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8-9 man fronts are effective agains teams that cannot throw downfield with any accuracy. It gets even more effective whenyour opponent's defense cannot put pressure ont eh QB and force turnovers. Hence, the difference between UNT 2013 and UNT ever other season since 2005. Look, McNulty is a bus driver, nothing more, nothing less. He is a hand-it-off QB and throw bubble screens and short manageable passes QB. If this thing surprises us on offense,, its only because Wilson and Jimmerson have breakaway capabilities, especially in the backfield and at the LOS, where those 8-9 man fronts will present trouble. I can tell you this--our defense and special teams aren't at a 2013 level, where frequent TOs and big kickoff and punt returns gave DT's offense great field position or leads. McNulty won't have any of that. But, just in case you are still convinced that we are going to be similar to 2013's Mean Green, lets' compare the schedules: 2013 Idaho--W over worst FBS team @Ohio--L in a close game against asolid opponent where our QB threw a pick 6, IIRC Ball State-W at home in the afternoon of a sweltering day @Georgia--L, but special teams and defense kept us in it well into the 4th quarter @Tulane--L to a good CUSA opponent, who stakced the box against us and dared us to pass, which we didn't do MUTS--W--we dominated them @La tech--W--clobbered them on the road in Skip Holtz's first season @Southern Miss--W--clobbered them in coach's first season Rice--W--great win on Halloween where the defense and running game just pounded the Owls into submission UTEP--W--clobbered a really bad team on Homecoming UTSA--L--bad QB play caused us to lose, while their QB played great @Tulsa--W--crushed a really abd Tulsa team UNLV--W--HoD bowl game win in DT's best game ever 2015 @SMU--still a terrible FBS team, one of the absolute worst in football Rice--HIgh quality CUSA opponent, basicallly who we are striving to be @Iowa--Bodybag game I @Southern Miss--we gave them their only CUSA win last year in Denton Portland State--FCS team that no one in Texas cares about Western Kentucky--solid CUSA opponent, another program to emulate--get them on Thursday night @Marshall--one of the best G5 progrmas last year, will be epically tough on the road UTSA--our kryptonite @La Tech--becoming a solid team that befits their tradition of being a really good G5 program @Tennessee--Bodybag number 2 @MUTS--have gotten their act together again UTEP-- vastly improved team from the last time they were in Denton I see 2 teams that are almost absolute wins: @SMU and Portland State--lose either of those and you are in DEEP trouble. I see 2 teams that are possible wins--UTSA and UTEP I see 5 teams that a win is possible, but not probable--Rice, @USM, WKU, @La Tech, and @ MUTS I see 1 team that won't pay us to pound us into the ground-- at Marshall I see 2 teams that will pay us to beat us into submission--at Iowa and at Tennessee Our 2013 team would probably go 7-5 against this schedule, maybe 8-4 again. This year's team should get McCarney coach of the year votes if they finish .500 or better, because I see 4 games that are possible to probable wins, of which I think we win 3 (UTSA owns us...)

Thhink for a moment how incredible it is that Andrew McNulty is the #1 QB at a FBS school...not saying he shouldn't be the number one QB with what we have currently on the roster, but how amazing it is that out of all the candidates for that position, he is the clear choice as the best QB option in our coaches' eyes.

When Coach Mac was at ISU, they absolutely owned Iowa. He knew that game mattered more to ISU than it ever mattered to Iowa, so he got his team up for it and they usually won the game, no matter where it was played. Some years, that win was part of a winning season, but often it was a part of a losing season. I expect that the SMU series will look a lot like this to McCarney, too. He knows this is the one game that the fanbase wants more than anything else, which is just sad for a lot of reasons, chief of which is that SMU isn't anywhere close to the SWC version that the older alums hated so much. They are on par with La Tech or Rice, but that's what the fanbase wants, so I expect Coach Mac to continue to play this game up to his team and to the fans.

The guy has season tickets to football, he posts on here often, and wants us to act like a real athletic department at a large university. To me, that is completely in the best interest of the program. The only ways a small donor can put pressure on an AD are through money, attendance, and social media. Again, to me, the worst thing a fan can do is to just blindly support whatever they get spoonfed from losing ADs, coaches, and boosters who l ike being close to the leaders of the department. I've got no interest in knowing the AD personally, especially if that AD has no worries about ever losing his job.

Man, how did yall get an AD with such foresight and tenacity? I realize that a metropolis like Jonesboro, Arkansas is an attractive place to visit and the bump in recruiting must be phenomenal for Mizzou and Iowa State...I'm certain they just laughed at RV when he called them and asked them to come to podunk Denton in the middle of nowhere where their is certainly no talent to try and recruit. The sarcasm and irony here just hurts my fingers as I typed this post.

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UNT90s rants might wear on you, but you really cannot argue that he is dead-on about the scheduling suckiness of OOC teams in Apogee by RV. We were told that teams like Indiana and Houston would be the norm for OOC, that we could now attract bigger names here. Since then, we have played these home OOC games: Texas Southern, Idaho, Ball State, SMU, and Nicholls State. Beginning this season and going forward, we have home OOC games against Portland State (only one in 2015), SMU, Army, Lamar, Abilene Christian, and Incarnate Word. For a lot of fans, games against FCS competition isn't worth our money or our time. I didn't watch Texas Southern or NIcholls State come to Apogee, nor will I watch Portland State, Lamar, Abilene Christian, or Incarnate Word when they visit Denton. Idaho, Ball State, SMU, and Amry are fine, but they really should be the second game of OOC home scheduling, to be matched with a decent name from the other G5 leagues...I don't even expect a P5 game anymore, just give me a MWC (or BYU), AAC, or MAC school to fill out the schedule. I get that Big XII teams won't play here--they have nothing to gain from it, which is sad if for nothing else because a game at ULM is looked at as being more valuable than a game with UNT--but other P5s could have come here during the last few years, before they started tightening up their OOC schedules. Hell, I'd rather play Texas State in a long series to play along SMU and Army than to play those FCS or low level G5 spares...

UH only gets Houston's attention if they are winning big--if not, they are just like every other G5 in their urban markets. The number of t-shirt P5 fans in Houston is enormous, just like it is in DFW. Only difference for UH is that their only local competition is Rice. Meanwhile, the SWC locals run the DFW media when they aren't covering other P5 schools--plus we aren't located in the heart of the Metroplex's big cities, unlike the two private schools. This Herman guy at UH will find out one of two things in his time there: 1.) If he wins, he's gonna get a P5 job somewhere that will pay him a lot of money 2.) If he doesn't win, UH will fire him--they have the resources to do it, as well as the expectation within the university's "family" to do it

Why would they be meaningless playoff games? They certainly would have more merit than the spare bowl games we all are forced to play in, for the most part. Try to do something to create buzz for your brand of football--since the P5 media have already admitted that they give less than 5% of their time to non-P5 football during the regular season. Or we can just hope and pray the P5s will somehow keep paying for the G5s athletic budgets by buying them for blood-lettings in their stadiums each fall. I think that strategy has a shelf life that is nearing expiration, at least in my opinion...

Or the G5 could do something crazy--like make a playoff system of their own to be played while the P5s are waiting for their bowl games in late December/early January. A playoff system is always welcomed--and more importantly, covered by the media and attended by fans. Get rid of the cheap bowl games and get a 16 team G5 playoff system going, just like FCS does.

This SC kid is probably better off dropping to FCS instead, just to be eligible immediately. Plus, a lot of FCS teams play fun, wide-open offenses that throw the ball a lot...basically the polar opposite of McDickey Ball.

Its almost as if people are surprised that McNulty is Mac's guy...of course he's gonna start. He's the only QB on the enitre roster that Coach Mac trusts. Its never gonna be Greer because he doesn't trust him on the field. Its not gonna be Dajon because he doesn't trust him on or off the field. Even if the Juco QB can get here and be eligible, he won't have any of Mac's trust--he might be the second-string backup QB at best this season.

If someone protested loudly to the media about not going to listen to Governor Wendy Davis, they would look like just as big a loser as those complaining to the media about Greg Abbott. Shockingly, I didn't get on a high horse to make this very opinionated statement. Your post above is just your way of trying to make the current douchebags who are causing this issue to embarrass the university to be somehow understandable, probably because they are "on your side" politically. Guess what, if you defend this kind of stupidity (left or right), you're part of the problem in this country right now. All we do is demagogue others and never even listen to their views in a respectful manner. Just get to the media first or to your online social media group as fast as possible to create more angst. The country is more divided than ever--we literally have the least amount of cohesiveness ever as an American people. I don't know for certain that it will hurt our country even more in the future, but I know its not going to make it healthier, either. Civil debates and peaceful protests are one thing--obnoxious, run-to-your-favorite-media-outlet-and whine-without-showing-respect reactions are the polar opposite. I am a pretty strong Catholic--yet I often listen to speakers who look at the world in a very different way than my Catholic theology teaches if the topic interests me. Why? Because its the right thing to do, even if it makes my blood boil. I need to understand that view point better if I want to re-affirm my own view or to ask myself if that is a valid thought. My pastor at our church often talks about listening to other viewpoints, if for no other reason than to show others that you can respect their right to think differently. Now, if a Satanist shows up to defend his view in some talk, I don't have any interest to hear it, so I don't go. But I sure as hell don't cry to the media about it, like a child. I act like an adult and allow for adults to determine if a speaker is deemed worthy or valuable to the audience, which usually is shown by the crowd that shows up and its reaction to said speaker. If you go to a free speech, one protected by the Bill of Rights, just to shout it down or to interrupt it because you disagree with it, you're just an idiot--a selfish one, too. At least let someone speak their mind if they are invited, just as you would if you invited a guest into your home. If we followed that kind of logic, I have zero doubt that we would be a lot more civil toward each other today--insted of this "gotcha" mentality that exists in our society now, which provides absolutely no value whatsoever, in my opinion.

Seriously, why can't someone just be big enough to walk away if they don't like the invited speaker, particularly a political one, without making it into a huge spectacle? I just don't get it--what good does it do to hurl insults at a university for having the state's governor come and give a commencement speech, a state that just elected him, rather easily, I might add. I really don't get that at all, especially at a public university. The same would be the case if Ann Richards had given a commencement speech in Denton back in the 80s. It just makes you sound like the vocal minority that always whine about things when they don't go your way. Just don't go--that is your stance. But accept that a public university is made up of both Dems and Pubs. Its ok to get a liberal speaker, just as it is to get a conservative speaker. In the end, all this has done is show "intolerance" at a university--which is supposed to be the tower of virtue regarding diversity and tolerance of all things. If a LBGT commencement speaker showed up here, would there people who would go crazy? Yes and they would look remarkably stupid, just like the liberal loudmouths do right now. Its one thing to disagree and to not show up because you don't like the speaker's politics--by the way, that seems incredibly shallow to me--but to go and cry to the media about it is just so weak. I cannot stand Barack Obama, but I'd respectfully listen to a commencement talk he would give at a graduation if for no other reason than he was invited and asked to talk so he deserves to at least be heard, plus he's the freaking President, a position that deserves respect, whether its Bush or Obama or Clinton or Reagan. Same with the governor... We live in a world where the first thing people are taught to do when they don't agree with something as petty as a guest speaker at a college commencement is to go and stir up the hornet's nest in front of their desired media. Its beyond ridiculous, in my opinion...

This is just pathetic...

In my opinion, this next year is Benford's last unless he finishes at least 5 games over .500 AND we finish in the top 4 of CUSA AND don't lose in our first CUSA Tournament game. And I don't see us doing any one of those, much less all of them. Just got to hope and pray that a really good coach wants to come here and gest hired by RV and the BOR. Football is in a totally different place, as far as athletics is concerned. Oranges vs. Apples. Football gets more funding, more butts in seats, more media attention, and more fan interest, just because we are in Texas. Comparing the results of those two sports isn't fair, either way. I do think that Dan McCarney parlayed a great season into multiple years to finish out his career in Denton, which is at least three more after this past season. It might very well include the last year of his contract if Mac decides to retire and announces it before the end of the 2017 season, which would save UNT his salary for a year. That's a "known" savings, which is why Tony Benford is still here--because we know that his "known" costs are two more seasons of an annual salary of near $400k. Because I have absolutely no faith in Tony Benford at all--and I mean none--I don't think we will fall into the trap that a decent season (see qualifications above) should earn him an extension. As a matter of fact, i expect Rob Evans to be coaching this team at some point in February, taking over for a fired Tony Benford, just as Chico did for Dodge in his last season. And much like Chico, but with a much better resume, Rob Evans might be giving us his interview as more than an interim coach with results on the court. That wouldn't surprise me, either. Benford has been a disaster from Day 1, even if the team got better results in the last two years due to a very watered-down OOC schedule in both seasons. The best he could do was .500 in his second season and with an extension probably availbale to him if he could just get back to that pesky .500 level again, his team couldn't do it. That tells you a lot about a coach and his ability to develop his team in his third year. I understood giving him a second year, even as abysmally awful as that first year went, but when Year 2 was nothing spectacular and grumbling about his job got louder, I thought there was a small chance he would get fired. But he didn't and followed it up with an even worse Year 3, record-wise, yet he gets his ultimatum year 4, where a buyout of just one season is acceptable here. If he gets an extension for anything below the meager expectations listed above, you can expect this place to continue to just flounder in front of about 1200 diehards. BUt I don't see that happening--because I don't believe Benford can coach a team to be a winner...and we have three different seasons to look back on to make that claim.

Sure we have eggs. They are in the music and arts schools.

Have the facilites improved? No question they have. Has our conference affiliation improved? Yes, no doubt. Has our reputation for our football and basketball teams improved within the Texas HS coaches' circle? If you go by recruiting results, the answer is no. Has our attendance or support improved drastically for either sports to help with media coverage or increased funding? Nope Dickey's teams would be just as boring and our recruiting would still suck under him even if we played at Apogee because he was unmotivated at his job unless he thought he was going to get fired. Vic Trilli's teams would still get blown out by other teams even if we got to practice in a new facility or in an improved Super Pit. Neither of those coaches, just like Todd Dodge and Tony Benford, were the right picks for this school. I think Coach Mac was the right pick, but I'm really afraid that we have beaten him down instead of him raising up the morale of the fanbase, like I thought would happen. The way I look at it, in being around here since 1991 or so, the only hire that understood UNT completely in terms of what we have and what we don't have is Johnny Jones. Jankovich couldn't understand Helwig's scheduling for funding strategy, so he left. Simon was basically the same way in football, but he was a timebomb waiting to explode for a lot of reasons. The others on the list included the likes of Tina Slinker, Jimmie Gales, and Darrell Dickey, coaches who had a very few winning years within a much larger time of losing. McCarney, unfortunately, could very well fit in this category if recruiting continues to be terrible. We just never fired them until it was deemed "affordable". And the list includes the "incompetents"--Shanice Stephens, Vic Trilli, Dennis Parker, Todd Dodge, Mike Petersen, and Tony Benford, none of whom ever won anything and just stole money from the university for multiple years.

If there was just one sentence that totally encompasses how easy the AD has it here, this is it...and its why RV will never leave her until he retires. I mean, how can your get rid of a guy who so brilliantly opened up football tailgating for a university in the South? You cannot put a price on that kind of vision...//BOR member

I've advocated for awhile that we should have at least one scrimmage in Frisco at the Toyota Stadium in the Spring. You get a chance to play at a nice stadium, in front of a large growth population, that is fairly close to Denton. If Plano is our best site for the Coaches Caravan,let's try and give that fanbase a nice gift for their fandom--of which Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Prosper, and Allen can all get to very easily and even bring a friend or two. Again, only for a scrimmage in the spring, but I think it would be good for everyone to try something like this. But it would cost money to do it, so the answer is obvious...

This is another fine example of just how much our location hurts us--at least until we beat somebody that the DFW local media and fans care about. SMU is still SWC royalty to the local media, while TCU is officially in the new P5 country club. All we are to the DFW media, for the most part, is a giant commuter school that gets bought for wins by the people they care about, while playing in conferences that are looked down at as being below the highest levels of Texas HS Football. Absolutely sucks for us, even if a lot of it is our own fault...

I don't really have any issue with this--Thursday nights are great atmospheres, too. The student body seems to really like the Thursday night game, too...

OK--I've tried to look at this everyway imaginable to figure out how we could be this low for fundraising. Is it the losing in the revenue sports that has us beaten down? Is it just low effort by RV and his staff? Is it the i-aa fiasco that still haunts us because most of our alumni that are between the ages of 45 and 65 couldn't give a rip about UNT in almost any way? Its all of it...and its all on the BOR and administration. They created this culture, give lip serivce to the few that care about sports here just to keep their money flowing in, and then go back to taking care of their pet projects and areas within the university. Lee Jackson--not fired for being over an accounting fiasco that would get anyone else fired at another school--instead gets extended. RV gets 14+ years to lead an athletic department that somehow gets credit for opening up tailgating for football games, completely ignoring his stellar record for the sports anyone left still even cares about, as well as his scheduling and his abysmal hiring record--anywhere else he is long gone, but here, he gets extended. Todd Dodge and Tony Benford have "coached" their teams to records of achievement so below acceptable in three years that both would have been canned anywhere else--here, they get a 4th year--its just too expensinve to buy out an extra year of $300k for our university...I guess that's true when you have a giant alumni base and community to draw from and you raise $750k while your peers are raising millions. It doesn't change here unless the BOR and administration change directions completely. Until known costs gets replaced by lost "opportunity" costs as the ONLY thing that matters to these people, sports here will always just flail aimlessly. It takes money, it takes athletic leadership, it takes a commitment to winning...none of which has ever been in place or allowed to be in place in Denton for UNT Athletics. Ever.

But is he 6 feet tall?//ChicoandMac

There is a lot of talent in the South, in general, and In Louisiana, in particular. La Tech is generally the second choice behind LSU in that state for HS recruits, plus they are competing aginst non-P5s around them like Southern Miss (who has fallen way down), the SBC schools who are still kind of type-casted as being lower that CUSA schools, and then Rice (academics separate Rice from everyone), UTSA (still new to the landscape), UTEP (far away from most other cities) and UNT (we don't care about winning). Combine it all with a winning history and a commitment to making their revenue teams winners--not just fielding teams, but winning--you get what you have there in Ruston--plus there aren't any other pro teams or bigger names within an hour of La Tech's campus...it must be nice to enjoy that kind of view from your administration.