UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HIRES HIGH SCHOOL COACH

I blame you and RON ZOOK!

Meanwhile, there’s trouble brewing in Pigville.

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Ah! Greg! The name! Speak not the name!!

Gerry Faust had no experience at the college level. This hiring is only Faustesque.

Dodge is actually a big hire for them. Denton is a tough place to recruit from and their offense was awful, Dodge should help both. There’s tons of talent around here (DFW metroplex) and other high school coaches idolize him, can’t hurt recruiting. He was Mizzou’s Chase Daniels’ high school coach.

Rick Villareal was one of Pat Sullivan’s minions (director of football operations, maybe?—whatever that is) during Sully’s unfortunate era at TCU. (By the way, if you think that LSU fans yak at the name Curly Hallman, imagine the reaction the name Pat Sullivan would trigger today had Sully gone to LSU as he wanted to back in 1994. LSU fans, you don’t know how good a friend to you former TCU AD Frank Windegger really was.)

Anyway, I met Villareal once or twice in the course of performing my duties as sportswriter for the school paper and also while doing a research project on the football program. He was, uh, not especially friendly… or personable… or bright… or capable… or literate. Other than that, he seemed PERFECT for his job.

Having said that, Todd Dodge will do a hell of a job at my dad’s former school, UNT. His name (Todd Dodge’s, not my dad’s) is huge in the Texas high school ranks, and that’ll do wonders for recruiting. The eyes of Texas (or, more immediately, A&M or possibly Tech) will definitely be on him…

Love Me Some Frogs, good to see you here, buddy.

So, is UNT the Mean Green or the Eagles? Or are they the Mean Green Eagles?

By the way, the ladies have also dubbed me as the “Mattress King”.

I remember well the tales of bumper stickers in Louisiana that originally read “Crazy About Curly,” only to be cut up and rearranged a year later to read “Curly’s About Crazy.”

This is what happens when a grown man calls himself “Curly.”

Bama Piling On Part Deux:

Bobby-socker-high-schooler coach CurlyJoe Hallman turned down the ’Bama job first and then decided to take the No. Texas job.

He said: “Football fans from the state of Texas are dang dingy, but not as desperate as those Bama boys.”

Corky Thatcher could win with the kids that SLC churns out of that school year after year. It’ll be interesting to see just how good Dodge is.

This site is marginalizing the masses with its individualistic thinking. Stop glorifying that evil, evil Roark.

I would laugh, but UAB is actually considering hiring Hoover High coach and “Two-a-Days” household name Rush Propst to replace the departed Watson Brown. I have this mental image of the school hiring a search firm composed entirely of 15-year-old girls whose presentation started off with, “Hellooo, he’s on MTV!”

On the other hand, if you wanted to definitively state that you have just plain and simple stopped giving 1/10th of a shit about your football program, that’d be a pretty clear, unequivocal way of doing so.

I think I saw that road sign in the Successories catalog.

same to you, Boston Frog

UNT…mascot is the Eagles, Mean Green the nickname

Also forgot to mention Art Briles came from winning Texas high school state championships and is doing well down in H-town with the Cougars

man i really enjoyed that pizza. was there a need for that hallman citing?

I know every set of comments has a comment analogous to this one, but here I go anyway:

Ayn Rand references in a college football blog. You truly do remarkable work, gentlemen. Gayle Winand will be making an offer shortly…

Believe it or not, Curley is now the head coach at Muscle Shoals (AL) High School, home of former Tennessee star Jason Allen. In 3 years, the Trojans have gone 3-7, 4-6, and 3-7. Not too surprising, actually

The new North Texas coach might already have his QB; Greg McElroy currently at Bama may transfer to be with his old high school coach.
No word yet if Kathy Ireland or Scott Bakula have any eligibility left.

Nice “Necessary Roughness” allusion.

 11,

 You are revealing your lack of knowledge about football with your comments.

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 Art Briles took the UH job after being RB coach at Texas Tech for two years. He’s had two winning seasons out of 4, I believe, so it isn’t like he is an unparalelled success.

Oh Gawd, all the references. It must have been bad limoncello again. MTV, Ayn Rand, Curly Hallman all in the same thread.

Well, here’s the semi-threadjack. What is the question Bama Nation is asking?

Who is John Galt?

Todd Dodge will obliterate the Sun Belt Conference. One of his qb’s is starting for Mizzou, and another went to ‘bama after last year’s season.

He’s 77-1 since the school moved from 4A to 5A, if Southlake Carroll can win their final 2 games, they will have won 4 of the past 5 Texas 5A state titles, and their sole loss being by one point in a 5A title game a couple of years back.

Mattress Mack, Curly Hallman, Ayn Rand, Howard Roark, and John Gault references all on one page I think my head is going to explode.

Holy hell, I hope this coach does well. The Faust era didn’t just cause me to hate him, but also his former employer of Moeller High in Cincinnati by extension for helping make him the “legend” he was.

LSU should have had to keep him. You came full steam ahead thinking you were stealing him.

He was such a fantastic coach at Southern Miss we were 102nd in the NCAA in Total offense with some guy named FAVRE at QB.