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I feel a lot better about this hire today after looking at if from the James Franklin perspective. Dude is a closer.

I suppose I'm good with that. I know Littrell is a good RB coach, just not sure how much time he can dedicate to it.

Thats way better than the CBS? one we saw a few weeks ago.

Who will coach RBs then? Mainord? Littrell?

When would the 10th assistant be allowed? Also found this interesting from the article....5 years to play 4 1/3?

I know Calloway has a NT offer, we are listed in the "and more" part of that equation. Edit: Also Kaegun Williams, Xavier Newman, Reggie Roberson, Sam Crawford, and I'm sure I missed one here or there.

So who coaches running backs?

A former kicker from Marshall who never coached running backs. This strikes me as a disaster. He has only coached DBs and special teams. I hate this hire.

Not so fast my friend @Brett Vito Don't like either of those ND guys better than Tommy Perry. If one of those is truly the hire, I feel it will be an epic mistake as neither has coached running backs and Perry was fantastic at it.

Probably not, because he was their friend(not a good reason for enshrinement). Possibly, because some of those more deserving may never get in.

I get your point. I remember one of the beyond the green videos talking about Ek having to learn a new system from Reffett. Don't necessarily see why Perry couldn't learn the airraid in the same manner.

I think this would be more of @Aldo's ring of honor idea (which I like, plus we partner with the Cowboys now). 3 of the numbers should certainly stay retired, Abner, Mean Joe, and Gill. Abner was a trailblazer, Mean Joe was the best player we've ever had, and Gill literally gave his life for our football team. I don't know enough about Renfro's NT days to make a call on whether his should be unretired or not.

I'm thinking the AEK deal could be 3 things: 1. An acronym like Always Eating Kickers (replace kickers with any K word) 2. Alpha Sigma Kappa? 3. AEK the soccer team, he didn't start using the hashtag until he left UT. The team was founded by refugees so maybe he feels like a refugee after leaving Austin. We are his destination to be successful back in his home state.

Work harder?

I'll go further than insinuating, I'll flat out say it. There were 16 All-conference players on the 2002 team with 10 of those being first team honors. Of those 16, only 4 are in the HOF (Kevin Galbreath, Brandon Kennedy, Cody Spencer, Jonas Buckles). Of the 12 that aren't in the HOF, 2 were 4-time all-conference (JR Randle, Nick Zuniga), 1 was 3-time all-conference (Adrian Awasome), and 6 were 2-time all-conference (Jeff Meunchow, Taylor Casey, Craig Jones, Matt Turney, Chris McIver, and Brad Kadlubar). I think the disrespectful part is to put Andrew Smith in the HOF ahead of the players that truly led the team to the 2002 NO Bowl because I'd bet my last dollar that if he doesn't die in that crash(with a BAC of .13), there is no way he gets in the HOF ahead of most of those guys, if he gets in at all. Don't forget, at the time of his death, he was set to back up Scott Hall again in 2004.

I'm with you there, just trying to make a point.

You had me laughing out loud. This is so true.

And Giovanni Vizza too.

Man, seriously, I wish your conspiracy was true, anything to get this clown show to move on down the road. I was thinking that perhaps he spoke with Benford after the game and they came up with the hospital excuse to cover for him skipping out.

Kid has moxy, I like it.

I was referring to this one although the timeline is sketchy.

@UNT90, I'm with you man. Smells funny and I want Benford gone as bad as you but I thought Vito called the hospital and verified that Frazier was there in an earlier blog post, no?

NVM, Hall bowl games has been addressed. I think it is a good idea.

So doing what you can for the school puts you on the list? That mean Andrew McNulty belongs on that list? He did give everything he had for this school, was on a bowl win team, and scored the first touchdown in Apogee. To your other point about those with retired numbers, Are those you listed in an untouchable place because of what they did at NT was far superior to anyone since or because of the NFL?

Dang. Well fingers crossed our new assistant is a game changer and swings him our way.