Green Mean

They don't have to learn/know how to recruit Texas. If you can just recruit period and are a good coach that can sell your ideas and the program then I could really care less where you're coming from. I just want the best possible candidate coming here. It's not hard to recruit Texas because there's a plethora of players and talent here. It's having a good system in place and learning how to develop players to create a consistency of winning.

On the bright side the more losses he piles up the better the chance he'll get canned right? Right?

He's milking it for whatever he can and I don't blame him. He knows he'll never get another HC job at any level and will be lucky to get a decent assistant spare coach job at a good university. Believe he's said many times he'll be retiring on the beach in Florida and he has absolutely no reason to go away at this point on his own.

What an egotistical fool this guy is.

Not confirmed but I believe he wanted to stick around because he was from the area and if he did and continued to be successful at FIU that he would essentially have a chance at his dream job at Miami since that was his alma mater if I recall.

60K? The park now has 50K and you can make the argument even that's a bit too big but I wouldn't build anything past 50 at the most. A downtown stadium is my wish as well where we can see the city buildings when the roof is open. Being in Arlington I think both cities/areas have supported them. I think a downtown stadium in Dallas would be ideal where fans can take the rail to game and back. Plus majority of the population is on that side in addition to the corporate avenues you can take advantage of in Dallas all the way up north to Plano etc. Once the gas prices increased and traffic became awful most of the North Dallas and above stopped going to games and I think a move would bring them back. I'd also make sure the stadium is in a location in downtown where the TRE goes straight there so you can keep the FW crowd interested. You offer the deal that for anyone that buys any type of ticket plans, they'll also include free train passes for all the gamedays as an added perk. We know in the near future Arlington won't have any type of viable mass transportation going to the games which I think hurts attendance for the Rangers. I think this would help with attendance during years the teams are struggling as well because they won't be as far, the stadium will have a roof, and they'll have access to getting there through the rail if they so wish. I believe the lease runs out on the park in about 10 years so there's still a little bit of time left but I imagine ownership will begin to start conversations within the next 5 years to get something done because as much as I love the park and how beautiful it is I think they'll want a build a new one with a roof somewhere.

Toledo is located in a region that has quite a bit of talent in football from what I understand.

He's a complete idiot when he talks hockey in addition to him dressing like a moron but ok that's his bit so let it be. He is VERY Canadian and he doesn't really have any positive thoughts or use of of people outside of North America. It's well documented he's pretty much an elitist, bigot, racist etc. I've heard him numerous times speak not so fondly about hockey overseas and he has major favoritism to the North American brand in addition to North American players usually. My GF is Canadian and I've spent a ton of time in Canada and I can assure you that most of the people there I've ever spoken too all think Don Cherry is a complete idiot and are embarrassed that he's considered/labeled like Canadian royalty. I've often heard the comparison of Don Cherry being like what John Madden is here and I don't know how one can come up with that comparison but it is what it is I guess. As for the Stars I'm excited for the season to start just because I love hockey but I'm a little cautious in what to expect b/c they did not have a great preseason. I get it's preseason but this team hasn't proven itself yet and so far haven't been good enough to say it's just preseason we'll be fine in the regular season. I won't pretend to act like I've seen all the games etc but I've just seen small doses and I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't concerned at all.

Don Cherry is a clown indeed. In fact most of the Canadians I've interacted with think he's a clown as well. It's almost as if people like him because they have to like him not because they want to like him.

I can't see Hitch being successful with personnel that is almost the opposite of what he wants in his system. We always hear good coaches can and should adapt but I tend to feel the total opposite. Coaches typically have the biggest ego that's too big for their sake and they'll always want to have their guys that can execute the type of style they want their team to play. And based on his first stint in Dallas several players were worn out on Hitch but because they were a special bunch and kept on winning that kinda cured a lot. We don't have to look that far just go the football board and you'll see the arrogance displayed.

If the Rangers ever moved to downtown and I could take the rail to games I'd probably buy season tickets without question and I think many people would that live in Collin County.

Wandy Rodriguez. Never can have too much pitching.

#Ace

Not off to a great start

Because Portland State is FCS I can see the coaching staff and players going all out to get a win but other than that I don't think this team is capable of winning anything the rest of the way. This feels like Todd Dodge levels all over again.

While we're at it let's please not forget #FIREBENFORD

Very winnable game tonight. Tolleson had no business being out there 4th straight night and I said that when Banny made that decision. Texas had their chances but couldn't capitalize. They have to take it tomorrow and jump on Santiago.

I don't have reservations on Ruff necessarily but I think it's really important for Dallas to get off to a good start or at least good enough to where they're buried in the first month or so and they're trying to play catch-up the rest of the season especially in a very difficult west. I don't think Nill is the type to make a knee jerk move by a mid-season firing however it doesn't get off to a decent start I wonder how Tom Gaglardi will handle this. I've been critical of Curt Fraser for a while now but I really hope the PP can finally be lethal and consistent which it hasn't been.

One more win or an Astros loss this weekend and Texas takes the division. Hope they can wrap it up tonight at home and since Houston is in Arizona their game starts an hour late so it'd be nice if they can win and celebrate in front of the home fans.

Are hand signs even necessary?

Haven't been there in a really long time but the Rally House in Plano on Park & Preston used to have a ton of good NT stuff. I may swing by there this week and see if it's still the case.

As long as it's part of UNT - Denton and doesn't eventually veer off to be it's own separate campus then I'm all for it.

If Anaheim wins tonight then regardless Texas has to split with them this weekend regardless if Texas wins or loses tonight against Detroit. The ideal of ideal situation is Texas winning tonight with Anaheim losing and only needing to win one game this weekend but I certainly don't expect that to happen.