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The wife of our manager at work is friends with his mother, who raised him alone and did a great job. Yes, I'm expecting him to have a breakout year and our boss is expecting him (eventually) to go NFL.

The "drinking away a loss" has covered those for a while now.

And a real hero in his own right: My link

Well, teams weren't punting against us a lot.

Should kids have to bring their own switch for the whipping, like the old days?

I've liked this guy since I first read about him, this picture says: PLAYER.

Or, as a memo at my workplace once said, "remain clam".

Voertman is a great man, and this is a great and selfless act, especially for the way it was done. His bookstore has been a joy and a resource for the North Texas Community for so many over a very long period; now he has made a legacy that will keep giving to future generations. FloMoGrad is right, we should all take some inspiration to do more from this.

Yeah, don't you just hate it when that happens?

This is just off the top of my head. We were only able to pay him well enough to keep him as long as we did by combining his head coaching position with athletic director, and it was stipulated that not be the case at Iowa. It was mentioned after the death of the great basketball coach in that era, Bill Blakely (sp?), that Fry hired him. I thin at one time head football coach and AD were more commonly combined positions than in recent years, but it wasn't a good situation, even in the1970's. Also, I'm wondering if it isn't a little too early to start the "how do we keep "coaches name here" after they start winning big. Maybe it's a situation that could remedy itself if things go well.

I'm thinking like you, that we're going to play the 2011 season starting fairly soon...can you believe only another month?

There are two references in the Wikipedia article on the One O'Clock to performances in Thailand, once for the King, and once (in 2009) as part of an international saxophone event. However, someone in the administration of the College of Music told me in December of 2010 that they had just recently played for the King of Thailand. Hell, people who claim that nobody knows anything about our College of Music might even be able to learn something from reading this: Wikipedia on One O'Clock One thing that I find kind of thrilling in the article is reading about Willis Conover, jazz host for Voice of America, aiming jazz at the then Soviet Union, including a performance by the One O'Clock heard by 40 million people overseas, to promote freedom. Check out the bolded part as a way of turning the "never heard about them" theory turned on its ear. I hadn't realized before the extent to which they were one of our weapons in the Cold War: The Lab Band: Voice of America Jazz HourWillis Conover (19201996), jazz host on Voice of America, broadcast six nights a week to an audience that, at the peak of the Cold War, was estimated to be 30 million regular listeners in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and as many as 100 million worldwide.[17] Conover, who had heard the One O'Clock Lab Band several times, including as judge at the 1960 Notre Dame Jazz Festival (when Leonard Bernstein was on the festival's board), asked Leon Breeden, in 1967, for recordings of certain numbers. Later that year, Conover featured the One O'Clock Lab Band in an hour broadcast to an estimated audience of 40 million.[18] Every year thereafter, the One O'Clock supplied a professional quality studio engineered album to Conover. Jazz was, as Mr. Conover liked to say, "the music of freedom;" and to those who had no freedom, it became a metaphor of hope. Conover was known as the most famous American virtually no American had ever heard of. By law, the Voice of America broadcasts broadcasts that made him a household name in Europe, Asia and Latin America could not be beamed to the United States, where Mr. Conover was known mainly to dedicated jazz fans. I guess some of this just illustrates the old cliche that "nobody is a prophet in their own country".

+1, but just think of it: a college program becomes the best in the world in its field, and honors, talent, and money flow into it. You've got to hate that kind of thing.

I went to the "meet and greet" with the players after the last year's summer game/scrimmage, and Draylen was one of the guys I chatted with. As well as him being very impressive physically, I remember him as just a really nice and upbeat person. He certainly handled all the position moves about as well as could be expected.

I think we and any signs we brought could easily be ignored by most recruits.

And an opera house.

+1, Sir. The one consistent thing about politicians is their ability to disappoint us all, even with such lowered expectations.

+1 for showing up to showing up to represent us!

Is it for certain that he can't? My understanding is that Riley will be able to transfer to FCS McNeese (like Southeastern in the Southland) and play next year. Is it transferring between FBS schools that requires sitting out a year, or any D1 (which includes FCS)school. Or, is it the transferring up to FBS from FCS that would trigger the wait, compared to going the other way? Just asking.

When I went to then NTSU, we called it North Texas. Now that I am an alumni of UNT, we call it North Texas. When we beat Ball State in our opening game a couple of years ago, someone at work called us good; I want to hear us called that all season long, and soon.

I hate to be one to look back and think "if only", but dang, it would have helped us to have New Mexico or NM State on our schedule during recent years, they're in a neighboring state. Of course, Washington State has been terrible, but how many of our fans would ever make it out to the Palouse? I don't think Locksley is on such a hot seat at New Mexico as the article claims. It's amazing, for the fiasco over which he has presided there, that he's only coming into the third year of a SIX YEAR contract (hey, one win per year). I believe what has been written, that New Mexico simply couldn't afford to fire him. However bad some of our contracts seem to have been written, for this guy to stay after what he's done is just amazing. NM State seems slightly better off under Dewayne Walker, but remember, they get to play New Mexico once a year.

I think he's a great guy who worked hard the whole time he was here. He studied under a guy who coached Philip Rivers at NC State.

You said it well, sir. The only comforting thing I can think of for those loved ones left with the pain is that things get better with time.

Yep, that kinda shreds any credibility for the writer. Only thing stranger than Big Red is the Hilltoppers' love for him/her.

No, it doesn't sound "bad", it sounds OUTSTANDING!