untjim1995

Like we did to y'all in 2010 at your place in Houston? Wade's only win that year before getting canned was against the Texans in Houston. I remember hearing lots of butthurt out of Oilers fans down in Houston still pissed about how many Cowboys fans were at Reliant. BTW, I will give you one thing--Reliant is a much better place for football than JerrahWorld and its not close.

I'm callinlg the Rangers your Daddy because you are now stuck in our division. Unlike before, when your owner made a deal to the new owner to sell the team on the condition that they move to the AL West, further alienating your dwindling fanbase. That's not even mentioning the fact that most of your fanbase can't even WACTH your team play if they don't have Comcast. But the new owner is making tons of cash!! That's awesome!! You're the UT of MLB--make more money than anyone, underachieve at a high rate!! Surprisingly low in sports IQ is supporting Houston sports teams in an argument against ours. Not another sole in the country that would agree with you outside of the Toilet to the South. Nice of you to pick out your best 15 year stretch of history, though, to support your argument for the Astros. That'd be like me telling you that from 1977 thru 2006, the Cowboys won 4 Super Bowls, went to another one, and also went to the NFC Championship Game in that stretch 9 times. 6 pro champions and 12 championship apperances versus 2* MJ-less NBA titles and 3 titles appearances.//End of Thread

I don't see it working out too well for us up there, but I just expect us to compete with Ohio for 4 quarters. They are where we want to be as an AQ program right now--one that is very competitive in their conference, goes to bowl games, and is not to be overlooked. Ohio made the decision that we eventually made with Coach Mac, to go and get a coach with skins on the wall as their head coach, instead of some unproven college assistant or, gulp, a high school coach. Their program is going in the right direction now and I pray ours will mirror theirs very soon. I think the Ball State game at home will represent our best chance at getting a 2nd OOC win. I think we are ready to compete with a team like Ball State for 4 quarters at HOME. I'm not convinced that we are ready to do that against a quality opponent on the road.

Coming from a fan of the team that is in the running for being among the worst ten teams of all time in MLB history--again--is nice. Your team is 45-93 and is only 35 games behind your Daddy in the AL West standings. If you had been in AL West the last two years it would've been the same, since you guys won a whopping 56 and 55 games. And its funny that you guys talk revisionist history. Y'all act like the Astros have been awesome for the majority of their history and the Rangers just got good recently. LEts look back over the last 25 years. The Astros have 14 winning seasons in the last 25 years, with one NL pennant (and an embarrasing sweep in the WS by Chicago) and one other NLCS appearance. The Rangers, who you guys always say just got our "lifetime" fans back in 2009, have 13 winning seasons, with 2 AL pennants (4 wins in the WS) in our two ALCS appearances. We won't even talk Texans/Oilers vs Cowboys, even with the recent improvement of your squad versus the ineptness of the Jerrah-led Cowboys. Hell, even Tony Romo has accomplished just as much as your Texans by advancing to the Divisonal Round of the Playoffs in the absolute worst stretch of history that Cowboys fans have suffered through. Think about that for a moment. In the franchise's worst stretch in its history, its still accomplished as much as the Texans have in their "glory" years. And except for the Luv Ya' Blue Oilers in 1978 and 1979, Houston has never even sniffed a Super Bowl apperance. Nice football history you have down there.

You were stupid enough to name your baseball stadium after the biggest fraud of an energy company that caused more heartache than any other company in history in Enron, so congrats on having a stadium downtown that has a train in it...because nothing says great baseball like a freaking train.

Little Danny Snyder--just as bad as a football owner as Jerrah, but without any titles or NFC championship appearances. And who roots for a team called the REDSKINS in 2013? I mean, really, is their even one other team out their that is more insensitive with their mascot than Washington? I'm gonna laugh so hard when the PC of DC finally catches up to them and they have to become the Washington Red Storm!! RG III won't last 6 games this year before he gets injured--again. The NFC East goes to either the Cowboys or Giants.

Houston sucks. Their football team is good now--finally--but even then they cannot get past the second round of the playoffs. Let's not forget that your town lost an NFL franchise that is pretty much known for the Biggest Choke Job in the History of Pro Football, the debacle to the Bills in 1993. Your baseball team has made it to one World Series where you won exactly zero games. And your basketball team won two NBA Championships when Michael Jordan decided to play baseball for two years. When he came back, the Rockets were back to normal. DFW has 12 championship appearances and 6 titles in the three major sports. Houston has 5 championship apperances and 2* titles in the three major sports. And if your city wasn't so spare, we could talk hockey, which Dallas has 1 Stanley Cup and 1 other Western Conference Championship, but your "world city" doesn't even have an NHL team, so its a moot point. Let's also not forget the All-time Greatest NCAA Championship Game, as voted by several media outlets, that involves a certain university from said town (UH) losing an absolutely unlosable game to one of the biggest Cinderellas of alltime in NC State. Nice sports city you guys have there. Its right up there with humidity, mosquitoes, and fat people, all of which you guys score very high on every year. Congrats!!

Wow, that home OOC schedule is just awful. When SFA is your marquee home game in OOC, you aren't exactly going to see the turnstiles turn at the Super Pit. I guess the AD is banking on the CUSA home games being better draws than the old SBC teams, so that it evens out in the end.

I love the dark green uniforms and the white helmet, and obviously, the flying worm is awesome. I'd love to see these uniforms come out once per year, going forward, at Homecoming for sure. I, too, am not a fan of the current shade of green, nor do I like the North Texas on the green helmet. I still think the SOW or the interlocking NT on a white helmet with a dark green jersey is the look we should strive for...which means it will never happen.

That will never happen. Only non-AQs that could go unbeaten and get in are either BYU or Boise State, just because of name recognition to the public. Even they would have to have unbeaten years while everyone else lost at least one game in the top 4. I'm seriously at the point where I am fine with the AQs taking their toys and going home. The non-AQs should band together to force much higher payouts on series with these NFL-lite programs, so either 1-1 series or you can play us for a million dollars or more for one game at your behemoth stadium. 2 for 1 gets the non-AQ at least $750K. I also think that a playoff system for non-AQs would be much easier to implement--those lower-level bowls are all owned by ESPN anyway. Give ESPN our playoff system for the month of December, when most of the non-AQs play bowls anyway, and we can have a whole month to enjoy the publicity that would come from having no other college competition for football. The AQs are going to have to always include the bowl games in their situation, whether they have a playoff or not, just because of money. Those bowl committees aren't gonna let go of their games just for the sake of a playoff system. They payout too much money because they make so much money. You can cede the last week of December and first week of January to the NFL-lites and let them continue to play each other, as they do now, but their bowl games have been in ratings decline for a while now. Sure, the Big Bowls will always be great, and if they are used as a part of their playoff system, they'll continue to do well. But, its my belief that the non-AQs are going to get left behind anyway, and when we do, we are going to have to figure out what we are going to do to get revenue and attention. The FCS-style playoff system, playing when the AQs aren't, would give college football fans something to watch and create interest from. The problem with the current FCS playoff system is solely due to the fact that nobody knows any of those teams, for the most part. If most of your non-AQs are left behind, they aren't suddenly going to lose their name recognition. UNT playing SMU in a playoff game (heck, even a conference game!!) would get some interest around here, especially if it was played when the Aggies, Longhorns, Sooners, etc..weren't playing. I wish that a schism wouldn't happen, that UNT will get to stay as FBS, that we will all get an equal chance, that cats and dogs will finally get along, and that there will never be a hungry person in the world again. But none of those are likely to happen in the future. As Kirk Herbstreit said on ESPN this past weekend, the Big AQs have sent out the first shots at separating eventually from the NCAA. When that happens, the AQs will be able to function in a completely different fashion than they currently do, from paying players legally to letting kids play for them without having to go to class. I, for one, know UNT will never be able to handle the former and would never settle, thankfully, for the latter.

Our kicking game was just as big a reason that we lost at home against Troy as DT's poor play was. We didn't have to kick any FGs against Idaho, but I suspect that this week, those opportunities for points are going to involve FGs. If we cannot make those, especially on the road, we won't win more than a few more games, IMHO. I will say this, though. DT played great, Chancellor proved to be a playmaker (again), and the defense looked good in the opener. We have two games on the schedule that we all should expect that UNT should win--this was one of them, along with UTSA later this year. I think that it is a good signthat we took care of business against a really bad team at home in a dominating fashion. To me, that shows progress. Last year, Texas Southern and South Alabama respresented those two automatic wins, but those games were oddly closer than they should have been. This Idaho game was pretty much over by the 2nd quarter.

A lot of fans come to Apogee to watch the band and then leave, especially on the alumni side. Over the years, when I have bought tickets at the door, several times I ahve heard ticket buyers that have bitched to the ticket office worker about the cost of a ticket to just watch the band play at halftime. I guess that is what happens when you have a awesome music school. For me, though, and I know I'm in the minority at UNT, the band isn't a reason why I go to a home football game in Denton.

Idaho is amongst the worst 3-4 teams in FBS right now. Beating them shouldn't get much attention by anyone outside of the teams that beat them. Ohio and Ball State are light years better than Idaho. We did what you are supposed to do to a FBS team you bought a game with--pound them. Obviously, that doesn't always happen, as the FCS wins this past weekend showed, but usually these type of games end in a bigtime whippping when the game involves a bought game between two FBS schools. Those top end FCS schools like NDSU and Eastern Washington (and, yes SHSU) are teams that non-AQs shouldn't ever schedule. As a matter of fact, I think those top FCS schools will eventually see games against FBS schools as home openers dry up. The big AQs will realize that playing Idaho or New Mexico State is as good as a win over EWU or NDSU, without the worry of their talent keeping them in the game. I guarantee you that Texas is really glad that they played NMSU this weekend at home instead of SHSU. If they had trouble with NMSU for a half of a game, Sam Houston might have hung with them for 3 quarters or more. As for us getting votes, that has no chance of happening. Even wins in the next two games wouldn't get us any votes. And I don't see us winning this week's game on the road. I see Ohio being really ready to bounce back after that pounding at Louisville. They are really good for non-AQs and they will show that this upcoming weekend. Its obvious that we have improved, but I don't see us being ready yet to win this type of game on the road. I think we will win a game or two on the road, but it will be at Tulane or USM, teams that are still really bad.

Hey Mods, why do we let trolls like this TCU douche continue to post? I'm serious--at least the UH poster has some connection here, since he used to be a student at UNT. And GL2Greatness just argues ad nauseum his points. But the TCU got is just a troll. Ignoring posters is one thing, letting the board get trolled by someone outside of here isn't what I thought this board was about. Seriously, even ignoring him, you still several replies to his stupid posts that just draw UNT discussion offsides.

I usually don't even watch halftime, but I stayed there since I didn't want to miss the All Century team being introduced. (BTW, I think Troy Redwine deserved a spot--sorry he left school as our all-time receiving leader in 1995, plus he caught the game-winning TD with just a few seconds left to beat Oregon State in our return to 1-A). I thought the Green Brigade was awesome at halftime, and yes, because of this board, I noticed that their shirts and shorts all matched. Again, marching bands aren't my thing, but they had a great routine as far as I was concerned.

If there is a lick of truth to what Eric Russell said about the coaches from the DD regime being removed, per RV's orders, I suspect that Dodge was doomed from the start. Seriously, I doubt this is true. NO AD worth his salt would ever do this to a new coach. I'm no RV fan, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here, even when I don't want to. Its just too ludicrous to think that RV would order Todd Dodge to not keep even one coach from the previous regime. Even for recruiting purposes and for some sense of stability, usually at least 1-2 coaches fromt he previous regime will stick around. It looks to me as if the head coach chose not to keep any of those old assistant coaches around, rather he went after high school coaches that he knew really well. And that led to a 2-10 record in the first year under a HS defensive coordiantor that cannot even keep a job in high school today, all with a decent amount of defensive talents left behind by Dickey. Remember that Dickey's teams didn't struggle defensively, they just couldn't score points, which usually led to a defense that eventually wore down by the 4th quarter against most non-AQ opponents in his last two years.

I didn't get to see any of the 10pm newscasts last night. Did we get any coverage or mentions at all? I figured that the 100 years of football celebration might get us some mentions. Did the DMN or FWST give us any press?

Honestly, we are exactly where we should be when you put together everything that the WSJ used for their graph. Our record in the last 8 years is 19-64. The 19 wins are over these powerhouses: MUTS (2), ULL (2), ULM (2), FIU (1), FAU (3), Texas Southern (1), South Alabama (1), WKU (3), Troy (1), Ball State (1), Indiana (1), and SMU (1--with Phil Bennett as head coach). That is embarrasing and weak...

I actually think this was the NCAA telling the AQ teams and their networks that they are going to help them out even more so that they won't leave. But its still just a matter of time. The NCAA is a dying organization for college football that involves AQ teams and conferences. Just like with a college football playoff, once these schools and conferences finally saw the $$$ available to them, it was just a matter of time before it got adopted--the same thing will happen to the NCAA getting left behind by the AQs.

People can say that CUSA isn't much better than the SBC, but it is lights year better for us. The CUSA name carries weight in the area, since they are headquartered here. FSSW never even thought about doing anything UNT related until now. What changed? I mean we didn't improve at all on our record and our schedule isn't stronger this year than last year. The only answer is CUSA membership.

I can see it now... The Mean Green Sports Hour...now in Technocolor!!

Well, after Bower, they hired the guy who is at UNC now. And they were very good under him. It just looks as if the guy they brought in was just in way over his head. They will be better, but I don't think they will go from 0-12 to 6-6 in one year. I think a 3-4 game improvement would signal a bright future again in Hattiesburg.

WAY to go NCAA and A&M!!! That will show him!! I mean, really, Johnny Football, you either got away with thousands of dollars in your pockets to miss out the first half of your opening game (at home) against Rice in 100+ degree heat, OR you did not take the money, signed autographs for the sake of being a nice guy (doubtful) and your reward is to miss the opening half of your season opener. Ridiculous... Meanwhile, to make this UNT centric, if Brelan Chancellor signed a cast for a kid's broken leg that he suffered in a car crash that made him an orphan, Chancellor would never see the field again and we would lose 5 scholarships for the next decade... To paraphrase the old Jerry Tarkanian line about the NCAAs hypocrisy: The NCAA has found improprieties committed at Texas A&M, so North Texas better be ready for their upcoming probation penalties...

UNT90 leads because he posts a lot and he posts the truth a lot... You may like his style, but he points out the fact that our team is not highly ranked in recruiting, that our offense is very conservative, that our DL is not deep, that Benford has been a disaster as our BB coach, that RV didn't deserve a 5-year extension when you look at our W/L % in money sports, that our administration and BOR have not historically cared about athletics at all, and that our OOC scheduling in football is the worst thing our AD does. Those are not opinions that are hard to back up.