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to put his 2 wins " against not so good teams "in perspective, we were underdogs in both games, so those " not so good teams" are preceived by odds makers as better than us. [ mild upsets?]

what about the coach at sfa? [i don't think #'s 1,2 or 4 are in the mix, but just an uneduated guess]

just asking. i have read on several posts that "leavitt is interested in the north texas job". do we have any credible sourses of this rumor, or all we getting all worked up over nothing. i talked to rick v., c.dan smith, and dr.rawlings tuesday night and i don't have a clue who the canidates are other than rawlings said coach chico is on the short list. anyone have any reliable information ? [plesae, not the huge donner close to the program].

now i don't feel so all alone. good post.

granted it was 30+ years ago,but hayden fry was unable to get us in a bowl game, let alone a decent conference. me thinks name game overated.

you could include tulsa as well. however,it has been my observation, that when given the opportunity, universities do what is in their own best interest, not necessarily whats best for their conference. [look at the wac, for example]. again, just an opinion.

t.v.$. one reason tcu wants big east.

helps us only if smu gets mwc slot. if tcu stays in mwv, houston may get mwv invite. if tcu moves to big east, then mwc may stick to their roots and add utah state and utep. nmsu might rejoin sun belt, but idaho and san jose st. would probably drop dowm to big sky. having said that, i would not have thought mwc would have invited hawaii for football only. should play out soon for recruiting purposes, but who knows.

why? just asking.

bill also did the texas rangers in their early days.

insurance? tcu says they will go to big east only if in includes all sports. big east says if nova moves up, they have 1 football only spot availble, 2 if they don't. with hawaii, mt. west now has by my count 11 football schools. loose tcu, they are back to 10 like big 12. keep tcu, they can add 1 for 12 teams and have a conference championship. my vegas bet would put e.c.u. and c.f.u. in big east for football only, with mt. west adding utah st.,utep, or houston. if they loose tcu,and add 2 teams to go to 12, i would expect them to stick to their roots which leaves houston in cusa. no matter what happens, this is a great move for hawaii.

i talked to smu coach m.d. 4 years ago and during conversation i suggested a home & home with us. he replied that j.j. had put together a pretty good program and that he would pass. exact words to best of my recollection were " i don't think so."

won't happen. we were in big west, and learned our lesson. closest rival is mnsu, which is 600 miles amd 11 hrs. from denton. i did not include la.tech, as they now have a choice of applying for admission to the belt,which i don't think will happen,or going independent in football, which may happen. it doesn't have to make sense, as we are talking about la. tech,a school with fans that live on the planet zeon and rarely beam down to reality. having said that, you must give benson credit. the wac has been on life support for years, and he still keeps it alive. yes, we would love to be in cusa, but won't happen as long as smu is a member. our best hope is that either they or tcu move on to greener pasters, which leaves a conference void in dfw market that we fill. the best thing we can do is to build our athletic program to the point we bring value to any conference. i firmly believe that we can accomplish this in the next 5 years, and hope to live long enough to see it. just an opinion.

anyone else susprised that mt.west would add a "football only" school? regardless, great move for hawaii!

so is the school.its not worth the bad press and hard feelings with alumni. take the high road, pay him the $311,000, and thank him for having built the program from nothing to where it is today.this appears to be a no win situation[from the outside looking in.]

if we are going to get our average attendance above 4,000, it will take a lot more student participation, as well as scheduling regional schools such as tech who will bring fans. i look at allowing our students to rush the floor as an effort to make our games an event that they think is fun and want to be a part of.lets see if it pays off tuesday against rice, but regardless i applaud our efforts to make games a happening. i haven't had so much fun since we beat texas at home in ot in the bill blakely era.

at this point in my life, i will believe about anything. i am not going to debate levitts guilt or innocense. he did an excellent job from all reports building a program from the ground up. however, i just don't think s.fla. would fire him without cause. regardless,and this is just based upon my business career, i personaly would not hire anyone who is sueing his previous employer. once the smoke clears in a year or so he could be able to return to coaching depending upon the outcome of his lawsuit. north texas should not put themselves in a position of having to defend the termination of their new head coach at his last program. i will leave it to our armchair attornies to debate the right and wrong of his situation, but as we enter into our new stadium , he just brings baggage that we don't need right now. again, just as opinion.

you know. like a faithful old dog.

thanks for the good words. unt wants to recognize a mean green booster at each basketball game, and were down to the w's in the directory when they called me. one of the strengths of gomeangreen.com is that while we may agree to disagree , we all want whats best for our university, and hopefully can respect each others opinions when we differ. our passion for north texas is our common denominator, and sometimes it causes us to post coments[aka little d...s] that in the light of day might of been better left unsaid. as long as we don't take ourselves too seriously, this board can be a lot of fun and informative.

good post.

if we are going to hire a o.c. as out next head coach, i would rather have coach chico than anyone else. i am wondering if our national coaching search will turn out identical to our national search for a new president. bye the bye, lane rawlings appears to be more hands on with our athletic department than any president i can remember in my 49 years as an eagle/mean green backer. be carefull what you wish for.

before we beat w.k., we were the lowest ranked team in division 1a. we should not get caught up in the records of either w.k. or mtsu, as we were underdogs in both games, as we probably will be against la.monroe. we are/were the worst team in the belt and 1a football, so it does mean something when we win 2 conference games on the road.

if memory serves, we were ranked in mid 60 range once during dd's reign. big leap from a have not to a have, but by the end of this decade we might make it. of course, i'll probably be dead by then,but what the hey. if coach chico beats la. monroe, hard not to say he earned the job.