Something to keep in mind

emmitt01 · November 17, 2006

I think we all need to step back from all of the negative commentary and articles regarding DD's firing and realize something. These "barbs" are coming from people with a drastically different perspective on NT football...and NT in general...than we are. For many 4 Sun Belt titles and 4 NO Bowl bids is the summit of our proverbial mountain, as high as NT football "has a right" (to quote one of the detractors) to go. They don't look at us as upwardly mobile, don't see this as a "sleeping giant." They see a school with a long history of languishing in the depths of 1A football (yet don't see how DD has kept us there) and assume that we have already seen the promised land.

I vehemently disagree! I see this school, and this program, as only scratching the surface of where we can go. And I trust RV to do the scratchin'.

Edited November 17, 2006 by emmitt01

meangreenfreak · November 17, 2006

Emmitt, I agree. It's amazing how people who don't know about North Texas think DD was the saviour of NT football. They seem to think he should have a lifetime contract and that he is a legendary figure. They have obviously witnessed an NT game in person.

VideoEagle · November 17, 2006

The negative articles will continue till Bowl selection season starts. There might be a couple of mentions of DD’s firing in the articles about whomever the new coach is, but not much.

Bowl season will push it out of the papers and off the airwaves.

In fairness, 4 consecutive bowls really was better than we’d ever done before. But it certainly is not the limit of where we can go!

PlummMeanGreen · November 17, 2006

I think 42 W's **62 L's is the tell-tell that most non-UNT'ers need to ultimately see about all this with DD and (in fact) has many of them already asking: "Why did UNT even wait to do this with Dickey as it is?"

As I've said before the last 2 years, this coaching run at UNT has been the most unusual one I've ever seen after following NCAA D1 football over 40 years now. It has been a roller coaster ride of emotion for most of us who do give a damn about our school and our caring about the light we all want UNT to (ultimately) be seen by all those from the outside looking in (as in all those non-UNT'ers out there for starters).

And FWIW, I believe (after all these decades later) that we are still the Big Jolly Green Sleeping Giant that once we get out of our almost "40 years of wondering in the wilderness" we are going to soon hit on another HFC's talent in Mean Green Country who will take us to that Promise Land we all deserve--no matter what era you attended UNT.

I only hope for some of us older nestors that the role of Moses will not have been assigned to some of us as that ol' story goes. And if some of you haven't been going to Sunday School or Catechism of late and don't know or remember that role, I ain't going to tell you what it is now!

After listening this AM to KTCK 1310 "The Ticket" with the Jubb'erator, Junior Miller (who was really making some sense with that discussion) and their trusty sidekick, ie, Gordo AND............after reading todays Fort Worth Star Telegram feature article on all this with DD and MM today at lunch, I seem to detect an almost 180 degree turn on all this practice field naming business with Mattress Mac and DD.

In fact (in that FWST feature article today) Jim "MM" McIngvale says he may even give to UNT athletics again in the future, so maybe its time for us all to let the air out of this balloon in light of that fact alone and for us of GMG.com to start completely new thread subjects and themes? Just my .02 on all that.

Yet I do think when all the smoke clears, even MM will start to understand why the many of us stood where we did on this subject, but (again) it was his million dollar$, now wasn't it?

Edited November 17, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen