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[Green Crazy]

Jones Making North Texas a Contender

[CMJ]

Nice article. Ayone who followed NT basketball during the Trilli years knows what Coach Jones was getting into. Those were some dark days indeed.

[Censored by Laurie]

I like how our football program just got compared to LSU. Ha

[Green Lantern]

I like how our football program just got compared to LSU. Ha

There's not much difference, really.

[Buford_Julep]

Jones saw NT as an LSU-type opportunity.

Compare that attitude to Tim Jankovich:

"We changed conferences (from Southland into Sun Belt [sic]) and were still a Southland team. That's why I went to Hutch. I talked to a lot of people I think highly of, coach (Roy) Williams and coach (Eddie) Sutton and some others. I said, ‘Here's my dilemma. I can stay here, but don't see any chance of success.' People I respect told me I had to leave."

[CMJ]

Jankovich actually moved to the Big West.

[Buford_Julep]

Sic is a Latin word that means "thus" or, in writing, "it was thus in the source material".

[CMJ]

Sic is a Latin word that means "thus" or, in writing, "it was thus in the source material".

Sorry Buford - just pointing out the error in the text in case people didn't know.

[drex]

Coach Jankovich should have said, " I'm stuck here with Craig Helwig and must get out."

[Buford_Julep]

Coach Jankovich should have said, " I'm stuck here with Craig Helwig and must get out."

You are probably correct. Maybe Jank isn't the best example. His main gripe was about Helwig making out his schedule, but NT hass had several other coaches who complained about how difficult it is to win here.