PlummMeanGreen

Sorry to hear this about Stan's wife. Prayers to his family in this time of premature loss. As I recall, Stan Blackmon helped us debut a brand spanking new Super Pit in the 1972/1973 basketball season in what I believe was his senior year at NT. Truly some sad news concerning his wife.

And thats only because I had to take a bathroom break, MP, and then take some Immodium D! Keep us all posted, Moot, I think you sometimes know more than you are telling us. Of course at times many of us have been asked to not post some things that have to be kept in total discretion as to not jeopardize or alienate certain situations at UNT, and I think most of us have honored such requests every time, too. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Even (kinda') funnier, eulesseagle, is that I recall that particular episode. GOD BLESS TEXAS..

.............................................................................. Dammit'! Why Can't I Post Shorter Posts!?!!?!? Like many of us are now saying, this is just not totally about DD at all, although that really almost sounds silly to say that since he is the head football coach, but its really about many various circumstances and situations that our having a terrifically bad season in the low profile SBC in 2005 seems to have lifted the veil and brought to focus. On the other hand, he is the one that all of this has happened under this watch. I am a romantic, many of you (I believe) are too as I read your posts; that is, my definition of romantic used in this particular subject meaning we like having happy endings to life's stories out there, but in my heart of hearts (and having observed the NT community for going on 4 decades now) this thing with NT football has yet to completely bottom out, but we at NORTH TEXAS just cannot afford for it to do that as a member of our low profile Sun Belt Conference. You just cannot afford to have 2 or 4 win seasons in the Sun Belt Conference in any year because that puts you further down the food chain than you are already by even being a member of the SBC. And we cannot afford to be at the bottom of the SBC's bottom in any football season because of what it can do against us as we try to recruit against other SBC schools who visit Texas quite frequently not to mention schools like Tulsa U and Louisiana Tech University of Ruston, LA. AN ILLUSTRATION, PROBABLY A POOR ONE, BUT ONE I THINK MOST WILL GET THE JIST OF ANYWAY................... I once heard of some West Texans years ago that had a large amount of acreage fenced in where they raised wild turkeys from their infancy to maturity but once these wild turkeys became adults, they still could not fly out of that property due to the fencing; well, these west Texans spent a lot of out of season time feeding those wild turkeys and then during hunting season, they would go into the fenced in areas and have a good ol' fashioned turkey shoot. Some might call that kind of wild turkey hunting as tantamount to shooting fish in a barrell; you know, no real challenge with what those hunters were doing? NOTE: In a similar way, too many in the college sports world don't think we have had to do much to get to New Orleans. Well, the SBC for NT has been a fenced in area, ie, a conference in its first few years of operation whereas in those first few years, NT has been shooting our opponents down left and right. Now since all the fences are down those wild turkeys (SBC opponents) are on equal footing with some of them even flying completely over us and our efforts to contain them; that is, the ones who have been doing the fenced in hunting the SBC's first few years are now being the hunted since things have changed. Certainly, the trophies in those first few years of the SBC's existence were real nice (such as bowl games) but still many of our fans deep down felt we were kinda' hunting wild turkeys in a fenced in area. Seems too many of the regional and national sports media think the same thing. We know all those we recruit against sure as hell have used it against us (and from some OOC game results in recent years, have been successful doing so). You know, it's most difficult to criticize your head football coach's leadership and seemed lack of a positive and forward direction w/o it sounding like we are coming down on our Mean Green football players, too; but we aren't and I hope our guys who wear the green and white know it. We just want them to have every possible advantage and chance to win against schools other than those in the SBC (but now the SBC, too); yet many of the things that have prevented that from happening the last 8 years in Denton have just been completely out of our football player's control or areas of responsibility. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Murray State (NCAA D1-AA & North Texas (NCAA D1-A)--apples & oranges. NT has much more at stake with what we are attempting to do long-term than I would ever think Murray State would. If anyone will look just how close all this has been unravelling the last 3 years, they might get off this "one bad year" kick. 4 games this year changed my mind 180 degrees as far as the direction DD is giving us: Our performance vs 2 "5 year old" SBC schools of which both still don't have full NCAA D1-A designations, the Tulsa blowout @ Fouts which was our worse home loss in our entire history and finally...............the straw that broke this camel's back: The loss to La Tech who has not been to 4 bowl games the last 4 years but (obviously) didn't need to because they have still been out-recruiting NORTH TEXAS those last 4 years and to add insult to injury (or is it the other way around; anyway, La Tech has been whooping us for recruits--in our own back yard. Hopefully, apathy is not beginning to set in with those who (for whatever reasons) refuse to acknowledge much of what many of us have been saying on this subject the last few weeks. BOTTOM LINE: You cannot have even "one" down year in the SBC at a school like NORTH TEXAS with all the resources we have compared to the other SBC schools. You just can't do it. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Of course, I never mentioned the name ** Barry Switizer if you might be referring to what I mentioned about schools known for the wishbone. BTW, I think you have a great restraunt up there in "Little D" and look forward to meeting some buddies (again) at your eatery soon. ** There were some very, very, very strong rumors that Barry Switzer had (in deed) applied for the NORTH TEXS job just days before Jerry Jones made his initial call to Coach Switzer for him to become his coach. In fact, that application as I understand it produced from the Mean Green Athletic Department a "you mean HE applied for the NT job" from an NT assistant coach. Coach Switzer was probably just tired of sitting around on his sofa in Norman and just merely collecting from his investments that some of the Sooner Nation had set up nicely for him thru the years. Right now, Coach Switzer is close to 70 years old and (I presume) probably no longer interested in coaching, although we all know Hayden Fry (who was over 70) when he applied for the Baylor job 3 years ago and that before the Bears hired Guy Morris. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

If that would be the case, ee, that sudden rush of wind you would hear would be a whole bunch of people connected in many ways to UNT making trips to their travel agents, getting over to Wal Mart to purchase Fall camping goods and all other various sundry things they would need to fill their Fall of 2006 weekend plans of which Game Day at Fouts Field would not be part of. This will all boil down to money and attendance and if NT officials want to see just how fast things can get bad in Denton, they will do just as you have predicted. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

SOME ADDENDUMS & GRAMMATICAL ERRORS CORRECTED: A freakin' bone you say? Well, they once worked for schools known for the wishbone and I will add that could be 1 of 2 schools and more than 1 person, too, so don't go necessarily be thinking of merely one or those who also only served at the position of head football coach, either. They wanted discretion back then and if they think there is fixin' to be a change at UNT, they could put their name back in the hat and start reading anything they can about UNT--including www.GoMeanGreen.com. thus a reason of no names mentioned from this keyboard. One day when there is an opening, I predict we will have the largest number of the highest profile applicants than we have ever had to apply for the head football coach's job at the University of North Texas. If all will recall last time around, there was hardly any time for anyone to apply for our head football coach's job (high profile or, uh, "low" profile) since our (then) AD was already holding a press conference for his hire before Matt Simon's office was even emptied. Come on, folks, a whole lot of people know (or can see firsthand) what we are doing at our Eagle Point Campus. 60,000 commuters drive by all that daily according to the guys on the M.G.R.N in a recent football game broadcast.....such high profile prospective head football coaches also have computers and can pull up NT athletic-related websites (such as this one) to read of plans or see photos (and virtual tour videos) of our plans. Remember a few weeks ago the video shown in the closing moments of our nationally televised ESPN game at Fouts that had broadcasters Craig James, Dave Barnett and their guest, Hayden Fry all gushing and make such a big "to do" over? A high profile candidate probably also knows all about what will be the icing on the cake out at the 200 acre Mean Green Athletic Village, ie, a facility that one UNT official said a few weeks ago will make a most glorious and grandiose debut in 2009. Who knows, maybe such a future high profile hire would even be out there side by side with their sleeves rolled up with our other campus fundraisers helping them seal the deal on a Big Corporate Donor or 2 or 3, too. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Off subject, but MeanGreenDork's "NT" helmet icon is one helluva' good looking football helmet. Hellsbells! I hope that doesn't start the 1,000'th thread on how we arrange the 2 letters "N" and "T"....... GOD BLESS TEXAS...

I think we learned our Texas HS football coach lesson with the short NT career of ex Marshall High School coach, ie, one Dennis Parker. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

I think the lure of a BCS job in the Big 12 would be too much for Gary Patterson to turn down. After all, his former mentor ex TCU coach Dennis Francione also turned down a $1 million contract offer to stay in Fort Worth. There is not one non-BCS coach who would turn down the majority of BCS jobs. That is most of their objectives and goals. I mean look at what Hayden Fry took after he left NT such as a U of Iowa football program that had decades of a losing legacy, but the Hawkeyes were also in the Big 10, too, and Fry saw all that as opportunity. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

No..... I think the KSU job will be TCU's Gary Patterson's for the taking. Probably his team's being ranked and winning some impressive OOC games over the years will help seal the deal for him to get that KSU job. TCU's Coach Pattt' being a coach in this region will probably also help him get the job, because Bill Snyder's only personal Texas connection was decades ago when he was (I believe) head coach at Austin College and then one of Hayden Fry's assistants at NORTH TEXAS. What I am saying is that KSU's Snyder seemed to have lost his Texas recruiting base for the most part. Patterson would change that overnight. KSU needs the Texas connection that Gary Patterson would give them. He and his assistants (of which many he would take to Manhatten) would be able to hit the Lone Star state recruiting trail running. All who they are recruiting for TCU would suddenly be on KSU's Texas recruiting list. A trivial thing is that Patterson would be going to another school with the same colors as TCU if he got the KSU job. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

I think some would be surprised at some of the high profile names that have applied for the NT head football coach's gig in the past. One such applicant caused one of NT's coach's who was duly impressed to respond : "You mean HE has applied for this job?" FWIW, they are much higher profile names than I am seeing on many of the posts on this thread. Some of those higher profile names asked for professional discretion when they applied, but my "then" inside source in the NT Athletic Department blew me away with a handful of names he mentioned to me. Who knows, maybe even some from that short list might apply again in the future? Maybe some of you older nestors know other high profile names who did go public with their interest in our job in the past? NT found the money to pay Hayden Fry back in 1972 and I think they could do the same for another high profile hire, but right now, there are no openings. "If you set low goals, you will surely reach them." (Dr. Norman Vincent Peal) GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Rick, you would have been great on the Titanic doing stand-up comedy! GOD BLESS TEXAS...

We are just now finding out who has been winnning recruiting wars over the last 3 years. Said this before, but for you stuck on the "but DD has taken us to 4 bowl games" bandwagon; well, neither Tulsa U or La Tech have been to 4 bowl games in the last 4 years, but it appears they have out-hustled us on the recruiting trails in almost that same number of years inasmuch as how they man-handled us this year on the gridiron. (TU only gave us our worse home loss in our entire football history spanning back to the early part of last century). I can almost deal with Tulsa U having been successful over UNT in recruiting over the last several years because of Golden Hurricane Coach Steve Kragthorpe and their location, but for crissakes' people, getting beat on the recruiting trails by La Tech, La Tech's none-plans for football related facility improvements and Ruston, Louisiana? GOD BLESS TEXAS....

And its (real) "butts in seats" attendance and donation shortfalls at SMU that are at the top of their list that has many of their elite thinking they need to make a head coaching change no matter how the 'Stangs finish this season. According to an opinion by one of our oldest NT alums I received an email, that will be the very thing that will get our campus decision-makers thinking twice about all this with DD, ie, attendance that shows no signs of improving and donations that will shrink. Even they won't be able to condone or justify that, even if our head football coach were one of their kin. I just hope all this doesn't stretch out any further than is really necessary. Time is money? GOD BLESS TEXAS...

EPISTLE # 7516 (2 cups of coffee will get you thru this one--guaranteed)! I was going to hang in with all this, FFR, until myself and others started seeing the coaching trends we now have at NT and **recruiting results the last 3 years have produced. Toward the top of the list, though, was when we played 2 SBC schools from Florida (both only 5 years old) losing to one and barely beating the other who only had 8 turnovers. My light bulb finally came on after that--I assure you, many others did too. And even other light bulbs from NT Exes will start lighting up soon, too, and I predict that once they sit down, start putting some figure$ down on paper as well as start giving all this a serious look once they take off the green tinted glasses to see the Big Picture. ** Again, I reiterate, we recruited some outstanding athletes the last 3 years who we are damn proud to have in Mean Green Country, but we didn't recruit enough of them to complement that group so that we could hang in with schools we thought we were on an even basis or even better than (after all our bowl games to boot). Those 2 I speak of were Tulsa U and La Tech. Neither of those 2 schools had 4 bowl games the last 4 years, but it appears even w/o them they outrecruited NT over the last 3 years and I suppose what we saw on the scoreboard is the proof in the pudding with that. Many of our elect are having as big a problem getting over the large score differential losses to TU and LTU as our performances against 2 SBC schools from Florida who are not yet even fully designated NCAA D1-A schools as I post. Even a non UNT alum would have questions with this, folks, just as some who have already posted on this forum. So its just not about this one year's results with DD's leadership as NT head football coach one might say, because this year's results (or lack thereof) are the culmination of the last 3 years of preparation for this 2005 football season, ie, as in our overall recruiting in the previous 3 years? AND FOR DAMN SURE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU'RE STILL READING AT ALL: We play our toughest SBC opponents in 2006 on the road next Fall, Greenbackers, so you think 2006 will be so much a dramatic turnaround (which would then give us 2 years of not so good times in the low profile SBC)? But some will say: Well, that's only 2 bad years (even not thinking about which conference we're in when they say it--insert subliminal "Bottom 10?"). Can a school in the SBC like UNT afford a 3'rd down football season if we see further proof that our SBC opponents have caught fire, have continued to figure out DD's offense and have passed us by like that "beep beep" cartoon character? That 3'rd year would be DD's 11'th year at NT. NOTE: We will then have a 11 year head football coach at NT who will still not be anywhere close to .500 in overall wins during those 11 years at NT. You know any other NCAA D1-A schools whose leadership or alums would fly with that? Also, in light of this his 8'th year, how many OOC wins will we realisticallly get in the next 3 years based on the ones we did not get this year, namely against Tulsa U and La Tech? FWIW, I feel our NT football players, NT students, NT Exes and NT fans deserve much more for our future. GOD BLESS TEXAS!

You mention DD having OOC success overnight? LJ, I respectfully submit to you that DD is now in his "8'th" year at UNT. Some of us don't have too many over-nights left if his OOC successes come in increments of every 8 years or so! Devil Dickey?!?!? That's too funny..........but not really, I think most of us think DD is really a pretty decent human being who has most definitley not fallen from grace to that status. Again, my concern is about what I see as a spiraling downward of momentum the last 3 years while we seem to have settled for setting low goals during each of those 3 years. I once heard Dr. Norman Vincent Peale say over in Dallas: "If you set low goals, you certainly have a good chance of reaching them." It's been said before, but if the SBC football champion does not annually beat the 4'th place CUSA team that they offer to us as the SBC football champion's opponent each December, then one might suggest that that program is not progressing much more than the level of the conference its playing in? Devil Dickey? Obviously, you, too, have been watching Showtime reruns of "Dickey Roberts: Child Star" or whatever the title; you know, the part of the movie when the family dog digs up their pushy neigbors dead rabbit who they then surname: DEVIL RABBIT?!?!? Seriously, though, LongJim, you fit the very demographic of the kind of Mean Green fan that resides in Denton County who has gone to another school, (UT-Austin, in your case) that many of us on this board have said forever are out there for the pickin' (so to speak) to become Mean Green football fans. There are a whole bunch of you out there for sure in our alma mater's home county. What may surprise some is that there are more people who live in Denton County than what one newspaper said lived in the "in city limits" population of New Orleans (and that before Katrina). The North Texas (DFW) Metroplex is a major league sports market, though, and at UNT we are just going to have to deliver a major sports product for all this to work. People who live and work in major sports markets (such as the almost 6 million citizen populated North Texas Metroplex) do not won't to align themselves with anything that appears NCAA D1-AA'ish. or small time. And certainly, I'm not saying NT will ever have the athletic budgets of UT, TAMU, Michigan, USC, etc, etc, etc, but neither do a whole bunch of other schools who are members of the BCS's top 6 conferences. UNT has the potential to be a Top 25 school any year and I think some of the MAC schools have shown that to not be impossible; but right now, we are a long ways from receiving Top 25 consideration. And speaking of (chasing) rabbits here?!?!? Sorry, but this football season has me a bit more disoriented than I normally am as it is. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

First of all, LongJim, you are right, we do have some outstanding football talent at NT now, we just need annual recruiting classes that bring more of them to Denton in larger numbers. Also, LongJim, we appreciate any new fans we get in MG Country, because God only knows how many older or veteran NT alums/fans the last 10 years or so have been alienated from their own alma mater, rudely treated with almost retaliative vindictive'ism because some NT Exes dared to not accept mediocrity (and empty seats at Fouts Field) and that after we've been told just how the SBC has revolutionized our program. Well, if that is the case, where are the rest of the 15,000 we need to fill our stadium and that after 4 bowl games sponsored by the SBC? Well, we have new facilities you say? Yes, we do, and we are all excited about every one of those but FWIW.............what real choices did we have at UNT than to start building those facilities? Even if we were still in 1-AA, we would have had to build such facilties to stay competitive at that level. Seems the only alternative we would have had at UNT would to have become a "basketball only" school; you know, just like Lamar U who got beat by Tarleton State in a BB game last week in Beaumont? Still, many defer to 15,000 per home game averages (and that after 4 bowl games). Granted, that beats 1,500 one might see at some SBC away games. Yet a question still remains: Just what is it that keeps King Football Texas college fans in the greater Denton area from knocking the turnstiles of Fouts field down to come in and watch aggressive, exciting, pull out all the stops and "go for the win" college football? Also, what has made many of NT's casual fans show for many past home season opening games (save one) and during too many half times of those "well attended" home season openers & during a parking lot half time break, you see many of them getting in their cars seemedly in disgust while you over-hear many of them say "We Ain't Coming Back to Watch This" (and they usually don't). On top of (amazingly) continuous radio broadcasted bashing of our fans/alums by DD one has to ask the question of: Why don't NT powers that be stop such broadcasted conduct aimed at everyone who has ever been connected with UNT? Such broadcasted conduct from one who is still making quite a cushy living by most American's standards and doing so w/o (in the opinion of many) any obvious special skills for one coaching at the NCAA D1-A level; except there is one saving grace for such now isn't there, because after all..........we are in the Sun Belt Conference. Some might also venture a guess that DD's father who has an NCAA D1-A coaching history and with his father knowing many in the NCAA coach's fraternity elite; anyway, with all of that consortium of good ol' boy coachs helping a son over-come what may have been hiring obstacles at most NCAA D1-A outposts that if not for the connection of a father (and KSU connections with a then "KSU graduated" NT Athletic Director), many might be curious if the son would have gotten the NT head football coach's job. And in Mean Green Country, weren't we all first hand witness of basically an equivalence of an NT head football coach's hiring coup post-Matt Simon's firing in Denton? QUICKS DRAW MCGRAW @ UNT? Wasn't the hirng of DD @ NT one of the fastest hirings in the history of the NCAA after Simon was fired? And (of course) quickness of that being done before an NT head football coaches selection committee of NT/Denton area "would be" committee members could be formed. You know, such committee members who would be around long after the ones doing the hiring (or the one being hired) were long gone? Not even the usual practice at a Texas public university of having the democratic process with those from every part of the NT Community helping to make a most important decision on a most important hire? You know, as in hiring arguably a Texas university's highest profile employee and one who would be getting more individual TV and radio opportunities or exposure than the UNT president or chancellor themselves? LongJim, even in your sincere defense of some of the things that are happening this Fall at NT, you still hit on many stark truths of why many feel all this has been unravelling not just this Fall, but the last 3 Falls; and if not for our school's membership in a league which annually has problems getting the majority of its football teams above .500 , there would be no one on this forum showing any semblance of approval for the direction this present football regime is giving us, unless they are just competely content with wins over a sub .500 playing Sun Belt Conference each year. I don't think most on this board are content with that kind of athletic existence--especially those who remember when we used to win OOC football games against some schools with some pretty damn impressive names w/o near the facilities we have now or those we will have soon in Mean Green Country. UNT's DECISION-MAKERS? You might say that a small handful of this elite group of campus decison-makers are in their own little SBC utopian malaise of "well, this sure beats being in NCAA D1-AA, now doesn't it?" I wonder if any of that group have checked their NT football media guides to see that we beat more OOC (high profile) football teams as a NCAA 1-AA football program than we have the last 8 years in NCAA 1-A under DD? And.........no, no, no, please don't get any funny ideas of our completely giving up on all this, waving the white flag and retreating back to an NCAA 1-AA classification, either. GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Again, I ask the question: How would you like to market this next summer knowing there will be few changes whether R. Flanagan is around or not? Our Mean Green football players deserve a chance to reach their fullest potential in OOC and (now) conference games. GOD BLESS TEXAS!

KingDL1, with your approval I have highlighted some of your above thoughts in blue. One longtime NT Ex and Mean Green fan pointed out to me today that in 2006 we will play most of the SBC schools who will be considered the toughest SBC teams all on the road; so with that in mind, we will (in deed) need some of that magic you mention in your post above. GOD BLESS TEXAS!

And We All Wanted Membership in Conference USA? Well, lets just see where NT football would be today had we been accepted to start football play in CUSA circa 2003. 2003: 4'th Place CUSA Team: University of Memphis.............The Tigers were CUSA's last team (4'th place in '03) that would go to a bowl game--Well..........they beat us in the 2003 New Orleans Bowl that December--Had NT been a member of CUSA in 2003, we would have sat home during bowl season. 2004: 4'th Place CUSA Team: University of Southern Miss...............The Golden Eagles were CUSA's last team (4'th place in '04) that would go to a bowl game--Well.........they beat us quite handily in the 2004 New Orleans Bowl that December--Had NT been a member of CUSA in 2004, we would have sat home during bowl season. 2005: 4'th Place CUSA Team: Probably a composite of either Tulsa U or University of Houston.............Well, we all know what the Golden Hurricane did to us at Fouts Field weeks ago as they set a record for the worst home loss in NT football history and just guess who beat the Tulsa Golden Hurricane a few weeks ago? You guessed it, the UH Coogs. <>*<> So...........had NT been a member of CUSA during this 2005 football campaign, well, we're not........we are a member of the Sun Belt Conference where if you finish toward the bottom of this league, you are at the bottom of the 117 member NCAA D1-A. It will become a 119 member NCAA D1-A once FAU and FIU meet the 1-A criteria best I understand the rules on that. GOD BLESS TEXAS!

UNTLifer, I had a "casual" NT fan and friend come up last year to a game and he came in his own vehicle. After the game (which we won) I told him on on our way to the Fouts parking lot to turn his radio on to 100.7 FM KWRD for the M.G.R.N's post game interview with DD. When we all arrived back in FW for our little group's post-game meal, I asked our fellow NT casual fan/alum this: "What did you think of the post game radio show with DD?" Well, I will swear this on my sainted dear mother's last resting place that he responded with pretty close to this: "Good gosh! Why is the North Texas coach so down on everything at NT and especially the fans?" I told him this was only par for the course with most post game radio interviews George Dunham had with DD in recent years. THEN................. one radio interview that chapped many of us the most with DD was when he was on the ESPN national radio broadcast for about a 5 minute interview and I know we all thought to ourselves, "what an opportunity to "Spread the Good News" of whats going on in Mean Green Country, that is, about all the construction that was planned, that was going on at the time of that interview and would eventually culminate with a new stadium?" Well.............as most of you will probably remember, no dice on that for sure and if memory even serves me correct, I think he even went into the "woe is us at NT" diatribe. I do recall once that ESPN national radio interview with DD was over wanting to chunk my radio thru the bedroom window with him missing such a golden selling opportunity for our alma mater (and his employer). So............DD Capital Remaining @ NT? $0.00 I'm sorry, but the coaching performance against the 2 SBC 1-AA Florida schools both of which had opened football operations only 5 years earlier was the straw that broke the camel's back with this NT alum, ie, an alum who tried to support what the man was doing best he could while pissing off many NT friends even because of that. No more.......... Now who wants to volunteer to be NT's Athletic Marketing Guru for the 2006 football campaign under present conditions coupled with so many public relation gaffes from the football staff in recent years? GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Now come on, TIgreen, you didn't like my "hot dogs, motherhood, apple pie and Cheverlet" patriotic post around last 4'th of July?!?! AND irony of ironies.....Appalachian State's head football coach is former NT coach Jerry Moore. (And no, that is not a "draft Jerry Moore" to be NT's new head football coach should that job become available anytime soon, either). I missed GMoney's post on the quotes from the LSU coach, thanks for bringing it back up, TIgreen. GOD BLESS TEXAS!