Your Favorite Coach Since Fry?

untjim1995 · July 8, 2015

With his 1-AA (or probably less) budget, Corkey had the same problem. One of his assistants was this guy....
http://newsok.com/collected-wisdom-bobby-jack-wright-retiring-ou-assistant-coach/article/5387618
who coached here for about three years. I'm sure there were lots of others who went on to great careers.
However, one of the main differences between Corkey and DD is that on the eve of a game with Texas, Corkey would never have said to a gathering of alumni "I hope that when Dr. B. looks up at the score board at the end of the game tomorrow, she'll remember how much we're getting paid to play this game".

Yes, Corky, Matt Simon, and Coach Mac all look at these games as possible wins and coached that way all week before and during those games. Dickey didn't...ever. As a matter of fact, if that game involved a regular season opponent that was not beatable by just running the ball down their throat, then it was just about running the clock out until we got to an opponent we could pound into submission (basically SBC teams only).

The one thing I loved about Mac when he got here and had continued doing until last year's nut-kick of a season was to inspire and motivate the few fans we had, as well as the engagement of the student body. We hadn't had that kind of person around here since well before my time of getting here (fall of 1991). Maybe Corky could've done that if the university had even tried to care about college football back then, but selling ice to eskimos would've been just as easy as selling i-aa football to UNT fans in the early 80's when the SWC was at its peak. I am just praying that Mac gets that positivity and motivation back--that this place hasn't beaten him into give-up, Dickey-style comments in the upcoming years. Because that is exactly what it sounded like last year when he complained about the fact that Texas HS recruits usually won't come here. If you are gonna run a Dickey-style offense, even with great facilities and a nice conference affiliation, you aren't gonna get any attention from the HS coaches, players, or their parents. They know that 95% of Texas high schools run the exact opposite style of offense. If he can switch this up, I'll believe that mac will truly get what needs to be changed here--to adapt to the times and run multiple offensive styles, instead of a 1970 three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense that bores people to tears when you aren't winning (see Dickey years, not including 2002-2004).

UNT86 · July 8, 2015

Dickey was one game from being gone when we beat MT in 2001. His OC was a complete jerk. I enjoyed the bowl games, but never felt any connection to him. He just seemed to be a very negative person.

To me, McCarney is the first REAL D1 coach we've had and I'm willing to give him a little more room. It took him 5 years to get Iowa State going, and he had his initial success here much quicker. I still think he will build this thing into a consistent winner.

SilverEagle · July 8, 2015

Yes, Corky, Matt Simon, and Coach Mac all look at these games as possible wins and coached that way all week before and during those games. Dickey didn't...ever. As a matter of fact, if that game involved a regular season opponent that was not beatable by just running the ball down their throat, then it was just about running the clock out until we got to an opponent we could pound into submission (basically SBC teams only).
The one thing I loved about Mac when he got here and had continued doing until last year's nut-kick of a season was to inspire and motivate the few fans we had, as well as the engagement of the student body. We hadn't had that kind of person around here since well before my time of getting here (fall of 1991). Maybe Corky could've done that if the university had even tried to care about college football back then, but selling ice to eskimos would've been just as easy as selling i-aa football to UNT fans in the early 80's when the SWC was at its peak. I am just praying that Mac gets that positivity and motivation back--that this place hasn't beaten him into give-up, Dickey-style comments in the upcoming years. Because that is exactly what it sounded like last year when he complained about the fact that Texas HS recruits usually won't come here. If you are gonna run a Dickey-style offense, even with great facilities and a nice conference affiliation, you aren't gonna get any attention from the HS coaches, players, or their parents. They know that 95% of Texas high schools run the exact opposite style of offense. If he can switch this up, I'll believe that mac will truly get what needs to be changed here--to adapt to the times and run multiple offensive styles, instead of a 1970 three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense that bores people to tears when you aren't winning (see Dickey years, not including 2002-2004).

I've said for some time that the main difference between Mac and DD is that Mac has a more outgoing personality and doesn't mind trying to motivate the fans.....which Dickey was never comfortable doing.

Corkey once admitted that if left to his own devices he would always run a very conservative offense. The first 5 or 6 years he basically ran the veer, which is what most other schools ran as well. Then in 86 he surprised everyone and installed the wishbone right before the TCU game. The results were TCU not being able to adequately defend an offense that they hadn't seen in years, and North Texas won the game. Of course, the 6 or 7 fumble recoveries we made during the game helped as well. The wishbone stayed and got tweaked to incorporate more passing than wishbones usually do. The result is that by 1988 when Scott Davis took over as QB, we were running the "flying wishbone"..... equal parts running and passing.

Our total offense went from 3094 in 1986 to 4526 in 1988. Some of that was due to the talents of Scott Davis, but just as much of it was due to assistant coaches who were able to tweak a lot of the offense, use all the weapons that they had, and not being hindered by an over-cautious/over-conservative head coach.

Edited July 8, 2015 by SilverEagle

UNTexas · July 8, 2015

Actually, he ran it a bunch of times with great success against LSU; didn't find it embarrassing at all.

Try being on the field for that Junior High nonsense. We got a couple plays off before their defense crushed it. The entire sideline was embarrassed by the Busch League nonsense. The crowd even laughed. There was no success and he was never daft enough to run it again. We all laughed about how embarrassing it was the entire trip home.

GrandGreen · July 8, 2015

Try being on the field for that Junior High nonsense. We got a couple plays off before their defense crushed it. The entire sideline was embarrassed by the Busch League nonsense. The crowd even laughed. There was no success and he was never daft enough to run it again. We all laughed about how embarrassing it was the entire trip home.

Their defense didn't crush it till he ran it about 4 times, that is a hell of a lot better than any other plays the Green ran. The crowd did more than laugh at least where I was sitting they were very free with the racial epitaphs. You were embarrassed, I got into an altercation with several of their fine fans.

Got5onIt · July 11, 2015

The Buick's tenure is where my fandom started. He'll always hold a special place in my UNT heart. I still like Mac for the HoD win but voted for DD....