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[NT80]

16 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

I think that McCarney’s exit just burned the decision makers here to ever pay for a name coach with actual experience as a successful FBS coach from a previous stop.

Bob Tyler was another name coach failure at NT.  Hayden Fry won here. 

[untjim1995]

20 hours ago, NT80 said:

Bob Tyler was another name coach failure at NT.  Hayden Fry won here. 

Bob Tyler was probably why we went to 1-aa so easily. The administration had been ready to pounce, and he gave them the opportunity.

Hayden Fry was the anomaly, as we have seen now for the past 45+ years. I wish we would've tried harder to see if Gary Patterson wanted to coach and still live in DFW. Maybe he didn't, maybe he knew that UNT would never be a place he'd want to coach, or maybe he's done with CFB now that NIL and the portal are at play. But he represented the same recipe that we used to get Fry and it remains the only time in the last 50 years where we have been ranked in football.

[untlynchka1]

On 6/10/2024 at 6:14 PM, GMG_Dallas said:

You're going to run out of coaching candidates if every time one doesn't work, you exclude future candidates who meet the same criteria as failed ones.

 Very true, but we’ve also seen “established” coaches that are in our price range don’t work out a lot of time.  Hell, look at A&M. They have unlimited funds, and they have hired 5 coaches since 2000.  We have hired 4.  
 

Be more forgiving. 
 

 

[UNTLifer]

On 6/11/2024 at 6:43 PM, NT80 said:

Bob Tyler was another name coach failure at NT.  Hayden Fry won here. 

Name coach only because he had success at MS St. only to have to forfeit all their wins in 1976 and 1977 due to NCAA violations and subsequent probation.  He was dead weight and a cheap hire when he came to North Texas.  Hiring him was a terrible decision.  It was almost as if Dean Phillip Elias hired him to ruin our program.