DallasGreen

Denton games with a P5 guarantee a game that will lose $$$$$ The lack of knowledge of the college game is grossly apparent in any area around town and even more so on campus. Play in Dallas or put a lost revenue game in your budget. A student newspaper that bemoans a $1/ hr fee increase might as well proclaim we want this to be a cheap non-recognized school in Texas. If $15/ semester is a problem for a student do they really belong in college? Our student athletic fee is a disgrace and the main reason we can not compete when our fee is 1/2 what our competition is getting!!!

Why not write The North Texas Daily instead? The rubbish that they wrote this week on the student athletic fee is much more damaging to UNT than anything RV has ever controlled. Apathetic even hostile coverage in the student news is a prime deterrent to everything that is athletics at UNT. Not once did they mention that our fee is less than one half of that of our competition. I was at WingSpan last night that raised over a million $$$ for UNT. You could triple the support that all those on this board give and not come close to matching this amount. Instead of spending time bitching, step up and support athletics. First show up at games. Support UNT Police in arresting for loitering at tailgates that last past the first quarter and discourage frats for serving minors by arresting for minor in posession and minor consumption. With respect to The North Texas Daily article these people were bitching about a fee increase of $1 / hr. or $15/ semester, If that is a problem they need to quit school and get a job!!! The horn tooters and pot heads who write this drivel need to get a clue that FB drives the bus. UNT will not be a great university w/o a decent FB program period end of story. Just the way it is in Texas. We are not located in CA or New England!!!!

We are in total agreement. This is a battle tested HEAD COACH that can put together a staff. He does not have to have on the job training which frankly North Texas has no time for. The only reason Geoprgia pulled this out was the difference in depth that finally wore Southern down. This is the direction we should be taking. We need someone who knows how to respond to adverse situations as a HEAD COACH. Head coaches make DECISIONS; assistant coaches make SUGESSTIONS. It is a HUGE leap for an assistant to come to this disfunctual program and not be overwhelmed immediately!!!

Booger is already in H of F FYI and DT is second leading QB of all time and only living bowl champion

If we don't consider people from FCS or other with head coaching experience, we will have sincerely inhibited the ability to succeed . In the case of Memphis in particular Fuentes wanted Dickey as OC because he had head coaching experience. If we hire an FBS assistant that method will be the only chance for him to succeed. Head coaches make decisions and assistant coaches make suggestions. It is a huge jump for an FBS assistant on his own especially with the disfunction that this program has historically shown.

Answer SMU has the $$$$$$$ to eat the loss on the guarantee they pay and UNT does not !

The Big 12-2 has only their own greed to blame for never being considered for the made for TV farce known as the CFP. Just because they don't want to share their television big pie with two more teams they have doomed themselves to never go to the big show. How can you say that Iowa State, Kansas, and probably West Virginia are more deserving of an anointed P 5 berth than U of H, Memphis, or Cincinnati ? Match these G 5 records against the above mentioned Big 12-2 and see what you get! Obvious that being a closed club conference can cost you more in the long run. BTW I challenge that the season before Fry arrived 1972 as I recall was worse than this one. One win against Cincinnati and almost got caught for a safety that would have made it an all loss season. Things can change with attitude and coaching. Fry tied for the MVC championship the next year with probably the worst talent in North Texas history .

I would only be interested in Applewhite if he brought Mack Brown with hm as AD.

After everyone of the above mentioned has secured their hire. UNT will take from what is left and definitely from what comes the cheapest.

I was there at BU last night as well. Taking Kendal Briles would virtually kill this program. His inexperience was grossly evident. We must have head coaching experience even if it is FCS or DII. Hiring a P5 assistant unless we include a coordinator that has head coaching experience is a formula for disaster. All you big offense theorists take a look at Navy vs. SMU. Willie Fritz may run the triple option like Navy, but how did SMU show that it's great pass/run game could come back after a run game and clock control had virtually decided the game in the first quarter? I'll take 3-0 wins over 60-59 losses any day of the week.

Bodybag or paycheck games fund programs that don't have support from the town in which they are located, the bulk of alumni, and the student body. Denton and UNT fall squarely in this category. To schedule home and home you have to give the visitor a guarantee. When even a Portland State gets $600 K to play here it's obvious that proceeds from any game other than a lower tier mid major or FCS are all that is possible. The sheer size of Apogee and the stubborn refusal to play in a bigger metroplex venue make scheduling any remotely respectable P 5 impossible. It will only get worse as the P5 s start to understand that scheduling cupcakes will cost them any chance at the made for tv mythical four team " National Championship". To keep harping on scheduling a home and home against anyone other than a G5 is fruitless. Plus paying big guarantees will cost our non revenue sports dearly, as football Bodybag guarantees are the only reason that they can exist!!

If we can't win more than 2-3 games in 2016 with what we will be paying a new coach, then it's time to dome Apogee and make it into the concert hall that Denton desires to perserve its artsy fartsy public image as the place that no business wants to locate.

Don't get carried away Dentonites don't support their high schools any better than they support the colleges. As said before plenty of deadheads to go around in little "d" !

What is there to get? Riley clear that NO MEANS NO !

Who has a problem with RV firing Mac in the locker room? I wish he had fired him on the field in the fourth quarter of the embarrassment he precipitated for homecoming by having a team that completely quit against an FCS. Much like Tom Landry the game and the art of coaching had long since passed him by.

did you just say Mack Brown?

Fritz or Carthel both are good fits

Big knock on NT is no stability. Firing the AD who has produced more facilities than ever dreamed possible is contra productive. Reducing his role in the hiring does not give the same message. Donors and alumni forced him to hire Dodge. Canales was RVs choice when Mac was hired. Rawlings forced the Mac hire on him after Neanis ( spl.) infamous consulting.

You just described Willie Fritz

l agree that Chico is getting more out of less just as he proved as interim after Dodge. Think of the thousands of dollars wasted on McCarney when just promoting Canales would have resulted in more wins and more respect for the program. I once told RV that if he had hired Canales in FB and Danny Kaspar in BB, he would have had double the wins at half the salary. Chico will have never gotten his chance here, but I hope he does get that opportunity elsewhere. I think he will make some mid major a great head coach.

Sad to say Bill but I don't feel we will ever see this change to a football culture here in our lifetime, and I think it is truly a shock to both players and students who come here from Texas high schools that have those bonds of comrades that were a part of the football culture from where they came. Finally after a year or so they too submit to the apathy that thrives here to avoid the shame that comes with being the worst program in the FBS if not all division I football .

Thoroughly agree ------his tough to recruit to comment and his signing day rant lost any credibility he ever might have had

Extremely accurate post. This time it will be the best available who wants to be here, is a recruiter, recognizes the potential, and sells the program in the metroplex. This is not the old UNT who strictly picked the cheapest. The Prez knows it takes a $400 million endowment to be Tier I. You can not get there with a football team at the bottom of FBS. A horn tooter/teachers college may have satisfied the old Denton Nestors but today's UNT is THE UNIVERSITY FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS not just Denton Normal College.

If you don't think big donors have a huge effect on decisions in the athletic department, look no further than this year at UT. Once Joe Jamil and Red McCombs threatened to pull their support the UT Athletic Director was immediately gone. If you want to see a really unfair business model extremely unfriendly to long term fans just look at procedures he had put in place! However, he was given every chance to succeed until the big donors threatened to pull their support.

Thei e-mail from RV. The Gettysburg address was just Yankee drivel!