Dickey's gone!

[UNT78]

Look! Either way, Dickey was gone as the coach for UNT! It’s better this way, we have a losing season and there is no doubt for the need of a new coach. When Dickey was winning, his main concern was advancing to a bigger school for more money (Rick V. knew this and that put the bulls eye on Dickey’s chest). In the process of waiting for his promotion, he quite recruiting and building a solid team. You’re only as good as the talent on the field, and our athletes are not any better than they were five years ago. If UNT is going to compete on a Conference USA and national level, we must recruit better athletes!

We need a good assistant from a big time program to come in here and take control of this team and “recruiting”. There are many good assistants that would love an opportunity to be the coach of UNT and contact has already been made anticipating this change. You might be surprised as to whom Rick V. has spoken to regarding the situation. Unfortunately, we’ll have to rebuild…very disappointing for our Mean Green program, but there’s really no other way to get us to the next level.

[TIgreen01]

Is this fact or speculation?

[the green rokemi]

ditto....fact or speculation?

[El Paso Eagle]

Is this fact or speculation?

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OR Wishful Thinking

[untcampbell]

...to lunch. He will be back about 3:45.

[Green Dozer]

...to lunch. He will be back about 3:45.

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Sure is a long lunch.....we are on pins and needles.

[GreenBat]

He's just blowing smoke up our collected Arse's. He knows nothing!

[UNT_playmaker]

Damn thats a long lunch, I hope we get a big name coach in here for football and basketball

[Got5onIt]

UNT78 is really RickV in disguise.

Pretty smart, Rick, posting like a 3rd party in the know.

So who have you spoken to about becoming the new head coach of NT? Inquiring minds want to know!

[eulesseagle]

Coach Dickey is gone??

UNT can get just about anyone to replace Coach Dickey but they will still be stuck in the same situation that we currently face: (1) The SBC....the worst D-1A conference in America....and.....there are two D-1AA conferences ahead of the SBC. All of the conference FB playing members are in the lower tier of college football.

At this point our focus should be on the individual who is calling the offensive plays, Coach Ramon Flanigan. If Coach Dickey wants to go down with the ship then he can keep RF until the end of the year......if not then there is nothing wrong in cutting the OC from the program and get someone else in here who can call better plays and get us more than 100 yards per game.

As close knit as the FB community is then RF should not have any problems in landing his next job, either in HS, JC or as another assistant coach in the college ranks.

[Green Nightmare]

Dickey has final say on all Offense play calls.

You think replacing Ramon is going to change anything

[eagle60]

The play calls were actually better than earlier in the season. The execution was the problem. The plays didn't look like they had been properly prepared to run. Hopefully we can find someone that will get the coordination and desire back in this football team.

[PlummMeanGreen]

eulesseagle, you know just as well as the rest that (especially) now we don't just need "anyone" to replace DD; that is, if he were to be re-assigned or terminated after this football season.

We have been doing the hiring of "just anyone" at UNT since you know who left in 1978. We of UNT need not banish ourselves to life on the NCAA D1-A lower shelf just because that has been our direction for most of the last 2 1/2 decades. NOT UTEP AGAIN?!?! UTEP hired someone who had them in the freakin' Top 25 in his 2'nd year. Hellsbells, folks! UTEP has been a basketball only schools since they were called Texas Western U.

When the time comes, UNT still must look into hiring the "impact (high profile) coach" who can come into Denton on the run and get us back to where we once were in the eyes of the rest of NCAA D1-A. We all know that 4 bowl games did not get us inside the Top 25 or FWIW................

............not even inside the Top 50 which happened with the football champioins of the WAC and the MAC. We need to copy other schools similar to UNT hires that can elevate not only our school for the first time in a long time, but elevate the entire Sun Belt creating a scenario where even our fellow Sun Belt schools need to copy what NORTH TEXAS is doing.

FAU's Coach Schnellenberger is now in his 70's and does not have the same energy he had when he was at Miami close to 30 years ago winning a national championship or two. Yet it was Coach Howie' who gave the Miami 'Canes their 1'st N.C. ever and no one can ever take that away from the FAU head football coach. AND ONE SMALL REMINDER? UNT has yet to beat FAU in 2 attempts with one of those losses during our last bowl year when FAU was a SBC member-in-waiting.

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THE TOAST OF THE TOWN WAS WEARING MEAN GREEN! NORTH TEXAS was (literally) the toast of the 1976 Winter NCAA convention a couple of months after our win over the University of Tennessee. I recall hearing Coach Fry talk about all the kudos UNT was receiving from the real Big Boys of that era. At that time, it was NORTH TEXAS who was the up and coming football program as well as a new college football force that would have to be reckoned with in the Southwest BUT HERE WE GO AGAIN AT UNT AS...............

................AFTER WE HIT AN IMPRESSIVE PLATEAU IN OUR FOOTBALL PROGRAM--WE THEN GO INTO RETREAT MODE AND WHY IS THAT? It's because we go to the lower shelf to hire our head football coach replacements.......... So at UNT its "1 Giant Step Forward & 3 Back" time in Denton which is a cycle that we must break next time we hire a new head football coach. And we all know one of the characteristics of those 3 Steps Back times right? Well, that usually starts with our pulling in all the stops (instead of pulling out all the stops) and then you hear talk among the troops of hiring "our own folks" to get this thing turned around to where Fry had it. FWIW, has that really ever happened in Denton as of October 2, 2006?

SO WHY NOT? Why not save ourselves from having to take 4 or 5 years to introduce a new UNT head football coach to those who will count the most in our state in the long run, ie, those who are members of the Texas High School Football Coaches Association?

Edited October 3, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[Got5onIt]

Coach Dickey is gone??

UNT can get just about anyone to replace Coach Dickey but they will still be stuck in the same situation that we currently face: (1) The SBC....the worst D-1A conference in America....and.....there are two D-1AA conferences ahead of the SBC.  All of the conference FB playing members are in the lower tier of college football.

At this point our focus should be on the individual who is calling the offensive plays, Coach Ramon Flanigan.  If Coach Dickey wants to go down with the ship then he can keep RF until the end of the year......if not then there is nothing wrong in cutting the OC from the program and get someone else in here who can call better plays and get us more than 100 yards per game.

As close knit as the FB community is then RF should not have any problems in landing his next job, either in HS, JC or as another assistant coach in the college ranks.

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Ramon runs the style of offense Dickey wants him to run. Dickey is to blame and should get 100% of the blame.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Ramon runs the style of offense Dickey wants him to run. Dickey is to blame and should get 100% of the blame.

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No matter who calls the plays, we have to have the personnel to execute the kind of running game DD had wanted last year and well into this season.

[TheTastyGreek]

No matter who calls the plays, we have to have the personnel to execute the kind of running game DD had wanted last year and well into this season.

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Well put. Succinct, too, at a mere 29 words. You're right- for some reason, we can't execute our offense of choice.

Anyone know why some of the younger OLinemen aren't getting on the field? I know Peachey has played some, but I haven't seen or heard anything about Banks hitting the field. I know how excited everyone has been about his potential... why aren't we seeing him in action?