I have lost respect

PlummMeanGreen · November 17, 2005

I could believe that if not for FIU showing us that even a team with basically nothing could be competitive with K State this year two weekds prior to our game against the Wildcats.
By the way Long Jim, you get an A+ and this friday off for being able to hang as long as you did with Plumm's post above.
Rick
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EPISTLE # 7516 (2 cups of coffee will get you thru this one--guaranteed)!

I was going to hang in with all this, FFR, until myself and others started seeing the coaching trends we now have at NT and **recruiting results the last 3 years have produced. Toward the top of the list, though, was when we played 2 SBC schools from Florida (both only 5 years old) losing to one and barely beating the other who only had 8 turnovers. My light bulb finally came on after that--I assure you, many others did too. And even other light bulbs from NT Exes will start lighting up soon, too, and I predict that once they sit down, start putting some figure$ down on paper as well as start giving all this a serious look once they take off the green tinted glasses to see the Big Picture.

** Again, I reiterate, we recruited some outstanding athletes the last 3 years who we are damn proud to have in Mean Green Country, but we didn't recruit enough of them to complement that group so that we could hang in with schools we thought we were on an even basis or even better than (after all our bowl games to boot). Those 2 I speak of were Tulsa U and La Tech. Neither of those 2 schools had 4 bowl games the last 4 years, but it appears even w/o them they outrecruited NT over the last 3 years and I suppose what we saw on the scoreboard is the proof in the pudding with that.

Many of our elect are having as big a problem getting over the large score differential losses to TU and LTU as our performances against 2 SBC schools from Florida who are not yet even fully designated NCAA D1-A schools as I post. Even a non UNT alum would have questions with this, folks, just as some who have already posted on this forum.

So its just not about this one year's results with DD's leadership as NT head football coach one might say, because this year's results (or lack thereof) are the culmination of the last 3 years of preparation for this 2005 football season, ie, as in our overall recruiting in the previous 3 years?

AND FOR DAMN SURE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU'RE STILL READING AT ALL: We play our toughest SBC opponents in 2006 on the road next Fall, Greenbackers, so you think 2006 will be so much a dramatic turnaround (which would then give us 2 years of not so good times in the low profile SBC)? But some will say: Well, that's only 2 bad years (even not thinking about which conference we're in when they say it--insert subliminal "Bottom 10?"). Can a school in the SBC like UNT afford a 3'rd down football season if we see further proof that our SBC opponents have caught fire, have continued to figure out DD's offense and have passed us by like that "beep beep" cartoon character?

That 3'rd year would be DD's 11'th year at NT. NOTE: We will then have a 11 year head football coach at NT who will still not be anywhere close to .500 in overall wins during those 11 years at NT. You know any other NCAA D1-A schools whose leadership or alums would fly with that? Also, in light of this his 8'th year, how many OOC wins will we realisticallly get in the next 3 years based on the ones we did not get this year, namely against Tulsa U and La Tech?

FWIW, I feel our NT football players, NT students, NT Exes and NT fans deserve much more for our future.

GOD BLESS TEXAS!

Edited November 18, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

TIgreen01 · November 17, 2005

Would someone please quote more of these comments? The only one I can ever find is the "I work here EVERY day.." thing that's been beaten into the ground. If DD is alienating contributors or alumni, that's not a good thing, but this is beginning to smell like the Cardiff Giant. (Those of you with first-hand quotes, post them. I'm only saying this because I haven't heard this "negativity", but maybe I frequent the wrong haunts.) On the other hand, sometimes people like to whine about people not pumping enough sunshine. Again, I may be wrong, so correct me if so. Gently please.
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No first-hand quotes from me....but, listen to the pre/post game for this Saturday's game. We will definitely see an attendance drop---and my bet is that he'll get a few shots in because of it.

PlummMeanGreen · November 17, 2005

No first-hand quotes from me....but, listen to the pre/post game for this Saturday's game. We will definitely see an attendance drop---and my bet is that he'll get a few shots in because of it.
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And its (real) "butts in seats" attendance and donation shortfalls at SMU that are at the top of their list that has many of their elite thinking they need to make a head coaching change no matter how the 'Stangs finish this season.

According to an opinion by one of our oldest NT alums I received an email, that will be the very thing that will get our campus decision-makers thinking twice about all this with DD, ie, attendance that shows no signs of improving and donations that will shrink. Even they won't be able to condone or justify that, even if our head football coach were one of their kin. I just hope all this doesn't stretch out any further than is really necessary. Time is money?

GOD BLESS TEXAS...

Edited November 17, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen