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The people who care about whether someone is "Christian enough" are evangelicals. Most Democrats don't care about Romney being Mormon. It's the evangelicals who keep making statements about how he's not a true Christian.

Obama didn't have to "act black" (whatever that is supposed to mean) to be treated as a black person his entire life. His appearance made that decision for him. He faced some hateful treatment in his childhood over the color of his skin in Indonesia. In a country where states once defined a person as black if they had "one drop" of black blood in their ancestry, it's pretty funny that you think his 50 percent isn't enough for him to qualify as truly black. I guess that's progress.

Hilarious. I'm surprised Six Flags isn't a Superfund site.

You're right about them being in CUSA for other sports, but anyone they recruited in 1997, when they began playing football, never played in the top level of college football. They played the first four seasons as a FCS independent, became an FBS school in 2001 as an independent, then joined CUSA football in 2003. CUSA couldn't have been much of a recruiting advantage in those first five years. As a Florida resident, I watched them rise up from nothing. They ran football out of trailers at the beginning. UTSA already has the same advantages they did -- football-crazy state, big city with no local college team, big enrollment -- and didn't start as small.

If the Republicans are ever willing to work on health reform instead of killing it entirely, we could improve it. Even though I'm a Democrat, I was disappointed that Republicans never jumped on board to make the bill better. A lot of the ideas originated with the GOP.

Ouch. You did such a good job selling UTSA I'm transferring.

UTSA is another USF in the making. There's no doubt in my mind it would improve the Sun Belt to have them as a member. Texas State is a closer decision. But having them in the Belt would improve things for UNT. One more game in Texas every year.

Blowing him up with missiles would've provided us no proof he was really dead *and* killed a lot of civilians in a Pakistani city of 300,000 people. You hate it, and Fox News hates it, but polling shows Americans like a lot of the provisions and will be reluctant to let the Republicans ever take them away. The health care bill is full of Republican ideas. The individual mandate was proposed by the Heritage Foundation. The private insurance system failed us. Millions of Americans couldn't get insurance at any price. Something had to be done, and Obama was gutsy enough to spend his political capital on it. In 10 years it will be as popular as Medicaid.

I think the Sun Belt will always be the move-up league for the southeastern states in the league's footprint. Who else could it be, especially now that the WAC is dying?

Yep. Tulsa has 4,000 undergraduate students -- the smallest enrollment in the FBS. It's cool to play them, but I think the two Texas state schools in the WAC are much more compatible rivals.

I attended a journalism conference at Texas State when I was in college. I thought the hilly campus was great and the place was filled with coeds with awesome legs.

Of course they did. I've heard before that NT officials in the '60s or '70s wanted that name for our school. Being able to call themselves Texas State is going to be huge for that school over time.

It took political courage to order that mission. Americans blamed President Carter for the failed Iran hostage rescue mission, and they should credit Obama with the successful Bin Laden mission. No one is arguing that he's the only one who deserves credit. Many of Obama's top advisors were hedging their bets on whether to go in. Biden was against it. Obama took the chance, trusted the Navy SEALs and justice finally came to Bin Laden. Obama said during the presidential campaign that he'd make the hunt for Bin Laden a top priority. He did. Key provisions of health reform are enormously popular. Seventy one percent of Americans approve of the provision that stops insurers from barring people with pre-existing conditions, according to a January Harris Interactive poll. I don't expect you to credit Obama with the same accomplishments I do. From my perspective as a Democrat and someone who thought Bush dropped the ball on Iraq and Bin Laden, I think Obama's done a hell of a lot and deserves another term. None of the Republicans trying to replace him is offering a positive agenda for what they'd do about things like the health insurance crisis. All they offer is opposition to Obama. Who cares? The time to have that argument was four years ago. His important pre-presidential accomplishment was saving the country from President McCain.

Killed Bin Laden, ended the Iraq war, ousted Qaddafi, saved the auto industry, kept the country out of another Depression, passed Wall Street reform and provided millions of uninsured Americans with coverage. Other than that, nothing.

I don't know how you get from "I think UTSA should be in the Sun Belt" to "I don't want to hold anyone accountable." One has nothing to do with the other. Try to focus. I was in favor of firing Dodge earlier than he was fired. I don't think RV deserved a contract extension until McCarney became a proven winner. None of that has anything to do with the Sun Belt looking at new Texas members from the dying WAC.

You almost have to admire his embrace of capitalism. But he should've transferred to Amsterdam instead of Middle Tennessee.

This is a football board, not couples counseling. Stick to the facts and leave out the psychobabble. Wanting to improve the Sun Belt doesn't mean you want UNT to be a member forever.

I voted both. UTSA's a no brainer to me. Their attendance and the market make them look like another USF in the making. Texas State is a harder sell, but they're an old UNT rival in state and they're making big strides in upgrading their program.

Groups form all the time around a common race, religion or ethnicity to work together. Is the League of Women Voters bigoted? How about AIPAC? White people don't organize around their skin color, but they do around ethnicity and nationality all the time. Are the people who organize Columbus Day parades bigoted? Am I bigoted for preferring Irish beer?

Gallup, the primary poll that's been used to track presidential approval for decades: http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval.aspx Obama hit a low of 38 percent in mid-October 2011 and has been on a clear upward trend since then, hitting 49 percent on Feb. 6-8, 2012. As the economy has improved in recent months, Obama's approval rating has improved as well.

Obama's approval ratings have been rising the past six months. He recently went over 50 percent. If current economic trends continue to November, the Republican nominee's going to have a hard time beating him. (Obviously, they might not continue.)

There won't be a WAC in a couple years. I think it's pretty clear that the conference commissioner who invited UTSA and Texas State to the WAC will be adding them to the Sun Belt. If we get the MWCUSA invite and can climb one rung on the ladder, great. But if not, having two more Belt schools in Texas will help us.

This psychoanalysis is complete garbage. Those of us who are realistic about UNT's current place in the football world are not suffering from low self-esteem or acting like domestic violence victims. Until we get an invite, we're in the Sun Belt and have to make the most of it. The idea that we can move up if we all start feeling better about ourselves is hilarious. Does that work in your everyday life? Do great things happen just because you want them to? I'm guessing no. You have to make them happen by putting in the work. Getting Apogee built and hiring McCarney were two steps in that direction. Actually filling the place would be a third.

I never said otherwise. But the medical uses of marijuana are well-established science at this point, and plenty of people are getting needed prescriptions for it. The claim that marijuana's never going to be anything more than a recreational drug is demonstrably false.

UTSA won't be a bottom feeder. That much is already clear from its first-year attendance. UNT has to prepare for the possibility we won't get invited into MWCUSA. Having UTSA in the Belt makes it stronger than it is today. UNT would be foolish to oppose that. As for Texas State, a stronger argument can be made for their exclusion. But they're still a better draw for UNT fans than schools like Western Kentucky and FAU. When I went to UNT I saw us play them several times. A lot of alumni can say that. It's better than trying to create rivalries out of nothing, the way we've had to do with most Belt schools. You're the one talking self-esteem. We're talking football. Maybe you're projecting.