Horrible Football Team = New Stadium

MeanGreenZen · October 4, 2008

Our football team is horrible this season and it is embarrassing to everyone affiliated with UNT.

Surely the students do not enjoy being the laughingstocks of the Dallas/Fort Worth sports scene. Surely students do not enjoy others making fun of how bad their school's football team is. Surely the students can understand the damage a horrible football team does to the value of their degree.

If our team was awesome this season, opponents of the stadium could point to our record and say, "Why does the football team need a new stadium? They are doing fine with Fouts Field." But the current state of our football team underscores why we need a new stadium so badly. We need a new stadium to attract better recruits so that the team is not so horrible. We need a new stadium so our friends/co-workers/bosses/family members can't make fun of our school because of how bad the football team is.

Maybe our struggles this season will shame and motivate students to come out and vote for a new stadium. A vote for a new stadium is a vote against being the butt of a joke. Good times...

Edited October 4, 2008 by MG Insurance Pro

shaft · October 4, 2008

Yawn. The stadium doesn't make the team. Other coaches have won in Fouts.

Can we drop all this whoa is me crap. No reputable source had this team doing anything better than 3-9.

Can we give Dodge a chance to get his three conference wins?

And why am I having to stick up for Dodge??? I was one the few people on this board that wanted to give Dickey another chance.

MeanGreenZen · October 4, 2008

Yawn. The stadium doesn't make the team. Other coaches have won in Fouts.
Can we drop all this whoa is me crap. No reputable source had this team doing anything better than 3-9.
Can we give Dodge a chance to get his three conference wins?
And why am I having to stick up for Dodge??? I was one the few people on this board that wanted to give Dickey another chance.

0-4 doesn't bother me. It is the way we have gone 0-4 that bothers me. LSU and K-State are supposed to kill us. It is the complete domination by opponents like Tulsa and Rice (teams we should be competitive against) that bothers me. Rice could have scored 100 points against us if they had wanted to!

As far as other coaches winning in Fouts. Fouts wasn't so bad in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But as more and more schools we compete against upgrade their own facilities (SMU), Fouts looks worse and worse. Do you contend that players don't make the team? Because better players would be drawn into a handsome new stadium.