Team GPA and Special Teams Position

MeanGreenGlory · January 5, 2013

The collective team GPA was over 3.0 last semester which is the highest it's been since 1997.

Congratulations and good work to all of the players and coaches. Managing school work and athletics is not easy and raising the GPA bar for the program is a great accomplishment.

DMac also said that over 30 coaches have contacted him about the Special Teams position at North Texas. That's a good number - I hope we land a stud.

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/01/basketballfootball-notes.html/

UNTLifer · January 5, 2013

Great job by these young men that represent our university. I applaud them for putting the "student" in student-athlete.

Will be interested to see who takes Riddles place.

greenminer · January 5, 2013

Pick 5 finalists for the ST position based on their Rivals ranking.

Harry · January 5, 2013

Hire a guy that can recruit!! I even would consider a high school phenom that has great relationships in his community and the state. This is a position where you can give a high caliber high school guy a chance!

H-towngreen · January 5, 2013

How about the coach from desoto or skyline? Please

cdizzle86 · January 5, 2013

I'm forever scarred from high school coaches

oldguystudent · January 5, 2013

I even would consider a high school phenom that has great relationships in his community and the state.

NO! NO! MORE ALL CAPS NO! HELL NO!

oldguystudent · January 5, 2013

3.0 team GPA is pretty outstanding. It's particularly outstanding if by "last semester," Bret is talking about fall semester. I can't imagine the rigors of FBS football combined with going to class.

unt_rocket09 · January 5, 2013

You guys really think a HS coach can't be a college position coach? Calm down, do you think all college coaches started out that way?

CurveItAround · January 5, 2013

How about the coach from desoto or skyline? Please

I could get behind this idea.

oldguystudent · January 5, 2013

You guys really think a HS coach can't be a college position coach? Calm down, do you think all college coaches started out that way?

Let's set aside the obvious sensitivities to high school coaches unique to our fine university.

It seems to me that coaches choose their paths early on, either taking up with a high school staff or taking graduate assistant positions in the college ranks, taking their lumps and moving up the ladder.

Not let's return to the obvious sensitivities to high school coaches unique to our fine university, and let me reiterate, NO! NO! MORE CAPS LOCKS NO! HELL NO!

North Texas Shep · January 5, 2013

3.0 is great! That makes me very happy. Good job MEAN GREEN!

trussbussdad · January 5, 2013

I would be OK with a high school coach as a special teams coach. Certainly not down with a TD redo at a head coach...but special teams...I could support the right guy.

MeanGreenZen · January 5, 2013

3.0? Who cares? I would rather have 2.0 if it came with a bowl team. Coffee is for closers, McCarney!

unt_rocket09 · January 5, 2013

Chad Morris, Art Briles, Todd Graham, Dennis Francione, Bill Snyder, mike leach. All coached HS at some point. Some of you guys seriously have no clue.

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GrayEagle · January 5, 2013

Chad Morris, Art Briles, Todd Graham, Dennis Francione, Bill Snyder, mike leach. All coached HS at some point. Some of you guys seriously have no clue.

Nice try except Mike Leach has never been a high school coach. I can't speak for the others except Franchione who I know has. I agree that many excellent coaches have at one time coached in high school. I also noted that Todd Monken, the new coach at Southern Miss, hired a position coach from high school. So it is still being done. I don't really care the background of the coach as long as he has rapport with high school coaches that are constantly in the playoffs. You won't get a known figure from the college ranks at that position and salary but you can get a very capable coach from either level. As long as he's effective, I don't really care from whence he came.

unt_rocket09 · January 5, 2013

Missed on leach but you catch my point. Coaching is coaching...now is everyone capable at every level? Hell no! But just bc you start as a HS coach does not mean you can't be successful at the next level.

Mean Green 93-98 · January 5, 2013

Missed on leach but you catch my point. Coaching is coaching...now is everyone capable at every level? Hell no! But just bc you start as a HS coach does not mean you can't be successful at the next level.

Yep . . . the lesson to be learned from our experiences is not that high school coaches can never be college coaches at all. . . . The lessons are (1) you don't hire a college HEAD coach directly from the high school coaching ranks; and (2) you don't fill your entire staff with coaches directly from the high school coaching ranks.

CurveItAround · January 5, 2013

Yep . . . the lesson to be learned from our experiences is not that high school coaches can never be college coaches at all. . . . The lessons are (1) you don't hire a college HEAD coach directly from the high school coaching ranks; and (2) you don't fill your entire staff with coaches directly from the high school coaching ranks.

evidently, especially your defensive coordinator