What Tdodge Builds On From Here On Out

PlummMeanGreen · September 2, 2007

Darrell Dickey was 3 & 8, 2 & 9 and then...............3 & 8 in his first 3 seasons at UNT. He did that largely on Matt Simon's leftovers and with his own under the radar recruiting. (In fact, DD did not have any of his teams go over .500 until his 5'th season at UNT). I think most of us (in our heart of hearts) feel Todd Dodge will not have to take 5 years on the UNT payroll for his first above .500 football team.

AS A REMINDER...........Todd Dodge was hired after last Christmas and while most schools were closing out their 2007 recruiting classes, Todd Dodge was just beginning his at UNT.. His early committs for 2008 have already created a buzz from not just those in the Mean Green Nation, but from other Texas inter-collegiate outpost as well just to read other message boards in the Southwest.

#8 ranked OU (with more Texas HS products than should be allowed by Nation of Texas' law) :rolleyes: was not a good test for a team that won less than 5 games the last 2 previous seasons. Dodge Ball will not happen till its creator gets about 22 players who start their careers from the git-go under the Dodge Ball system. We may see a glimpse of it sometimes about mid-season this Fall, but most of Dodge's players have been under a totally different system (and attitude) the last few years prior to TD's arrival in Mean Green Country last December.

Many of us posted last Spring that if we won 4 or 5 games this Fall that that would (obviously) be an improvement from our last 2 seasons, yet we still have the majority of the last 2 season's teams on our present roster.

Todd Dodge has already built a foundation in many other areas in Denton that few of his predeccessors cared to bother with. Getting shellacked by #8 OU will be just a short detour for where many of us think Dodge can take this program. With his early commits list for the 2008 recruiting season, we already have a very clear signal that once Dodge gets thru his first 2 honeymoon years in Denton, that higher nationally ranked Mean Green football will be on the way. After all, Todd Dodge knows what he will have to do and who he will have to beat to go to his next career level (if he so chooses to do that).

We could very well be 0 & 2 going into our home season opener at Fouts Field and many of you told me that many weeks before our game in Norman today.

Yet after all, if we had beaten OU this evening, we'd have many on this board already packing Todd Dodge's bags for his next new coaching gig out of Denton, but I think we now know that Todd Dodge will need to "un-do" a whole bunch in Denton before he can really get down to doing the Dodge Ball Shuffle in Denton, Texas, America.

Who can ever know where our destination will take us when Dodge Ball eventually reaches full fruition, but the journey to get there can many times be just as exciting as reaching that destination.

Edited September 2, 2007 by PlummMeanGreen

UNTLifer · September 2, 2007

Best post I've read tonight.

akriesman · September 2, 2007

This post should be "stickied" to the top of the forum for a while.

I think that most people around here have a good understanding of the situation. But for those that are expecting the impossible, it might help to put things into perspective for them once in a while

Edited September 2, 2007 by akriesman

Ken14 · September 2, 2007

We are are gonna be fine...lots of good spots..lets all give TD a chance to see what the spread can do.Smoo still bites..

UNTflyer · September 2, 2007

Trying to find the lemonade...

No major injuries.

Dodge in his post-game interview said the fellas didn't have that surrender look in their eyes.

Vizza's got an arm.

MeanGreenBuzz · September 2, 2007

Trying to find the lemonade...
No major injuries.
Dodge in his post-game interview said the fellas didn't have that surrender look in their eyes.
Vizza's got an arm.

There was thankfully a lot of lemonade to be made from that game. The O-Line started to come together and give the QB more time. Vizza, Fitzgerald, and Jackson all looked comfortable and in good time with eachother. Mosley is going to make a very, very good running back. We got beat by 69 points, doesn't get much better than that. That should fire this team up like nothing else could have.

PlummMeanGreen · September 2, 2007

There was thankfully a lot of lemonade to be made from that game. The O-Line started to come together and give the QB more time. Vizza, Fitzgerald, and Jackson all looked comfortable and in good time with eachother. Mosley is going to make a very, very good running back. We got beat by 69 points, doesn't get much better than that. That should fire this team up like nothing else could have.

I think very few of us were thinking (especially in light of the last 2 seasons & the last 3-4 recruiting years that we know weren't even close to what SMU's recruiting grades were in the same span of time if one subscribes to DC'sTF grading system); anyway, few of us ever thought that this was going to be an easy year for Todd Dodge and some of us predicted (but did not post it last week) that what happened last night might just happen. Most of the SBC football schools passed us by the last few years when no one was looking (or for darn sure............recruiting). FWIW...........this probably would not have been an easy year if we could have revived the ghost of Vince Lombardy and turned it all over to him for this season. :blink:

Lets just all enjoy our journey because I feel most of us still anticipate a destination unseen in Mean Green Country for decades (if ever). Most of the parts are in place for this to happen and I feel many agree with that, too; albeit, there still looms a very large empty space of prime inter-state real estate just north of our fabulous Athletic Center that still needs to be tended to as well. :rolleyes:

The OU game is in the books...lets all try to move on best we can to see what Coach Dodge & staff will continue to build over at Gerald J. Ford Stadium @ SMU. This is a work in progress that is just going to take some time, but lets hope when TDodge takes us bowling for several years in a row that he will have built such a foundation that there would not even be a hint that it could fall apart in merely just 1 year, either.

We should all try to be just as excited about our Dodge Ball future as if the OU game never happened. The OU Sooners are going to put some old fashioned whoop a$$ on many schools other than just North Texas this Fall as we all looked at their unbelievable team speed last night and.................. after all, folks..........the Boomers are still the defending 2007 Big 12 football champions as it is, right?

.............. BEAT SMU!

PS: Dear Governor Perry: Can we go ahead and extend that fence that will one day parallel the Rio Grande with one similar that will parallel the Red River?

Edited September 2, 2007 by PlummMeanGreen