New Federal Holiday

[mrydel]

Ok, now this is important so pay attention please. How do I get just a partial quote for reference such as mustangxc did a couple of posts above? I have tried highlighting and then hitting the quote button but that does not work.. Please explain in simple terms, I am old and computer illiterate. Thanks.

Example below.

Ok, now this is important so pay attention please. I am old and computer illiterate.

Make sure to leave the [ quote ] tags alone though.

Thanks!!

[mustangxc]

How do I get just a partial quote for reference such as mustangxc did a couple of posts above?

Click on the quote icon and once in the message part just delete the parts of the quote that are irrelevent to your post.

[Billy Joe]

N. Texas v. SMU: Let's compare. N. Texas has a lot of success the last few years by winning their conference and going to bowl games. Not bad for a school who has not been in Div. 1-A for a long time and has a smaller athletic budget than many of the Div. 1-A schools in Texas including SMU. They suffer two losing seasons and make a change and hire one of the most successful highschool football coaches in the nation. N. Texas looked at the success of Art Briles at Houston and believes Todd Dodge can be successful too. If he does not work out you cannot blame the adminstration for not trying. They have shown they want to win.

SMU, on the other hand, has had the same coach despite no winning seasons, conference championships, or bowl games. Instead of making a change to show the alumni, fans, and students that losing is not tolerated at SMU as it was the past 20 years, they give the coach one more year and continue to tell the fans to wait until next year. SMU has a much larger athletic budget than N. Texas and much nicer facilities yet SMU cannot seem to get it. Whether Todd Dodge succeeds or not at N. Texas is not relevant. What is relevant, N. Texas hired him because losing is not acceptable to the people calling the shots. If Todd Dodge does not win, then they will replace him as well with someone else. They will not however give him a decade to build a winner.

The Todd Dodge hiring has people talking about N. Texas. On the other hand, no one is talking about SMU outside of this board. Why? Because we keep the status quo despite failure.

[mustangxc]

I don't care about creating a splash. I want sustained success at SMU. People will be talking about SMU when we start winning.

I would rather invest the money that would be used for a buyout to hire recruiting support improved facilities? additions to the program.

[that's great raplh]

festivus for the rest of us

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Maybe we should have a "feats of strength" match between Dodge and Bennett. At least we don't have to worry about the "airing of grievances" as that seems to happen every day of the year.

[PonySnob]

I don't care about creating a splash. I want sustained success at SMU.

Any idea as to when that is going to happen?

[LonghornFan68]

I myself have proclaimed Todd Dodge as my personal lord and savior.

[smupony94]

I myself have proclaimed Todd Dodge as my personal lord and savior.

Where can I get a WWTDD bracelot?

[BrianTinBigD]

Think we can invite Phil to an"Airing of Grievances" in which each one of us tells Phil all the ways he has disappointed him/her over the past year.

Also, if Jesus can coach a more effective offense that Rusty Burns and bring in better recruits, I am all for adding him to the staff. That way when I yell "Jesus Christ, What was Bennett thinking?" we can at least get an answer in the post game press conference.