UNT Being #10 Among TX D1-A FB Schools Means

[PlummMeanGreen]

Ok, I know some of you will say we're not #10 but we're ahead of this school, that school or whatever Texas D1-A football school but listen to "young grampa" and others who feel the same, young gunner NT alums.

Those of us who grew up in the Houston area will tell you how NT was hardly on the radar screen in that area during the Abner Haynes, Mean Joe Greene or..................(clear my throat) not even the Hayden Fry era. Folks, we are hardly on the Greater Houston area radar even now in the year 2006. There are some pretty good recruits down there in H-Town from all accounts.

UNT ahead of Rice U? Not hardly............folks, any ex SWC school has it over us until we start making Top 25 for a few years running (like, uh..............former Big West conference mate..............Boise State?

We cannot afford another hire like most of those we've had in Denton the last 25 years unless we want to continue having success with schools in worse athletic shape than our own, like some of the ones we're in a league with? (Check all those media guides again, Doubting Thomases, who want to see the state of the Mean Green Nation).

We cannot hire a crony, we cannot hire a project (we just had one of those), we cannot hire a Texas good ol' boy that spits hits tobbaco out of the side of the mouth just damn perfect" AND................we cannot afford to hire another "face-less" "who the hell is he?" type that it will take 4 years for Texas HS football coaches to get to even know his name. (Yes, we will have a tough job in hiring the next head football coach at UNT but that is why some get paid the Big Bucks and thats to work over-time making sure we get the right fit.

We maybe cannot afford a high profile name coach and there may not even be the right fit of a high profile coach available while a short list is put together..........hmmm? "Right fit" what a concept that is for UNT, eh?

Please, no "damn-yankee" hires who cannot speak "Texanese" and every time they open their mouth piss half the Mean Green Nation off because of some stupid non-Texan like things they would say (like UNT should never want to be in a league like CUSA for one prime example) or who wouldn't know the Washington Monument from the San Jacinto Monument (nor would they know that the San Jacinto Monument is a few feet higher than the Washington Monument (which pissed of the people in Washington D.C. when we finished ours). I suppose they all got over it.

BUT.......you oldtimers and many of you youn gun alums get my drift on all this (I think).

It's been said before, but somone on the UTEP and Idaho "freakin" Vandal campuses took the bull by the horns and said: IF WE ARE EVER GOING TO MAKE ANY KIND OF IMPACT IN D1-A FOOTBALL, WE CANNOT DO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING, FOLKS!" (Yes, in deedy, others over-use the word "folks" just like one on this board seems to).

GO OUTSIDE THE BOX, UNT'ers! WE JUST SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER BAD HIRE FOR THIS FOOTBALL PROGRAM AT THIS JUNCTURE OF ITS HISTORY!

Sincerely,

Jim Plummer

aka PMG

PS: A HFC who would be a "consistent fund-raiser" who wouldn't mind (at all) going right along side by side with Rick Villarreal nor would be too shy walking into one of those Fortune 500 conference rooms with as much enthusiasm as we all know RV can show talking to that most influential C.E.O. of said Fortune 500 company here in the DFW area (or elsewhere for that matter) and all this........to help get that new stadium money raised.

Wouldn't it also be a nice thing if we had a UNT cheerleader type of a Mean Green HFC almost Fry'esque who loves UNT no matter what and might even have some public speaking courses and abilities from his own college experience? (I know, we will need a HGC with a big "S" on his shirt after all of this is cussed and discussed!

FWIW, Hayden Fry still loves UNT to this day because of what it mean't for him then and for his future after he left NT. Now that was as good a trade-off of a situation that we ever had in Denton, just wish Fry's team had been in a league that would have had a bowl tie-in because had that been the case..............this program would have never had to go NCAA 1--AA for 12 long years and who knows where it would be ranked today because of that.

Anyway, we have a golden opportunity at UNT right now, and the last 25 years of (mostly) left of center "no fit in Denton" hires at suggests how important it is that we really need to run a surprise QB draw for a 99 yard TD this time around in this most crucial hire. Just my .02 from what I've observed for 30 plus years as an NT Ex.

GMG!

Edited November 9, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[Eagle1855]

Just my .02 from what I've observed for 30 plus years as an NT Ex.

GMG!

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to be fair, that was a lot more than 2 cents!

[Hunter Green]

Well, Plumm, since there is no search committee (praise Allah!), repeat after me..."in RV we trust!"

[PlummMeanGreen]

Well, Plumm, since there is no search committee (praise Allah!), repeat after me..."in RV we trust!"

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Well...I guess I've had to eat some baked crow (since we above-50 types have had to give up the fried variety for you know all the reasons why); but in much of our (my) frustations with what I thought was going to be an extension of "more of the same" with DD Ball for another year or 2 or 3 and how that would have kept us from climbing up the NCAA D1-A 119 step ladder I supposed I just started (unfairly) gunslingin' toward whoever was within gun sight of my buttline special barrell out of complete frustration.

59 year follower of MG football GrayEagleOne's post of even him giving up if there were no changes bothered me to no end as to how the level of frustration had even affected one of my (and yours) long time MG buddies and friends. I think that is when I really started getting the most pi$$ed at what was seemingly going to happen for Mean Green football.

And while on this subject of non-stop posts (along with some of yours) about how damn bleak our future had really looked it was going to continue to be (until Rick V and the UNT prez' made their stand yesterday); and with some of you taking some well-aimed potshots at those of us who just wouldn't go for what we were seeing happening I will say this? No, not one time have you ever read a post of mine telling some of you...........Na, Na, Na, Na, Naaaa, Na...... "WE TOLD YOU SO" and guess what, you won't be from this keyboard.

Yet..............I confess I did take some direct hits on Rick V weeks ago and probably just because he was in the same bldg with all the rest of who many of us think are slackers who plan retirements in Denton no matter the quality or production of their jobs or how far down we stay down in most of our MG varsity sports (of which they are as big a part of as any coach truth be known). I would hope Rick V (with what seems to be some apparent new freedom for him) will think about evaluating everyone in that NT Athletic Dept. from those who clean the windows to those who are supposed to be out raising money under his direction.

But in all fairness to our A.D. it was just days ago I found out from a fellow alum just how much Bobby Ray had really had his thumb on RV; that is, how much B.R. had really been orchestrating many of the decisons I previously thought all belonged (solely) to Rick Villarreal. My bad..............I was wrong and I am sorry, Mr. Villarreal. If any of you have ever made such a similar mistake in judgement, then you'll know how I feel right now on all this concerning Rick V.

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE DAY: Rick V has a tough job in picking up the pieces of the last 25 years of neglect and his own having been hamstrung by one of our upper echelon leaders. Others probably would have cut and run long ago, but (for whatever reason) something has kept Rick Villarreal in Denton.

Anyway, I do hope RV will be sensative as hell as to what UNT really needs as our next Mean Green HFC as compared to all the other 9 Texas D1-A schools and their own unique needs with theirs I'm sure. It will be a temptation for him (as it would for any A.D. I suppose) to go with who he knows personally and with such a choice being just fine and comfortable for him, but there are close to 34,000 UNT students now and over 100,000 NT Exes in the Metroplex that RV's final choice for HFC also needs to be a pretty darn acceptable pick to them as well.

Folks, we are at the bottom of that 10 school Texas D1-A school's as far as our being able to get consistent news coverage from the statewide media and is a prime reason I (and others) have posted non-stop "We Must Have A Top 25 Football Program @ UNT To Make Any Kind of State-Wide/Regional Headway" ; you know, much like Boise State has shown how Top 25 is not an impossible dream even for us.

We still have our Lone Star State media that still (basically) caters to the 4 Texas schools in the Big 12 (which we know we won't ever break into that line-up of coverage unless we really do warp speed ahead with annual Top 25 MG football); but the Texas sports media still also caters to the ex SWC schools (and now even UTEP) over UNT and will do so until we become a regular Top 25 football school for about 4 or 5 years in a row; then and only then will we finally start commanding not only some regional attention, but also respect from Texas sports media types.

Nothing really profound or new with this following statement but: This is just going to be one helluva' very crucial hire whoever the next HFC will be at the University of North Texas. We just cannot afford to screw it up this time around, fellow alums/MG fans and.............folks.

Edited November 9, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen