SilverEagle

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.

I've never heard of T.D. Parks. I found a Terry Parks in the media guide that played in 59 and 60.

I'll add to GEO's list. "P" John Pegues, 1974 James Perry, 1978,79,80. Steve Petcavage, 1976 "K" Tom Kelly, 1978 Paul Kerestine, 78, 79 David Kervin, 72, 73 Don King, 77, 78 Gary King, 73,75,76,77 David Kirk, 73,75 Larry Kuykendall, 73, 74

I'm excited to see what the "DD recruited players" will do when they have a real motivator as a coach. That's the true test of how good a coach is......by motivating someone else's players.

I gave Plumm a 1971 Yucca a couple of years ago. Jim, why don't you look in that one and see if the team (1970) was wearing white helmets. I seem to recall that they were. I seem to recall that North Texas wore white helmets up to the season that Hayden Fry took over. I believe that he started the solid green helmet tradition.

Even though my avitar doesn't reflect it (but how else is the original Scrappy supposed to look?), I too am very excited about this new era.....or should I say a return to a previous era. You newer alums and students are about to get a taste of what it was like for those of us that attended North Texas during the Hayden Fry era. LOTS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE FROM THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT LOTS OF EXCITEMENT FROM THE FOOTBALL TEAM LOTS OF EXCITEMENT FROM THE SPIRIT GROUPS AND LOTS OF I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE............. FROM EVERYONE!

Past experience AND he knows something.

In light of last years "logogate", and what will soon turn out to be "NT-Stargate" (grab those hats from LIDs as fast as you can guys!), are any of us surprised at this? I'm certainly not.

While this is true, the upbeat and positive attitude by Coach Dodge and his staff is just as curative. It's been a loooooong time since I've been this motivated by a coach and his vision for the program. As opposed to the bunker mentality of the previous eight years.

Excellent point. Hollins was fast, but (IMHO) I've seen faster receivers at North Texas....Broderick McGrew is one example.

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I like the design, but it really needs to be on a T-shirt rather than a hat. You have to get up real close to see what it says. You can't tell at a glance from any sort of distance, who, or what, that hat represents. It's just my prejudice, but when it comes to sports team hats, they should have a clear, simple, and bold logo/lettering on it. There should be no doubt as to what the hat represents from someone viewing it across the street. This most recent LID's hat (made by Top of the World) should have the SOW on the back in Kelly green rather than white.

I was going to post that I seem to remember that the best that J.T. Hollins ever did was 9.7 in the 100 yrd dash. This link http://www.texassports.com/mainpages/txr/s...alltime_mc.html shows that he ran a 9.67 at a track meet in 1974 when he was attending Ranger Jr. College. He must have transferred to NT that summer because he was the leading receiver in 1974 27/374/13.9. Does anyone know how a 9.67 in 100 yards translates into our current 100 meters?

Milton was on the 78 squad, but left school for a couple of years. He came back around the time Corky was hired. Corky put him at nose tackle.

I just want to know why "Top of the World" hat company is allowed to make this, when another supplier (who is a North Texas graduate) is not allowed. Pro Line worked up a kick-ass design for Greenstock, but the athletic department and the exes said no. BTW, the professional representative for pro-line said that if the University would approve the NT star design, they would sell the hell out of those caps.....and thus get the University's name out there even more.