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I'll take wins any way we can get them this season. UNT hasn't won four games or more since 2007. If we could get 4-5 this year, it would be a huge improvement.

No kidding. This board is a drag after a UNT loss and a drag after a UNT win. Who cares if the defense won the game for us more than the offense? It's still a win, which is something we weren't experiencing very often the past five years. We talk here all the time about how to elevate UNT's football program to respectability. Step 1 in every plan to do that is TO WIN GAMES. If you can't appreciate a UNT win because you've become completely cynical about the program, find something else to do that you actually have a chance to enjoy.

The Sun Belt is not on shaky ground. Few of its teams are in any danger at all of being invited to a better conference.

I don't know why you would think that, since our SI office was around when Dodge and Dickey were the head coach and there were no letters like this back then.

Amazing, no? It's like he learned how to coach a college team from Hayden Fry.

The SEC's $2.25 billion TV contract with ESPN and $825 million TV contract with CBS make it the richest conference by a sizable margin.

Tulsa was 1-3 before they played us. Why are you acting like they're an OOC opponent we had no chance of ever beating? Last night was a valid test of what kind of team we have.

The argument WE WILL SELL OUT AFTER YOU INVITE US has never worked in conference realignment in the entire history of college football. It's like walking up to the hottest girl in the bar and saying I WILL BE GOOD LOOKING IF YOU SLEEP WITH ME.

USF had started breaking in to the top 25 when it was invited and it won around 29 championships in all sports while in CUSA. It had all of UNT's positives *plus* on-field football success and no other college in Tampa competing with it for attention and resources.

UNT would be lucky to be a tertiary player. I can't believe there are fans who think we have a shot to get into the Big 12. Bartender, I'll have what they're drinking.

Apogee is not that uncommon a word. Since it means "highest point" it's a great name for a football stadium.

That's the same question I wanted to ask. I used to be a Ticket P1 and even kept listening when I moved from Dallas to Florida in 1997. But these days, whenever I give the station another listen it's got so little actual sports talk I get bored and scan for the next station. Aside from the Great Gordo, there isn't anyone on KTCK who makes non-sports talk entertaining for very long.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the leading certification system for sustainable building design. http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1988

I did too when I read, "He was buried under a huge a stack of tape in closet of an office at the Mean Green Athletic Center ..." I see it has been edited. My condolences to Bleil's friends and family.

Worst idea ever. UNT has too few traditions as it is. How can you possibly want to kill the band playing "Fly Like an Eagle"?

This sounds like a con job by the BCS to hide the fact that they've divided the FBS into haves and have nots. If you're not in an auto-bid conference you're not really in the BCS, in my opinion.

Because it's a way for UNT to play a leadership role in sustainable energy, which can pay dividends in attracting students and research in that area. We'll have the first stadium in the world with that distinction.

I'd love to see UTSA and Texas State in the Sun Belt. UNT needs some in-state rivals.

Unless you're planning to settle down and start a family with a flag bearer, I fail to see why their gender matters to you.

I was thinking the same thing. But it's weird for a UNT fan to hope for FIU not to lose any of its conference games. We could still catch them.

Oops. Still can't believe Baylor's in a BCS conference, I guess.

You're working really hard to find something to be mad about.

It was our first win over a BCS school since Texas Tech in 1999. That's a victory worth savoring.

They went out in those new black jerseys and stampeded the Marshall Thundering Herd 44-7 in a rivalry game. It's their first win over Marshall in 11 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM39lYg5yes http://www.register-herald.com/todayssportsfront/x1660697131/Herd-trampled-at-Ohio

UNT fans should appreciate Dickey's accomplishments and move beyond the way things ended for him at our school. His conference winning streak and first bowl victory for UNT in 40 years should be enough to put him alongside Hayden Fry as coaches who had great runs in Denton.