THSCC Host University Receives Mucho Extra Percs...

PlummMeanGreen · July 30, 2013

Just One Opinion Here...

There are few sacred cows with this 6'th generation Texan least of all that that comes from some of our public school systems, the all knowing--almighty University Interscholastic League or whatever other cob-webbed covered institution in the Lone Star State that too many times adhere to their forever "Good Ol' Boy Networks (G.O.B.N) for hiring very key and important personnel instead of hiring those probably many times 100% more qualified than those we've all seen which come from..................... the G.O.B.N.

Even our dear ol' alma mater, ie, North Texas has hired past football coaches under the G.O.B. N. system with absolutely no input from those who attended our school but (unfortunately for us) with few of those we can all observe in UNT football media guides who ever left UNT over .500 in wins/losses--in fact, some not even close. You know em' well. Some of you even became bud's with a few in past decades and because of it lost your complete objectivity as to what would even be best for our very own school.

Hayden Fry was not one of those in the U of North Texas G.O.B.N because Teachers College of the North never had such a network to ever hire from that pedigree or level IMHO. It was namely Roy Busby and ex NTSU Prez' Jitter Nolen who broke the mold; that is they broke the cycle by going off campus to talk to and eventually hire SMU's ex HFC--you know, the one without his name on even an Apogee bathroom entrance sign? Yet he was the last one to leave UNT over .500 for all you newbies who have not been part of this most interesting college athletics journey the last half century or more in MG Country.

:bounce: Still....Anyone Else Notice This & Just Going To Let This One Slide By, Too? If So..........Shame On Us All!

Fort Worth (might as well be TCU) is hosting this weeks Texas HS coach's Convention. It's not enough that TCU gets to host the football and basketball games, but hellbells, the TCU HFC Patterson also gets a starring role this week as a keynote speaker. I mean do we now have new meaning here with the hyphenated word... over-kill (and in a most biased sort of way to boot)?

Anyone else also notice that even the SMU HFC is on the program platform as a speaker this week, too? Oh yeah, the lamb lays down with the lion on this one since TCU has only recently had a new dis-like for SMU and will probably soon enough drop them off their future football schedule. Yet..............did anyone else notice all the other Texas NCAA Divsion 1 FBS level school HFC's who were not part of this week's festivities?

Mr. Tradition will say till we're all blue in the face from hearing it or we get completely covered up on all our respective persons with Mr. Tradition's multi-decades long collection of cobwebs:

Anyhow, Ol' Man M.T. would say: "Well, you have to have these conventions in our state's largest cities to host so many."

An Answer to Mr. Tradition (M.T.):

OK, maybe so, M.T., but this is not even your grand-pappy's Texas anymore and last time I checked Denton, Texas, America, had (not 1--but 2) Texas interstates aimed straightway from the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth which Texas HS football coaches from all over the state could easily drive to. They would all find it quite convenient to get to UNT fabulous 10,000 seat Super Pit with a brand spanking new Pedestrian Bridge from the Super Pit over to Apogee Stadium which can handle thousands upon thousands of pedestrians for any kind of special events. It's all right there that even 100,000 commutes who pass by all 3 of them daily can also very easily see.

For those flying into DFW Airport or merely looking for a place to stay around Greater Denton, there are as many hotel/motels as close to Denton, Denton County, Apogee and the Super Pit as there are in south Fort Worth and that school located on Berry Street and University which gets to host this convention quite often.

So does UNT and Denton have to make a bid for such a convention at the one presently being held at TCU? If so, then why.................keep going along to get along............... with all these traditions of the cob-webbed past of this particular very important convention that really does introduce many Texas High School football coaches to said NCAA instituion and just bid for the damn thing? Worst possible thing they could say to our officials is........................................no.

Edited July 30, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

Christopher Walker · July 30, 2013

This seems like something much more viable and appealing for UNT once the new hotel is up.

PlummMeanGreen · July 30, 2013

This seems like something much more viable and appealing for UNT once the new hotel is up.

Agree.....the new hotel/convention center will be a great asset to our campus, but TCU has neither on theirs.

Oh, CW, I think this is mostly a pipe dream, but the University of North Texas and Denton could just as easily host this event as any Texas private university can no matter the city of their location.

Before Alliance and Denton County's Texas Motor Speedway became realities with all their added hotel space just 15 minutes from Apogee Stadium probably not but now....it seems quite do-able. I'm also duly impressed with Greater Denton/Lewisvilles larger numbers of quality hotel/motels, too.

Bottom line is that UNT, AD Rick Villarreal, the UNT Athletic Department, Coach McCarney and staff would love to show off all our top shelf facilities to such a large contingency as the Texas HS football coaches. Seems a recent Southeast Conference athletic official visitor to Apogee and the Mean Green Village was more than impressed. Just seems like a no-brainer of an idea that I'd bet has already been entertained by some in Denton as it is.

GMG!

buff64 · July 31, 2013

The schools don't host these Coaching Schools, the cities do. Notice that each of the hosting cities have large convention centers. These coaches rotate between Dallas, Ft. Worth and Houston. Many years ago Coaching schools have convened in San Antonio and even Lubbock.

Huff · July 31, 2013

Today's Ft. Worth Star Telegram reported that the coaches’ convention won’t return to Fort Worth anytime soon.

San Antonio will host the event in 2014, ’16 and ’18. Houston gets it in 2015 and ’17. The convention hasn’t been in Houston since 2004, and association officials said Houston coaches lobbied to get back in the rotation.

It once rotated between Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Houston but that has changed over the years. My first one was in San Antonio many years ago. Coming from Pampa to San Antonio was quite a change in temperature. We thought we were going to roast. Fortunately we were able to find some watering holes with great air conditioning.

PlummMeanGreen · July 31, 2013

The schools don't host these Coaching Schools, the cities do. Notice that each of the hosting cities have large convention centers. These coaches rotate between Dallas, Ft. Worth and Houston. Many years ago Coaching schools have convened in San Antonio and even Lubbock.

And the Super Pit would not suffice for their larger meetings? I know there needs to be space for various vendors to set up their wares but maybe that is where Denton's (hopeful) new convention center at the Mean Green Village would suffice? (Would not the Super Pit lobby concourse area and the huge room where we had the Coach Gene Stallings meeting work to some extent? Just how many athletic vendors attend this convention these days anyhow?

I know this is all pipe dream with the Denton and UNT aspects of hosting this important convention, but the Texas HS Coach's offiials and program planners needs to understand that there are more NCAA FBS HFC's in Texas than just the 3 they had on the program this week and those 3 being from TAMU, TCU and SMU. That really reeks of a complete bias at its highest order seems to me. Oh well....life goes on.

Edited August 1, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen