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I hadn't been to a UNT game since the last homecoming and had a chance to take my 2 kids and wife out opening day. We subsequently decided to become season ticket holders and Mean Green Club members given the experience. I have two boys - 9 and 5 and always look at events like this as a way to show them the "College Experience". By the way, the mood at Apogee far exceeded anything I felt at Fouts as both an undergrad and Alum. Well to get to the point, I wasn't able to attend last weeks game so I offered my tickets to a good friend who has high school age boys. His one son plays on the freshman football team so we thought it would be a great opportunity to show him what college sports can look like. His other boy was considering possibly not going to college at all. After the game, I spoke to my friend to hear how it went. All he could say was how excited the boys were to be there. The parties going on and the excitement around the stadium. He said it provided a glimpse of what college life was and afterwards both boys had a newfound desire to go to college. Whether it happens is another story, but my friends wife was so happy we offered them the tickets because all the talk in the world about the benefits of college couldn't outweigh the actual feeling of being there. Sometimes seeing the diversity of our school can open the eyes of those with preconceived ideas of what a college student looks like. The best way to fill the stadium is to invite someone out. My friend is now thinking of going to homecoming with his family just to watch the game even though he didn't attend the school. I think that's pretty cool.

Dear Coach Mac, Please don't take coaching advice from a message board.

Assuming similar math is used in the Sunbelt, the exit fee would be about $27.73, give or take a penny. GMG

Jake Molbert Count Chocula (if there was a strawberry version)

After going to opening game, I was on the phone with the Athletic Department on Monday about season tickets. Given my younger kids, we got front row in the endzone and they love it. My wife also liked the idea of blue lot parking so I became a booster given the perk of blue lot parking for boosters with season tickets. Worth every penny and a great family experience. Of course, my kids are now both Junior Mean Green members and I can't seem to go to a game without having to purchase some sort of clothing item. Shirts, hats, and of course 2 foam fingers.

I still maintain that there is a reason that there is no Sun Belt logo or artwork at Apogee. I am convinced that there is far more going on behind the scenes than we know. I have faith in President Rawlins...plus he is well connected in the NCAA circles. Stay tuned.

I would like to nominate me. Do I have your vote? My platform, unequal revenue sharing, with 90% going to UNT. Plus, no exit fee when UNT bolts... Who is with me?

If we were to be LaLa, we would probably have to pick up and move to Louisiana and start talking funny. But if we are to stay here in Texas, yes FIU would have the tiebreaker over us with head to head, but I guess there is a reasonable possibility that there would be a three way tie or that FIU could lose another one.

Saying someone will not play in the NFL is not being negative. Royce is a great player. Several great players have suited up in the Green & White and never made it to the league. My being negative was towards the TS who doesn't seem to know the difference b/w a good college player and one who plays on Sundays. If he somehow makes it , I'll be the 1st to eat crow. I'll be the 1st to buy his NFL jersey. I'll scream from a mountain top that I was wrong Being negative would be more like starting a thread about getting a kid off the field because he doesn't deserve to be out there . Or starting a thread that assumes a kid is only on the field because of his dad's relationship with the coach . Now that's what I would call being negative

I know everyone has been dying to know what happened to my NT flag and flag pole. The North Texas Police called me aboout 4:00 this afternoon (Tu) and said they had my flag/pole. It seems it blew over in the wind early in the game and some Athletic staff people saw it laying in the parking lot. They thought it belonged to Athletics and picked it up and put it somewhere under the Stadium. The Police called around and I got it back. Thanks North Texas Police and Athletic Staff. And if my flag pole damaged Brad's car, I want to make that right. GO MEAN GREEN

Let Coach Mac Coach! Go back to being a fan....

i'm going to go out on a limb and say that mac knows what he is doing...could be a shot in the dark, but coaching for him is almost second nature...

I don't think it would be significantly more competitive, but the opponents would still generate more fan interest. Rice, Southern Miss, Tulsa, UTEP, Memphis, Marshall > FAU, FIU, ULM, MUTS, etc. as far as fan interest. It seems it would also blow the doors off the Belt as a basketball conference.

That's the best observation of it all I think.

I'm not saying I have any inside information....I just find it curious that there is no reference to the Sun Belt at the stadium. This, coupled with the fact that Rawlins is very connected, leads me to believe that efforts are being made to make NT a player in this reshuffle. Size of university, television market, alumni base and our recent upgrade of facilities makes us a player. The success of football right now will have some bearing, but not totally when conferences scour the landscape for candidates. All sports but football are cruising rather nicely. Upgrade in women's basketball and football (the two problem areas in the past) seem to have been addressed. So, we are open for business.

Devon Lewis-Buchanan Amish door knocker

Well that is why there is tailgating and I like the short skirts better than jeans.

This is how Coach Mac ends up inventing the 1-5-5. It'll be Sarge, plus a whole lot of defensive backs.

Yes...my point exactly. Just signs with the "Screaming Eagle" (I refuse to call it SOW by the way) and UNT. No need to have signs saying "Big East" or "C-USA". It's just about fans throwing up their flags. It's about awareness and marketing a brand. "Rick V and Rawlins are going to put us in the best situation and if they feel we need to promote ourselves publicly about it for a certain situation then they have SEVERAL marketing firms on the standby." It's the fans responsibility to. Team ownership from all stakeholders. JRock

If we win... i drink some beer IF we lose .... i drink some beer so that i still win.

- Throwing beer bottles and snowballs with batteries in them...classless. - Poisoning 200 year old Oak trees...classless. - Filing the opponent's team bus with manure...funny, but classless. - Yalies pretending to be the Harvard Pep Squad handing out flip-cards that spell out "We Suck" to the Harvard student section in 2004...awesome, but way above the capabilities of our fan base. - Booing? Seriously? Not only is it fine, it's too be expected.

If we beat Lala then front pant stains. If we lose to Lala then back pant stains. GMG

This is a big game this weekend! I'm preaching to the choir, but if North Texas wins, we'd be just a half game out of first in the Belt. If you can't go to Lafayette, don't sit at home alone watching the game on your computer. We'll once again have the feed showing on the big TV at Rudy's in Allen. Grant.UNT will be our host. Come watch with fellow Mean Green fans! We'll start things up at 3:30pm. Kickoff is at 4. Rudy's is offering our Mean Green drink special again which includes $2 PBR pints and Natty Lights. Get there early for good seats. The room filled up for the Tulsa game and bled over into the next room. So who's coming???

Someone needs to do a "Hitler hears of the Wright Waters retirement."

Very strange timing for this announcement. Even though it's not effective until next July what Commish announces retirement in the middle of football season? Unless you've been fired/retired aka Beebe.

Still not in control, but if we beat ULaLa and then they win out, FIU wins out, and we win out, we are looking at a 3 way tie for 1st place. Good times. If we beat ULaLa, we immediately become Cajun fans.

I just hope we don't somehow end up in the WAC.

They're not on sale yet but here's the latest info from the website on mini-plans... Mini Plans On Sale Soon! Holiday Pack - $45 Premium reserved seating for following 6 games: Dec. 18 vs. Jackson State Dec. 20 vs. Grambling State Dec. 22 vs. LSU Dec. 27 vs. New Orleans Dec. 29 vs. UALR (DH) Dec. 31 vs. Tory (DH) 4 for $40 Plan Premium seating for your choice of any 4 Men's or Women's games* during the 2011-12 Basketball Season. *Excludes Dec. 22 vs. LSU Individual Game Tickets On Sale Soon! LSU: $30 Premium Reserved -- $15 Baseline Reserved Regular Season: $12 Premium Reserved -- $7 Baseline Reserved Family Fun Packs: The Mean Green Family Fun Pack includes 4 tickets to the game, food, and 4 drinks. Fun Packs are $35* pre-ordered and $40 at the gate. *LSU - $65

My wife and I brought her dad and step-mom to the Indiana game. The following Monday they were season ticket holders and sat with us for the FAU game. I agree, bringing folks from the area to a game is key. Perhaps a contest would be good to see how many season ticket holders you can create from the game day experience.

Brought a fraternity brother and his wife to the Indiana game...they had not been to a game since the early 70s...they both loved it and joined the alumni association and are talking about season tickets for next year. For homecoming another fraternity brother in Arkansas is coming to the game for the first time since the 80's. Slowly but surely we can get this attendance bumped up.

You guys blame NTEX1990 for requesting Coach Mac. not to experiment? Then you want source documentation. How about UNT playing Alabama and our defense plays pretty well. Then bring in our I guess 3rd string QB who played JUCO ball and he drives UNT down to inside the 10 yard line of Bama. Then, we put the QB that produced drive and put in I guess our 2nd string freshman QB, and Oh well. Guess it wasn't OK to score against Nick Sabin. Maybe Coach Mac. has to much respect for Coach Sabin. I have seldom if ever seen a coach pull a QB in that situation. Guess we wanted to build McNulty's character, but crush Osborn's for producing a productive drive on the #2 team in the land. Then, Oh well!! What do we arm chair QB's know anyway. In the DD or Dodge era there were plenty of arm chair QB's not questioned about their posts on the message board. God forbid you read Scotty's board back in the day!!!

Grr I hate my laptop so if somebody else wants to post it, Jake Molbert=Andy Kaufman...really...

You forgot to add in the money from the New Orleans bowl... I think it comes up to about 34.73 afterwards.

Cordian Hagans Sinbad

I know its football season, but basketball season is right around the corner. Practice starts on friday and the Super Pit will be rockin. In Decemeber well be going to a bowl game and well finally get to see the Mr. Tony Mitchell play for the Green and White, I dont know about yall but I can wait. GMG Thats right, we will be going to a bowl game.... They dont want the basketball team and soccer team to be the only ones celebrating in the post season

I wanted to share a nice experience that my family and I had on Saturday night after the game. We went to eat at Wingstop off University so we can watch the Rangers game without having a lot of people around. Anyways, on our way out, a tall young man getting his drink asked us if we went to the game tonight and we were like "yeah, of course." The young man then said "Thank you for coming and thanks for supporting us." I was actually surprised to hear that and asked him if he was on the team and he said yes. All I said to him was "Great game tonight. Keep up the good work.!" I didn't bother to ask him his name or number since they're all equals in my book. I was just really impressed that he took the time to say thank you. It's experiences like that that make me think that things like this are happening around Denton. Go Mean Green!

100% agree with JRock. Props to SMU. Wish we would have though to do it. It would be great to see NT represented at GameDay

I think the MWC is a better conference, but I think that the schools in CUSA are better for us to build our programs and we already have more established history with most of them.

I'm with you JRock, when I saw the SMU signs I kinda thought it would've been cool to see some UNT signs down there as well.

Somewhat on the subject...does the boots and short skirt look do a little something for you, as it does for me? Add in the NT boots and the ED is cured. GMG

That's kind of funny...in a sad way

O' Neil Parker Fireworks: David Laborde: Jesse Eisenberg: Adam Savoie: Kathy Griffin:

this is a football game not a Sunday school class. We want our guys to go out and knock the snot out of the other players but we don't want to hurt their feelings? Sometimes this board is the epitome of wussified.

We. Need. Butts. In. Seats.

Oh yeah. It's not the best case scenario for us, but it's worlds better than the Belt. Name recognition will bring tons more fans and national perception would increase drastically. The Sun Belt will always be looked down upon.

Great game Royce. Continue to play with confidence, look at the WR across from you and know you are better than him and you will continue to make fantastic plays. Oh and ignore some of these posters that focus on the negative.

Branding let me love you down...... .... so many ways to name you.......