SilverEagle

Why do people keep saying this? We don't use the perfectly good WR's that we already have. If you're going to suggest another position for DM, .....maybe db.

Graves needs to be given a medical RS. He can be one of the team leaders next year.

Sputtering offense has logjam at quarterback Something has to have started before it can sputter.

I've said this before. I don't have a problem with hiring a coach "on their way up" as long as our hiring authority has enough sense to hire someone just like them as a replacement. We just need to be very focused and consistent when we hire replacements, so that, eventually our program will have grown to a point (fan wise, and money wise) that the coaches that we WANT to stay, can end up staying because we can afford to keep them. In other words, we should have hired someone just like Hayden Fry when he left. The alternative would have been to hire Bill Brasher (as Fry recommended). But what the "powers that be" did was ignore Fry's suggestion and went about hiring someone just the opposite of Fry. Since then, the hiring process for coaches at North Texas has been (in the words of my father's generation) one big SNAFU.

The next coach at North Texas needs to be someone that understands what he is getting himself into (in our past history that was Hayden Fry and Corky Nelson). He would also need to be someone who is one hell of a speaker/motivator....like Hayden.

He could also teach people a thing or two about fund raising, and meeting and greeting the public.

He was also assistant head coach there before he retired.

We lost to Memphis 0-41 in 1974, but I thought we were out of the MVC and "Indy" starting that year.

I would prefer that you pick one for us Jack. If anyone has observed most of the good and bad in coaching at North Texas it's certainly you. There are arguments out there for just about any situation. High School coaches moving up to D-1 head coaching jobs. I can't remember a situation where that has ever worked. Even the former Stephenville coach (Art Briles) at Houston spent three years as an assistant at TT before taking the head coaching job at Houston. Retired/defrocked coaches. If you put Hayden Fry in the "defrocked" catagory, then we are 1 & 1 on this situation. Hayden worked out great, but Bob Tyler was a disaster. R.C. Slocum sounds intriqueing, AND he has the advantage of knowing what he would be getting himself into.......... AND knowing immediately what to work on. Get someone that truly wants to be here I like this idea best of all. In the interview, I would ask him to give me a realistic plan, other than the standard response of "winning games" (isn't that always a given?) for getting the student body, alumni, and community excited again about North Texas football. I would ask him to name at least 15 Texas HS coaches that he could get on the phone at that moment who would give him a lead on some hot prospects. I would ask him to list every player that he recruited and developed as a college coach, that no other college seemed to want, but who was successful playing for him. I would then ask him to give me an extemporaneous speech/presentation, pretending that he is in front of a group of alumni and students, talking about how he is going to turn things around.

Has anyone been to practice recently to see how Roy Loren and David Jackson are doing? As I recall, the people "in the know" were excited about Mr. Loren joining the team. Is he living up to his promise as an "impact" player? How about Mr. Jackson? Does he look like he can get into the RB rotation sometime in the near future? BTW, I looked at the roster on the official athletic dept site, and saw that David Jackson was given #43 to wear. Inquiring minds want to know.

So far, the only thing that Mr. Wilson has over the great QB's in North Texas history is foot speed. Otherwise, he's got a looooong list to pass up. Including.. Mitch Maher (most total yards 9000) Scott Davis-8717 total yards in three years Steve Ramsey- 6568 total yards in three years Scott Hall- 6440 total yards, in four years Ken Washington, 4314 total yards in four years Jordan Case, 2816 total yards, but all-time most accurate passer (.616) We only have one other JUCO QB in our history that ever did anything. That was Vidal Carlin (1965-66) who had 3046 yrds of total offense in his two years at NT. When Mr. Wilson passes him, then we can start talking about him being the best we've ever seen.

They showed the Joe Greene era NT logo, but they ignored the flying worm and the Corky Nelson era logo? They also ignored the real Scrappy created in the 50's.

That is not Scrappy. Just look at my avatar....that is Scrappy!

DD should want it more. However, the MUTS have a new coach. And I couldn't think of a better way to get his new head coaching career going in the right direction, than by beating someone that MT has never beaten.

It's on there.

If I had to guess, I'd guess that this young man is worth bringing in for 1 1/2 seasons, if for no other reason than as insurance if anything happens to Jamario. As hard as Mr. Robertson is playing (especially on special teams) this is obviously a statement about how confident the coaches are about Mr. Robertson being able to be the feature back. Personally, I feel that James Mitchell should be moved over if they don't think that Mr. Robertson is an adequate back-up. If Ramone Archie had any input into this decision (bringing Jackson in) then I'm all for it! Ramone Archie was one hell of a player!

Next Monday. Start the paperwork.

Right now, I'm just too tired and beat down to be mad. Here's my concerns however. I don't know how tailgating and other "events" are going to keep the fan growth (small and gradual as it is) going. We need to keep getting marginal fans to come to fouts so that the hard core fans can turn them into hard core fans as well. But if our season continues the way it seems to be going, I'm afraid we're going to flatten out on attendance....or worse, have another 2000 NMSU game against Florida Atlantic on Nov 18th. I don't know what Coach Dickey is going to do when his contract runs out in 2008. The ideal situation would have been for him to get hired away from North Texas, but that obviously hasn't happened....and probably isn't going to happen. He's a good person, but he's been inflexible in his coaching approach/style, and that doesn't make you very marketable in the current college coaching business.

Don't quit JayDub. Just come to two more games, stand up during a quiet time (those are getting more frequent in our games these days) and say as loud as you can "WE ARE GETT'IN OUT-COACHED". Eventually someone will listen.

I pretty much said it all last year, right before the half-time at the ULL game. Considering that special teams play is one of the very basics of every game plan, and considering that we are now in the fourth game of the season (not the first week of fall practice when it should have been ironed out), AND getting victimized big time, over a basic issue........I stand by my original statement from last year. 8+ years of our school's football life that we'll never get back........

According to one of the stories about the game, the RB who scored two of their TD's (Walker) is their second string RB.

Chris, I've been wondering something lately. If you are working on your Doctorate in Psychology, I would think that that would take a lot of your time. Unless of course, studying the dynamics of a sports message board makes good (and new) material for a dissertation. Or, you could just be a brillant student, who enjoys the interaction of North Texas sports fans. Just wondering.

Actually the team pulled us (and DD) out of his rubble.

I'm terribly sorry, but that happens to be my job..........

I'm going to have to disagree with his assessment. I think that the running game makes a nice rhythmic THUMP THUMP sound as it consistently and mindlessly bangs it's head against those 8 and 9 man brick walls that are consistently being put up by our opponents.