Silent Eagle

He's a fibber.

Get an AD that looks beyond the UNT wine and cheese club for donations and we'll be able to pay for everything. We've been over this, try to keep up.

Don't drink to solve your problems. According to some, the best way to cure what ails you is to donate to the keep RV as AD campaign. Don't demand better, just settle and convince yourself that everything is just dandy!

Smatresk hasn't had the opportunity to fix the problem and bring his guy in. He is getting his chance. RV has had his chance. For 15 years we have seen what RV can do. I think that the pathetic record in revenue earning sports, no upward mobility, garbage scheduling, and never taking responsibility for failure is more than enough to terminate his employment. He hasn't increased the donors. More specifically, he hasn't even attempted to increase the donors. I don't want to hear the 17 donors. I want to see results. I want to see a competitive program that isn't the laughing stock of college football. Its not shortsighted to see someone who has taken an athletic department and, outside of a new conference and a new stadium, sent it subterranean over the course of 15 years. I don't care about his feelings, I don't care about the 17 members of the UNT wine and cheese club, I don't care about him running an efficient budget friendly program. I care about wins. He is not part of the future. He is part of a pathetic past that needs to be purged.

Isn't this what was supposed to happen once we got Apogee? Shouldn't we expect what was promised to us once we built Apogee? Villareal said it would be an attractive venue for big name schools to visit. Who is the big name? Houston? Hardly. Again, an inexcusable failure to meet the expectations. Can we start tracking the promises he made and seeing how close he is to actually meeting them similar to what we see in elected officials? I'll be willing to wager if we did that, we'd see a long list of broken promises.

That's the difference between a varsity level Athletic Department and ours-aggressive solicitation of donations. The fact that most of us have to reach out to the athletic department to inquire as to how to support vice them calling and asking for it is absolutely ridiculous. It's ok, though. The wine and cheese crowd are apparently all that the fat man needs. Forget what he could do with even half the alumni contributing money. I mean, the body bag games wouldn't be necessary. But, this is what we get when we're willing to settle for a garbage athletic director.

Demanding results from the university leadership is not far fetched. Covering for ineptitude is lame. In the business world, it's called a return on investment. Far less established programs are able to pull far better competition to their stadiums. It is absolutely ridiculous for the non-17 to get blasted for demanding results. Sure, we may not be in the suites sipping cognac prior to kick off and there very well could be a high degree of heat going towards the leadership of which we are not aware. I understand that the skull and bones crowd wants to operate in a secretive manner. Wheels may be turning in the program's favor. However, keep in mind that we perceive otherwise. Remember, perception may not be reality, but it is very, very real.

The level of arrogance I have read from the "pipe hitters" is ridiculous. I get it, the 17 managed to pony up multi-million dollars. You vote with your dollars. Good on you. However, as far as I'm concerned, until you and your cronies make a T. Boone Pickens or Red McCombs level donation and get the stadium named after you, you don't run shop. If the fat man were truly concerned about getting the financial side of support taken care of, he'd realize that it's just as effective to employ 20k donations of $5,000 as 17 people donating however much you decide to donate. However, he doesn't care. He's satisfied with the minimal effort. This is why he needs to go. And, as far as your argument of supporters typing whatever they want because they're not having to say it face to face, I'll be glad to link up with anyone at the next sporting event I'm at discuss my concerns with the wine and cheese crowd. Perhaps then we can go over basic arithmetic and I can explain that $3 million from 17 people is not nearly as powerful as the potential of mid level donations from 20,000 untapped and under pursued alumni throughout the area. I'm not trying to be a d!ck, but if there's one thing I can't stand, it's a lack of common sense combined with a holier than thou attitude that truly boils the blood. He is ultimately responsible, regardless as to whom has the authority to handle those issues. He does not hold those persons accountable. If he is not capable of overseeing this operation, he needs to be fired. Ensure those trusted agents overseeing smaller matters do their jobs, and the big things take care of themselves. He is not capable of overseeing the personnel tasked with smaller donations. He has failed in his mission. Bye bye.

I'm a big fan of that. I exercise it in my professional life. However, sometimes the only way to get the point across when you have someone who has to keep touching the stove to realize it's hot is to go beyond the closed door counseling session. Sometimes, the public display is necessary. You have to keep escalating the force until the message is received. However, while I do exercise the adage of praising in public etc... I also live my professional life with "the bridges I burn light the path to my success." End state is the only thing that matters.

Chico is not the answer. There is no one attached to the program at this time that is the answer. Canales- gone. Cosh-gone. Villareal-gone. I don't give a damn if Villareal has cultivated 17 big money donors. He is the athletic director. He is responsible for everything that happens or fails to happen on the field. The fact that people are content with a 24 point loss is absolute proof that he has failed as an athletic director. This is a reasonable expectation for him. If this is his definition of success, he should have been fired 5 years ago. He is the sole representation necessary of the failure that is North Texas revenue athletics. This is why the banner needed to be flown. This is why billboards need to be procured. This is why full page advertisements in every media outlet in the DFW area need to be taken out publicly airing our recent lack of productivity in every revenue sport. Our attendance. Our Scheduling. Most every reasonable approach to voicing our concerns have been made. Now, it's time to escalate and get nasty, if necessary.

Just to put it out there, and I'm not advocating that he be made permanent head coach, Philip Rivers is a Canales product.

No. Absolutely not.

No.

From a superficial standpoint, it could be difficult for targets to take him seriously when he slugs his way into the living room. He better be one hell of a salesmen to overcome that, because as much as we may not want to admit it, aesthetics do play a factor on how a coach is perceived, and he is a direct reflection of the program. However, if he can bring the right people with him, to include a successor that will continue to build on any positives, it could work. I still don't think it's the right answer to hire him, but I would have to hear his vision of how we would win and whom he would bring along for the ride. Sadly, few of us would ever be privy to such conversations.

I really don't care, as long as it flies at some point during the season or the money is used for a billboard IVO a known trafficked route along which all members of the 17 travel.

Agree- it doesn't have to be the youthful hungry head coach. Up until his complacency, Mack Brown killed all competition as an older coach who employed young, talented specialty coaches and allowed them to run the systems they wanted to run and use the players that fit their scheme. What killed him was he was too detached, which is a risk assumed by all CEO style coaches. However, if the new coach is one with experience and an actual winning background that has a history of letting his staff do their jobs and has the charisma and energy to make talent believe in his desired end state for the program. I am not saying that I'm ok with a retread that could use glories of yesteryear to try to lure high school players into his lair. Mangino is not the answer. Houston Nutt is not the answer. But, simply looking at Texas Tech with coach bro at the helm and their moderate level of success is not reason enough to for me to buy off on that being the ultimate solution to the myriad of problems in the dystopian existence in which our athletic department exists. I just simply demand a thorough search and enough buying power to ensure a return on our investment.

I don't care if they rock crocks and jocks during the game, just win. Uniforms be damned.

No- we would not have signed McNulty. We would probably be looking at Dajon as QB still, and probably would have a string of at or barely above 500 for the duration of his time. The players he coached were excited to play for him because he was a change of leadership. He wouldn't have been able to bring in a higher level of talent. Dodge recruits came here because he was a name the entire state knew.

Probably the best way to approach this is to have a pro-athletic department individual to point out how the whole institution benefits from a high dollar hire. Show examples of peer institutions have benefited from the revenue generated by the athletic department due to increased visibility, merchandise sales, ticket sales, increased TV dollars, etc... Next, show how top tier academic institutions like Michigan, Ohio State, Cal, UCLA have all embraced an increase in spending for athletics, thus enabling them to commit more money to academics. Now, you throw the candidates we need to throw the money at- the TCU kids, Major Applewhite, etc. By pointing out to the committee (especially the eggheads and bean counters) that all will benefit with this hire, it will be easier to sell the higher buy in cost.

I'm not interested in his feelings. He made his thoughts emphatically clear in the article that the minority in his mind doesn't have a voice. Obviously we need a bullhorn right next to his and the establishments ear for him to hear our voice. Sometimes it's perfectly acceptable to use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

It was me- don't care what happens with the money. Buy some beer, drink it for me.

Banner's paid for. Get the damn thing in the air.

Which confirms several suspicions of others on here that a lack of filled seats is a more effective a means of communicating our displeasure than an audacious IO campaign (the banner).

I'm in. Set it up. First step to a successful insurgency is to show decision makers that a viable alternative exists that could overtake the establishment. As support grows, one of two things happen- 1) our demands will be met or 2) as we accumulate enough cash, we can, as a collective, conduct a corporate raid style acquisition of control and vote with our dollars (we have all this money, Mr. President- if you want it, you have to do this. Once our endstate is met, we can then conduct the reconciliation process and reintegrate with the rest of legitimate MGC society.

The aforementioned 17 should understand that they are pledging their hard earned coin to the Athletic Department, not the athletic director. If they're the supporters we hope them to be, they will understand that while the face, name and approach may be different (and hopefully vastly improved), their support for the athletic department will put to much better use. My family and I donated as much as we could to the construction of the stadium (with the request that we remain relatively anonymous), have given to the scholarship fund and will continue to do so (at a significantly less amount until I see some visible changes and a new direction). My parents (my mother is a 1967 graduate) do the same and will continue. However, this was regardless as to whom was the face of the department. By no means are we T. Boone Pickens-esque with our level of contributions, however, I expect someone who is responsible for fundraising to be just as gracious with the dude who gives $100 to their face as the dudes who give millions. RV does not care. I don't expect to be warmly greeted in the sanctuary of the wildly rich and watch games next to the McNatt's of the UNT world. However, a handshake and an acknowledgement of my family's contribution would be enough. We don't get as much as a half-assed fill in the blank letter. He is caustic. His caustic nature sets the tone for the rest of his department. If he truly believes he has given the full measure of what is required of a man in his position, that alone is grounds for termination. Garbage scheduling, a defeatist attitude in general (I think the proof is in how Mac was not disciplined for his statements regarding the difficulties in recruiting here that he is a defeatist) and inability to maintain a sense of accountability (both personal and as a leader) is enough for him to be gone. Just an opinion, but I believe the corner has been turned and RV has been given an ultimatum- fix this or you're gone. I think we will get a coach that fits modern football that will galvanize the community to garner more support from the community. The pipehitters have spoken and he knows they can pony up the dough to make president act if necessary.