NorthTexasWeLove

Yeah... the administration that continues to purposefully attract weirdos. I'd start there.

The cancer is being content with absolute mediocrity. When your president is dictating blanketed reduction in acceptance standards, acceptance standards that weren't difficult to begin with, that's a major problem. He was celebrated. Mediocrity, and the acceptance of, permeates deep into whatever vessel it has been instilled in. A tiny microcosm of this is Caponi still being an employee of UNT.

No one cares about 3-1 when you get your lips beat off your face on national TV by the only team your fans care about up to this point. As likely as 3-1 is, and 3-1 is nice, there's an emptiness to it.

And, yet, they don't have to. But, CHOOSE to.

Been beating on this drum for years. Smastrek tripled down on the idiocracy of it all. People praised him for boosting enrollment, and I just rolled eyes at it. The ole quality/quantity theory holds very true. We have too many loser do-nothings as alum and students and we keep opening up more avenues to add more. It's mind jarring.

Someone who runs a 4 man front. Get a map, pin DATCU. Tie a 4 inch string around the pin. Attach a pencil to the other side of the string. Draw a circumferential parameter around DATCU. Go grab a HS DC within that circle and he would do a better job than what we're witnessing as an interim to finish the season.

Some have suggested that taking money away from football implies disbanding football. That is not the case. Snipping some budgetary funds from football and reallocation of these funds to basketball changes the 66-21 score how? 66-14? 73-21? It's sort of whatever. It would have minimal to no bearing on our pretty bad attendance, our competiveness is historically subpar. So, I doubt it would move the needle one way or another. Frankly, if the athletic department did it and didn't tell anyone, no one would even know as far as the football product is concerned. Given we operate at or close to a deficit, it's a moot point in regard to football funding everything. What truly funds most things are our student fees, not football. It's an easy, believable, and cheap excuse.

Hmmmm... we are multi NCAA tournament invitees, NIT invitees, NIT AND CBI Champions all while having only 1 ncaa tournament win in our history. I think our ceiling is a Sweet 16 banner. I think we have been bumping up close to our ceiling and we are flirting with UNT basketball greatness, but even then, why even back off on the accelerator?

My feelings? Haha, I don't have many of those. But, the relevance is I'm a football guy. I don't so much care about basketball, as a diehard would. I pay attention. I attend when I can. But, football is my thing and baseball is my other thing. And I don't say this in a patronizing way, but it's very easy to see that basketball is our (UNT) thing regardless of how much we try to cram this square peg into a round hole. If feelings were involved in this dialouge, it certainly were not mine....

What would make our never-happening success in football any different? The diff, it takes way less money to tilt the needle in our favor in basketball than football. Simple math is easy, fellas.

Football is my favorite sport and NT is my favorite school. Basketball is not even a "thing" for me. I quit playing in jr high. I was an all district football player in HS. I was an all state baseball player in HS. BUT, economics and basic decision making is very easy to see, observe and understand.

Of course he should be. Look at the dude. Anyone who doesn't have discipline for self, doesn't have discipline for his line of work. It was an awwwwwful hire from the jump. But then our UNT faithful started, for whatever reason, praising the bozo. Assumingly because we would land the scraps at some of these high schools and it may have been the first time X school sent a kid our way. But a East/West Texas kid with 7 offers is just as good. Can't sink money into empty vessels.

Everybody wants to downvote, but nobody got shit to say.... Put MORE MONEY into basketball. Even thinking about dumping more money into football is not only obtuse thinking, but a historical fact based mistake.

Coach "O" is. The south Dallas high school jumping assistant coach that showed up to Eric Morris' office begging for a job while assumingly telling Morris that he wouldn't open up just pipelines, but LA freeways to the likes of Oak Cliff, Duncanville, DeSoto, Cedar Hill, Lancaster, etc etc. He is Morris' second worst hire behind ole Craponi.

Again, down vote, but reply and give your position on it. Otherwise, you're low-key pussing out... converse about it...