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Me neither. It's completely forgettable. Every time I see it again, I have to remember all over again why it's so bad.

Saw this link today: http://www.ohiostatealumni.org/events/EventPhotos/Pages/2011TresselwithAttendees.aspx When Ohio State alumni had a chance to get their picture taken with Jim Tressel, do you think they were told that he might not actually look up?

Now that we're losing the lame SouthLake Carroll look, we just need to make sure the Mean Green are wearing more actual green on their uniforms. I never understood how we could do otherwise.

Someone on GMG who lives in Denton should write a letter to the <i>DRC</i> supporting the stadium and countering the claims of the Denia group. Although they can't stop the stadium at this point, there's probably ways the city of Denton could still screw things up. People who like the idea of the stadium and believe the city benefits from it should speak out.

I did a Google search yesterday for Kim Kardashian thong bikini.

Read this piece from Sports Illustrated: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/michael_rosenberg/01/06/oregon.knight/index.html?eref=sihp# Knight has so much control at Oregon that the university is leasing land to him where he'll build a 130,000 square foot football operations center exactly like he wants it and then donate it back to Oregon.

Love the sarcasm. Other people have already answered for me. The amount of access Knight has at Oregon is legendary. Pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I agree. Vito's been a pretty good beat reporter.

Phil Knight's donations to Oregon also have strings attached.

This is huge!

I think it's an invite to the SEC. McCarney better be good.

No. We could've had a booster group for 60 years? That would have been horrible. Much better to be apathetic about our football success and watch the other Texas schools grow up around us.

He is according to the story I read: http://www.nbcconnec...-114560449.html "... he wants back millions of dollars he gave the University of Connecticut football program -- $3 million of the more than $7 million he donated." Here's his letter: http://media.nbcbaya.../Burton+Ltr.pdf He's UConn's largest athletic donor. The letter shows that he thinks a lot of himself and likes to wave his dick around at that school, but it was a major mistake for the AD to not keep him in the loop during the new coach hire.

Million-dollar donations are almost never given to athletic programs with no strings attached. If this AD couldn't figure out a way to hire the right head coach *and* keep a $7 million donor happy, he's in the wrong line of work.

I would agree with you if I hadn't seen what USF has done in Tampa. Give a big city its first credible college football team and people will support it. USF drew 231,000 fans in 1997 and more than 315,000 in 2007 and 2009.

Sorry to intrude with some facts about state budgets. People who think California's budget crisis will hurt its universities should be paying attention to what's going on in Austin. Those folks are also pretty good at accumulating debt.

Texas used federal stimulus money to pay 97% of its budget deficit in 2009: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/01/texas-used-stimulus-to-cover-97-of-its-deficit/70077/ The state's $12 billion deficit in fiscal year 2012 equals 31.5% of its budget, the third-highest rate in the country. Worse than California.

The Belt needs its own Boise State -- a team that crashes the Top 25 and stays there for a while. I nominate North Texas.

Changing the name would mean absolutely bupkiss.

Looked at the Texas budget situation lately?

Congress could easily exert power over colleges, as it did with Title IX. Any school receiving federal financial assistance -- can you say student loans and Pell grants? -- is vulnerable to having the feds put the thumbscrews to them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX

What is the point of engaging in what-ifs to denigrate the past accomplishments of your alma mater? Is UNT's history of football accomplishments not sorry enough already without coming up with scenarios where it would've been worse?

What makes you think the BCS will be able to get away with that? Congress would get involved.

If winning the Sun Belt is so easy, why couldn't one of the greatest high school coaches in Texas history do it?

It was nice of Dodge to leave with class. But how much does that really matter to UNT in the long run? I think Dickey's four conference championships and bowl win mattered a lot more. He was a jerk going out, but over time I think UNT fans will come to appreciate what he did here as the second-best coaching tenure in school history. (At least until McCarney retires after winning his third consecutive national championship, a victory over Texas so devastating that the Longhorns end their football program.)