Dodge considered by Rice

bison · December 2, 2005

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13303399.htm

Tom Dodge is considered for Rice -- coached at UNT for two years and went to HS coaching. If Dickey is so good why was he not contacted?

EagleD · December 2, 2005

Tom Dodge is considered for Rice -- coached at UNT for two years and went to HS coaching. If Dickey is so good why was he not contacted?
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Is Tom Dodge Todd's evil twin brother?

VideoEagle · December 2, 2005

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13303399.htm
If Dickey is so good why was he not contacted?
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How do you know he was not?

KingDL1 · December 2, 2005

How do you know he was not?
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Now that is funny.

Mostly because Dickey hates this place. You know the fans and the facilities, the toughest situation in all of football.

NDT · December 2, 2005

They must want to duplicate all those national championships that Notre Dame won after they hired a high school coach.

Rudy · December 2, 2005

Is Tom Dodge Todd's evil twin brother?
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Isn't Tom Dodge the Skipper of the USS Stingray?

NT80 · December 2, 2005

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13303399.htm
Tom Dodge is considered for Rice -- coached at UNT for two years and went to HS coaching. If Dickey is so good why was he not contacted?
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If you were the Rice AD who would you rather call to get fans excited?

Edited December 2, 2005 by NT80

Rudy · December 2, 2005

If you were the Rice AD who would you rather call?
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GHOSTBUSTERS!! Sorry, I've had that song stuck in my head since I got to the grocery store.

foutsrouts · December 2, 2005

I don't blame Rice a bit. My dad is a VERY close old friend of the head honcho at Rice in regard to these decisions. Maybe DD can get the Southlake job and take RF with him! Wouldn't bother me at all.

NTEagle08 · December 2, 2005

here are some of the names that have been throw into consideration for the Rice job:

Duane Akina - Texas co-defensive coordinator

Major Applewhite - Syracuse quarterbacks coach

David Bailiff - Texas State head coach

Todd Dodge - Southlake Carroll HS head coach

Mike Dunbar - Northwestern off. coordinator

Phil Estes - Brown U. head coach

Turner Gill - Green Bay Packers director of player development

Todd Graham - Tulsa defensive coordinator

Jim Harbaugh - U. of San Diego head coach

Les Koenning Jr. - Texas A&M offensive coordinator

Edited December 2, 2005 by NTEagle08

NTEagle08 · December 2, 2005

Todd Dodge's name will come up many times in the next few weeks, but I think he will stay at Southlake for a few more years since his son will be playing there next year. Taking the Rice job would mean that his son couldn't oviously play at Southlake.

ADLER · December 2, 2005

here are some of the names that have been throw into consideration for the Rice job:
Duane Akina - Texas co-defensive coordinator
Major Applewhite - Syracuse quarterbacks coach
David Bailiff - Texas State head coach
Todd Dodge - Southlake Carroll HS head coach
Mike Dunbar - Northwestern off. coordinator
Phil Estes - Brown U. head coach
Turner Gill - Green Bay Packers director of player development
Todd Graham - Tulsa defensive coordinator
Jim Harbaugh - U. of San Diego head coach
Les Koenning Jr. - Texas A&M offensive coordinator
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Major Applewhite - Syracuse quarterbacks coach

Todd Dodge - Southlake Carroll HS head coach

Les Koenning Jr. - Texas A&M offensive coordinator

Wow, that's odd, three former UT quarterbacks up for the same job.

Les Koenning Sr. was an assistant coach at Rice while his son was playing at Texas. Of course this was after he had coached his son at Houston Memorial.

NTEagle08 · December 2, 2005

Les Koenning Sr. was an assistant coach at Rice while his son was playing at Texas. Of course this was after he had coached his son at Houston Memorial.
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Les Koenning Sr. coached at Cypress Creek my freshman thru junior year, only won 3 games in his last 3 years, and the school pretty much gave him a retirement deal he couldn't pass up.

Baby Arm! · December 2, 2005

Dodge has said publicly he plans to stay at Southlake for two more years so he can coach his youngest son (who's now a sophomore) through his senior year.

After that he said he'll start looking at moving to the college ranks. However, if he moved it wouldn't be the first time a coach took a job after saying he was happy where he was.

Heck, Dodge moved around the high school ranks rather rapidly before he settled at SLC.

Baby Arm! · December 2, 2005

"Dodge was caught off guard when told about his name being among the potential candidates, saying “that’s news to me” and that he has no information about it. "

What?! you mean someone could actually be named as a candidate for a job WITHOUT applying???? According to some on this board that NEVER happens. RV and Dickey had to be sending out applications all over the country to be named as possible candidates for other jobs.

EagleD · December 2, 2005

here are some of the names that have been throw into consideration for the Rice job:
Duane Akina - Texas co-defensive coordinator
Major Applewhite - Syracuse quarterbacks coach
David Bailiff - Texas State head coach
Todd Dodge - Southlake Carroll HS head coach
Mike Dunbar - Northwestern off. coordinator
Phil Estes - Brown U. head coach
Turner Gill - Green Bay Packers director of player development
Todd Graham - Tulsa defensive coordinator
Jim Harbaugh - U. of San Diego head coach
Les Koenning Jr. - Texas A&M offensive coordinator
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I've heard rumored (so it must be true) RC Slocum is also a candidate. I'm no Aggie, but I like RC. He seems like a quality coach and a good man.

How can we get DD's name tossed in there?

GO MEAN GREEN!!

Coach · December 2, 2005

I would choose David Bailiff out of that group.

CorinthEagle · December 2, 2005

How does Turner Gil keeping popping up as the future head coach of "insert school name here". He was also a shoe-in for the AD job here before RV right?

unt88 · December 2, 2005

Todd Dodge lives the life in a small but very money healthy town like SouthLake he gets all the pub he needs and will never have to work as hard as a college level coach. Not to mention he makes very good money. I have heard he is one of the top paid H.S. coaches in Texas...Didn't SMU have some interest in him last year?

greensleeves · December 2, 2005

"Mostly because Dickey hates this place. You know the fans and the facilities, the toughest situation in all of football. "

Did anyone else notice that Dickey stated twice on the radio show,

once before and after Saturday's game, when he was praising the seniors, how they decided to attend UNT when there was "really no reason to".

I hate it when

he says that kind of stuff. Getting a college education isn't good enough.

I don't criticize Dickey much for his play-calling but I hate those remarks.

I sort of take them as a personal insult to my alma mater.

Eagle1855 · December 2, 2005

Did anyone else notice....
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Yes and it pisses me off. Its a small minded mentality from the last guy in a football program that should be thinking small.

NTEagle08 · December 2, 2005

I would choose David Bailiff out of that group.
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David Bailiff would be a good move, since he came into Texas State in which the previous coach had some trouble with NCAA regulations, and slowly turned Texas State back into a winner. By the way they are on ESPN2 in their second round game against Cal Poly on Saturday.