Dodgeball is Dead!

[fischer]

Dickey is good friends with a guy on our staff.

Supposedly when Dickey was interviewing for the North Texas job he walked in and said "I smoke and drink. If that's going to be a problem here we might need to cut this short."

His health and his termination of employment are two separate issues.

[P. Marf]

ha that is great.

[Ticket Mouse]

Fran to NTSU.

Leach to Maryland.

While I completely agree that Dodge got outrecruited, he also got outcoached plenty. I think he and Les Miles were study buddies in Clock Management 101. The difference being, of course, Miles's foibles were always at the end of the game...Dodge's were at the end of the first half.

Also, as a coach you have to know what your team is capable of and what they aren't. He had a system he wanted to run. He didn't have the personnel. You don't have to completely overhaul your system but you have to make adjustments...he never did. They kept doing the same damn thing over and over expecting the same result. Even Robert Loggia had enough sense to take Hector Elinzondo's recommendations to change it up a bit. Dodge's system required speed and athletes. He didn't have that. UNT isn't a place where you can reasonably expect that in 5 years your system will be in place. You have to just work with what you have...that's what Dickey did and he had success. Over the last 12 games they had become more balanced but it took him too long to figure that out. When you have a defense that consistently ranks near the very bottom in FBS the last thing you need is a pass happy offense that eats up very little clock. Of course, I say that and they've always had a respectable TOP number...but that's because their D was so pourous that the offense just got the ball right back. That's how they got into situations where MTSU, ULaLa, Navy, and WKY consistently put up 50+ points on them and they lose a shootout. Dickey's offenses were always near the bottom in total offense but they were always balances, with a slant to the ground game.

What Dickey suffered from was an admin that had no desire to improve the infrastructure of the program. Did any of you ever see their old weight room at Fouts? It was embarrassing. My high school in '95 built a new weight facility that was 10X better than UNT's. While schools like Troy, MTSU, FIU, and FAU were investing at least some money into their athletic programs, UNT did absolutely nothing and it was reflected in their overall record his last two years.

Is Villarreal really that bad a guy? He was at TCU before going to UNT and the folks in FTW don't have a favorable opinion of him either. He used to come into Office Depot all the time and was always nice. He usually remembered our names. Of course, how someone behaves at a retail store could be completely different from how they behave at work...but he was always nice to me.

[The River Assassin]

Oct 22, 2010 14:29:05 GMT -5 fischer said:

Supposedly when Dickey was interviewing for the North Texas job he walked in and said "I smoke and drink. If that's going to be a problem here we might need to cut this short."

HA! I'm for sure doing this for my first interview out of college.