DallasGreen

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MUSTANGS. Don't let anyone here try to cheapen your accomplishment. You probably got more exposure by going to Hawaii than by winning C-USA and you were only a whisker away from acheiving that. Kyle Padron is what we envisioned Riley Dodge could have been. Instead we get an oft injured, arrogant, weak armed cry baby, and you got a stud for years to come. I hear that other SLC players are clamoring to get offers from SMU. On the bright side we will soon be building one of the nicest FCS stadiums in the country. I would predict by the time our contract begins in 2014 SMU will be where TCU is today and NT will be just like playing any other SLC patsy that both SMU and TCU now schedule as a breather. I am one that contributes heavily in $$$$ and time to the NT program for the last 50 years and not since the years of the old SWC and Craig James well paid "Pony Express" have I seen the gaps between the programs this wide.

Again attitude sucks --tell him to enjoy the winters at his beloved Nebraska

I agree whole heartedly. You look at MUTS early in the week and you look at SMU last night and it is amusing that we think we should be above the SBC. Until alums and students are willing to put in $$$ (I mean a $20. student fee and $25K for club seats) We are not now where we belong, but we soon will be ---back in the SLC! We must have the worst SLC QB of the last two decades. He is surely in no class with McElroy or Padron. As much as I despise the arrogance that is SMU my hat is off to them. Biggest turnaround this year in NCAA D-1. In two years they will be where TCU is now and we'll be trying to make the FCS i.e. 1AA playoffs

Since the SBC is soooooooo weak and we are a bottom feeder, maybe we should petition the SLC or the Lone Star

Let's see now------ numerous pick sixes, inability to see down field, failure to pick up reads, floating long balls of 25 yards or more, injury prone, no leadership skill "WE CAME HERE TO TURNAROUND THIS PROGRAM"--- I'm sure I missed several dozen more, but he's our fair haired boy for now.

I don't know what you are popping, but you are completely dillusional if you think SMU would EVER sponsor us!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you weren't watching you missed a gutsy performance by Dasher, and you could see how a "real" hurry up offense runs. Very few "looks to the sideline" just line 'em up and go. USM was gassed in the 4th. With Dasher returning and the frosh who came in to throw a TD, it will be a long day in the ' Boro next year with "Pick Six" running our offense.

I think an eight to ten year study of the improvement of Cincinnati program might give some ideas as to why they have progressed at light speed since their N.O. Bowl loss to us. What did they do differently that propelled their program to these heights?

A completely true statement if you use a definitive division such as revenues generated by or allocated to athletics. When you get below the top sixty teams you are already in a different division admit it or not. It caught my attention in this morning's DMN that you better be careful what you wish for with a playoff system as BSU and TCU will generate a great deal of $$$$ to the WAC & MWC from the Fiesta Bowl. La Tech can have plenty of its share to allocate to increased travel costs and recruit that they are in a league whose champion has twice played in a big four BCS bowl. Would we have been smarter to have accepted that WAC invite when it was offered? In hindsight it would certainly have put more $$$$ in the AD coffers.

I know out of passion to win I may have said some things on this board that I now regret. I want to go on record as totally agreeing with you that we must all come together and look forward not back. I have given $$$ to the program that I really don't have to give, but for the dream of a new stadium, competitive basketball, and the chance to be proud to be mean green I've invested those funds ( please don't let my wife know the monetary portion of my passion for my university even though I'll still say that she has been more of a trooper and a suppoter by my side than any other alumnus of Baylor ever). We have two men of honor and integrity in Todd Dodge and Rick Villareal and even though that hasn't translated to wins there is no reason to feel that they both want to win as much as us and live with these past seasons' frustrations every day. I want to thank RV for his honesty with Evan and Harry on the podcast. This was my 51st season of mean green football, and there is reason for optimisim more today that in any of those years because with the stadium we have finally shown committment and all things are possible when you have shown you intend to make things better. I only hope I can survive long enough to see the success that this sleeping giant can achieve. If so it will blow the drawers off the metroplex privates and they will truly realize their worst nightmare in being forced to give credit to the mean green. Give till it hurts and let's all make this thing work together.

No it was Riley throwing picks, air balls, getting sacked, fumbling, or staying injured not Todd.

Ask Nelson Barnes or Clay Jennings both of whom wanted to come to UNT as alums and assistants. They were offerred half or less of what they were already making. Cheapest alternative will always prevail at UNT until admins decide they want to pay legit D-1 salaries to coaches ( assistants or head coach--all are grossly underpaid by today's D-1 standards.

Just as he conveniently did not against AL this year

As it probably should be with some tall rangy d linemen and a JC QB who is taller and not as injury prone.

If true NT again goes for the cheapest not the best solution--more of the same.

Surely Sat. shows two things: 1) Despite all our hopes Todd Dodge is not cut out to coach college football nor assemble a staff that can do it for him. It's no knock on Todd whom I've found to be a great person, but continually more introverted as his obvious shortcomings became clearer. Some are great H.S. coaches, some are great college coaches, and a few great pro coaches. Ever once in a while you get a Jimmy Johnson who is great at all levels. I wish Todd luck. I feel he will again rise to greatness at the H.S. level most likely at Austin Westlake, the affluent community atmosphere to which he and his family are best suited. 2) There was a reason Riley Dodge was not recruited as a college QB. His lack of height and arm strength made this a doomed experiment from the start. Failure to make reads and a disturbing as well as disappointing lack of leadership skills became more obvious as this horrendous season played out. I regret his injury, but it gives him another medical redshirt next season to contemplate what should be an obvious role as a wide receiver with whereever his new program turns out to be. Who knows in 2 years he may be making the SLC connection to SMU like Padron and be instrumental in June Jones meteoric rise which by then will be at a level with TCU. The administrators at UNT are at a most crucial crossroad--do they still want to go for the cheapest or the best? There are some great prospects out there. I personally believe Jeff Bowers is most likely under contract already but that's only a hunch.

Where is the money coming from with a $78 million Stadium committment? The talent is there for a new coach, but who can get the chemistry needed to be a winner. Good teams don't fold in adversity. See UT last night. Our teams of the last 5 years would have folded like a tent in those situations. I really thought Riley could provide leadership, but he is much more of the problem than the solution. His "WE CAME HERE TO TURN AROUND THIS PROGRAM" has had nothing but a shallow arrogance to it. It is obvious that SMU and UT got the solid SLC players that refuse to lose in Padron and Newton. As was the rap that Spencer Stack ( offensive player of the year and state champ @ F M Marcus) used to get, Riley is " a product of the system" and the college game learned to defense the "system" long before he arrived. The optimism of the Todd Dodge era is a faint memory. I hoped beyond hope that it would succeed, but until our leaders at UNT decide they want the BEST not the CHEAPEST we can only expect more of the same.

I disagree, he may have been a high school wonder, but I see absolutely nothing that translates this to the college level. He is too short(he won't grow any taller), he chokes in game situations ( pick sixes, lack of ability to care for the ball), helter skelter scrambler with no plan when he runs (see Colt Mc Coy for a QB that scrambles with a purpose), Army hasn't been his only disaster, and don't think this team hasn't noticed that the annointed child prodigy of the head coach gets a LOOOOOOT more margin for error than the rest of them. I reluctantly have seen no leadership ability here just confusion. Tell me that with this offensive talent that a gutty, refuse to lose Scott Hall type would not have had 5 to 7 more wins. If TD leaves the loss of RD as a QB can only help this program.

Anybody but Riley "Pick Six" Dodge.

The only sensible quote in this whole thread---too bad the BCS is BS and it will never happen

To quote a famous Oklahoma state representative " our goal as alums and supporters of (insert UNT) should be to build a university that our athletic teams can be proud of" until that attitude prevails in Denton and on the campus the full potential will never be realized in any area of college life or alumni pride and neither will the metroplex privates worst nightmare come to pass.

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Who did Dennis Parker ever beat other than ACC & Nichols State? Oh yeah he was the other HS experiment wasn't he?

UNT has never sought the best, just the cheapest. I don't see that changing--a D-1 assistant for H/C will cost a minimum of $800K. We will go with the $250K HS coach because of the $$$$$. You either pay a la SMU or you don't hunt with the pack. No road wins in the SBC in 2.5 years is what $250K buys. Pay competitively or get back to 1-AA where your salaries are now. Otherwise you are just a D-1 pretender and not even an SBC contender!!!!!!!!

Two games 6 interceptions and a fumble. Mack Brown knew Riley was no D-1 QB @ 5' 10". He is an athlete much better suited to be a wide receiver. Whether you like it or not Tune is 6" 2" with one interception in six quarters of play against the best two teams played to date. He is not a runner but with the depth @ running back and Riley @ his correct position of wide receiver we give the offense a much better chance of success. Riley will not grow and become able to see downfield and he will never have Tune's arm strength. Do what is best for him and the team and get him out of the QB role now. After Hawkins of CU threw a pick 6 @ Austin his dad benched him permanently. Riley needs to play, but it's time TD realizes he's out of position @ QB in D-1.