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Yup. Leach is a talented coach, but this partnership makes you wonder what kind of people he'd allow around his football program.

Mike Leach's business partner on a new all-star game he created is the publisher of guides to Houston strip clubs: http://blogs.seattle..._gray_the_p.php Leach launched the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game with John Gray, a sports marketer who also publishes AdultQuest, Wild Scene and Risque Business. Gray also hosted Lone Star Pornutopia, an annual gathering of porn stars, for three years. Some of the strip club guides can be read here (NSFW): http://issuu.com/adu...howFlipBtn=true P.s. The headline should say "Porn-Affiliated Publisher," but I can't fix it.

Over the years, I've heard from several players and their parents who read GoMeanGreen.Com. This site ranks highly for search terms related to Mean Green football, so it's not as unlikely as you think that a potential recruit might find it. Calling them quitters is a stupid joke based on some member's insult of Riley Dodge when he transferred out.

This "quitter" joke needs to be taken out back and shot. What would Darius White, or any other potential transfer to UNT, think if he found this board while picking schools and saw himself called a quitter? The athlete's not going to understand that it's an inside joke.

If LSU doesn't want to open their season with a 40-point loss, they shouldn't schedule North Texas.

George is a UNT legend in the making. We're fortunate to have such a great broadcaster calling our games. Hank is good and a nice pairing with George, but he's too reluctant to criticize the athletic department for obvious reasons. Followill would be an upgrade to Hank, though I presume he'd have no time to call UNT football in a normal NBA season. He's great on the Mavs games. Living in Florida, I've heard Chuck Cooperstein a few times on college games. Seems national to me.

The name's more than that. It's the regional cohesion and well-established reputation of a 32-year old conference that got AQ status because of the caliber of the football it was playing. Making a joke out of their name by adding far-west teams just serves as a constant reminder that the Big East isn't what it used to be. When these new schools join, every school but one in the Big East joined in 1995 or later.

59 points without Boomer around. Maybe our offense was afraid to score at home because they fear cannons.

I agree with Nick Saban: "Any team that does not win its conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game." OSU deserves a chance at LSU.

It bugs me to be too far away to attend games. If circumstances ever bring us back to Texas I'll be going all the time. I've never understood why UNT football isn't a bigger deal to the Denton area. When I've visited Clemson a few times, everywhere you go there are Tiger paws. The supermarkets devote aisles to Clemson gear and the campus is at the center of everything. UNT football isn't on a level with Clemson, of course, but UNT has more than twice as many students. Denton residents share their town with an enormous (and excellent) public university. You'd think there would be more local pride in that.

It's great you have the money and time to fly back to Denton for games. Not everybody is in that position. I live in Florida and follow the team the way I can -- on TV and radio. Unless you want to pay my travel expenses, pick up some work hours for me and watch my kids, that ain't changing.

Speak for yourself. I forget which school I attended if the name isn't on the helmet.

You're crediting Leach with a championship ring won after he left a school?

That depends on what Leach would have been willing to do as UNT coach.

I thought Dodge improved academics too. Add that to the list of things he did badly in Denton.

I think you underestimate how much he has to rebuild his reputation. It'll take some success at WSU -- a pretty big feat -- for him to start getting the kind of love he got at Tech before the scandal.

The fact it took Leach two years to get a new job shows he was damaged goods. But I'm glad that WSU was willing to get beyond that. He's a hell of a coach, and as long as he doesn't recruit the children of ESPN personnel he should be fine. It's too bad WSU isn't on the coast, given his love of piracy.

UNT has posted Gosselin's column: http://inthenews.unt.edu/story.cfm?action=view&id=150436 I didn't know the academics were such a mess when he arrived. I'm glad he is focusing on that, because it's a disservice to UNT athletes to let them leave without a diploma.

That was a great accomplishment. It's worth noting that GoMeanGreen members contributed money and effort to that campaign as well.

It's not that simple. Casual fans don't all wait until a team is a proven winner to show up. They trickle in over time as the team's reputation improves. If McCarney puts a Belt contender on the field and the team notches some OOC wins, it'll get some butts in seats.

I think ticket sales will improve because of how the team has played this season. We're not at rock bottom any more. We have a realistic shot next year at taking the Belt.

I think it was demoralizing to start every season with two body bag games in which the Mean Green were humiliated by halftime. I can accept one body bag game, but the rest of our OOC schedule needs to be teams we have a realistic chance of beating.

I don't know what time of year ADs plan future schedules, but I'd like to hear that UNT is approaching CUSA and MWC schools for games. If we want in these conferences, we should be building relationships with these teams and showing them Apogee.

I don't know if it makes you a bad fan, but you're waiting for a scenario that's a one-in-a-thousand shot to ever happen. UNT is in the Sun Belt. No better offers have been extended to us. The WAC is at best a lateral move with some serious negatives. So if you can't get excited by the prospect of UNT playing for a Sun Belt title at Apogee, the program's unlikely to motivate you as a fan.

I live in Florida. Eight hours to drive from Florida Atlantic to Denton? More like 21.