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I'm pretty proud of this cake. I didn't make it myself, but I sure did pay for it! This was created by a baker in Florida for my destination beach wedding. I was pretty impressed with what they were able to do with just a few pictures from the internet. They may have been a little too generous with the attendance represented in the stands for some games though. Haha! Only complaints could possibly be the center field logo needed to be turned and the kids fingerprints in the front of the building (damn flower girls!). I got the SOW black napkins at the fan forum a few weeks ago. Glad i was there and the bartender was more than willing to give them to me for this table. And it tasted pretty good too!

Yes, I'm glad I decided to go ahead and go. It was particularly encouraging to meet the staff that were there. Their attitude seemed totally different than the status quo attitudes of the staff I worked with during my time as a UNT employee. One individual, who is fairly new to the university said "I'm tired of hearing 'potential.' It's time for North Texas to be what it is meant to be (paraphrased)." It brought a tear to my eye...

No idea if you have the power or pull, however if you do can you PLEASE make sure that by next camp season prospective students athletes can sign up for our camps online? Do you remember the question I asked about allowing coaches to navigate our website for the THSCA Button to Mr. Keuhne? Well several of my athletes do not have a printer at home, obviously I helped them and got it printed and they filled it out and mailed it in. How many kids have that support? Lets just make it as easy as possible. I am sure I will get 1,000,000,000,000,000 down votes for the link I am going to paste. However, just check out how easy it is to sign up for SMU camp. Google SMU FOOTBALL CAMP, click the first link that pops up. Then go from there very slick layout very cool website. I hope and pray we can get this together under our new AD. http://www.ponyuptempo.com/camps Feedback is appreciated.

awesome cake. Funny, still doesn't show to be sold out. ..

And it not just losing, it is not being competitive. If go to a conference game and we are in the game until the late in the 4th quarter I am NOT happy but I don't feel ripped off. I want to stay for the playing of our alma mater. But when your team looks like it was an amateur team playing a pro team you don't feel like it. It is impossible and unreasonable to expect to even every home game. We should have the expectation as fans and alumni of the team that a teenager nearing making a decision to go to college get the impression from the quality of the stadium, the fans and the play the field that UNT is a top notch university. A university on par with (or better than) any other public university in the state of Texas. Apogee is a great investment but we need a bigger heart investment by more of our alumni. Crushing Abilene Christian in Apogee is not much better than in Fouts Field. The only difference are nicer distractions from a game that should not be a contest. And I thought the whole purpose of building Apogee was to have fewer games against FCS schools and more against schools you would be proud for your children to attend if they did not choose UNT. (This is no shot at Abilene Christian because you choose that school for things that large public university can't give you.) You want to play more teams that are recognizable to your average college football fan. Nothing cheapens the value of your ticket than offering your ticket to a friend only to have explain who opponent is. (Even when that friend watches CFB almost every weekend). I started with 4 season tickets, reduced it to 3, then to 2 and now to none. It was painful cause I love my school and want support it beyond just donations. Sorry but amenities only go so far when the team isn't playing an opponent you want to see half the time and losing the other half the time. We need more fans whose passion is greater than what they spend on season tickets. That means demanding competitiveness! That isn't winning the division every year but that mean getting the first Saturday in November every year with shot at it.

Tried to find a good gif to go with this post. Did I find the right one?

My wife doesn't understand me. We have, as far as I'm concerned, the best seats at Apogee. I like the people we sit with and I like that we've made new friends as a result of our game day experience. I have a good parking pass that helps me get up close when I arrive and keeps me in the parking lot too long when the game is over. I like the meal in the Club Level. Every time. My wife likes to get a glass of wine and watch me pout over bad plays. But, if we lose, I have had a bad day. I try to minimize that, but if we lose, I'm unhappy. Not with my wife or the fans or the stadium or the weather but I'm unhappy. I go to the games, much as I like my seats and my friends and the food and my pretty good parking pass, to win. Period. That is all that matters to me. If we lose, I'll still be there next week or next year, but I only come to win. GO MEAN GREEN

untCampbell suggested it on June 27th...but bring back the Junior Mean Green Club Spirit line,...and allow the kids back onto the field to meet the players after games. Rick

I feel optimistic. I see the good changes being made. I went to the Fort Worth Alumni Mixer today and met some really great folks excited to build interest in our University - all programs. There was a nice call out to make sure we get to Denton for the opener. I see a whole new generation of Mean Green leaders 20 years younger than me selling my University and feeling proud. We have great leadership and much opportunity ahead. Support support support. I also went by the Dallas Memorial today and took some pics with the officers doling out hugs, smiles and water. One of the Officers noticed my Mean Green shirt and said he couldn't wait to be cheering on a winning football team. I told him the only way to go was up and he smiled and said he was looking forward to it and loved that attitude. There are a lot of closet alum just waiting for us to break through. Time to jump on the Green Train! GMG

^ This happens in the off-season. Every off-season. And it's kinda fun.

This notion that there are those among us that are perfectly content with losing is ridiculous. I don't ever see fans high-fiving after losses. Everyone looks much like I feel. It ruins my day. It ruins my weekend (sadly). It certainly ruins my 5 hour drive back home. I hope and pray that the next AD turns it around. I have already told those in the AD that I don't have many more years of the losing left in my tank. I am sure many others have done the same.

The problem is that MeanGreen_MBA never said he didn't want UNT to win, never said he picked Club Seats to rub elbows with the AD, didn't pick Alabama out of thin air as a comparison, etc... You just twisted everything to fit your agenda. He stated he liked to social aspect of being up there which to me is no different than saying I like my seats in Section 106 because I like the people that sit around me. Sometimes it is best to just bite your tongue or maybe realize that a lot of people share your passion to see us succeed, but they go about it differently.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/17108512/big-12-begin-exploring-expansion-candidates Time for us to win is now, so that we can possibly move "up" to the MWC or AAC once the Big 12 takes whomever it is going to take from those conferences. Keep losing and...we'll be looking at FCSLand again...or, whatever becomes of the remaining G5 after 2016 or 2017. Littrell, Smatresk, the new AD...all of them need to understand that to keep from sinking, we can't wait for a complete "rebuild." Miracles are needed, and needed soon.

Where are RV's and Mac's cars leaving the building on that cake?

Good news! All non-televised games will be available with subscription.

Events are planned for each chapter on an on-going basis...not just once. So, look for the next Tarrant County event. Not all will be mixers as different folks like different things, but come...bring friends. Enjoy. Glad you enjoyed this one.

How do we get fans to games...all games? I am asking to hear actionable suggestions on what "WE" as supporters of the program can do to bring more people to the games. Also, what real and actionable activities the AD and school to do to bring fans to the game. I commit to bring 4 new people to a game this year that have not been to a game in the past 10 years... Not much, but a start

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Thanks everyone for the reputation. This post was a bit of a humble brag.

This is a well informed hypothesis.

Welcome to the board. I look forward to your first Mean Green-related post.

Had a great time at the UNT Alumni mixer last night. Met some great alumni from the area, as well as some good folks from the University. I thought it was nice to have an opportunity to just mingle, not have a set agenda or presentation. There were around 60 of us, lots of folks wearing green, on a Tuesday night in Fort Worth. Very encouraging. I know they have several of these set up in other areas over the next several weeks. I'd encourage everyone to go if it's in your neck of the woods. Other "big time" schools can do these on a regular basis, lets at least prove we can do them once. Go Mean Green!

He is apparently transferring due to the lack of playing time. I wonder what gives him the impression he'll get more PT at superior programs when he couldn't really get on the field for a teetering UT program?

easily 10-11k there.

I was about to say, attendance looked to be about right.

Agree 100%. And your suggestion concerning giving HS coaches easy access at the gate for home games was spot on as well. I think you need to have a conversation with Scotty Conley IMO. Rick

Stay put? I say scratch and crawl with smug to get us into AAC.

I want to believe in Smatty and SL. The fact that Benford is still employed is a black cloud hanging over Mean Green Country. The groundwork is (hopefully) being laid, but a couple of early season wins in football will go a long ways towards chipping away at the malaise affecting the fanbase. Couple that with some needed changes/progress throughout the AD and a new coach to provide some MBB excitement and we will all look back at this time with relief that it's over.

Actually, I just got back from there 3 days ago! TX summers are the pits. The cooler weather in the mountains is a refreshing break from olive the heat.

Your entitled to your opinion but Littrell isn't cleaning house and bringing in 13 JUCOs for nothing. Rick

Unless he was directly involved in a coverup, I'd be very interested.

She's probably not a natural blonde, but I'm stumped on the other.

Why not recruit some cheerleaders to these alumni events at bar Louie Mexican sugar the happiest hour and hula hut! I won a sweet mug and pennant last night but two smu tickets would have been as delicious as that cake! Optimism reigns this time of year get more sporty where you have a collection of Green!!!!! gmg

That's one more than I would have guessed.

If we had had Zephyr produce a design like that, it would never have been approved by the athletic department. Our pro-line NT-star hat is still a killer design but certain people didn't agree. I love this design and would buy one if I knew where they are sold. Here's my challenge to the unimaginative alumni association. Have Zephyr produce the same hat, but with the alumni NT-star instead of the SOW. You'll sell out of them.

My Longhorn connected friend said prepare for the scramble of the Big 12 leftovers when Texas and OU break away. Expansion does not impact UT as they will be gone sooner than later and the rest of the league is going to be scrambling to get into one of the powers. There will be leftovers and those are the programs we need to be aligning with. I agree the MWC is more stable than AAC at this time. They have more history with each other and will weather this thing together. Doubt they are looking at Eastern programs for expansion at this time, but we should try. I think CUSA and Sun Belt eventually merge. GMG

I've been talking about expectations on here since I joined this board. It's the pulse of a program. I am finally starting to read things that have me thinking we have a slightly palpable pulse. Not radial, we're not there yet. But there's definitely something there in the carotid. Bravo.

On (Robot Greggo voice) - Fry Street.

Brb...uploading your grandfather's shady past to an imugr Wonka meme to post later.

Probably somewhere in between both points: Coach Mac failed to recruit, and - by all accounts of those that were there - players failed to try against PSU.

Nothing gave me a reason to live like the fireworks of shame over at Fouts.

See the reactions of the crowd and other fans after the Nichols State game, LOSING is has far more to do with the discontent than playing FCS teams. If we are winning most games, especially at home, the crowds will improve. We really, really need some wins. I don't see a lot coming this year, but I hope it's more than one.

So you know all of these donors? You know their story? They personally told you that they don't care about winning?

What was this thread actually about? The only thing I took from it was that UNT90 and some other dude don't like each other.

@unt90 Yes he did. That is how it is written. Some of your comments are equally as bad towards donors. I guess for some giving is not good enough it's HOW you give.

Too bad you carry all that anger from getting cut from every teams you tried out for....it's what you don't say, as you say. Life is actually a pretty good ride if you let it.... Part of the fan experience you will never know with the bad attitude....

No, it's that I think that the current athletic facilities arms race is idiotic and unreasonably raising tuition. The Pit needs an upgrade. Football locker room needed a slight touch-up. What we have should be top-tier facilities, but no, we're spending oodles of taxpayer money so that kids can have six 60" TVs to watch their performance versus Bethune-Cookman or Portland State.