Graddean

Russellville has two units at the nuclear power plant. ATU is right off I-40 at exit 81. UNT Lifer. When did your father play at Tech?<br />

I look forward to watching him regularly. He still will be wearing green with gold instead of white.

What makes me optimistic is our willingness to redshirt freshman linemen. In the Osborne days at Nebraska, freshman linemen, especially offensive line, were routinely redshirted. Their line was full of fourth and fifth year players. I know we would all like to have five star players ready to go day one, but we know, realistically, that is not going to happen. I take this as a very good sign. What I really look forward to is the day we sign three and four star players who are redshirted because the guys ahead of them keep them off the field.

DB's: Beatty, Reece, Lockhart, and Dunlap. All made the NFL, and Dunlap was a first round draft choice by the old Baltimore Colts.

DB Carl "Spider" Lockhart

This win makes me very optimistic about WBB at UNT. When you get beat a Foley team at his place, you have made a major accomplishment. What is especially encouraging is the impact of the freshman players. If the ladies continue this, you might be surprised at the following they may get.

I think we can all agree no one is happy about this season thus far. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer much less THE answer. Benford knows this is his big chance, and he probably sees it fading away. He may be a career assistant. Sports history is full of great assistants that flubbed their chance as the head coach. I am certain RV has had several meetings with Benford. I would be disappointed in him if he were to post information about them on the web. In my career, I have had several bosses inform me of some problems. They were handled in a professional confidential manner. I was taught in my classes at NTSU to handle problems with people under me in the same way. I think we have to play out the remainder of the season and then evaluate and determine our direction from there.

Unfortunately, scheduling is like dating. Not only do you have to ask the girl, but she also has to say yes.

You want a generic job description. The more detail you include, the more likely you may screen someone out that you would be interested in. Say you ask for 5 years experience and then you really have one with four years you would like to consider, you have left yourself open for a possible grievance. These are minimal qualifications. Let the ones whose job depends on the selection to make the decision.

I cannot speak for other states, but in Arkansas, if you are applying for a teaching license, an expunged record will still be accessed by the state. They will look at all records whether they are sealed or not or expunged or not. It doesn't quite seem fair, but the state looks at everything.

Several years ago, I talked to a former Sun Belt assistant coach. I asked him about UNT. He said JJ always had better talent than they did but rarely left their place with a W. This is not an anti JJ statement or a pro Benford statement. In light of the comments, I thought it might be of interest. I applaud JJ's accomplishments, but as pointed out, he is gone and time to rally around what we have.

Frank Broyles supposedly said, "No one remembers who you played in late December, only if you won or lost." When we are winning 8-10 games per year regularly, I think then we may worry about who we beat. Until then, we need to win. If LSU beats us as everyone predicts and goes undefeated, no one will say LSU was 11-0 and beat UNT. We are the only ones who give credit for close losses to the LSU's and UT's of the world. To people who don't follow us, it was just another loss.

KRAM, you missed my point. I wasn't defending necessarily Dr. B. I was being critical of the administrative style of Mr. Jackson. When you propose a change that affects two different campuses without fully involving the chief administrator of the campus, that is the epitome to me of arrogance. I have seen this attitude displayed before by chief officers, and it has never been positive in the long run for the institution.

From what I read, there is one thing that concerns me. Rawlins nor the head of the Health Center had been an integral part of the decision to place this on the agenda. This is not the kind of communication you would expect from the top three administrators. I am afraid this is the type of decision making that led to the resignation of our last president.

If I am not mistaken, Dean Lee once worked for the Razorback Foundation (the money raising arm for the Univ. of Arkansas). He was AD at Arkansas Tech (DII) for a short time for a short time. When he left there, he was asst. AD at Okie State before landing at ASU. You think it is tough to raise money for UNT, try ASU where the Hogs have almost all of the big money guys tied up. Many grads of other Arkansas colleges will give money to UA before they give to their own schools, or they will give more to the UA. Raising money may have been part of the problem, but I would be willing to bet there is more going on than that.

This happens all too frequently. Most AD's and HC's don't care and don't check. I have had several instances where this had to be corrected. If this is true, it was probably the result of someone outside of the athletic department discovering it. A number of years ago, UALR was caught with an academic administrator claiming to have a PhD and not having it. It was an interesting, but long, story on how this was caught. I know of another case where a guy was caught claiming to have two PhD's. The funny thing was he did have one and had no need of having a second one. You would be surprised how difficult it is sometimes to get official transcripts for coaches.

I was at the '68 game. No one left the game, including the Hog fans, that did not believe Shanklin had made the catch. The official must have been the only person at War Memorial that night thinking it was a trap.

Those that did not get to see John Love missed something. He was special.

In return C-USA gets a Tier 1 institution. The article was talking about La Tech wasn't it?

If he was moving down the depth chart, our major loss seems to be reputation. You always hope recruits work out, but it is not always the case.

The Gulf South is DII and in trouble. All six of the Arkansas schools pulled out to join with some Oklahoma DII's to form the Great America Conference. Additionally, North Alabama is trying to go DI.

I saw Roosevelt Leaks in the High School All-Star game at Amon Carter. He was a man among boys. His senior year he was to be the tailback running behind a young fullback named Earl Campbell. He had a great day against SMU and had his knee torn up. He was never the same.

Using Vito's definition, I don't think we can call Dickey's tenure great. The run was good for us while it lasted; however, I don't think we can call it "highly important" or consequential. I say this because the run did not leave the program better off. Most of the posters believe Dickey left the program in tatters. Obviously, Dodge did not pull it up. It was more like a blip that happened to occur while Dickey was coach. Someone mentioned Rust for a while. Rust was great when he had Mitchell's recruits, but he was not able to sustain. Greatness requires one to sustain. With the successful run Dickey had, he did not sustain.

I might have to agree about the look of the campus when I hit here in 1960, but I do take offense at the "school of last resort" comment. Tell that to one of my roommates at West Dorm from Poteet, TX. He finished med school and was a pioneer in laproscopic surgery, or tell my other roommate who earned his PhD at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have been fairly successful myself, and many of the men who lived near us in West Dorm also became successful. If we indeed wound up at North Texas because it was the last resort, our selected alma mater did a wonderful job of educating us.

Best game for me was Mitchell's last game in 1966. There was just a lot of emotion after 21 years at North Texas and 42 years of coaching.