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How awesome is it to be a freshman class of 2015 at the University of North Texas right now? I remember when I started back in 06, we had an enormous amount of problems athletically, and educationally and didnt know where the future lied for UNT. Now these freshman come in with a new stadium, renewed commitment to athletics (baseball program by the time they're seniors?) winning basketball program, new business and life science facilities, a fresh $22 million donation, plus $8 million more, and I'm sure more on the way, and new fraternity house construction (more people living on campus please) Not only this, they get free seats in the stadium. Oh, and Fry Street construction should be complete by their sophomore years. I'm jealous of them. What a great time to be a freshman. Now, if only the City of Denton could do its part.

Long walk to stadium? Sounds like we're big time.

Great, now they're going to get our SEC bid.

How is this goid fir us?

It's time for all of us not only to learn the words to our Alma Mater and Fight Song but to encourage others to learn them as well. It should be mandatory that everyone be in their seats before our team comes on the field. When the band starts the fight song and 20,000 + people are singing the words together in the stadium it will sends chills down the opponents backs. That would be the only time that everyone needed to sing the fight song together. You can if you want and it will always sound great in that stadium no matter how many are singing but the song is played to many times during the game, and thats ok! It would be awesome!!!!! Maybe only a few sing for the first time but much like the TCU chant some guy started during that game, this thing would mushroom fast. The other one is the Alma Mater. We need to play it and people need to learn the words and sing it. It is one if not the most beautiful Alma Maters in all of college football. Play 15 minutes before the game or better yet start it immediately after the game. Win Or Lose, joy or tears. It wont take long for more to join it. When the other team walks off the field to their locker room they will be moved whether they won or lost. As always..........imop

Industrial...the New Fry Street.

He ran his car into Andrew. Andrew walked away ... the car was totalled.

Guys that would be me and my girlfriend in the picture. As you can see, they are more worried about the big 12 schools. That was my only complaint about the photoshoot. I had a lot of fun, and hats off to Texas Monthly.

Hmm. I say stay in Denton. We keep saying the stadium would be beneficial to the city, so let's encourage visitors to stay here.

He peed on it.

They will have a drop off area (prob at the old hotel parking lot) where you can drop your tailgating stuu, park your cr, and walk back and set up. This really isn't any different than t any other University, folks. You wanted a better stadium and real college game day experience? Well, this is part of the package.

Oh, for sure! If you want the best, you gotta go with Frenchy's. Wait, I thought we were talking about food in this thread. Are Cougar fans moving here? Yes, we know... Apogee stadium is very nice, but you can stay in Houston.

If Leach and DMac coach up against each other in the same conference again, I wouldn't mind nabbing a second coming of Seneca.

It would be an amazing time to come into the university, but all of these changes are great for everyone with a UNT degree. Every UNT degree is worth more than it was a few years ago and it's only going to get better.

No one in Florida knows McCarney? Really? I believe he was on Florida's national championship team's coaching staff. Do you think a guy with the fire and personality that McCarney has just sat around the offices at Florida and never was seen in public? Really? Every staff in the Big XII and the SEC (to name just a couple of conferences) knows Coach Mac and so do many of the opposing fans whose teams played against Florida and Iowa State. He is a "Fry guy" and that makes him pretty well known to folks who follow college football, to high school coaches across Big XII and SEC territories and to coaching staffs across the nation. Nobody knows the guy, really? I'd take Coach Mac each and every day of the week over Leach...for many reasons. I want UNT to win and to win with respectability. I don't want a coach who is popular because he is a clown around the media, and one who really hasn't won anything...did I miss the year Texas Tech won the Big XII conference crown?

How about Mr. Chopsticks?

They're getting the better end of the stick on everything but Fry Street.

I think we're severely overrating the McCarney hire. Sure he's a respected coach but unless you're in Iowa or have some sort of connection to Mac nobody really knows the guy. Leach is known and recognizable nationwide. As for FAU getting him....I highly doubt it since he can get something a lot better. But if they do get him then more power to them...it greatly increases the perception of the league.

Say Miami gets the death penalty....does FAU's recruiting get an immediate boost? I would guess so....

What's he going to do, kick them out? Since Beebe is a puppet for Austin, it sounds like someone may need atm more than they care to admit.

I received a WKU goat leash. Not sure what to do with it?!

If you're referring to a 24 hour tailgate...there damn sure will be one. I wasn't told NT police would be out there Friday night for nothing. 6pm on the 9th I'll be there kicking it off!

So where is Beerman setting up? I want to be as far away from that noise as possible.

Wait a minute... "rides"...for children of all ages? Now I just have more questions. We talkin'. The Green Pride Log Ride? The Booster Coaster? The Villarral Carousel? I need to know how to prep my kids.

I was thinking about Nemos, Mamas Pizza and the Pick Up. But those days are long gone...

Tailgating is really not that complicated, I don't think. Go to the parking lot for which you have a parking pass. Park, then start tailgating. From what I was told, you can choose your spot up to 90 minutes prior, after that festival parking. Just like at Fouts, you can't pop up your tent and block the row unless all of the spots have been filled up. If you want to tailgate on a green area or an end cap area, get there early and back up to one of those spots, or get there later carry your stuff from where you park to where you want to be. As far as traffic, they are going to post online (maybe mail?) information on traffic patterns. Its stiil 25 days away, so I don't see any need to provide the information more than a few weeks in advance at the most. Otherwise everyone will lose it or forget it and the we will have a complaint post about how athletics didn't send out reminders on the traffic pattern.

I just lucked out and got sent to Fort Lauderdale on a business trip over Sept 1st. Guess I'll have something to do that night. See ya'll at the game. Gotta call the ticket office to see if I can get seat! Go Mean Green!

The matuation process has finally commenced.

Harry, you can't be serious? That's the famous tree from the Eagle Point Golf Course. Back in the day all golfers used that tree to, uh, relieve themselves during the course of playing a round of golf. Yes, that's the tree that goes back to and pre-dates the 1960's when I played golf on that course. Do you realize how many golfers have urinated on that tree over the course of 45+ years? Let's just say that baby could fall at any moment. Don't tailgate there! Worse, you could catch something. Or it could blind you!!

C'mon now...I have a hard time believing that a a renowned and respected pillar of journalistic integrity like Blee...oh...right...

Interesting. So having Schnellenberger, a national champion coach, as part of the league didn't do that. How will hiring someone who has never won a national or conference title going to change that? Someone that clearly no other school will touch with a ten foot pole. Did the hiring of Isiah Thomas help the perception of Sun Belt basketball?

In fairness, you are probably talking as someone who lived in Texas during Leach's entire tenure. While your average person on the street may not know who Dan McCarney is, your average person on the street outside of Texas has no idea who Mike Leach is. Now, those who follow football do, but anyone who was following college football in the late '90's knew what Coach Mac was doing at Iowa State. I'll give Leach the slight nod in name recognition, but outside of Texas the gap isn't as big as you think. EDIT: Well, it looks like MeanGreenTexan just said pretty much the same thing I was typing. Well done.

The Tomato opened in the early '80s, actually as "The Flying Tomato", a franchisee of a chain. The chain didn't survive, but the Denton location did. There were two things that made it successful: - The location, and the unique loft 2nd level, made it a great student hangout. Just before it was the Tomato, the building was a Rock & Roll club named Crossroads, and I didn't know anyone who actually went there. It was completely brick, with no windows. The Tomato renovation was incredible, and immediately drew in a crowd. - The Tomato was the only place in Texas to get a Giordano's-style (Chicago) stuffed pizza. NOT deep dish - stuffed. Especially a spinach & mushroom stuffed pizza. A High School friend of mine went to Northwestern (Evanston IL, just north of Chicago), and I had experienced Giordano's when visiting him in 1980. While the Tomato undoubtedly wasn't nearly as good, there was no other place to get a stuffed pizza. I went back at least once every football season until it burned down, even though the service really was awful at the end. So the question is, is there enough demand in Sanger for stuffed pizza for the Tomato to be successful there? Because there's no way that they'll draw the students to Sanger.

If you are tailgating next to beerman he is a whip and sings a few of his songs again and again and again, plus it is loud. But if you are out of earshot then go visit his set-up he is fine. He does add to the game day atmosphere.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them offer more than what UNT offered McCarney. He would be a huge get for FAU. As for Leach, I have said that this is the type of job that I suspect he will get as his next coaching job. No big-time AQ team is going to hire him because of that ego. Leach lost out to Randy Edsall for the Maryland job, even though Leach had more success as a head coach in a much tougher league. He has non-AQ (or an AQ in REALLY bad shape, like Washington State) written all over him for his next job. Jim Leavitt may have some say in this eventually, too, but I am sure that his lawsuit against another public institution in Florida may preclude him from getting that job.

You strap yourself in and feel th G's!!

He has signed with Saints acording to yahoo news... http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=pfw-20110816_saints_sign_former_dolphins_rb_cobbs

When you say you "Ran into..." him...did you knock him down??

Yeah but those Hooters don't have UNT girls working at them!!!

---Other than cheating problems... the demise of the SWC was largely triggered by the small crowds of Fans that TCU, Rice and SMU was bringing to games.. Baylor was bit better, (plus political connections) and was connected to the largest religious group in Texas. Not much has changed with those three except TCU is drawing good at the moment due to recent success.... but will that continue if they start to lose quite a bit.... doubt it. They have a rather small rabid fan base and small group of alums... Often their stadiums were filled with fans of the opponents and not their fans. They brought little to the conference in money, fans, interest, or recognition. ---We have a huge fan base available if we were in a better known conference and with better known opponents. We also need to develope several programs.... We aren't the ideal choice now.... but we have great potential with a lot of potential fans in a huge market of two million in the Dallas /Fort Worth area}... I may be nuts and biased but long term we look the best.

I believe the last piece of Health Care legislation the Republicans passed increased the size of Medicare. Is that true? How did they pay for that?

Win all the games on the schedule and there will be magazines all over the country putting us on the cover.

What um....do you like your gig?

game day is going to be a clusterF no matter what...just get there early and enjoy...it will get smoother and better!

They were in the pool!!!!

Saint Patrick. I like the sound of that.

If you're looking for a great place to eat, my personal recommendation is Rooster's BBQ. GREAT brisket sandwiches!

Agree.... the TI plant and did not exist when I was at NT but the SAM bases did and I doubt TI was built until they were closed.... TI did do defense work but I know nothing about what they did in Denton if anything....A lot of TI plants were sold and closed in the 90's after the Cold War ended.... I suspect it was better to have them scattered out defense-wise and TI was doing defense work a lot. Abilene, Midland and many others places had plants that were shut down then.

---The real problem is these guys make up a lot of that stuff and divide America.... either that or report things as half truths with a lot of important details missing. They are very harmful to America. They are well paid to create that BS. --- It is difficult to believe that so many think those guys are even close to being honest.