Anybody catch RV on Channel 8?

[Harry]

My wife always watches the 10 pm news and she yelled at me, "Hey Rick Villarreal is on the news, hurry!"

Sure enough there was RV being interviewed and a real nice segment about UNT football getting top 25 votes! The good effects of this bowl win just won't stop! GMG!

[meaniegreenie]

Yeah, I caught it! A reasonably long segment too.

[pastorgrant]

Was it good? Might make up for the terrible highlights from that other video for me.

[THOR]

My wife always watches the 10 pm news and she yelled at me, "Hey Rick Villarreal is on the news, hurry!"

Sure enough there was RV being interviewed and a real nice segment about UNT football getting top 25 votes! The good effects of this bowl win just won't stop! GMG!

our wives must be on the same cycle...i got the same announcement...hahah

[VideoEagle]

Was it a Slimfast commercial?

Hey, if RV got to do ANY national commercial and was on TV half a dozen times a day for four months with words "University of North Texas" displayed each time, I would be cheering the opportunity.

[PlummMeanGreen]

I love Coach Mac and the Mean Green! Was on record of liking his hire from the git-go since he had the background of being HFC at a Big 12 school with some of us saying Year 3 would be "The Year" for him after some on this forum were ready to run him out of town after Year 2 but...

....to show how we thru the years have allowed ourselves to be dummied down with low expectation (until Coach DMac came along) I still offer this perspective: La Tech was in a Top 25 poll last year. W/O a shred of proof, I will still contend that Papa Spike Dykes campaigned across the country with his ol' coaching pals for his son's team to get the necessary votes to get in but fact still remains----they got in. Not sure how many CUSA coaches gave us votes, though, as Top 25 is still very much about coaching politics and who you know who will actually vote for your school.

Still, the votes we got are a good start. Top 25 has always been where many of us wanted our school to go to show true NCAA FBS level progress, but getting in and staying in the Top 25 a la Boise is where we really need to go with all this.

GMG!

[KRAM1]

The "Good News" just keeps coming. Yes, indeed, good things are happening at UNT these days!

[SilverEagle]

I saw two stories yesterday. One was about the new NCAA rule about transferring to another school to do graduate work and being able to finish out your eligibility and not having to sit out a year. They used two NT basketball players as an example and interviewed Coach Benson and RV.

They also had a story about North Texas getting two votes for the top 25, for which they interviewed RV. RV said that the last time we got top 25 votes was when (Emmitt and others who hate hearing references to a certain former coach should stop reading at this point) Hayden Fry was coach. He went on to point out that Hayden Fry was Dan McCarney's mentor when Coach Mac started his coaching career. So my take away from the last interview is GOOD THINGS HAPPEN AT NORTH TEXAS

WHEN YOU HAVE A HAYDEN FRY-LIKE COACH.

BTW Emmitt.....HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY.....

Edited January 8, 2014 by SilverEagle

[pastorgrant]

I saw two stories yesterday. One was about the new NCAA rule about transferring to another school to do graduate work and being able to finish out your eligibility and not having to sit out a year. They used two NT basketball players as an example and interviewed Coach Benson and RV.

They also had a story about North Texas getting two votes for the top 25, for which they interviewed RV. RV said that the last time we got top 25 votes was when (Emmitt and others who hate hearing references to a certain former coach should stop reading at this point) Hayden Fry was coach. He went on to point out that Hayden Fry was Dan McCarney's mentor when Coach Mac started his coaching career. So my take away from the last interview is GOOD THINGS HAPPEN AT NORTH TEXAS

WHEN YOU HAVE A HAYDEN FRY-LIKE COACH.

BTW Emmitt.....HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY, HAYDEN FRY.....

We had top 25 votes in 2002 as well.

[emmitt01]

We had top 25 votes in 2002 as well.

Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey

[SilverEagle]

Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey, Darrell Dickey

Fine, ....then you take the Darrell Dickey culture, and I'll stick with the Hayden Fry/Coach Mac culture...........

[Stix]

I haven't seen FFR post what used to be his signature line in quite some time, so I'll do so:

IT'S ALL GREEN, AND IT'S ALL GOOD!

[Hunter Green]

Any video?

[Eastwood Eagle]

Nice. I guess we can stop the whole woe is me, the media does not care about UNT shtick. Tons of pub and airtime recently, well deserved.

Edited January 8, 2014 by Eastwood Eagle

[NorthTexan95]

We had top 25 votes in 2002 as well.

I think he meant the last time we were actually in the Top 25 but I could be wrong.

[VideoEagle]

I think he meant the last time we were actually in the Top 25 but I could be wrong.

Top 20. Not only were there fewer bowl games back then, UPI and AP only ranked the top 20 teams.

[FirefightnRick]

I haven't seen FFR post what used to be his signature line in quite some time, so I'll do so:

IT'S ALL GREEN, AND IT'S ALL GOOD!

Ah Ha!... Thank you sir!

Rick

[ragpicker]

We had top 25 votes in 2002 as well.

I thought we had some in '59 as well. In fact, I thought we made the top twenty that year. I can't believe we did not get any in Joe Greene's Junior and senior year. We were at least the 2nd or 3rd best football team in Texas in '68 and Arkansas considered us the best team outside of Texas they played that year during the regular season. They also considered Steve Ramsey the best quarterback they faced all year.