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[OldTimer]

You pulled only part of my post out and quoted me...did you not read the entire post?  Here it is if you didn't...you see I agree with you also..they have to suck it up and live with it or ignore it which is what I suggest. 

My son does not read any of this.  He does however know kids that do and he tells them to ignore it.  My main concern is with recruits or their parents reading it.  You know, the stuff calling for the coaches head after going to 4 bowl games in a row.  I know things are not right at this time with the team.  But, I have to give the coach and his staff time to right the ship after his success record.  I'll tell you this, I don't know how DD has had the success he's had the last four years.  When I first came down here a year and a half ago on a recruiting trip, myself and my family including my son didn't want anything to do with the school because of the facilities.  They told us they were building a new weight room and dorm but all we could see were the facilities they were using at the time and they sucked.  For DD to do what he did with the talent he could get with those facilities was amazing.  We then came back for an official visit after the dorms were complete and the athletic facility was being finished.  We were truly amazed as they were as good as we had seen anywhere.  That did it for my son and it did it for several others and it will continue to get better.  There are alot of talented young men out there that get passed up by the top schools in the country but they would still not come here because of the facilities.  That has changed and things will get better.  sombody said there shouldn't be a rebuilding year that we just re-load...jees thats the most unrealistic statement i've seen.  That didn't even work with OU!  Look, we lost the future QB in a horrble tragedy.  We lost the next guy in-line to grades(I will not blame the coaches on this one either.  They have everything in place for these kids to make the grade as easy as possible so the blame has to go on the student for this one)  So now we shove a red-shirt freshman in the roll of QB and expect him to become the MAN.  So far that hasn't worked but the boy is working hard to get better.  You say why don't we try this and why don't we try that.  I have to believe that Coach Flannigan is keeping the offense as simple as possible for the QB to keep him from getting killed while he is getting used to the much faster game of D1-A football.  My whole point to all this is, this is a "rebuilding" year and a better future is in store for us and I truly believe it will happen with Coach DD at the helm.

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I have the utmost respect for the players and have not blamed them for the problems we have this year.

1. OL I have spent considerable time looking at the OL recruits from 2000 to 2004..we recruited 18 OLmen, 8 of them were complete busts, another 4 were JC's who played their two years and are gone...but during those years we won conference at least. That left only 5 players to carry over until this year...two transfers from other colleges that joined the team in the spring, and the true freshmen. If there was even a question that we needed experienced linemen to come in and help then we should have recruited some JC OL transfers last recruiting season.

2. QB...yes it was terrible to lose Smith, as a person and as a QB. That left Byerly and freshmen going into the off season and Byerly had only a few series in 2004.....we had no experienced QB's returning and we knew this before recruiting season last year. Yes we went after Zac Taylor and didn't get him. But the fact is that we did not recruit and sign an experienced JC QB. Who makes this decision....that is where the buck stops, and we are experiencing the result.

I am looking at the DL recruiting from 2000 to 2004 and will post my results in another post. But we had to replace our entire DL this season, and the two DT's we thought would be #1 and #2...one we lost to grades, another had medical problems and has not responded. Our DL is less experienced and undersized.

Again we knew we had to replace the entire starting DL and we only recruited 1 undersized JC DLman. More on this after I complete my analysis.

That leaves Offensive play calling questions for another day.

These are all just my opinions TO ANSWER THE ANTICIPATED QUESTION...NO I DID NOT NOT PLAY COLLEGE BALL NOR AM I A COACH.

I graduated from North Texas State College way back in 1957 and have been a follower of NT sports for the last 48 years and still follow them, just like many of the older and respected posters on this board.

I have only one question for the parents of players on this team. Will you be a supporter of NTS 40 some odd years from the date your son graduates?

I am glad your son is on our team, I believe he will receive an outstanding education at NT. I won't be here 40 years from now but it is my hope that you and the other parents of NT football players WILL BE and W

ILL BE still supporting NT along with you son.

Edited October 25, 2005 by OldTimer

[UNTLifer]

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I have only one question for the parents of players on this team.  Will you be a supporter of NTS 40 some odd years from the date your son graduates?   

I am glad your son is on our team, I believe he will receive an outstanding education at NT.  I won't be here 40 years from now but it is my hope that you and the other parents of NT football players WILL BE  and W

ILL BE still supporting NT along with you son.

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That would be my question also.

invective

That is inappropriate use of the English language on a football message board. You should be fined.

[MeanGreenPOP]

Hey guys (and gals) If my son and maybe another son are UNT GRADS you can bet I feel like an alum also....I didn't go to the high school my kids go to and I'm attached to it for life also. I mean this is every mans dream to have his kids play d1A football and get a quality education...and I feel like there is not a better place to get an education then at UNT

[GoMeanGreen1999]

You are going to get a pretty good education here at UNT, no doubt about it.

[H-towngreen]

I'm glad to see that everones temper has settled down a little since yesterday. As said before I'm glad to have meangreenpop post here regularly, as it brings another viewpoint to the board.