SilverEagle

ABSOLUTELY! But before the Arkie State game, I want to see my guy (the third fastest on the team) get out there and play special teams....which he has offered to do.

1913 one game season, lost to TCU 0-13 If you are talking about the modern era where we played at least 9 games, then no we've never had a no-win season. As stated above, the worst record in our modern era was Rod Rust's 1-10 season, which ended in a student vote about ending football. All time record of coaches in their first two years at North Texas. J.W. Pender, 1913 & 1914 4-4 J.W. St. Clair, 1915 & 1916 8-3-1 Theorn J. Fouts, 1920 & 1921 10-4 John B. Reid, 1925 & 1926 11-3-1 Jack Sisco, 1929 & 1930 9-7-3 Lloyd Russell, one year only 1942 3-5 Odus Mitchell, 1946 & 1947 17-5-1 (two conference championships after NT did not field teams in 43, 44 & 45) Rod Rust, 1967 & 1968 15-3-1 (with Odus Mitchell recruits) Hayden Fry, 1973 & 1974 7-12-3 (with mainly Rod Rust recruits) Jerry Moore, 1979 & 1980 11-11 Bob Tyler, 1981 2-9 Corkey Nelson, 1982 & 1983 10-13 Dennis Parker, 1991 & 1992 7-14-1 Matt Simon, 1994 & 1995 9-13-1 Darrell Dickey 1998 & 1999 5-17 With 17 games under his belt, Coach Dodge (so far) is 2-15

For most HS boys their only bright spot is the UNT dancers. Which HS do they attend? How many D-1 games have they attended?

So, what are you implying? That we are possibly getting out-something-or-othered* by our opponents. * sorry, but actually saying that phrase puts you in great danger of getting unwanted face time with a UNT official.

I don't know about Tasty, but I disagree. He got players from a team that had just finished a 3-9 season (possibly 5-7 with a little luck).

I don't believe in retiring numbers. I suggested (a while back) that we un-retire the numbers that we have retired and start giving them to the outstanding players in the corresponding position...#28 goes to our outstanding RB #33 goes to our outstanding WR and/or RB, #55 goes to our outstanding Lb, #75 for our outstanding DL....etc. Brian Waters would be a tough one. I think his number during his whole tenure at NT was 85(?), and his position switch(s) would be problematic as well. But I think we should find a way to honor him.

Do they have tags on them with all their information? Since it's predicted that the high today will be around 90, I doubt they will be wearing their letter jackets.

Well, I know of a player (the third fastest on the team) who spends all his time on the sidelines sending in plays (fake and real). He's offered to play anywhere he's needed.

Thanks for that comical image.....I needed a good laugh........

You're welcome. Perspective is one of your fortes (especially historical perspective), and we needed it real bad. Keep it coming.

Sierra Blanca has a good one too. www.sierrablancabrewery.com/ - 7k

Ummmm, German Food. This calls for some Nut Brown Ale.

I'd be interested in knowing how this current "situation"feels to GrayEagleone.

I don't know what you're talking about, and since it involves Craig......I don't care.

I just love Craig Ferguson-like sarcasm. From now on, when you post comments like this, you must post a picture of him holding his fist up in feighned defiance.

The idiot board? Any department that thought that hiring Mandy McKinley as director of the Mean Green club was a good move, has little room to be calling anyone an idiot.

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Jack, I didn't know you were into that kind of sick humor.

I second that suggestion. My guy has offered to play on special teams, and since he is the third fastest player on the team, why not let him? If he gets hurt it won't effect his ability to stand on the sidelines with his red hat on...sending in signals.....which most defenses seemed to have figured out by now. GET DANIEL INTO THE GAME!

Oh really. Is that why Bailiff was out in the middle of the Rice campus on a Friday giving away slices of Pizza to students and encouraging them to come to the first home game? Because he had such a great situation. Rice also got beat by a SBC team and then got jilted by their coach. Not an ideal situation for any coach to come into.

“[Rice head coach David Bailiff] told me that he was sorry that it got out of hand,” Dodge said. “It told him he didn’t need to apologize to me. If we can’t catch a punt or hold onto a kickoff, that is our own problem. They are good enough without us handing it to them.” You know, this would have been a great time for Bailiff to remind Coach Dodge about the comment that he made after he was hired here that "Coaching is Coaching, and it really doesn't matter where you get your experience". I bet a lot of up-and-coming 1-AA and Div II head coaches who didn't get a shot at the North Texas job are having a big laugh over this game. Didn't Bailiff and Dodge start their D-1 coaching jobs at the same time?

I believe that several of us (myself included) were asking "where's the beef" during this last recruitment season.

...besides cantalopes.

I guess it's silly to look up to actors as role models, but I did with Paul Newman. The man was a great actor and some of his roles were very memorable. One of my favorite roles of his was "Brick Pollitt" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Much of the dialogue in that movie is somewhat dated, but this exchange has always stayed with me. Brick and "Big Daddy" are down in the basement after Big Daddy learns that he is dying. Brick Pollitt: Why'd you let Mama buy all this stuff? Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: The human animal is a beast that must die. If he's got money, he buys and buys and buys everything he can, in the crazy hope one of those things will be life-everlasting, which it can never be. I've suddenly noticed you don't call me Big Daddy anymore. If you needed a big daddy, why didn't you come to me? If you needed someone to lean on, why Skipper? Why not me? I'm your father! Why didn't you come to your kinfolk, the people that love you? Brick Pollitt: You don't know what love means! To you, it's just another four-letter word. Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: You've got a mighty short memory! What was there you ever wanted that I didn't buy? Brick Pollitt: You can't buy love! Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Who do you think I bought it for? It's yours! The place, the money, everything's yours! Brick Pollitt: I don't want things! Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: This was what my father left me, this lousy old suitcase! And on the inside was nothing, nothing but his uniform from the Spanish-American war. That was his legacy to me! Nothing at all! And I built this place from nothing. Brick Pollitt: That was all he left you? Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: He was a hobo, the best-known tramp on the boxcar circuit. He'd worked once in awhile as a field hand, and I'd tag along. Sat on my bare bottom in the dirt, waiting for him. Outside of hunger, the first thing I remember is shame. I was ashamed of that miserable old tramp. I was riding boxcars with him when I was nine, something you never had to do. You'll never have to bury me the way I buried him. I buried him in a meadow alongside a railroad track. He was running to catch a freight and his heart give out. You know something? That old tramp died laughing. Brick Pollitt: Laughing at what? Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Himself, I guess. Old hobo tramp, not a nickel to his name, no future, no past. Brick Pollitt: Maybe he was laughing because he was happy. Happy at having you with him. He took you everywhere. He kept you with him. Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I don't want to talk about that. [pause] Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Yeah, I loved him. I reckon I never loved anything as much as that lousy old tramp. Brick Pollitt: And you say he left you nothing but a suitcase with a uniform in it? Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: And some memories. Brick Pollitt: And love. It's a great lesson about the parent-child relationship and what kids really want. Sadly, people are still not listening.

We're talking about people who are eligible to run for the President of the US.....pay attention.