The Fake Lonnie Finch

That's ridiculous as well. Running the spread from 2007-2010 didn't magically make us more competitive at OU or Alabama, did it? McCarney's style of play had us more competitive at Georgia than our spread was 2007-2010.

Larry Coker can coach. He's in an area with solid recruits. It's a good combination for UTSA. Unlike many here, I never laughed at the Coker hire. McCarney is similar: experienced, knows what he's doing, and in a good area of the country for recruiting. Congrats to UTSA. And, here's to hoping we can pull an even bigger upset tonight.

Hmmm. But, when Dodge was here, running the spread, he wasn't magically stealing recruits from other spread coaches in the state, though, was he? Leach at Texas Tech. Briles and Sumlin at Houston. Then, Briles at Baylor. Stoops at OU. Gundy at Oklahoma State. Kragthorpe and Graham at Tulsa. Graham at Rice. You seem to have a memory gap from 2007 - 2010 when we did have a pass first offense...a recruits still weren't flocking to us, were they? Nor did running the spread make us a winner in even the Sun Belt while Dodge was here. Your argument, then, is we can't recruit for the run...I throw in that we didn't recruit well for the spread...so, what is the answer? The answer is, what we already have: Be happy with a coach who gives us a winner no matter what offense we run.

Precisely. Now, just set The Wayback Machine to 1983, and we'll get that unicorn meat!

Not to keep pointing out the obvious genius of my constant foresight, but... ...Wake Forest was at the top of the list of schools I said we should be trying to schedule back on Christmas Day, April 1, 2014:

Do you think a boring, ground and pound team like Stanford beating an Air Raid school like Todd Graham's Arizona State Sun Devils by 24 points is relevant? We're not going to compete with Texas, OU, and the like. That ship sailed in 1983. Some of you are still standing at the dock waiting for it to return. Until one of us gets a fat wallet like T. Boone Pickens, be happy with a coach who can take the players that will come here and turn them into a winning unit.

Don't you just love high-priced, yankee attorneys meddling into affairs such as these?

What's not to like about my anti-gun, pro-life, anti-Big Business, pro-current tax system, anti-death penalty, pro-campaign finance reform, anti-Ivy League politician, pro-term limits, anti-Confederate Flag, pro-oil and gas well drilling, anti-local open ended municipal bonds, pro-food and drug regulation views?

What we need to compete with the UTs of the world is hundreds of millions of dollars. T. Boone Pickens stepped up and bought Oklahoma State competitiveness. Who will be our T. Boone Pickens? Otherwise, schools can win running or throwing. This has been discussed before. We could run in 100 times. We could throw it 100 times. I just don't give a crap. As long as we are winning, I don't care what MacCanales' offensive philosophy is.

We'll never have a winning record or go to a bowl game if Mac doesn't copy Kevin Sumlin... ...oh, wait:

My daughter's 1st Grade teacher is an NT grad. Hooray! We're all on the same page there. Hope your daughter wins her bet.

2014-15, with these players and coaches: http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/ntex-m-baskbl-mtt.html

Um...that was Indiana in 2011, not 2012. Carry on, though.

We will have a winning season in basketball.

So, we should be like Texas - throw out the AD and coaches who bring us the most success on the field and the most upgrades in facilities? That'd be all good and well if we were bringing in UT-type money. But, we're not.

I posted just a couple of weeks ago that what they were fighting for was to legalize what they busted SMU for 30 years ago. Again, they are tired of policing themselves. They now refuse to police themselves. Instead of reigning in boosters, they will now take the boosters' money and give it directly to the players - after taking their cut. You ask what you get for playing nice? For UNT having a clean record with the NCAA all of these years and decades? Nothing. No one cares. Not just in athletics, whether people admit it or not, we are in the post-ethics era of American industry. I see it every day in my business - insurance and risk management. It does not matter whether you cut corners to get ahead. It does not matter what happens to your employees. Mergers are no longer fought on antitrust ground. What the government fought against 100 years ago - monopolies - is now sanctioned by the government. I've said before that America is going the way of Mexico, and people laugh it off. But, look at Mexico. It's government favors certain businesses and business people, and practically grants them near or complete monopolies in most industries. They could care less about the harm it does to competition...and, in turn to its citizenry. For all they care, their citizens can leave and go to America - and, they are encouraged to do so. But, what will happen now that America's government is now following suit? We've already seen the "Too Big To Fail" stamp of approval given to corporate sloppiness and greed. Our economy is stagnant even to our own citizenry. NCAA football and sports? Who cares whether the big squash the little? We're already to the point of doing away with certain men's sports anyway. Long past that. You are deceived into thinking this is open and pure capitalism. But, it not. It is a strain of capitalism mixed in the socialist protection from the judiciary and legislative branches. We are screwed either way, athletically, because our university decided not to put athletics first. And, beyond that, our athletic directors and coaches have chosen to play by the rules...foolishly believing those not following the rules would be punished and want to compete fairly. In short, we were naive about the whole thing. Ethics? Forget about it. We're post-ethics. Ethics is just a word used in seminars to help you get your CE credits as a professional. It really means noting.

Those were dark, dark days, my friend. You also rarely saw NT clothing on students. You saw alot of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and OU. Not much NT pride...and, really, it was tough to muster back then. Even back then, most of us came from high schools whose stadiums rivaled Fouts. And, that is one of the reasons I understand little about the Darrell Dickey hatred. That the guy could string together three winning seasons in a row with only that dump to sell recruits? I mean seriously recall going to Fouts - the concession stands and bathrooms, the track around the field - and compare it to Apogee. Not just Dickey, but every coach before McCarney had to show recruits, "This will be your home field for four years! Ready to sign up?" So, what do we do now that we've had a coach take us to a bowl game - while coaching some record breaking players? We bitch about the players who set the records, along with their coach and his philosophy? What the hell is the matter with us? And, honestly, when I think about being dive-bombed by crickets on my way to the dilapidated bathroom at old Fouts, I have to admit that Rick Villareal would have to rape and murder a convent of nuns to move my needle to negative about him. How anyone can look from Fouts across I-35 with all of the new facilities we have for football and damn near every other sport and complain about Rick...it's just nuts. Is it just the Generation Selfie posters who are complaining? Those of us who endured NT during the post-Corky I-AA run should never, ever, ever, ever complain about how we win.

When will we get our j.k. winnin t-shirts?

Would you be happy with North Texas 7, Texas 6, just for starters, then? Or, would the agony of the lack of offense lead you to flood StubHub with your home game tickets for the remainder of the season? I'm old and not getting any younger. I remember attending NT from 1990-95, and sitting there at dilapidated Fouts watching us play the likes of Abilene Christian and Southwest Missouri State. So, Apogee is like Disneyland to me, and winning is like the cotton candy begged for then devoured between rides. Winning. No one then barfs up the cotton candy and demands ice cream instead. The cotton candy has already been had, the evidence of it everywhere. All sticky on my hands and face, what didn't get to my tummy.

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This was the most relevant thing written in that piece: "If Texas’ guards are quicker than Lincoln it’s going to be a quick game." But, here's the more entertaining read: http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2014/8/26/6070677/north-texas-game-preview

If we win every game 7-6, I'll be happy. It's about winning. How we get there is irrelevant to me anymore. These coaches (unfortunately for some of you), have been in the business for decades and whatnot. So, all of this, "well, we passed more against this team and ran more against that team"...that's the coaches understanding where the opposing defense can be had on that particular afternoon. I don't care if we whip 'em by one point or a hundred, as long as we continue winning. I want our coaches to be slaves to winning, rather than slaves to a system. "It doesn't matter where you've poked the pie, you still have it on your fingers after the deed is done, okay?" - Bill Parcells, two time Super Bowl champion coach and full time, sandwich eating, mouth breather.

That's one guy Mack Brown would have been right about moving to defensive back. Probably would have had a nice career there at safety. Off the field, the Dodges were, and are, nice people. Cussers, no. But, they wasted a hell of a lot of our time sticking him in at quarterback here. Glad McCarney and Canales have made the turnaround for us. Just...a lot of work was left to do after Dodge left - on and off the field.