SilverEagle

BTW, the check's in the mail. style_emoticons/

To be fair, if DD's players had publically said the same thing, wouldn't we be hollering about his "bunker mentality"? I think that Harry (and others) have mentioned that North Texas fans had much more access to the North Texas football team (and it's practices) than just about any other D-1 football (and many HS) programs. So IF Coach Dodge is hired as our next HC, get ready to have much less access than we've ever had before.

If we hire coach Dodge as our next HC, I wonder if that would give us any sort of advantage in recruiting Kyle McDonald at Haltom (assuming that he's D-1 material). Isn't Clayton George (the HC at Haltom) a friend of Coach Dodge?

I took it upon myself to send Don Carthel (at his WTA&M address) an e-mail on Tuesday Nov. 28th, asking him if he had been contacted about the UNT job. I figured that he would either give me a neutral answer, or a "no comment". Here is his answer on Dec. 4th. Bill, I would love to talk to your athletic director if they are interested in me. Thanks, Don Carthel So, either someone is answering his e-mails that doesn't know what they're talking about, or he hasn't been contacted about the job. Of course his e-mail didn't indicate if he had initiated contact either. But if he had, he hadn't received a response as of Dec. 4th.

"Bill Maskill of Midwestern State expressed interest in the UNT job and has also applied at SFA as has West Texas A&M coach Don Carthel, who was mentioned as a possible candidate at UNT early on." Other than board members, who has ever mentioned Don Carthel as a possible candidate? As of Dec. 4th, Don Carthel had not been contacted by the North Texas athletic dept.

DALLAS IS GETTING OUT-COACHED!

1. TCU 2. Baylor 3. Air Force All three will bring a big crowd, and we will be assured of a sell-out. Also, TCU and Baylor could bring their bands and we could have a REAL college footall atmosphere.

I tend to think that four years would be the ideal contract term.

I would keep Evans, Bliel, and Brewster.....and Hurd.

Dickey bashing. I already live without the Bachelor.

Hmmmm,

What say we all put in something for a graduation gift next spring.

...either that, or he's a great shopper.

Damn! we are desperate for conversation about football when we start noticing, and spending two pages on, what the aggies are saying about our coaching situation. Who the hell cares what the aggies think.

I can just see it now. The Washington Redskins have their "hog" fans. North Texas could have a whole section of fans dressed up as Mean Green Elvis.

Totally agree.

Let's just give RV the benefit of the doubt, and say that there must be a good reason that our recruiting has been put on hold this long.

If he interviews as intensely as he coaches, then this might be a done deal. This is the kind of passion that it takes to get our program moving to the next level. This is the kind of passion that motivates players, their parents, and the "the crowd" (students, alumni, community). Passion for the job is why I liked Carthel. Harbaugh just might have him beat on that. What kind of offense does this guy run?

This is a tribute to the coaching abilities of the SLC coaching staff. When you are consistently winning, and you're not flooding the college football market with talent.......that's coaching!

Could someone please lock this thread?

I've advocated this from the very beginning. As the new hire starts getting successful, the AD should already have his replacement in mind. All you have to do is hire another coach with the same skills (and successful track record on his way up) as the one that was hire away from us. It's not rocket science forchristsakes. Although, when Hayden Fry left, the administrators at that time must have thought it was. Because they went out and hired the exact opposite personality of Hayden Fry.

His tenure as a pro football QB is what will get him in the door. I seriously doubt that many recruits in Texas will be impressed with the "Toreros" (whatever that is) and their accomplishments in a non-ship league.

I've made that point many times. Two of our most successful (post Mitchell) coaches (Hayden Fry and Corky Nelson) were coaches who clearly knew what the challeges were at North Texas. Hayden, because he coached next door for about a decade before taking the job, and Corkey because he had been the DL coach under Rod Rust. I remember that Bob Tyler used to take sarcastic shots (much like DD) at the North Texas fans. I don't know what Dennis Parker thought was the overall challenge here, but he did try to instill some school spirit by having the football team learn the alma mater, and then join in singing it with the students and band after games. I don't remember any comments that Matt Simon made about the "culture" at North Texas. It may not be fair to expect this, but we really need someone who can "work the crowd (students,alumni, community)" as well as coach the team.

Hard working, good public speaker, runs an exciting offense, is from Texas, knows a lot of (and is probably respect by) High School coaches. I believe my answer to that question would be YES.

We also did better than a 7-5, bowl bound Rice team. Imagine how we would do if we got a coach like the Rice coach who got out in the community and really got people excited. Carthel?