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we don't do that kind of stuff, Matt...never have, never will. Buyouts are not happening if they are longer than a year. That's how we have gotten Vic Trilli, Todd Dodge, and Tony Benford. Mac will be here for another couple of years after this...

We will probably beat Portland State on Homecoming. But that's it. Getting killed at SMU damn guaranteed this. That team is terrible--they are not better than any other FBS team on our schedule. 1-11 is the most realistic outcome for our coach who still has two more years beyond this one to run his 1970 Woody Hayes offense...

1-11 or 0-12 is staring us in the face. There is just not enough developed talent on this roster and the schedule is full of teams waaaayyyyyyy ahead of where we are right now. When we lost at SMU, this became the reality. Only reason this game wasn't worse today is because Rice let up off the gas in the 4th. To me, without any doubt, the worst statistic to deal with is this one: Dan McCarney has three plus years left in his contract after this season is done. The chances of him still standing on the sidelines in 2017 are just too depressing to realize how high they truly are. And that the #UNTADforlife will be right there with him,

I still believe with all my heart that the I-aa decision to stay down at that level, while coupled with the SWC being at the top of its game during that time, just killed off too many donors, fans, season ticket holders, etc...and the Texas High School coaches and parents of the recruits have only known UNT as being small time and a loser, bring a bought opponent for the teams that they have grown up and followed.

It will be Greer or Means...

I've evolved on the music and arts thing...I don't blame us for lifting them up as the primary Windows to the university. It's what the strong majority wants. And presidents might want us to be a football factory, but the BOR controls that. I think it's rather obvious how they feel--or RV ain't still here.

What makes Minimac the worst option for this offense is that the OL is just young and inexperienced, so the other defense puts 8-9 in the box and Minimac isn't fast enough, nor posess a strong throwing arm. For those that have been around her for years, he's Richard Bridges 2.0. A really nice guy that works his tail off to the best of his abilities--which are just not that great compared to the other choices around him. But Dickey loved Bridge, because he was loyal and did what he was told without a fuss. And, to prove his point, he starts Bridges in a game at Texas Stadium against Tech instead of Scott Hall. And we get clobbered because we are so far behind, in part because Bridges couldn't make plays, especially in that antiquated offense. Sound familiar to anyone??

McCarney isn't going anywhere at the end of this season, nor is he probably going anywhere at the end of next season.

Here's my list of blame for THE problem--going backward McNulty stays as QB because he has the full faith and confidence of his dad's best friend from Iowa and because there's absolutely nothing that will be done to the stubborn head coach<====Losing your first game of 2015 badly to worst FBS team in 2014 because your QB play is below the average of your typical JV QB <====McNulty named as starter because he is a busdriver who tests well<==Canales' tests and poor development of QBs<===Mac's poor recruiting of QBs<=====Mac's Woody Hayes offensive gameplan<======Mac's extension with contract buyout we can't/won't take on<======RV's poor leadership and hiring/extending decision<======BOR making it all about known costs, not winning<===I-aa drop for 12 freaking years<=====Old Nestors wanting to keep football from becoming too big at North Texas<======Hayden Fry leaving because he couldn't get any decent support for a Top 20 ranked team<======SWC teams won't even consider us as members<======Apathy, both in Denton and outside of Denton about North Texas I think I covered it all...

Because we don't care about winning in them, plain and simple...we never have, either. We care about music, arts, and low cost tuition. That's why our Music Department is highly ranked in the country, that our arts school is top-notch, and we get ranked high in the country for being a top value. I wish we did care about winning in the revenue sports--it would be a ton of fun to proudly talk about MG football and basketball to my Aggie, Longhorn, Sooner, Razorback, Horned Frog, Bear, and many other fans, but I can't. What's even worse is that when we win, I get a very token, "How about UNT winning this weekend? I saw yall won over one of those airport school in Florida or just killed that FCS team." When we lose, like we did to freaking SMU, if I get anything, its "That Chad Morris was just an awesome hire.", as if we don't even belong on the same field as SMU. And nobody in UNT leadership even cares enough to enact changes to this mindset. Its as if they agree that we just don't belong on the same field as SMU, much less any other old SWC school, except for little ol' Rice. It really is just too bad...

I think Vito is a bit confused as to what Mac was telling him--he likes the balance when the punt and pass game are equal. Completions to punt ratio seems to be pretty close since 2014.

None...and it ain't close, either.

All we seem to hear is how hard it is here to recruit, how low our funds are, how little we care about athletics, how there's money to be used but the BOR won't let go of it... I think this part is great , though, right now for all of us. The situation with our athletic department and the two main sports is damn near dire. We keep losing, both on the scoreboard and at recruiting, while we just run out the clock on contracts until the buyout is deemed affordable. Because of this, rarely do you get the opportunity as fans of the program to get a clear idea of how the leadership of the university is or isn't going to fix this. Right now, we get to see if the President really cares about this beyond lip service. If he does, can he get the BOR on board to making changes, and at what degree can we make the changes. If it remains status quo around here, we all get to know it--which means that we can determine if we want to contribute to the program still with our $$$ and attendance. If the UNT leadership won't fix this--whether all at once or in incremental steps--the majority of donors and season ticket holders that are still on this MG ship are going to bail. To me, this will all be clearer as the months ahead progress forward. We get to see if Smatresk cares enough to even try and make changes, if the BOR will let him make personnel changes that he wants to make, and who he hires for each position. I really think that if things are going to get fixed in the athletic department, Smatresk has to replace RV--he can't let RV make another hire in one of the two main revenue sports, not with that track record. If RV is here for when Tony Benford gets replaced this upcoming season and is allowed to make the next hire, that will tell you all you need to know about the direction of the program. We get that Mac cannot go even if goes 0-12 this year (its possible) because RV gave him the ridiculous extension. But you can send a great signal to Mac that a new AD is coming and will make his life a living hell if he doesn't win soon in his next two years of his contract. To me, that's what you have to look forward to for the rest of 2015--seeing if we have a President who can rattle the cages and get things changed. Because without any substantive changes in personnel in the AD, that will confirm the status quo remains. And we all need to know if that is going to be the case going forward. Because if it is, most people will probably just walk away, never to be heard from again. If the BOR doesn't care that the Super Pit is at 50% attendance now, as compared to the previous coach's last season, or if it doesn't care that Apogee has about 3500 butts in seats for the last game of the season, then they shouldn't be surprised when even more people take away their support of the programs.

This. Last year was the latest reincarnation of us "North Texas-ing" our situation yet again. Just as we did in the SBC bowl years when played OOC or after that run in 2005 when we hosted Tulsa and lost a heartbreaker 54-2, this past season was the wasted one... I feel like this year is just a re-trenching year. The schedule is ridiculous and harder than any we have played in recent years. The head coach has 4 years left on his contract, so he isn't going anywhere until the end of the 2016 season, bare minimum, probably 2017. If Todd Dodge and Tony Benford got 4th years of their 5 year contracts, McCarney, who makes more than both of them combined, will get a 4th year. My expectation for this season was that we finish 3-4 wins--now that we have lost to SMU, I don't see more than 2 wins. So next season, with a new OC, the goal is to get back to 3-4 wins, then aim for a winning season again in 2017. It sucks terribly to look at it this way, but I don't know how you can reasonably think anything different about the current season and the one to follow. 2017 is the earliest we can have a better, more experienced busdriver that could be combined with an effective defense and special teams. I think the reality here is that we could easily be looking at the rest of 2015 and 2016 providing us with a total of somewhere between 4-6 wins combined. The bottoming out, hopefully, will be this season.

This is why the problem is waaaayyyyy bigger than RV's laziness. He's lazy because his job is easy--stay in budget and don't make any negative public comments bout funding. If you do that, you get to stay for as long as you want. Literally, we don't care if you schedule 5 or 6 home games a year at Apogee--just don't lose money. We don't care if we lose games--just don't lose money. We don't care if the Super Pit will have a 50% drop in attendance under the current coach, which is about 20% capacity of the arena--just don't lose money. Money won't fix the problem because even if you got more of it, the expectations from the leadership has always been to just not lose what we budget to athletics. Until winning trumps the possibility of losing money, the problem won't go away. All of the other efforts (caravans, signing autographs, sending out small gifts, etc..) won't solve anything until the leadership at the top clearly states and ACTS on making winning in revenue sports the top priority of the athletic department. Right now, its all about staying in budget.

A schedule with two FCS home games at Apogee would be the epitome of North Texas scheduling...

Its funny...we told you that you would reach this point. That you would either accept it like the 2% does or walk away like the other 98% do. I just figured it might take longer than a year or so...

Sponsored by Jimmy John's, the new documentary on RV: "Sub Standards"

I cannot believe I am about to type this: CougarKing is right. These games aren't worth your time or money, which is why the B1G Ten stopped scheduling them. UH has a location problem--they are located in a state, whose two primary conferences (Big XII and SEC) don't need them. The Pac is truly the only option to get UH into a P5 conference, but they want Texas and Oklahoma. What I actually see happening to them is that when the Big XII crumbles, all of the leftovers are going to form a new G5 conference like the Big East did with the AAC. UH and SMU will join Baylor, TCU, K-State, ISU, and whoever gets left behind, then add in the top end of the AAC to form the new league, teams like Cincy, Memphis, Tulane, Tulsa, and go hard after NIU, UCF, USF, and ECU.

That's disappointing...I am placing 100% of my hope in him to get the blessing of the BOR to fix the mess over in the athletic department. If he can't, won't, or isn't allowed to, that should tell us all we need to know to go in another direction with our time and money...

Anything about revenue sports yet?

Old SWC schools usually get a nice crowd, so I think we will get over 17k for sure...at least that number or higher will get reported.

This is so much worse than I ever imagined. We have allowed ourselves to be the Jimmy Johns of FBS athletic departments. Even the Southland Schools look down on Jimmy John's... Can we just join the Lone Star Conference? I hear that the Lone Star Card is very effective...

This post right here should absolutely shame the leadership at this school. While we are flipping over ourselves for getting SMU and Army here to pair up with spare FCS teams, Arkansas STATE hosts Mizzou, a team just to the north of them, and it brought in more revenue than any prior full season of ticket sales. It kinda makes you wonder what it would like if we talked to T. Boone Pickens about setting something up--but, of course, we would live those negotiations with a 3 for none deal, that pays us about 25% less than what powershouses like Arkansas State and Louisiana-Monroe can charge.

Here's what I think about Damarcus Smith. He's here at UNT for a reason--he chose to come here to play QB here, where the offense asks you to handoff and throw 2-yard passes. And he looked at it, and said, "Yep, that's for me". He went from being in the Top 11 Elite QB rankings to the third string at UNT, after having to go the JUCO route. In my opinion, he is just Brock Berglund redux until proven differently. Those mobile, big arm QBs cannot score well on Chico and Mac's paper tests. They take--gulp!!--risks on offense...just like we saw with Woody Wilson under McDickney Part I, those kind of QBs are not welcome in the 1970 Woddy Hayes offense. Smith was either not smart enough to see that the offense we run here doesn't fit his skill set at all or he knew that nobody else was going to give him a chance to "compete" as a QB in the FBS world. Nothing else makes any sense. So now, we have completely alienated ourselves to any below average or higher throwing QB in Texas high schools and are on the way to doing the same to the JUCO QBs that we are only able to go after these days.