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Let's get a grip on things .....Things are way to serious

I believe Price is somewhere in the mid $250’s, base. He has a very incentive laden contract that puts him somewhere around $500K. By the way, the biggest part of the “extra” comes from his bonuses for attendance at home games (why do you think they dropped a road game at Oregon for a home game against Texas Southern). He gets a certain amount for season tickets and also , I believe, $1.00 for every game ticket sold over 20K.

A couple of comments – First, no other coach has had the advantage to be a part of the Sun Belt. To give DD his credit he has been very successful when it comes to Sun Belt games. The problem is, for those of us who do not wear green colored is that the OOC record has for most negated any Sun Belt success. Second, to pay the coaches more we need to get people in the stands. The fact is that UNT, at this time, does not have a core base large enough to allow us to average 25K to 30K. We can keep blaming each other for the lack of fan in the stands but the reality is that the Athletic Department at North Texas has to do something different to get “new” fan into the seats. The question to ask is does our AD and our Head Coach have what it takes to be fan friendly?

Just wondering, have you ever seen BG’s facilities?? It’s been about 3 years but I passed it 2 times before I realized it was a college stadium. Maybe the facilities are not the only key.

WE ARE 7-40 IN OOC GAMES And 2 of those wins are against 1-AA teams. Why are your expectations so low? It could be debated whether DD has helped to bring this program to a higher level or we have been the benefactors of playing in the worst 1-A conference in the history of the NCAA. As far as the UNT job not being attractive, I’m sure there are those who know better but I believe we had quite a few people apply the last time around. I’m not calling for DD’s ouster but if the success of the program is only going to be measured by our Sun Belt success then we should never expect better things.

Understanding that most are upset/frustrated here are some questions to throw around – There are a lot of people wanting to see DD change his offense. Is this really realistic or just wishful thinking? I have not always been the biggest DD fan but I do give him the credit for being able to make the adjustments he can, based on the personnel available. For everyone want to put Phillips in remember the most popular guy on the team (from a fan’s standpoint) is usually the backup QB. Hopefully we have found a player with talent that was overlooked, but he is a true freshman walk-on. For those who say everything will be OK. Why are your expectations so low? And please do not use the “well our facilities are so……” excuse, this only shows disrespect to the player we do have and have signed. For the comments about who is or isn’t a die hard fan and we will be OK if we can just average 20K. The reality looks to be that we do not have a base large enough so that there will be 20K at each game come hell or high water. What do we do? Not to be a knock on DD but his style of play is not going to be the fan-friendly style that brings in the casual fan. As for those who want DD to be more outgoing and open up to the fan more, well it’s probably not going to happen and if he did there would be many who would complain about how insincere he was being.

Yea, but there putting Butts in the seats and moving up the polls ... Who's got the last laugh

It might not be a case of how far they have come in a year but rather how far we have fallen in a year.

I realize this is always an emotional issue. While it would be great to be in a position to recruit all High School players would it be better for NT to place a heaver emphasis on JUCO players? Could this help us become more competitive overall?

If for any reason we play like we did against Tulsa K-State - 62 N T - 9 If we play like we did against MTSU K-State - 31 N T - 10 If DD is applying for his future job K-State - 24 N T - 20

The stat says 29 ATTEMPTS - 50 completed

MARK THE TIME!!!! The words Respect and LaTech in the same post (without the words Lack of)

We (UNT) have had our players in trouble and they have played. I am not syaing you are not correct but let's remember our backyard has not always been that clean.

Put JT at QB and switch to the Wishbone

We return the 3rd least amount of returning starters, not the 3rd youngest. If we are going to use the youth/inexperience card then we also need to question why, knowing we were going to be so young/inexperienced we did not hit the JC's a little harder.

This is hurting

I guess after last night Utah will drop

I have to go with the ???Touchdown??? in Austin. Beating UT in Austin would have been great.

One thing to say about DD – he sticks with what he knows will work. While others may switch to the “flavor” of the week, DD sticks to what is proven. His goal is not to impress others, but rather to quench that inner thirst!

Thanks

Let's see... tie goes to the runner ... We have the better runners .. WE WIN!!!!

Any truth to the rumor that the new Diet Coke guy has a younger brother who is pouring on the sidelines around Longview? Talk is he may break his brother's high school pours per game average.

That only brings up the potential issue the year after when they both are battling for “pouring” time.