September Success......

[Baby Arm!]

WOW!!

Calm down a little PMG. Take the SMU win in and relax bit. There is plenty of time left in the season for all of us to criticize North Texas football. Celebrate a well played win. One of the more "complete" wins in a couple of years.

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I stopped reading PMG posts when I learned he doesn't even attend games. I refuse to put any stock in the opinion of the uninformed.

Edited September 15, 2006 by Baby Arm!

[PlummMeanGreen]

I stopped reading PMG posts when I learned he doesn't even attend games.   I refuse to put an stock in the opinion of the uninformed.

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I work on Saturdays, BA, and FWIW, I'm glad I do because in 8 years I've seen enough DD Ball and have listened to enough of his non PR, condescending to NT Exes dumb-ass radio post-game radio comments that I'm going to listen to. Hard for me to believe this man is even still on the UNT payroll and that based (alone) on all those radio comments of the last few years; many of them even after a big SBC win..

Also, if all the newbies who did attend the SMU game last Saturday evening would have read page for page the new 2006 UNT Football Media Guide as to really get informed (to borrow that word from you, BA) about what is really happening around them in MG Country, just how many repeat customers might you think NT would get from many of that group when they see for themselves that at UNT, we don't really expect much in the area of high profile D1-A success from our coaches or athletic personnel? In fact, at UNT they get rewarded for such production. BA, you think somone who just moved to Denton from Michigan (and one who supported the Wolverines while living there) will want to hop on such a band-wagon as the one he'd see in Denton)? Most want to be part of an up and coming football program, not one that is down and going.

I mostly feel sorry for the MG football players who don't have any say in who would lead them, recruit quality players to help them in future football seasons and a football program whose history suggestst that they will never see the light of day, that is, to be a proud integral part of a NCAA D1-A higher profile during their 4 or 5 years in Denton. To put it in plain language: That our UNT football players will get just enough from this coaching staff so they can squeeze yet another contract extension from Bobby Ray & Company while (unfortunately) still being a part of a football program forever entrenched at a Bottom Quadrant co-existance.

At least, though, our UNT football player's scholarships will produce for each and every one of them a very good UNT education.

Edited September 15, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[good_ken]

I stopped reading PMG posts when I learned he doesn't even attend games. I refuse to put any stock in the opinion of the uninformed.

I learned about the ignore button today, very helpful.

[Baby Arm!]

The ignore button is greatness!

[PlummMeanGreen]

The ignore button is greatness!

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Even more amazing is how those of us "progressives" who want much better for our alma mater's athletic program don't need an "ignore button" to ignore a hardy handful of you non-progressives/SBC/Bottom 10'ster's posts and you all know who your are, all you who kiss DD's butt while you fiddle around just like Nero as Rome burned but in our case, you watch support for NT football dwindle away year by year while you support those who have proven they cannot take us to the next level?

Pretty freakin' (I'll leave it at "freakin') sad how yall are so easily led by Deep South'er and USM would-be AD and enthusiast, ie, Rick V and his department of fellow bull-shippers (you know, all the ones who had some of you gullibles actually believing that "the SMU game is almost a sellout gang, get your tickets before they're gone?"

Anyway, so very sad how some UNT alums expect so very little from our athletic program anymore and are so easily led just like a bunch of sheep by just about anyone who leads them, but of late it seems the NCAA D1-A slaughter-house may be that group of "green tinted" supporters/lambs destination?

But all it takes for some of yall is free beer from DD and (apparently) good ol' Rick "I've got my resume updated once again" Villaarreal to simply make a cameo appearance on GMG.com and post things that he should have been saying in public at all those, uh, quarterly meetings?

IN THE RED...................Baby Arm (or some of you other none PMG post readers) : Ask Rick V for the rest of us who will be the next under .500 varsity coach at UNT to gets his next recommendation for yet another contract extension he can send up to UNT's other Co-Athletic Director, one Mr. Bobby Ray, you remember him right, UNT's little Napoleaon of the North? ,

Please find out all these things for the rest of us, Baby Arm, that is, unless you, too, have wussied out over reading the post of someone (a 33 year known to many on this board supporter of Mean Green football) who just happens to think (in fact) he just happens to know that at UNT..................WE CAN DO BETTER BECAUSE WE HAVE DONE BETTER (but at a much higher profile). Sorry some of you young gun alums also don't know what the hell I'm talking about here but put yourselves in this bit of role playing:

ROLE PLAY FOR US, YOUNG GUN NT ALUMS (and present students): Just imagine that you are walking on campus listening to your radio to Mean Green football who are on the road playing a known opponent...........AND THEN SUDDENLY in the closing minutes of this football game a Mean Green RB receives and then runs back a kick-off for a touchdown to seal the deal for a victory (not over Middle Tennessee, young gun alums) BUT rather...............freakin' UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS! Then follow this kind of football program that even has other high profile wins (and near wins).

THEN Young Gun Alums (and apparently some of you older UNT alum farts who have some kind of strange affixation to Darrell Dickey Ball and his most unique to any NCAA D1-A school style of public relations); anyway, then force yourselves to create within yourselves the kind of emotion that that kick-off returned for a MEAN GREEN TOUCHDOWN would cause you to have and all the "feel good" it would create within you for your school's coach, your school's football team AND...........your alma mater's bright football future .................THEN..............

...............bring yourself back to the present, listen to a Darrell Dickey Post Game Radio Show when he starts getting sarcastic all over the radio airwaves and just (in general) makes some NT Exes that some of us finally got to show up for a Fouts Field Game Day who on the way back to Fort Worth ask this question to me: "Jim, why is the NT coach getting all over our fellow alums AND our school?"

Try that on for size all you Dickey Butt Kissers and perseverers of his style of college football and public relations because that happened with my ex NTSU college roommate who told me after that game: I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO FOUTS FIELD UNTIL THEY GET RID OF THIS DARRELL DICKEY CHARACTER WHO INSULTED BOTH YOU, ME & ALL OUR FELLOW ALUMS ON THE RADIO AIRWAVES, JIM!

Do Have A Nice Day......

Edited September 15, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[Baby Arm!]

Is there a way we can make the Ignore option permanent?

Edited September 15, 2006 by Baby Arm!

[Green Crazy]

The game we have the best chance to win and the one I would like to win the most is, the Tulsa game. If we can win this game it would avenge last years game and also help us out with Oklahoma recruiting. This is a big game for me and it should be for the team as well.

[Guest GrayEagleOne]

John Bunting is the current head football coach at the University of North Carolina has achieved a stellar career record of 24-36 at that institution. 

An ACC school. 

If you don't remember, UNC has had some farly recent gridiron success, some bowl games in the late 90's and what not(remember Mack Brown?).

So it's not like they should have bottom of the barrel expectations there.

And his record is 24-36, and from what I understand safe.

So, please, we're not the only school that has held onto a struggling coach that we see potential in.

If you recall, last year I pointed out similar stats that Coach Dickey shares with the coach at Northern Illinois - if you wanna compare Mid Major to Mid Major.

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If less than mediocrity is what North Carolina aspires to then I think that they should get their wish. I'd wager that they will never win the ACC with him at the helm.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Is there a way we can make the Ignore option permanent?

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Yeah, Baby Arm, there is a way and its really pretty simple:

How about when you see someone's post that usually gets you all tensed up and blubbering all over yourself because said poster may just be exposing more stark, naked truth concerning our school's present athletic co-existance in the subterranean depths of NCAA D1-A and with many such revelations from some of those "said posters" :rolleyes:more than (perhaps) you're capable of handling........then how about this most unique concept:

Just don't read "said persons" posts, period! AND............do you really need an "ignore button" to keep you from doing that? I've had an ignore button working for me on this board long before Harry put an official one on this forum for any poster to use.

And just what it is that you majored in at UNT?

And to Gray Eagle One: As has been the case for years with your posts and your philosophies I've known long before Al Gore invented the internet, I wholeheartedly concur with your thoughts on the NC State coach and the Wolfpacks "probable' future prospects in the ACC and FWIW...........

...........I would hope the next time we have a new head football coaches selection committee at UNT that you (and a few more on this board I think know good college football from bad college football going nowhere fast); anyway, I hope you are highly considered to be on such a selection committee.

Edited September 16, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[CMJ]

Perhaps then you'd realize we were discussing UNC not NC State Plumm.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Perhaps then you'd realize we were discussing UNC not NC State Plumm.   

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You got me on that one, CMJ; but don't forget, our group of whom AARP bugs us to death with their constant mailings of AARP related materials; anyway, Harry (in his goodness and all fairness) has actually allowed 5 senior moments on GMG.com per academic year for those of us over 50 years of age. I think I may have just one more left so I will have to be careful from here on out..

AND......hope all is well for you out there in Hollywood, CMJ.

Edited September 16, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[Guest GrayEagleOne]

You got me on that one, CMJ;  but don't forget, our group of whom AARP bugs us to death with their constant mailings of AARP related materials; anyway, Harry (in his goodness and all fairness) has actually allowed 5 senior moments on GMG.com per academic year for those of us over 50 years of age.  I think I may have just one more left so I will have to be careful from here on out..  

AND......hope all is well for you out there in Hollywood, CMJ.

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Plumm,

Thanks for the props and by now you realize that this thread applies to UNC.

There is no way that I'd ever be asked to be on a committee to pick a new coach. However, if elected I would serve. It may be a moot point because DD may get another contract extension for beating SMU, regardless of the other OOC games.