SilverEagle

I'm in the same seats that I've had for the last 3+ years or so, and I assume that Rick is also in his usual place. Where are your seats in relation to ours?

IHMO it the only thing that matters is that you have the type/size of lineman that you need for your offense. Under the "type", I always prefer linemen in the Andy Brewster mold. Andy was tenacious, smart, and I've heard on more than one occasion that he had a pretty big streak of mean in him as well. Now, having said that you aren't going to successfully run a DD type offense with a group of "sveltish" o-linemen. And you're not going to be able to run a successful spread offense with a bunch of bulldozers. So what is the ideal size for our offense? I don't know for sure, but here are some of the previous weights and current weights of the O-Linemen. Tyler Bailey, 6-2 X 275....no change Chris Eidd, 6-3 X 306.......no change Jeff Moehrig, 6 X 293.......no change Chad Rose, 6-3 X 274.......this year 285 Kelvin Drake, 6-2 X 300....this year 310 Robert Peachey, 6-5 X 279....no change Robert Carlson, 6-5 X268.... this year 280 Matthew Menard, 6-5 X 275...no change Bryan Glass, 6- X 277....this year 280 Adam Venegas, 6-3 X 293....no change Jack Crumes, 6-4 X 266 .......no change Esteban Santiago, 6-5 X275....this year 302 Nick Foster, 6-3 X 340........no change The only new O-Lineman listed (currently) on the official roster is Matt Tomlinson, 6-5 X 270. It's hard to tell anything from looking at the raw stats. I would tend to assume that the coaching staff is pretty satisfied with the previous sizes of the o-line. I do wonder however if the O-linemen that have gained some weight represent the positions where most of the running plays will go.

Section D, Rows 14 & 15, seats 29 & 30 (on each row). If you're not sure where that is, I think Ramone Flannagan can show you where the seats are...........

Christian Davidson (86) and Arthur Stubblefield (3)? If that's Christian Davidson, he looks bigger than 6'3" X 220 lbs. "For those of you that don't like the lighter green --- to bad. It does, look much lighter on the white jersey than the green, but both still look sharp. Let the debate begin!!!" It looks like the same shade of green as the Hayden Fry era jerseys. Why don't they just go ahead and put the flying worm on the helmet? And before anyone has a spasm about it, keep in mind that this quote "I don't know what it is like to be on or to coach an Underdog team. This is not a $$ game. This is an opportunity for us as a team and a University. I will never approach ANY game as though we are underdogs, we have just as much chance to win as the other team and that is our mindset going into every game." is pure Hayden Fry Folks! welcome back to the land of positive attitudes.

When they still had "the wall" I always called the restroom the whizatorium.

I think it will take more than just more development and more people. Our student population was about 17K when I was attending North Texas (mid- 70's) and the average home attendance was about 12K per game. Our current student population is now approaching twice that number and are we now averaging 24K per game?

I just wish they would have sinks that automatically dispense water and actual towel holders. I don't want too much spent on structural changes. Especially if Fouts is not long for this world.......or is it.

CLC and the University say NO to a NT-exes hat (sans exes) but they say YES to this?

Totally agree Jack.

“The groundwork from the administration to the athletic department is part of the strength we have now,” Kalk said. “Rick is a tremendous fundraiser and coach Dodge is there now. We have not had the right administration, athletic director and coach there in the 35 years I have been around the program, until now.” That would be my assessment as well. The last time we were even close to this situation was with Hayden Fry. The President during that time was Jitter Nolan (whom GreyEagleone said was responsible for bringing Hayden to North Texas), but he was probably the only one at the school that backed what Hayden was doing. Everyone else at the University wanted things to be just like they were in the "old days". Of course, all the "old nesters" hated Jitter Nolan as well. So it wasn't surprising that Hayden eventually left to go work for a more appreciative group (U of I) and Jitter Nolan was eventually run-off. Hayden might have stayed. But when his two most bowl worthy teams (77 and 78) were not invited because of the "perception" of the North Texas alumnus/fans, AND he was always running into barriers put up by the "old nester" crowd, why fight it any longer?

I was working that Saturday, but I listened to a little bit of it on the radio. That was one hell of a game. Steve Ramsey vs Greg Cook, the future rookie of the year in the NFL. And most of the second half was played in the pouring rain. A former Decatur Eagle, Billy Anderson, was the punter for North Texas that year. He was also the back-up for Ramsey.

OR, like me, everyone is too depressed.

Arkstfan has already come up with the perfect replacement......the Red Wolf......which is/was native to Arkansas. Of course, if you presented something like that (a logical solution) to a North Texas committee, they would ignore you and then go out and spend 20K+ to come up with something unimaginative.

When Hayden Fry was coaching at North Texas, you could by some North Texas gear (at least t-shirts) at the J.C. Penneys at NE Mall. How much NT gear do they sell at the Albertsons on University?

I believe that this is correct. BYU played us at the Cotton Bowl in 1971. We lost 13-41. BYU was helped along by a great night of return yardage by none other than Golden Richards....who later transfered to Hawaii, and then was drafted by the Cowboys.

Not a bad one (analogy) at that. I never met Craig Helwig, but his attitude, and the atmosphere that he created in the Athletic Department, almost caused me to kick my University's football team to the curb. Aloof and indifferent to the every day fan would be the best way to describe him.....and his minions. In fact, Craig Helwig caused Jim Hobdy, one of the most hard working, dedicated, and creative staff members in the Athletic Department to call it quits. IMHO it took a real a$$-hole to accomplish something like that. But just because RV is miles ahead of Helwig, doesn't make him even remotely perfect. But he has shown a great amount of insight about what this program needs by hiring Todd Dodge.

When Fouts was at it's origianal capacity we sold out the SFA game in 1989 (the media guide said it was 20,272, but the announcer at the game said it was a sell-out) for the first time in Fouts field history. We were 1-AA back then, and Fouts didn't have near the improvements that it does now. So, what was going on at that time? Winning (the year before we had beaten all of our SWC opponents and went to the 1-AA playoffs) and better promotions.

This is fantastic news! Especially since someone, who is supposed to be "in the know" told me (and others) that Josh may not ever be able to walk again, in a normal manner, much less play football. If Josh does nothing this season but provide leadership and mentoring, this is still fantastic news!

Yeah, after the "miracle in the desert" everyone should have gone out and bought lottery tickets.

This solution has been looked at already. I don't think that it's feasable to dig down (having to do with the water table, or something like that) to lower the field and take out the track. Otherwise I'd be very much in favor of doing that...... as long as we took out those metal stands on either end. As long as we have those metal stands on either end, we are always going to have trouble filling the stadium. I know that they were put there to satisfy the NCAA requirement of having a 30K stadium to get back to 1-A, but I don't think that's a requirement any longer. Sitting in those stands has to be the biggest (to quote FFR) "ass-whipping" in all of fandom. We could at least do some promotional give aways like personal fans, such as this http://www.portabreezefan.com/faninacan.html. Instead of a soft drink label, "North Texas W/SOW" could be printed on the can-fan. Or possibly this http://www.motivators.com/Promotional-Cust...sFan-11745.html The other thing they could give away is cheap binoc's like this http://www.identity-links.com/binoculars-w...-7097.html...in black or this http://www.identity-links.com/cheap-promot...-7100.html...in white.

He didn't "get it" when you were talking to him "face to face", why should he now. People with big egos (and very little insight) tend to never admit that they were wrong.....about anything.

It sounds like RV is trying to drum up more interest and/or let the more monied alumni in the metroplex know that this is moving forward. This could be his way of getting around the University fund raisers who have, up to this point, blocked him from having access to the regular monied doners.

I've said this more than once, and following Rick's post would be a good place to say it again. We once had a coach (Jerry Moore) who coached us to a 11-11 record in two years at North Texas. Texas Tech couldn't wait to hire him away from us at the end of the 1980 season. Dickey's teams had two national rushing champions, a record setting conference winning streak, and four trips to the NO bowl. When this happens, the market usually reponds, by hiring the coach responsible for these accomplishments away from a school like North Texas. Yet, how did the market respond to this? They hired Gary Deloach away from us. I'm not mad at DD. He is who he is. I'm mad at the lazy SOB that hired him in the first place without assessing other viable candidates. And then, I'm mad/disappointed at the "powers that be" at North Texas (above RV) who wouldn't let him do his job when he wanted to.

I'm certainly curious about GV's abilities, but I've seen what DM and WW can do in a game situation. And with better teaching/coaching, that situation can only get MUCH BETTER for us. It's the O-line that I'm most concerned about. I want to know who will be back.....and in what condition.

Well, that would certainly be the case with hats. Unless I'm overlooking something, you can't even buy a "exes" hat on this web-site. http://www.goestores.com/catalog.aspx?Merc...p;DeptID=101771 They have pretty good button downs, but I got a better one from "shopmeangreen.com". I'd be willing to guess that shopmeangreen.com would also be glad to produce their own version of the NT Exes logo hat, if they had enough interest. AND if they had an organization to work with that had equal parts of imagination/vision and huevos.