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without a doubt, the QBs at Denton Ryan, Denton Guyer, and Denton High are at least as talented as McNulty, but probably waaayyyy better, no matter what grade they are in.

He will be...after 2016, with only two years left on his contract. Chico will be gone sometime between now and the last game of the season. Mac will be gone after 2017. And RV is #UNTADforlife

to expect that any decent throwing QB in Texas HS football will even look to come here is laughable. Look at the ridiculous offense we run, then look at who the coach believes in as the best option for the team--who probably wouldn't beat out 95% of Texas HS senior QBs right now, and then see how he "executes" and you'll see that there is no chance we will get a decent QB here. The last two QBs we have gotten are jucos, who obviously cannot play (Greer) or won't be given a chance because he's no busdriver (D.Smith).

they are both equally absurd...

I have to eat major crow here. I felt like we would surely beat you guys tonight and I thought yall would be a fairly easy win. I was wrong and I severely overestimated a team that I was on record to absolutely suck still even if we beat you guys. Now, it's very possible that you guys just beat the worst FBS program in the country, which is what we did to you guys last year. The difference is that your coach had quit on your school and the money and power behind your program made him leave immediately. Our coach hasn't quit at all--he thinks that his game plan will eventually work...it stopped working in about 1975, but he is still running in 2015. We have no money (apparently) and the powers that be like music and arts, so he will be here for two more wins for you guys in the next two seasons for sure. Enjoy Chad Morris while you can--he's not gonna be there for long if he turns yall around in the next few years.

If this indeed true...come on UNT90--you know it's true, even if you don't want to admit it. Think about the loss of fans at the Super Pit after Benford's failure. We have lost basically 50% of the attendance at games in conference play that we had in JJ's last year's. And yet nothing--NOTHING--has changed...except that RV got an extension from the BOR. I give up. I'll still follow the team and attend games when I can, but I'm just gonna do what the BOR wants me to do--talk up our world-class music program, how great a value our tuition and fees are, and then just wait for the Rick Villareal Athletic Department Complex to get completed. We told you that McNulty would be Mac's QB to start the season and he will stay that way for at least the first 4 games. Chico is a dead man walking now, most likely will lose play calling at some point soon, and he will be replaced by an OC who is on the same page as Woody Hayes McCarney. This continues for another three years, BARE MINIMUM. SMU might win a few more games, but I highly doubt it. They just got the benefit of beating us in front A very large Mean Green crowd that won't show up for another game all season. Congrats, BOR and RV on scheduling SMU!! This will cement our place as the worst FBS team in the state.

it doesn't matter...until everyone understands that this is ALL ABOUT COST, you're gonna beat your head against the wall thinking something different is possible. It's not until you change that mindset. Seeing how that mindset has existed for, oh, I don't know, about 50 years here, you and I will be long gone before this change occurs...

This COULD pay big dividends for us down the road as the student body of the last 5 years graduate and follow the program, especially when these grads reach their 50s and 60s and actually care about the athletic teams, something we haven't really had in any sizable number since the late 70s. Its certainly a different feel at UNT than when I graduated in 1995 and when I moved from Denton in 2001. Athletics isn't loathed by 98% of the student body, as it used to be. Obvioulsy, the student body percentage that feels engaged with our teams may not even be as high as 5-10%, but it is at least double or triple what it was when I was in school. Of course, being a 1-aa program for all but my last year in college had a lot to do with that, but I know that the SBC run did bring in more students than had been engaged in decades, as did the hire of Todd Dodge, even though he was an abysmal coach here, just because he had name recognition and ran a wide-open offense. With Apogee, CUSA, and the 2013 HoD win, the student body has showed great improvement, for sure. UNT's attendance issues today all deal with apathetic alumni and citizens around campus. That's why I say this COULD change things greatly in the coming years, but its going to take commitment by these new or future graduates. I'll say it again, McCarney, when he shows off that uber-positivity and motivation, is a great sell for the university's family, assuming the wins can follow. We need that same thing from a basketball coach--which is why hiring someone who has actually been a head coach before is so important this time. This is why if I were Smatresk, the very first thing I'd be doing as soon as this 2015-2016 season is over for football and mens hoops is to replace the AD, hire one who will be able to get us a basketball coach that could transform our hoops program again, as well as to let McCarney know, assuming that the losing continues and the negative, Dickey-esque comments begin to come out again like they surprisingly did in the middle of last season, his last year to show us something will be 2016 or else. There is no reason that we cannot be a top level G5 program in the years to come, but we won't be until the leadership decides to make winning athletics a top priority. Smatresk is our great hope right now to be the one person who leads this change.

I'd take the win over SMU. Very few will care if we make the Bahamas Bowl and play Toledo or Akron. Beating SMU helps way more in recruiting than a hypothetical bowl berth in the Bahamas. That said, if the bowl game offered was another Heart of Dallas Bowl to play a B1G team, I'd take that in a heartbeat over beating SMU.

#UNTADforlife Unless the BOR decides to fund this thing to get rid of poor coaches as needed, not when deemed acceptable for a buyout, the whore game has to stay around, just to pay for the non-revenue sports. The easiest way to do it would to have an AD and staff that could raise funds better than they do, but its never easy to raise money when you lose at the sports people care about. But our AD instead just goes to the BOR and shows them how we are in budget and that's all they care about--doesn't matter that we have gotten there by having 2 five home game seasons in the last 4, and that we hosted FCS Texas Southern and Portland State in those two years. Next, he will say, don't you love tailgating and how much the fanbase loves it? Then he gets to say I even got evil, powerhouse SMU to agree to play a home-and-home series with us for 12 years. And then the pats on the back come from the BOR, the extensions get offered, and the contracts get accepted--and that's how you get to be the #UNTADforlife. As a reminder, football at UNT has a 64-107 record in RV's tenure. And when you factor in both basketball programs in his tenure, along with football, our AD has watched over our three revenue programs at a .456 winning percentage (thank God for Johnny Jones or we might not even be at a .400 clip) He has hired or extended on his watch the following: Darrell Dickey, Todd Dodge, and Dan McCarney in football, Johnny Jones and Tony Benford in mens hoops, and Shanice Stephens, Karen Aston, Mike Petersen, and Jalie Mitchell in womens hoops. Of that group, Todd Dodge and Shanice Stephens are the worst of all time in their sports in the history of our school, while Tony Benford wasted the best team we certainly had since the 70s, maybe forever, and Mike Petersen is not viewed as the worst in womens hoops because of Shanice Stephens. Obviously, we will never know how Aston would've done here over the long-term, but hopefully our own Jalie Mitchell will bring her history of success to a program that is just plain awful. Darrell Dickey and Dan McCarney basically look the same, x's and o's wise, as well as winning percentage wise here, so that leaves Johnny Jones as the best he's had. 1 sure hit out of 9, with a very probable hire that will need to be made again in mens hoops at some point in 2016. I'm sure that will work out great for us!! But I'm even more certain that RV will be receiving another extension very soon, on the way toward being here for another decade at least, and will involve the athletic complex being named after him. #UNTADforlife

All of these DFW SWC media want SMU to rise up again, just like they did when June Jones got there. They all look down on UNT, for many obvious reasons, many of which are our own fault. But its fascinating just how much talk that SMU can still generate in this market, while dealing with the pro teams, the Big XII and SEC, and the fact that they have a small fanbase that doesn't relate to anywhere but North Dallas' rich suburbs. TCU managed to accomplish so much more than SMU because of their financial commitment to being a winner that was complemented greatly by Ft. Worth's support, of which just dwarfs SMU's support from Dallas. Yet, I still feel like to some of the old guard media establishments here in DFW, they act like SMU could actually turn things around to be equals with TCU or Baylor right now. But the little crack that TCU squeezed thru, both in the MWC and winning the Rose Bowl, as well as gaining admittance into a P5 conference, has basically been sealed, especially for a small school like SMU. They have lots of money, no doubt, but really, that and memories of Pony Excess are all they bring to the table.

I stand corrected--thanks AoD!!

Well, their athletic department does have a very nice luxury of having a good basketball program. Last season, they went 20-0 at home and averaged 7004 in home attendance. Their worst average attendance at home was in 2013-2014, when they averaged 5778. We haven't averaged even 4000 in any season in the last 30 years, if ever... I've said this before, but a winning basketball program that actually gets 5000 or more out to games would help the entire athletic department just as much as it has at Old Dominion. By the way, this doesn't count the fact that ODU also ahs had some really good women's teams over the years, which I would assume get more than a few hundred people to attend their home games.

The bodybag game isn't ever going to go away...ever. Its free money that you can count on--and almost every G5/FCS AD knows that these bodybag games aren't going to be available too much further out when the P5s split away eventually. The problem with our schedule is that we think bad FCS programs are worth hosting just to get a win and have 6 home games. Those FCS squads take away money from your bodybag game proceeds, don't help your team one bit for competing with other FBS schools, and if you lose, especially at our current place, just crushes you down even further in the eyes and minds of recruits. The efforts to replace the paycheck game won't happen until the paycheck game goes away. I suspect that by 2025, the P5s will break off and those paychecks will be a thing of the past.

I'll take "quick bubble screen for a two yard loss", Alex...

I don't know how to say this without pissing people off, but UNT losses in hoops this upcoming year just get us closer to getting a new coach. I don't want Tony Benford anywhere near the Super Pit for 2016-2017 as our head coach. At this point, short of making the NCAA Tournament or NIT because we had a hugely successful season (like losing less than 7 games all season), he better not get another day as our coach even if we finish a few games over that pesky .500 mark that looks like a mountain right now, even with this piss-poor OOC schedule. And I don't think there's a chance in hell that will happen, either--he's a bad head coach, plain and simple. If he couldn't get to .500 last year, with an RV extension just begging to be given to him, then he won't get there this year, either. I truly believe that Rob Evans will be promoted to interim coach at some time this season, with a real possibility of auditioning for the job on a full time basis.

UAB hoops has always been supported very well. They just fell victim to Bear Bryant Jr. and the big Alabama boosters.

At this point, that tactic might have a better chance of getting a Texas HS QB here than anything else we are doing...

The salary estimates you are using for a job out of college seem a bit high...just trying to help you have a realistic view of what lies ahead for most folks starting at their first career job out of college.

+1000000 I'll stick to this--and I don't care that SMU looked good in the first half against an overrated Baylor team that was missing its two best defenders--if we cannot beat these guys, Portland State is your only hope for a win. Its really weird to play a barometer game as your first one, but this game will tell us a lot. If we win, then you still have 4 other very winnable games left, at a bare minimum. And it should help you with recruiting, which at least improved to 90th out of 129 teams this past year. If we lose, the program will basically point toward reverting to a Dodge-like season and situation, where you win 1-2 games but the coach is here for at a few more years because he costs too much to buy out. And that would put recruiting back to a 2014 level again, where we finished dead last per rivals.

I think this says a lot about ULM's recent success against P5 teams--yes, they lose a lot, but it gives the P5 AD and coach a way of telling their fanbase that they are playing a team at home that can beat them if they don't take them serious. Its actually a very good game for preparing your team for the rigors of conference play, even if you pound them, just because people know that they have a reputation for sneaking up on you and giving you all they got. We've seen them beat Bama, Arkansas, and Wake Forest, as well as barely lose to Arkansas, Auburn, and Baylor all within the last 8 seasons. Somehow, I can see their price being more for a bodybag game at a P5 giant, if for nothing more than their recent "success" against those teams mentioned. Or RV just took the call from A&M's AD and said "Deal" just as soon as it was offered, which is probably more likely.

I applaud you for your wonderful sarcasm... You are correct on that--but that game was at Texas Stadium. The year before at Kyle Field, we lost a heartbreaker, 55-0.

Realistically, this is the type of opponent that probably wouldn't bring more fans to Apogee than Army, but light years more than the FCS schools we have scheduled. When the Army series ends, I bet the MWC team we get to play a series with will be Air Force, but the earliest that can be scheduled is 2022, I believe, since Army runs for 6 games. And since 2022 is when we play SMU at home, the earliest we have a non-FCS open date available is 2023.

Well, since the class was ranked 90th by rivals out of 129, the talent he got in here versus 2014's dead-ass last ranking that we received, probably does stand-out. As much we bash his recruiting of talent here, this class will probably be the one that determines his success as our head coach as we move forward for the rest of his contract.

A. might be close to B., but A. doesn't have the talent on his team in his senior year that B. had, nor did he have the OL or running game that B. had- in his senior year-that's not even counting defense or special teams. C. was too small and had no line at all to protect him because his dad was a high school coach that no idea how to build up linemen for a FBS program. He had a great heart, but his frame wasn't meant for the beating of that position at a FBS program.