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Have a few friends in the development and fundraising world of college athletics, and this name was given to me as a possible candidate. http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=208803515 Not a bad resume. OU, Cowboys, Alabama. Seems like a home run hire to me.

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2015/06/15/In-Depth/AD-lead-in.aspx? Rick

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For the wonderful product you have put on the football field and basketball court year in and year out... UNT AD... Easiest paycheck in America.

http://goviks.com/news/2015/9/26/FB_0926150702.aspx A little info on the Vikings, who I am skipping ahead to due to the fact that USM will beat us by 20 plus. They play stout defense and will most likely come in here 4-0 (they play North Dakota next week, not to be confused with North Dakota St.). They play defense well. We are going to have a tough time putting points on the board. Some see this as our only shot at a win. I see the very real possibility that Vegas will make us a home dog to an FCS team on UNT's homecoming. Thanks RV.

As a senior at UNT, i'm just as fed up with RV, as you all have been for years. I'm sick of him. I don't see our program getting any better with him in charge. He made a bogus hire for a basketball coach, and questionably, a bogus hire for a football coach. He can't bring P5 schools to our stadium (EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS PROMISED WITH OUR NEW STADIUM) he has to be the worst negotiator in the country when it comes to scheduling CFB games. I don't know if it's laziness, or if he's just really bad at what he does, but its time for the culture to change around UNT Athletics. Students actually give a shit now about UNT football, and if this season heads in the direction we all think its going, all the students are gonna revert back to rocking their god damn ATM, UT, Bama, and SMU gear around campus, and no one will care for years to come. SO MORE TO THE POINT, Is there anything i could legitimately do as a student, to try and rally people to pressure him to getting him removed as the AD? petition? anything? shoot me some ideas.

Some points in another thread got me thinking about this. We've all heard that Dickey clashed with Helwig and RV over quite a few things, and the discussion about tough OOC schedules made me wonder about the HC/AD relationships. So, since I don't know exactly what they did and didn't like about each other's style or opinion of how things should be scheduled, let's look at a couple of possibilities that led me to this thought. Let's say Helwig wanted to keep putting up UT, OU, Nebraska, LSU, etc. as OOC foes and Dickey disagreed. Well, RV comes along and they're already on the schedule for a couple of years or so. Is it reasonable, prudent, or even done as a matter of business-as-usual, if a new AD agrees with the HC, to look at trying to get out of those games and replace them with ones he feels are better suited to the program in its current state? My big reason for asking is that if you are pretty much going to stay married to the OOC schedule planned years ahead regardless of coaching or AD changes, doesn't that add just another reason to our usual "well, we have to wait and see because of what he inherited" tact? And in that sense, even if coaching hires don't work out and you make a change in the AD position...wouldn't that give the AD twice as long as the HC? I mean, just for giggles, let's say this year was disastrous in both FB and BB, both coaches and RV were sent packing (okay, maybe not everybody would be giggling but you know what I mean). The new AD would inherit a football schedule that's pretty much set for about 6 years. That's the big one...so even if they got a bad hire and replaced him as HC after Mac, the FB schedule could basically cover the tenure of two 3-season coaches. As much as the "bare cupboard" argument is made, couldn't an AD make that same one for at least twice as long if they were pretty well stuck with over half a decade of someone else's scheduling? If so, and people accept the "bare cupboard" notion, wouldn't an AD's grace period be about 6 years before they could say they were "rebuilding properly"? Or could they say, "Hey, if I'm going to come in here and take over this mess, you have to let me scrap half of this schedule and do something better with it"? Obviously if that was part of their terms of hiring, the administration would choose whether or not to hire them...but would that be a reasonable demand if you thought you had a great AD hire and that's what they wanted to do?