SilverEagle

Are you saying that back in the 80's and early 90's Texas wasn't much better than a 1-AA program?

Here is the problem that I have with people who say that we are not even in the same universe with Texas, or most other schools like them. And that we should have more "realistic expectations". 1976 Texas 17 UNT 14 (D-1 program) 1978 Texas 26 UNT 16 (D-1 program) 1981 Texas 23 UNT 10 (D-1 program) 1983 Texas 26 UNT 6 (1-AA program) 1988 Texas 27 UNT 24 (1-AA program) 1992 Texas 33 UNT 15 (1-AA program) 2002 Texas 27 UNT 0 (D-1 program) 2004 Texas 65 UNT 0 (D-1 program) Hayden Fry said that we could compete with ANYONE, and then went out and proved it. Corky Nelson seemed to have the same attitude, but he wasn't as "Zig Zigler"(sp?) about it as Hayden was. Would someone please explain what happened to a fairly competitive series that we have had with Texas? Hell, we were more competitive with them when we were 1-AA! What the hell has happened?

If you're going to e-mail Academy, you need to "cc" the athletic department, so that they know that you're unhappy with the lack of marketing for North Texas products.

"Fulmer normally receives a raise and extension each year, but won't get one this time, athletic director Mike Hamilton said. Fulmer got only a one-year extension after finishing the 2002 season 8-5, his worst record until this year. "I think you base pay increases on substantially successful years," Hamilton told The Associated Press." Hmmm, now there's an interesting concept. I wonder if RV has been empowered to do something similar.

That wasn't very smart of T.J., for two reasons. He might have had some hopes of getting lucky sometime. But more importantly, every one of those dancers can kick higher than his head. Ooops! You said the MTSU dance team. Ok forget the "getting lucky" part, but the "high kick" part still applies.

Also, Arkansas used to be part of the Red Wolf's turf.

Rice is in CUSA. They may have one more loss than us, but at least their conferences losses were against competition that's a bit more highly regarded than our SunBelt competition.

You mean there's someone at the games more obnoxious than me? I guess I need to go into training during the off-season.

Well then, let me move my comments from another thread to this one. Just some thoughts about some points being made in various threads. "Dickey has earned the right, by virtue of the four SBC championships, to have more time to right the ship" Right the ship to where? Back to being "King of the dip$hits" and losing most of our OCC games? "Jim McIngvale(sp?) will withdraw his support if Dickey is Fired." I'm curious. Would "Mattress Mac" tolerate his sales manager having the same sales record as Dickey's overall win/loss record? I tend to think not. So, I have to wonder why such a successful man is so enamoured with a Coach that has such a ordinary football record. I really am curious about this, because Mr. M. played under a very dynamic coach, and Mr. M. himself is a very dynamic business man. Also, one of the things that often happens when someone steps forward to make a big donation to a program is that other "big doners" will often follow suit. Has Mr. M. noticed by now that he seems to be the only person in the "big donor" parade? I make this last observation because of Bobby Ray's comment to "Huff's" question regarding the progress of getting a new stadium built. His answer? "nowhere". So obviously other potential "big donors" don't have the same assessment of Dickey's football program (or it's potential) that Mr. M. seems to have.

Just some thoughts about some points being made in various threads. "Dickey has earned the right, by virtue of the four SBC championships, to have more time to right the ship" Right the ship to where? Back to being "King of the dip$hits" and losing most of our OCC games? "Jim McIngvale(sp?) will withdraw his support if Dickey is Fired." I'm curious. Would "Mattress Mac" tolerate his sales manager having the same sales record as Dickey's overall win/loss record? I tend to think not. So, I have to wonder why such a successful man is so enamoured with a Coach that has such a ordinary football record. I really am curious about this, because Mr. M. played under a very dynamic coach, and Mr. M. himself is a very dynamic business man. Also, one of the things that often happens when someone steps forward to make a big donation to a program is that other "big doners" will often follow suit. Has Mr. M. noticed by now that he seems to be the only person in the "big donor" parade? I make this last observation because of Bobby Ray's comment to "Huff's" question regarding the progress of getting a new stadium built. His answer? "nowhere". So obviously other potential "big donors" don't have the same assessment of Dickey's football program (or it's potential) that Mr. M. seems to have.

It wouldn't matter if we got Adrian Peterson to play with JT in the backfield if we don't get some OL TO BLOCK FOR THEM! And while we're at it, some DL's to keep our opponents from scoring so many points on us. Because, as good as JT is, a running offense is not a good "catch up" offense. And as long as DD is our coach, we are NOT going to have any sort of offense that plays "catch up" very well.

They told me that they liked the Joe Greene jersey that I was wearing. I offered to loan them the jersey for the rest of the game, if they would leave me alone. It was only through shaming by Rick that I agreed to go out there. What everyone didn't know was that I wasn't yelling "go mean green" or "We're #!" I was yelling "we're getting outcoached again!" Seriously, I really did enjoy walking the sidelines and visiting with the very friendly and pleasant young lady that was in charge of coordinating the video sideline camera. I told her that by getting me down on the sideline, I was able to be more "effectively obnoxious". It also made it easier for me to harass Cerebus.

You're talking about a hug from the North Texas Dancers aren't you? If you mean the coaching staff, then I'll let you have mine....especially from a "certain" coach.

By threatening to boycott the program, either financially or by your absence, you put the program in danger of going back to the 1-AA days. Or worse, we could go back to the days right after Joe Green and company left, and right before Hayden Fry arrived. Right before Fry arrived there was a student referendum to drop football. It barely failed. Having said all that, I'm somewhat ambivalent about the "threatening to withhold financial support issue". I know that it's a terrible idea, especially for North Texas. But continuing financial support or increasing it at this time, sends a "confidence" message, when that might not be how you're really feeling. I agree with GMoney that writing the AD and President is probably the best idea. I would also "cc" the appropriate BOR people when I wrote. E-mails and letters can often claimed to be "not received" by people in power. Having an extensive "cc" list on your correspondence tends to take that "ignoring technique" away from those people.

It doesn't matter if they were rated four stars if they disappear, (or leave after a dispute with the coaching staff) shortly after arriving on campus. I'm not sure if Pratt even made to campus or not. Brady Hartman lasted about a year. I don't know who Jeramiah Chapman is, and I haven't seen anything of Rexrode, or west lately. For that matter, I haven't seen anything of Ryan Davenport who transfered from the Air Force Academy last year. I also noticed that there was someone who was NOT Arthur Stubblefield wearing #15 on the sideline last Saturday.

That's especially true about T.J. If "mouth" got you awards, then he should have gotten the Heisman.

I would be interested in knowing what sort of feed-back we have been getting when we approach companys and/or big donors about providing funding for a stadium. In particular, what these company's/donors are concerned about regarding their potential investment. In other words, what feed-back (if any) have we been given about their reluctance? As to seeing what Coach Dickey needs? How about better assessment skills of potential recruits? In recent posts, it was pointed out that several players were not with us because they showed up for a few days and then left to go home. Look folks, some of our best players in recent years have been walk-ons. I don't know what some of those players had to do in order to get a chance, but I DO know how "approachable" our coaching staff has been on at least one other. If that is ANY indication of how walk-ons have been treated in the past, then God help our program.

Well, DD started Galbreath over Cobbs during the 2002 season. I could tell from watching him during his freshman season that Cobbs was clearly a more talented RB than Galbreath.....yet Galbreath started ahead of him. So, "sometimes" the best players are not out on the field.

Yeah, and that's just the 2002 class.

Worse players? You mean players that play worse? Or do you mean players that make worse decisions and get us more penalties? If disciplining a player this year means we are forced to play WORSE players, then God help us next year. Because if Dickey is NOT going to demand that players be more disciplined on the field, then he's certainly not going to require (expect ?) them to work in the off season to make themselves better players.

I know that I can find stuff at various stores around Denton. But my point is that the McNeese St's and Nichols St's of the world are making themselves "accessable" to ol'joe 6-pack" and we need to do the same. We also need to make our product available to the "casual" North Texas fan/alumni who lives in the metroplex, but isn't particularly motivated to drive up to the Denton Mall to buy a hat or sweatshirt.

In the case of players like Michael Pruitt and possibly T.J. Covington, that may be true. However, "improving quickly" usually involves a four or five game "learning curve" for most JUCO's. As I've pointed out before, Ransom didn't make his presence known until about the fourth or fifth game. BTW, doesn't it seem odd that this article came out when we've been talking about this (recruitment, or the lack thereof) for the last two weeks? Looks like someone in the sports writing profession reads this board and finds some of our points credible enough to write an article about.

So, I'm looking through the usual array of post-Thanksgiving ads and I come across the one for Academy (sports and outdoor). I'm thumbing thru it and come to a page that has "NCAA SWEATSHIRTS" (page 4 btw). Now, I'm used to seeing the "usual suspects" being offered (most B-12 and SEC schools) but the "others" really pi$$ed me off! Other NCAA sweatshirts listed in the Academy ad..... Tulsa, McNEESE, NICHOLS ST, UAB, LAMAR, ULL, JACKSON (I assume Jackson St.) LA TECH. So, I can go the my local Academy sports and outdoor store and buy ANY of the sweatshirts list above and I CANNOT BUY A NORTH TEXAS SWEATSHIRT?!?!?

I'm not aware of Joe Greene applying for any college coaching positions. I seem to remember reading in the newspaper at the time that Bob Tyler was let go and/or fired, that University officials had contacted Joe Greene about the head coaching job and he politely declined. You have to have at least a Bachelor's degree to coach at the college level. Many coaches do not have a masters. In reviewing the press guide for 2002, I noticed that only about half of the North Texas coaching staff have Masters degrees. Dickey was not one of them. So, if Eric Pegram has his Bachelors degree, then he is able to coach at the college level. I'm still a bit skeptical however. Being a personal trainer doesn't mean you would be a great, or even good coach.

National TV?