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Everyone reminisce on your hometowns here
untjim1995 replied to MeanGreenTexan's topic in Mean Green Football
When most people think of Houston, the following thoughts come to mind: humidity, mosquitoes, dirty, fattest city in America, and swampy... The most cultured big cities in the state are Ft. Worth and San Antonio... -
Well, we do have a great music and arts school, educate teachers very well, and have low cost tuition compared to other schools. Focus on those and it will make the athletics part less painful--at least that is what I've decided to try and do. If you cannot beat 'em, join 'em...its been pretty eye-opening to see how awesome our music program is, in terms of ranking and prestige. Its everything we wished our football and basketball teams were. I never imagined I'd ever type that, but its what the BOR and RV have led me to do if I want to feel some sort of pride and connection to our alma mater. I really don't want to join the 98% of UNT alumni who never even try to connect with the university again. I always thought athletics was the way to avoid that trap, but instead, I'm realizing I have to go the school's strength and its primary window of interest to feel that connection. After 25 years of waiting, I realized it wasn't going to ever happen with athletics.
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The day Hayden Fry nearly fired McCarney, Ferentz
untjim1995 replied to Harry's topic in Mean Green Football
I do...it was a late November home game in front of about 12,000 fans when the starting QB was so ineffective that the head coach basically ordered every offensive play in the 4th quarter to be a run, just so the starter wouldn't throw another devastating interception against one of the worst FBS teams in the country. Thank God the head coach decided to make serious changes at QB to avoid something like this happening again...oh wait...- 6 replies
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MGB weekly prediction: UNT will struggle at Iowa
untjim1995 replied to Brett Vito's topic in Mean Green Football
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MGB weekly prediction: UNT will struggle at Iowa
untjim1995 replied to Brett Vito's topic in Mean Green Football
Don't brag about stealing candy from a baby--its kinda like CougarQueen coming on here and scoreboarding North Texas-- that curb you just leaped over is still about 3" of the ground... -
2015 UNT PREVIEW, WRITTEN BY A BORED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT
untjim1995 replied to Harry's topic in Mean Green Football
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I hope we don't score a single point on Saturday
untjim1995 replied to meangreen15's topic in Mean Green Football
I can assure all of you that if you want us to get crushed this season just to see Mac get fired, you'd be better off to just find another team to root for. Mac can go 0-12 this year and he isn't getting fired. It would take him winning less than 2 games in 2016 to even possibly get fired. Don't spend your time rooting against your alma mater... -
Exactly--on all points. RV served a nice purpose here--getting the MGC going, setting up tailgating, talking up the university's teams...all of those done in his early years here were just brilliant. Whether it was Helwig, Dr. Hurley, or any other leader you want to point to before RV was here, all we got served was a $hit sandwich. That I-aa fiasco haunts us till, but coming back from it was no smooth ride, either. To put lipstick on a pig by adding 10k aluminum seats that were a mile away from the field in 1994 and having no budget so scheduling every away $$$ game you could was never going to work toward creating a winner. So when RV got here, he looked at it all and basically made us believe we could get things going in the right direction. And with Dickey's SBC run, and then JJ's turnaround in hoops, he had points where he showed competence as the AD. To everyone but the BOR and the big monied donors, that competence has completely gone. You get gifted a new stadium from the SGA's leadership, yet schedule WORSE than you did at Fouts. You hire a high school coach and let him bring in a mostly high school staff. You hire a woman's hoops coach because she had a great binder. You then hired a recruiter to be your head basketball coach with the roster that probably had the most talent we have ever had. And all three turned out to be the worst hires in each sport's history--Trilli may have something to do with that in hoops, but that's the company we are talking about. And, then, as soon as we get one good season in football, he extends that coach so far out that he won't be bought out by the BOR because it costs too much. And, amazingly, he isn't going anywhere--doesn't matter that the Super Pit sees 2000 people on a good night, that our football team plays some far-flung or little-known FCS teams in OOC every year, or that his winning percentage in the big three sports is .455 in 14+ years. He keeps getting extensions. #UNTADforlife
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You've waited a long time to get this off your chest, haven't you?
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Even if the Texas/OU game is at 11am, which I bet it will be, and if the weather is perfect outside, none of that will make more than a few UNT fans go, "Oh great!! Now that one of my favorite t-shirt teams' game is over, I can get to the riveting Homecoming game between 0-4 UNT and some school from Portland!!" I have never wasted a cent or a minute on a FCS opponent at Apogee and I won't start now, especially with the very real possibility that we could lose. If the AD won't make a better effort with scheduling in OOC play, especially for Homecoming, then we deserve to have a ton of empty seats--and I am certain that will be the case. I truly expect the SMU ticket counter technique to be used very effectively for this game and every other home game after it.
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Smatreskistan has got to be a better place than the Villa-Real kingdom we hav ehad to endure...Take me to Smatreskistan--it sounds like a place that likes winning in sports!!
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Can we make your kingdom include UNT??
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My tinfoil is in the shape of an iceberg.
untjim1995 replied to Christopher Walker's topic in Mean Green Football
Its why I am just amazed that anyone believes anything different will happen here under RV and this BOR. As far as RV goes, though, he has everything perfectly set--the BOR loves him, the big donors love him, the large majority of the fanbase loves tailgating, which he started, and 99% of the fanbase thinks that getting SMU for a home-and-home series is just a coup. He's going to be here for a long time--as in until he wants to retire. -
DRC: Connections make UNT-Iowa game special
untjim1995 replied to Brett Vito's topic in Mean Green Football
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There is no way we are firing Mac before the end of 2016, more probable is after 2017. Its just a waste of breath to even think that will happen after 2015--Chico will get kicked out because his contract is up, but definitely not the head coach. Mac has it made, as he cruise controls into retirement. He did what he needed to do for himself--earn a good extension. If he gets another--great, but if not, sobeit... Even then, we aren't buying out another head coaches' contract at another school, either. I don't care if its Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Goergia tech, or freaking Georgia...we ain't buying out anyone's contract--that runs 180 degrees from the UNT Value Way. Follow the costs, folks...that's how you will find when the replacement will occur and then who might be an option. After 2017, Mac has one year left to be bought out. That's a known cost--those are all we deal with here, all that matters. Then, we will replace that him with either an assistant coach or a FCS/D-2 head coach. It just amazes me that there are people on here that think we are going to hire to pay a coach over a million dollars to coach here anytime soon. That's not how its done in Denton. Sure, in Jonesboro, Arkansas and Lafayette, Louisiana and some other G5 outposts, that's how its done--not here. Enrollment, location, history, new facilities, better conference, etc...none of the trumps known costs here. It is what it is--you accept it or you leave...the BOR doesn't care which one you choose, either. RV being here 14+ years and an 80% empty Super Pit and what will probably be a 75% empty Apogee at the end of the year has never made a bit of a difference to them. And for those of you that say, well then just drop the thing down to FCS--beware of what you ask for...its happened here before, and it basically killed the program.
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My tinfoil is in the shape of an iceberg.
untjim1995 replied to Christopher Walker's topic in Mean Green Football
The thing about the Iowa games is that Iowa was specifically mentioned as a team we could potentially host now that we were building this sweet new stadium--that was the reason we couldn't ever get a known team here was that Fouts was an oversized dumpster, which was true. Then, before Apogee gets built, we announce that we are going to play at Iowa twice, with no return game. That told me that we were looking at Iowa for $$$, not to move the program up. Then, after Apogee's first year, where we got UH and Indiana here, we have played the following teams in OOC: Texas Southern (2012), Idaho and Ball State (2013), SMU and Nicholls State (2014), and Portland State (2015). Almost amazingly, Fouts was more than capable, even in its most decrepit state, to host crowds for those opponents--in part, because WE ALREADY HAD HOSTED THEM OR TEAMS FROM THEIR CONFERENCES AT FOUTS!! It just amazes me that nobody has screamed from the highest building in town that we spent $78 million dollars for what we have gotten. Our program is 23-29 since we built Apogee--and will probably be 24-39 by the end of this season. Of the 23 wins we have enjoyed since Mac has been here, the home fans have been rewarded with wins at Apogee over Indiana, Florida Atlantic (twice), Louisiana-Monroe, Middle Tennessee (twice), Texas Southern, Louisiana-Lafayette, South Alabama, Idaho, Ball State, Rice, UTEP, SMU, Nicholls State, and Florida International. Its very probable that the only win we will see this year at home is Portland State. In other words, our best opponent to come to Apogee was the first game ever, featuring Houston, which we lost. After this, SMU and UTEP brought in big crowds to Apogee, so they have been the most popular draw since we opened the new stadium, but both featured epically bad teams when they played here. And Ball State was the best team we beat at home--in front of about 10k. I'm thrilled to death every time I see Apogee and realize that is where we play football--but the teams we have put together, the teams we have brought here to play us, and the future schedules just make me wonder how we ever pulled this off. It really is amazing when you think about it. -
We will beat Portland State and then maybe one more--most likely against UTEP in that last game of the season at Apogee. 2-10 at best. We aren't beating USM on the road. And I'll only believe we beat UTSA when I see the scoreboard show it at 0:00. They absolutely own us... All of the other teams are G5 teams that are just way better than us right now or are P5 giants that are gonna pay for our non-revenue sports. 2016 is when you hope you can get back to winning 3-4 games, that the power running game will be behind a OL that will get more experienced and stronger after this year, even while breaking in a new busdriver. 2017 is the year to really see where things go. We either fire Mac like we did Dodge in 2010, when a winning year is officially out of the realm of possibility, or he turns in a 2013 year and we get bowl eligible again. At that point, if the latter occurs, with one year left on Mac's contract--a decision will have to be made: he either get an extension or he gets replaced, assuming of course that Mac doesn't announce that 2018 would be his last year, to retire at the end of his last year of his contract.
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First of all, even if Leach took a 50% pay cut to $1.3 million, he would still make double what Mac makes as a salary here. IOW, we aren't going to double (again) what we pay a head coach. Mac has the highest salary in school history--and its $650k. That was over double what we paid Todd Dodge--and we wouldn't fire him after three seasons because that was deemed to expensive. What the hell do you think the leadership is going to think about buying out more than a year of Mac's contract that is double annually of Todd Dodge's contract? And then turn around and pay double Mac's salary to a guy like Mike Leach, who is currently making double this amount? I'll take a swig of whatever Kool-Aid you are drinking. We don't operate like this in Denton--never have, never will. Even after McNatt donated $1.5 million to UNT Athletics, the posts on facebook from alumni and students were about 75% negative about even having a football team, much less donating to it. That mindset is the majority--by a loooonnnnnggggg ways. When Mac gets replaced, after 2017, he will get replaced by an assistant coach, one who will be thrilled to make $400k-$500k annually. We sure as hell aren't gonna go up higher than what we pay Mac. Hell, that's why the BOR approved his 5-year extension from RV--he wasn't going to get a huge raise in salary, so the known costs of the next 5 years was perfect for the budget.
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No matter what, a losing season gets Chico kicked out--so he will be gone shortly. 0-12 doesn't get Mac fired. It doesn't get RV fired, either. Benford gets fired as soon as it becomes clear that a .500 season is out of the question or when we finish up the season without a bid to the NCAAs or the NIT. Now, its possible that Smatresk may be the one who picks the next coach in basketball--knowing full well that he is going to replace RV when the buyout drops down, but before we can fire Mac if he cannot turn it around. That scenario is plausible...but so is the very real possibility (or probability) that RV is still here as the AD until he retires.
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I've figured out who our next OC will be
untjim1995 replied to untjim1995's topic in Mean Green Football
Nobody said it was--just expressing my view (sarcastic as it may be) that Mac will replace Chico with someone he knows very well to run his Wing-T 1970 offense, but can be sold to the general public as a wide-open OC... -
It makes perfect sense, too. Someone who knows Mac well and has had success in a wide-open offensive system with Mac's blessing...its the guy we have been trying to find for five years now to lead our team... SENECA WALLACE!! maybe just a smidge of sarcasm here in this post...
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He would cost way more than we will ever pay for a coach. Plus, he hates glad-handing alumni and playing nice with the AD, which is why Tech turned on him, among other things. As you have seen here, the 12 big money donors DEMAND that you be super nice to RV and enjoy their company. They like guys like Dan McCarney and Tony Benford, who are the polar opposite of Mike Leach.
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** North Texas @ Iowa prediction thread **
untjim1995 replied to 10Eagle10's topic in Mean Green Football
Then goes over to McNulty's Dad and tells him how proud he is of his son and that he will do everything in his power to get his jersey retired...then they both laugh at how stupid it is that UNT gets to pay him through 2018.