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We must do what we can to live as long as possible in order to see our dreams come true.

Never mind, it appears that there were two football coaches named "chuck Mills"; ours seems to have been at North Texas as a Linebackers Coach (perhaps was kept from the Matt Simon era as a recruiting coordinator, along with any other responsibilities), at the time the other Chuck Mills was coaching at the Coast Guard Academy. The other Chuck Mills has some great football quotes: "When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids." "My halftime speeches always went a great deal better when I had better players than the other guy. "Football is for the insane or the stupid, and I am quite sane." "Do what you did and you'll get what you got." "Some pray for wisdom, my wisdom comes in praying for big, fast tackles." "There are three important things in life: Family and football." “Losing? Stop the pre-game prayer or you might make atheists out of the kids.” “The test is not in the setback but in the comeback.” “Spirit must dominate technique.” “Potential – a word signifying what might be, not what is.”

Was that the same Chuck Mills who head coached at Utah State, Wake Forest, and the Coast Guard Academy?

This is only conflating the first Black major college football player in Texas with his head coach at the time, but my proposal is "Mitchell-Haynes Field" Mitchell seems imperfect as far as civil rights credibility, but principled enough that once integration was ordered, he didn't do an end run around it, like some of the coaches in the Old South wanted him to.

Perhaps FIU would be better than Arkansas for comparison purposes, since they are in the same conference as UNT. Arkansas has a certain "niche" as an SEC school and as such, the only team in Arkansas in an "automatic bid" conference. Sort of the big fish in the little pond. Also, FIU is also in its 2nd year under a new coach. after having won only 1 game last year (against us, as we all know), they are 3-4 this year, and were only blown out in 2 of those losses (Kansas and Iowa). I think it's reasonable to say they're on the improve. I spent a little time today studying on this, after viewing a Gomeangreen1999 post in this thread, and I think there are a few things worth pointing out, from that game, and overall comparison of the two programs. 1. FIU did get some big plays out of some underclassmen, 2 touchdown receptions by freshman T.Y. Hilton, and one by Sophomore Greg Ellingson. However, their QB is a junior and their RB's are seniors, as is their tight end. Also, the special teams plays, the big defensive plays, and the great protection they were getting from their offensive line was from a few sophomores, but mostly juniors and seniors. I think this gives us reason for hope, since, due to graduation and injuries, we are playing so many underclassmen on defense, and experience should help. 2. FIU has a lot more, and more impressive, college level coaching experience. Also, they do have one person who does nothing but coach special teams. I'm not necessarily suggesting that a wholesale replacement of our assistant coaches is a good idea, or likely to happen. I am saying that we should have one person responsible for coaching special teams. I don't think we'd have to spend an arm and a leg to hire one; it seems like one of the FIU coaches (for the secondary) was hired out of a graduate assistant position. I think Central Arkansas (Southland Conference?) has a special teams coach who is doing well. Also, I think it is reasonable to expect that (and I think Dodge is now of this opinion) any assistant coaching vacancies that occur, for whatever reason, be filled by coaches who have had recent success coaching at the college level for that area of responsibility. I did find it interesting that the FIU defensive coordinator was in his second year there. Maybe another year will help Deloach, especially since he'll be part of the recruiting process. FIU Coaches Bios 3. We were marching up and down the field, racking up impressive statistics, and probably dominated at least the offensive statistics against FIU, without any points to show for it the entire first half; such has mostly been the case all this year. FIU, and almost any college team, has power sets, using 2 backs, tight ends, and even a fullback at times. We need some kind of change up from the spread for short yardage situations, whether it's the I, some other formation with the QB under center, some variation of the old single wing, such as the Miami Dolphins and Tulsa use, or just the occasional use of tight end with the spread; Dodge said he would use such a look last year, and I believe he did a few times. Hopefully he'll remember that and do SOMETHING to keep the ball moving towards the end zone and actually get 7 points most of the time when we're in the red zone. Anyway, the short version of this rant: have the players stay healthy and get better through experience; get more college level coaching experience somehow, especially on special teams; design some plays, even formations, for short yardage and red zone situations that get you first downs and touchdowns.

Or at least provide some evidence to back up such an accusation.

Dude, that's crazy talk! No pinky guillotining yet has raised anywhere near that kind of money! Honestly, people from UNT have become millionaires in recent years by becoming really good at photoshop.

There's the proper emphasis.

I'm with GrayEagleOne on this. Army hasn't won much more than we have over the last couple of years, but has been improving recently. Also, I was in the Army, so would like to see us as a gracious (but winning) host to them in our new house.

Hey, maybe the aversion to the snap under center is sort of an endzoneahomophobic thing; fear of going into the end zone if you may end up touching another guy's butt on the way there. Last year, Southlake Carroll had their backup quarterback (playing after Riley went down with the injured shoulder) take a snap under center and he muffed the exchange, leading to the game being lost. The lack of ANY snaps being taken under center prior to that was brought up by some as a possible cause. My proposal: in short yardage situations, line up in the old single wing; that's what the Miami Dolphins started using as a changeup, and it's worked ok for them. I think Tulsa still uses it; Gus Mahlzan, their OC, began using it (the Wildhog) at Arkansas last year as a way to get McFadden and Felix Jones into the running game. It utilizes a deep snap, which can go to either the QB or running back, doesn't start a running play from as deep as the spread, and does give the back a running start. Some theories have the single wing as the precursor to the spread.

Hey, I think we should all consider the good that the students did for North Texas as an institution, as well as its football program. The ability of administration to bring visitors to a nicer facility, plus the improved venue for the Green Brigade in which to play are no small things, especially when you think of the number of high school and colleges where our School of Music graduates go as teachers.

Hey, have you ever seen their football stadium (no team, but a hell of a place to play!)?

I'll see you at the tailgater!

I didn't make it to Denton till the early 70's, but that period was when I first encountered a new cultural phenomenon, people making other uses of hemp, while watching football on television. Honestly, I've wondered about why some on this forum carried on so long about a football player they called "Hair". They make me wonder if some of the standout football players we have at Euless Trinity (I guess long hair is considered ok in our minority communities, at least) would consider the UNT alumni to be living in some mythic past that never was all that good for us, except when we were the first college forced to integrate.

Same here. Honestly, does only Playmaker know about this $5 million donation? I've spent over an hour searching the Internet for such a thing, and only found the one potentially relevant link, which talks about UNT declining an offer of $1.5 million from the Goldfields for baseball, because UNT didn't want to start a baseball program at the time (I think before Bataille was hired). Anyone who cares to read the entire story will find that the Goldfields think R.V. and Dr. Bataille to be a good team for getting a new stadium built. Unless presented with evidence to the contrary, I'm considering "UNT_Playmaker" to be spreading an unfounded conspiracy theory. DMN story on Goldfields

I choose optimism. I just had a thought comparing what's going on here with the tone of the "Ponyfans" board before the hiring of June Jones was confirmed (please forgive me if that offends anyone here).

I hate to tell y'all, but when I mentioned the North Texas School of Music to someone last week, they said something to the effect of "the greatest music school".

Flyer has given all that anyone could ask on behalf of us here at GMG.com. Let's all give him a big thanks, and a prayer for the success we all desire.

I had thought about bringing up that "sophomore slump", after having used "collegefootballdatawarehouse" to check out the records of some coaches, and noticing that there is are many coaches with worse second than first year records, but didn't want to mention that possibility for a coach who was coming off a 2 win season. Not only did Fry have a worse record his second season, but so did our last 2 coaches before Dodge, Matt Simon and Darrell Dickey. Just for grins, I looked up the COMPLETE coaching records for those coaching FBS in this area (Briles at Baylor, Jones at SMU, and Patterson at TCU), and all but Gary Patterson did worse in their second than first years. For all the fuss SMU fans made about the turnaround Jones achieved at Hawaii in his first year there (and in college football), he only won 3 games the next year. Without making a scientific study of this, it seems like that the "sophomore slump" may be more than an insignificant phenomena among college coaches. I think it's strong enough of a trend that someone might find some potential explanation, such as the previous coach may have had less success in recruiting towards the end of his tenure at a school; please do not think I'm slamming any players recruited by Dickey, of which there were and still are plenty of good ones, I've just wondered about any possible cause for this "sophomore problem".

I spoke to some band members and told them how great they sounded and how much I'd love to hear them play in a new stadium and they seemed very excited about the chance for that to happen. One disturbing thing I learned yesterday. I spoke with some Journalism students. When they told me their major I knew already what I was about to learn. But I flat out asked what the attitude was concerning the stadium within their classes and their department and they said that all of their professors were speaking out AGAINST the stadium. No surprise here as this is the same feedback we heard from journalism students back in '02. I won't say more about this other than you can rest assure that the administration is fully aware of the FACT that their own Journalism department has taken such a selfish and irresponsible stance in order to undermine the university's efforts to advance itself. More to come on this in the near future. Overall, yesterday I saw many positives, mostly I saw families having a good time despite the lack of siccess on the field. This is a great sign and will be a strong foundation for this program to base itself upon when the team eventually turns around. Rick

Yes, I don't think we can lay all the ULL scoring on the shoulders of the defense. When they made that stop on 4th and short, then the offense fumbled it right back, you have to kind of wonder what's going through the mind of the defense, like "do we have to score on the turnover to see any North Texas points?"

That's good enough for this geography major, B.A. 1977; I'm just impressed you took such a systematic approach.

Did you major in geography?

Are you aware that Gus Malzahn is best known for his "wildcat offense", a version of the old single wing, which some consider a precursor to the spread. Gus Malzahn link

It's very understandable how Rick could be frustrated to the point of saying what he did. It's commendable of him to make amends those who might take it personally. None of us like to lose, but we should continue to support the school and those who represent it, especially the players.