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Well, with the momemtum we will have coming off the win @ Alabama, I think Indiana should be a bit worried.

FIU doesn't scare ValleyBoy because I will be at the game Thursday night and the Mean Green have never lost a game that ValleyBoy has been at.

Coaches show tonight...YES! OK, but let's not forget my adopted player...OUR STARTING DEEP SNAPPER.....drum roll please....TROY KOKJOHN! I always wish they would announce the special teams as well although I know many of the players on the special teams are sort of "fluid" from week to week, but we do have some regulars...like punter, place kicker, holder & deep snapper. These guys are "starters" or "first teamers" as well....at least in my book. "I love me some special teams". It has been sort of a tough love the last few years, but I am thinking this year our special teams will make a positive difference in the outcome of some close games.

But the repercussions can last a lifetime.

Now this is the kind of music I'm looking forward to hearing in the new stadium. It is so DAMN loud y'all won't believe it! I just spoke with Mike Gallop the team's equipment manager and he said the first one really caught them by surprise inside the teams lockerroom. And there's this crazy ghost-like freight train echo immediately following each shot. Sounds like a Scott Davis pass zinging overhead. A special thanks go to coach McCarney for stopping by and visitingng with me and the new Cannon Crew. And a huge thank you goes out to all those who helped put today's event on, including Meangreenfreak and SoundMan. Both of these guys are currently working on getting the Bell and Model A up and going again. Without great alumni like these I don't know where we would be? Rick

Haikus are for bad news. Look it up; it's in the thing.

Greetings Everybody, Here's to a good game on the 10th, and a great opening to your stadium. Two of us are making the trip up for the game and will be joining my aunt, who teaches school in Denton, for the game. So I'm looking for three tickets. Unfortunately, my ticket search via the North Texas website offered us tickets in the back corner, near the endzone. Tickets via the UH website are even more expensive and the visitors section are pretty bad seats. Stubhub has some available for exorbitant prices. Ebay doesn't have any available. Does anyone have 3 tickets for good seats you'd be willing to sell? Alternatively, any suggestions on finding good seats on the internet? Lastly, what kind of crowd are you expecting?--if the games not a sellout, I'd be game to pick up tickets outside the stadium in the hour before the game. Thanks so much. Feel free to email/pm me. barrettestess@gmail.com

He may have had surgery, but I am still convinced that at least it's partly that his future is so bright.

When Sydney Graham started yelling "Go Mean Green!" back in the mid-60's, she was talking about the DEFENSE. We should never forget that.

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Thank you for the kind words, I had a lot of help, especially from Alex Balic finalizing and cleaning up my dirt dobbin welds on the fabrication. I don't know why but I forgot to get a group shot of all those who have contributed with Boomer. Maybe prior to or after a game some time? By the way I also learned there is going to be pyrotechnics set up inside the stadium as well which should make for a great atmosphere on game day. Rick

As a D-1 program FIU has never won their first game of the season. They are not as scary good as some would have us believe. The question we will answer is are we as scary bad as some would have us believe. I think the gap between the two programs is a lot closer than what is perceived. And I prefer my green go go juice with a splash, a dash of bitters and a twist.

We have a lot more weapons on offense than we did last year. We are patching together a line, but I have a feeling that the o-line that shows up Thursday will be just as good (maybe even better) than last years. Oh, and we have the same OC that we had last year, so no learning curve there for anyone. All we have to do this year is just get a bit more push and/or aggressiveness in the DL, and more push from the DE's, and we win about three more games than last year. We'll be as good as last year in the LB corp, and better in our DB play.

I happened to be there this morning in the parking lot. It scared the absolute crap out of me each time it went off. It is unbelievably loud. Just deafening. Well done Rick, well done.

Bad seats? There are none at Apogee. Seriously, I walked around and tried to find some. They don't exist. This ain't Robertson.

Does your aunt live in Denia?

yes.

How about everyone in Apogee Stadium's first game ever!

I know know what GMG.com needs! A fry street construction cam! I know of a certain construction company that may have a webcam they might not be using anymore.

For some Fry street will never be the same. They enjoyed people urinating on the sidewalks, running into the drunk high school kids with their skateboards, the college drop outs still wanting to act like they are actually college students, the vomit on the sidewalks, each and every weekend, etc., etc. To be fair, some of us will also miss the great hangouts like the State Club, the Tomato, etc. But, Fry Street has long ago lost it's "luster" as unique and attractive place to hang out. It has pretty much become a "dump" and in it's present and recent past forms was doing no one much good. One may or may not like some of the ever-so-evil to some corporate money that is flowing into the area, but it is beginning to move forward with redevelopment and may one day return to a vibrant and economically sound area for both the city and the college students. Fry Street long ago stopped being a great place to hang out. It's time to move along. Very happy to see the re-development beginning.

You mean it's being given a much needed facelift? Fry is a dump right now. It needs to be upgraded

http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205251629&DB_OEM_ID=1800 Kyle White was a Dodge signee.....so I have no idea why he wasn't on scholarship. Anyway, guess he was off, and has now earned his way back. Congrats to all three of these guys!

Did anyone else watch the Saints-Raiders game last night? PC looked good, however he didn't get in until the 4th quarter(probably not a good sign). He had 4 carries for 48 yards with a long of 26 yards. He's probably caught up in the numbers game with N.O. already having Pierre Thomas, Mark Ingram, and Darren Sproles ahead of him. Joique Bell also had several carries. Maybe he'll show enough that another team may pick him up if he gets cut.

good find nazi! hahah...luckily, i teach math...not language arts.

No "UL-Upickem", or "F_U"? What is the world coming to? Did ESPN forget about the Sun Belt?

Happy Birthday 93-98!

“The talent level for this conference — and for college football — is good. We have guys who can play." Read more http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/sports/stories/DRC_UNT_Bowen_0829.10ed1e2cb.html

This, coupled with the "cozy confines" of Apogee will surprise many of the "old nestors." This is going to be so different from Fouts that some of these folks have no idea what they are going to experience in about 12 days. The mild reaction to Boomer, the ability to sit and visit during a game with your old friends, etc.., is going to be a thing of the past. Apogee will be rocking, loud and what a true stadium should be like. We are about to finally experience what a real home field advantage is all about. If Boomer is that loud, think what a 300 member Green Brigade with 30,000 people yelling is going to sound like. I may purchase some earplugs and send my boys out through the crowd selling them! Can't wait.

' Rick and Ed sold the place and the new guy (Scott) ran it into the ground and allegedly burned it down. He covered it up by claiming that the floors had just been refinished and that he was in New Mexico when the fire actually went down. Not sure if he ever got in trouble. Ed went on to open the Curtain Club in Deep Ellum, Rick bought Ed out of the other half of Muthers. Muthers is now The Garage but Rick still owns it. I wouldn't classify either one as bad people, the bad people are down the road a little bit (just my opinion) Btw, Ricks was reopened as 'The Inferno' as a play on its previous demise. That owner was the same guy that used to own Karma Kafe. When that didn't work out, the building sat empty for a long time. It just opened back up a year or so ago but it got a complete facelift and their back patio beer garden is really popular. The guys that bought The Tavern from me also just sold and the new blood is keeping the name and really sprucing the place up. The Tomato was great and is misses but Crooked Crust is pretty darn good pizza. I actually liked TJ's better than The Tomato. Good times.

I think your best bet would be to get tickets from the UH athletic department and sit with your own kind....hope you enjoy the stadium.

ricks had kickass concerts!!! saw the nixons there too many times to count!!!

Judging from an article in the Houston Chronicle, it appears to me that there are a lot of decision makers at aTm higher than the AD that are driving aTm's impending departure. It's about money--obviously--but there are interesting comments in this piece. Maybe Byrne is tied up in a closet somewhere, but he sure isn't the one ramrodding this deal. Ags ************************************************************************ After Texas A&M took the bribe, er, accepted the generous "incentive" from Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri (divorce settlement funds from Colorado and Nebraska) to remain in the Big 12, school president R. Bowen Loftin said what an educator should say about why his Aggies did not jump to the Southeastern Conference. In a letter to Aggies, the first major factor Loftin listed against the move was concern about "the demands placed on our student-athletes, in terms of academics, time away from the classroom." Unless Tuesday's earthquake along the Eastern Seaboard shifted Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia a few hundred miles west, academics don't mean as much in Aggieland as they did a few months ago. Then again, are a few missed classes by some athlete-students really worth depriving Alabamans, Mississippians and Georgians of the Aggies mystique that people in Texas have taken for granted for so long? Of course not. Oh, I know that the word "athletics" isn't anywhere in the school's official mission statement, but come on, so much of its identity is wrapped up in how its athletic teams fare. One way to improve image is to hang around a better class of people. Those scoundrels in the SEC are the class of the college football world. Perhaps they will be nicer to the Aggies than the burnt-orange crowd in Austin, where DeLoss Dodds sometimes sounds like a certain boxing promoter. "That's America," he told the Chronicle's David Barron about Texas' $15-million-a-year Longhorn Network. As Loftin pointed out in a statement Thursday: "Ultimately, we are seeking to generate greater visibility nationwide for Texas A&M and our championship-caliber student-athletes." Aside from accidentally putting student before athlete, he is on point. Visibility trumps tradition, right? The last time Loftin used "ultimately" it was about the above-the-table "incentive." "Ultimately, by remaining a member of the Big 12, we were able to more than double our financial return to the levels being offered by other conferences," he wrote. He brought up money again in Thursday's statement. "As a public university, Texas A&M owes it to the state's taxpayers to maximize our assets and generate additional revenues both now and well into the future," he said. That's America Amen. Athletic departments are supposed to be profitable. Well, ultimately, they aren't. But school presidents aren't required to tell you that. That's America. Anyway, the $20 million a year the Big 12 guaranteed A&M in TV revenues is more than the SEC gives each of its teams. And what about the departure tax that will be part of A&M's divorce settlement with the Big 12? It could be as much as $30 million, but maybe A&M can do as good a job negotiating this year's payout as it did with last year's payoff. I would love to talk to A&M athletic director Bill Byrne about this, but he is more difficult to get these days than the Longhorn Network. I pay a couple of grand a year to receive nearly every television channel known to man, but those riveting UT volleyball games this weekend aren't on any of my screens. Byrne's silence probably has something to do with his post on the school's website a year ago about A&M having made the right move (for a long list of reasons) by staying in the 10-team Big 12 instead of going to the SEC or then-Pac-10: "We are receiving the same financial dollars (we) would have received by going east or west. Plus, our operating costs are reduced. Our estimates said it would cost us an extra million dollars a year in travel to go east or west. … And, we won't have to pay as many exorbitant fees to get non-conference teams to come play us in Aggieland." According to the school's president and athletic director, a move to the SEC could hurt athlete-students' academic performances and might be worse for it financially. Overreacting a tad? Is the Longhorn Network that much of a game changer? Why not just crank up the Aggie Network? "When we built the 12th Man Productions facilities, our plan was all along to eventually put together an Aggie Network," Byrne wrote a year ago. "We are better positioned than any other conference school to do it." Oops. When Dodds read that, his hair must have stood up on his head like Don King. So Texas beat the Aggies to the punch with an ESPN partnership and the Aggies' feelings are so hurt they will make a move that could be a worse financial deal and will be a more difficult academic situation for athletes? Need I even get into it being much tougher for them to win conference and national championships in the SEC? Only in America. jerome.solomon@chron.com

It would be great to see White be a contributor this season. He is a large dude

There's also another neighbor south east of us that deserves a shot.

Could we please point the cannon to the southeast after each game and give the Denia neighbors one shot each game?

It's been reported that we sold 2,745 last year and that this year we've seen a 70 to 80% increase thus far. Going with 80% that would put us around 5K? One day we'll hopefully get to where 10K is the baseline.

"so many people asked: Would a white football player have gotten nearly two years in prison for what Vick did to dogs?" Umm, really? I really don't recall that much discussion over this. I don't know about white football players, but white people have received stiffer sentences. http://www.ohmidog.c...ears-in-prison/ "Would a regular Joe have gotten ONLY two years in prison for what Vick did to dogs?" seems to be the better question. The hand-wringing over Michael Vick and giving him a second chance to make millions just because he can throw a football is an indictment of what professions we value in society. If this kid poured concrete or painted houses, nobody would give a crap that he actually had to go serve time for his abuse of animals.

I'll take "sentences I never expected to see" for $400. Did Captain Jack give 'em what for??

How do I go about joining this booser club? Not that I don't do just fine on my own.

What if those little keys on a piano were white?

It was slightly disappointing to me too, but I guess I can't think of a season where we beat Tech at home, destroy LSU, and are less than a minute away from the Big Dance as a failure. Can a disappointing season also be successful? That's how I perceived it.

Sounds like our young energetic females will spend a considerable portion of the weekend wet.

Funny guy...I could care less what the clinical definition of preventive care is...I care about what helps people maintain a healthy life. Going to a doctor for a check-up and finding out you are fat and need to lose weight because you are now susceptible to type II diabetes is not keeping you healthy in any way shape or form...maintaining a healthy life style may well have PREVENTED that condition in the first place and REDUCED the guys cost of health care in the first place...and the taxpayers under your idea of "civilized nation" status...so again...if you don't think maintaining a healthy life style is preventive care, you are kidding yourself. NO, your employer doesn't. You are not required to take out that insurance and are free to find you own or go without. It's a choice...you have NO choice in the government sponsored program...what is so hard to figure out about that? The Naval comparison is legit and points to what happens when care is seen to be "free". I have definitely made a choice on my insurance. I chose NOT to take the coverage provided by my employer and chose to find it elsewhere...which I did. See, I had a choice and I availed myself of that choice...you could too, you just choose not to do so...that's what choice is all about. It doesn't mean it costs less, but it also doesn't mean that you have no choice. You in fact have made a choice which those folks in your "civilized nations" don't have the right to make. So, Cuba is not a civilized nation? Is Iran? China? North Korea? They have national health care systems as well. I thought to be a "civilized nation" you had to provide national health care coverage? Really, I'm just having a little fun with you there.... So costs are skyrocketing...so, let's make it better and see costs go even higher with choices limited through a national health care plan? Not my idea of a good choice. Again, nanny state vs personal choice and personal responsibility. You decide. I've made my decision. Now we can all see where it goes and learn to live with it either way.

Why stop at calling out football for not being good yet? Why not just start firing shots across all of our programs? Look, I love the basketball too, but you know it's not a zero sum game and that being good in football would help us be better at basketball, right?

He also has only one score listed...DURING his presidency. That's not much to average. The fewer ranking marks you have, the less valid the score (and no score is valid while someone is still IN office). It's really not fair to include any president on those lists that has been out of office less than about 50 years. I'd actually say none of us can accurately judge any president that left office from around our HS years onwards, because we have too much of a personal attachment (either for or against) to their terms. The reason I throw 50 years post presidency is because that would basically mean most of the people that were really around for that respective president's time in office would be moving into the twilight of their life (or deceased depending). And most of the historians would have grown up (or perhaps even been born after) the presidents they are passing judgement on were long gone. I could just as easily say 75-80 years to make it more an absolute thing, but I think 50 works pretty well.

I think this grenade is not lobbed at the heroes of the Mid-Cities the way you all took it. If I had to guess, it's probably not meant to go much further than DFW airport.

That wouldn't be a very loving thing to do...

I agree with the basic concept your "Marketing 101" idea (although I really question your apparent sports marketing professor), but as much as I personally love Chase Baine, seeing him catch a few balls is not going to make me say OMG if I am not already a current fan. I don't think the Cowboys win any new fans at San Antonio training camp, but they let the current fans deepen and expand their relationship with the team. Once we win a few games and build the base a bit more, I totally agree it's the time to start looking at doing that, but I'm not going to begrudge anyone for not giving me that experience now.

As a Texas teacher for the past 27 years, I will vote for him for president. If for no other reason than to get him out of Texas. I hope to be able to say "adios mofo" to slick Rick in November of 2012.