ColoradoEagle

Has Andrew finally revealed his secret identity?

No one. We're at 13, why do we need 14? What value do any of the schools being mentioned bring besides "they're the best of what's left"? We're acting like we're one man short, when we're really one too many (FIU).

I'll add that if it wasn't for the effort of Harry and GMG, I would've peaced out a couple years ago.

It would only be offensive in that it assumes all black people are alike. Not all white people are alike. I'm white and I would've never attended SMU, because I can't stand the culture over there. That's from someone who grew up in a nice part of Richardson and was accepted to Rice, UTD, and UT-Austin.

No No No

No No No No No No No

Only if this can be our theme song.

haha. UNT athletics is that serious?

This is the crux of it. I made it through the Dodge years, because JJ was delivering a consistently good product. Others may feel one way or the other about tournament performance, but in the end, we were winning our conference, beating out of conference opponents like Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and LSU, and the games were exciting to watch. Even when I first started watching JJ's teams in 2003, it almost always felt like we had a chance, even if it didn't pan out for us in the end. It may be a down year in football, I don't know, but adding to the total and making us 4-16 for winning seasons the past 20 years doesn't inspire confidence. The fact that Canales has not resigned or been let go does not inspire confidence either. The jury is out on basketball this year, but I'd be truly shocked if this was a breakout year. You can't win all the time, but we come damn close to losing all the time, and that's not fun to watch.

I'm feeling a bit the same as MGH. I used to give everything I had to athletics time and financially while I was enrolled. Then I got to see the athletic department completely ruin the Pit Crew. They didn't even have to do anything except keep stoking the fire, and they failed at the little amount of effort that takes. Then Apogee opened and we've yet to have a marquee opponent there. The second season there we had a five game home schedule, one of those being FCS. As if the AD learned nothing from that season, we're about to have another five game (hopefully?) home schedule. Then Benford happened. This was after we made such a big deal about hiring a coach with skins on the wall. We go out and get an unproven assistant. It'd be one thing if this assistant was some up and coming young guy, but instead we go after someone who, for almost 20 years, no one wanted as a head coach. Shouldn't that tell you something? And now McCarney. I really liked the hire at first, but I'm seeing why Iowa State cut ties. It's not that he can't win football games. We saw last year that he can win games. It's that, unless he has the best talent on the field, he doesn't stand a chance in hell at winning. Also, if it's a road game, might as well chalk it up as an automatic loss. He's 20-66 in road games. That's .233, compared to his overall record of .411. That's not a coincidence. It's not the losing that makes being an NT fan hard. It's the constant awful coaching hires. It's the bare minimum efforts of the athletic department. And maybe the AD is just full of amazing people who are way overtaxed, but from the outside, it looks like a group of people who constantly put out bare minimum to mediocre effort or are simply oblivious to detail. There's no reason that this board should need to canvas Denton before the football season, hanging posters. That should be done already. There's no reason that the Spring Game should be such a lifeless, boring event. No reason that truly stale chips are sold at concessions year after year. No reason that finding a piece of UNT apparel outside of Denton should be damn near impossible. No reason that students should be completely unaware that a basketball game is being played that night. No reason that the biggest promotion for a basketball game in the past 10 years was put on by students and partly financed independently by an alum. It's just all so shitty by this athletic department, and I hate that some people choose to defend them like they're trying their hardest. They're fucking not and we all know it. It's not going to register until there are videos on YouTube and Instagram of UNT shutting down its football program or joining the Southland.

I expect to be in the hunt for CUSA championships in every sport. Even if we don't make it to the championship game, like last year, we were still in it right until the end. I also expect to find a marketing department who knows how to market. Everything else will take care of itself.

As much as there is to complain about UNT athletics, and there's a lot and it's justified, this is gut wrenching to witness and is a reminder to be thankful of where we're at today. I hope nothing like this ever happens to another school. If any of the UAB athletes do happen to land here, I hope they find as special of a brotherhood as they had in Birmingham.

IF another school is added to replace UAB, I hope they take their time and evaluate what they're doing before the conference takes on another FIU.

If the SMU game is acting as a 'home' game, a ticket should be included with season tickets.

We managed to produce a mascot that not even I would vote for.

All these terrible fans who still actively post on the forum, go to games, and donate their time and money despite a team that's wrapping up its 17th losing season since returning to FBS. How dare you not plan to sit in the cold rain? A true fan would happily sit through ACID rain to support a team that clearly gave up a long time ago.

If it's truly raining before/during game time, I'll be watching from my couch.

Good news. The only way fewer people could see it would be if it were on Fox Sports 2.

After the UAB game confirmed how bad we were...

I've been lead to believe another program holds the honor of toughest job in America...

+1'd. Good info, but the scale should remain the same.

I predict I'll sleep in tomorrow and wake up to a UNT loss.

If it can get much worse than this, and people are satisfied with where we're at...I don't know. I hesitate to say I'd pack up and leave, but damn. Under Mac and Benford, we're at a .444 win percentage, and .410 if you take out the non-FBS/D1 competition. And it's not that RV doesn't get credit for hiring JJ, but if I turned in a successful project one out of every five tries, I doubt I'd have my job for long.