The Fake Lonnie Finch

It's a riddle. The ex-girlfriend was his landlord. How can anyone neg that? Don't you guys like logic problems. Another thing about TCU...surely they don't think their ticket prices will remain the same after their $100+ million stadium revamp, do they? These things have to get paid for. I wonder how much the schools get in television revenue for the game. If it's more than they'd get for a normal home game, they may not give a crap about the ticket prices. It's already that way in pro sports. A friend gave me front row seats to a Stars game last year. I took my son. Price of the tickets $300 a piece. I enjoyed the game. But, I remember thinking to myself, would I be enjoying it if I'd pulled the $600 out of my pocket for it? My guess was probably not. First, my wife would kill me for spending that kind of money on anything that didn't come out of a women's clothing store. Second, what is the real price of "entertainment"? Everyone has a break point in their loyalty. I'll go watch the Stars for free. I'll go watch the Mavericks for free. Ditto the Cowboys. I wish them all well. But, I'm not a big enough fans to pay top dollar to see them. The concession prices are high and the atmosphere ain't my cup of tea...especially with the Mavericks. With your favorite college team, it's the same. You count the cost. But, you've got to remember that these days the decisions for the pricing of sporting events, for better or worse, do not come with the fan in mind first. It's a business. It's just become a business. And, television is money in the sports business.

This is the thing that popped out at me as well. Our defense is going to have to bring the lunch pail for this one. Got to have sure tackling all the way around. Cannot quit on plays. I can take losing a game the way we lost to OU during the Simon/Dickey years, 30/40 something to 10 or so. But, a blowout would be bad. Their receivers are bigger than OU had in 2007 when they ran up and down the field against us. That scares me somewhat. But, we've got bigger CBs and better coaching in the secondary than we did on that day as well. We've got a bigger, stronger armed QB, an experience offensive line, and an offensive coordinator who has been to places like Clemson and bigger in his career. That will help us/ The main thing about Clemson is their defense is stout. If we can keep from turning the ball over on offense and have sure tackling on defense, I think we can make a pretty good showing for ourselves and maybe even keep it close.

Here's what he brings to the table: (1) He's coached in Clemson-type games, Kansas State-type games and can react to them. His biggest game plan hasn't been a high school playoff game. So, he's planned against the biggest and best at this level for a long time. (2) Tight ends who might actually be a threat to receive a pass. (Goodness gracious...was Darrell Dickey right about Draylen Ross being a tight end? The college coach we hired named Canales seems to think so. Oh, silly Todd Dodge & high school coaching staff...switching the poor kid around to the defensive line, then offensive line. You've got to recruit defensive linemen at this level, geniuses. You can't just flip a big body over there like in high school. Ding dongs. Thank goodness for coach Canales, yo.) (3) U-backs, to get every available talent on the field...to either run, catch, or block. A weapon. This is the Charles Clay-type back I talked about last year. And, to my credit, suggested using Micah Mosley in said roll - which Coach Chico was doing until Mosley was injured. Oh...oh...oh...dat Fake Lonnie...he do knows something about them footballs. Boooyah! (4) The quarterback under center on short down and distance and goal line plays. Hallelujah! We got a coach that recognizes we're not lining up against Grapevine and Saginaw! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haw! (5) Grape nuts.

Or, para Canales

Or, por Canales

Es tiempo de Canales

I counted 42 that didn't play at what are currently FBS-level schools. That's more than I would have guessed. Had no idea Southern Miss's Larry Fedora was an Austin College guy either.

(1) It pains me to the utmost to have to make a serious post. (2) To TCU fans, B-O-O H-O-O. What did you expect? You are playing a game at the biggest, newest stadium in America. I didn't hear OU or BYU fans complaining last year. If you want to be a big boy school, you pay big boy prices. (3) If you'd like, we'll lease out our new stadium to you next year on the weekends we aren't playing there and will make the ticket prices $35 dollars for any seat in the house. For $50, we'll let you sit with Todd Dodge and you can help him take notes on how Chico Canales runs a game.

It's about the head football coaches of the FBS. If they played, where they played, and what position they played...while in college: http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1118500

In the T's you have two consecutive Dereks in Teegarden and Thompson. In the O's you have back-to-back a Zach and Zachery. The first names of the consecutive last names beginning with Atkinson and with ending Bean make out the sentence Shavod Will Chase Jeremy. And, on the roster as a whole we have a J.J., B.J., and an A.J.

Has anyone considered: (1) Making an east-west division with the Sun Belt and WAC (2) Just adding more teams to the WAC from I-AA and still calling it the WAC (3) BYU going independent or back to the MWC or the Big 12 (4) North Texas going independent or joining the WAC as a travel partner (5) Lousiana Tech joining the Conference USA (6) Houston going to the Big 12 (7) Air Force going to the Big 12 (8) TCU going to the Big 12 (9) Arkansas State doing something (10) UTEP and New Mexico State doing something (11) Texas State and UTSA also doing something (12) Democrats losing the House, Seante, and the majority of governerships (13) Growing a Rollie Fingers mustache and becoming a barber and part-time popcorn vendor

(Sweeping, dramatic movie love song, orchestral-type intro) On my way to the sky, on my way to the concession stand. I feel I can fly; and, now the nachos are in my hand! Nathan Tune with the ball, and I'm hoping that I don't fall down the stairs because I still have those nachos in my hand! On my way to the sky, watching Lance Dunbar run. A tear in my eye: nachos now are all eaten, gone. Alex Lott with the ball, and I'm hoping that I don't fall up the stairs because I have got to get more nachos! On my way to the sky, the roar of the crowd fills the breezy air. Pretty girls passing by giggle, "There's nacho cheese in your hair!" Draylen Ross with the ball, and I'm hoping that I don't faint for a tight end now involved proves Dodge's offense was naught but taint. On my way to the sky, watching Coach Chico Canales coach. Feeling happy and spry, sharing my nachos with a roach! (Music stops - whispered) Goodbye, Fouts Field. Goodbye! (Sweeping music ending what a big tuba bomp and the end of a kettle drum roll)

Berkner also blew a second half lead and lost. On a brighter note, my nephew is a senior OL at Granbury and they won their opener over Saginaw 26-0, matching their win total from 2009 right out of the gate! Congrats to the Pirates!

That is, bar none, the worst option quarterback I've seen in my life. What a give up of a pitch.

My first wife went to PESH and was a Golden Girl. Very leggy and game...as the guy she cheated with ending our marriage would later find out as well. But hey...that's life in the big city.

Our campus has too many post office looking buildings on it. No sense of architecture for many of them. It's a shame, too. UT-Austin's campus is awful as well, I'll say in agreement with Green Mean. Leonid Brezhnev and his silent "h" relax at a dorm room at the University of Texas between visits with his admirers and sympathizers - the University of Texas faculty, staff, and students, Willie Nelson, and straggly looking, soap eschewing hangers on from nearby Hippie Hollow.

I'll take the tight end with three names who came from the yankee school that cut its football program and forced him to come down here and be taught winning football by Coach Mike "Chico" Canales.

If Tune doesn't quick kick it, we'll either run or pass. By the way, I like the idea of a Coach Chico mask. Like a thin cardboard one you can affix to your head with rubberbands and whatnot. Anyone in the printing business know if this can be done and cheaply.

No matter which way it happens, one thing can be sure - you can now buy #5 North Texas jerseys in stores in the greater Denton area to commemorate the occasion.

This happens all the time to many different schools. Sometimes it happens to our school. Sometimes it happens to other schools. When these things do occur, it is time for someone else to step up. It is their time to shine. They will never be a better time for them to show a coaching staff what they can do. So, it's important that they use their time on the practice field wisely. When game time comes there won't be any excuse for unpreparedness (only for asterisks if they are at the University of Texas). And, time keeps flowing like a river, on and on, to the sea, to the sea, 'til it's gone forever, gone forever, gone forevermore. Goodbye, my friends, maybe for forever. Goodbye, my friends, the stars wait for me. Who knows where we shall meet again, if ever. But, time, keeps flowing like a river, on and on, to the sea, to the sea, 'til it's gone forever, gone forever, gone forevermore.

My alma mater's game as well...Go, Rams! No, really...go.

Actually, it's been almost three decades for the lad...and still no Jodie Foster. The thing I like about Clemson is that I met this gal in grad school who went there and she had a really nice personality and was, at the time, hotter than fish grease. She now lives in Atlanta and is married another man. But, hey...that's life in the big city. Go, Clemson?

How do you know he wasn't wearing it as he narrated? And, yeah...kind of a gimme of a video. What else do you expect the kids would say? "So long, suckas...thanks for nothing!"?

Pick any two of the words, and you have your two words. Coach Mike. Coach Chico. Coach Canales. Mike Canales. Chico Canales. No matter your two word choice, the conclusion remains the same: Coach Mike "Chico" Canales is the wheel behind all of the football good happening at North Texas these days. And, we are happier than a glass of iced tea to have him!