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Responding to this point, rather than the TCU controversy as a whole ... Speeding is illegal too. Everyone who does it is perfectly aware they are doing it. Speeding can kill people. Should an athlete caught speeding be kicked off the team? I think the prosecution of pot smokers is a crime. How many violent criminals get out early because of prisons overcrowded by non-violent drug offenders?

To those who've been debating whether the Sun Belt has become a better conference than the WAC, Karl Benson has cast his vote.

Get well soon, Coach.

My perception of SMU is that they've been fighting to keep us out of their conference every time the possibility was raised the last 40 years, because they're afraid it would eventually make us a better football school than them. They're happy to have this enormous public university in DFW stuck in mediocre conferences. SMU has also refused to schedule us regularly, which would pack our stadium and be our biggest rivalry game of the year. When I was a student in the late '80s, SMU came to Denton and the game was epic. A fight broke out between the two teams and the coaches at halftime.

True, but that's the level of coach a lot of Penn Staters thought they could get to succeed Paterno. They've been yelling at their trustees at public meetings over the O'Brien hire.

McQueary's a whistleblower, which makes it more legally difficult to fire him. But he told players he was out as a coach there.

If Penn State had hired Bradley, it risked the possibility of finding out later that he knew something about Sandusky. The only way to completely turn the page on the sex scandal was to get an outsider and dump the coaching staff. The only two coaches who weren't let go were the ones most engaged in recruiting. I'll be surprised if they're still around in a year.

Yep. I would've been shocked if a single top recruit stuck with Penn State. The PSU message boards really wanted Urban Meyer to succeed Paterno. It has to be exceptionally galling that he poached their four top-250 players for Ohio State.

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/penn_state/138454604.html As colleges secure players on National Signing Day, Penn State's recruiting class for 2012 fell apart after the child sex abuse scandal and the slow hire of new coach Bill O'Brien to succeed the late Joe Paterno. Seven players cancelled their commitments to the school after the scandal, including four ranked in the top 250 by Rivals. All four signed with Ohio State. The best recruit going to Penn State is probably Eugene Lewis of Plymouth, Pa., a quarterback projected to play wide receiver. "I'm excited for him to be my coach," Lewis said of O'Brien. "He's definitely a guy I want to play for." Penn State didn't get a single big-impact recruit from the state of Pennsylvania, reports PennLive: "[A]ll of the big names PSU once had its mitts on are gone."

This is good for the Belt, but Cristobal is taking a heck of a risk by not jumping to a BCS school when he had the chance. FIU could take a nosedive and his coaching stock will drop.

Yep. McQueary, Curley and Schultz all could have done the right thing and saved Paterno's reputation. Instead, he had to save it himself by standing up and doing the right thing, and he failed.

Horrifying, isn't it? For decades Joe Paterno and Penn State were held up as the most moral college football program in the country. So much for that idea.

Weak. Let's ask the kids Sandusky molested in 2002 and later about Paterno's great character and kindness.

It's sad Paterno went out the way he did, but he had no one to blame but himself. All he had to do was make sure the police were investigating Sandusky. Instead, he washed his hands of the matter after telling Curley and Schultz and Sandusky continued to have access to Penn State, teaching youth football camps there as recently as 2010.

Stop being so reasonable. You're hurting the board's rep.

Probably? It was a disaster of epic proportions.

If I was a CUSA executive, I would agree with your reasoning wholeheartedly. I think UNT's a better choice than SMU. I'm just explaining how I think conferences see things, when looking at which schools to invite.

When SMU was invited into the WAC and then CUSA, it had 78 years of affiliation to the Southwest Conference burnishing its credentials. It also had TCU, Rice and Houston in its corner because of their past conference relationships and geographic proximity. UNT, for many sad reasons, has none of that. So we're required to prove more if we want to move up. We proved we could get a stadium built. Now we must prove we can fill it in the Belt.

You're putting the cart before the horse. UNT has to impress people with its fan attendance in the Sun Belt. No conference is going to add UNT on the hope that attendance will be better in a better conference.

I hope Coach Dodge does well at Marble Falls and further cements his legacy as one of the great Texas high school coaches.

We can judge quarterback skill based on photos? That's going to save a fortune in recruiting.

Tom and Jo's was great. Loved the steak fries and the sourpuss wait staff. Last time I was in Denton I think the building was a garish taqueria.

DFW needs places with UNT gear on the walls. When I was in Denton last with my sons, I couldn't find a place like that. When I was in Clemson, on the other hand, the Esso Club pub in the middle of campus is a shrine to the Tigers.

So we should admire Tim Tebow for standing up for his beliefs? That's great, but how many people who admire Tebow would extend the same respect to the Occupy protesters for standing up for theirs? Everybody hates it when people who don't agree with them get loud with their opinions. It's the American way.

Christians have to work really hard to feel persecuted in this country. Kudos to you for putting in the effort. I like Tebow a lot -- he's from where I live in Florida and I've been hearing great things about him since he was 16. But he's not mocked for being a Christian. He's mocked for being such a relentless promoter of his religion. Even Kurt Warner thinks he should tone it down: "I'd tell him, 'Put down the boldness in regards to the words, and keep living the way you're living,'" Warner said. "The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say, but how you live. When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after." http://www.azcentral...bow-advice.html