DRC: Apogee five years later Part I

Ryan Munthe · July 18, 2016

3 minutes ago, UNT90 said:

Usually when you have unprecedented success like winning a New Years Day bowl game after doing nothing the previous 10 years, you see a large increase in season ticket sales the next year, no matter who is graduating and who isn't. Because let's be honest, there are about 50 of us that keep up with that crap.

At UNT they were 13 of 14 in CUSA in season ticket sales immediately following that unprecedented success. And season ticket sales actually DECLINED from 2013. That's laziness. That's having a ticket office that doesn't answer the freaking telephone. That is a joke of an athletic department.

But according to Hank, that is your and my fault.

When you only know middle of the road, apparently you think it's great.

No showers in the new basketball facility.

No, it's that I think that the current athletic facilities arms race is idiotic and unreasonably raising tuition.

The Pit needs an upgrade. Football locker room needed a slight touch-up. What we have should be top-tier facilities, but no, we're spending oodles of taxpayer money so that kids can have six 60" TVs to watch their performance versus Bethune-Cookman or Portland State.

Edited July 18, 2016 by Ryan Munthe

Ryan Munthe · July 18, 2016

So, yes, disillusioned.

GRN-WHT · July 18, 2016

RV's Chief of Excuse Making is doing what he does best. It will be a good day when Hank, Nitardy and Batchelder leave Denton.

UNTLifer · July 18, 2016

Herman is a great coach but he is slimey.

untjim1995 · July 18, 2016

That article is so disheartening and it basically tells you why the next AD hire will, in my opinion, watch over this program either successfully staying at the FBS level or getting relegated down to a lower,level of play, this time permanently. That's because the university's leadership allowed RV and his bunch of lazy status-quo cohorts to run this thing so poorly for so long.

Hank can bitch about attendance, but we were promised better teams for OOC play with a new stadium. Teams like Iowa and Minnesota were mentioned as the types of teams we could attract to Denton with a new stadium. Well, it got us Indiana in the first year of the stadium, followed by Texas Southen, Idaho, Ball State, SMU, Nicholls State, Portland State, and now Butt Cookman, Army, Lamar, Incarnate Word, and Abilene Christian to follow. We basically built a stadium to keep the program alive, but not alive enough to stay competitive at the FBS high-level G5 status, like those in the AAC and MWC.

At this point, it's hard to imagine us playing at anything above the current lower-level G5s, unless the new AD can fix stuff here that hasn't been fixed in forever, which is convincing UNT's Family to support its football and basketball programs. That is about as daunting of a task as you can find in all of college sports. How do you change 50 years of apathy and get support for something that is openly loathed by so many attached to the school? That answer is more than just "winning" around here.

oldguystudent · July 18, 2016

I admittedly don't know much about Hank other than he broadcast games with George. This article kinda tells me everything I need to know.

Also, after George's little impassioned "I can't go home in good conscience without saying this" advertisement at that meeting a couple weeks ago, I find myself unable to listen to the ticket. Guy has lost all my respect.

UNT90 · July 18, 2016

48 minutes ago, oldguystudent said:

Also, after George's little impassioned "I can't go home in good conscience without saying this" advertisement at that meeting a couple weeks ago, I find myself unable to listen to the ticket. Guy has lost all my respect.

The attempt at fake tears RV style did it for me. Just a really shallow attempt to manipulate through emotion.

And the guy George said made excuses for RV for 15 years is still at it. As acting AD for UNT.

He caht leave Denton soon enough.

HoustonEagle · July 18, 2016

Aldo · July 18, 2016

I am surprised Nitardy didn't end his sentence with "and...other things of that nature"

aztecskin · July 18, 2016

7 hours ago, oldguystudent said:

I admittedly don't know much about Hank other than he broadcast games with George. This article kinda tells me everything I need to know.

Also, after George's little impassioned "I can't go home in good conscience without saying this" advertisement at that meeting a couple weeks ago, I find myself unable to listen to the ticket. Guy has lost all my respect.

he cried and endorsed his friend for AD?

UNT90 · July 18, 2016

3 hours ago, aztecskin said:

he cried and endorsed his friend for AD?

Fake choked up would be a better description.

Straight from the RV playbook.

And yes, he said Hank covered for RV for 15 years. He talked to the media both before and after, using his name to endorse Hank.

And there is no doubt that he told every detail of the meeting that he remembered in a phone call to Hank Dickenson on his way home.

Edit: He also claimed he was "persecuted" for his endorsement of Hank on his radio show. Yes, you heard that right. He threw the victim card down HARD.

I have an idea what that was about, and there was no persecution involved. He was confronted on his statements and didn't like being questioned. So he played the role of public victim. The whole thing was awkward and extremely unseemly. I also don't listen to the show anymore since that entitled display.

Edited July 18, 2016 by UNT90