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I have grown tiresome of all of the negative ned's who want to say "UNT is a coaching graveyard", or "Why would anyone take this job." or "we won't be able to land (insert coaches name here) because he already has a good thing going and is looking for a better gig etc.." That's all hogwash! BS! Let me tell you why. 1). Tell me how many jobs out there pay $1 million a year? How many? I would say not many. My sense is this job will pay in the 900- 1.5 million range. There will also be a significant bump to assistant pay as well. NOTE TO SELF: ANY JOB PAYING 1 MILLION BUCKS IS ATTRACTIVE...PERIOD! 2). A chance to coach at the D-I level is only available for 128 very lucky people every year. That 128 out of probably thousands of qualified and dedicated coaches who have made a career of this who will never get the opportunity. 3). UNT's attractiveness as a coaching destination really just started in 2011. That was when Apogee stadium was unveiled. That was when we started paying competitively for both head and assistant coaches. That was when we basically were moving into a respected conference (C-USA). So for all of you who want to reach back to Theron Fouts days of roaming the sidelines when compiling the win loss records, I call BS. The first time in my lifetime that we stepped up to really play ball here was 2011. JUST 4 YEARS AGO. We "pretended" to participate but the truth was we were doing just enough to "get by" and created a revolving door of our top recruiting assistants every year. 4). UNT is not a pressure cooker job. Sure we expect results but a coach will be able to come here and show a lot of progress in year one. Some of these p5 gigs will be looking for damn near immediate results or they are going to fire you. UNT is a place were you can build your dream staff, implement your system, build things from the ground up and really there is nowhere to go but up. Mac said things were hard at North Texas, actually I think things are EASIER at North Texas than many jobs paying even less money! 5). Location Part 1 - can you say access to the biggest number of quality D-I recruits within a cars drive? No more airplanes, in fact you can hit some of the top high schools within 4-5 minutes of each other!! The focus of this hire is RECRUITING and where is a better place in the country to do that? Even if you don't get the top guys, I would submit there are so many who can play here you should still be able to dominate C-USA. Location Part 2 -- every coach out there has a pretty wife and kids who want good neighbors, good shopping, good schools and a great place to live. Denton and DFW offer that in a big way. There are airports and tons of restaurants, things to do... it is a great place to raise a family, Why do you think so many corporations (Toyota etc) choose to relocate here? 6). Numbers - UNT has 37,000 students who want so badly to have something to hang their hat on. It's a great school as we all know and yet it is often misunderstood and under appreciated. Despite our terrible performance on the field the student population keeps growing and keeps yearning for a good football team. The right guy could take this program to attendance heights yet to be seen. Dodge showed us a taste of that when he had 6500 fans for a spring game... it's there it just needs to be nourished. I would submit to you, hitting attendance numbers tied to incentives here would be a HELL of a lot easier than at SMU or other places. You just have to win... you just have to connect with the students and alumi. Mac tried God bless him, but it's not just rah rah, it's making a CONNECTION... and of course WINNING. I think we all would be shocked if we knew how much interest there is from college coaches in this job, perhaps moreso than even some of the higher up the foodchain jobs that are out there. UNT has had 4 years of being an attractive job and this time it will be significantly more attractive than when Mac took it. GMG