What Gomeangreen Said When Dodge Was Hired

rcade · September 19, 2010

Several people have said lately that when Todd Dodge was hired, everyone on GoMeanGreen loved the move.

That's not true, as you can see from a topic posted on Dec. 12, 2006, when his hiring was confirmed by The Ticket:

http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=31103

A majority of members were excited about the hire, but there were several outspoken exceptions:

"It's a sad day when fans of a Div 1A program get excited about hiring a HIGH SCHOOL COACH! Sad, sad, sad." -- meanfbfan

"Its not that anyone disputes Dodge's success at the higschool level. Its the fact that we are a D-1 program and had a couple good candidates that were already head coaches or had spent a considerable amount of time as an assistant to big time programs that had shown interest." -- Eagle1855

"Our hiring of a high school coach proves we've only got I-AA money." -- The Fake Lonnie Finch

"I feel bad for the university for 2 reasons. #1 you will be the laughing stock of the country for a couple of days because no one really know who Dodge is outside of Texas. They will see that you hired some slappy high school coach from the state. Even though we all know he is a good coach, they don't. It will hurt recruiting I PROMISE YOU." -- meanfbfan

" ... we just hired a high school coach to lead a Division I-A program. You don't have to live in Dallas to understand the finincial straightjacket it took to pull that off." -- The Fake Lonnie Finch

"Whoopee - a high school coach. Let's win state!" -- greeneagle11

" ... many of the posters here believe (wrongly) that people outside of Southlake believe this guy is Jesus. He wasn't Jesus at Yoe or Newman Smith...when he wasn't at a money school. Now, he's at the ultimate in non-money schools in Division I-A." -- The Fake Lonnie Finch

"no more comments from me now that I know they are commical. They are commical to me TOO, because I know whats about to happen to our program and it kills me to see how blind everyone is on this board. Best of luck to you all." -- meanfbfan

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This was my take at the time:

I'm excited about the Dodge hire. I was skeptical about getting another high school coach, but Dodge has serious love from DFW and will should bring more attention from the DFW media, especially if his teams play exciting offense. This has the potential to make this school a real choice for Dallas area recruits, as opposed to a last choice.

NT80 · September 19, 2010

Two things we wanted at the time of Dodge's hire was more local media attention and more local recruits. He did both, but neither lasted very long. Now that other thing about more wins...not so much.

Hiring a head coach is never a guaranteed increase in wins. I was around for the Jerry Moore, Bob Tyler, Dennis Parker, and Matt Simon eras too...not so much winning there either.

Whoever the new coach becomes he will get a nice new stadium as a recruiting lure. I do think we should be moved to the front of the hiring line asap.

Green Mean · September 19, 2010

A lot of things can be said but the truth is that it is about results and Dodge has produced all but results.

The Fake Lonnie Finch · September 19, 2010

"Yes, but...many of the posters here believe (wrongly) that people outside of Southlake believe this guy is Jesus. He wasn't Jesus at Yoe or Newman Smith...when he wasn't at a money school. Now, he's at the ultimate in non-money schools in Division I-A."

-TFLF, December 12, 2006

How someone (GreenEddieNT) responded to me on that date which is now living in infamy:

"Well, he's going to have to adjust to coaching at a school that isn't anywhere near the top of the heap in resources like SLC is at the high school level. Then again he almost can't help but be an improvement over a retard like DD. Heck, if we'd hired a chimpanzee from a zoo with no coaching experience(or any experience outside of his cage) it would still be an improvement over DD."

TFLF, September 19, 2010: Hey, GreenEddieNT, bring on the chimpanzee for our last nine games. Maybe the chimp can get us over Darrell Dickey's three-win bar set during the 2006 season; Todd Dodge sure hasn't been able.

Edited September 19, 2010 by The Fake Lonnie Finch