SilverEagle

Hmmmm, sounds like Stockstill is saying.. I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE!

Even when DD's offense was working at it's best, it mainly worked against SBC teams. We've known since our first bowl game against Colorado State how effective it was against the rest of the world.

And the price for that was to keep DD. The cost in bad publicity is probably much more than 1 mil.

Personally, I would love to interview the real people involved in DD still being here. I would love to have Bobby Ray and Jim McEnvale (sp?) in a room at the same time and ask them what in the hell they were (or are) thinking? I might also ask them what color the sky is in their world.

This is OUR SCHOOL FOLKS. Here's an idea. Why don't we all show up to the LaTech game with grocery bags over our heads like Deep's avatar. We could decorate them to express out displeasure with the coaching. I'm not willing to just hand my school's athletic fate over to non-North Texas people who will just dismiss our absence by saying....."well, those guys are just a bunch of quitters anyway....who cares about them or their opinion" OR they might say "well, they're just a bunch of typical North Texas fair weather fans....who cares if they dont' show up". DO LIKE ME. SHOW UP AND VOICE YOUR DISPLEASURE (CAN YOU SAY "WE'RE GETTING OUT-COACHED? ). DON'T BOO, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE CONSTRUED AS BOOING THE PLAYERS, AND THEN YOU'LL LOSE CREDIBILITY THAT WAY.

Could this be a kicker prospect for NT? Boswell 31, Springtown 28 FG lifts Boswell as time expires By NAKIA HOGAN Star-Telegram Staff Writer SPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM/BOB HAYNES SPRINGTOWN -- Greg Lopez's legs felt like spaghetti. His heart threatened to beat right out of his jersey. He tried to suck in one more gasp of air, but a lump grew in his throat. As the Boswell senior kicker lined up for a career-long 48-yard field-goal attempt, he had never been so uneasy. After his kick sailed just over the crossbar, he had never felt so good. Lopez's kick as time expired lifted the Pioneers to a pivotal 31-28 District 6-4A victory over Springtown onj Friday night at Porcupine Stadium. "I have never been so nervous before in my life," he said moments after being mobbed by his teammates. "But as soon as I hit it, I knew it was good." Kicking a 48 yrd FG under intense pressure sounds pretty impressive to me. The new coaching staff ought to look at this young man.

I like all the suggestions with Texas ties. I don't like the So Miss crony suggestion.

When I first registered for classes at North Texas (part-time student, Jan of 73) North Texas had just finished a 1-10 year, the Football program had just dodged a bullet because there had been a student referendum over keeping football or not (it barely passed), and Hayden Fry was hired as the new coach. The roller coaster ride since then has been.....interesting. But I'll take a roller coaster ride over this funeral dirge we've been marching to.

To me, that is absolutely sickening.

You know, I've often wondered how many copies of that book were sold.

Excellent point Zeke! No cronyism in the next big hire!

Some of Corky Nelson's teams would have been better.........."better coached" anyway. I wouldn't say that our 26 straight conference wins was the "tastiest turd sandwich on the table", but I have referred to those days as being "King of the dipshits".

I think that RV went along with the contract extension, but I don't believe that he was in favor of it. I've said for quite some time that hiring and firing a coach was the job of the AD. If the BOR didn't trust RV's opinion on the matter, then they shouldn't have hired RV to be the AD. RV has got some tough times ahead of him. If he is able to get rid of, or re-assign DD, then he gets to make one of the biggest coaching decisions of his career. I certainly hope that that decision isn't another of the crony-like hirings that he's make up to this point. A fresh look RV! No more hires with Southern Miss/LSU/TCU ties.

WOW, the news just keeps getting better and better every day.

Okay folks, if there are still some people on (or lurkers reading) this board that are still not sure that our football program is in trouble, then I present this post by GEO as the "canary in the coal mine". (in case some of you don't know what that means, here is a link). http://www.petcaretips.net/canary-coal-mine.html I would also include the post by drex as furthur evidence that something is seriously wrong with the football program. I strongly suggest that RV and the other "powers that be" take notice.

I thought the insurance comment was very......factual. I saw nothing in Eagle man's comments that were particularly disrespectful. Yes, Dickey almost died, but that doesn't change anyone's feelings about the need for him to move on. The problem is that now that he's had a heart attack at such a young age, there might be a reluctance for someone to re-hire him. In the event that he's still functioning as head coach after the end of the season, then I feel absolutely sure that our rivals will use his questionable health against him, when they go after a recruit that we have been talking with. If you think anyone on this board is being disrespectful to Dickey now, just hang around and see what happens to him during the dog-eat-dog recruitment season. His own peers will have a field day with his health situation.

Here's my concern. At this point Coach Dickey is at risk of looking more like a disgruntled employee, than as a professional looking for his next challenge. He doesn't seem to be happy here, and hasn't been for some time. It doesn't appear that there's any way that his contract with be renewed in 08, so why wait around for the axe to fall? This is a very unhealthy (no pun intended) situation for Coach Dickey, and the school as well.

That's the main difference between us and UTEP. UTEP's fans are there, they just needed a little encouragement. I still believe that the new coach needs to completely understand the situation here, and be ready to provide a viable plan to turn it around when he gets interviewed. addendum: Under the "too weird to believe" catagory, here is a story about Florida State's problems. Bobby Bowden Defends Son, Team's Progress FSU coach backs his offensive coordinator and direction of team Oct. 23, 2006 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said Monday that team morale is high despite a disappointing season and that he doesn't regret making his youngest son, Jeff Bowden, the team's offensive coordinator. But fan impatience with the younger Bowden has increased after a half-dozen years of mounting losses and declining offensive production. "I don't think he'd get half the criticism if his name ain't Bowden," Bobby Bowden said Monday. "How can I have nine coaches and it's always one guy's fault?" the elder Bowden asked Monday. "We're a team. We win and we lose. We don't point fingers." Bowden called a meeting Monday of his unity council as well to take the pulse of morale among a half-dozen key players, including quarterback Drew Weatherford, after the Seminoles' 24-19 loss Saturday to Boston College. It was Florida State's seventh loss in its past dozen games dating to last November. Bowden created the unity council after the 2002 season, when the team split over whether Chris Rix or Adrian McPherson should be playing quarterback shortly before McPherson's removal from the team over gambling questions. Weatherford had words with quarterbacks coach Daryl Dickey during Saturday's game in the second half when he was warned he could be replaced by Xavier Lee. "I wasn't pleased," Weatherford said. "I just asked him what I should be doing out there ... probably not in such a moderate tone. I just wanted an answer."

Well, if you drink enough of this... http://www.sierrablancabrewery.com/our_beers.html and you can come up with all sorts of "interesting" ideas......... Geezzzz, better blocking, mid-range passing game, get the ball to other players......what was I thinking?

Here's an idea. Why don't we continue the improvement in blocking that I saw in the first drive last Saturday. Let's block like that the whole game! THEN, put in some mid-range (10-15 yrds over the middle) passing plays and give the QB (Meager or Wilson) time to throw. THEN, start trying to get the ball to Jackson, who is (potentially) just as big of a playmaker as JQ. If the TD pass that Mr. Collins (95) caught is any indication of his development as a TE, then we should try to get the ball to him more often as well.

Despite the good job that I think RV is doing, I totally agree with Deep. No more cronyism!

Excellent points. However, I'll add this observation. Our three most successful coaches (Mitchell, Fry and Nelson) were all from Texas. The last two, Fry and Nelson, were coaches who knew North Texas very well (Fry because he coached close by, and Nelson because he was the DL coach under Rod Rust) and knew EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE GETTING THEMSELVES INTO. There was little or no learning curve (football culture wise) for either of them, and they wasted little time in going about turning things around. In Nelson's case, he went about doing the best he could with the VERY LIMITED resources that were given to him.

Are you saying that we got out-coached? You could get into real trouble saying that.

“I usually know what coach Dickey is thinking anyway,” Unfortunately, so do all of the coaches of our opponents. And after viewing one or two series in any game, my wife knows what he's thinking too.