Chizik, Auburn Hfc But 5-19 At Isu Before His Hire &

PlummMeanGreen · November 27, 2010

...how can anyone ever know when such hires from prior losing programs will be successful at a new outpost? Wonder how many times its actually happened?

Are there some sports oriented univesity presidents (as Jitter Nolen was at North Texas) and sports enthusiast and new UNT president Lane Rawlins just know things that even some AD's or we posters :rolleyes: on a college smack board just don't know? Sorry, RV, didn't mean to compare you with us. :lol:

Look at all the successful NCAA FBS hires who came from winning programs who fell flat on their faces at their next stops?

How do you ever know on these things? Is it in the tea leaves or what or.......do you just pull the trigger, make the hire and just see what happens? I think we know the answer to that one.

If its McCarney come announcement time, we just show our class and give him a hardy congrats and good luck because we need him to do what Chizik is now doing at Auburn and what Fry did at UNT and.........WIN!

He may not be that new XJS forest green Jaguar we may have all wanted, but he could very well be that new Chevy that gives a school like North Texas the mileage we need with a coach that when he leaves UNT will have more wins than losses for on his next resume'. BTW.........we haven't said goodbye to any UNT HFC who met that criteria since 1978 so maybe its really just time to lay all our cards on the table and shoot for the whole sweepstakes?

For those who fear a 5 year contract goof up with whoever we hire, it is still our school who has let coaches go anywhere between 1 to 3 years so its not like it would be a forever mistake if it were an obvious mistake with whoever we hire.

New stadium? Anyone ever heard of effective sports marketing or promotions directors? We may have them now at UNT--I don't know. They will have a new face to present to the kinds of fans, ie, the casual fans who will no longer know the difference betweeen one coach to another in the majority of that group's case.

Although we need some beating of the drums and much hype until the debut game, this new stadium will all but sell itself the first year of which I feel coach Todd Dodge left enought talent on the table (and when all healthy) to be competitive in the SBC next Fall; who knows, maybe even win it.

We just don't know how we will fare in OOC play in 2011 starting with the Houston Coog's who I fear like most our OOC foes will have more team speed and overall talent as we've seen with most our OOC oppoments of the last 10 years in the SBC but still...............isn't all this the reason they play the game? (Rumor has it UH may be soon looking for a new HFC as theirs is on a few checklist of AQ schools in the NCAA).

UNT once they figure out the new seating format at the new stadium, IMO should start selling tickets for the stadium debut game sometimes around the Spring Football Game. Early Bird Gets The Worm (or the sellout & possible SRO in our case)? It's a shame our season opener is not in the new stadium as to create even more curiosity with the casual or borderline fans.

GMG!

Edited November 27, 2010 by PlummMeanGreen