untjim1995

If I was a college coach, getting up there in years, this would be a great place to finish up my career. You'll get paid like a P5 coordinator or position coach, but with much less scrutiny and way more job security, plus you get to live in a great area that has excellent tax benefits (no state income tax) and fairly cheap real estate. If you get to .500 for two years or more in a row, or just have a big winning season, you're gonna get a buyout-free extension. Tina Slinker, Darrell Dickey, Johnny Jones, Dan McCarney, and, soon, Tony Benford, will all be examples of coaches who got treated like they had tenure at this place...

Well, that balances it out what was expected--we've beatne every team we should have in OOC, except Cregihton, while losing to everyone we should have, excpet for PV A&M. The extension is still very much in sight if Benford can get to .500. He has his signature win for RV to sell to the BOR, who will gladly sign off on an exntesnio that won't cost them too much more than they are already paying, thus putting in a known cost for years to come in the athletic budget. I'm telling you, this will happen if we get to .500...I have no doubt about it.

Wow--I had no idea they won this game until this morning. That is awesome!! Great win for Benford and the Mean Green... I often get frustrated at the direction of the program, but this is a terrific win, easily the best win we have had in years. The Texas Tech win was great in front of a loud Super Pit, but as far as opponents that will probably have a chance at getting into the NCAA Tournament from a Power Conference, this is our best win in a long time.

I'd be really surprised if we stay within 10 points of them

Benford with a winning record...still in line for that extension at the end of the season!!

UH has to hope for two things in regards to their P5 hopes: 1.) That Texas, OU, and Tech are willing top open up a spot for them in the Big XII. It would fill in a big market that a lot of Aggies and LSU alumni fit in, but the Big XII feels like they have a big enough presence there already with the alums of UT, Tech, Baylor, OU, and robably even OSU. 2.) That the Pac-12 expanded out to the East and decided that getting UT would never happen because of the LHN, so they come in and get UH for a Texas presence, since they have made great strides in academics to be considered Tier One. That could happen, especially if they got matched up with another school, such as Kansas, which is an AAU school. The Pac would get two more markets to jump into, especially one with huge recruiting ties. IN reality, though, UH is looked at as a big city school, Cougar High is its reputation and probably always will be. Just like Cincy and Memphis, shaking off that reputation is tough, unless your academics are great (AAU membership like Pitt) or your athletics are great in both revenue sports (Louisville). All I see for UH's future is that thier are going to look like the King of the Left-Behinds...

If this becomes the slogan, I'm out...as one who has a BBA in Finance from our alma mater and likes college sports, this message couldn't even remotely appeal to me. It screams, at least to me, that the school wants to just be Liberal Arts School. In freaking Texas... At this point, just go ahead and be done with it. I got better things to do with my time and money if it goes down like this. Hell, Greenlight to Greatness was miles better than Above the Rest for Thousands Less, and that is a million times better than Creative Heartbeat of Texas. WTF???

Unless that new coaching possibility is willing to make about 200k next year, Benford ain't going anywhere. I'm telling you all that if Benford finishes theis year at .500, he will get an extension. RV is chomping at the bit to show the fans that one of his hires has improved enough to get an extension. The BOR would be fine with it for two reasons, no buyout, and he won't cost too much to extend out for a couple of more years. Mark it down... We have done exactly what I thought we would do in OOC. We have beaten cream puffs at home, lost to anyone with a pulse on the road, and are losses to Creighton and Tech away from going 6-6 in OOC, just as we projected. In CUSA play, getting to 9-9, with a win in the tournament, would give us a .500 record. That's the line of demarcation (sp)--anything under .500 represents a 4th year at this point. Anything .500 or better is extension time!! Can you imagine how happy the 1000 people at the Super Pit will be knowing that Benford will be our coach beyond 2015?

Bo Pelini is a trainwreck--buyer beware. He did fine at Nebraska, but I don't see him doing anything else at a school without tons of tradition.

WHy would a decent WR ever come here to play in this offense? He was either going to UCF or SMU the whole time.

I still like the idea of the P5s breaking away in football, letting the G5s and FCS form their own division, but keep the NCAA Tournament and the College World Series as is. I'd be just fine with that. We aren't ever going to be allowed to play on an even scale in football because of money and the size of the teams. But in hoops and in baseball, we all can compete fairly easily--see current versions of Wichita State, Northern Iowa, and Gonzaga in hoops, as well as your UC Irvine's or Cal State Fullerton's in baseball that make it to the CWS fairly often. But the network idea is a good one, for say NBC, that has both its regular network and its NBC Sports Network. You can get a lot of football and basketball coverage for them to have for during the week. Even CBS College Sports could use the extra programming, too. This is all very possible, but only if the G5 schools are forced to band together. The only way that happens is for the P5s to split away first, causing the reality of the situation to crush the dreams of a few G5 schools who think they are a bigger deal than they really are.

Please drop us, then...being stuck for 7 more years of playing a team on par with Nicholls State is bad for our SoS. Put the $$$ you have to good use, pal.

I think the reality for G5s is that their only hope of ever moving up is if the P5 conferences decide to expand for some reason and they have political sway in their state or are to get it done somehow. If the current P5s have 66 schools, inculding ND and BYU, the only hope is that something comes into play that says conferences are really run at maximum revenue with conferences of 16 teams and the P5 don't cannibalize the Big XII into themselves. That would give you 80 slots, meaning that you have 14 slots to go. That gives UConn, Cincy, USF, UCF, UH, East Carolina, Memphis, Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, UNLV, Nevada, New Mexico, and Air Force something to keep pushing hard for raising funds. Obviously, this is a pipedream for a lot of those teams listed, with the exceptions of UConn and Cincy, but its out there for them. Anyone else in the G5 doesn't stand a chance of ever gaining admittance into that cartel. You could have the Pac-16 with its current teams + UNLV, Nevada, San Diego State, and Fresno State. The current big 12 become the Big 16 with its current members + Boise State, BYU, New Mexico, AFA, UH, and Memphis. The SEC adds East Carolina and USF to get to 16, the B1G adds UConn and Cincy, and the ACC added UCF and ND as a full member. Again, there is zero chance this would ever happen, in part because the P5 doesn't want any of them, save for a few. But I suppose a creative AD and school could try to seel the alums of those G5 "giants" as having a chance, so they need to start raising funds immediately.

That's cool... Our AD will never get fired here. No matter what...

That was the old MWC--see how long that took to get dismantled. TCU and Utah got bought off, BYU got incentivized to go Indy in football, and Boise State and SDSU were out the door to the Big East when that conference got dropped from being AQ.

The worst part of this is that it wasn't even remotely close to working out...it wasn't even remotely close to just being bad...colossal failure is the term that comes to mind.

To me, the questions have to be geared at Lee Jackson and the BOR. If they only give you lip-service and a head nod, then you know your answer to this. Smaestrek, just like his predecssors, are quite easily replaced. If Smaestrek was Chancellor, then by all means, get him here to talk about this. Otherwise, its just wasting time and energy. Here's the crazy thing--the BOR is gonna get their wish when it comes to athletics. We aren't going to be in the P5, we will get dropped back to the equivalent of the old i-aa, and you won't have to worry about increasing any fees to cover athletics beyond the time the facility gets paid for. When that happens, cost containment will be the best friend to a G5 program. Regional conferences with more recognizable foes will have to happen, no more how much some G5 schools dislike their neighbors and have never wanted to be associated with them in a conference. In the end, there probably wasn't anything we could have done to reasonably change our program to a P5 team. Our geography killed us in the conference alignment game, due to SMU and TCU being just down the road and getting the rest of the media's coverage that the P5 giants didn't already consume. Our stadium killed us at the time because it was such a dump, a place that just showed how little we cared about football here. And, of course, the historic apathy that has shown up at our home games over the years, which told other people in other conferences that we brought nothing to the table. But as we move forward, there's no reason we cannot be a great G5 program, if we decide we want to make that a priority. If not, its not hard to imagine football eventually dying off here, granted that shouldn't be anytime soon. But Apogee holding graduations now can be sold to those who disdain UNT athletics as us needing to build a facility to house these graduations and still be a place to hold HS sports and activities for prospective students to come to Denton, that this was the main reason they allowed Apogee to get built, but also why their hero, Lee Jackson, saved the day to sunset that athletic fee and keep it lower than the state allows.

What is your current job, money bags?

Incarnate Word beat Nebraksa last night in Lincoln, 74-73.

I agree with you about the experienced head coach and the contacts that he has. Just like it did with Skladany, Coach Mac's knowledge of guys like this will only help our situation.

That's $35 per semester...

We already have that BOR you speak of...they just don't care about athletics enough to make it the priority that other universities do. That's your problem--an unfixable one, I might add, until a pro-athletics mindset is shown by the funding decisions of the BOR. Seeing how we haven't ever had that in Denton (since 1890) and we continue to place a great premium on being a "value" university, I wouldn't expect it to change in our lifetime. Frankly, it shocks me that football has survived at this place for as long as it has. Apogee still just boggles my mind that it got approved, funded, and built.

I know that it eats at Dan McCarny something fierce--I think his coaches and players feel that way, too. And RV, as well. But they aren't the ones to ask about the question. I know that the BOR and administration of the university don't care...or else your guy, RV, would've been axed years ago for his poor hires.

Damn--there's a whole lot of "acceptance" here...are you a big donor, by any chance? or do you work at the school? or serve on the BOR?