I'm Pleased As Punch...

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

...at all of the developments and whatnot over the past few weeks. I've been busier than a hound dog in room full of raccoons at work, but I've been trying to at least read up once a day.

We've got an excellent coaching staff and they are landing some good recruits. I'm very pleased with this guy Bowen.

The only downside is that we now have a coaching staff full of coaches young enough and good enough to be picked off by bigger fish year after year.

Canales and Bowen are already legitimate potential head coaches. Mike Grant could develop into an offensive coordinator and eventually a head coach. What I love about Grant is his knowledge of the game is such that he's been able to coach - and coach well - on both sides of the ball.

Grant's coached running backs, receivers, tight ends, linebackers, the secondary, and the special teams. Each unit he's coached has improved from their prior performances. He's also been a recruiting coordinator.

It's difficult to quantify what having a pair like Bowen and Grant on the staff will do for recruiting. I mean, we'll see the results on the field in a couple of years. But, we've got guys with heavy ties into Big 12 territory as well as Texas.

Canales picking off a QB from the Southeast already. Another lineman landed from California.

I'm excited because I've always claimed this thing should be recruited the way OU and Nebraksa, and now Oklahoma State and Tulsa, have done it - looking anywhere and everywhere.

As noted earlier in the year, Oklahoma State starts nine Texans on defense, and the other two are from South Carolina and Mississippi(? maybe Lousiana). I've loved the kids we've landed out of Louisiana and Mississippi with coach Gandy. I'm sad to see him leave, but excited about now having a coaching staff where every coach legitimately has a broad network of recruiting.

A decade from now, people may be looking at UNT the way they now do at Iowa and Kansas State - as a place that great coaches developed before they became head coaches.

It's all good these days, yo!

[Green92]

Yeah, if this thing goes like it should then we may lose some great coaches down the road. Hopefully the program will be in place to where they can be replaced and it be as seamless as possible.

I love seeing some true optimism around here for the first time in a long time.

[ValleyBoy]

Yeah, if this thing goes like it should then we may lose some great coaches down the road. Hopefully the program will be in place to where they can be replaced and it be as seamless as possible.

I love seeing some true optimism around here for the first time in a long time.

That can be a good thing. All coaches worth there salt want to be in the best possible position go better themselfs.