Belt has been perceived as the worst conference in the FBS for all of our time in it. CUSA has not. Our conference is not going to be perceived as bottom of the barrel any more when we move to CUSA, unless the Sun Belt and WAC die. It also might be better than the MAC. So potentially, UNT could be playing in the second-best non-AQ football conference behind the MWC.

Not really. USF hasn't been in CUSA since 2005.

How many FBS college programs give a new coach four years to prove himself, no matter how bad his predecessor was?

Playing Tulsa, Rice, UTEP and Louisiana Tech is a clear upgrade over the Sun Belt. UTSA also has potential to develop into a great rivalry.

What do you mean? It's changing on Jan. 1, 2013.

That group shows why the CUSA, even after the defections, is a step up from the Sun Belt for UNT. Three Texas schools as conference mates (vs. none in the Belt) and two border state schools with a bigger profile than the old two (UL-Lafayette and UL-Monroe).

UCF is in the Big East next year.

When did we stop banning trolls?

The Mountain West Conference is desperate to improve its TV deal: http://blogs.rgj.com/packblog/2012/07/27/mountain-west-playing-catchup-when-it-comes-to-tv-contracts/

Point taken, but we were invited in May. He could attract some juco transfers because of the CUSA move who could play next season, and it's possible that a few freshmen committed to UNT before this season because of it.

Who said we're losing Tulsa? I hate to see Tulane go, but those three Texas schools and La Tech are a definite improvement for us.

Nice insults. They really sting. I cried myself to sleep last night. I didn't say McCarney should be fired. I said waiting four years after Dodge just for a "shot" to win conference games is sad. McCarney has the stadium we always said UNT needed to succeed. He's about to get a better conference to attract recruits. He should be able to do more with the program than to be slightly better than the utterly pathetic Dodge era. I think McCarney deserves one more season. But no more than that if we're still this mediocre. We're two years past "immediately." I think it was fair to expect a winning conference season from McCarney's team in the Sun Belt this year.

We're supposed to accept four years of rebuilding under a new coach just to have a "shot" to win conference games, all because the last coach sucked? UNT fans set the bar lower than any other college football fans in the country. And our team still can't reach it.

What are the best local beers in DFW? I'm coming back to town soon and need to kill the brain cells that watched UNT play this season.

I don't care about UNT's improvement until it can be measured in wins.

Nobody is given four recruiting classes any more to turn a program around.

This has nothing to do with football and the speculation about the response of the alleged victim is tasteless.

I couldn't find a way to donate on the foundation's website: http://www.americanasthmafoundation.org/ Anyone give through another means?

Tragic news. My condolences to Sean and to his girlfriend's family.

I think that was me. Tried to hit the up arrow and missed. Now I know how a UNT kicker feels.