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Went up to the ticket office today, picked out my seat, and got season tickets for the first time for UNT football. The recent grad (im a 2010 grad) made it a really good deal. Im going to be in section 205. Where are others on this board sitting? Pumped for the season! Go Mean Green!

-- Maybe that is fairly obvious by reading some posts here... hahaha. We are in the bottom 10 of 50 states on that issue in public schools.... and maybe it shows. So you think state colleges should kick up the tuition even more... it has tripled since Perry walked in. Most third world countries spent less and they are third world because of it. We could cut more... some small schools have eliminated all sports and UIL activities (no funds) ... So you think reading, writing and rithmetic is the way to go... cut band, choir, art, football, baseball, basketball, absolutely foreign languages (Real Americans should speak only English) , that is exactly what charter schools do (Perry loves them)... also maybe those infidels that teach science classes that don't believe the world started in 5000 BC etc. ....then education would cost less....... He seems to want people to quit traditional public schools and go private... and pay, instead of using tax money ... pretty much back to what was happening in 1776 .... a true conservative .. no change ... our forefathers didn't play football etc. we should do as they did ). We didn't even have public fire departments until that radical left-winger and British-traitor Ben Franklin started one.

I think we ought to be all cocky and Buckeye about it and call ourselves "THE University of North Texas." I think that would be fun. -- Franchise

I think he'd do well having someone like Kyrie Irving throwing him lobs on the fast break.

Not saying I like it but... Eagle Claw The eagle hand sign is our universal sign of pride and unity. To display your pride: Hold up your fist. Make a "V" for Victory using your pointer and middle fingers, Extend your thumb and curl your fingers slightly towards your palm. Read more at http://www.unt.edu/traditions/

I can't believe we are spending 70 some odd million of MY TAX DOLLARS on some artsy-fartsy building when that money could be MUCH better put to use in buying out Benford's contract, expanding Apogee, or fixing the lighting in the Superpit!!!! I am outraged!!! <sarcasm>

14 years in office is way too long.. (he will be when finishing this term .. and apparently wants more time ) . Rylander, K.B. Hutcheson or any of the Democrats he defeated would have been far better. He continues to veto so much money for education that had been passed by the legislature and wants even more tax cuts for business ($1.6 billion more now) despite the fact Texas is about 46th or 48th in state taxes per capita. But NO tax cuts for most of us ... sales, tobacco, gasoline, or alcohol..just for business, besides when he cuts taxes for a business it is not passed on to just Texans ( if it is passed on) but to everyone nationally or internationally. ... so we Texans get to pay even more local property taxes in for schools etc. and get nothing in return. He wants none of the education money cut from last budget returned to education. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20101003-perry_s-tech-fund-aided-firms-with-ties-to-his-donors.ece Article in DMN and other papers is about how much money he is getting kicked back... maybe legally but sure not ethically. Only two other Texas governors have served as much as 8 years.. Bill Clements (of SMU fame) with two split terms and Allen Shivers back in the 1950's. Perry is hoping for 18 years apparently (many Kings didn't get that many years)

I believe Bill Snyder's Kansas State Wildcats were ranked in the Top 10 when the Mean Green played them in this game last September. A game that was quite close for much of the game with North Texas even making a 4'th quarter bid to pull it out. Many TCU fans all over their tail-gate areas at Amon Carter Stadium were watching this game in a bit of disbelief as reported on this forum were pulling for the Mean Green to pull off the upset against their new Big 12 foe...the KSU Wildcats. (Thanks for the support to our neighbors in Cowtown). Can Mean Green QB Derek Thompson put it all together his senior year like he had it together for the Kansas State game? Most of the key North Texas RB's all returning this Fall, too, along with Purdue transfer RB, ie, Reggie Pegram. Can this team with all the positive new additions put it together like they did during the SBC first year of football operations when the Mean Green went bowling that year? There really are some things to get excited about in this YouTube video about who we have coming back this Fall. Enjoy...

I'd say he showed up to as many or more games than Benny this season.

Where do you live/family: San Diego/Camp Pendleton (Afghanistan for the time being), married an Aztec Degree/Year attended/graduated UNT: 2002-BS Emergency Administration and Planning Favorite NT Memory: The last party we (Theta Chi) had after we got kicked off campus, not really knowing how I ended up at Fouts Field parking lot in my cap and gown 3 hours before graduation Favorite NT Sports Memory: 2001 New Orleans Bowl- yeah, we got stomped by one of my senior officers in my battalion (starting center John Van Lant who won't let me hear the end of it) but that run at the end of the year was epic.

No problems here with any UofH discussion, but that guy could use a lesson in presentation. He isn't exactly choosing his words to make friends.

You have a bright future as an SID or HR department spokesperson Harry.

If DT can throw the ball like he did in this game all year, especially the pass at 4:45, then we should be fine. These are some big "ifs" but I have faith.

Not sure if anybody knows this or not, but if you're not in the students' section, it's very, and I mean very, hard to hear that part of the fight song. The only thing I heard from that section the one game that I wasn't there, was the occasional shouts of Noooorth! Texaaaas! and the cheer of bullsh*t! every now and then. But regarding the fight song, I didn't even know that there was anything added in the first place, until I sat in the students' section and there were people saying it. So I don't think there's any point in talking about how little kids might hear cusswords, because they're most likely not going to be in the students' section. And just as some extra info, I was talking to one of my friends who's in theGreen Brigade, and she said that Dr. Williams might want to keep the fight song the way it was at the end of last year, until people just kind of "forget the whole thing ever happened". Which of course, will not work at all. People won't just forget all about it, unless you keep it out for many generations.

Dear Football Season , Please get here soon Sincerely , NT03

One of your best snipes in a long-line of quality shots.

Must've been a hard hit. He forgot how to do the talons correctly.

Nice cake! Happy belated!

Thrilled to see the Art school to get the funds for a new building. Long overdue.

Happy bday, daddy

No wonder we have trouble with attendance...no one lives around here! Where do you live/family: Coppell. Married for 26 years to a UTA Movin' Mav, 2 girls Degree/Year attended/graduated UNT: 1986 BS Accounting/Business Control Systems Favorite NT Memory: Graduation Favorite NT Sports Memory: 2002 New Orleans Bowl Win over Cincy

Good idea, and I might just go ahead and send him some video anyway. We are a very small school, so we arent going to be on the radar much. But this kid can play and is a heck of an athlete. His brother plays LB at Rice and this kid still has room to grow as well. Would look great in the slot or DB for UNT.

.. Very little... I am retired....(plus own land) .. I now teach two classes (mostly for something to do except watch TV) and pay isn't a lot and it doesn't mean that much anymore to me.... it does to my friends. Like I keep saying you don't understand me at all. I am conservative financially but not so much otherwise...Don't run up debts ( see start in 2001) or have useless expenses but pay for things that needs to be paid for. Plus the wife is public school retired but teaches in a very expensive private school so nothing the state does has any effect on her... except drive people away from public school and to her..( not a bad thing for her ) We just get to pay more local taxes. You make way too many assumptions about things .... often about subjects you know nothing really about. Plus I am not one of these idiots that walks in and votes straight party without knowing why they voted for anyone. .... granted I do lean more one way that the other... but it is more about what the candidates believe, say, and DO. There are turkeys on both sides and some good ones also. I am very open about what I do .... I have no clue what you do but you spend a lot of time on this site to be supposedly working. I am even guessing you have no kids in school either since you claim two hometowns and a girlfriend.... so you care nothing about education. ..

I watched Arkansas State, under Steve Roberts, go into Kyle Field and beat Texas A&M in Mike Sherman's first year. It wouldn't surprise me at all if SMU wins this game and that Tech wins about 4 games this year. Tech had to gamble with Kingsbury to get thier Leach fans back on board--but the guy has never been a head coach ever. There 's a big difference between being a QB coach or OC over Case Keenum or Johnny Football and recruiting to Lubbock. I don't see this one working at well for Tech at all. They are going to look back on their days under Mike Leach as their golden years, even if they never won a conference title under him. They schedule OOC softer than most of our pillows each year, so that gives you 3 wins easy every year. They play SMU, Texas State, and SFA as their OOC schedule--that's awesome for UNT, but that's ridiculous for a Big XII school. Tech's best days are loooonnnnggg gone, and hiring a former QB who has zero HC experience from their "geinus" coach that they fired for insubordination screams desperation to me. Maybe it will work, but I suspect that Baylor, TCU, and OSU will benefit the most from Tech taking a number of steps backward from 2008.

Any school can get early commits from borderline players. The trick is getting commits from players higher up on the recruiting list. With NT record and seemingly relative poor ability to recruit against other schools, it may be in their benefit to wait till they can demonstrate that the program is getting better by winning games next year. Of course, if the record doesn't get better there is no hope that recruiting is either unless there is a coaching change.

Think that is geographically quite a good place to get to for many sun belt and C-USA schools. That said, the deal has to be right. Not too many tickets the school has to, but almost can't sell because everybody picks them up cheaper over stubhub.

in a safeway parking lot?

I was more excited and my heart was beating faster when golfingomez and I were jumping up and down hugging and screaming in the hallway on the 6th floor of West Hall when the Astros won the 2005 NLCS than I was at my graduation...

Why not! Its just a stone throw away from San Antonio and many Runner fans would make the trip. I would except a truck load of UNT fans would make the short trip to Little Rock.

Does this mean your leaving? I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of students and thankfully none have been like you. Oh wait, you always tell the truth, so you must be right.

Simple answer the NCAA should require conferences to publish their transfer rules. 1. No in conference transfer. 2. No OOC opponents on the teams schedule for the next 4-5 seasons.

Of course, in LA most people don't say USC (which was a surprise to me when I moved). Just SC is most common term I hear.

I don't understand why this is such an issue. They both must be used. Again. Depending on it's usage.

Saw this on SBNation, but..... Robot Sphincter.

If Flash admits to "cruising" then so be it. I don't think any of us were as critical of Mitchell as this basketball writer, and he is a paid professional.

As long as you keep them away from weed and don't make them think you have their flatscreen tv they're just fine.

A list of Texas High School Kids who have already committed - http://texashsfootball.com/2014-texas-hs-football-college-commits/ Really like what Rice is doing , espically Jenkins

Of our 13 high school signees: - 4 show no other offers on recruiting web sites (Walker, Sorge, Ellis, Minor) - 1 was only offered by us and an FCS in Montana (Dajon Williams) but according to Vito he might've held an offer from Louisiana Tech - 5 others had exactly one other FBS offer (Smiley, Scott, Shilleci, Reinhardt, Nelson) - 3 had a decent amount of other teams that offered (Moore, Kidsy, Davis)

Is that true?

Most of our 2013 signees weren't offered by anyone else.

Guess it depended upon whether you were black or white. On p. 66 ot 62 Yucca you will fine K.A.'c in black face performing at "Sing Song" at Main Auditorium during Greek Week.But,you were right,simpler times,perhaps simpler minds, as NTSU did not experience[at least to my knowledge] Civil Rights and Anti-War Protests. We were in a cocoon of our own.

JesseMartin,this was a different time.Denton was still segregated,women could only stay out until 10:50 every night except Saturday,which was till 1:00,and we had no rights as a student. If you were a man and didn't like it, there was always the draft and Viet Nam.

Where do you live/family: Carrollton, TX ... Single and no kids ... Ladies Degree/Year attended/graduated UNT: Bachelor of Science BCIS 2003 Favorite NT Memory: Graduation -- It was time after 6 long years. Favorite NT Sports Memory: MUTS win in 2001 when all the magic started. Haven't looked back since.

Where do you live/family: Kingwood, TX (soon to be Austin again); Married into an OU family Degree/Year attended/graduated UNT: 2009 BBA Marketing Favorite NT Memory: Playing basketball/raquetball at the rec, anything Fry St. related, and constantly making new friends. Favorite NT Sports Memory: Win over SMU in '06 (I think that was the year). Woodie Wilson was my hero for a week.

I don't think there is any doubt that next year's team will be better. However, if Goodwin had stayed it would have been even better. As a freshman she was easily the best guard on the team on both ends of the court. Last year's team was a mystery, they starting slow but keep building until they were a very good club mid year. Then the bottom fell out ending with an embarrassing loss in the first round of the Belt tourney. I don't know what happened but that team fell apart in the last half of the Belt. It was like Petersen just lost the team. Hyder is back and if she was not better than Goodwin, she was very close. McCoy and Dawkins were both good last year, but other than that there are a bunch of unknowns coming in. Wynn and Hooker both started for division one clubs and hopefully they will be even better after an off year. The redshirt freshmen, who knows and the Juco coming in looks like a player. Adams was one of the highest rated recruits ever signed by NT but had a way off senior year. My biggest question now with the girls program, is do we have the right coach. Petersen is no rookie like Benford, but again I thought he lost the team at the most important time of the year.

Thank you for turning out program around and leaving it much better than you found it. Good luck in Utah.

Escaped Some Presidential Nonsense 2-night

Hurst LD Bell RB Kenneth Farrow has had is offer pulled by the new Colorado Coach Jon Embree. http://bit.ly/dH0j4G I have seen Farrow several times, he is a good RB prospect, size, speed, can catch out of the backfield...might not make amazing plays but is very consistent and solid. Would like to see him at UNT.