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There comes a time when loyalty becomes blindness. Unconditional acceptance can become the downfall of many good intentions. Following blindly is the easy way out.

Let's see.... Emmitt is "bad" for "expecting" performance AND YOU’RE hoping "Maybe we will get another lucky recruiting class sometime soon" Sorry, but the most overused excuse is that you should not be able to hold programs accountable. And yes only a small amount of programs make money, but Football is the money maker and you would hope the Administration would want to maximize its product. But then again maybe their thinking if we can get the same 15K to show up regardless of our investment WHY invest????

This is the hard part for many - DD - The Man versus DD - The Coach Regardless of how nice or good a person he is the decision needs to be based on the quality of the product place on the field. My beef is with DD the Coach - He had a window of opportunity and he let it shut!

I don't think anyone ever said Price was a guarantee of victories. What it did say is that the administration was willing to put forth the effort to give the program a chance to win. I guarantee if the current Mean Green team lined up against UTEP is would be an ass-kicking in favor of the Miners. Why would you seem to be more content at trying to cut down Price or UTEP’s recent success than facing NT’s problems?

Done

MGW - Do you buy your Kool-Aid by the glass or the gallon

As I mentioned before (after a nightmare) - RV gets fired Bobby Ray puts DD as AD

After last Friday’s loss to Tulsa you should have heard the local call in show. The Miner fans are not happy at being 4-4. Spoiled/Ungrateful fan – NO!!!! What they have done is raise their level of expectation from the football team. IMO they get it – yes they are happy to have Coach Price and crew, but the message is also there that if the University expects the fan base to go all out and support the team the Fan-Base expects the team to be held accountable to higher levels of expectations and to produce – What a novel concept. I guess the Green Kool-Aid many here drink does not come in Orange.

For which part of the athletic program do you work for?

I thought it was the OC at USM that RV liked?

Sorry, To little too late.

I hear it may be featured on America’s Most Wanted. Rumor is a HC at UNT has stolen the Hopes and Dreams of many fans.

Yep, but once Hayden Fox went Pro you have to wonder if he lost some of his love for the College Game Also, I thought he went into Police work (trying to be like Emmitt???)

I will say this, if DD is still here next year the University should make NO attempt at asking people to step up and support UNT athletics since they will be sending the clearest message ever that when it comes to being a serious 1-A program they (administration) could care less.

Does anyone know how DeLoach was at recruiting?

Any truth to the rumor they almost changed the radio station to KUN.... never mind

Sorry but this is the MOST MISUSED comeback when it comes to football, basketball, etc. It’s always amazing how someone will finally pull out the “if you didn’t play you can’t comment card. Let me ask a question – If you played High School, but not College then I guess it’s OK to comment on High School??? So people who played in College but did not make it to the Pro’s can only make educated comments about the college game?????? We me guess you never give your opinion on …. Basketball Baseball Hockey NFL Football Politics The war in Iraq The weather The list could go on and on and on I guess your also one of the people who thinks Mel Kiper should not be used by ESPN

Not sure how he would take it, but it could help the team.

Rick Neuheisel Rick Neuheisel as coach on the Baltimore Ravens.Rick Neuheisel (born February 7, 1961 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a football coach. Formerly a college head coach, he is currently the quarterbacks coach for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. Neuheisel grew up in the Phoenix area and played his college football at UCLA, beginning his career as a walk-on, holding for place kicks. He secured the starting quarterback position four games into his senior year, leading the Bruins to the Pac-10 championship in 1983 and a 45-9 victory over Illinois in the January 1984 Rose Bowl, in which he was named the most valuable player. His professional career included two seasons with the San Antonio Gunslingers (1984-1985) of the USFL and three games with the San Diego Chargers of the NFL in the strike season of 1987. He closed out the season's final two games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but did not receive any playing time. While attending law school at USC on an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, Neuheisel served as a graduate assistant with UCLA, where he tutored Troy Aikman. He later became a full-time assistant coach, and stayed at UCLA through the 1993 season. In 1994, he moved to Colorado as an assistant to Bill McCartney. McCartney retired following that season and Neuhesiel, age 34, became the head coach. He stayed for four seasons (1995-98), then left to coach at Washington for four seasons (1999-2002). In the 2000 season, the Huskies won the Pac-10 title and the Rose Bowl over the Purdue Boilermakers. Washington, led by quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo, the Rose Bowl MVP, finished the season at 11-1 and was ranked third in the final national polls. His 2001 and 2002 teams posted records of 8-4 and 7-6 respectively, as criticism began to mount that the team was becoming less physical and playing more of a finesse style. Passing yardage records were routinely broken while Washington's running game fell off dramatically. Neuheisel was fired in the summer of 2003 from the University of Washington for gambling on the NCAA Basketball Tournament, in addition to numerous minor recruiting violations. However, the gambling case became a local sensation when it was revealed that he had received an internal University of Washington memo which authorized this type of gambling. Analysis revealed that the NCAA rules were ambiguous and inconsistent (the NCAA website itself was found to have old versions of its rules by posters on the "dawgman.com" website) seeming to allow gambling within certain contexts, and it became apparent that the NCAA violated its own rules when questioning Neuheisel about the gambling. Legal proceedings enabled Neuheisel to collect a substantial settlement and essentially clear him of wrongdoing as the NCAA and University of Washington were forced to abandon their case. He was a volunteer coach for Rainier Beach High School in Seattle for two seasons, then became an assistant coach with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens in January 2005.

With all due respect - I hope like hell your wrong

In just one season on the job, Don Carthel has changed the culture and fortune of Buffalo football. After being introduced as the 26th head coach of West Texas A&M Football on April 27, 2005, Carthel began the process of transforming a program that had not posted a winning record since 1998 and the results were nothing short of amazing. In 2005, the Buffs stormed back on the collegiate football map as they collected a 10-1 regular season record and captured the school's first Lone Star Conference Championship in 19 years. Excitement about Carthel's program was also at new heights as attendance soared, averaging over 14,000 fans a game at Kimbrough Memorial Stadium during the regular season. In addition to gaining praise from many WTAMU alumni and area media outlets, Carthel was honored by his peers after the completion of the season by being named 2005 Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year. "Don Carthel has a proven record, a passion for coaching and a commitment to winning," Dr. Russell C. Long, former WTAMU president said. "He has a strong support base in this area and is well known as a man of principle and integrity." "Don's first year at West Texas A&M exceeded all on-field expectations," said Director of Athletics Michael McBroom. "The success of the football team directly translated to great enthusiasm and excitement for Buffalo football throughout our community. With success comes higher expectations; our challenge now is to achieve consistent success over many seasons. I am confident that Don will be able to deliver a quality football product for our fans for years to come." The Friona, Texas native returns to college football and the LSC, where he had previous coaching stints at Eastern New Mexico University and Abilene Christian University. Carthel was born in Dimmitt and raised in Friona, and as a child, he found rides to Kimbrough Memorial Stadium on Saturdays to watch WT home games. "I've always loved coming to WT to watch sports. I remember coming to basketball games to watch Mike Mitchell and Maurice Cheeks, and I fondly remember football games. I began watching WT when Pistol Pete Pedro played and then Duane Thomas and through the Joe Kerbel era. It was always a highlight to come from Friona to WT games. It's a privilege to be a part of the rich WT tradition." In addition to coaching at the school, Carthel also graduated from ENMU with a bachelor's degree in physical education with a minor in mathematics in 1974 and a master's in physical education in 1975. While at ENMU played center/kicker for the Greyhounds from 1970-73, helping ENMU to a No. 17 ranking in NAIA his senior season. In 1975, Carthel began his coaching career at Floydada High School, serving as the defensive coordinator under Texas High School Hall of Fame coach L.G. Wilson, leading Floydada to the district championship in both 1975 and '76. In 1977, Carthel moved up to the collegiate ranks, beginning at NCAA-III Dubuque University (Iowa) and was the assistant head coach/defensive coordinator for the Spartans from 1977-79, being part of a staff that turned the program around, after DU won just three games in the previous four year. Dubuque went to the NCAA playoffs, winning back-to-back Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) championships in 1978 and '79. DU was undefeated in 1979 and ranked No. 3 in the country. Carthel served as defensive coordinator at Ft Worth's Boswell High School in 1980. In 1981 at the age of 28, Carthel became the youngest head coach in the country when he took over the head coach position at Lubbock Christian College (now Lubbock Christian University) from 1981-82. Carthel was an assistant coach at the University of Texas-El Paso from 1983-84, before he became the head coach at ENMU from 1985-1991. While head coach at ENMU, Carthel helped the Greyhounds make the transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II, and becoming one the top programs in the LSC. In 1985, Carthel's first year at the helm, the Greyhounds were playing Texas A&I University (currently Texas A&M University-Kingsville) in the season finale for a share of the LSC title. Though they narrowly lost that game, 21-17, the Greyhounds won the conference crown in 1991, becoming the first team outside of Texas to win the LSC championship in the conference's 59 years of football. In his seven years at ENMU, Carthel compiled a 44-28-1 (.610) ledger, winning seven or more games in five of those seven seasons, including opening the 1987 season with a 9-0 record and tying the school record for victories in a season. In five of Carthel's seven years, the Greyhounds were ranked in the Division II Top 20 Poll. Carthel was inducted into the ENMU Hall of Fame in 2001. In January, 1992, Carthel resigned from coaching to return to Friona, where he farmed and raised his family, serving on the Friona school board for nine years. However, Carthel could not stay away from coaching and became a volunteer coach for Abilene Christian. His son Colby was a standout linebacker at Angelo State University, leading the Rams to the LSC South title in 1999. The younger Carthel joined the ACU staff in 2000 as the recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach. In Abilene, the father and son enjoyed their first coaching stint on the same sideline prior to this summer when Colby joined the WTAMU football staff as the Buff's defensive coordinator. The elder Carthel coached at ACU until 2004, when he was named the head coach and general manager of the Dusters in their inaugural season in the Intense Football League. Amarillo posted a 15-3 record under Carthel and won the IFL Championship last year. The Dusters joined the AFL2 in the april of 2005 and had a 2-1 record when Carthel resigned to take his current post at West Texas A&M. Carthel received the Coach of the Year award from the IFL, as well as being named to the Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 for leading the Dusters to the IFL crown. That honor accompanies his 1991 Panhandle Sports Hall of Fame Honor for leading the ENMU football program to the LSC Championship. "The Amarillo Dusters' success really opened my eyes to fans' reaction and appreciation of a winning football program in the Texas Panhandle and we hope to put just as an exciting program together here at WT that people can get excited about and enjoy watching," Carthel said. "We hope to provide a program that the alumni and boosters can be very proud of." Carthel and his wife Cindy Phillips of Farwell, Texas, have been married for 33 years, and have two adult children, Colby and Courtney. Colby joins his father on the Buffs sideline this fall as WTAMU's defensive coordinator and is married to Sarah (Butler) Carthel, an All-American volleyball player for the WTAMU Lady Buffs and current graduate assistant for the WTAMU volleyball program. Courtney Burgoon is married to Andrew Burgoon, an assistant principal in the Canyon ISD, and they have twin 2-year-old daughters, Kylie and Kyler.

With thanks to Scottie - Mickey Matthews has been JMU’s football coach for seven years, and his most-recent teams have been among the more successful in program history. His 2004 squad won the NCAA Division I-AA title, and the Dukes have won 20 games during the last two seasons and 26 during the last three. Matthews’ 2004 Dukes had a 13-2 record and became the first team to reach the Division I-AA title game with three road wins. JMU won at Lehigh (14-13), Furman (14-13) and William & Mary (48-34) and beat Montana (31-21) for the national crown. The Dukes’ 13 wins were a team season record, and they tied their regular-season mark for wins by compiling a 9-2 pre-playoff record while tying for the crown in the Atlantic 10, Division I-AA’s most-competitive league in 2004. JMU’s only 2004 losses were to nationally ranked Division I-A West Virginia and to William & Mary, a team it later beat during the playoffs. The Dukes defeated nationally ranked teams in Villanova, Massachusetts, Maine, and Delaware during the regular season. Matthews also led JMU to a share of the Atlantic 10 title and to the league’s automatic playoff berth in 1999 during his first year as a head coach. The Dukes were 8-3 during the regular season after finishing 3-8 the previous year. Matthews’ teams’ success helped him win the 2004 Division I-AA coach of the year award from the American Football Coaches Association and the 1999 Eddie Robinson Award from The Sports Network as Division I-AA’s top coach. For 2004 he also received Virginia college coach of the year awards from state’s sports information directors and the Norfolk and Portsmouth sports clubs, Division I-AA coach of the year honors from the All-America Football Foundation, and the Amarillo (Texas) chamber of commerce’s achievement award. The Andrews, Texas, native before coaching at JMU was an assistant at Georgia (1996-98), defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Marshall (1990-95), and an assistant at Southwest Texas State (1988-89), Texas Christian (1987), Houston (1986), Texas-El Paso (1982-85), West Texas State (1980-81), and Kansas State (1978-79). Matthews went to Georgia with Jim Donnan under whom at coached for six seasons at Marshall. * * * * * Matthews in 1999 took his JMU job a week before spring practice was to begin, inheriting a team that had won only five of its previous 18 games and was predicted to finish next to last in the Atlantic 10. Add that the Dukes were to open at eventual Division I-A national runner-up Virginia Tech and that they had one of the nation's more-challenging Division I-AA slates (six Division I-AA foes won seven or more games in 1998), and it's understandable that expectations weren't high. However, Matthews said he would be disappointed if JMU didn't qualify for the NCAA playoffs, and his team quickly made itself one of Division I-AA's top 1999 stories. The Dukes lost their opener at Virginia Tech but then won seven straight games and finished the regular season with an 8-3 overall record and a 7-1 Atlantic 10 mark. They tied for the Atlantic 10 crown (JMU's first title in 20 Division I-AA seasons), advanced to post-season play for the first time in four years, and were nationally ranked for the final nine weeks of the season. The success of Matthews' team was recognized with him being named coach of the year in the A-10 in addition to his national award. JMU players also received the A-10's offensive (Curtis Keaton) and defensive (Chris Morant) player of the year awards, and the Dukes were named to 12 positions on the league's three all-star teams. The same program winning both of the player of the year awards in a season hadn't happened in the league since 1980, and never before had the same program gotten both of the top player awards and the top coaching award. Matthews' whirlwind first JMU season began March 22, 1999 when he was introduced as the Dukes' fifth head coach. He succeeded Alex Wood, who resigned March 15, 1999 to become quarterbacks' coach with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings. * * * * * Matthews' 2000 JMU team was nationally ranked for most of the season before finishing 6-5. Morant (defensive end), Derick Pack (linebacker), Ron Atkins (safety) and Jason Inskeep (center) were first-team All-A-10, and nine Dukes overall received all-league honors. His 2001 team, with only 11 seniors and 54 freshmen and red-shirt freshmen, was 2-9. Seven of its games were decided by seven or fewer points, and JMU featured the Buck Buchanan Award winner as Division I-AA's top defensive player in senior linebacker Derrick Lloyd. JMU in 2002 was 5-7 and won two of its final three games with a squad that included only six seniors and five juniors. The Dukes won two overtime games, and six of their other contests were decided by seven or fewer points. JMU had eight All-A-10 honorees, including first-team defensive end Jerame Southern and return specialist Mike Connelly. JMU in 2003 improved to 6-6 with a team that had but four seniors, including Southern, a first-team All-A-10 choice and a third-team All-America by The Sports Network. His 2004 team won seven games that were decided by 10 or fewer points and two other contests that were scoreless into the second half. The Dukes allowed an average of only 86.8 yards per game rushing and controlled most of their national semifinal and final games with a bruising running attack. The balanced and deep JMU squad had only three first-team all-league honorees, including first-team All-Americas in offensive guard Matt Magerko and free safety Tony LeZotte, but had seven members named to the second and third all-league units. JMU's 7-4 team in 2005 included the A-10 defensive player of the year and a first-team All-America in LeZotte. Magerko again was a first-team All-America, and he, LeZotte, cornerback Clint Kent, defensive end Kevin Winston, and punt returner L.C. Baker were first-team All-A-10. * * * * * Matthews worked with linebackers and defensive backs at Georgia (1996-98), which won two bowl games during his tenure there. He also coached Champ Bailey, who was recognized as the nation's top defensive player, and Georgia in 1998 led the Southeastern Conference in interceptions. Bailey was the Washington Redskins' first-round choice in the 1999 NFL draft. With Matthews on its staff, Georgia was 5-6 in 1996, 10-2 in 1997 and 9-3 in 1998. The Bulldogs completed 1998 having won 20 of their last 25 games, including a Peach Bowl win over Virginia (35-33) after the 1998 season and an Outback Bowl win over Wisconsin (33-6) after the 1997 season. With a supposedly rebuilding team in 1998, Georgia won four SEC road games and was second in the league and 16th nationally in scoring defense (17.2 points per game). At Marshall, Matthews was part of a program that won the Division I-AA title in 1992, was runner-up in 1991, 1993 and 1995, and was a 1994 semifinalist. The Herd in 1991 and 1995 led the nation in total defense and in 1993 led the nation in scoring defense. Marshall won 64 games in Matthews' six years with the program (58 the last five seasons) and won 11 or more games and made NCAA post-season appearances for five straight years from 1991-95. The Herd was 45-4 at home and 15-4 in post-season play. Marshall led the Southern Conference in scoring defense four times (1990, 91, 94, 95), total defense four times (1990, 93, 94, 95), passing defense twice (1990, 94) and rushing defense four times (1992, 93, 94, 95). Former JMU assistant coach William King was an All-America linebacker and the 1993 Southern Conference defensive player of the year while Matthews was Marshall's defensive coordinator. Matthews Biographical Information Born Nov. 8, 1953 in Andrews, Texas. High School Andrews (Texas) High School College Bachelor's degree in education from West Texas State in 1976. Has done graduate work at Texas Christian. Playing Career Earned four varsity letters as a halfback and receiver at West Texas State after earning 12 varsity letters in four high school sports. Rated by Texas Football magazine as a "blue chipper" and was All-South Plain player of the year in 1971 and a National Honor Society member. Coaching Career 1999-Present: Head coach, JMU. 1996-98: Assistant, Georgia (linebackers in 1996-97, defensive backs in 1998). Georgia won two bowl games (Outback, Peach) while he was with the program, and he coached first-round NFL draftee Champ Bailey. 1990-95: Assistant, Marshall (defensive coordinator, assistant head coach). 1988-89: Assistant, Southwest Texas State (defensive coordinator, assistant head coach). 1987: Assistant, Texas Christian (defensive backs). 1986: Assistant, Houston (outside linebackers, directing the special teams). 1982-85: Assistant, Texas-El Paso (defensive backs). 1980-81: Assistant, West Texas State (defensive backs, recruiting coordinator). 1978-79: Part-time assistant, Kansas State (running backs). 1976-77: Assistant, Lamar (Texas) High School (offensive backs). Personal Data Michael Chester Matthews… married to the former Kay Bolger of Irving, Texas… they have a daughter, Meredith Anne, a son, Clayton, who played for JMU in 2001 and 2002 and who now is a JMU assistant coach, and one grandchild

My biggest hope it that we truly take a look at all available candidates. I know people will be pressing to make a hire but let’s take a good, open, look at everyone who is interested. Don’t rule out ANYONE upfront. Creative contacts are becoming more and more the norm.