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i don't know if being a oc immediately qualifies you as head coach material or not. dd was oc at smu before joining nt, and my top replacement for td would be the oc at houston.when it becomes mathematically impossibled to win 7 games, i would fire td &let mc coach the rest of season.we must get someone in who can recruit. for a successful head high school coach, td did a terrible job of bringing in new talent.

jerry moore replaced fry, went 11&11 in 2 years, got the texas tech job, was fired, and has had a great career at app. state. those are only 2 head football coaches since my freshman year of 61' that moved up instead of out. can you name a basketball coach that did the same? we should name our new football stadium "the boneyard".

agreed! our players and coaches don't know how to win because they havn't. after 5 years and only 10 wins, we have become to accept close games as some kind of a moral victory, even if we don't win them.in fact, we were happy with a 25 point lose at clemson because we had the ball 42 minutes. when td was hired, i thought it was a good hire. however, he brought his high school staff with him, which proved to be a disaster. i was a supporter of dd, but agreed that it was time for a change. its time for another one. as long as we set our standards low, we will meet them. i am not even upset with our recent loss. i am afraid that i have reached the point of acceptance, and am approaching "i just don't care anymore". someone throw me a lifeline, quick.

at least we agree on the main issue, that our depth was damaged with loss of 3 starters in 1st game of season.

a lot depends on mt. west. if they stay with 10 teams, then we are probably stuck in the belt for the forseeable future. if they expand to 10, lets hope a combination of utep,smu, tulsa, or houston fill those 2 slots, creating 2 vacancies in cusa west. looking forward to report coming out of our athletic department soon.

watching marshall vs west virginia. i like the herd's uniforms.

any way you "spel" it, 3 starters hurt and out for the season in 1st game is tough on a program with limited depth. sorry if my reasoning "loost" you, but money games are usually against bigger, stronger teams where the risk of injury is greater.

still, a costly outing at clemson. these $ games are necessary, but we can't afford to loose 3 starters for season in 1st game. may come back to haunt us.

do they still make geritol? actually i fondly remember valium as a substitute for all that ails you. i do follow and actually play golf, but have never gotten into tennis because of the celebrations. i also don't like tatoos and taunting, but hey, i'm just a n.t. fan of 49 years who is tired of loosing. when we are 10&2 instead of 2&10 then i probably won't care if a receiver spins on his head and fire shoots out of his ass after he scores. winning cures a lot of ills. until then, pass the geritol.

what nt needs is to get rice down and beat the snot out of them, just to prove to themselves that they can do it. we are desperate to be on the giving end of a blowout instead of the receiving end.

when you have only won 10 games in 5 years, you can't afford players whose selfish actions [look at me] cause a flag that leads to your opponents scoring another touchdown. regarding our ranking of 129th which includes 1aa schools, it seems about right to me. why is this negative? untill we actualy beat someone other that western ky.,perhaps we should quit whinning about our sargin ranking and "unfair" celebration calls and just play football.i am just tired of excuses for our being the worst team in the worst 1a conference. i guess that is my beef.

is this the same hot dog that cost us a touchbown by his selfish "pose" in end zone after scoring t.d.?

it includes 1aa schools as well, which means that a number of them are ranked higher than us because we probably couldn't beat them. jackson state and s.dakota st. come to mind.i have found his ranking to be very accurate over the years. don't understand your "apples to apples" coment.

my concern also. not to belabor the point, but in fact, to belabor the point, we had ball for 42 minutes and only scored 10 points, while clemson scored 35 points in only 18 minutes. i just can't get confortable with those sats.however, when your program has only won 10 games in the past 5 years, i guess we are all looking for a silver lineing. rice should be a fair test of our teams ability, as should army. middle tenn.,troy, and k-state are probably out of reach, but the rest of conference games appear winnable.

it will be interesting to see if he starts this week. also, his "pose" was not a celebration. see clemson for flag free example.

we played them in boise 11/26/94 in a 1aa playoff game and lost 24 to 20.mitch maher was our qb. we beat them 30-27 in 96, lost 14-17 in 97, won 21-13 in 98,won 17-10 in 99, and lost 59 to zip in 2000. since then our programs have gone in different directions.

out offense had the ball 42 minutes, and only scored 10 points. our defense was on the field for only 18 minutes, and gave up 35 points. what am i missing that gives some of you so much optimism? just asking.

it can't be that hard to score a td and celebrate without getting a penalty. afterall, clemson did it 5 times.

so he was penalized because he showed class.

the ref doesn't make the rules, he enforces them. our player was wrong, and deserved the call. it was a bush league grandstand from a player who showed no class and acted as if he had never see the end zone before. his action was a selfish play, which cost us a td. sit him down for a game and maybe he will grow up.

legion field seats 80,000. looks right to me. about how we would look playing fau at jerryworld.

we played la tech a home and home a few years ago and got pounded. i think their real hang-up is la.monroe. i certainly see no reason to support their entry back to the belt, as they are one of our compeatators for cusa/west slot, should one become available.

baylor will never let byu in. besides, byu does want to use its own tv network, similar to texas, for more exposure for its university and faith.

mt. west could just stay at 10 teams. however, if they go to 12, look for utah st. to be # 11. the 12th school is the question. tcu wants a travel partner. however, utep and houston seem confortable in cusa, and tcu wants smu in mt. west about as much as smu wants us in cusa.the rest of wac gets hosed. probable nmsu to the belt,iu and sjsu to iaa.hawaii would then go independent if no mt.west bid, leaving latech no option other than back to the belt.i see no change in our position now. ain't this fun?

in addition, salt lake city tribune speculates that byu goes independent in football, puts other sports in wcc, which is composed of 8 faith based schools. if so,finding 12 teams to fill out their football schedule will require a lot of prayer, as they will have pissed off not only the mt. west, but also what remains of the wac.we will know for sure 9/1.