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  1. 1. If you are counting on other teams to fill your stadium then you are SMU. 2. Wyoming is a very good team and a measuring stick for where we are as a program. They were 9-4 last year! 3. You need to beat upper-level Mid-majors if you want to start establishing a foundation to build on.
    41 points
  2. Congrats to long time UNT supporter and fan Rick McKinney (BBA '90) on his retirement after 30-years of public service with the Fort Worth fire department. Thank you Rick for your many contributions UNT athletics and the community. Go Mean Green!
    37 points
  3. Wyoming and the MWC are peer schools we should try to schedule. Much better than any FCS!
    29 points
  4. The Wyoming series is exactly what fans have been asking for since as long as I've been a fan ("Follow the Boise model!!!!1!!!!!!1!). We're trying to play teams we're supposed to beat... at home.
    23 points
  5. Thank y’all for the kind words. You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families. My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family. Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me. Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment, or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times. My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station. I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert. I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen post on national “Stadium Day”. So I’ll see how it goes. So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green. Rick
    19 points
  6. First year in a tough new league with a brand new coach. I give us a B.
    17 points
  7. Hard fought year. A lot of injuries and new players. But overall, I'm proud of this team and the season. Hope we can retain most of the team going into next year. I like our chances if we can.
    16 points
  8. That block call on Walker with both feet set a good 3 seconds before contact was the most disgusting egregious call I have ever seen in basketball. It boggles the f-ing mind how that was not called a charge.
    16 points
  9. Congratulations Women’s Basketball Team! IMG_0345.MOV
    16 points
  10. Honestly who cares anymore? This realignment stuff has gotten so stupid.
    16 points
  11. What Wyoming brings is a respectable G5 team that has been to four bowls the past five years and won three of them. Gimme more home and homes like this.
    16 points
  12. An iconic and passionate fan, but more important an honorable service man to the citizens of Fort Worth. Thank you for your service, Rick. On to the next chapter, amigo. GMG
    16 points
  13. Biggest game in the History of Western Civilization.
    15 points
  14. Morris has been seen visiting practices in Denton. Let's tap the breaks on this "he wants to join his dad" stuff.
    15 points
  15. That was a lot more fun than I expected this year. Transfer portal notwithstanding, Hodge has us on our way.
    14 points
  16. Considering Scott only played eight minutes and Edwards had an off night, this was a great victory.
    14 points
  17. They have a fair amount of fans and alumni down here. I wouldn't discount their attendance.
    14 points
  18. I think it was more for the opportunity to mingle with co-workers on the set...
    14 points
  19. Congrats Rick! Great NT fan and friend. Now you can continue your movie career... "There was an even larger role waiting for one new graduate. Rick McKinney (’90) was looking for a job when he was approached by Jim Hobdy (’69), then UNT’s assistant athletic director of marketing, about a request from Paramount to be in the film. "I got a call from the assistant head costumer, Barry Kellogg,” McKinney recalls, “and later that month, I met head costumer Dan Moore, who took me to Dallas to get costume fit for the Armadillo mascot suit." Letter jacket given to the players and mascot during filming on campus. As a former member of Talons who had a passion for football and served as the Eagle mascot Eppy (later re-named Scrappy) during UNT basketball games, McKinney was hired as Rowdy the Armadillo. He also served as the equipment liaison between the film crew and the athletic department. "The filming was different than anything I had ever experienced, in life, playing ball, going to school, and growing up on a farm. The people you were side-by-side with were the sweetest folks ever, but the hours were extremely long," McKinney says." https://northtexan.unt.edu/issues/2022-spring/necessary-roughness-turns-30
    14 points
  20. I know some of you don’t want to hear this but we are not very good right now.
    14 points
  21. Come on over? I prefer to support all our programs.
    14 points
  22. I'm still proud of this team, never quit.
    13 points
  23. Now that the regular season is over I thought it'd be interesting to look back to see how the newbie programs held vs "better" competition... Old Guard SMU - 4-4 Memphis - 3-4 USF - 8-1 Tulsa - 4-5 ECU - 1-7 Tulane - 1-8 Wichita - 3-4 Temple - 3-5 Overall: 27-38 New Guard FAU - 9-2 CLT - 6-5 UAB - 8-3 UNT - 9-2 Utsa - 3-8 Rice - 4-7 Overall: 39-27 I found it funny when their fans started to openly look down their nose at the programs joining the AAC. Well...
    13 points
  24. Please refer to the endless thread already discussing this…
    13 points
  25. We are all so very proud tonight of our Mean Green ladies and their outstanding win to secure a coveted inaugural AAC Championship! Also, a huge shout out to Coach Jason Burton and his assistants who did a fantastic job coaching this team! Credit to AD Jared Mosley and his staff as well as they have provided a great support structure for this program. The future is so very bright! I am also proud of what we have been able to accomplish in about 5 whirlwind months with the Mean Green Collective. We have been able to donate $191K (cash not pledges) to both the men's and women's programs. We could not have done this without the support of so many of you and we appreciate every donor that stepped up to help us. 🙏 The future is extremely bright for Mean Green Basketball and we want to help support the teams in reaching their full potential both on and off the court. The road ahead does not get any easier for us as we will have other teams coming after our players and we need to raise more money to keep them here as well as attract others. If you would like to be a part, we could use your help. Please join us at MeanGreenCollective.com. Thank you again for your support and GO MEAN GREEN!
    13 points
  26. We'll sell out against Wyoming if they very cleverly market that we're playing the Cowboys.
    13 points
  27. With the athletics department recently posting a Director of Marketing and Fan Engagement position, I thought this would be a good time to revisit some of the ideas we had - you know, us! The people who don't get paid to think of these things. Maybe we can help the new guy/gal out. This thread is for ideas other than the inevitable "Just win, baby." comment!! Some thoughts I had: Bring back the homecoming parade. The student interest/sustainability is BS. And also, pick a game that'll make the mostly unengaged alumni say, "Wow, this is good football. Our defense doesn't look like the worst in the country. I'm going to come back." Gotta be September 28th vs. Tulsa this year (November 9th vs. Army should be a higher attended game anyway). Promote the skills and productions of other student organizations at games. Organizations who may be made up of students who don't normally like sports. Have student musicians/bands perform national anthems or halftime, have pregame art galleries, screen Media Arts film festival winners at halftimes. Do whatever it takes to stabilize the Greek presence at football/basketball games. Extend tailgate season to weekend conference home games in basketball, move them inside when it's cold. Incentivize RA's to have their floors/dorms out at games. Run campus buses strategically to provide transportation to games. Go back to putting bus trips together for away games in the area (SMU, UTA, etc. etc.). Have a ticket center in the UNT Union/bookstore, somewhere almost all students visit daily, plus almost every visitor. Signage everywhere on campus promoting games. Students should never not know "when the next game is." Start a mailing campaign offering four free tickets to every household in Denton, Wise, and Cooke Counties (possibly even Collin and Grayson Counties since there are no major universities there either). Not sure what the cost of this would be, but the combined population of these five counties in 2020 was 2,216,730. So you could start with the promotion for football, at least expand it to men's/women's basketball, then depending on the cost even expand it to the other three spectator sports, although "supplies" will be even more limited for those sports. Or go county-by-county year after year. Hopefully you get several hundred or a few thousand new sales leads out of this. The next year, send the mailers out to only the households who didn't take advantage while trying to sell tickets to the people who attended. Rinse and repeat for 3-5 years. Until we can regularly fill up our student section, extend the free ticket program to Denton high school (or Denton County high school) students, maybe limiting to a certain number per school. Have each high school get their own tailgating area. This may be tricky from a liability standpoint though? If a high school kid wants an alcoholic beverage I'm sure he/she'll have no problem getting it. Work with some of the local community colleges to provide the same opportunity for football - like NCTC and Collin College. Loosen up media credential ability while we continue to get little coverage. Allow/encourage local Denton high school newspaper/video production/photography organizations to be a part of North Texas game days. Beyond our basic First Responder days, Parents weekends, work with the closeby districts who have education foundations to have "Gainesville ISD Day" or "Decatur ISD Day" at DATCU/the Super Pit where part of each ticket purchased goes to their foundation. Or could be an elementary/middle school PTO. Every TV in a public space on campus should be playing our away games for any sport. Arrange watch parties for the dorm TV's. Like student emails allows students to access Microsoft programs for free, extend this to Disney bundles (Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+). Showcase our university by operating our facilities as premier venue options. We're not getting any premier concerts after all the new venues that have been built around the area since 1974, or even 2013. But DATCU should be hosting a higher-class playoff football game every Friday/Saturday it's available till the state championship. Same with the Super Pit. What else?
    12 points
  28. 12 points
  29. 12 points
  30. #1. I totally agree #2. Also agree #3. This is not directed at you, as a lot of people use this phrase. BUT, our first football game was in 1913 and we are still talking about "establishing a foundation?".
    12 points
  31. You asked for “a reason”. Maybe you can turn this into a top 10 list based on the responses.🤣
    12 points
  32. I have to agree with this. As a green glasses guy, I would make excuses that Rubin and CJ were rusty, but it's BS. At this point, there is 0.... ZERO excuse we lose to UTSA on our home court when we are fully healthy.
    12 points
  33. If we’ve got to get his “off game” out of the way, this was the night to do it.
    11 points
  34. There's zillions of transfers that don't wind up starting at their new spot. That said, I hated losing him and I'm still mad at him but that's also selfish of me. I'm mad at the system more than I'm mad at him...but I'm still mad at him too.
    11 points
  35. NIT would be smart to invite their defending champion who is finally fully healthy
    11 points
  36. Hopefully Caponi's playbook and notes
    11 points
  37. I’ll have none of that nonsense!!! Chandler Morris was 100% never truly committed to North Texas (though there’s zero evidence to back this up), and was 100% headed to Texas State as a way to secure his father’s commitment as a coach (though there’s zero evidence to back this up), and he 100% only stayed committed to North Texas when Texas State got the guy they wanted all along who had been available in the portal for three months (though there’s zero evidence to back this up).
    11 points
  38. I’m excited to play Wyoming. An intriguing team with name recognition. One of their alums is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. We will eventually merge with MWC PAC forces. May as well see where and how we stack up. Plus that away game in the mountains is going to be sweet. GMG
    11 points
  39. Job well done, Rick, for both the fire department and UNT athletics...now you have more time to spend on your desired passions! Will always remember you taking my nephew to spend a day/night at the fire department when he became interested in being a fire fighter...still one of the highlights of his life! Didn't go that route but he was so impressed and you only knew me as fellow Mean Green fan. Thanks and congratulations to a great guy!
    11 points
  40. This is what USF does, first game is at USF even for a 2-1. We should do the same and only schedule teams that will go to Denton first or have an exorbitant buyout clause like $5-10m if they want to cancel the game in Denton.
    11 points
  41. TEs were not particularly great in this offense last year. Yes, his coaching/recruiting connections helped a lot last year. Give Coach O a raise and hire a TE coach with DFW ties.
    11 points


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