tylermeangreen

Thanks for the reply - my apologies to YOU. Having read your postings for several years I should have known better!

My only excuse for jumping on your post is that I am so programmed to the constant negativity of one person on this board - in particular - and a very few others.

I love my university and I personally think the AD (that is both position and department, along with our football team) is doing a helluva job - a HELLUVA job. To get where we all want to be usually takes baby-steps, and that often means many years of gradual progress..........and God knows I appreciate the impatience of some but also understand the reality that has faced this AD since the "reformation" began.

I was at UNT when we sucked with Rod Rust, flew to great heights (for us) with Hayden Fry, and fell back to earth again with our dropping to a lower division. I have watched adminstrative indifference, and I have watch us begin revival through the vision of several university presidents, and RV.

This crusty old alumnus knows where we have been over the past 40+ years, where we are now, and where we have a legitimate opportunity to go........and hopefully within my lifetime.

From where we were to where we are now, I have nothing but pride and will often defend those who got us here - and where one, in particular, smells puppy-farts as the basis for posting I will choose to smell puppy-breath. One has to go far, far back from just 1990 to understand where we have been and how fortunate we are to have advanced as far as we have over the past 10 - 12 years.

Thanks again for the response - again, my apologies for misinterpreting your comments.

GMG