SilverEagle

You mean Craig James didn't say something dismissive about TD going to NT?

I think that when Richie Whitt first started his career with the Star Telegram, one of his jobs was to cover North Texas football. Good (and hopeful) article.

If you don't think/believe you can win a game, then you might as well not show up.

ABSOLUTELY TRUE! I have been around North Texas graduates since I was in Jr. High. Through all of my contacts, (and this includes people who graduated recently, and people who attended and graduated back in the 40's) every one of them refers to their alma mater in the same way.......NORTH TEXAS. There is no other major college with our name, and so NT should be on our helmets.

If it was on a Saturday in the spring, it would also provide an opportunity for some spring tailgating practice.

This is what I had in mind for us. We need this kind of D-lineman. Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy has announced the signing of defensive tackle Tonga “Junior” Tea (pronounced TEE-uh) to a national letter of intent. Tea, a first-team All-America selection from Snow Junior College, is expected to join the Cowboys in January and participate in spring drills with OSU. “He’ll be a great addition for us and will give us some strength and maturity on the interior of our defense,” said Gundy. “We’re very excited about his attitude and the excitement he has about the game of football. By coming in and participating in spring practice, he’ll be a big addition.” Tea was named a first-team National Junior College Athletic Association All-American and Rivals ranked him as one of the top 30 two-year players in the country, regardless of position. Scout’s JCFootball.com considers Tea as the nation’s best junior college defensive tackle and a top-10 overall prospect. The 6-0, 310-pound native of Anchorage, Alaska, played just one season of high school football at East Anchorage High School, but still earned all-state honors. He redshirted his first year at Snow. As a sophomore, Tea was credited with 24 tackles, including nine tackles behind the line of scrimmage, 3.5 quarterback sacks and he forced a fumble. He was twice named as the Badgers’ defensive player of the week despite facing constant double teams. Snow finished the season ranked No. 2 in the junior college poll, and the Snow defense was among the top 15 units in the country each of the last two seasons. The Badgers allowed just 211 yards per game in 2006.

Here is the full story. Former Haltom head football coach Clayton George has gone through the application process at North Texas and is expected to be the first member of new UNT coach Todd Dodge’s staff, a university spokesperson said. Athletic director Rick Villarreal, who is helping facilitate early hires for Dodge while he finishes as Carroll’s head coach, did not return a phone call. Former UNT quarterback Mitch Maher, who played with George from 1991-93, confirmed George will join Dodge’s staff. On Tuesday, the Birdville school district announced in a release that George had “resigned his position [at Haltom] with BISD to take a coaching position at the University of North Texas.” In 1992 and ’93, George, a receiver, and Maher were coached by Dodge, then UNT’s quarterback/receivers coach. George did not return phone calls. When did Mitch Maher become spokesperson/info-source for the current coaching regime?

Because that's what many people on this board do. Haven't you been paying attention?

Asked by whom?

My expectation is that the team shows up to all it's games in 07 with the attitude of I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE.

Well, I bought mine through the book store.

Since TD is unable to officially recruit, I would think that he was unable to officially hire anyone as well. So, if Clayton George is on staff and recruiting, who hired him?

Well, I saw Tune run the second team during fall practice and observed that he was a very solid prospect. He threw well, he moved well, and he carried himself with a lot of confidence. I've been told that QB training/mentoring under DD has been minimal at best. So, if that's the case, then it'll be real interesting to see what happens when all of the QB's get a big dose of real QB training/mentoring. Tune will probably benefit the most, since he's still new to the job, and (in theory) hasn't picked up any bad habits. I still think that DM's main problem has been his intensity, which leads to him to press too hard to make a big play, which then has often led to int's. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

Well, since we have been talking about helmet designs that are similar to several other college teams, as well as one HS team, I'd rather be accused of copying someone like Michigan that some of the others we've discussed.

Now that would be a cool helmet design.

He's also been a head coach at a 4-A & 5-A school. I tend to think that his official title will be OC.

I shutter to think about giving PMG more stuff to play with. Talk about a whipping! Great job guys!

We could sure use some help in the DL. Even if we sign someone by signing day, we won't see them until the fall. I like to see them come in at mid-term and get used to the system during the spring.

If Wilson doesn't stay in the QB competition, then I see Tune beating out Meager (barely) and Phillips.

I still haven't heard if E. Santiago is still on the team. I never saw him on the sideline this last year.

Well, as soon as the athletic dept puts out a schedule (hopefully sooner than June of 07) then you can print away.

Too much talk about Skill players. Where are the DL's (our greatest need right now) and how many of them are interested/excited about TD being hired.

I thought that it was reported last year that new uni's were going to be ordered in the new (old) color, but that it was too late in the season for them to be delivered for 06. This would seem to imply that we have some boxes of new Kelly Green uni's sitting over in the equipment manager's office waiting to be used this next season. Maybe I misunderstood. Maybe they said that they tried to order Kelly Green uni's, but it was too late to do so.

Randy Butler might have been a serious candidate and they didn't even contact/interview Don Carthel!?!? Geezzz, it's a good thing that TD accepted the job.

Isn't that (no huddle) what LaLa pulled on us two or three years ago? Babb would come up to the line like he was going to get the ball, then he would back up and look over to the sideline for the signal before he barked out the snap count.