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"Texas Women's University." - Meachum

Would be nice but I don't know how much it really means in basketball. Remember UNT beat texas a&m by 20 2 years ago and it was an average year for us.

How does losing an experienced back in Byrd and adding Wilson and Evans add up to being "virtually the same RBs"? Even with Wilson being more talented (in my opinion), experience plays a factor especially in pass protection. Besides, I never said you could sit in the pocket with some coffee and a good book if you have the best O-Line, I said it's a mutual relationship between the three parts of the offense.

Stahhhppppp! The O-line was great in 2013 and it wasn't because of D Thompson. According to cfbstats.com (http://www.cfbstats.com/2013/leader/national/team/defense/split01/category20/sort01.html) they were number 1 in least sacks allowed in 2012 and number 6 in 2013. We had big, seasoned O-linemen with chemistry. D Thompson was good by UNT standards but he wasn't some elite world class QB. I watched almost all of his games from the day I set foot at UNT and he missed a lot of short passes or put our guys in bad positions to catch passes (high throws leaving guys open to get leveled) even in 2013. Don't attribute the success of our O-line solely to Thompson. It's a mutual relationship between QB, O-Line and RB and I believe the O-Line is actually what made Thompson and our RBs what they were back in 2013. Put that O-Line with who we have now and we are running for 250+ yards per game as a team.

Free tickets and parking to the first 10,000 who show up. Period. Movie theaters don't make most of their money from ticket sales, they make them from the concession stands. Get people in the stadium and hope they buy enough food/drinks to make up for the ticket sales. If anything, you at least had a better showing and game-day atmosphere for the graduating seniors.

Does anybody know why Everett Withers has moved around so much? We want somebody with experience but he seems to play hot potato when it comes to where he wants to be. Per Wikipedia: 1988–1989Austin Peay (DC)1990Austin Peay (ST/WR)1991Tulane (assistant)1992–1993Southern Miss (assistant)1994New Orleans Saints (assistant)1995–1997Louisville (DC)1998–2000Texas (assistant)2001–2006Tennessee Titans (assistant)2007Minnesota (DC)2008–2010North Carolina (DC)2011North Carolina2012–2013Ohio State (DC)2014–presentJames MadisonHis longest run somewhere was with the Titans as defensive back coach. Not many of his new jobs have really been promotions from the one(s) held before. For example, he was with the Saints for a year to then go to Louisville as defensive coordinator to then be a defensive backs coach at Texas. Defensive backs coach with the Titans to then be U Minnesota's DC for a year. It's a lot of hopping around. We want somebody to view us a stepping stone, but it doesn't look like he's ever really used any program as a stepping stone. In addition, he has a 23-12 HC record. Pretty good! But most of that is in the FCS. I feel like he doesn't have enough HC experience to make that even worth mentioning and this year marks the first time he has been HC at a program for 2 consecutive years...

Although I am most intrigued by the positives Briles offers, I think Mike Norvell would be the best hire. Norvell has the best experience of the two having coached at Central Arkansas, Tulsa, and Pitt. Briles coming here would be the first time he doesn't have his dad around in the coaching world, almost like a kid moving to college after high school. It's a big change.

Excuse me if this has already been answered, but in his 30 years of coaching, why hasn't Chico been given a chance at HC job somewhere? I am really trying to find reasons to like him as our next HC but I just can't agree with the move if it were to happen. If he were that good, he would be somewhere else by now. This is a response to all of those saying give him a shot. Unless we win out the rest of the year (except the Tennessee game) I just don't see a reason why you give him a chance at HC.

Although I do fully respect those who donated to the campaign and fully support the initiative, I just don't think holding $2,000 until RV is fired will make those in charge think to buyout RV's contract at $300k per year for $2k. It is a great idea though. Maybe start a fund with those $2,000 dedicated to hostage money.Throughout the course of the year, it may actually become a substantial amount of money and have some power.

Yes, why devalue an offer by handing them out to P5 prospects in the area? Because our offers currently have so much value, we shouldn't dare devalue them. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky. I didn't say hand them out to everybody, I just said those in the area. Those who might want to play closer to home. Those who might have ties to UNT or Denton.

Not sending in an offer guarantees not getting a commitment. Mike Muhney is a business man and visited one of my classes at UNT two years ago. His favorite quote is as follows: "Every attempt does not produce a hit, and every hit does not produce a home run. But every home run is the result of both an attempt and a hit." We need to throw offers at almost every p5 prospect in the area. If one accepts, then great! If none accept, then you have the same result you would have had had you not offered.

Not to excuse poor offensive execution left and right, but makes me wonder how much better our offense would be with that 2013 O-line.

What I hear he said years back was probably true so why are we so offended at the though of him coming back? If we fire RV, we might have a chance at landing him. He knows texas and knows UNT. It might not be the worst idea to bring him in it he'll have us...

there is a difference between an upset and G5s consistently competing with P5s now.

It seems like every week it's not uncommon to see a P5 school "upset" by a G5. Purdue lost to Marshall. Southern Miss played Nebraska fairly tough. Western Kentucky beat Vanderbilt and almost beat Indiana. La Tech is currently up 14-0 to Miss. St. in Starkville, MS. AAC teams are getting really good. Toledo beat Arkansas. NIU played Ohio State very tough losing 20-13. Is the gap closing? And if so, is this the time to see a UNT program truly make a turnaround? Not just for UNT's standards but on the national level. Thoughts on the gap between G5 and P5? Will it continue? Do we have a chance to join in the La Tech, Houston, Western Kentucky, Memphis, Marshall, and others? If we don't do it now, will it only get tougher from here?

I noticed that last part too. They looked extremely discouraged. Almost like they were just going through the motions.

I was just about to say, at this rate we're going to be getting calls from low-tier FBS programs and FCS programs looking to schedule their homecoming games. HA!

I respectfully disagree. I think people were harder on mini because he had been the starter since middle of last year and with the team for 4-5 years. You expect a guy like that to make good decisions, be in sync with receivers, and just make overall good throws. He threw wobbly inaccurate ducks and that's the cause for a lot of his drops. Smith threw a few inaccurate balls, but his drops had zip. This was his first career D1 start if I'm not mistaken. Cut the guy some slack and enjoy the 4 TD passes.

With the season lost, I love that these young guys are getting playing time and lots of it. Next year when we get kenny buyers back, this young secondary can be very good with proper coaching. This is what we've been asking for - bleed for the year in hopes of developing our young players for the next 2 or 3 years.

I was thinking the same thing during the game. I didn't expect us to be down 21-0 so quickly so I knew then my prediction wouldn't happen.

This right here. I like the way you think.

Personally I would prefer the wonder kid briles or cumbie or somebody at a trendy program than somebody who has won in tough places. Why? Because we shouldn't be a tough place to recruit to and win. Other than our conference, we have all of the intangibles of an attractive school such as being in dfw. Bring me the guy all the kids know and want to play for. Bring me the guy whose current team in putting up 50 plus on texas. Bring me the guy who has d1 experience and who will get out alums interest. Nobody cares that some guy is successful in juco or fcs or in sun belt. I don't want to be be built in the image of any of those programs, I want to be built in the image of baylor and tcu. And I certainly don't want to end up as a dirict mimicking of a smaller program. Just some thoughts. We need somebody succeeding at a real program now. We got somebody who brought a nobody program out the depths in Mac and it didn't help us any. Dodge was trendy but had no d1 experience. Give me both. Also, my grammar is bad becaus I'm on my phone.

I know exactly what will happen. We start off today's game down 21-0 at half after 3 pick sixes. Mac decides to give D. Smith another chance because he is still the most talented QB we have at the moment and after getting the initial jitters out last game, he goes 19/20 for 273 yards and 4 TDs while running in another. We win and Mac decides to start him again next game. We beat WKU in a shootout and win out the rest of the season including Tennessee. We go 8-4 and somehow sneak into the C-USA championship game taking that as well. After being 9-4 and C-USA champs, we head to a bowl game against Iowa and flip last game's score on them. UNT finishes 10-4 and on fire. Mac decides he wants to retire on a high note and rides out of Denton in the sunset. Chip Kelley gets fired from the Philthadelphia Eagles. With UNT ending on such a high note, big UNT alum from around the world decide to donate to their alma matter and we give Chip a home. He immediately succeeds in flipping plenty of big-time recruits from the West Coast and Texas and somehow gets Kyler Murray or Jerrod Heard to transfer closer to home. After another year of Damarcus Smith while Murray or Heard sits out, one of them is our starter and our program really takes off. We never look back. We jump straight from C-USA to the SEC and the rest is history.

At least those 4 teams have productive basketball programs so they can say they are more of a basketball school and to keep the fans sane. We have nothing right now. UCF had 3 straight 20+ win seasons from 2010 to 2013, granted, they have been bad the past 2 years. We all know what Kansas does in basketball. New Mexico State has won 20+ games since 2011-2012 (including that season). Wyoming has won 20+ seasons two of the past 3 seasons with an 18 win season sandwiched between the two... Although I guess UCF is no better than us at this point. But with their recent success in football, it will be easier for them to dig themselves out of this hole.

At this point I would not really qualify Portland State as a "lesser team" but I get your point.