Aggies talking about the possibility of Dodge

[gangrene]

Did I mention I hate Aggies???

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp...5717&forum_id=5

[Smitty]

Did I mention I hate Aggies???

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Amen.

[Eagle-96]

My wife is an Aggie and they are my 2nd favorite team.

[greenjoe]

My #2 son graduates from A & M in 9 days. But who's counting ?

[nortx9]

Did I mention I hate Aggies???

http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp...5717&forum_id=5

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Talk about wild speculation... and uninformed at that, makes some of our speculation look downright genius. One guy seems to think that Dodge "turned around" Carrollton Newman Smith program....... say what? What an Aggie!!.....That program has never been turned around, unless you mean that they won 3 games in a season...he saw the writing (and $$$) and bolted to the promised land (Keller and SLC).

[Eagle1855]

Did I mention I hate Aggies???

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why? because of that thread? Its really no different than the conversations going on on every other board in Texas in relation to this subject. Reality is, most people outside of the metroplex are uninformed on ANYTHING related to NT.

I look forward to Dr Bataille and our new coach changing that!

Some interesting points were brought up. If Greg Davis gets the boot or takes the UAB job (if that is even a possibility anymore), would Texas look to Dodge? What about Texas Tech if Leach goes to Miami? Just a couple things to consider

[football fan]

Did I mention I hate Aggies???

All aggies are salt of the earth people individually. But....when you get two or more together, the cult behavior comes out. That is offensive no question. If they were'nt so jealous of "The University" and over the top with all of the girations and weird songs/yells, we would have no reason to make fun them. They bring it on all by themselves.

[JayDub]

I'm just surprised to see Objective Aggie saying semi-nice things about us.

I'm an Aggie fan as well. 3rd fave team behind NT and Notre Dame.

[gangrene]

My wife is an Aggie and they are my 2nd favorite team.

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I'm sure you know my comment wasn't directed at anyone in particular and, in fact, it's much more than the Aggie association I dislike. It's the arrogance that's exhibited by most BCS schools. If you read some of the posts on that thread, I'm sure you'll be slightly angered as well.

[football fan]

If Greg Davis gets the boot or takes the UAB job (if that is even a possibility anymore), would Texas look to Dodge?

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Davis needs to go somewhere. Vince bailed him out last year. He is average at best as an OC. I would imagine Texas fans would love to have TD as OC. The guy knows football and can flat out coach!

[nortx9]

I'm just surprised to see Objective Aggie saying semi-nice things about us.

I'm an Aggie fan as well.  3rd fave team behind NT and Notre Dame.

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This guys thinks we are funny...He is an All Star Aggie!!!

aTm08

user level: All-StarAggie posted 8:55p, 12/4/2006this user's public profilesend private message to useredit this replyobject to this reply

go Mean Green......hahaha

[gangrene]

If Greg Davis gets the boot or takes the UAB job (if that is even a possibility anymore), would Texas look to Dodge? What about Texas Tech if Leach goes to Miami? Just a couple things to consider

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The Texas Tech scenario does make me a bit nervous, but I think they feel they are now too high and mighty to hire a HS coach as their new HC, should Leach bolt for Miami.

I'm just surprised to see Objective Aggie saying semi-nice things about us.

I'm an Aggie fan as well.  3rd fave team behind NT and Notre Dame.

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True. I guess I will have to give them some credit...even those dissing UNT called us UNT and not that other name (even though that doesn't really bother me that much).

[Eagle-96]

I'm sure you know my comment wasn't directed at anyone in particular and, in fact, it's much more than the Aggie association I dislike.  It's the arrogance that's exhibited by most BCS schools.  If you read some of the posts on that thread, I'm sure you'll be slightly angered as well.

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No worries. In fact I used to have a small disdain for the Aggies in the past but I have really grown to like them alot. I even find myself yelling at the screen when watching the Aggies make a bad play much like when I see my Mean Green run a belly on 3rd and 18.

[Eagle1855]

I even find myself yelling at the screen when watching the Aggies make a bad play much like when I see my Mean Green run a belly on 3rd and 18.

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well then between watching North Texas and A&M, you must be yelling at the screen quite a bit!

[El Paso Eagle]

  If they were'nt so jealous of "The University" and over the top with all of the girations and weird songs/yells, we would have no reason to make fun them.  They bring it on all by themselves.

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Don't you just hate it when those damned traditions get in the way? I mean have school spirit is such a bad thing.

[gangrene]

My #2 son graduates from A & M in 9 days.  But who's counting ?

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Ahhh...the #2 son.

[SilverEagle]

Damn! we are desperate for conversation about football when we start noticing, and spending two pages on, what the aggies are saying about our coaching situation.

Who the hell cares what the aggies think.

[PlummMeanGreen]

I have a native Texan and Texas history buff's appreciation for TAMU; just like many of you.

2 of my first cousins were Aggies and in the old cadet corps (before it got modernized). One of those cousins is a a CPA who has done nothing but brag to me thru the years about UNT grads from our Accounting Department. He has always been duly impressed with the entire UNT College of Business. (And I told that Former Student cousin of mine, "yeah, and if only UNT had gotten in on some of that Permanent University Fund (PUF) monies just how much greater UNT would be even moreso today)."

Like I'm sure many of you, I've had several relatives attend (and graduate) from Texas A & M University, many of whom still live down in the Houston/Galveston area. A few down in the Mexia/Groesbeck area, too.

Going way, way back... Texas A & M's s very 1'st president, one of the first Texas Rangers named Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross and some of his fellow Rangers recaptured Cynthia Ann Parker (she of my family's early Texas roots fame) from the Commanches at the Battle of the Pease River near present day Crowell, Texas. Hers was a very sad story once she came back to Birdville and Weatherford, Texas. The Fort Worth Star Telegram's Bud Kennedy had a nice feature on C.A. Parker just last week with new info I was even unaware.

As a young kid when with my parents visiting friends of theirs who was going to Texas A & M College where he was studying to become an TAMU Extension and Experiement Farm agent, I recall seeing a statue of Sul Ross in front of one of their older buildings many years ago. If fact, I think my late sainted mother had her Brownie camera and took a photo of Captain Sul Ross with me standing in front of the statue on that visit (of which that photo I cannot seem to locate to this day). OK, enuf..........already.

BUT.................I like those gol' darned Texas Aggies.

BUT I HATE AGGIE FOOTBALL!

(just kiddin, Objective Aggie and other Aggies, only just kiddin')

Edited December 6, 2006 by PlummMeanGreen

[NCMeanGreen]

OK...I am just a little frickin' offended here!!! BETTER FACILITIES at SLC!!!

Give me a break here...it is still a HS program...and we are still a Div IA program!

Has the yahoo ever been to our campus????

What a jacka$$!!!

[GMoney]

Talk about wild speculation... and uninformed at that, makes some of our speculation look downright genius. One guy seems to think that Dodge "turned around" Carrollton Newman Smith program....... say what? What an Aggie!!.....That program has never been turned around, unless you mean that they won 3 games in a season...he saw the writing (and $$$) and bolted to the promised land (Keller and SLC).

You're dead wrong. He took NS to 5-5 in his second year from and 4-6 in his first year. The years before that NS was 2-8 and 2-8. The only reason he left was because CFBISD was opening Creekview and it cut his talent pool in half. Dodge's overall record was 9-11 from 96-97. Here's an article on past NS head coaches:

BRANDON GEORGE / The Dallas Morning News

Bobby Bounds said he has resigned as Carrollton Newman Smith football coach with a 5-15 record in two seasons.

Bounds, 37, said he resigned Nov. 27, which followed a called meeting he had with Newman Smith principal Joe Pouncy and Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD assistant superintendent Bobby Burns in late November after his team finished 2-8 this season. Bounds, who had more wins than the three previous Newman Smith coaches in their tenures, said he is seeking another football coaching job.

"There are some definite challenges to the Newman Smith job but the expectation level is still very high, obviously," Bounds said. "I'm very appreciative of the opportunity they gave me, but I didn't meet the goals I set for myself."

Renee Putter, the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD athletic director, said the job was posted Friday and the school district will take applications through December. Putter said she plans to start the interview process in January and have a coach in place by Feb. 1.

Bounds is the sixth football head coach at Newman Smith since 1995. Four of the last five have lasted two seasons apiece, including Southlake Carroll coach Todd Dodge from 1996 to 1997. The last three coaches were assistants at Newman Smith the year before being promoted. Newman Smith has reached the playoffs once in school history (1983).

E-mail bgeorge@dallasnews.com

COACHING TURNOVER

Carrollton Newman Smith has had six football coaches since 1995:

Coach Tenure Rec.

Troy Miller 1992-95 8-31-1

Todd Dodge 1996-97 9-11

Ron Lynch 1998-99 4-16

Andy Sexton 2000-02 3-27

Mark Copeland 2003-04 4-16

Bobby Bounds 2005-06 5-15

Edited December 7, 2006 by GMoney

[runt96]

they sure have high opinions about tech. miami would be crazy to take leach.

[GreenN'walinsVet]

You're dead wrong.  He took NS to 5-5 in his second year from and 4-6 in his first year.  The years before that NS was 2-8 and 2-8.  The only reason he left was because CFBISD was opening Creekview and it cut his talent pool in half.  Dodge's overall record was 9-11 from 96-97.  Here's an article on past NS head coaches:

BRANDON GEORGE / The Dallas Morning News

Bobby Bounds said he has resigned as Carrollton Newman Smith football coach with a 5-15 record in two seasons.

Bounds, 37, said he resigned Nov. 27, which followed a called meeting he had with Newman Smith principal Joe Pouncy and Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD assistant superintendent Bobby Burns in late November after his team finished 2-8 this season. Bounds, who had more wins than the three previous Newman Smith coaches in their tenures, said he is seeking another football coaching job.

"There are some definite challenges to the Newman Smith job but the expectation level is still very high, obviously," Bounds said. "I'm very appreciative of the opportunity they gave me, but I didn't meet the goals I set for myself."

Renee Putter, the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD athletic director, said the job was posted Friday and the school district will take applications through December. Putter said she plans to start the interview process in January and have a coach in place by Feb. 1.

Bounds is the sixth football head coach at Newman Smith since 1995. Four of the last five have lasted two seasons apiece, including Southlake Carroll coach Todd Dodge from 1996 to 1997. The last three coaches were assistants at Newman Smith the year before being promoted. Newman Smith has reached the playoffs once in school history (1983).

E-mail bgeorge@dallasnews.com

COACHING TURNOVER 

Carrollton Newman Smith has had six football coaches since 1995: 

Coach  Tenure  Rec. 

Troy Miller  1992-95  8-31-1 

Todd Dodge  1996-97  9-11 

Ron Lynch  1998-99  4-16 

Andy Sexton  2000-02  3-27 

Mark Copeland  2003-04  4-16 

Bobby Bounds  2005-06  5-15

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Somewhat off topic, but the article states that the last three coaches at Newman Smith were assistants there the year prior to becoming head coach, but i know for sure that Mark Copeland came directly from Gainesville to Newman Smith.

[NDT]

I thought about posting on the Aggie board, but decided I would leave them alone in their pooled ignorance. I guess to feel better about themselves they decide to criticize North Texas. When they commented about facilities it reminded me of the quote from former Miami Hurricane and current Green Bay scout, Alonzo Highsmith who was quoted in the Miami Herald on November 26 of this year as saying about the U of Miami "So we've expanded the weight room--it is still not up to North Texas." I have no personal knowledge about other facilities, but a pro scout has the opportunity to observe facilities.

[untcampbell]

Props to Objective Aggie. This guy comes to more NT games than many of the members of this board. He is always fair with us, and knows more about our program than I do (though that isn't saying that much).

Background: Aggie neighbor. Good friend of mine. Follows NT because a good friend of his does. He can name more former Eagles than I can...always starts with the Pertile brothers! Really is interested in us being as good as we can be. Passionate Aggie who is fighting a tough battle....season tickets are very expensive and he has 2 boys under 7 who want to be at every game, but can be just as happy at an NT game for about 1/10th of the cost, 200 miles closer to home, etc. Objective Aggie is a good NT fan.

[SilverEagle]

Props to Objective Aggie. This guy comes to more NT games than many of the members of this board. He is always fair with us, and knows more about our program than I do (though that isn't saying that much).

Background: Aggie neighbor. Good friend of mine. Follows NT because a good friend of his does. He can name more former Eagles than I can...always starts with the Pertile brothers! Really is interested in us being as good as we can be. Passionate Aggie who is fighting a tough battle....season tickets are very expensive and he has 2 boys under 7 who want to be at every game, but can be just as happy at an NT game for about 1/10th of the cost, 200 miles closer to home, etc. Objective Aggie is a good NT fan.

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...either that, or he's a great shopper.