SilverEagle

Well duh! All endowments are private funds or gifts. Whether or not the endowment is at a private or public University....they're gifts. Private schools just have more sugar daddies to give to these endowments. I forget, what did SMU call the endowment fund that they used to pay athletes?

Well, all I can say is let's not disappoint this guy.

I've read that amongst the rich it's considered bad manners (or not cool if you will) to talk about money. So, just because they don't talk about it, doesn't mean that they aren't rolling in it.......and know that they're rolling in it. Whenever I think about the perceived (at least my perception anyway) social differences between North Texas students and SMU (and even TCU) students I think of the old Billie Holliday song "God Bless the Child".* Them thats got shall get Them thats not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have, papa may have But God bless the child thats got his own Thats got his own Everything that famous and/or high profile North Texas alumni have accomplished they did on their own. For that matter, everything that the University has accomplished, it accomplished on it's own. No special legislative funding (ie UT & A$M) or large private endowments (SMU, TCU, Rice etc) helped North Texas accomplish it's reputation as an outstanding institution of higher learning. We did it on our own.....God Bless us. * BTW, as much as I admire Billie Holliday as an artist, my favorite version of this song is by Blood Sweat and Tears.

Because it might make the whole experience more.....interesting.

No, that isn't necessary. Just having your wife/girlfriend stand up and ask "isn't thowing on first down, a good technique for keeping a defense honest? My (husband/boyfriend) says that that concept just never occurs to you" would be embarrassing enough. Or! have your wife/girlfriend stand up and ask "Coach, why does my (husband/boyfriend) always say that the whole damn stadium knows what play your going to run on 3rd and long?"

Send your wife/girlfriend and write out some embarrassing questions for them to ask him.

....well, for that matter just about all of the local HS coaches have a more complicated playbook.

There is precedent for letting impaired officials call a game......UT vs North Texas 1988.

I tend to agree with this.

What a schedule for the whorns! They have seven games at home. When they travel, they only leave the state twice. And the first time that they leave the state isn't until Oct 21st (Nebraska). Let's see. If they sell-out every one of their home games, the ticket sales alone with be a minimum of $4mil per game. So, with seven home games, their gross ticket receipts will be a minimum of $28mil.

I just looked on the UT athletic site. It's still 11:00 am. Here is the link. http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/

Well, Mr. Anderson certainly make it work. By incorporating the flute into rock (and very well I might add) he provided a semblance of music to the genre'.

I looked at other conferences and universities on this site. I was shocked to see that Southern Miss has only a 33K seat stadium. Is this accurate? Meanwhile Tulsa has a 40+K stadium. BTW, are we going to be forced to sit in those crappy looking endzone seats at Skelly Stadium?

Where in hell did this come from?

Jim, it's going to cost you more than a $1 to mail one of those shirts.

Down at A&M they prefer to call it Maroon.......but in their case, Moron would work for me.

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I'm not the one who made the "going off" comment about Fernandez, Pollock did. I thought Fernandez did very well, but I wouldn't use the phrase "going off". C'mon Jack, we might be a D-1 program, but our WR recruiting has basically been, to put it politely, lacking. We're damn lucky to have Johnny Quinn on our team, considering that it really wasn't DD's idea.....it was K-Mart's. I don't know how we talked Mr. Jackson into coming here, and I don't know how we talked Zac Muzzy into coming here either. (Now, there's someone who could be back next year.) IMHO, until our offense changes a lot, AND everyone on the coaching staff is in the recruiting harness, we are going to have to rely on our luck with walk-ons in this area.

Mine too.

Maybe not "touted", but Isiah Smith, Casey Fitzgerald, and Guy Fernandez looked pretty good in the sping.

Hmmmm, Ken Washington, Ken Smith and Glenn Ray. I'm wondering if that is the deepest that we have ever been at the QB position? Any other nominations out there?

I wasn't making a judgement about Phil Steele, or your endorsement of his evaluative skills. I've always felt this way about recruitment. Sure, most great athletes rarely tank it in their senior year, but rarely are we ever in the running for those athletes. Most of the time, we are more in the running for those athletes who are "late bloomers" and who don't really show their stuff until their senior year. Which brings me back to my policy about not getting excited about recruitment until after the HS season is over.

I don't understand. Are you saying that "I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE" is passe'?

I've always believed (and still do) that recruitment isn't "real" until after the HS football season, and all the dust has settled. Up until that point, everything is mainly wishful thinking. Any HS player could have a great career up to their senior year, and then things could fall apart. They could have a crappy season (for various reasons), their school could have a change in coaching staff, and/or they get injured. When this happens all bets are off....and so are the offers. So (recruitment wise) I just regard this time of year as the time when the fans are daydreaming (or worse), and the Universities and potential recruits are basically lying to one another. OR! As one of my former supervisors (a Junior High English teacher in her original profession) used to say, "There are many a slip twixt the cup and the lip".

I remember Vidal Carlin. Mainly because he threw a lot to one of my favorite receivers of all time....John Love.