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  1. Do you know even understand how unpopular your post is in this town? I will venture to say that a great majority of the UNT family (students, alumni, administration, faculty, and local citizenry) cares MUCH MORE about the Green Brigade than they do about the Mean Green... We love music here!!
  2. TCU will be better than SMU next year...just sayin' As for us, if we had kept our momentum going last year instead of the derailment that occurred, I could've see us matched up against Baylor instead of Colorado, who will bring no one to Arlington. But even that is questionable. People in the Metroplex just don't think of us with stuff like this--its the old SWC mentality that continues to haunt us when it comes to local media and promoters. We just exacerbate the issue by just accepting it as the status quo and not really fighting it. The 1-aa debacle from 1982-1994 sums that acceptance perfectly, in my opinion.
  3. We never got invited because you and SMU already had the DFW market covered. Back when pro cities actually cared about private schools, SMU and Rice had it good. TCU always got the full support of FW residents, since it wasn't a pro town and they felt slighted by Dallas. TCU has it good now that they found their diamond-in-the-rough in Gary Patterson. He is a perfect fit for that school and town. It wasn't always that way, though. I don't know if it has ever occurred to you about this, but its not exactly hard to take $hit to UNT fans about our football team. Your rival is SMU, plus you have long histories with Baylor, Tech, and Texas, so you being here to talk crap about us is very telling. As a matter of fact, even SMU doesn't have fans coming over here to trash talk and they are actually on the schedule for a long time in the future. I find it funny that you spend your time over here doing that, though. It makes me think you probably do this sort of thing in other areas of life, too. I imagine you being the guy who scoreboards the homeless guy as you pass him on the street. Youre the guy who laughs at the special ed bus as it drives by your leased BMW. Youre a special kind of loser, to me. I wouldn't even think about going over to New Mexico State's board right now to make fun of them. It wouldn't have crossed my mind to have ever done that when we actually were decent in the 2002-2004 seasons, either, to any of the other SBC schools. If someone from SMU comes over here to trash talk, I would understand that perfectly, just as I would anyone from a non-AQ conference. But you guys did it right at TCU and built yourselves up from the ashes to a point where your status in today's college football world is on very solid ground. It just makes no sense that you would come over to make fun of our downtrodden football program. Baylor fans, Tech fans, Texas fans, OU and OSU fans, and Aggie fans don't ever come over here to do what you constantly do. Youre a troll, I know, but I'm holding out hope that you might actually read this and realize that you look like a true piece of crap when you post here in the fashion that you do. We know we have troubles here, both self-inflicted (mainly) and market-wise. But talking trash and making fun of a program that pays its coach 600k while you pay yours well over $2million is just a sliver of the difference between the two programs. Go talk crap to SMU fans on ponyfans.com--they actually play you and they pay their coach in the same financial ballpark, too. We get that you all are included in the AQ cartel and we aren't and won't ever be in that group. It sucks for us and its great for you. Just show a little class about it--like the other AQs seem to do when we read their posts over here.
  4. I watched Arkansas State, under Steve Roberts, go into Kyle Field and beat Texas A&M in Mike Sherman's first year. It wouldn't surprise me at all if SMU wins this game and that Tech wins about 4 games this year. Tech had to gamble with Kingsbury to get thier Leach fans back on board--but the guy has never been a head coach ever. There 's a big difference between being a QB coach or OC over Case Keenum or Johnny Football and recruiting to Lubbock. I don't see this one working at well for Tech at all. They are going to look back on their days under Mike Leach as their golden years, even if they never won a conference title under him. They schedule OOC softer than most of our pillows each year, so that gives you 3 wins easy every year. They play SMU, Texas State, and SFA as their OOC schedule--that's awesome for UNT, but that's ridiculous for a Big XII school. Tech's best days are loooonnnnggg gone, and hiring a former QB who has zero HC experience from their "geinus" coach that they fired for insubordination screams desperation to me. Maybe it will work, but I suspect that Baylor, TCU, and OSU will benefit the most from Tech taking a number of steps backward from 2008.
  5. If I could giuve you a +infinity, I would. You win the interent with this post!! We like arts and music and education at North Texas (State)--always have, always will. When you like those ventures over athletics, you get what you pay for. The majority of fans of the arts and music programs at the university don't care much at all for UNT Sports. Probably works the other way, too. I like that we have a great reputation for our music school, but it doesn't make me want to go watch a performance of those students with dozens of others. I like sports--like most guys. I like football and basketball--like most guys. I watch sports, both on TV and in person. I don't watch jazz recitals on TV or attend art exhibits--its just not me. BUt the university I attended and graduated from puts way more love and attention on those endeavors than they ever want to do on athletics. And so does the town that the university sits in. We like events that are pointed to gathering dozens, rather than thousands. And we attract donors in the same vein, in dozens rather than in thousands. And for a school with 36k students and the hundreds of thousands of alums in the area, it seems rather obvious that you could/would/should have so much more if you put an emphasis on an area that is known to attract those thousands, of which there are a high percentage of men, who traditionally like sports, pay to watch it, and become fans for life. Maybe its that way with these other areas, too, but I doubt you get many teachers, band directors, or artists that give much back to the university financially, as compared to the Texas schools that do put a high priority on athletics. All I know is that it usually from this subset of fans that we hear that UNT should stop funding barbaric football and that those students who like such a barbaric sport should just go to UT, A&M or Tech. Funny thing about that--they still go to UNT and give their money and fandom to the other schools because they know that UNT doesn't want their full attention as a fan. And the commuter school connection continues, even if the commuter school tag is finally dying off more and more as the years go by.
  6. The Southland included schools like McNeese State, Nicholls State, SHSU, SFA, Northwestern State, and Northeast Louisiana and Southwest Texas State. Not a fan in the Metroplex cared a bit about those podunk schools, especially in Denton. The SWC was still running very strong, as was the Big Eight, at that time. If you are forced out of FBS, a conference setup like I posted above is light years ahead of the Southland Conference. The 1-aa Southland Conference, while playing at Fouts, and being led by Dennis Parker straight out of Marshall High School is the low point for this university's football program. We were playing those schools mentioned, while our colleagues in the Metroplex and across the state were enjoying Division 1-a football. Today, unlike 30 years ago, many of those SWC schools and other close regional teams that were all i-a at the time and never even dreamed of playing UNT at Fouts, are now in a situation where they are going to get left out, too. Look, it sucks to be a have not--we have always been that. But those other schools, except ULM or Texas State, have any idea what i-aa was like in this area of the world during the 80s and 90s. This have-not status is really going to suck for them--just like it did for us in 1982. But they won't have to play against teams that literally no one had heard of before unless you had a family member attend one of those schools. If we have to find the silver lining on a dark cloud of reclassification, it should be that we will play teams that people in Denton have heard of before and only dreamed of being in a conference with for decades. The Top 70 or 80 schools may just get all of the attention and the rest of us won't get anything of any major note when that reclassification occurs. Wait, come to think of it, that's exactly how it is today. I just think that a new level of FCS that includes the bottom 40 schools at FBS and the top 40 schools of FCS now would still be able to garner some attention from fans today. Playing Western Kentucky now doesn't bring much in attendance to Apogee, but I doubt it would be much different if we play them as a FCS team again. The people who want to watch UNT play and win will still show up and the people who want to watch Texas, A&M, OU, Tech, Notre Dame, etc...play during our games will still do the same as well. Those teams have the fans that we won't ever have--they have had a 50 to a 100 year start on us. It is what it is--we aren't going to be able to gain inclusion into the AQ class with the ways are stacked against us, both from our own choosing (past and present) and because of the other schools that are near us that have protected their turf so strongly against us. If we hadn't let the first 1-aa catch us, or at least got out of it as soon as possible, we would not necessarily be considered a have-not. But that's water under the bridge now. We just have to accept that the reality for our university is as an outsider in the realm of big time college athletics. And with the way things are going in college athletics, being an outsider today is an even bigger group than it was back in 1981 when the i-aa net caught us and took so long to get out of.
  7. The thing is that the Big XII is very unstable, though. All its gonna take is one the big schools to leave and you are going to have chaos. KU, OU, and UT are the big prizes, but OSU, Tech, and KSU may get included with their big brothers. West Virginia will find a home, too, probably in the ACC eventually. But for Iowa State, Baylor, and TCU, there is not much that any of them can do to make it into an AQ league. IF TCU gets knocked back out of AQ, at least they have been used to it. As I have said all along, no two schools are walking on banana peels over their graves like Iowa State and Baylor. ISUs new home is either the MWC or the MAC. Baylor is either MWC or AAC. Either way, its a far drop down from where they are. TCU could go back to the MWC and its fans wouldn't be happy, but they've been used to that league and those teams. Baylor fans may commit a mass suicide if this came to pass...Ken Starr might just sue every single team in an AQ league at that point, plus the NCAA, the federal government, etc...
  8. Its even worse than what happened here, if you can believe it.
  9. I think the biggest difference between the MWC and CUSA, from a national viewpoint, is that you have some teams in there that are very well respected and well regarded. Boise State will not get left out of an AQ system with the Big 5--they will get absorbed. I suspect that other schools in the MWC will get included, too. To me, the better comparison is between the MWC and the AAC. CUSA is to be compared to the MAC and SBC. These teams in non-AQ leagues still have a chance to be included with the AQs when the future schism occurs: BYU, Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, UNLV, Nevada, Houston, Cincinnati, USF, UCF, ECU, and UConn All 12 of those schools won't make it obviously, but I think they have a better chance of making the cut because of their size and their TV markets, plus their history of being good to great in the money sports. As TFLF has accurately posted many times, we were just too late tot he game. We built a fine stadium in Denton--it was just built about 20 years too late. The i-aa fiasco for 12 freaking years was the ultimate punch to the gut. We have gotten up off the mat, but we are still very wobbly and the decision of the judges has pretty much been made. The only chance you have at this point is to basically have a few seasons that are BCS Bowl worthy, like Boise State did, not like Northern Illinois or Hawaii did. started immediately. There is just no way our program is anywhere near that level. You have to beat everyone on the schedule and barely lose by less than a TD at Georgia to even have a prayer of a BCS bid. The brightspot in all of this is that this schism will force these conferences in a new FCS to be more regionalized, for cost purposes. If we end up in a conference with other regional teams, that would still create interest in UNT games, even if it was at a lower level, just because the names would be more familiar. Plus, I think the FCS playoff system is miles better than the bowl system, so you would have some added interest on that front, too. If you have SMU, RIce, Tulsa, Tulane, ULM, ULL, La Tech, Arky State, UTSA, Texas State, UNT, and UTEP, it would be a nicer setup in a conference than we have ever had. Even if a team like SMU just quit, you could add NMSU. It may not be what many here want to read, but the reality is that this scenario is 100x more likely to play out than us getting included in an AQ system that will tighten up its ranks very soon.
  10. I am right there with you. Its sad to me that people expect that to be a dogfight. Even losing a ton of starters to injuries should put us at even with a team that just moved up to FBS. I'm sorry but this is like playing Sam Houston State. Sure, SHSU is a great FCS program, but there is no excuse for losing to them as a FBS program. Upsets happen, but a new startup program at this level shouldn't be able to even compete with a program that has been playing FBS ball since 1995.
  11. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/calipari-rails-against-ncaa-one-023044010--ncaab.html Another AQ big name that is expressing the idea of leaving the NCAA as a possibility.
  12. I don't blame their fans for this. Wake Forest had a coach, Dino Gaudio, that got them to the NCAA Tournament, but then fired him so that they could hire Jeff Bzdelik from Colorado. Never mind that Bzdelik had never done anything at Colorado. After he left CU, they hired Tad Boyle, who has gotten CU to the postseason in every season he has been there. Meanwhile, Wake Forest has become a has been in the ACC, never making the NCAA tournamnet after years of being there under Dave Odom, Skip Prosser, and Dino Gaudio. Their AD totally killed their basketball program from its lofty standards.
  13. FIU and FAU are in the same positions as the non-AQ and non-AAC teams in Texas, from a talent perspective in the high schools. You have to have the right coach who can identify that talent and recruit it to your campus, then coach it to be better. What often happens in these cases is that the AD of those schools comes in and wants their guy or cannot get along with the football coach. Cristobal and Dickey both got fired because they had losing seasons, but also because their ADs couldn't stand them. What happens after that is that the AD thinks he can hire a better fit, but that is a very dangerous move, as evidenced here in Denton. Cristobal turned down the Pitt job, IIRC, but his loyalty to FIU lasted all of one year. I don't see FIU bouncing back all that quickly from making a poor decision like that. Usually, when schools do that, it blows up in their face.
  14. Ohio State's AD basically stated similar views, as did Big Ten's Jim Delany recently. They aren't exactly southern...
  15. OK--Cristobal didn't deserve to get fired. He single-handedly built that program up from the trash heap. He did what we HOPE McCarney will do here. Having one bad year isn't enough to warrant a firing after you've won a bowl game and became a team that people actually knew about outside of the SBC. In that way, its very similar to Dickey. He finally built up the program to the top of the SBC and then had a 2-9 year. He shouldn't have been fired after that 2005 season, but once the 2006 disaster followed, it became very apparent that our program was in full meltdown. He deserved to be fired after the 2006 season. Dodge deserved to be fired after Year 2, but I understood the reasoning behind a third year, since he was trying to rebuild here with a totally differnet offense. But, after Year 3, any other school would have fired him. NOt here, which is what Emmit is getting at. We don't have expectations here for on-field performance--we have expectations for cost. Nothing more, nothing less. Just like this year, if McCarney has a bad year (say we only win 3-4 games), I still believe he will get his 4th year because it would cost the university money to buy him and get someone else. I really think he has to worry about losing his job after this season if we lose 10 games or more, which really shouldn't happen. UTSA and Idaho should be absolute wins, no matter how we try to convince ourselves otherwise. If you cannot win at least one more game agains tthe rest of the schedule, you should get fired. And if you don't accomplish that amazingly small hurdle, and still keep your job for a 4th season, no one can argue the point anymore that we care about anything but the $$$ of running a program.
  16. It isn't foolish to pencil this game in as a win. They beat the absolute dregs of FBS last year in Idaho and NMSU, as well as Texas State and South Alabama. I'm sorry, but the only win of that bunch that even interests me is Texas State, and that's only because they are in the same place as UTSA. I know we only beat Louisana-Lafayette for the one win that stood out last year, but we are better than UTSA. Losing to them is absolutely unacceptable. Barely beating them, even in San Antonio, is barely acceptable. Losing to a team like Idaho this fall wouldn't be as bad as losing to UTSA. If we cannot even expect to beat UTSA, we should really just quit FBS play. I'm not kidding. If you cannot beat a program in its third year of existence, after you've been playing football at some level for many decades, it should be very apparent to even the biggest UNT fan that this just isn't our cup of tea. I'm sorry, but this is an absolute w in my mind. I will write that in ink.
  17. The issue with antitrust is that the schools that control most of the powers legislatively are from those AQ powers already. They control the statehouse, they represent their states in DC, and the networks pay for them. Schools like SMU, Tulane, Southern Miss, Central Florida, etc...don't have enough pull to get their interests protected against Texas, LSU, Ole Miss, and Florida State. Then, you look at schools like FIU, Arky State, ULL, and UNT and they have even less pull than the schools I mentioned above. I actually am fine with a Super Conference forming--the d-league of NFL and NBA. Thats what they want and the money is behind that. Let the rest of us play each other on a more fair scale.
  18. UTSA is going to be lucky to win 2 games this year. I actually think if they do that, that Coker shoudl be in the running for Coach of the Year. No way that they have a team ready for that kind of jump in competition. For comparison sake, in 1995, after we played 1-aa ball for 12 years and had been a 1-a team for many decades before, our limited roster won 2 games as 1-a team again in 1995. That included a win over Oregon State and Idaho State. UTSA is going into the next year playing much better teams than they have ever played. It won't surprise me if they go 0-12 this fall. But I agree with the article--they might be something down the road, but for now, they are nobodies. Any FBS team that loses to them this year should really be embarrassed and fire their coach. That's what Oregon State di when we beat them in 1995--a loss that their alums believe is the worst loss in modern school history and was their low point to build inot being a very solid program today.
  19. If UH gets in the Big XII, its only because UT lets them in. No one else gets to say yes--just UT. UT was forced to take TCU when Neinas was the Big XII commissioner because the non-Texas schools wanted another team in Texas to play and keep their recruiting base down here very open. They won't be so open about adding in UH, a school with decidedly more advantages than little ol' TCU. Unless... Let's say Texas knows that they are welded to the Big XII thru the GOR that is signed until 2025. But they know that the Big XII feels like SWC 2.0 right now and is getting more marginalized as time goes on. The state of Texas is a big state, but the other states tied to the conference are small and don't bring many TV sets. The exceptions seem to be OU Football and KU basketball. But both schools appear tied to their little brothers in their states, although KU appears to ahve less ties binding them with KSU than OU has with OSU and T. Boone Pickens' wealth. So Texas knows that it is the hottest girl in these parts and the suitors would normally just form a line to the left and take them if it were that easy. But, for so many reasons, its not. Texas cannot go anywhere with the kryptonite bomb known as the LHN, so the suitors will stay away until that gets removed, either by UT or ESPN. Lets assume they get rid of the LHN, though. That doesn't solve anything, though, for Texas to move anywhere--they still have the "Tech problem" and the Baylor lawsuit issue. Add in TCU's limited pull to help Tech and Baylor and you have quite a grip, so to speak, by that trio on Texas' private parts. However, if Texas looked at this objectively and in a long-term fashion, adding UH may actually help their cause to eventually leave. Follow me on this. If UH, and Cincy, got added to the Big XII, you can get a CCG again for the league. It would keep its AQ status and would have some big TV markets added in Houston (which they already control, but they did in DFW, too) and Cincinnati. Texas could then leave the Big XII for another landing spot, without being dependent on taking the cousins nobody wants. The B1G already said no way to Texas, via its infamous "Tech problem" email that disqualifies them because of their low academics. The Pac-12 wants Texas, so they would actually take Texas and the Okie schools to get them, but they won't take Baylor because of its religious views. So Baylor, knowing all of this, and seeing the LHN basically pulling UT down, goes ahead and starts building a new stadium, based on revenues from being in an AQ conference with the current Texas schools. As soon as that first bond gets sold, Baylor is even more welded to UT--unless Texas has another big state school in place that helps keep the conference AQ and agrees to play Baylor in OOC games, which is what it will take to get Baylor covered. Plus, you leave Tech with the same deal if you don't go west, but instead head north to the Big Ten, which I still believe is their only option left that carries enough weight to overcome the huge advantage A&M got over everyone by moving to the SEC by themselves with recruits and your fanbase. That would leave 11 schools in the Big XII at that point, which means replacing one school would not be difficult if it kept its AQ status. Texas might just be the fox watching the henhouse by adding UH to the conference. The hens in the state might think they are living in a great shack, but the fox might just get away with everything it really wants. With the way things are going, the Big XII is going to be on life support. Their home schedule is just awful to sell tickets to right now, as compared to A&Ms. If recruiting continues to go the way it did this year and beyond with A&Ms SEC advantage, Texas is gonna have to do something--but they are going to have to be stealthy about it. Otherwise, Tech and Baylor are going to dig in even more. They already got in the Big XII on the backs of Texas and A&M back in 1995. Neither of those schools wanted the Aggies to leave, but the Aggies used the LHN as their way out of the Big XII. Now, Baylor and Tech know that Texas is the big dog. And they aren't about to let the dog get off the leash.
  20. I agree with the first part of your post a lot. But I wouldn't hold my breath on that last sentence...
  21. If we lose to UTSA this year, I'm not just pissed--ther ebetter be major changes at either the head coaching level and/or the AD. Otherwise, I'm out. No way that should happen with where we are as a program and where they are at. We shouldn't lose to them for many years ahead, but if we lose this year, that is my line in the sand being crossed.
  22. I agree here, except that we only bend over for those AQ giants at their place. We need the money... The only way the Cotton Bowl or JerryWorld should everhave to be used is to schedule a game here against a huge national power that Apogee wouldn't contain. Obviously, Texas, OU, A&M, and Arkansas already play here, but its teams like that who I am thinking about. Suppose for a moment that we scheduled Nebraska or LSU. Apogee, in all its greatness, won't fit that crowd, most likely. BUt this is all a mott point--we aren't scheduling any team like that anytime soon to play anywhere near Denton. Our home OOC games for the next decade will feature SMU, Army, and either a Texas FCS team or a team like Idaho. I still think the AD should look at getting a series going with the northern BIg XII schools (or ex- BIg XII North schools). Games at home against Nebraska, Mizzou, or COlorado will get those teams exposure in the state again. The Kansas schools and Iowa State aren't going to turn down another chance to play in the Metroplex, even if they have a game in Ft. Worth every other year.
  23. I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I agree with Andrew. Peters left KU because of ongoing concussion reasons. He comes back home to get his health back in check and be close to his family. He gets that cleared and Kansas, who is bringing in a while new group of starters says "Don't bother...". So it would seem UNT made a ton of sense. He will not play much at Arizona, I'll guarantee it right now. Arizona has some talented big men and recruits big time. He'll be a backup for the rest of his career. Here, he would've started and gotten to be close to home. This isn't so much a win for Arizona as it is a loss for UNT. He could have helped here bigtime; in Arizona, he'll just be a bit player.
  24. I have to hand it to you. You are the most positive poster I have ever read on gmg.com.
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