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SCHS 43 / AWHS 29 I hear the fat lady...

This is turning out to be a great game... SCHS 36 / AWHS 29 Tre' Newton was unstoppable on that run... Riley Dodge is makling some nice completions... Hopefully both will commit to NT when the time comes. However we already have one piece of hte puzzle figured out... Todd Dodge! Go SLC... Go T.Dodge... Go Mean Green...

Smitty -- Man you kick ass! Love teh graphics... wallpapers escpecialy! Time to create some dual screen monitor wallpapers in "landscape format"... Thanks for the hard work and effort. Harry -- Can we get a link to these on the top of the forum?

Congrats, Troy! Troy 41 / Rice 17 New Orleans Bowl

Not bad... a bit much with the "bling" though

Apologies if previously posted... SOURCE: http://www.theoldcoach.com/archives/001601.php Exclusive Interview With Todd Dodge Head Coach of UNT Dodge Says Timing Is Right, Heading To North Texas By TITUS Sports Marketing – The chance to move straight from the high school ranks to Division I-A as a head football coach presents itself in the coaching industry maybe once every 50 years. Whether or not Southlake Carroll head football coach Todd Dodge is that one-in-50-years kind of coach, North Texas is making that investment. Dodge knew the official offer earlier this week from nearby North Texas -- to succeed Darrell Dickey as head coach of the Mean Green, was too promising to ignore. Never mind that Dodge hasn’t attended a North Texas football game since he left their coaching staff (under Dennis Parker) after the 1993 season – he well realizes the rewards. “There’s only 119 of these (head coaching) jobs out there (in college football) for coaches and the opportunity doesn’t come along very often to go from a high school to a Div. I job,” said Dodge, who officially accepted the post on Tuesday. “When you have the opportunity to take one of those jobs … what we do we don’t do for the money, but at the same point there is money to be made if you’re willing to go to the next level to get it done.” The credentials for Dodge and his Southlake Carroll Dragons are well-chronicled. He has led the Dragons to three Class 5A state championships in the four past seasons, heading into a 5A, Div. I state semifinal meeting with Allen at 1 PM on Saturday at Texas Stadium. From there it’s either Pearland or Austin Westlake in the UIL 5A Football Finals at 7 PM at the Alamodome on December 23 –in what would be the final game for Dodge on the Carroll High School sideline before officially starting at North Texas. Southlake Carroll, which has been crowned by various sources as mythical national champions each of the past two years, has won 46 consecutive games. Since moving to the 5A level prior to the 2002 season, the Dragons are 50-0 during the regular season; 77-1 including the postseason. Just 43 years old, Dodge was an assistant coach for the West squad at the 2006 U.S. Army All-American Bowl last January, serving as -- hard to imagine -- offensive coordinator. With the departure to North Texas, Dodge will likely vacate the prestigious honor of serving as head coach of the West at the 2007 U.S. Army All-American Bowl at the Alamodome on January 6. (We’re sure Dodge would like to coach in the game and take the week of practice in San Antonio to discuss the starting lineup openings at North Texas with any members of the highly-regarded West squad.) Dodge, who was honored by USA Today as its National Coach of the Year following the 2004 season, has been mentioned as a coaching candidate on numerous occasions at the college level the past few seasons. Most recently, he turned down interviewing at Rice, which was searching for a head coach at this time last year – eventually hiring former Allen head coach Todd Graham. (One year later, Graham should be in line for National Coach of the Year honors with the turnaround he made to the Owls.) Dodge likely would have been one of the favorites at SMU if head coach Phil Bennett would have been released after the Mustangs’ 6-6 season came to close last month. Dodge probably would have been mentioned if Dennis Franchione was sent packing from Texas A&M, or if pass-happy Mike Leach had departed Texas Tech to fill the vacancy at Miami last week. “I’ve prayed about it with my family and I feel good about this decision,” Dodge said. “It’s good to be wanted and knowing you’re the boss’s guy.” What made the timing right for North Texas and AD Rick Villarreal (the boss) and wrong for Rice last year was Dodge’s ability to finally coach his son, Riley, this fall. It also helps that the Dodges can keep their home in Southlake, daughter Molly can continue in the Carroll school system with Riley, while Dad commutes the 25 minutes to Denton. The elusive junior quarterback for the Dragons, Riley had served as ball boy for his father for much of the past decade, and until this season waited patiently for his turn in the starting lineup. It’s not like he was backing up slugs. Riley’s predecessor, Greg McElroy, is at Alabama, and McElroy’s predecessor, Chase Daniel, is turning heads at Missouri. Riley, who played every third series behind McElroy last fall, is now 14-0 as a starting quarterback. The elder Dodge knows there was no guarantee another North Texas opportunity would come along if he stayed on the sideline through Riley’s senior year and until Riley graduates in 2008. It’s not like Dad can’t sit in the stands watching Riley on Friday night somewhere in the DFW area next fall, prior to coaching a home game in Denton on Saturday. “Last year was not the best decision for my family. It is now,” Dodge said. “Riley’s done everything we’ve asked of him this year and he’s probably faced more pressure than anyone I have ever coached. “We’ve talked about this opportunity and I’ve kept him in loop and he’s been very supportive. He’s said, ‘Dad, you’re always going to be my coach and I’m still going to go through drills with you during the summer. You’ve earned this right and I’m proud of you.’” What must weigh on the elder Dodge’s heart is that Riley’s sentiments are shared by his teammates when they leave the practice field today after he notifies the Dragons of his move to North Texas. Dodge is the professor of ‘Focus 101’ and of taking his team on a journey throughout the 17-week season – and he’s not about to abandon ship when the finish line is within sight. At North Texas, Dodge replaces Darrell Dickey, who led the Mean Green to four consecutive Sun Belt championships and New Orleans Bowl showings between 2001-2004. Dickey’s downfall was a 2-9 season in 2005 and a 3-9 showing this fall. Among the nation’s 119 Div. I-A programs, North Texas finished the 2006 season ranked by one source at No. 112. The fan support in Denton has also sunk, with a season-low 9,806 fans at 30,500-seat Fouts Field for the home finale against Florida Atlantic last month. (The season average for UNT was 15,650 in five games thanks to a season opener against SMU attended by 25,231 fans.) Certainly Dodge should be able to bolster the UNT roster with an influx of DFW-area student-athletes – we don’t recall any of the 11 Div. I-A signees from the Dragons last season even visiting North Texas. So will the jump to Div. I-A and back into college football take some getting used to for a high school coach? Please. Dodge, who routinely plays before home crowds of nearly 10,000 at Dragon Stadium, had 60,000-plus fans in attendance at Texas Stadium (more than 12,000 than the announced crowd) to see Southlake Carroll defeat Euless Trinity in the 5A, Div. I playoffs in late November. The TV cameras have also followed Dodge and the Dragons to a greater level than we have seen at North Texas in the past few years. Southlake Carroll has played on national TV (ESPN or FSN) once during each of the past three seasons, and regional TV (FSN-Southwest) four times in the past four years. Had Dodge remained at Southlake Carroll, he may have matched legendary coach Gordon Wood for the state record of coaching seven state champions – perhaps before this decade came to a close. Dodge’s fourth state championship may come on December 23, and it’s no stretch to say Nos. 5, 6 and 7 would have been on the horizon. According to college football recruiters and fellow high school coaches in the DFW area, Southlake Carroll’s freshman-to-junior classes are among the finest they have seen at the high school level in Texas in recent memory. “If I stayed around in high school coaching, I would have never left here. I know I could have won a lot of games here,” Dodge said. “It may be a new challenge and a new learning process, but sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith … and I’ll try to turn it into something special.” How good those Dragon underclassmen will be, including Riley and Tre’ Newton, may fall into the hands of Hal Wasson (at least that's our opinion), who should become an expected favorite to replace Dodge at Southlake Carroll. Wasson served as the offensive coordinator under Dodge at Southlake Carroll through the 2002 season and is currently the head coach at nearby Fossil Ridge HS in Keller. Don’t be surprised if Dodge doesn’t relocate 2-3 key components of his coaching staff at Southlake Carroll to North Texas, and offers an invite to former assistant coach Clayton George, who is the head coach at Haltom. “My guys can coach with anybody,” Dodge said. “If anybody watches us play defense, we’ve played as good on defense as we have on offense.” A graduate of the University of Texas, Dodge coached at Cameron Yoe, Newman Smith in Carrollton and at Fossil Ridge before arriving at Southlake Carroll prior to the 2000 season. He was 27-33 before leading the Dragons and enters Saturday’s game with a seven-year mark of 97-10 leading the Green and White. (TITUS Sports Marketing, which provides advertising, sponsorship and event consultation and management to school districts and associations across the Lone Star State, is a content contributor to The Old Coach Network)

I know our season is over, and the links have been gone prior to the board update this morning. But I just have to ask the question as to where the other SBC team links went to? I do not have them bookmarked, but was wondering if we could get those back in the "pinned" section of the board. Thanks in advance.

I like the new board...

SOURCE: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...de.34fe146.html

Congrats Caris... Cheerleader saved... world in good hands now.

Todd Dodge is MacGyver!

So far these are the dates for games I have found while scouring hte internet for schedules. 9/2 : @ Oklahoma 9/8 : @ Southern Methodist 10/20 : @ Troy 10/27 : vs. Middle Tennessee 11/3 : vs Florida Atlantic http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=31190

Cingular has new ringotnes and graphics available for North Texas... SOURCE: http://www-xl.cingularextras.com/fuel/endu...rth+texas&type= Ringtones are of the fight song... Graphics are of various campus views, logos, football miages, etc. Check 'em out.

Found it by entering "Todd Dodge" in Google... was looking for info, on him... something sort of like a bio.

Someone tell these blockheads it's UNT not NTSU... http://50peso.proboards46.com/index.cgi?bo...read=1165940650

SOURCE: http://www.quickdfw.com/sports/stories/DN-...n1.3e8ad8f.html IMAGES: PDF: http://www.quickdfw.com/qbk/pdf/001.PDF http://www.quickdfw.com/qbk/pdf/015.PDF ARTICLE: DENTON — Todd Dodge was hired as the football coach at North Texas yesterday, making the rare jump from high school to Division I-A after an unprecedented run of success at Southlake Carroll. Dodge, a former University of Texas quarterback, has coached Carroll to a 77-1 record in Class 5A. The Dragons have won 46 consecutive games and are two wins from their third consecutive state title and fourth in five years. They are the only school to win a state title in their first year in Class 5A. Dodge was the offensive coordinator at UNT in 1992-93 before returning to high school football. He replaces Darrell Dickey, who was fired midway through a 3-9 season. UNT ranked near the bottom of I-A in total offense, scoring offense and passing offense the last two seasons. “I feel like we can come in and be successful,” Dodge said. “It has really to do with selling the players about what can be done and teaching. There’s good football players here.” North Texas has averaged almost 16,000 fans per game, or about 30,000 fewer than the crowd for Carroll’s 22-21 victory against Euless Trinity in a playoff thriller at Texas Stadium last month. Dodge, 43, lost his first three games at Carroll, but he’s 96-8 since. DMN, wire reports

SOURCE: http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...er.2b9c8d6.html Dodge inherits team with question marks 09:20 PM CST on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 By TIM MacMAHON / The Dallas Morning News DENTON – Todd Dodge is leaving the highest-scoring dynasty in Class 5A history to take over one of Division I-A's worst offenses. His spread offense rewrote the Class 5A record books while Southlake Carroll won 77 of the last 78 games. Drew Brees' Austin Westlake team and Vince Young's Houston Madison team had the only 700-point seasons in 5A before Carroll's recent run. The Dragons have done it with three different quarterbacks – and junior coach's son Riley Dodge is on pace to add his name to the list if Carroll advances to its fifth consecutive state final. North Texas, Dodge's new employer, ranked near the bottom of I-A in total offense, scoring offense and passing offense in former coach Darrell Dickey's grind-it-out scheme the last two seasons. "I feel like we can come in and be successful," said Dodge, the offensive coordinator for UNT in 1992-93. "It has really to do with selling the players about what can be done and teaching. There's good football players here." Perhaps Dodge's two biggest immediate challenges will be figuring out how to best utilize UNT's current players and recruiting players who fit his offense. He said he hasn't determined whether he would target junior college skill players in his first recruiting class. Dodge inherits a team with a major question mark at quarterback. Daniel Meager, Woody Wilson and Matt Phillips combined to pass for 1,382 yards and nine touchdowns with 19 interceptions last season. Johnny Quinn, the Mean Green's all-time leading receiver, will graduate. That leaves junior Brandon Jackson, who had 17 catches for 188 yards this season, as the go-to receiver. Zach Muzzy, a senior applying for a medical redshirt, might give UNT another wideout with a double-digit career reception total. Running back Jamario Thomas is the Mean Green's only proven returning offensive playmaker. But he's been hampered by injuries during two ineffective seasons since leading the nation in rushing as a freshman, when UNT won the last of four consecutive Sun Belt titles. "[Dodge] is going to adjust to what we have," Jackson said. "A lot of people here are going to make plays for this team." E-mail tmacmahon@dallasnews.com

Glad to hear the news today... Sign me up for season tickets, I want to order them now, see the schedule now, go to a game now... is it September yet? GMG! Bigger in Texas, Better with a Dodge!

So far these are the dates for games I have found while scouring hte internet for schedules. 9/2 : @ Oklahoma 9/8 : @ Southern Methodist 10/20 : @ Troy 10/27 : vs. Middle Tennessee 11/3 : vs Florida Atlantic

SOURCE: http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/6265426 North Texas hires top Texas high school coach DALLAS (AP) - North Texas hired Todd Dodge, who led one of the most successful high school programs in Texas, to be its head coach on Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the agreement said. Dodge will make the rare jump from high school to Division I-A after leading Southlake Carroll High School to three state championships. The person familiar with the hiring asked not to be identified because the move hadn't been announced. North Texas planned a news conference at its campus in Denton later Tuesday. A former Texas quarterback, Dodge has led Carroll to a 77-1 record in five seasons in the state's highest classification. The team has won 46 consecutive games, and its regular-season winning streak is 50. The Dragons won back-to-back "mythical" national championships, based on national polls, and two years ago they played on ESPN2 in the first Texas high school game televised nationally. Dodge was the offensive coordinator at UNT in 1992-93 before returning to high schools to start his head coaching career. Last year, he interviewed with Bill Parcells for an opening on the Dallas Cowboys staff, and he turned down an invitation to interview for the opening at Rice. Dodge did not return phone calls seeking comment. He replaces Darrell Dickey, who was fired midway through a 3-9 season that left him with a 42-64 record over nine years.

From what I've found on-line regarding the 2009 schedule so far... we will play: 9/5/09 : @ Louisiana State 9/12/09: vs. Air Force If this schedule stays as is by the time the games roll around... it looks like Air Force will be our first HOME opponent in the new stadium. GMG

F'97 alum

Could an announcement be in our not-so-distant future. Obviously, the "official" hire date is 12/14... but what will a week buy us... valuable extra recruiting time!

Here you go... DOH... my link didn't work so I removed it.

Riddle me this... Troy wins Sun Belt; goes to New Orleans bowl where the payout is $325K Middle Tennesse places 2nd in the Sun Belt; goes to the Motor City Bowl where the payout is $750K. You'd think that the team with the better record and is champion of the conference would go to the game with the higher payout and potential to go represent the conference in a more "prestigious" bowl game. They should be rewarded for their season long achievements and get their pick of which bowl they would like to go to to represent the SBC. This make absolutly no sense to me. Not to take away from MTSU and their achievements, but this is just odd.