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Dream world, or just being realistic. It would be disasterous financially to join the Big East considering the travel costs alone. Some of you lose sight of that fact just because you could be in a confernce with UConn and Cincy, who have been marginally successful in football and are looking to move to the ACC at first choice. That same conference they are running away from that includes UConn (marginal football/see what happens to BBall with Calhoun's retirement), Cincy (trainwreck of Turbeville as HC in FB, and so-so BBall after Huggins left) and Houston (good football/basketball-who knows) also includes the likes of Temple and Tulane that have zero appeal. Well, Tulane has New Orleans. The Big East is slowly withering away. Being in a conference with regional teams is the most financially responsible thing we can do at this time.

I tend to agree with this but for two points. 1. I believe there are some wealthy alums who want to give money to have baseball. If they want to give millions you allow them to do it. If they are happy, they will be much more likely to give when you need money for other projects. 2. It may make us more desirable to other conferences to have baseball. I don't see why it would because it's not really a revenue sport, but then again I'm also not invited to conference meetings where these things are discussed. So if it makes that kind of impact, then you do it.

So they will stop doing something that is against the rules in favor of doing something that is against the rules and against the law? If that is the case, I have some serious doubts about the University's ability to educate these kids.

Two New Players and a Team Captain Added: Lance White - UNT All Century Team nominee at linebacker '84-'86) has signed on to play and has agreed to Captain one of the squads. Keith Chapman - UNT All Century Team nominee at placekicker ('85-'88) and teammate of Lance White has also agreed to play!!! Really happy to have you both...welcome to GMG.Com Bowl X...appreciate your support!

I think some here would take a free ticket to the sinking Titanic... after all it was the elite ship of the time. [ BE too unstable ]

A better scheduling plan would have saved this school 400k.tou know, like getting at least a 2 for 1 against Iowa. Lets not forget we were scrambling to fill this hole in the schedule with a 1 and done because we had no slots for a 1 and 1 due to a very poor sxheduling plan by the AD. I do credit the AD for fixing a problem that they created, though. But it's 400k that could have been put to use in a better place. Oh, and ULM just signed a one and one with Wake Forest. That's right. ULM.

Ummm... how is paying half a payout a large guarantee? Anything under $500,000 for a 1 & done is a bargin in today's college football market.

What are the ups of Jackson's reign?

"You cannot let a coach go out and recruit with one year left on his contract--he wouldn't get any kids worth a damn to commit." I'd hate to lose those bottom ten classes we're bringing in.

Craig brought it up...George jumped him about doing that....then tried to perform damage control, saying something like, "oh, weren't you choosing between something semi-important and the LeHigh-UNT game so I told you to choose the important thing". Craig argued back, saying George just told him "don't bother coming". George was not happy that Craig shared it. It was obviously not George's intent to ever let that get out. Fact remains, our play-by-play guy, and one of the most optimistic of all Mean Green faithful was just like the rest of us....beaten down by how badly this team has underachieved.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/ioc-cuts-wrestling-2020-olympics-125709336--oly.html I'm not necessarily a huge wrestling fan, but this seems like a crazy move. I mean, ping pong and badminton are Olympic sports now, and they cut an event that has been in the Olympics since ancient times?

I seem to recall people around here last year getting pretty steamed that our only home opponent was an FCS team.

90, which of Silver's original 2 statements is your follow up question addressing? I would say I agree with both of them. I hope UNT's promotions staff would aggressively pump up this game. I also believe I would rather see UNT play ID than TSU.

It may be unstable, but I'd rather figure out where to go next with UH, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, et al., than MTSU, WKU, and friends.

I agree with all of your picks except one but that's a huge difference. You pick Lynrick Pleasant, who had 3 catches for 31 yards (no score) over Darnell Smith, who had 28 catches for 379 yards and two touchdowns. My money's on Smith. This is speculation on my part but I believe that Jamal Marshall was moved to LB largely because we need bodies there. Jamal might have been half a step slow for a safety but would be a fast LB. We lose two of our four top LBs this coming year and replacements are thin.

I think the tennis complex has enough seating. I attended a match about 3 years ago. All the fans (both of us) were able to find a seat at any court we chose. When we can't get 1000 out of 35,000 students to attend basketball games (this year and last year and every year since the 70s), I think expanding the seating for tennis is not a good allocation of capital. There is a reason only Rice has such a stadium. UNT students just don't give a rat's ass about UNT athletics. When I was in school, we filled the old pit for every game. It was like Duke-UNC is now. I think some who didn't care that much about basketball just came to yell and scream Those were the most exciting athletic events I have ever attended, nothing else has ever come close. The adrenalin rush was the best high I ever had. I would go back to the apt. and couldn't sleep that night. I had hoped that I might see that again at NT, but not in my lifetime. If ever I want to see that again, I will have to go to Duke-UNC or Oklahome- OK State, but never again at NT. And before I am attacked, I hold season tickets for football, men's and women's basketball, MGC member and attend every game.

Mac said we have 107 in offseason workouts, up from 85 last year at this time. That will only help us.

They were in Fraternities, so they would probably show up for a pre-game concert and then not come in the stadium.

As apposed to the highly attractive new C-USA.....you people live in a dream world

I believe the alcohol ban is in effect while they investigate the incident with the fraternity. They did not say it was indefinite. Then, there will be the lawsuit, so the moron is trying to protect the interest of the university. Besides, at least I was told, there will be only like 2 beer stands. TABC is involved in the process and is not going allow beer to be sold at every concession stand on the alumni side. That came directly fro a person in the athletic department.

Pay for it with beer sales? Question. No Info.

Big difference in what you originally said and what you are saying here, that is where the rub comes in most of your posts. Everyone on here has opinions, big difference between that and trying to represent your opinions as fact.

Apparently Rivals doesn't care if coach Mac has 1 year or 3 years left on his contract.

Because the logo is not a part of our Branding portfolio. What's so hard to understand about that??

Build a new football stadium?

I'm drunk right now

George apparently talked Craig Miller out of coming up to Denton to watch a game because we "aren't very good". We went from being billed as a top 25 team at the beginning of the season to the play-by-play game announcer telling his former roommate to not really go watch his team. Thanks Benford and RV.

FIFY

if it results in a WIN then the money spent is well worth it. Heck, I would be perfectly fine with playing this game against a lower tier FBS opponent AND also bringing in an FCS team like TX Southern for an additional win. Just win, baby. I come to Apogee to watch the Mean Green curb stomp whoever they're playing. It could be Forestburg HS 6man team for all i care

This works for a school down the road from us. I bet we could make something like this work. But good luck anyone trying to change Rick's mind. He's the boss.

Take away the booze and you'll probably increase the drug use. Kids like to get together and let loose...

I think Lee Jackson and other 'higher-ups' would love to see "UNT" used. But apparently he doesn't care enough to bother RV, who is adamantly against using anything but "North Texas".

The Big East of today is the C-USA of a few years ago. That may not be good for the Big East, but still . . . Wouldn't you rather have/be in the C-USA of a few years ago than the C-USA of today?

baseball...what a waste of money. spend that cash on football! we shouldn't be adding sports until we've got an indoor facility and we're paying coaches like we're big time. instead, we'll be funding a non-revenue sport with what little resources we have. donors may be funding the start up for baseball, but will they be covering the total expenses every year? doubtful. football first

i just hope the kid gets his grades right and does well enough to get into UNT. He will be a great rotation guy in his first year and by year 3 should be all conference!!! Big hopes for this one (and i may be the only person that feels this way) SPEED KILLS

It's good to see you finally referring to yourself in the plural sense. Baby steps, I know, but progress all the same. Keep your chin up, Tiger.

Was told there is new TABC guy in charge for the Denton area and is not making it easy. In the club level, they stop serving booze at the end of the 3rd quarter. Bet they do the same downstairs, but I was not told anything about that, so just a guess on my part.

No way Tulsa goes now. I even see Tulane trying to reverse course. This is what happens when schools chase the $$$ and forget about a map. The money isn't there and you leave the kids flying across the country every week and lose money on all the travel costs. Add to the fact you lost any chance of visiting teams actually visiting your city. All the schools in the BE finally realized the ship they just boarded is the Titanic. The only thing to watch now is who jumps ship first.

I remember a lot of talk a year ago about how great the Feldt's would be on our o-line. At this point a couple of you don't even have either of them starting. What's the deal - overrated or injured?

I think some of these players are too nice to let Super Fan down.

I'm going to have to call this one a Mu$t Win

Please explain to me the difference in our jerseys and a Pro Combat jersey. Wouldn't they look essentially the same?

I would think those segments are pretty well planned. Either way, feel bad for George. I can't wait for a segment about us not sucking at something. We had several of those heading into the basketball season about this team. Hard to imagine when that will happen again.

If Paul Blake can be competitive at 34, surely McCoy can do it at 27.

there is no new CUSA TV deal the CUSA TV deal is already brand new and goes to 2015-16 and no other conference including the SEC has been able to renegotiate an existing TV deal because of changes in conference makeup the Big 12 was the only one that came close and that was because their tier 1 deal was set to expire i a year or two and ESPN decided to go ahead and make a deal now rather than wait the CUSA will not be breaking a deal that just started last year and goes for several more years because the networks don't have to do that and they don't have to pay more money and there is no reason for them to do so period

If we are thinking about booze we had better start thinking of ways of utilizing DCTA and the A-Train, including transportation to and from town to campus after six PM. We do not want a terrible wreck on 1-35 involving someone who has been drinking at one of our ball games (or other events). Promoting and marketing the DCTA could be a boon for all UNT events as well as for downtown businesses. That this has not been more effectively pursued looks like just another countless example of lost opportunity we have come to expect around here. Would promotional ads in the DMN or on the radio (the Ticket for example) be that expensive? With a hundred thousand alumni in the DFW area should we not be trying to get some of them up here and back home safely from time to time? Just a thought.

I'm waiting for this to be cancelled by our genius (sarcasm) administration. Whatever moron reacted without thinking in putting the alcohol ban on fraternities will probably get involved in this too.

Given your statements in other threads, the irony of this one is not lost on me.

Hopefully Benford doesn't get to run a practice here