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its a fair question if you accept the fact that we are starting from the bottom 1/3 of the belt.also, until student fee was approved and new president came on board we did not have the budget to pay $500,000 for head coach. in fact, coach chico is probably making nearly as much as dickey ever did.you are right .improvement in the belt should be expected each year.i personally tend to discount out of conference games with top 25 programs and bcs schools, but thats just me. i'm 69, and assure you that i have more of a sense of urgency than a 90' grad.

the only person who has not make hiring mistakes are those who have never hired anyone. regarding t.d.,we had more fans at his 1st spring game than some regular games i have attended. he was a mistake, allowing him to bring his high school staff was a bigger mistake, and giving him a 4th year was the biggest mistake. lets move on. we now have a dallas campus,school of engineering,and soon to be law and pharmacy schools. regarding athletics, look at the sucessful mens basketball and womens soccer programs, and the crown jewel, our new athletic center and football stadium. when he arrived in his 1st job as an athletic director the only new dedicated athletic structure that had been built since my freshman year 1961 was the old ticket office, which hayden fry built as a athletic administration building. i feel my degree from north texas state university is more valuable now because of what the university system has done academically and what rick has done for athletics. just an old man opinion.

this is some what misleading. the increase in exit fee to $10million only goes into effect if either navy, air force, or bsu committ for football only. otherwise it stays at $5million. hopefully big 12 will add byu for football only and stop there.

rick, 1st i am sorry the time change has hurt you plans for homecoming. i know how you schedule your professional responsibilities around unt's published time and schedule. 2nd, both a-state and ull made good hires, as did we. however, they had a base of talent to start with, where we had little if any. hiring t.d. was a mistake. allowing him a 4th year was a bigger one. we have a young offensive line,weak secondary, no size on either side of ball, and need much better play at q.b. having said that, i am always susprised how la. monroe is able to do more with less.thanks again for your continued support of north texas athletics.

this wednesday is basketball day in big east which is a large media event. from what i read nothing formal will be announced before then so as to not detract from it.

neither does troy. we still have a realistic chance to win 5 of last 6 games.

can we help them pack? and if air force, boise, and navey say no, will thet still go?

it was posted with tongue in cheek

i think it would be in our interest to develope a home and home in 3rd largest market in texas. plus i also think that if houston moves to big east and smu does not, that cusa replaces them with utsa. that would give cusa a school in 4 of largest markets in texas; dfw,houston,san antonio, and el paso. just an old man's opinion.

riverwalk,great golf, super mexican food. whats not to like?

for those of you who think utsa in not worthy of being on our football schedule, their future opponents are:2013,n.mexico,okla.st,arizona,houston,rice,virginia 2014,houston,arizona,okla st.,kan.st,n.mexico,virginia 2015,arzona,kan. st.,okla. st.,colorado st. they have a 3 game series with baylor 2017,2018,&2019. but i guess utsa is not good enough for a major program such as north texas.

my post was about our reluctance to schedule utsa, and not a comparasion between the 2 worst teams in metroplex, although smu has turned the corner. utsa is not going away, and if houston gets big east bid it will be the roadrunners who replace them in cusa, not north texas or la. tech. the san antonio market is just too big to ignore. hopefully smu will move to big east and open up a slot for us in cusa, but than has nothing to do with my original post, which again was concern that we are in no position to look down our nose at utsa and should schedule them in football.

we played them a few times recently in womens basketball and i think we lost.

the answer to the question is no, at least not in the 50 years i have been going to games.

this coming from a program that has lost 62 games in the last 6&1/2 years.

if houston goes and smu does not, then utsa would replace the coogs. our only hope is for smu to move with houston. thats why i am dismayed that unt athletic department and some of our fans look down the roadrunners. we have lost 58 games in the past 6 years, plus 4 this season. the only thing we should look down on is our feet. just an old mans opinion.

that takes care of 1 or 2 home games. what about the rest of season? so far we have only 1 out of conferernce home game scheduled for 2012,2013,2014,and 2015.we seem to look down our nose at utsa and tx.st., and then get upset when tcu and others look at us the same way. just saying...

who do you think has any interest in being an intra state rival with us?

check out some of the conference realignment talk regarding big east. cusa discussing replacing possible loss of smu and houston in west division to big east with unt and utsa, not la tech. look at the san antonio market and think of the roadrunners in 5 to 10 years. if we are a sleeping giant then so are they, and maybe a bigger one.

if i had a choice,i would go to cusa even if smu and houston were not there. its a 12 hour drive to albq., and we won't have a 100 fans at ull this saturday which is 1/2 the distance. big west, wac, mwc, were and are in wrong direction. just an old man's opinion.

thanks for putting this together! it is appreciated!

cusa and mwc want to form an alliance, not merger, where their respective conference champions would play each other in hopes of winner getting a bcs bowl bid. aso, we should hope that bosie rumors are false, as that could hurt chances of smu/uh being invited to big east.

big difference in big east basketball and the belt. it would be simular to when we were in the valley and lucky to win a game. we would be d.a.l. in beast east.

everything i read says big east wants the 3 service academies. looks like afc is good to go, navy on fence, and army not really interested. the other 2 high on list are temple and ucf. ecu is a fall back choice. if navy and army say no, then smu and houston come into play. if cusa loose both ecu and cfu,look for them to reload in east division, not west. this would bring fau and fiu in play, as everyone wants a presence in florida and cusa already has 4 texas schools. our best hope is that smu and houston move to big east, which would assure us cusa offer in order to keep a presence in dfw. everything should be settled by end of month, and a lot of movement depends upon what mizoo does. cusa stands to loose posibility 4 schools.

we just need one. SMU