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I thought by now someone would say Tony Mitchell.

Chris Bynes in the Study with a candlestick

classy. Just keep it away from the family pack sections in the wing zone.

If you know the fight song, and sing it like everyone should, you are referring to UNT as the Eagles. A song that has remained our's and unchanged long before the internet. You're welcome to disagree, but I think our Fight Song takes precedent over a web page that receives more changes than a character in a Robin Williams movie montage. It's only confusing if you can't make a distinction between a mascot and a moniker. We are the Mean Green. And we are the Eagles. They both can be official, because I think one is the apple and the other is the orange. As long as this discussion is rehashed in the spirit of educating newer generations of Mean Green fans, I'm all for revisiting it.

I heard they will be entering the field to "Purple Haze."

http://www.kvue.com/...-165007846.html I'm just curious to get all your opinions on this. I'm not from the area, but I do understand Texas' obsession with high school football. But I think this goes a bit too far. I don't know much about the Allen ISD, except that the high school is massive (my suitemate last year graduated from Allen, he said the graduating class was something like 2,000). But even if the school has vast academic resources and is not starving for money, imagine the amount of good things that could come of investing $60 million in academics. I mean, if you needed a bigger stadium (which they didn't, the old one fit 14K apparently and this one fits 18K), you didn't need to spend $60 million on it. Spending $5 million on a high school field seems absurd to me. I understand that it houses a weight room, indoor golf practice place, etc., but this is HIGH SCHOOL. Did they really need to add a 75 foot HD video board? I don't know, maybe I'm just a bit bitter. Rhode Island's public education is a joke right now, all the school systems are starving for money and they keep hiring superintendents that command $250K salaries. The school I graduated from was one of the nicer public schools in the state, and one of the largest, but even we struggled to buy new textbooks, especially for AP classes, and hire/retain good teachers. Luckily due to a couple of federal grants we won, we were able to upgrade and expand the campus, which was fantastic, and put in a state of the art music lab.But, the political system in the education dept. was corrupt. They cut trade classes, like woodshop and autoshop. And they're cutting art and music programs throughout the department. Yet they had enough money to give the ALP* kids all iPads. So, maybe I'm just bitter, and unaware of how well the public education system in Texas is actually doing. Thoughts on this everyone? I guess one other thing to worry about is if other school systems try to follow suit or even outdo this. This could be the opening of a dangerous Pandora's Box. *ALP: Assisted Learning Program. Essentially this was a group of about 15 kids who were chronic trouble makers that should actually have been removed from the school, but the state had no where to put them, and had to keep them somewhere. So what the school decided to do was create an alternative program for them, where they'd learn in isolation from the rest of the student population, but take Phys. Ed. and lunch with the rest of the students. The program was designed to "help" (cater to) these kids, so they're allowed to have major temper tantrums (throw desks, swear, walk out of class, etc.) without repercussions, because they have "home problems" (note: I live in a nice suburb. they may damn well have home problems but the way they act you'd think they grew up homeless in the Bronx). Essentially, they're allowed to do whatever the hell they want and as long as they do some work, they graduate in 4 years. One of the kids assaulted a dude with a bat last summer, and almost killed him, and was on trial on and off throughout the year, and he's allowed to walk free throughout the school. And yes, these are the kids they decided to buy iPads for, they were allowed to use them as long as they behave well. They bought 15 iPads for these kids, instead of buying new AP textbooks. Great school system, eh?

Perhaps they are thinking he'll switch positions.

a college student smoked pot and maybe even did a line of blow..... I cant believe it, he should be banned from the ncaa for 2 years.. I mean according to the law, if a student has one pill of aderall, that carries the same penality as a bump of blow

UNT 90 Grad..I think you are right. I know that RV wanted to de-emphasize "Eagles" in favor of "Mean Green," but I don't think it's ever been officially changed, and I hope it never is.

Your right I did not read it correctly. Sorry for any misunderstanding on my part. Hope there are no hard feelings.

I'll be going to the LSU and Houston games. Going to Baton Rouge for the party, but I'm going to Houston for a big road win!

I think is is an excellent move by Coach Benford. http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20120804-men-s-basketball-team-chemistry.ece

It has appeared that NT has not been looking for JC transfers but this latest offer shows the above JC Garrett is OT, and a soph at Trinity Valley CC, 6-8, 285, 2* other offers show Louisiana and Texas San Antonio.

I would 100% without hesitation prefer my daughter smoke pot in college rather than drink alcohol. And I REALLY would prefer she smoke pot than pop prescription pills that some quack gave her a scrip for. Lord I detest pill poppers and their indignant self righteousness because they went doc shopping until they find someone willing, so now its legal. As for cheating, the only way I could see marijuana giving one team an edge over the other is if the sport is competitive chili dog eating.

Im always amused by the "That money cold have gone to education" argument. It assumes they had $60 million sitting around and chose to spend it on football instead of calculators and textbooks. Many blowhard NT students made this same "either or" argument when the stadium was built. If the people of Allen want to spend their money on high school football that's their perogative. After the pages upon pages of the Chick-fil-A thread surely nobody can disparage where someone chooses to put their money. And no, I'm not saying you're a blowhard. Not unless you are secretly Andy Hogue.

Tevinn Cantly 96 yard INT return for TD.

I'm glad that at least no state funds were used, but it's sad that we live in a society where one can raise $60 million for high school sports in one town, and we can't raise $60 million for education. And you people wonder why the Asians are beating us! GAH! (obvious sarcasm is obvious)

The team hotel is the Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport.

Do I need to purchase my UH game tickets through the UNT box office to assure that I sit in the visitors section?

Houston for our 4. Where is the team hotel or everyone staying in houston?

A little surprised that we'd go after a juco lineman. Seems like we have a lot of depth and talent there

Yes, a "tradition" that shows absolutely ZERO class and one I hope goes away very quickly. Stormchaser, how about you being one to help send it to the trash bin where it belongs? Stuff like that is what helps some folks think poorly about UNT and the Mean Green and does not help. Edit: has nothing to do with age, has everything to do with class and respect.

Jimmerson will be something special this year

Nice. Team chemistry is crucial with the top to bottom talent that this team has. Hope this guy can provide an assist in keeping the prize at the end of the rainbow as the primary objective here. Especially this season when the competition for minutes is likely to be great.

That is such a tragic story. Growing up in Celtic land, I heard that story a few times as a kid. Definitely made me want to stay the hell away from cocaine. In fact, it still does. I'm certainly not about to go snort something that might kill me on spot. No one right of mind should ever do anything beyond drinking alcohol and smoking weed.

UNTcrazy727...that doesn't make it correct. Anyone can type anything onto a web page.. Our hand signal (the claw) was incorrect on the traditions page for a long time.

As a former RA. I can tell you that in Mid August during RA training, we go through and put football schedules in every students room and on just about every hall plus the dorm lobbys. Ive only been graduated for about 2 years so im sure they have been doing the same thing's since.

Pelican

As far as I'm concerned, our official nickname is the Mean Green, and we have the mascot of an eagle. Kind of how Alabama is the Crimson Tide, but their mascot is an elephant. The backstory on that is actually the opposite of ours...they were the Crimson Tide and someone called their defense elephants haha. But, Tulane Green Wave is another example, their mascot escapes me though.

I'm breaking up. You just don't get me.

Where is the cover up? He readily admitted his transgressions to the police when questioned, heck he even went above and beyond in admitting to snorting cocaine... If your assertion is that anyone breaking the law is a cheater, how many of our own football players are cheating by drinking underage? I'd hazard a guess at at least 8 of 10?

A Pats fan? I knew you were an atheist heathen. Go Fins!

I was there. We went out the night before and started a "you say K-St, I say sucks" chant in the middle of a bar in aggieville completely decked out in UNT merch. We were politely told by 3 rather large K St attendees "we know we suck, but if you say that again, we are going to kick your a$$." disgression and valor being what they are, we shut the hell up and apologized, I do believe. Even bought the lads a beer (very smart move at the time). It was a shocking final 1:30. Needless to say, we were very quiet in Saturday night. In defense of K St. Storming their field, they did break a 20 some odd game losing streak. Also, we were the #1 ranked team in 1AA before that game and were probably a touchdown or better favorite.

I'm not sure how marijuana enhances performance and should therefore cause TCU to be called cheaters, but I do hope the kid learns from this experience and that it makes him a better husband and father in the long run.

This Houston game should have a good amount of green. I've convinced my sister (unt grad) and brother-in-law (aggie) from Cypress to join my wife and I. We're still working on recruiting a couple more buddies from this area for the road trip but I bet we have a good looking section. I google mapped their stadium and I can't tell if this place has a decent tailgating setup for visitors. i understand that everyplace can't be apogee with it's immaculate nearby stadium parking access, friendly denton natives, coeds in boots & short-shorts, hot coal disposal drums, porta-potties, plush landscaping, and endless meadows as far as the eye can see for me to throw a canopy and grill on - but a worst case pre-game scenario for this road trip would be Lupe Tortilla beef fajitas and I can deal with that.

I am withholding purchase until I am sure he is on the team, but Lance Dunbar is the only reason I will ever be seen sporting a Cowboys jersey. Alma mater support goes before NFL fandom support though, so if he makes it I will be buying a Dunbar jersey. Maybe I can wear a Patriots hat with it to offset it haha.

LSU....No interest in going there. KState....Tickets purchased and hoping for an upset or at least a competitive game like 2010. FAU....Not making the trip this year but great memories of a fun time and an exciting victory in 2010. HOUSTON...Tickets purchased and looking forward to going into their house for a payback for last year. MUTS....Will be there to celebrate the victory in downtown Nashville. ULM....Will be there for hopefully my last trip ever to Monroe. WKU....Won't be able to make this Thanksgiving Weekend trip.

Wow, the news was so good, he converted from Atheism!

The message board for the University of North Texas, a university with a proud tradition of eagle as mascot, yet it's a chicken that is ultimately going to end up in the gmg.com hall of fame.

Coach Mac brought a Kicker, Punter, and Long Snapper in as preferred Walk-Ons. I believe all three are in school and participating in the summer work-outs.

Seriously... anyone want to play tonight? I'm bored

Hot.

Thanks Fly! Does the jumbotron replacement plan include sound or is it strictly video? I'm excited either way! No crumpled $100 bills here.

There are some noticable differences for sure: Freshman RB Mark Lewis at 217 Cooper Jones up to 224 Jimmerson up to 219 Freshman LB Jarrian Roberts at 238 Zach Orr down to 223 Chad Polk up to 226 J Phillips up to 223 Daryl Mason up to 233 Derek Akunne down to 238 Kendall Wasington up to 220 Grant Shaw up to 302 Antonio Johnson up to 311 Marcus Smith up to 238 Austin Orr up to 268 Freshman LB LaJaylin Smith at 228 Freshman DE Brad Horton at 6'6" 240 Freshman OL Ryan Rentfro at 6'4" 309 Freshman OL Connor Trussell at 6'5" 295 Freshman DE Malik Dilonga at 6'4" 248 Freshman DE Dutton Watson at 6'3" 261 The difference in the physical frames of these players, especially those recruited in the last 2 classes are very noticeable. And the strength program by Coach Wintrich is definitely paying dividends. Now let's hope these guys can stay healthy through fall camp and win a few more ballgames than the 2011 squad!

Jimmerson is in at 219 lbs? Wow, he may be my player to watch.

BOOM!

as others have stated, it makes sence for them to build the practice facility on campus instead of the meangreen village because they live at mozart... Kinda confused why they wouldnt... The reason why they put victory over at mean green village is so the athletes can be closer to there practice faciliities. So why would you change the idea?

I guess the other point being made which I think is critical to our future here is to capitalize on this by adding FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS. Just because we have tony and TJ and <insert awesomer player name here> doesn't mean that in 4 years we might possibly be back to averaging 2,000 fans per game. Yes we obviously have to win and win big next year but the way to continue forward progress is to....... YOU GUESSED IT! Show me the money. That means we have to capitalize on the team power gains by putting in concrete capital improvements: - increasing spending on game day atmosphere (gradually amp up atmosphere by spending the $$$) - Bling out the practice facility as much as POSSIBLE. - Jumbotron is a must over the next 2 years MAKE.. IT.. HAPPEN.. I don't want to hear whining about we don't own the facility. BS - MAKE IT SO. Work with the UNT administration to work out some kind of agreement. - Amp up the concessions. (Options, Quality, Staffing) Come on - with crowds averaging over 4,000 - this should be doable. I stand in the crazy lines - it needs work guys.

I think this is a fantastic idea. It would be so cool to have something like that on campus. Even for students, the stresses of classes and exams could be eased by taking a quick visit to the aviary to observe some beautiful birds.

Yeah, because that equates to what Miami has done.