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Right, so what are you doing here anyways?

TCU isn't TCU without purple. Nice overall, but I bet their branding department is pissed about this.

Brelan has some unreal speed and incredible moves. I can't wait to see his potential open up in the next few seasons.

The SMU people had some rotten attitudes. I mean, it's gross to see. It's either feigning ignorance, claiming that everyone did it so it was okay, bragging that SMU did the cheating better and that being worth bragging about, or whining about how bad the penalty was, or worse, acting like they had something to be proud about with the current state of the SMU program - as if they were somehow to be credited with that. Talk about something that stinks from the inside out - going up as high as the governor's office. Then you have all of these people who were major players in all of this trying to shove the blame on someone else. Honor among thieves doesn't even cover how badly these folks treated each other. Taking the boosters and throwing them under the bus, then having the nerve to continue to do the same thing that SMU had been busted for previously. Then we're looking at a situation where someone commits a rather serious offense, and then isn't smart enough to cover it up by mailing things in university stationery. What's worse is how everyone acts surprised. Also, Craig James has zero credibility.

Uh...no? Stadium isn't done yet/game came out in August of this year when the stadium was a hole in the ground and some fences.

Got it on DVR. Holy god, this program was much more rotten than I thought about. What I find funny is certain people whining about the punishment and the things that happened afterwards to the program. I almost want to say, "that's what you get."

Some days I feel like becoming one of those schools is more surrendering to their will by way of buying into their system.

They donated an award through their unofficial "Non-AQ Award Charity Program."

Pretty much. It's not about the bowls, just about competition. I can live with the bowl system, but I think that the competitions need to be wide open and that the AQs need to put up or shut up about their teams being too good.

It really doesn't. Though, many sports programs that aren't football or basketball run at a deficit. And that's okay, that happens. But I still stand by this: When I'm 45 and my kids are playing whatever sport they choose, I want my kids to be able to play as high up the ladder as their team's abilities allow. If they can fight up the bracket to the local championship, then so be it. If they lose, they lose. If they win, they win. However, I do not believe my kid's team shouldn't be allowed at the championship game because they don't get as many people in the stands. But too many have lost sight of the real heart of any sport - and that's competition on the field. And that makes me rather sad.

It's a sport I'm interested in. And I'd rather the best team in said competition be crowned the champion. I don't care how many fans they have or how big their stadium is or what conference they're from. I do care that the team that walks away with the crystal football and the #1 ranking is without doubt, the best team in the league. Do you hear people complain about the brackets in the race for the NCAA basketball crown? No. That competition is probably more exciting because you don't exactly know who will be on it short of a handful of names. And at the end of the basketball season, you know that the team with the crown earned it and wasn't excused from playing an upstart due to some sort of bureaucracy or other needless obstacle. So in short - sport. That's why. It's why anyone should care. It's the heart of competition - you put two opponents on the playing field together and let them answer the question of who is better than whom. Not computers, not coaches, not news rankings, not fans. Maybe you've forgotten what sports are all about. But maybe you're alright with a popularity contest.

I don't think it's what we, as a fanbase, have done. Really, it shouldn't even be about fanbase or butts in seats at stadiums. It should just be about players, and when our players get to the point where they can face down a BCS team (and they're close based on the KState performance), we want to be ready and the field to be leveled out. Plus, it's not just talking on behalf of UNT, it's also talking on behalf of TCU, Utah, Nevada, Boise and the rest of the teams whose players are performing and should be rewarded with an opportunity to prove how good they are. I don't think anyone wants a donation from anyone. What they want is a level field of play when it comes to rankings, or they want the AQ confs to just be up-front about it and say, "look, we don't want you here" so the rest of the NCAA can split off and do it's own thing or the politicians can slam the AQ confs with serious oversight for abusing the hell out of their tax status. When we're choosing the best team in NCAA football, it should come to two sets of numbers. Win and loss record, and score at the end of a game. If these AQ conferences think they're so bloody tough, then they should be able to take on all challengers and win at any time instead of spouting trash talk that they're unwilling to, and probably unable to back up.

The greed is there. If the larger conferences really gave a damn about a fair system in which the best team in the NCAA gets to walk away with the crystal football, then they won't care about teams that don't fill stadium seats. They won't care about TCU not selling as many tickets as an AQ conference team. But since the major conferences like to keep the bowl money for themselves, there's no real motivation to let a non-AQ team into their set of bowl games. Why would I risk millions of dollars of revenue AND my precious record to play Boise or TCU or Utah or Nevada? If I play them in the regular season as part of my OOC schedule and I happen to lose, then my record is shot, fans don't show up, I might lose my bowl berth for a less-popular bowl. So what I will do is get together with other people who are too scared to lose to "Sisters of the Poor" and lock them out. And in order to do that, our ranking system won't be based on a series of brackets where anyone can topple my team. It'll be based on polls and computer calculations of some sort or another with pretty much no transparency into how those logarithms work. I see what happens with the NCAA basketball tournament where any school with enough guys to fill the roster can trash what are considered to be the best teams in the NCAA. I don't want that. So why risk my status in real competition when I can win in a popularity contest where my peers vote in my favor because I'll vote in their favor? An aside: The arrogance that these BCS guys are spewing gets more and more vile everyday. I mean, I like free enterprise and controlling your revenue stream, but this, as a sport, should be about competition on the field. And as they're getting a huge tax shelter here, they should also be watched for how they do it.

7-17 with Kyle Padron imploding? No, that's not that good. Almost every pass in the last 4 minutes was a split away from a pick 6, and he somehow forgot that a 3 count does not mean 30 count. He has the potential, but he's going to need to improve.

Nah, I think that with all the money UT throws into their players and coaches that they would've been worth sending to a bowl game. All that money and a crap record to show for it.

You have got to be kidding me.

Canales? Yes. He's proven he's worth keeping. Deloach, as much as we may like him, did not have a matching performance in the time he was here.

Dodge and McCarney are bigger men than I am. I'd have to take a chair to Hansen's neck for questions like that.

Maybe, but the WMU Mustang record doesn't look that fantastic, but his previous success and some of the stats his guys are posting make up for it. I want McCarney to have guys he can work with, but I want them to be products of an interview process, not how Dodge brought in old buddies.

I was hoping to see this - a guy like Chico who can put 41 on a BigXII team and a guy who can keep the scores down of some of the toughest outfits in the BigXII. I'm glad to know that he wants to be here and can see the same potential we all can see. This could be the winning coaching combination.

Solid first hire. McCarney sounds serious about everything here. I like this.

Mark him on the list of people for McCarney to chase after. 4-star UNT prospect? Yeah, I'll take that.

WTF. We want brand presence and the invitation is there. I mean, yes, Freebirds is making money off of UNT. Fine, it'll do it anyways due to it's location, so capitalize on it and SLAM the brand into any eyes that'll look at it. That's how branding works.

MWC vs SBC? MWC all the way. MWC vs CUSA? CUSA. I'd like the SunBelt to get better but that's something that only happens in the world of Playstation.

I wanna say Cobbs, Dunbar, Thomas, Galbreath. Cobbs was a great RB with speed, power and great feet. Cobbs also was an awesome passing target, too. Lance is probably way faster than Cobbs, but I don't know if he can punch a hole through as well as Cobbs did. Thomas was probably the fastest guy we've had, but that injury hobbled him afterwards. Galbreath pretty much set the standard by which all UNT RBs are measured by since his career here. Sidenote: I really wish Dickey ran Cobbs and Thomas in the wishbone formation. I really, really wish he had. Defenses wouldn't know which RB to key in on, and even if they ran a contain D on them, then the ball could go right out to a TE or stay in the QB's hands.