Head Coach Bill Belichick North Carolina

[MCMLXXX]

North Carolina names Bill Belichick next head coach

Does anyone else remember when Barry Switzer expressed an interest in Coaching North Texas in the early 90's?

[Coffee and TV]

That's sweet he found a school that both he and his girlfriend can attend together. 

[Meangreen Fight]

13 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

North Carolina names Bill Belichick next head coach

Does anyone else remember when Barry Switzer expressed an interest in Coaching North Texas in the early 90's?

I am in utter shock by Bill going to UNC.  We aren’t in the same financial stratosphere with UNC but it still just makes me look at our program’s move as lack luster even for the level we are at.
 

I think you need to research that.  I highly  doubt that was more than a made up rumor.   If this is true and I get confirmation that we didn’t try to move heaven and earth to get Barry I am really done actively supporting this program.  Maybe this connected to the time the Big 8 (Big 12 now) was considering us.  And his interest was exclusively dependent on us getting added to that conference.

But hey let’s get UNC on the schedule ASAP.  Two-for-one or a home and home, I don’t care.  I think it would be comical for a top 10 ranked undefeated UNC team led by a coach Jerry couldn’t work with making local headlines for a game in Denton.  Maybe our first sellout if we are any good. 😂

Edited 2 hours ago by Meangreen Fight

[Mean Green 93-98]

26 minutes ago, Meangreen Fight said:

. . . the time the Big 8 (Big 12 now) was considering us.

This is the first I've heard of that.  Are you sure you aren't thinking about the SWC?

[Big Z]

I wonder if he calls his buddy Nick Saban to run the defense? 

[Jason Howeth]

35 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

That's sweet he found a school that both he and his girlfriend can attend together. 

[MeanGreen_MBA]

Didn’t Jim Harbaugh interview for our HC as well at one time?

[Coffee and TV]

42 minutes ago, MeanGreen_MBA said:

Didn’t Jim Harbaugh interview for our HC as well at one time?

Wanna jump off a building? It came down to him or Todd Dodge. I guess that's why RV is working in real estate these days or wherever he fcked off to. 

[Meangreen Fight]

2 hours ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

This is the first I've heard of that.  Are you sure you aren't thinking about the SWC?

For sure, we dropped down to FCS when the SWC made it clear they had NO interest in adding us.  There is even a clip of a North Texas game during the period I am thinking about where the commentators are mentioning Big 8 consideration.   By the early 90s when Arkansas left it was assumed the SWC was going to die and/or jettison TCU, Baylor, Rice, Houston, SMU and add higher profile programs.  Big 8 decided to add the teams UT Austin and Texas A&M approved of.  And stories say Governor Ann Richards made sure that Baylor didn’t get left out.  Otherwise I think it is common belief that Houston would not have gotten left out.  I don’t believe even Texas Tech felt like they were completely safe from being an orphan program.  Although I welcome people familiar with Texas Tech history to correct me if I am wrong about that.