Green Mean

Is it weird that a statement like this came out? It seems during GM's NIT run the rumors were there but nothing was really and truly confirmed or spoken about officially until after the tournament.

I also think it's a school that if you are having success then it's a stepping stone to an even bigger profile job and opportunity.

That's fair. But at some point the school, administration, AD etc need to re-assess everything and realize that we are a pretty good basketball school and we've had legitimate and quantifiable success in it and if we shift our priorities and resources more towards it then greater things can happen. It doesn't mean we completely ignore football but let's have basketball as the catalyst of everything else. Tough I know but it's what we should strive towards to IMO.

This search must be extensive and wide. We are now a very good and very desirable mid-major program with 45K+ students located in a top 4 media market. This search should not be taken lightly, and I hope Mosely doesn't eff this up. We are and should be a basketball school.

It's probably not what people want to see and here but given the blowback that has happened and how outsiders giggled at this, I don't think this would ever happens again here...at least I hope.

To be fair, this isn't the reason why he is leaving. He's going to get a major pay raise and play in a major conference that NT can't even think about matching. And I might be wrong here, but I think even in the AAC standards, Hodge doesn't get as much as others.

I think highly of Hodge and think he's a great and will be a great coach for a big program down the line but I feel it may be a bit early no? Obviously from a financial standpoint, he's setting up wealth for a few generations by going now but if I'm a WVU fan I'm not sure I love this hire. McCasland was here for 6 years and did way more than Hodge before he left. That said I have no ill will towards him or anybody in the business. As a former radio giant and scholar and current podcaster used to say..."it's called the way it is."

What a let down and crap of a first half. There seemed to be a little more buzz in the arena given the record, a Saturday game and UTSA as the opponent. Yeah their defense hasn't been great but the offense has been completely clueless and careless. FIX THIS SHIT RICH!!

For a 4K crowd it was pretty lively but would have hoped more students come out since the semester has already started. I don't know why we can't have better attendance for MBB. It's the best product we have and it's a sport and experience you can cater to the masses including the casuals. It's indoors, in-game experience is decent, games are done in about 2 hours and more times than not you're going to see the home team win. I know we have longstanding attendance issues and apathy, but I really think the university should do whatever it takes and latch on to basketball and just pouring all the resources and marketing to it.

He also knows the landscape of college athletics in this country and overlooking that is also part of his job description and whether he likes it or not he has to care.

I think it would be rare to see a college football HC hire for less than a 5 year contract so it would make sense.

It might not be the worst idea from a NT standpoint b/c imagine getting beat like this at home against them....it'll be 10x worse.

I think because if we can ever figure it out and know and understand how to run a proper athletics program then I do think anything is possible. I don't mean to say that there isn't upside here and things cannot change but taking out the financial part of things, the fact that this school hardly ever makes the right hire is just baffling. It feels that so many other schools with so much less are able to do so much more and it just takes finding and hiring the right coaches and program builders.

DATCU has never had a sellout. Attendance has ALWAYS been poor when you consider how many students and alumni we have. I don't think going to the game next week is going to matter because there won't be more than 15-20K as per the usual. The only thing that will move the needle is the big donors pushing back and/or we somehow find a few big rich ones that have even an ounce of desire to support NT athletics. Despite school size, market, location etc, NT is just in athletics purgatory. It will be the same thing next year...ticket prices and MGSF donation raised so we can try to keep up without giving the fans anything to really be excited about and another year of false hope that turns into yet another dud.

Even the halftime show guys are laughing at us.

True but I think if you take out the generous picks Morris threw, I think we would have really routed them with the score reflecting that IMO.

The Todd Dodge era had several games that would have been the most embarrassing lost for almost every other FBS program. But OU definitely sticks out, giving up 77 to Rice, I think Tulsa had dismantling of us which might have been in Denton and probably several more.

Serious question...if there's another 5-7 season, does Mosley have the strength to fire EM and/or does the athletics department have the financial resources to even do that?

Let's just spend all of our extra resources on basketball and become a plus mid major power. This is embarrassing by any measure even if we were playing Georgia.

I thought if game was somewhat competitive throughout that even with us losing at the end, it may lead to people being interested in coming to games for at least a few weeks. This half just killed any hopes of that happening.

I wasn't really speaking of the facilities and those areas that we have made strides in to at least catch up. I was mainly speaking of on the field results. If fans, students, casual Denton residents go to games and continue to see losses and more times than not being an butt whipping then it's not going to be good and make them want to keep on coming back. As I've been saying we just haven't had the kind of sustained success some of these other programs have had and that's why we continue to have apathy.

Hayden Fry hasn't been here for 45 years. Life and times are vastly different now. The fan base that lived through those Fry years can't keep on having the barometer of what Fry did or didn't do and think things are the same today. As I previously said, there's apathy here because there just hasn't been very much to be proud about and cheer about when it comes to NT Football in my opinion.