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For those of you that missed it: http://www.wfaa.com/sports/Kenneth-Lyons-gets-degree-28-years-later-125053089.html

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All kidding aside, because Dan McCarney is much more experienced than either Darrell Dickey or Todd Dodge were, I don't think he should be given the same latitude those two were to lose. Again, if we claim coaching makes a difference, we can't also give excuses. This is a very experienced staff McCarney has put together, and they've been given the keys to a great new facilities in one of the three top football recruiting hotbed states in the country. I'm not saying the man should take us to a league title in year one (or, wait, I did predict that already :-D ), but if we have three wins or less this year, that isn't a good sign. The Sun Belt just isn't that strong. We picked up three Belt wins with an injury-depleted team in a season with its coach fired mid-season in 2010. The experience of McCarney and his coaches alone should be enough for one or two more Belt wins...and possibly the upset of Tulsa.

Well done! Excellent interview and video clips. Congrats again to Kenneth Lyons (our first row pal/coach at the Pit)! Let's really make a statement. It's time this fall to retire the first men's jersey #. How about at the LSU home game??

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-03/republicans-may-accept-mini-debt-ceiling-deal-cornyn-says.html this is what they campaigned against...... about a week and a half ago (or so) a majority of republicans and democrats voted to condem the American involvement of the bombing campaign in Libia. Some elected leaders spoke as if they were at the Alamo and drawing a line in the sand. Then they went back and voted to fund the bombing campaign....almost en mass. I am reminded of John Kerry's famous statement of I voted against it before I vote for it. .... or maybe it was the other way around. As I have stated in the past there is not a nickel's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats. Every 2-4-6 years we vote to see who is going to engineer the train. At one time I believed that the two separate parties were on separate trains going in the same direction but at different speeds. Since Bush #1 and going forward I have been convinced that both parties are on the same train. Take off your blinders, be objective,and look the information up on the computer.

I was just told by Thomas Sitton, the Head Coach/AD at Chapel Hill High School (just outside of Tyler), that UNT has offered three of its soon-to-be seniors: Rex Rollins - running back Andrew Tucker - running back and brother of Matthew Tucker, back at TCU Sir Calvin Wallace - a defensive lineman (tackle, if I remember correctly) So where is the connection from Chapel Hill to UNT? I quote from his email to me: "Coach Jeremy Loyd our WR coach played for Coach McCarney at Iowa State and just loves him". What got me started on this was the item in Vito's Blog today that said Chapel Hill was a stop on UNT's summer camps schedule (little ole Chapel Hill, a country, 3-A school among all of the big communities mentioned in the blog) - so I emailed Thomas and asked for details of when the camp would be at Chapel Hill. Wednesday, June 15 4 - 8 PM Sitton will have some athletes in the next few years that are going to be something else. Hopefully, our Mean Green get their share.

Sorry, no link to this article. Moderators can delete if necessary. The Land of Fruits & Nuts just gets nuttier. They just can't figure out that high taxes & over-regulation kills business, jobs, & investment. California Disinvestment Accelerates By Kevin Brekke Poor California. The land of dreamin' in the '60s has awakened from a long slumber to find itself at the bottom of a dog pile of bummed-out karma. That the state is once again being steered by Gov. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown is an irony not lost on the hopeful denizens of a once-great state looking for redemption. Yet, deliverance from the economic and regulatory sins of several past decades will not be easy. The recent passage of a budget in California at the eleventh hour includes the usual mix of budget cuts, tax increases, and questionable accounting. It also places a heavy reliance on accurate tax revenue estimations that carry penalties should the state fail to meet them. The budget will ultimately stand or fall on the expectation by legislators that the state will capture $4 billion in tax collections beyond the previous estimate. If this wish upon a star does not come true, the budget will get whacked by another $2.6 billion. A Bad Assumption Missing from the entire budget process and estimation game is an examination of a crucial assumption: that the tax base will remain stable. That is, will the number of overburdened taxpayers and businesses that foot the bill for all the spending remain fairly constant? Evidence is mounting that the answer is "no." I covered this question in previous articles that take a look at how a state should not be run. A synopsis of the theme would read: Today, there are multiple combat lines being incised between a number of fiscal, economic, as well as ideological forces. Of all the various combatants, the U.S. states are emerging on the frontlines of the fight. And some of their tactics are encouragingly following free-market principles. Recent events suggest that a battle for tax revenue has commenced, pitting high-tax states against low-tax states. Those "recent events" refer to falling - or a stunted rise in - state corporate-tax revenue and back-of-the-pack growth performance in gross state product, population, employment, and overall tax receipts in high-tax states such as California. Another dog just landed on this pile of bad news courtesy of Joseph Vranich, publisher of The Business Relocation Coach blog out of Irvine, California and a consultant who tracks the movement of businesses. His latest research on California concludes: Today, California is experiencing the fastest rate of disinvestment events based on public domain information, closure notices to the state, and information from affected employees in the three years since a specialized tracking system was put into place. • From Jan. 1 of this year through this morning, June 16, [California] had 129 disinvestment events occur, an average of 5.4 per week. • For all of last year, we saw an average of 3.9 events per week. • Comparing this year thus far with 2009, when the total was 51 events, essentially averaging 1 per week, our rate today is more than 5 times what it was then. Our losses are occurring at an accelerated rate. Also, no one knows the real level of activity because smaller companies are not required to file layoff notices with the state. A conservative estimate is that only 1 out of 5 company departures becomes public knowledge, which means California may suffer more than 1,000 disinvestment events this year. The capital directed to out-of-state or out-of-country, while difficult to calculate, is nonetheless in the billions of dollars. The full list of companies that have announced plans to disinvest in California is available via the above link, as well as other dismal data about the current condition of business regulation in the state. It is worth noting that a disinvestment event entails more than simply a business packing up and heading elsewhere. There are several actions that a company can pursue that are detrimental to the state, and Vranich breaks them down into the following six categories: • Construction of a facility is cancelled due to California's costs, taxes, or environmental regulations. • Full or partial closure. Work shifted to competitors who will perform the work out of state. • Capital directed to out-of-state growth that in the past would have occurred in California. • Company considered moving into California but went elsewhere, a decision termed a "U-turn." • California lost a new facility to another state or country. • Out-of-state relocation. Where Is Everybody Going? And Why? The top destinations for company relocation or diverted investment include: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Mexico, Canada, and India also made the list. It is no coincidence that some of the states listed here are also routinely ranked as low-tax states by third-party research organizations. The decision-makers at the companies were interviewed and asked what factors led to a determination to leave the state or redirect investment. Not surprising that, again, taxes and regulatory burdens rank as a significant deterrent. Other incentives to look outside the state include: expensive location; dreadful legal fairness to business; and an excessively adversarial business climate. Chief Executive magazine calls California the "Venezuela of North America." And as if it was needed, a new incentive for businesses to leave the state was enacted on April 12, 2011, in the form of a new law requiring utilities to acquire one-third of their power from renewable sources within nine years. California is already home to electricity rates twice the national average. Rates are estimated to increase from 19% to 74% when the new regulation is fully implemented. Further, the upcoming "California Global Warming Solutions Act" has the potential to place overwhelming hurdles that do not exist in other states and countries in front of local companies. The good news is that California continues to set the standard on how not to run a state. It's an example that other states are paying attention to and plying the dunderheaded decisions of California legislators to their advantage. Free-market competition between states for business investment, and hence jobs, is under way, and will absolutely intensify as budget deficits squeeze a growing number of U.S. states. A similar scenario is likely in play for individual California taxpayers as well, although statistics on this are hard to come by. As employers flee the state, it seems logical that job seekers will follow. And as the tax burden for funding government grows faster than the tax-paying population, look for a greater number of taxpayers to become former California taxpayers. The time for dreamin' is long past. It is the dawning of a new tax age for state governments.

Your dancers are that old ? Bummer.

National, sir...

GWTOGMT -- who knew it was so regional?

Listening to some sports talk last week. Too lazy to find the actual article but heres another one. A study was done listing the schools with the most major violations. Only schools participating in D1 football were used. No real shockers other than Wichita State. The usual suspects made appearances, Ariz St. was # 1. On the radio show they also spoke of the schools with NO violations. I believe only one powerhouse, Penn St. was on that list. There were a lot of private schools, probably b/c they don't have to adhere to the open records act. Only two Texas schools, Rice and North Texas were on the list. Kind of proud of that.

For people who seem to fancy themselves as highly intelligent, Californians just never seem to "get it". It is probably not because there are not intelligent people left in California but because they have just lost control of the ballot box to the something-for-nothing crowd. Good article!

I always thought it was because of this:

Your football and basketball still sux.

So you're telling me there's a chance!

I've heard of the Kilgore Rangerettes, and the Tyler Apache Belles but I've never heard of the Texas State Strutters. Is the football team also called the Strutters ? Does this mean the Texas State Strutters also will be forced to travel from Ruston LA. across half a country to Seattle, WA ?

I can't keep track of all the feuds... In this thread.

May I ask why you have a high school drill team member as your avatar?

I have seen this BS argument from a lot of people, but I do not think you made it with any malintent. UNT got extremely lucky with the timing of the building of the football stadium. At the time UNT "got in" to building the stadium, construction costs were extraordinarily low. What we built would cost significantly more than $78 million dollars if we were just starting to build today. I'm sure the Houston stadium will be nice, but don't act like it is going to be in a different league or something, especially when the material costs are going to be much more expensive when you guys begin construction.

Scott; Enjoy the day...you own it! Thanks for all your support of the Mean green! Have fun!

Leinenkugel's Ballyard Brewery. It closed in 2003 though and the price of gas to go to their micorbrewery just doesn't make sense when you have the Beer Barn available on Bonnie Brae.

Happy Birthday, Scott. Enjoy the coolness with your family. I hope that you have as many birthdays ahead of you as you've celebrated in the past.

Happy Birthday sir, Idaho sounds like an awesome present to me.

Happy B-Day man!

great piece by Paul Harvey http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977047507

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ePaETGQZ0

I think if Dan the Man doesn't win 7 games this season, he should be on the hottest of hot seats...maybe one and done. We are paying him too much money to have anything less than 7 wins

It really is time to let go....

This is why Fox News exists (and thrives). Funny how the free market has a way of giving the consumers what they want. To think that Fox has somehow brainwashed Americans is, well, pretty arrogant and shallow thinking. America is a center right country. The media, as shown in study after study after study is insanely left as compared to the majority of Americans. The below is from a Pew research poll conducted months after Fox News started programming (1996) and long before it was labeled the Evil Empire by most liberals: Exhibit 1: The People & The Press, 1997 One of the most comprehensive surveys of the public’s general opinion of the media was done in 1997 by the Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, formerly known as the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press. This research compared poll results from the mid-1980s with the late-1990s, (using identical questions) and determined a growing percentage of the public realize the media are biased, inaccurate and an obstacle to solving problems. Two-thirds (67%) said they agreed with the statement: “In dealing with political and social issues, news organizations tend to favor one side.” That was up 14 points from 53 percent who gave that answer in 1985. # Those who believed the media “deal fairly with all sides” fell from 34 percent to 27 percent. # “In one of the most telling complaints, a majority (54%) of Americans believe the news media gets in the way of society solving its problems,” Pew reported. # Republicans “are more likely to say news organizations favor one side than are Democrats or independents (77 percent vs. 58 percent and 69 percent, respectively).” # The percentage who felt “news organizations get the facts straight” fell from 55 percent to 37 percent. # The public also condemned the media’s intrusiveness: “Nearly two-thirds (64%) now believe TV news programs unnecessarily invade people’s privacy, rather than intrude only when it serves the public interest.”

Your point being . . . ?

--Actually he said 51.... He was counting DC.... which also casts electorial votes....Thus 51 places to get/lose votes. Sort of dumb comment but everyone here even when thinking about what they are typing (and not just instantly commenting) makes a few crazy comments. If that is the worst thing he has said (it isn't) then we are in good shape.

---Guess she can now stand on her front porch more and wave at the Ruskies.... who are hundreds of miles away but she thinks she can see from there. ---There is a Gay Rodeo Assn...??? You can learn a lot from reading Rick's posts.... Are you going to tell us more about it?

And I'd point the cynics to my lower nether regions and ask them to suck it. Integrity above all else.

Ya...maybe if you're a Communist.

Meh

Great game nonetheless.

DRC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I guess if you like girls marching around and kicking the air, then they're probably alright. Here's a link for you: NT Dancers

Now as to why I have a strutter as my pic? I'm simply an ambassador, showcasing Texas State's prime collection of beautiful women to others from universities who aren't as blessed to see trim like this day-in and day-out.

Texas State Strutters? From their website.. This organization is unique in that it was the FIRST precision dance team formed at a four-year university and is currently the largest in the nation. For 51-years Strutters have served as ambassadors for Texas State University on state, national and international levels with performances in 24 countries spanning 4 continents. One of the most impressive honors was their selection as the first U.S. dance team to perform in the People’s Republic of China. Other highlights include: two Presidential Inaugural Parades, numerous NFL & NBA halftime performances, the nationally televised Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®, MTV’s Total Request Live, a national television commercial for Coca-Cola, appearances in five movies, and recently, the Texas State Strutters represented Texas State University and the City of San Marcos in the NBC network television program, “America’s Got Talent,” out-performing hundreds of acts to reach the live semifinal round of competition.

Meh, what UTSA is doing is unprecedented. A lot of what their bonehead fans say is just that, but there's fire where there's smoke. They have solid leadership and are recruiting nicely for a team who has never played a down of football.

Yes, the WAC needs to find an eighth football member by 2014. I'd look for LaTech to rule the WAC in 2012, but NMSU won't be second.. maybe Idaho, but not NMSU

Hmmmm, I thought Memorial day and Veterans day were set aside for the Men and Women who serve on "the front lines". Maybe you meant to say that people in the military service of our nation don't automatically get the day off.

POW!

Your liberal gay cowboys are like your kids. You don't love 'em cause they're good, you love 'em cause they're yours!

The media has its share of conservative douches and liberal douches. Not sure what the fuss is about. If more people were just in the middle moderate I think it would be great. Just my thought.

The current proposal puts the new stadium basically in the same location as the current stadium. So we do have demolition costs, but we do not have land acquisition costs.

Reliant would be the temporary home. Not really sure how it would affect attendance. Playing on campus with the great UH tailgate scene definitely has its benefits, but playing temporarily in a world class facility might have a positive effect too. The atmosphere will definitely suffer. The revenue will likely suffer too due to paying rent and lack of concessions/parking. But you take a temporary loss for the benefits later.

A nice game of Tug of War with SMU over the best recruiting class locally. The Ponies just picked up the services of KState transfer (Arlington Grace Prep) Nick Russell. Good pickup for the the Mustangs.