MeanGreenZen

The UNT football program would trade places with any of those schools right now.

Did Riley have a scholly to Texas? Is Texas in the running for the national title every year? You are disillusioned if you think UNT was the only D1 school to offer Riley a scholly as a QB. There were Big 12 schools offering Riley as a QB. But Riley loved the opportunity at UNT enough to bypass all those other options and come here.

You guys need to get on board with Riley Dodge. He loved UNT enough to pass on a chance to win a national championship at Texas to come here. Vizza loved UNT so much he walked away from our starting QB position to go play intramural football and chant with male cheerleaders down in College Station. Riley is OUR GUY. His dad was big enough to play big-time college football and Riley is too. He's not playing left tackle. Riley is probably the most-decorated recruit to ever sign with us. He is big time and he is ours. He should be the face of the franchise and we will worship him like we worshipped Johnny Quinn and Patrick Cobbs. Expect BIG THINGS from Riley.

Pertile, Fred and Corey?

DISAGREE about the U of Phoenix. It is a great option for non-traditional students who are seeking to improve their lives.

The Insall/Vizza comparison is great, Vito! Good blog. Vito is not out to screw North Texas! It is his job to write the most interesting stories with what he has to work with. Also, what no one understands is that it is in Brett's best interest for North Texas to be successful because that makes his beat relevant and makes his stories more in demand and allows him to showcase his skills so that he can move on to a bigger and better beat a la Tim MacMahon or Richard Durrett before him. If Vito is truly conspiring against UNT then he would be sabotaging his own career because if UNT football continues its one-win seasons then nobody is going to be reading his stuff and The Dallas Morning News will have no demand for his articles and he won't have a chance to impress those editors. P.S. Vizza was below average. I am very excited to see what Riley Dodge can do.

Casey Printers was the starter at TCU and transferred his senior year to a I-AA team in FLA to try and showcase his skills for the NFL. He was a back-up in the NFL last I heard. Who knows if he is still there.

BRING ON THE RILEY DODGE ERA!!! Am I the only one excited about this? Vizza was horrible last year. Riley can only be better.

That would not make sense. However, in a world of equality, the work force would be populated by the correct percentage of WILLING and QUALIFIED blacks.

30% of assistant college football coaches are black. Yet only 5% of head college football coaches are black. If, as I contend, black and white coaches possess an equal amount of coaching talent within their respective populations, then the percentage of black head coaches would be comparable to the percentage of black assistant coaches. This is not the case, which points towards a sizable pool of black coaches who possess the talent to be a head coach, but have not been given the opportunity. It also points to a sizable pool of white head coaches who, based on talent, should not be head coaches (Todd Dodge anyone?). Why not give one of these black coaches who, based on talent alone, should already be a head coach? Attack my logic. P.S. - Charlie: "Here's a confession: I'm in love with a man. What? I'm in love with a man... a man named God. Does that make me gay? Am I gay for God? You betcha."

And yet Dickey, the world's laziest recruiter, could find Brandon Kennedy, Adrian Awasom, Darrell Daniels, Michael Pruitt, Evan Cardwell, Jeremiah Chapman, among others on the defensive line. And guys like Nick Zuniga, Dylan Lineberry, Andy Brewster, Ian Hobbs, Jason May etc on the offensive line. I just listed 10 players: This is Dodge's third recruiting class and he hasn't landed a linemen close to the same caliber as ANY of those 10 Dickey guys. That is unacceptable and ridiculous. Finding quality linemen is tough, but there are aspects of everyone's job that are tough. It is Todd Dodge's job to find those linemen and so far he has been a huge failure in this department.

Kevin Sumlin, Houston's first-year black head coach who just won a bowl game and wrapped up a 8-5 season, had some interesting thoughts on recruiting in the Star-Telegram... From the article... Speed can cover mistakes, and Sumlin’s Cougars have plenty. Air Force coach Troy Calhoun called Houston’s players "gifted." That is by Sumlin’s design. After spending the past five seasons as an assistant at Oklahoma preceded by two years on R.C. Slocum’s Texas A&M staff, he knows what Houston needs to do to attract its share of Texas high school athletes: protect the home turf, tap into the East Texas speed reservoir and grab the occasional player from other metropolitan areas around the state. "I think we’re pretty realistic," he said. "We’ve got to go head-to-head with some of the Big 12 schools in the state, but we’re not going to waste our time. We’ve got to do exceptionally well in our own back yard, particularly in the Greater Houston Area." And Sumlin is targeting speed. "We’re going to be fast," he said. "If we’re going to make a mistake on a guy," Sumlin said, "he’s going to be a fast guy."

Imagine you are a movie producer and you want to make an action movie. The movie is going straight to DVD so you can only pay the star of the movie $175,000. And the movie isn't artistic enough to get a major star to do it for a discount. That rules out Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, etc. However, Kirk Cameron is willing to do the movie for what you can offer. He was great on Growing Pains and he's stayed in front of the camera convincing people they are going to hell if they don't join his church. Let us also imagine, that for whatever reason, black actors are having trouble landing leading roles and Will Smith would also be willing to star in our movie for the same money as Kirk Cameron. Would you cast Kirk Cameron or Will Smith to star in your action movie? This is what is going on in college football with black head coaches! Schools are hiring B-list clowns like Kirk Cameron while guys like Will Smith are available. Yes, I just found a way to reference Kirk Cameron on the topic of UNT's next head coach. I challenge anyone to beat that!

Absolutely. Hell Yes! Ask Johnny Quinn why none of the big schools came knocking on his door and he will tell you because he is a white receiver. That is probably the biggest reason he ended up at UNT. Unfortunately, there aren't that many great white receivers or white running backs at the college level. But if we can find them we should jump all over them. I hoped Dodge, with his Southlake/Austin Westlake roots might be able to find some of these guys. Because white receivers and white running backs ARE overlooked. I am disappointed Dodge hasn't done a very good job in that department, although he probably has tried to exploit this market inefficiency with Micah Mosely, Breece Johnson, Sam Dibrell, etc. While white running backs and white receivers of FBS-level talent are rare, there are many black assistant coaches who are being overlooked right now who would make stud head coaches

According to a survey by The Institute of Diversity and Ethics in Sports, 12.2 percent of coordinators are black and 30.6 percent of assistant coaches are black. If the coaching market was not so inefficient, the percentage of black head coaches and the percentage of black assistant coaches would closely mirror each other. Please note that I am not interested in fairness, right and wrong or any type of social agenda. I just see an opportunity for UNT to get a stud coach at a huge discount simply because that coach is black. Considering all the disadvantages the UNT athletic program faces, isn't that smart?

Correct. In the purest economic sense, black coaches are not worth as much as white coaches in the current marketplace. But this is an inefficiency that I encourage UNT to exploit. Black head coaches are a great value right now. All coaches must be judged as an individual. But, for many reasons that I disagree with, talented black football coaches are not being given very many opportunities to be a head coach at FBS schools right now. This is creating a backlog of talent and an opportunity for UNT to get a guy who, based on ability alone, would demand more money/better facilities/better conference affiliation, etc than UNT can offer, but since he is black, he doesn't have as many opportunities to be a head coach as he should have and he would be willing to accept the UNT job for an amount that we could afford to pay him as a chance to prove himself.

Yes. Ramon Flanigan. No, wait.... Kelvin Martin. Hahahahaha. Just kidding. No. I do not have names of specific candidates. But I would look for a young, energetic coordinator of a mid-major FBS school who excels at recruiting.

Exactly. Which is why it is crazy these black coaches are being excluded from jobs. We should target a black coach for the same reason the Texas Rangers invested so heavily in scouting Puerto Rico in the 1980s (yielding All-Stars such as Ruben Sierra, Juan Gonzalez, Pudge Rodriguez among others). No one else was scouting Puerto Rico at that time, so the Rangers came away with all the elite players. The market for a black head college football coach is untapped and oozing with potential. We can find an elite coach for cheap in this market.

Here is a quote from you in the Mean Green recruiting thread: "Classes should never be graded after two years." You seem to be contradicting yourself. PS: TCU is almost competing in BCS bowls. I don't think we are recruiting on the same level as them. Also: June Jones has a few more skins on the wall as a college coach compared to Todd Dodge and from what I have seen, any UNT fan would trade recruiting classes with SMU so far.

Six of 119 coaches (5 percent) in the Football Bowl Subdivision are black. Compare that to the 28.5 percent of coaches in major college basketball who are black and almost one-quarter of NFL coaches are who black. Is there something about college football that makes blacks ineffective head coaches? No. Therefore we can conclude that the college football marketplace undervalues black head coaches. This inefficiency in the marketplace is an opportunity North Texas should exploit. UNT is at a competitive disadvantage compared to other FBS schools because it lacks resources in a number of areas. UNT has to find ways to maximize its strengths and minimize its weaknesses. Weakness: Little money to hire a great coach. Way to minimize weakness: Hire a super-talented black head coach who the market unfairly undervalues and can be hired for an amount we can afford. Blacks and whites have equal ability to coach a college football team. With UNT’s limited resources, isn’t it a better value to hire the 7th best black head coaching candidate as opposed to the 114th best white head coaching candidate? Of course, North Texas has hired a black head coach before and that coach failed. But did Matt Simon fail because he was black? No. Among the reasons he failed was because, at that time, UNT made a half-hearted commitment to moving up to Division IA and did not have the money, facilities, game-day atmosphere, etc. to be successful. Would Vince Lombardi or Mack Brown have been any more successful than Simon? Probably not. (Another reason Simon failed was his reliance on out-of-state JUCO transfers, which is a mistake Todd Dodge is repeating, but that is another topic.) Recruiting quality players is a current weakness of the UNT football program. The majority of college football players are black. A black head coach would give us an advantage when recruiting those players, especially locally. UNT is competing with SMU and TCU for local recruits who are attracted to the idea of playing college football close to home. Both SMU and TCU are private schools with small African-American communities. A black head coach would help UNT maximize its strength of having a large, diverse campus community. UNT has to be different to win. If UNT chooses to compete “apples to apples” with other schools in the FBS, the other schools are going to eat UNT’s apples and the Mean Green will continue to lose. Hiring a black head coach is one tactic UNT can use to build a successful college football program.

The SAD thing about your post is that Tim MacMahon leaving the UNT beat for the Collin County High School beat a few years ago was a SIGNIFICANT promotion complete with pay raise. Tim never "let his emotions get in the way of being professional" at UNT. He covered the beat so well he caught the eye of the The Dallas Morning News editors, who wanted him on their staff, not the Denton Record-Chronicle's. Tim jumped at the opportunity to work at the Morning News and is now their signature blogger. If Vito was offered the Collin County High School beat he would leave the UNT beat in a second because it is a better job: not necessarily a better beat. Any journalist would much rather cover a college, but the Collin County High School beat is more important to The Dallas Morning News and therefore they place their better journalists in that position, feature their stories more prominently, pay them more, etc. That crow you ate a few years ago must have had some hallucinogenic properties in it if you think Tim MacMahon leaving the UNT beat for a high school beat at The Dallas Morning News was anything but a great opportunity to move up in the world of sports journalism.

Once again, Dodge going out of his way to make Vito look bad. Why can't Dodge play nice?

People are mad at Todd Dodge because they feel him and his coaches do not understand the college game. They are also mad at Todd Dodge because he was able to milk the college football rules to give his son a year of FBS experience AND an extra year of eligibility. I am glad like hell he was smart enough to do that. Now we can have four years of Riley Dodge as starting quarterback and Riley will enter year one already being familiar with the speed of the college game. Great job Todd Dodge!

BRING ON THE RILEY DODGE ERA!!!!!!!

DeLoach has never been much of a recruiter. So not worried about that.