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I am sure of that. I have been to games in Denton when the band and cheerleaders probably made up 1/4 of the total attendance My 12 year old son loves coming to the games for the entire experience: game, band, cheerleaders (good boy) and the concessions. Take away 2 of those 4 and he would lose a lot of interest.

I LOVE that flag. It is unique and represents the school perfectly. I would get a copy if I could.

WKU is building up quite a reputation. There were a LOT of sportswriters and coaches that did not even see yesterday's win as a real upset. Congrats guys ! Thanks for representing the Sun Belt so well the last 2 seasons.

I know that some of the problems are self-inflicted. But, our football program has had some real crappy luck the last couple of years also. If we don't have the scholarships available early for JUCO's, then we will have to rely on the high schools to rebuild the roster. That obviously means an even longer recovery for this program. Dodge must be pulling his hair out right now. The poor guy needs something good to happen to his program and soon. If the JUCO players are willing to sign here, but cannot because of the scholarship problems, is that really Dodge's fault ? Wasn't the scholoraship issue due mostly to the previous staff and general bad luck ? Should that not be factored in if next years turnaround is only very slight ? It just might take 4 years for us to know if this thing is going to start turning around.

My guess is that our poor special teams play factored into this decision. We have had a lot of blocked kicks. Blocked kicks often result in defensive TD's.

I sat next to Truman's grandfather (and family) at the game. What a nice bunch of people they were. Truman has been a fine young man both on and off the field for his entire 4 years here. We will certainly miss the stability he brought to the position also.

We were so close. If not for a couple of costly special teams miscues (no surprise), we probably win today. I am most concerned about losing Fitz. He is far and away our most explosive player and I don't expect to see a player of his calibre on this team for some time.

I think this answer is simple. There are only 5 home football games. And, football is still the king sport in Texas. Plus, the game-day football experience is still superior to any other sport. The basketball team does deserve more support. But, it is tough to compare the two sports in popularity. BTW, I think we get over 10k tomorrow in attendance. The weather will be no where near as miserable as last years Thansgiving Day game. Hopefully, there will still be more than 2k in attendance by halftime

That is a shame. I always admired Miller's fire on the sidelines. At times, he seemed to be the only player on defense that really cared. Instead of sulking on the bench, he is often seen trying to fire up his teammates after a poor defensive stand. Why would you not want a player like this on the team ? I am not saying that the others were not trying. But, Miller was the only one that really seemed to be upset about it.

Given the early season results, I did not expect any victories as this season came to a close. But, I had hoped to see some improvement in the score differentials in these last 3 games. We have been blown out early the last 3 weeks by Sun Belt teams. And, things would have been a lot worse if Troy, FAU and MTSU would not have called off the dogs on us. We are a long, long way from even being competitive against lower ranked D1 teams. The WKU game was special and a gutsy win by our guys. But, the truth is we were outplayed in that one also and only a great play at the end saved the victory. Outside of the WKU game, we have not even been close to being competitive. My faith in the future is waning Lets just get this season over with. Hopefully, we can keep things competitive in our last home game for at least the 1st quarter (that is not sarcasm, but the sad truth).

It's hard to believe that any defense could be as bad as this. Is anyone old enough to remember the NY Life commercials in the 70's or 80's, where an average Joe customer (usually a dweeb) playing for the NY Life football team would run for a TD thru 11 guys on defense falling over each other ? Everytime I watch or listen to our games, I think of that NY Life commercial. It almost does not seem possible to be this bad when all of our players have 2 legs and 2 arms.

Special teams miscue......again

Disagree. If the team continues to improve over the next 3 games, even though the wins don't come, the excitement will grow around the program as it is. If the team resorts to getting blown out early, then Dodge will still get a pass on this season. Next year is TD's year of judgement, not this year. This year he gets a mulligan considering injuries, youth, grades and even coaching mistakes.

Some of TD's comments made me think of the 30's film "Refer Madness". If any of you have every seen that propaganda film (you can find it in YouTube FWIW), then you know what I am talking about. While some of the comments were a little far-fetched, I do think his testing of the entire team was the right thing to do. But, lets not blame drugs for the teams performance here. You can pretty much guarantee that every college FB team has roughly the same % of recreational drug use among team members, or close enough to it. I would like to see the results from testing any of the major Florida universities. Of course, that will never happen

And the world crumbles in a matter of minutes

31-27...WKU driving.

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Still probably need to score 50+ to win this win.

While I don't expect this program to compete regularly with the OU's and UT's, I do not see why UNT cannot produce the same kind of success that Texas Tech and TCU achieve. Texas Tech and North Texas are very similar schools in size and location. Of course, we would have to dominate the Sun Belt for a while and move into a different conference for that kind of success to happen. As far as TD goes, at this point I would like to see us competing for a Sun Belt Title in his 4th year. That is not too much to ask.

I remember when Georgia Southern was giving the big boys fits. In fact, it seems like U of Georgia was always afraid to schedule you guys, because the risk of losing to an in-state 1AA team was too great. Hope to see you next year in Denton.

Whenever I think that next season will begin the turnaround, I remember the fact that Fitz will not be here. How in the world are we going to replace him next season ? Fitz is really something special. And, I don't know if we have that go to guy on the roster right now.

Troy 52 UNT 20 Attendance 18,500 (thanks to stadium vote, homecoming and nice weather).

Awesome job man ! When I think of NT sports, the first thing I think of is the battle flag (sorry Scrappy).

I have switched to Mike And Mike in the morning (ESPN). I do thank George for everything he has done for NT football. But, The Ticket no longer does it for me outside of Norm's show, which is still sports related. My #1 beatdown is the "emergency break of the week". This was funny for a while. But, it has gone on for several years now.

Yes, way to go Georgie ! That was a great rant yesterday. I was lucky to catch it, because I don't listen to the ticket anymore much these days (due to the lack of actual sports talk). I think we all expected the team to be further along at this point. But, it is way too early to blow things up. In addition to make some rookie mistakes, the coaching staff has had to deal with an unfair amount of injuries and loss of players. This team will have a lot of young and talented players that will grow together in the next few years (remember early in the DD tenure when he redshirted all those players to make that multi-year run ?) I strongly believe that TD is the right character guy to build this team the right way fron scratch. We hired a young coach with a lot of potential. It was a risky move. But, IMO hiring TD has a potentially higher ceiling than some other options (yes, I like Carthel too). Two years down the road, I have a feeling that the few people asking for a change now will be glad that RV held firm in his support for Dodge.