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I draw the line at shots taken towards DePaul. My wife is a grad of that wonderful university where the degree means so much more than NT. DePaul is a Tier 1 university and on par with any Ivy League school or Oxford. People from NT could only dream of ever setting foot on the campus let alone attending or watching a sporting event of that most prestigious institution of higher learning! Of course I am mocking the tone of that ridiculous thread on the SMU forum. Although my wife did graduate from DePaul and we were married at the Church on campus. Patrick

Tony Mitchell will single handedly beat LSU so bad that their football team will move down the rankings to #3.

La.Tech I believe is headed to the Alliance and I don't think it is based on market (obviously) nor is it based on any accomplishments they have put forward, nor is it based on their facilities, attendance or any other measure. The Alliance needs a team east of the giant void between UTEP and the rest of the world. La.Tech can be taken without harming a viable conference because the WAC is not viable to remain FBS. It is simply about a warm body that is already FBS that can be taken without harming the MAC or Sun Belt. There are only two reasons that CUSA holds any value for UNT. Rice and Tulsa. The TV deal? It works out to $580,000 per school IF Fox doesn't reduce the money in the wake of losing SMU, Houston, and UCF (three large markets that Fox is strong in). The net dollar difference in the CUSA and Sun Belt deals is $480,000 that works out to roughly a 4,000 tickets per football game with no new donations. Opening Apogee generates more revenue for UNT than the CUSA TV deal and that's if it isn't reduced. If UNT isn't selected. Long-term adding UTSA to the Sun Belt drives nearly the same dollars to UNT as being in CUSA. That's if CUSA doesn't collapse. If CUSA collapses and Tulsa and or Rice gets left behind and one or both become part of the Sun Belt or whatever name emerges, UNT comes out ahead. Amazon isn't in the business of selling Kindles. They sell Kindles because they've got hard numbers showing that Kindle users at least double their spending with Amazon for books and such compared to when they didn't own Kindles. The Alliance and New Big East aren't built around the concept of selling tickets. They are built around the concept of TV dollars. If CUSA tripled their TV dollars that would be $1.75 million. They can make more by increasing ticket sales by $300,000 per home game in football. They are doomed to collapse because they've forgotten they are in the business of selling books and movies and aren't in the business of selling Kindles.

We're really going to miss knoxxy's physical presence in this one.

I am all for a new scoreboard over the court, painting the brown boards at the top of the stadium green, and finally a new sound system! Not to mention it would be nice if we could take seats all the way to floor and get rid of the green bar and concrete wall just off the court...

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Agree, but I am constantly amazed that establishing anything regarding SMU around here takes 3+ pages. Including establishing that we don't care.

Did that five game winning streak include teams that had Tony Mitchell on it? Didn't think so.

We'll have issues with their size...6'9" 215, 6'9" 250, 6'11" 260 is the front-line they started against Marquette...with 6'7" 230 Storm Warren coming in off the bench. We might be big by UNT standards, but we will be considerably smaller inside against LSU. Also, LSU's leading scorer Andre Stringer has missed the last 3 games with fainting spells (hey Pit Crew, bring a swooning couch for him)...no idea if he'll be back Thursday, just something to keep an eye on. And...the one thing really missing from this thread so far...HAHA...EFF YOU BUZZ WILLIAMS!!!

So if the AD wanted to spend the money to get a video board, the school would tell them no?

The Super Pit is NOT owned by the athletic dept. Hard to spend money on something you don't own.

Then that should be two getting awards as Devante Davis of Baton Rouge Woodlawn also received one for best skill player on the Black Knights. As far as I know, he is still committed to us.

Here's Tulsa's new videoboard at the Reynolds Center. These new amazingly clear LED boards seem to add a lot to the game experience, and it sure would be nice to watch clear replays of some of the monster dunks and amazing assists. Would something like this be a cost effective addition to the Super Pit experience?

The tailgate was great! As I was driving in, I noticed the tailgate and thought I should stop by. I was in a hurry to get with the basketball band, but I figured a few quick bites of bacon wrapped duck was well worth almost being late. Thanks guys! Looking forward to the next tailgate.

How horrible is life when the Super Pit becomes the inferior facility when comparing basketball with football? I was looking up on Friday, and noticing the absence of a hanging scoreboard though. I'd say that even a basic "Home: Away:" LED display would be nice there. But the 10,000 cushioned chairbacks? That's some premo college basketball real estate there. It's tough watching 48 minutes riding a pine bench. As for audio, for a university with a school of film, radio and television, it seems nigh impossible in both facilities for anybody to wire speakers up to a mic. I wonder if I started going to basketball games if I'd become as fluent in ref signals as I've become in football ref hand signals.

So the PAC-12 has filled its quota with USC? I don't think there's any stigma associated with being a directional school. It certainly didn't stop USF and UCF from getting into the Big East

Chase sat thru the whole MTSU game. He and his parents bought a handful of stuff from the gift shop. I'd be very surprised if he backed out

LSU is going to be a tough struggle for this team. They are light years better than last year and we are light years younger. Hoping for the best.

Does he want a coach that has been whoring himself all over the country and a maxxed out fanbase consisting of 5 spoiled babies wearing pink polos sitting on their hands all game long?

Hi, i'm here. first post. just like i promised.

I made the mistake of looking at the recruit's Twitter page . . . and HoopmanX is actually right on that one. Ignorant doesn't even begin to describe it. But if HoopmanX is a booster, that would be a (minor) recruiting violation against SMU.

I think this is great. A few months ago, I was on campus for the first time in many years. Unfortunately, I was not able to catch a game but I did see the very impressive Apogee Stadium and all the other new buildings around campus. The physical aspect of North Texas may have changed but that special atmosphere that was present forty years ago is still there. And this video captures all that is unique and special about our university. Link

like it would make a difference in the impending destruction of them tomorrow...

good times at the tailgating and game...that duck was damn good...the beer was awesome....and the company was decent!!!

To further your analogy....adding UTSA to an already weak and disrespected SBC is like realizing that all the pretty girls are already being taken to prom so you ask the fat ugly girl the night before just so you can say you have a date. No thanks, I'd rather go stag.

More people in that video than showed up to a couple home games...

I love the indignant attitude on this board towards the SBC. Half our fans probably missed prom because they were convinced until the very end that the hot girl was gonna come around.

I'll stay in the Sun Belt if we can get LA Tech, NMSU, and/or UTSA.

AllAboutUNT, he's just fishing for info since they've rumored on SMUT's board that he is committing there this week. Don't feed the Phony Fans.

So I guess it is safe to say that if we don't beat Grambling by at least 40 points, JJ should yank Tony's scholarship?

Go Frogs--a TCU blowout would be in the best interests of our program. If LaTech beats mighty TCU on national TV, CUSA officials would probably find that very appealing. But, if you want the best for the SBC, which is keeping UNT in it, then by all means root for LaTech. They'll have a very nice case for getting support to join CUSA from the other members.

Did any WSU commits change their minds after Leach (who was a controversial but frequently mentioned fan consideration for head coach at North Texas)'s new "partnership" was announced?

You may want to try this site on the day of our game. If the game is picked up at all, the picture quality "may" be a little better. First Row Sports

I saw this on the C-USA board. The thing looks great. I'd love to have one at the Pit. Since everyone is addressing their Christmas wish list, I'd like to see an improvement in quality of the Mean Green Premium broadcasts. Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad to have the service, but it doesn't exactly look like netflix when I connect it to a large T.V. I'd be willing to pay more if it ment watching a higher quality picture.

True, true, true. As much as I loved the Rec, pick-up games were so much better at the PEB...everyone knew which court they should play on and the consistency in quality runs was far greater than in the Rec where everyone thought they should be on center court.

my prediction featuring Tony as Scorpion...

any official word on the offer or acceptance? what are the chances he bolts nt and lands with them....other than gut feelings...

Awesome Video! GO MEAN GREEN!

Next to the Centennial Celebration this was one of the coolest things our school has ever done. I only wished they would have fired Boomer off for real. Great stuff. Rick

Tell the TAMU grad that there are grads of TAMU, UT, TT, and KSU that I know who purchased club seats at Apogee. One I know tapes TAMU games when the times conflict and watches the Mean Green live.

Both schools have good things going on for them. UNT is just on a sudden rapid improvement phase across the board and people with ignorance about its accomplishments don't really understand why--all of the sudden--we're demanding more respect. I'm not just talking about SMU folks, but most people outside of UNT who still have that negative mentality about North Texas. For example, today at work I was talking to a couple of co-works about college football. I mentioned that UNT has the potential to being a great athletic (with a strong football program contending with the big boys) school with strong academics...mainly due to it's location and size. One of them, a TAMU graduate, started to giggle. I always try to educate people like that about UNT and its improvements (which have been tremendous this past decade) and where it wants to go. We need more UNT alumni to have that passion and pro-active support toward what the institution is trying to accomplish...tier one research status with strong athletics and maintain its high-level liberal arts program. Even by just educating people about these things, your already helping to "clean-up" the institution's negative reputation around the area.

If history is any indication, we will be fine at RB. If DMac is as good as advertised, we will be fine on the lines. Good enough to hand the ball of to Plumm.

whom interesting, so this means we should be favorites over FIU next year with their new 1st year coach and our now 2nd year coach.

The Belt will look like fools if we invited LA Tech and they refused again. We don't need them. Ruston is a terrible market, LA Tech has bad support for a bowl team, and I can't see them affording the costs of playing competitive FBS football in the years to come, with a $15 million budget. We don't need more teams.

Jealousy is the most sincere form of flattery

Who is SMU?

When they get a job?

Me too. There had been murmurs for a while that we were trying to fix it, and then the seemingly (at least to an extent) credible rumors coming out of Houston that we weren't playing them anymore. That makes it even more disappointing. If it means getting out of the Houston game to have another home game, freakin do it. I'm not sure how the Athletic Department does not see this as a priority. How are they going to get anyone not directly affilitated with NT (and some that are for that matter) to buy season tickets when Texas Southern is the only OOC game, and then the Sun Belt. I know we go to see NT play and not the other teams, but that's not how the general public thinks yet.

Sarcasm or not, this is not a funny bit

Will you or someone else have some space on the grill for bacon wrapped duck? I can't really bring my grill so I will need to piggy back with someone else for a price of course, the duck is free for all.