Mean Green 93-98

Troy was 8-4 last year (6-1 SBC), and still sat at home. It could happen again.

That's a lot of cabbage for UNT to be paying a women's basketball coach! I hope we are gradually able to increase coaches' salaries across the board to bring us at least somewhere in the ballpark with the "big boys."

The 2006 Mean Green whups up on the 2007 Mean Green every time.

From a CBS Sportsline blog: This just in: Mark Cuban's insane And I like Mark Cuban, most of the time anyway. But firing Avery Johnson was a stupid knee-jerk reaction to a problem that wasn't of Johnson's creation. Unless it turns out that Johnson was the primary force behind the season-killing trade of Devin Harris for Jason Kidd, he just took the fall for the Dallas front office, which thought older-and-slower was the best way to win the wicked West. New Orleans' Chris Paul blew a hole in that theory, running circles around decrepit Kidd, and Avery Johnson is the one who pays with a pink slip? Unacceptable. Avery Johnson didn't go from coaching savant to idiot overnight. But if there's any karma in the NBA, the Mavericks will go from the playoffs to the lottery as quickly as Johnson went from coach of the year to unemployment. Who's next in Dallas? No clue, but I hear Louisville's Rick Pitino has had his eye on an NBA return for some time. Neither side will confirm this -- in fact Pitino's spokesman flatly denies it -- but I've been told by multiple sources on the periphery that a representative of Pitino spoke with the Miami Heat about their recent opening. Don't be surprised if Pitino speaks with Cuban about this one. Link

Most (if not all) of the offending Cowboys you mention committed said offenses after they were brought to the Cowboys. It is difficult to blame an owner or GM when those types of problems arise on a team if there was no indicator that certain players were trouble waiting to happen. But Jerry Jones is walking right into this one eyes wide open. I don't wish any ill on him (or on Pacman), but he really deserves whatever he gets this time.

That would have been an interesting conversation to hear between those two.

Mighty well-played!

Now that is quoteworthy!

. . . and Romo went to Eastern Illinois, not Eastern Washington. But the point is well taken.

You are crack smoking if you think Landry would have let Septien stay with the Cowboys after these charges had been made and substantiated.

So do you allow your team to be full of thugs? Is there any cutoff point where you say, "We are not going to tolerate our players being criminals"? Really? As SE-66 noted above, under Tex Schramm and Tom Landry, the Cowboys always had the "squeaky clean or gone" reputation. Cowboys players were known as exemplary. Still true? No? Then it is accurate to say that the star has been tarnished. Now it is other teams who have a reputation for jettisoning players who cannot live within the basic confines of the law. He has had some good success. He is a brilliant businessman. But there is no doubt that the Cowboys' reputation has gone downhill. Many people would love to have Jerry Jones as the owner of their team; others would not want him touching their team with a 10 foot pole. Even in and around Dallas, I know many longtime Cowboy fans (and you probably do too) who won't have anything to do with the Cowboys any more. Great player, no doubt. But I think taking players like this continues to shape the face of the franchise into something less than desirable.

Sounds good, but I assume Coach Dodge is still calling the assistant coaches off limits to the press(?)

No, I believe he said just what he meant.

I would wholly expect us to be competitive with the best teams in the Belt next year. In the big picture of 1-A football, that may still be mediocre; but relative to our past few years, that would be great.

Some of those are hilarious!

Loaded is an awfully strong word. We will still be thin at OL. It wouldn't be out of the question to see a player switch sides, but I personally would not expect a major effort to move players from the OL to shore up the DL. It still remains a good question which side of the line Troy Franklin will play on.

I'm not OldTimer, but Harry's the one you want to talk to. Shoot him a PM.

That is ridiculous. In a very good way.

Thanks--yes, it's coming back to me now. He was a great player.

Sad. The kid had promise as a player.

Remind me, who is Umar Muhammad? Didn't he have a non-Muslim name when he was at UNT?

So should our helmet stickers be talons or SOW?

Pretty witty!

Pretty minor compared to some of the damage I caused during that time!

It really went downhill just during my time at UNT. I thought it was a really nice hotel in 93-94, but it seemed like they really cut back some time after that.