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UNTLifer Grand Master

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3 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

I’m curious why my favorite walkon/receiver/quarterback is up at the top?

The starter was busy rolling a joint.

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32 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

The starter was busy rolling a joint.

Nah, that dude had already bailed to Aggieland by the time Chase Tebow got some playing time. Baine got to play quarterback in 2010 because Tune and Thompson were lost for the season by game three and then emergency quarterback Riley Dodge got injured midseason and Baine was forced into action as the 4th stringer. Such a series of calamities that year I’m not sure any coach could’ve gotten us bowl eligible that season.

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This pic brings up:

Terrible football stadium that hosted:

A squad that was coached by Todd Dodge, who in his first three seasons had won 5 games, while losing 31...and got retained because it would cost an extra $300k to fire him. He rewarded us by going 1-6 to start the last season because:

A QB who had to play because the three in front of him got hurt...by week 4:

Led to Chico trying to Lock the Gate and having his buddies flood the board to be our next head coach because we went 2-3 against old Sun Belt spares in his tenure as the interim coach...

 

Fun times, huh?

 

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El Paso Eagle Grand Master

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There are two 3-word phrases that will forever, IMO, sum up the Dodge era

Incompetent Athletic Leadership

Wasted National Exposure

 

There was national exposure and enough eyes were on UNT that we could have changed the program as positively, as the drop to 1-AA did negatively. How the AD and the President allowed him to bring in HS coordinators is inexcusable. Please don't tell me there was not enough money available. They should not have made the hire without a plan in place to staff properly. If bringing his staff along as coordinators was a condition, we should have passed. In the end this might have done as much damage as the 1-AA move. From the "non-Mean Green" view this reinforced that UNT was not a winner.

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untjim1995 Grand Master

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1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:

There are two 3-word phrases that will forever, IMO, sum up the Dodge era

Incompetent Athletic Leadership

Wasted National Exposure

 

There was national exposure and enough eyes were on UNT that we could have changed the program as positively, as the drop to 1-AA did negatively. How the AD and the President allowed him to bring in HS coordinators is inexcusable. Please don't tell me there was not enough money available. They should not have made the hire without a plan in place to staff properly. If bringing his staff along as coordinators was a condition, we should have passed. In the end this might have done as much damage as the 1-AA move. From the "non-Mean Green" view this reinforced that UNT was not a winner.

Not only did he bring in HS coordinators and other HS coaches for his staff, he brought in his HS playbook. We lost a game to start his career here by a score of 79-10 at OU. Bob Stoops wanted to welcome him to college football and show him how hard it would be. And Kevin Sumlin was the OC and he was openly laughing in the post game interviews about us playing the same defense that they saw his SLC teams play. The DC of our team, Ron Mendoza, was so terrible that he would bounce around as a HS assistant coach after this year as the DC here, at a FBS program. Unbelievable...

And it all came about because of cost. Jim Harbaugh interviewed here, but it was well-known he was doing it to get experience for interviews because we wouldn't be able to hire him due to cost, even though he was coaching at San Diego, not San Diego State, not the San Diego Chargers, but the University of San Diego. Of course, he got hired at Stanford and the rest is history. Our President, Gretchen Bataille, supposedly wanted a head football coach who made less than she did. But one thing that she and the BOR never expected to happen was that Todd Dodge would never stop talking about the fact he was PROMISED a new stadium and facilities, as we had much worse here than at SLC. And to his credit, he held the university accountable to it, which led a student and GMG.com poster to start a campaign to get the funding for Apogee. And that is the silver lining of the Todd Dodge experience...the university had to begrudgingly build a new stadium and they got new leadership here that actually liked football here. They raised salaries, they raised the profile of the program within the university, and they showed the rest of us that this would be a new day. We hired Dan McCarney and paid him more than double than Dodge. And we bought out DMac when he suffered the worst loss in modern college football history immediately after the game, which cost over $2 million bucks. All of this has shown we can, when we decide to do it, make football and its costs an important part of the university's image. We just don't/won't/can't do it enough.

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