meangreendork

Okay, so: UNT nearly beats Rice -> Rice beats UH -> UNT might beat Rice I don't know how sound that logic is. It's like those UNT beat so-and-so who beat so-and-so who lost to so-and-so who ate dinner with so-and-so who washed dishes for Ohio State, ergo, UNT would beat Ohio State.

Ugh, I'd hate to see this actually happen.

Yeah, we're kind of stuck. We can't really expect great attendance now because of the poor W/L record. Toss Dodge out, we can't expect wins. Keep Dodge, we can't expect wins. I think RV needs to show he's serious and boot Dodge and replace him with an experienced "FBS or whatever the hell we are" coach. I love how RV has done so much by improving facilities and by improving the spirit of the student body. That's outstanding, especially here. The momentum is on our side with just about every other sport doing really well right now, the facilities on the way, now we need a solid football coach to get that extra step.

It'd be nice to see wins for the remainder of the season but that is wishful thinking. I think Dodge has phoned it in, if not at least for the last game we had. Let Dodge go now so we at least have fans thinking we can win in the new stadium. Right now, I don't think they expect any wins with Dodge, new stadium or not. With a new coach, potential fans might think: "Hey, we got rid of Dodge. We might be able to win and do it in a really nice pad." With Dodge at the helm: "Man, all this money is going to a stadium so we can watch Dodge have another losing season." And for football educated fans: "We got rid of Dodge and we got a new stadium. We might not see win streaks now, but with the new recruits, we can see some big ones soon." And with Dodge: "It doesn't matter if we got a new stadium or not because Dodge can't recruit, and even if he could, he can't coach worth a damn anyways." I'm sure he's a nice guy, but this is people paying for a service that isn't being rendered, so the service provider needs to go.

You might want to look at the injury list again. You can't really use a conditioning coach to keep someone from snapping a bone. I figured you of all people would know that.

Great and informative post. The D looks a great deal better than it did in Dodge's first year, and even though they need to correct some of the mental mistakes, they're improving. Of course, both sides of the ball have to improve. I just wonder what will happen with the expected coaching change.

Woohoo, finally something UNT athletics related that doesn't look like it's designed by a 16 year old with a pirated copy of Photoshop. Oh wait, they contracted out for it. Nice.

You just tell them that, "it must be real easy to put on a shirt from a school you never went to and only do it when the team wins. I bet you do the same with your kids, too."

I don't know, work ethic and commitment to a cause or something. But he'd have to produce while he stayed. The worst part of his time at coach isn't the losses, it's fact that so many of them were so close and due to poor discipline, needless penalties, or mental mistakes. I think we have the players to be successful but I don't think that we have the coaches to lead them, not as a whole anyways.

I'd actually say that call was the worst part about the whole night because if it had stood, then I don't know what would've happened. It wasn't just a bad call, it was bad judgment and a lack of professional effort on the part of the refs for it to even NEED to be reviewed.

It's a crap photoshop job on what's probably a really decent photo. If you look at some of the other stuff that's being done by the people at printing services, that's kind of the style they're running this year for some inexplicable reason.

I just want to know how USU turned around like this and what on earth is going at BYU.

I didn't even know about 105.3 until now, much less it being a sports station. It kind of pales in comparison to 103.3 and 1310. Especially 1310.

If this was his first or second year as coach, I'd agree with you. But this is year number four and he has yet to prove anything besides, "we're always just 3-7 points short." Let me ask you a question - if you were a coach and you had a player on scholarship for 4 years that wasn't producing, would you keep him? I wouldn't. He's eating up scholarship money he isn't earning. Right now, Dodge isn't earning his pay. I would even let it slide if he put up 3 or 4 wins per season, but that isn't the case. In short, Dodge is wasting the money of fans, alumni and students. Any money that is going into his pocketbook is currently being wasted because not only has he failed to produce results, he's done so consistently. I'd venture to guess that we can get a better coach. Heck, Canales is halfway there. And with schools like Troy and FAU managing to land great head coaches on limited budgets, there's no reason that we can't. Dodge either pulls a Dickey 2002 or he's gone.

I agree fully. For some on the demand side, they may see what their high really costs, and it's more than the price on the dimebag. And for legalizing marijuana (and only that), yeah, I'm for that too. Legalize it, regulate it so it's safe, and tax it like tobacco and alcohol. Anything so that innocent bystanders don't have to pay the real price so someone can get high in their living room.

No one really wants to play KState especially right now. They're fresh, playing with a good depth chart as well as size. It's a hard fight for anyone, especially our team. Our guys might've had an easier time maybe a round or so in if they had to play KState.

Agreed on all points. I find it interesting that a bunch more car makers are either coming out about recalls OR the media is paying more attention to them when they do it lately.

I'm not so much concerned with the outcome...I just want to know why actual educators from K-college, historians, and the like weren't on the board for this discussion. It's like trying to make a decision about the military with a bunch of number crunchers and pencil jockeys. Oh wait, politics as usual.

If it's anything, the policy is aimed at overfishing - in other words, large-scale commercial fishing. It's not aimed at me and you and all of GMG that go out for an early morning fish and bring back maybe a cooler-full. It's aimed at the trawlers that go out and bring in tons of fish every time they bring the nets back. I'm fine with commercial fishing - but it's no good when there's nothing to go out and fish for. It's kind of like crop rotation and other farming techniques that keep people in agriculture from basically stripping soil of anything useful. Here's the link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/09_17_09_Interim_Report_of_Task_Force_FINAL2.pdf Some of the hardcore groups like PETA do want us off the water. Tell your reps that this is a bunch of BS and that odds are, PETA and its ilk want to push something that controls mass commercial fishing into what you and I might do when we get up at 4am Saturday morning on the lake. The public input time is extended, make use of it.

Uh, this is more about funds being cut for public education (K-12), and tuition hikes with reduced education quality for universities. Public education is bad enough with poorly-behaving students killing the education experience for the kids who are actually there to learn, this just makes the situation worse for the kids who really do care about their futures.

I'm intending to vote White, but I'd rather vote KBH. I don't like Perry thanks to his TTC and toll roads fiasco, Medina's "abolish all property tax" thing makes me wonder how she'd intend to pay for local services. On the other hand, Farouk Shami's "100,000 jobs or bust" line sounds like BS, and I don't see a man with a name anything remotely Middle Eastern being voted for in Texas. KBH is really only marginally better than Perry and I don't think White's going to win because of his decision to run Democrat even if he's run for mayor as moderate in the past.

Uh. Wow. I can't even comprehend this nonsense. Okay. First - a military color guard is "armed" for the sake of ceremony and tradition. In history, back when rifle units moved in huge formation, a force often placed an actual guard around its colors to protect them as a matter of pride and morale. Supposedly, if the colors of a force were taken before the rest of that force fell, it was a great hit to morale. It's the same reason that (supposedly) a bullet and match (or two) were kept in the ball on the top of each flag pole - a match to burn the flag with, and a bullet for the flag bearer. It's not "just because they're in the Armed Forces", but it is related. Their rifles are real. Whether or not they function is usually up in the air. Some use functioning M16s or even older rifles like M14s, M1s, and maybe even the 1904 Springfield. In the case of the older rifles, I know that they sometimes modify the bolt so they can't strike primer, and then seal off the barrel. But again, it all depends. And I wouldn't call the flag corps "armed". More often than not, their rifles are pieces of milled wood with metal weights in the stock, and something made of plastic and light chrome that vaguely resembles a bolt, and those are usually covered in white tape. They're not real, and based on the physical build of most flag corps members, they wouldn't be able to toss or spin a 12lb rifle. It's more a showmanship/entertainment thing since they're based on the military color guard. Same reason why some flag corps also carry "sabre" as well, but those are usually just curved bars of metal with foam or rubber covering, and then white tape on those too. As for your last, I don't even know how to handle that. It's just too much for even me to grasp.

I'M TROLLIN' YOU POLITICALLY. WATCH OUT.

We're hoping that the fans will keep coming back each year, but at some point, the losses will take their toll and I don't know when that's gonna be. I mean, let's say that the game against Army was instead a conference game...would that have brought the same attendance? I doubt it. The point is, if we wanna safeguard attendance, we get some damn wins already.

This is limited by their conference. And the schools that are out of their conference and are worth playing for the sake of rankings are scared to death of losing. Hence the beauty of an improved tournament system. They'll get that chance to play better schools without the schools saying, "oh, I'm sorry this doesn't work for (our bowl ranking votes) game schedule this year so we'll bow out." Or let's say this - you're now a pro boxer. But you're set up in a way that in order to make it to the big championship match, your actual record doesn't matter - it's who you box, and you have to fight amongst the top 25 boxers in the league or you don't get voted in. Problem is, the teams you gotta fight to get ranked in don't wanna fight you because you've beat up one or two of them before when they underestimated you, and you've also beat the guys in your region. You might have 100% win ratio this time around, but you can't fight in the big match against guys with 1 or 2 losses because they always get to fight the big fights that you get left out of... ...wouldn't that seem a bit screwed up?