untjim1995

I've been saying this for a long time. The Big XII is a dead-conference walking. The GOR runs out in 2025. Some schools may be willing to abandon it early and pay the fee necessary to get out of the conference, such as Oklahoma and Kansas. Texas will get LHN money for as long as possible, so if that means in the Big XII, that's fine...as is football independence, too. They just want the cash. The Big XII currently has three schools that are attractive for the combo of market, academics, and revenue athletics. Texas, OU, and KU. UT and KU are AAU schools, which is attractive academically as research institutions. OU and Texas are huge attractions in football, KU in mens basketball. And all three bring eyeballs, from their own market to nationally. After that, you have: 1) WVU, a school that has poor academics, solid athletics, and no market 2.)three little brothers (KSU, OSU, and Tech), academic weaklings with power from their state legislatures, some athletic successes in football and mens hoops, and some market reach 3.)another little brother school (ISU) with great academics (AAU member), but revenue athletics are just ok, and they have no market at all 4.)Two private schools that are small, have been really good in athletics lately, and have Texas eyeballs WVU has the opportunity to fill in for any ACC school that gets poached by the B1G or the SEC. Otherwise, they are playing in the AAC . The four little brothers and the two private schools are going to be additions to the MWC and AAC in some combo. And the MWC and AAC will be allowed to stay "qualified" as conferences that can play the Power Leagues. Then the SBC, CUSA, and MAC will get lowered down and the top FCS schools will move up to make up the new division of play. And finally, regionalization that makes sense for travel costs and increased fan attendance will take place for that level. UNT will play in a conference with the FBS Texas and Louisiana schools currently in the SBC and CUSA West, as well as the biggest schools in the SLC (SFA, SHSU, and McNeese State). It didn't have to be this way, but UNT's leadership just never made any decent strides for our athletics for too long and they finally moved on things (I-A, Apogee, better conference) decades after they could have helped. Imagine what we would have looked like if we hadn't dropped down to I-aa in 1983 and stayed there for 12 freaking years, if we had gotten ourselves into the WAC in the 80s or 90s, and had built something like Apogee in 1991 instead of 2011...there's no way we are about to get kicked back down to the new I-aa. We are in the MWC or AAC today. Make no mistake about it, we did this to ourselves. Our mortal wounds are of our own doing.

My all-time favorite McNulty game that showed his value to the team was in 2014 in our last home game against FIU. We were both terrible and we had a 3-7 record going into the game. In the 4th quarter, we found ourselves up by a FG or so, but in the 3rd quarter, McNulty had thrown some absolutely brutal interceptions. Literally, in the 4th quarter of a conference game at home, with nothing on the line, McCarney chose to keep McNulty in the game, but never ran one pass play again. Literally every down in the 4th quarter that we had the ball produced an offensive playcall that involved a run. McNulty was so bad that the coach wouldn't even let him attempt a pass with the game on the line--and it was a game we won, only because FIU was terrible and couldn't take advantage of it. Afterwards, McCarney told the media how much he likes McNulty as his QB and trusts him--every single player on the team and every single fan who watched the game knew then that we were dealing with a situation far worse than we could have veer imagined. The head coach felt that a guy from Iowa with no offers for playing QB was better for his offensive gameplan by simply being a busdriver than anyone else on the roster. It was then that I knew we were fooked for 2015. Never imagined we would only win one game and would suffer the worst loss in modern college football history, but I knew that if we didn't beat a terrible SMU team in our opener that there were no more than two games we could conceivably win left on the schedule with the QB we had. Dan McCarney brought us Andrew McNulty, Josh Greer, Brett Osborn, Brock Berglund, Dajon Williams, Damarcus Smith, and Caleb Chumley as scholarship QBs. Think about that for a minute when you try and figure out how bad our talent level has gotten. Then ask yourself how that coach deserved a five-year extension after one good year...

And never will be...ever

McNulty was shoved down the throats of everyone by his coach. It isn't surprising that he players publically backed him--they knew that insulting his play meant that they were not going to see the field under McCarney. Dan McCarney thought Andrew McNulty was the best QB on the roster for a year--from mid October of 2014 thru his firing in October of 2015. Thought he was the best bus driver for his offense. There is simply no better way to illustrate that Dan McCarney lost his football-coaching mind than to have watched him sell McNulty over and over to anyone who would listen. There wasn't one other FBS program that Andrew McNulty would have seen real playing time as a QB, yet he started or played in most of his time here. It was yet another example of embarrassment that the football program levied upon the fans that follow the team.

He got what he wanted...he's an awesome troll when he posts. Always has been.

If you get a post from Cougar Queen telling you that you have done a nice job as the OP, you might want to think about staying away from posting for a long, long time...even if it is a very sweet troll.

Hell, Todd Dodge was our 2nd foray into hiring a HS coach to take over our program. The first one, Dennis Parker, failed miserably at the I-aa level for us...so we went ahead and hired that failed HS coach's OC from those days to come here and take over the program. Either we have no idea how to run an effective college football program or we have no interest in running an effective program...

Schmidt sounds like he could be the lead candidate to replace RV as the AD here if/when he retires/dies...

Go ahead and make it three years, instead... Best avatar on this site...

It does for Quinn, but it doesn't for Chico and Mac...if Shanbour can throw a ball downfield more than three yards away from the LOS to one of actual receivers, he's already better than almost anyone we have had in the last few seasons. If Morris gets hurt, its a very real probability we don't win more than a game all season long.

This is what I believe sums up the job as head football coach here at UNT. Can you win here? Well, yeah, we have had 4 winning seasons here, including three in a row from 2002-2004, since we moved up to FBS in 1995. In that span, though, we are 84-166, a winning percentage of .336. That covers 5 head football coaches (Simon, Dickey, Dodge, Mac, and Chico) and only two ADs (Helwig from 95-01, and RV ever since), as well as three different conferences and two different home stadiums. And in that span, we have seasons of 5 wins in three other seasons. So the question becomes, when you look at actual results, for 21 seasons, one-third of the time we have finished with 5 wins or more, can you have a realistic and attainable belief here in building a consistent winner against your current conference mates in today's game? To say yes, is ignoring history, location, and support by fans. Homers can believe anything, but realistically, it goes against every fiber of the last 20+ years, not even counting FCS, to believe this place can ever be a consistent winner. Now, Littrell has a great pedigree and he gets his chance to prove this wrong. But its gonna take recruiting at a level that has very rarely been seen here, from Dickey's stealth class in 2000 to Dodge's recruiting of offensive talent. Littrell has a huge job and pay upgrade somewhere else if he gets this thing up to even .500 in the next three years, since we are so far under the ground right now as a program. But, if not, he's gonna be gone in three to four years, never to be a head coach again in college--just like Simon, Dickey, Dodge, and McCarney.

I don't believe that we can get any lower in the eyes of UNT alumni and other Texas citizens--the Portland State fiasco is rock bottom, unless Butt Cookman beats us worse. We are already ignored and laughed at when the subject of UNT Football or basketball is brought up, which is honestly not very much at all outside of Denton County.

I guess we see just how much sway the DRC has on the UNT 17 and the UNT leadership... Best editorial ever about UNT Sports in any DFW media, as well as the most up-voted post in GMG.com history. And it didn't even matter one iota...ladies and gents, your UNT 17 Mean Green!!

The biggest problem with the UNT 17 buying off the athletics department and keeping their puppet in charge is that the BOR and administration literally don't care. They have wiped their hands clean of it, basically said, "Finally!!", and have moved on to working towards UNT-Dallas, UNT-Frisco, and keeping us at a "value". Rick Villareal ain't leaving here anytime soon...he will be the AD until he retires or dies.

So, basically, our AD is on par with one at a FCS school...shocker.

Those students won't protest to get rid of the athletic director...they will protest to get rid of the athletic fee. If that fee ever gets voted on again in a different referendum to get rid of it, you can kiss FBS UNT football officially goodbye. All but about a few percent of the student body and alumni either don't care about UNT sports or openly loathe it. They won't continue to go quietly along with this if we keep posting more 3 or less wins in a season, especially with "announced" crowds that don't even average half of the capacity. Eventually, if we don't start winning consistently, as in more than just one winning season in 10+, those anti-athletic voices are going to be ready to pounce on this. This will be year 5 of Apogee, yet we host teams and crowds that Fouts in its decrepit state could EASILY host. It will be so unbelievably ironic if Lee Jackson somehow was forced to resign for being the chancellor at the time that this fee was placed on the students. Incredibly large and embarrassing accounting fiasco on your watch? Yep, here in Denton, you get an extension. Never paid a damn bit of attention to athletics nor acted as if you even care about it, but somehow, miraculously, a SGA member stealthily runs a campaign that passes to place an athletics fee on students to build a new stadium, on your watch? Yep, your ass is canned, Dallas Lee...unless he actually tells the truth and admits he hates the fee tremendously.

as he throws yet another interception that resembled a wounded duck, all while his happy feet dance as if he is walking on hot coals...

Morris probably will be, but he is surrounded by almost no talent, playing in an offense that is polar opposite to what they have run under Mac, and has no one behind him that should be playing QB at this level, at least for now. Maybe by next year, under Littrell's tutelage, that will change with the QBs here now. But this year is going to be rough--as in we may not win more than we did last year. Butt Cookman is the only game we will be favored to win, looking at it right now. Just hoping we beat UTS Aagain, since they are also going thru tons of upheaval down there and it was awesome to finally beat them this past season as our only win.

Well, they did commit an egregious violation--they beat a power conference school in basketball, MSU. They will probably get crushed by the NCAA now. BTW, Kermit Davis is pretty good at getting hit with NCAA violations, so I don't feel too sorry for them if it does happen.

That's a solid hire by WKU. Stansbury was a good coach at Miss. State and will do a good job at WKU.

RV will probably get another extension for being able to tell the BOR that he made the important decision to get rid of the Dodges because they were a threat to our university's safety...

I still want to see tickets sold in sections that are named after the UNT 17, RV, and the BOR members. "Look, Benford's family is sitting in Ernie's section...section F...as in that's all we can give this department a grade of..." "And these right here are the David Anderson Floor Seats...that looks like its only available to customers who bought into the vision of hardwood floors, but instead were sold laminate flooring that supposedly looks like hardwood, but they deny its laminate or refuse to even acknowledge that they may have gotten completely ripped off. Fortunately, by taking this stance, you get free tickets to UNT games and 'access' to visionary discussions on all things flooring." "And then there's the Rick Villareal sections. Yes, I said sections. See when we win a tough game over Sul Ross State by two points, you can move to this section so as to be seen by dozens of other people to celebrate such a historic victory that RV himself scheduled. However, when we find ourselves losing to an incredibly difficult team, such as Samford, who plays up so highly when they get invited to our prestigious pre-season tournament in Denton, you can sit in the other RV section, which is actually in the tunnel to go to the locker rooms, allowing you to give Tony Benford and his crew handshakes and hugs as they leave the Super Pit court after a very tough loss to a highly respected national power. It gives you the ability to get to your car even quicker to get home and allows RV to get to his post-game Jimmy John's sandwich so that he can get some nourishment." "You are probably wondering why the top sections of the Super Pit are named after the BOR members, where nobody has sat in years for a game. Well, its because the BOR members requested that their names to be only loosely connected to athletics and that the unused seats in these sections are supposed to emulate the amount of time and energy they want to spend in even caring about UNT sports. However, Lee Jackson has requested his section to be for the Mean Green Brigade's Basketball Pep Band. After all, its a great value section and they can make sure that those poor music kids can get to enjoy playing their instruments for thousands less than their compadres at other universities in Texas. At least until he can get UNT-Dallas up and running and finally get to just leave Denton behind for good."

Me, too...

Chumley represents everything you could possibly try to define about a Dan McCarney view of playing QB in his offensive scheme. Tall, probably can hand the ball off decently, and can throw the ball no further than 2 yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Amos Alonzo Stagg thinks that offensive gameplan is bland and boring...

I agree completely--but I'm just thinking from a UNT 17/RV perspective, not anything else. Benford getting two extra seasons after this won't surprise me at all. I think he only gets replaced if he has a losing record before the CUSA Tournament and cannot get to .500 after a game or two. He will be not cost a lot to the budget--as in not requiring a raise--but gives the leadership a few years of known costs for their budgets.