untjim1995

Well, the last time they saw us, we gave them $400k to come down here to open up the 2013 season and we treated them accordingly on the field...

That pretty much sums up RV perfectly...

The bit from Chip Kelly, in my opinion, is much worse. We got called North Texas State, basically, by a media member yesterday--about 27 years after State got dropped from our name. Then to be called the Armadillos by a former FBS coach, who was in the college football coaching landscape for deacdes before going to the NFL, just reflects perfectly how little we have moved the needle on a national basis. We are better known as being the Texas State Armadillos nationally than we are as the North Texas Mean Green. For a university with the enrollment and alumni that we have, much less the location that we are in, to have people connected to the sport of football bring this up as a punchline is just galling...but I don't blame them, I blame us. This is what happens when you decide to make your football team a cost-based program at your school, like you are some ISD that has to offer the sport, and place other priorities ahead of the athletic program as your primary window to the university. Being the Wal-Mart of universities from a "value" basis for all these years just perpetuates the fact that the students and alumni almost universally don't care about any of this. And for the few of us that do, it is the most embarrassing time I can ever remember to be a UNT Football fan. Even I-aa didn't embarrass this bad, since the media barely even covered us (compared to today, anyway).

I'm not really sure how you derived that I would rather have what SMU has now. I would be just fine right now with having what we had when Johnny Jones was here in his last five seasons versus what we have seen in the last three years, when wins (and attendance) have dropped mightily. There used to be a poster on this site, I believe he was called The Fake Lonnie Finch. Man, that guy was pretty sharp with his posts (usually). Yeah, he trolled a few times, but for the most part, he made some solid posts. I wish he hadn't died so soon...especially when I read most of what this poster throws out there these days.

Chico would be a nice head coach at a FCS school, a place where FBS QBs can find their way there for various circumstances. But saying you were the OC for this squad will not even get you an interview with most ADs across the country for any open vacancies--hell, most head coaches probably won't give him much of a chance to interview for any openings as OC or QB coach after these last few seasons. This entire staff will be gone very soon. And a lot of players will be gone, too... This thing has to be completely purged at the highest points on the UNT Football totem pole. McCarney and McNulty are gone. Soon, it will be the rest of the staff, as well. The AD should be gone, too, but that is somehow up in the air, amazingly. It won't surprise me if the starting QB next season might not even be Damarcus Smith or even anyone that is here right now as a QB.

You posted just above that football was our only problem..

Our basketball teams have sucked something fierce for the last three years...

I thought he showed lots of flashes of greatness, but he showed even more rust from being wasted on the sidelines. I can see clearly why his style of play irritated McCarney so much--very modern QB that makes plays with his feet and arm...or basically the complete opposite of the McNulty Busdriver he adored. I think we would have beaten SMU with Damarcus Smith in the lineup, but I'm not sure if the team would have beaten Portland State or not, with the defense we are throwing out there. Keep in mind, that this is easily the worst defense we have fielded since the heart of the Dodge years, yet it took SMU three quarters to get anything of major note going on us. That's why we knew that losing to that squad was going to be very ominous to the rest of the season, a season that right now could really, really use this crazy thing called a bye week. But the greatest AD of all time didn't give us one this season, so playing the best team in our conference 5 days after suffering the worst loss in modern FBS football history, while breaking in a new QB and a new coach, went about how we expected it to go. The upside is that just like in the Dodge years, most of the time that we suffer an ass-kicking, at least the offense should be more exciting to watch. UTSA will beat us, since we are their rag doll, so it will be up to UTEP to hopefully mail it in at the end of the year when they come here after Turkey Day to play us. UTSA just dominated UTEP in El Paso a couple of weeks ago, so I figure that should be our one hope for a victory. Just to emphasize how awful this entire program is at this point, the average score of one of our games is now 50-17. That includes an FCS school, a team that was the absolute worst FBS team last year in SMU, another team that was the worst team in FBS in 2012 and 2013 in USM, then Rice, Iowa, and WKU. Its not an exaggeration to say that this team would challenge the 2008 Dodge team that went 1-11 and beat 0-12 WKU as its only win, as the worst team we have fielded since we moved back up in 1995. I am fairly certain that our last I-aa team in 1994, with Mitch Maher as our QB, would probably have beaten most of our teams we have rolled out since then.

I don't see us getting one, unless UTEP had mailed it in the weekend after Thanksgiving, in front of about 2000 at Apogee. Our defense is small, slow, and the scheme is just awful as far as pass defense goes.

this is how I imagine RV greets you...

Andrew McNulty's best position on the field is on the sidelines...

they don't care if they are the only ones there, just as long as they get to have access to all things UNT sports related with their AD buddy. it didn't bother them at all with the decline in attendance at the Super Pit and it won't bother them at Apogee.

So embarrassing to be connected to UNT Football right now...

Just left at halftime to take my seven year old son home. There were maybe 4000 butts in seats--WKU brought their usual allotment of a out 50 people. How this game got selected for a Thursday night TV game at the beginning of the year by CUSA just amazes me. Anytime we've played WKU here, a crowd of 10k butts in seats is really, really more than what should be expected.

nicely played, sir...

It appears that RV will be on the search committee for the next head coach. Whether he leads it or is just an equal part to a janitor on it, it doesn't really matter to me. If he's involved, it's sending the wrong message. It just amazes me how much the BOR and the UNT17 like RV...

I've been looking for that same coach for the last 25+ years...the reason we can't be one of the greats is fairly simple: the culture here doesn't want it to be great--many of the voices from the alumni, students, faculty, administration, and the local citizenry openly disdain the program's existence. If you can get that mindset to change even a little bit to be more pro-athletics, the sky would be the limit here. But, except for Hayden Fry's later years here in the late 70s, nobody has ever led us to a higher level.

A mass exodus is getting closer to occurring, Neal Smatresk...

Don't be surprised if an eagle's head ends up in your bed...wrapped in a gently used Jimmy John's wrapper.

fify

Be careful, UNT90...you're gonna be on the hit list of the UNT17--they're gonna protect their friend at all costs (literally)...

So embarrassing...on so many levels, just as bad as it can get for a school that is supposed to be a FBS program. The entire program needs a Mean Green enema at this point. The AD needs to be replaced, the head coach needs to be hired from far away from Denton, and the whole lot of coaches on the staff, as well as a huge chunk of the players need to go. Once you quit, you'll always quit--and let others around you see that quitting is acceptable.

UH has one P5 conference to join--and its remote, at best--the Pac-12. The Pac-12 needs a Texas presence, but won't take anyone but UT for academic reasons (Tech) or social reasons (Baylor). UH is now Tier 1 academically, IIRC, and would give the Pac-12 the chance to get all of the state's subscribers for their Pac-12 network, without waiting for the Big XII's GOR to expire in 2025. It wouldn't be that inconceivable to see the Pac-12 invite UH and another non-P5 team that brings a good sized western market for cable subscribers, like UNLV. That would give them TV sets in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas, all before 2025. But I don't think the Pac-12 wants to expand anytime soon. The Big XII would be even more DOA if they added UH to their conference. No added TV market or added recruiting benefit. If the Big XII expands, which I now think it won't--it would add Cincinnati to the east and BYU. But the split of the TV money to lower the pie for the other ten Big XII schools is an ender. I do feel for UH--they have the size, academic prestige, and TV market to help conferences, but the Big XII future implosion will give the other Power Conferences better recognized programs to pull their way in the next shuffle. I still believe that UH will join Baylor, TCU, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, and others in a new Big XII conference, but it won't be a power league. It will look like the American Athletic Conference after the Big East split for hoops. And it will be a really good league for G5s: TCU, SMU, Baylor, UH, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis, Cincy, K-state, and Iowa State. I could see them even adding UTSA and UTEP, as well. CUSA would just replace those two, if that happened with NMSU and Texas State.

We will score more than we have all year, but we have no ability to stop WKU's offense. WKU 65 UNT 31

The guys on this team aren't exactly selling themselves as being a high-character group over the last 5 days...