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Drinkin' and Sarkisian kind of rhyme. To get RV fired, try getting one of those airplanes to fly a banner behind it on game day. Worked at The U.

It's a joke, son...a joke:

Go stand in Fouts during a football game; you'll be able to hear some of the game being played over at Apogee. And...maybe don one of Todd Dodge's White "North Texas" script helmets. Or...try on a Darrell Dickey black jersey.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/12/2/7319461/houston-nutt-coach-rumor-interest-yes-sign-here

Out of high school. Not out of JUCO. He's never lived up to whatever "potential" he was said to have in high school. It appears that we were the only school interested in him out of JUCO: http://sports.yahoo.com/latech/football/recruiting/player-DaMarcus-Smith-168496 So, as stated before, coaches don't just look at youtube highlights. Coaches saw enough of whatever JUCO game film there was to decide he wasn't worth the price of a scholarship...except for our coaches. And, to me, that's the stink of the whole season - McCarney and Canales knew deep down that McNulty and Greer were so bad, and the rest of the hangers on polluting the roster were no better, that they gambled on Smith. He burned them by not becoming eligible until summer. I'm certain that's one of the reason we were his only hope: so desperate for help at QB that we'd sign a guy we knew wouldn't be ready for spring. Then, he gets here and doesn't put in the work. This isn't shocking. It's not even newsworthy. Many recruits never live up to their potential because the work to do it at this level is either too difficult for them, they are too lazy, or both. Smith is just another. We already saw two blow through here named Brock and Dajon. Guys who thought they'd live on their youtube highlights forever. Man, college football is tough! These coaches are jerks to want me to lift weights, study defenses, watch game film, learn playbooks! Haven't they seen my youtube highlights? Don't they know how many stars yahoo/rivals gave me in high school? I was ranked right next to Johnny Manziel! The funny thing is to me is the posters saying to me, in essence, "Forget about Smith's first two starts. They don't count because the competition was so high. Judge him for what he does against the 1-5 start-up program UTSA. That's where we find out what he's made of!" Yeah, okay. You have set the bar at UTSA. Not me. You all set it there. It's absurd. Either way, you lose. The guy, with the bar set where you set it, will be a success if he "beats" UTSA. He could go 1-6 as the starter. But, doggone it...only judge him by what he does against UTSA! McCarney and Canales have no one to blame but themselves. But, shed no tears. Even though the screw up in QB recruiting ultimately cost McCarney his job, he is being paid handsomely on his contract. Canales...well...he was a good soldier. Followed McCarney's command to the hilt, to the point where his QB choices are McNulty, Greer, or Smith. He could literally put their names in a hat, shake it up, and pull one out every series to see who plays; it wouldn't make a difference. He'd just have to remember to stick Smith in there with a minute or two left so we could ring up our traditional late touchdown against the scrubs. He's done it to himself, Canales. The other option would have been the route Mark Mangino just took - defy your failing head coach...and get fired. Canales isn't that type. So, he'll seek out greener pastures after Thanksgiving.

I'm crazier than most fans, so I do believe a quarterback plays an important role in the success of a football team. The only factor? No. A large factor? Yes. But, I'm not a Mike Leach type. DS moves the ball every well at the end of each half when teams are either in a prevent-type (end of first half) or have put thers sends and thirds on the field (when we're behind by 30-40+ points, end of game). To begin the game, and in between, he's not good. DS, like McNulty and Greer before him, is terrible against ones. It's cute that he piled up a bunch of yards against backups in the blow out loss to WKU. But, in the end, it meant nothing. These guys, as I've stated before, would be good FCS quarterbacks, and probably great/possibly All-Conference D-II quarterbacks. All-American D-III or NAIA quarterbacks. We don't have a quarterback on the roster suited for FBS football. And, due to injury and defection, neither does UTSA. They have a better defense. We have better special teams. So, at least the game shouldn't be another blow out against us. If UTSA does blow us out. I really see no point in even keeping the coaching staff for the rest of the season. The players may as well coach themselves if it really is that bad. We could be the first school in 100 years or so that employ the player-coach concept in football.

I'm for it. Like the two home games to start the season. Have said in years past we should begin the seasons with a home against an HBC and begin a tradition of doing so. There are HBC alumni all over Dallas. Those HBC programs are often more cash-strapped than the FCS school and lower FBS schools. It is a good thing to do. Plus, scheduling weak helped build up the Texas Techs and Kansas States of the world. We're a music school of renown...bring on the Marching Wildcats and 14K Gold Dancers: Give me this over two beatings per year. Bring on the Marching Wildcats and 14K Gold Dancers: Billboard it around Dallas and make it a thing for people to remember that we do every year. See football, see a good,exuberant band show at halftime.

No. They are doing poorly this year because of injuries and defection of QBs. Guy starting now wasn't even on their depth chart when the season began. Their #2 bailed right after the first game. The #3, who as a transfer from Michigan, bailed in October a couple of days after their #1 went out with a concussion. The concussion looks like it will sideline #1 for the rest of the season. They've lost a couple of close games. We haven't lost a couple of close games; we get blown out - with no injuries or defections at quarterback to excuse it. All of our quarterbacks are healthy and eager to play: "Gamers." What we will find out Saturday is whether UTSA's not-on-the-depth-chart walk-on quarterback is better than our scholarship quarterbacks. Unfortunately, he probably is. So, no...no pity for UTSA.

Here's to hoping we can get up on UTSA's beat up football squad. If not...hello, 0-12.

Four bowl appearances and three wins in them = one strong year? Is this that new Common Core Math we keep hearing about?

Oh no you didn't! Beth Marie's is a long time UNT sponsor! You meant Beth Marie's!

Seriously, though...the journalist breaking this, Jake Trotter, is a guy who has covered the Oklahoma Sooners and the Big 12 for many years. So, he probably does have excellent sources to Mangino, if not directly to Mangino himself. Don't know what to think about this. My heart tells me no, but my head looks at the success with K-State, Oklahoma, and Kansas...all three of which were either building or rebuilding when he took jobs. The guy did recruit Texas like a motherscratcher. Like that he'd be able to recruit starting in November, giving the program at least some sense of stability. He can flash a national tile ring, along with multiple Big 12 championship rings, and more bowl rings than his fingers and handle. McCarney had his national championship ring, but not near the title and bowl rings Mangino does. I think more than anything, the Iowa State situation is that Paul Rhodes is on the verge of being fired anyway. There has been talk of it the past two seasons. Mangino probably sensed that and had his agent contact UNT. It's just another headache Rhodes didn't need. I'm 50/50 on Mangino. If we're interviewing him, I'm hoping we also contacted Nutt and Bowden, if even to have them tell us no. They can filter among their coaching pals that we are serious about getting a big name in here.

KU's 2007 Orange Bowl Championship Roster had 27 players from Texas...and all over Texas, 17 different cities: http://www2.kusports.com/football/roster/2007/ Richardson San Antonio (2) Austin Houston (5) Garland (2) DeSoto Katy Dallas (5) Cleburne Jacksonville Rowlett Mesquite Los Fresnos Arlington College Station Sugar Land Beaumont So, are we really going to go down the road of Mangino not being able to recruit Texas? Come on, guys. If you don't like Mangino, just say so. Don't lie about what he was able to do on the field and recruiting though. History is sorely against you on both counts.

This guy, too:

Really? Josh Heupel set some passing record at OU while Mangion was the OC. Todd Reesing climbed the Big 12 career passing charts with Mangino at KU. Reesing was a Lake Travis guy. Todd Reesing's stats at KU under Mangino...doesn't look McCarney-like to me: 11,194 career passing yards, 6th in Big 12 history; 90 touchdown passes, 6th in Big 12 history; 63.8% completion percentage, 12th in Big 12 history. http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/todd-reesing-1.html So, tap the breaks on Mangino offensive = McCarney offense. That's just silly talk. It's enough just to say you would prefer that we not hire Mangino without lying about him.

Not crazy about Mangino. But... ...he did do a hell of a job at Kansas, taking them to a BCS bowl and beating Virginia Tech there. His star player at Kansas was Aqib Talib from Richardson Berkner. Talib is still starring in the NFL with with Denver Broncos. Eight seasons at Kansas, four bowl, three bowl wins, one Top 10 finish in the polls. 50-48 record overall at KU. One of only two coaches to win 50 or more games as Jayhawk head coach. First Jayhawk coach to finish career above .500 since Jules V. Sikes, 1948-1953...yeah, KU has seen many, many bad football seasons. Recruited Texas and the region for K-State, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa State. Coached many players from those schools to the NFL. Can't really argue with the results. However... ...Mangino won't play well to lazy players, though. So, that would be a problem here. We have fans that defend the lazy. The thing that got Mangino in trouble at KU was that he'd make it personal: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4669621 But...some people here claim they could have stomached Jim Leavitt's act. If you can stomach Leavitt punching a kid in the mouth, you could probably deal with Mangino cussing kids and telling them they'd be back in the ghetto with their homies if they don't work harder. Comes as no surprise that Leavitt and Mangino coached together at K-State, eh? (Mangino at K-State, 1991-1998; Leavitt, 1990-1995) One thing's for sure if we get Mangino - he won't brook QBs who don't watch game film coming into his office and screaming at him about playing time.

Really? Western Kentucky and Marshall are superior competition to Iowa? Now I've heard everything.

Yes to interviewing Babers. Get on the phone with him yesterday,

As I recall, his daddy brought some negative attention to A&M's recruiting methods back in the day. As I recall, A&M sort of outbid the rest of the SWC buyers for his services. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-10/sports/sp-1477_1_recruiting-violations http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-29/sports/sp-2877_1_jackie-sherrill http://www.deseretnews.com/article/24132/EX-TEXAS-AM-GRIDDER-RECANTS-SAYS-SHERRILL-DIDNT-PAY-FOR-HIS-SILENCE.html?pg=all

And, therein lies the problem: Smith decided to work only when things started going his way. So, let's get real here: Mike Canales has not been the only coach he's had for the past four seasons. He began with Willie Taggart in 2012, when WKU went 7-5. He was hired away and WKU for Bobby Petrino, a pretty good offensive-minded head coach in his own right. WKU went 8-4. Are we really pretending that DaMarcus Smith, four years out of high, is not up to par solely because of Mike Canales? Come on. He's been with Canales for just a couple months. He's had three years, at least two under coaching staffs with demonstrably successful track records at the FBS level, to learn how to play QB at this level. He's at Year Four and still doesn't play well. Canales, for sure, is to blame for much of the QB predicament we are in. But, be honest - you cannot force a kid to learn. Taggart and Petrino weren't able to do so. And, JUCO is what it is - a ton of guys who will never touch an FBS field playing out the "I'm a college football player" string for as long as they can. Greer posted some good number in JUCO. What did it mean? In the end, nothing. I think most would argue Taggart and Petrino are better coaches than Canales. Why, for some of you, is Canales the only one to blame for Smith's lack of development? Smith, from what it looks like, did not ever put in the work necessary to compete at this level. And, you know what? Fine. But, why blame a coach who's only had him for a couple of months out of the four years he's been bouncing around college programs? Smith is much more to blame for his lack of development than any coach. If you aren't willing to work for it, it ain't going to just happen because you yell at your coaches that you are a "gamer" or "think you can win every game" or some other horsesh*t baloney.

Someone gave UCF good money. They have a new stadium, less 10 years old, that seats in the neighborhood 45-50,000. They hired an old war horse in O'Leary, and it worked out for a long time. I said Orgeron or Fritz. But, I'll bet that's the kind of job - and, in the right state - for Tommy Bowden to jump back in the game. The Bowden name is gold throughout the South, particularly in Florida. That'd probably be their best bet...although, I'd like to see him here.

Again, we're going to have to get an under the radar guy who is succeeding. I've named the Co-Offensive Coordinator not named Darrell Dickey and Kevin Johns at Indiana. Let me throw another under the radar name at you all: Spencer Leftwich http://www.utepathletics.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/spencer_leftwich_833892.html He was a coach on two of our bowl squads, then four of Tulsas, and one apiece with Pitt, Arizona, and UTEP. He's the Assistant Head Coach for UTEP now. I'll be happy to have any of the big names people keep naming, believe me. But, I'll also keep throwing out some names that might be more realistic. My Thoughts So Far Out Of The Game, But Experienced: Tommy Bowden, most notably with Tulane and Clemson Long Timer At Name Brand Program: Jay Norvell, at Texas now, formerly with Oklahoma, UCLA, and Nebraksa; briefly in the NFL as part of Oakland's last Super Bowl staff in 2002 and 2003. Under The Radar Guys: Chris Thomsen, Arizona State Brad Cornelsen, Memphis Kevin Johns, Indiana Spencer Leftwich, UTEP

Cristobal to Miami. I could see Orgeron to UCF as well as Fritz. UCF is just two seasons removed from handing Baylor their butts in a bowl game. Orgeron has experience recruiting the Southeast as well.

I've been on the NMSU campus a couple of times. It's nice. It seems like a nice school. But... ...they need to cut out football altogether and just focus on basketball. They've had a pretty solid basketball program over the years. Football, never; and, they are in no way serious about it.