The Fake Lonnie Finch

Montana sells out their little stadium. North Dakota State probably does as well. Once we become an FCS/G5 Leftover power, perhaps we will as well. It's difficult to blame RV so much. The biggest portion of the hole was dug when the administration decided to go I-AA three decades ago. The arms race began in earnest in the early 90s while we were still languishing there. It was a really stupid, stupid idea to move down to I-AA. But, look, we were also way behind in doing facilities upgrades as well even after. Everything we do, it's like pulling teeth. Eventually, we've faced the fact that the weird city that we all hail for musical and artistic hipness is never going to embrace the University's athletics. Compounding that is the general apathy from the administration, staff, faculty, and students that dragged on for decades, and, in many corners, still drags. What else can you do? As I've stated before, we're stuck where we are until our T. Boone Pickens appears. I just don't see it. We can talk scheduling until we are blue in the face, but the Criminal 5's have already made themselves autonomous; so, it really doesn't matter what we do. Besides, have a game here and there against Texas Tech or Oklahoma State in Apogee would not make up much ground anyway financially; it's just one game. We need to accept who we are. As Marshall is showing this year, being undefeated isn't going to even get you sniffed unless you are Criminal 5. So, at schools like ours, there will never be a national title. The Criminal 5 have already decided that the national title will reside only among their conference schools. So, let's recalibrate and get competitive where we can. As stated before, the ship sailed long before RV got here.

For married people with kids? No. Thankfully.

I don't think they have a football team yet. But, they have hockey. I dated a gal from Huntsville for a couple of year. Sweet and Southern. Very interesting city, if you can find a reason to visit it. Nice people, too. Within reasonable driving distance to Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. I highly recommend a visit to Huntsville.

I prefer the "kicking the ant pile" analogy. Anyway, as if on cue: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-safest-cities-152041816.html 5. Frisco, Texas > Violent crimes per 100,000: 76 > Population: 131,769 > 2013 murders: 0 (tied-the least) > Poverty rate: 4.5% (2nd lowest) > Pct. of adults with high school degree: 94.0% (23rd highest) Frisco reported a total of just 100 violent crimes in 2013, fewer than almost any other city. Few large cities had less incidents of robbery and aggravated assault. Also, the city did not record a single murder last year.High incomes may contribute to the area’s low crime rates. Interrelated factors such as family wealth, and well-funded schools, may help discourage crime. Frisco had the highest median household income of any large U.S. city last year, at almost $110,000. Additionally, Frisco was one of just two large cities with a poverty rate of less than 5% last year. Hate me now, hate me later. But, at the very least, admit when you've been had.

Tippecanoe and McNulty, Too!

Don't sweat it. With the leadership we have at C-USA, this will be a conference game by 2018.

Mmmm. Guess not.

Neinas is hit and miss...at $50,000 a pop. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2013/06/06/search-firms-san-diego-state-colorado-chuck-neinas/2398733/ Personally, I have begun to believe universities overthink these things. Some hires work out, others don't, no matter who advises them on the hire.

Stand by it all you like. I'll agree with you on one thing, though...drug use does tend to lead to poverty and homelessness. And, again, there is plenty of evidence of those elements in Dallas, but not in Frisco, because...again... ...drug/crime acceptance in Dallas, not Frisco. You reap what you sow. By the way, I'll post the first time, if ever, that I walk into a neighbor's house or a business in Frisco and smell dope. Hasn't happened in six years, and doubt it will suddenly crop up.

No. You are delusional to think that they are. You've bought fully into this "it's everywhere" myth. I live in Frisco and go all around it, okay? I also go visit long time customers in South Dallas for business. Some of the small churches we insure down there...it's night and day different and you know it. In Frisco, there are not drug-addled people wandering the streets in broad daylight. There aren't bands of able-bodied men standing around, "hanging out" in the middle of the day at the convenience store, the curb, or the corner. My customers who own buildings in Denton and Collin County are not having their air conditioning units stolen over and over again. In Dallas, it got to a point a couple of years ago where I decided not to write anymore policies unless the building owner had their AC units covered, fenced off, and locked. Just because every once in a blue moon a drug crime occurs in a place, doesn't mean it is "everywhere." Where you see the drugged in the streets and have the repetitive thefts against business like you have in Dallas, it's a different story.

I love this place because it is truly like an ant pile when you kick it...or, even, just nudge it a little with the toe. Ryan, get a physical grip on reality. What do you think separates cities like Frisco from Dallas? Why is it that drug dealers don't run the neighborhoods in places like Frisco? Decade after decade of excusing drug crime has gotten Dallas and other cities what they deserve - neighborhoods terrorized by gangs, thugs, and drug dealers. I could care less for drugs, okay? I'm intelligent enough to understand that they rot your body and brain. I've had several friends from high school, college, and grad school die due to years of substance abuse, the latest on September 23rd of this year, at the ripe old age of 39...faithful marijuana user and drinker to the end. Part of me felt sorry for them at the time. Yet, all except one of them had children. And, so, these days, when I see the wives, ex-wives, and kids they left behind, struggling and scrambling without the support of their dead dads, I feel much less sorry for them. Two of them were the type who would argue for marijuana legalization with me endlessly. How ironic that I now visit their graves. Sorry. Drug use is ugly and stupid. Politicians, judges, and community leaders/organizers who make excuses for it, do nothing more than dig the hole deeper for their neighborhoods and cities. That it goes on decade after decade after decade...sorry, no sympathy. The people in those cities know damn well why their cities are in the shape they are in, yet they keep electing the same idiots to protect the criminals and drug-addicts that made it that way. It's easy to look around and see what drugs do to a place and a person. If you want to be blind to it and look at it as a "racist" thing, that's not my problem. In American, you choose where you live. "Hope and change" only works if you and actually committed to changing. In many cities in America, they are not changing the drug culture, but enabling it. They get what they deserves, and we don't have to be a part of it. "Change" has to come from within those communities themselves. Sadly, for them, it is not coming. To them I say, enjoy your schools with metal detectors and drug-sniffing dogs. Detroit.

Yes. I'm the racist married to a Mexican with half-Mexican children in tow. Absolutely. And, we speak Spanish at the house...that's how racist we are. We eschew speaking English amongst ourselves, the mother tongue of racism, right? We also have the kids taking Chinese on the weekends because we hate the Chinese, right? By the way, it was my Mexican (real Mexican, born and raised in Mexico, not some half-witted American hispanic puffing away on weed, knocking back 40s, listening to Pitbull, unable to put two sentences together in Spanish or English, yet marching around yelling, Sí, se puede, because they are unemployed, doped up, and have nothing better to do) wife who picked Frisco because it lacked the drug-infested maggots that she figured would endanger her children. My preference was for Lucas, Allen, or McKinney...all of which are demonstrably less drug-infested than Dallas County and its aging cities, where I grew up when they were, thankfully, not drug-infested. The druggies, criminals, and those that are constantly enabling them, are welcome to stay in the crap hole sections of the world that they have made for themselves. Far, far away from the rest of us who do not accept criminal behavior, drug use, and socio-political stupidity as a way of life. Now, grind that up, stick it in your one-hitter and smoke it.

I like the idea of the potheads having places where they can go kill their brain cells, and each other...far away from me and my family.

So, you're saying liquor made Little Elm and The Colony the thriving metropolises they are today?

You can sit anywhere you want over there as well. Stand on the sideline for the entire game if you like.

Means, Wells, and Cousins would remain. Combined, they can't possibly turn the ball over more than Greer, Williams, and McNulty, scholarshiped or not.

Yes. Damn the Frisco city council for not recognizing what wonders liquor stores have done for Dallas. How short sighted of the city council to not want more alcoholics in the city. When will they ever learn?

No. I'm advocating that the few people who still bitch about RV take their tickets over the bridge to Fouts and sit there so they can remember how good we had it before RV was here.

Frisco has it's ups and downs. But, it's safe for my wife and kids, so I endure whatever the minor downs are. The major dust ups here are things like where boundary lines for the new 80% white high school will be and whether the new power lines to accommodate the growth will be above or below ground. I'll take that any day over sending my kids to schools with thugs and communities filled with thieving, drug-infested maggots. As far as Denton, it's easy to see why UNT's athletics gets no support - the city hates anything that might actually bring money to the city. Convention Center, no. Fracking, no. Fight for an outdated grocery store, yes. Crazy.

You should only love the one you're with if you can't be with the one you love...and, you have a rubber handy.

List of schools with senior QBs where Greer and Williams can transfer for the 2015 season...and, McNulty, if he graduates and can do so by NCAA guidelines: Southeastern Louisiana Central Arkansas Lamar Northwestern State (La.) Nicholls State Texas A&M - Commerce Midwestern State I'm sure there are other FCS and DII schools with senior QBs as well. These are just the nearest not in Oklahoma. Oklahoma has a ton of that DII-III-NAIA level football that Greer, Williams, and McNulty would all be well suited for. I wish them well at whichever one they choose.

All of your asses need to give RV credit where credit is due when you go to a football game and your ass isn't sitting at Fouts Field. All of you whose asses don't like RV should be forced to sit over at Fouts Field during home games and listen to Jub and Hank on the FM feed. With no concessions or snacks either! And, paying full price to park!

I would also throw in a gimmick at the Coaches Roadies to pump up membership: sign up for any level of giving and have your name put into a drawing for your choice of football or basketball season tickets. Okay? Money in is money in. We are not going to be in the Criminal 5. We are not going to be in a conference with great leverage for a huge television contract or great bowls (once the current bowl contracts expire). So, we're going to have to love our own. We're going to have to shower the people we love with love; yes, and, show them the way that we feel. Things are going to be much better if we only will.

Tulsa, by the way, has a ridiculous 15 levels of benefit for Hurricane Club Members...starting at $50. Most schools have eight or so levels of giving. Tulsa: http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/tuls/sports/ghc/auto_pdf/2013-14/release/release_final.pdf

Just make the student fee $40 a semester and be done with it. So much whining and bickering over it. It doesn't matter anyway. We're not a part of the Criminal 5, so we will be shuffled back into the morass of Leftover 5 + FCS once the Criminal 5 eliminate the scholarship limit and start writing paychecks to the players. Also, make a drop dead bottom level of giving $50, okay? Don't bitch about "looking cheap." Just do it. Money is money is money. Look, we run a commercial insurance agency, and business insurance goes in cycles. At various times, carrier appetite increases or decreases for any given risk. For example, six years ago, I could write a Lessor's Risk Only (shopping centers, office buildings, office warehouses, etc. occupied by tenants, not the building owners) policy with any damn company you could name - The Hartford, Travelers, CNA, Zurich, et. al. All standard markets. Today, you come to me with an LRO risk, and I'm likely having to stick you with a non-standard carrier (Underwriters at Lloyds of London, Nautilus, USLI, etc.) because the standard carrier are largely out of the LRO game right now because of hail losses incurred from 2010-2013. With non-standard carriers, my commission is half of what it is for a standard carrier. But, I place the business anyway because the 10% of X (premium) that they pay, though not as much as 20% of X, is more than 0% of X. So, what I'm saying is, get everyone in the game, even those we currently turn up our nose to because they won't give at the lowest $125 a year level. Three people signing up at $50 is more than one at $125. Get money! Get the money of the masses. Where do other programs like Mean Green Club begin. Here is a list that I have compiled because I'm nice enough to do it for you: Lower than Mean Green Club OU: $100 - http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=209224829 Texas: $50 - http://texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/foundation_0729134356.aspx TCU: $100 - http://www.gofrogs.com/frog-club/giving-levels.html SMU: $75 - http://www.smumustangs.com/mustangclub/donor-benefits.html Houston: $100 - http://www.uhcougars.com/sports/cougar-pride/spec-rel/membership-benefits.html Texas Tech: $100 - http://www.redraiderclub.com/images/downloads/2014_GivingGuide_lrsmallpdf.pdf LSU: $50 - https://www.lsutaf.org/LevelsAndBenefits Arkansas: $50 - http://www.razorbackfoundation.com/membership/member-levels.aspx UTEP: $50 - http://minerathleticclub.com/sports/2013/1/16/MAC_Benefits.aspx?&tab=1 Kansas State: $50 - http://www.ahearnfund.com/giving/levels/ Alabama: $50 - http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/alab/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/20140114club-benefits-chart.pdf Ole Miss: $50 - http://www.olemisssports.com/sports/umaaf/membership/levels-and-benefits.html Missouri: $50 - http://www.tsf-mizzou.com/tsf-annual-fund/giving-levels-donor-benefits Mississippi State: $100 - http://www.msubulldogclub.com/our-mission/benefit-levels/?DB_OEM_ID=16800 Kansas: $100 - http://www.williamsfund.com/sports/2014/2/11/wef_0211144417.aspx Nebraska: $50 - http://huskersathleticfund.com/benefits/ Rice: $50 - http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/rice/sports/fb-stadium/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/OwlClubbenefitschart.pdf Higher than Mean Green Club Texas A&M: $150 - https://www.12thmanfoundation.com/membership/benefits.aspx Oklahoma State: $150 - http://www.okstateposse.com/contributing.php Baylor: $180 ($120 for young alumni): http://www.baylor.edu/bearfoundation/index.php?id=96016