SilverEagle

I'm not conjuring up any sort of conspiracy theories. I just don't fully believe the party line being handed out about why Mr. Russo is leaving. If Mr. Russo was wanting to eventually be accepted into the Harvard Law school, then it would make almost perfect sense to transfer to Harvard. But, as I pointed out in my post above, any graduate of North Texas can get into just about any Law School in Texas. If he transfers to SMU AND plays football there (or any school for that matter).....well......

http://www.bnd.com/285/story/753965.html

I agree that putting your educational future ahead of football should be any players primary goal. Having said that, there have been numerous graduates of North Texas that have gone on to Law school. And some who have become very successful....such as this guy http://www.superlawyers.com/texas/lawyer/M...bacd7efdbb.html Mike Simpson is a graduate of UNT and Texas Tech Law school. So, therefore it's my belief that something else is going on with Mr. Russo, and that Law School is not the main reason that he is leaving North Texas.

If it performs as advertised, someone is going to get very rich.

Our other HS coaching experiment was 7-14-1 at this point.........and that was working with a 1-AA budget. He ended up with a total record of 11-21-1. Coach Dodge would have to win at least 8 games this year to equal that total number of wins.

Well, if he's a competent manager then he would/should have a short list. Here's my question. Do we want him making the final decision about the next HC?

That's been my experience as well. I had to keep looking at the title page of the Baylor board to make sure I was at a web-site that represented a Baptist school. Besides being rude and arrogant, those people were salty!

I couldn't agree more. I seem to recall some recent nutball rumors going around about internment camps run by FEMA.

I seem to recall either reading an article, or seeing a special on the Discovery channel, that our current weather situation (the last 250 years or so) has been unusually favorable in the weather/climate history of this planet. As a result, the population of our planet has shot up at a greater rate than any other time in human history. I'm no expert, but increasing numbers of people competing for shrinking (or even static) resources is a formula for disaster. And since I'm mentioning disasters. I was looking at a historical account of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. It seems that the largest population that died from this flu were people in the 20 to 40 year old age range. Sound familiar? This spread around the world and killed a minimum of 20 million people in two years. And this was during a time when the primary mode of mass transportation was steam ships and trains. Some people seem to think that officials are over-reacting...but I'm not too sure. Here are some descriptions of how people died from this strain. "The effect of the influenza epidemic was so severe that the average life span in the US was depressed by 10 years. The influenza virus had a profound virulence, with a mortality rate at 2.5% compared to the previous influenza epidemics, which were less than 0.1%. The death rate for 15 to 34-year-olds of influenza and pneumonia were 20 times higher in 1918 than in previous years (Taubenberger). People were struck with illness on the street and died rapid deaths. One anectode shared of 1918 was of four women playing bridge together late into the night. Overnight, three of the women died from influenza (Hoagg). Others told stories of people on their way to work suddenly developing the flu and dying within hours (Henig). One physician writes that patients with seemingly ordinary influenza would rapidly "develop the most viscous type of pneumonia that has ever been seen" and later when cyanosis appeared in the patients, "it is simply a struggle for air until they suffocate," (Grist, 1979). Another physician recalls that the influenza patients "died struggling to clear their airways of a blood-tinged froth that sometimes gushed from their nose and mouth," (Starr, 1976). The physicians of the time were helpless against this powerful agent of influenza. In 1918 children would skip rope to the rhyme (Crawford):" Damn! some of this sounded more like ebola than the flu.

A sad time for a fine family. My condolences to the Hall family.

Very informative! It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 3kg (6.6 lb) The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. Women blink twice as often as men. The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. Women reading this will be finished now. Men are still busy checking their thumbs.

The former Cowboy Clint Longley was also from ACU, as was Wilbert and Cleo Montgomery and Johnny Perkins (from Granbury).

Yeah, that's one of the reasons that I've never thought much of him. I still shake my head over that "theory". The Republicans can keep him as far as I'm concerned.

Well (IMHO) yes he is. However, if you are just looking to hire a pure gladiator, then Vick might be a better choice. Assuming of course that Vick hasn't lost any of his athletic edge. Just don't try and sell your team as some sort of "family" to the general public.

As long as Jerry doesn't bring him to Dallas, I really don't care. This certainly brings up the debate about pro sports and what it means to our society. Are pro athletes hired mercenaries, or are they highly skilled (and well paid) members of the community, who not only perform athletically for the community, but also represent the moral standards of the community?

That's okay. Lord Vader and Skippy freaked out the rest of us for 8 years.

Makes more sense than the talking snake in the garden of eden. And for you Flyer, all the Alien Ale you can drink at the next tailgating.

Rudy, I said foster families, I said nothing about adoptive kids....although I have been involved in those situations as well. I said pretty good idea based on a working relationship with those 70+ families and honest conversations with them about a variety of issues. Just as you never said I was racist, I never used the word "Red Neck". It's not about you Rudy.

LOL, Im glad you are a mind reader and you are so in touch with "people of color" In the last 30 years I've personally worked with (and trained) about 70+ Black foster parents. I think I have a pretty good idea about what they are thinking....and how they cope with white people. So Im sure that you took a survey and have factual evidence that EVERYONE who ones "assault-type" weapons want to shoot people. Nope, just my opinion. Unlike you, I didn't try to quote statistics.....I just used logic.

WOW!, four paragraphs! I knew using the term boodsuckers would get a reaction, but this is better than yelling "HEY! WE'RE GETTIN' OUT-COACHED! ........... BTW, I don't have any buddies in Washington. I probably have an FBI file however. It probably has something to do with that solicitation for contributions that the John Tower re-election committee sent me (back in 69) and my "colorful response" that I mailed back to the committee.........

It does for me. I'm just sorry that Molly Ivins is not around any longer.

Ok, he was humoring the other person and you overheard it. 99% huh. Did you take that survey yourself? I was not talking about all gun owners, just the ones that want to own assault-type weapons and/or 50 ca. sniper rifles. Once again, they only want to own those type weapons because they have fantacies about shooting someone. OR maybe it's a more affordable phallic symbol for them than a Hummer or a Vette.

??? Not be included on what? Rescuing their buddies at Wall Street who were crying for the bail out? It was Wall street who came to the government for help.

The Bush administration (who presided over this mess) starting throwing billions in bail out money even before the election and the current administration took over. You see control by govenment, I see a return to sane regulation. Business has been preying on the poorly informed (remember all those sub-prime mortages?) for too long. Big business and Bankers are going to have to start really telling the truth when they do business from now on. I applaud the changes and regulations. Especially since they have now started turning their attention to the biggest bloodsuckers of all, the credit card companys. I look forward to an era of "bloodsuckers beware" instead of buyer beware. AND if the government goes too far in it's control, the boodsuckers (and all their minions and toadies) have only themselves to blame.

Brett, best wishes for a full recovery for your Dad.