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I hope he wears them during games, day or night...it's like superman not wearing his cape!

Emmitt you need to visit with Dr. Phil about this obsession you have with Smoooo.

The passing and movement throughout the Gold Cup is probably the best I've seen from the USMNT...in spite this being essentially a B team auditioning for qualifier and World Cup roster spots. Eddie Johnson's dummy-run that led to the first goal last night was a thing of beauty. It's also become readily apparent that Landon Donovan belongs on the first team...I'm just not sure what role he would fill. He's played remarkably this tournament in large part because he's been given the freedom to do what he does best and roam while playing nominally as the 10. I think the only spot for him in the first team is playing wide on the left and when he's forced to the flanks he has a tendency to drift in and out of games. That may be a risk worth taking though because right now he's playing too well to be on the bench. This tournament has also given some youngsters a chance to shine and guys like Bedoya, Torres, Beckerman, Corona and Diskaruud have taken full advantage. The depth in midfield is going to create some great competition for roster spots. Right now, my take on where the first team sits: Altidore Donovan Dempsey Zusi Bradley Jones Beasley Gonzalez Besler/Goodson Parkhurst/Evans Howard Bench: Guzan Besler/Goodson Parkhurst/Evans Cameron F. Johnson E. Johnson Corona/Bedoya/Diskaruud/Torres Hopefully Timmy Chandler works his way back to fitness...someone needs to push DeMarcus Beasley at left back. Would've liked to see Brad Evans get more work at RB this tourney, but Parkhurst has really played well. Disappointed that we didn't see any Jack McInerney...this side needs more attacking options...not sold that Wondolowski is an international.

It's not that I disagree with much of anything that's been said here, it's mostly why say it? Can you name any 'gracious winners' in the FBS? Me either. Individually I know plenty of good Longhorns, Aggies, Red Raiders, Froggies, 'stangs, Miners, etc. but collectively each doesn't think that their feces is malodorous. There's nothing wrong with taking these idiots down a peg when it is warranted but why must we go through this every few weeks? SMU is never going to be kind to us...nor to any other public university. They might be civil when it's to their advantage. Yet, individually I know plenty who are among the finest people that I've ever met. They are embarrassed at what their administration did and a lot have said so. So, when some individual comes here or otherwise makes public statements besmirching our beloved Mean Green then by all means jump on him with both feet but why cast aspersions on a lot of good people that don't deserve it. If their administration makes some jackassy statement against us I'll join in and I hope that everyone on this board will do the same.

White fathers. The chart show living arrangement for white children. Emmitt was trying to show something to counter Shelby Steele. So. he shows a graph saying 3/4th of white kids grow up in two parent homes. How this fits into countering black professor/commentator Shelby Steele's contention that black leaders ignore the real problems within black society, I don't know. It doesn't really counter it at all.

Jaylen Barford 6'4 G @jbarford_1 tells me Rhode Island, James Madison, & North Texas have now offered. 11 total @celtics_bb @VerbalCommits — Jamie Shaw (@JamieShaw5) July 24, 2013

SMU is clearly a team of the people. They're so loved, so relevant, that just over a month before their game with Texas Tech (a school that has a huge alumni base in Dallas and will likely bring 10-15,000 fans) they are hawking discounted tickets to any city employee who will buy them. Now I know some will accuse me of being an SMU fan (I'm looking at you 97and03) but I just couldn't pass up the chance to see the ponies get slaughtered by a Big XII team for $25. An SMU beating, driving to Denton to camp out at Apogee, waking up for a full day of tailgating, then watching us mud hole stomp the potatoes...now that's how you spend a weekend!

I was watching Vito's video interview of McCarney and noticed that Dan didn't have the sun glasses on. His eyes looked normal to me. Hopefully he finally got the eye problems behind him.

Good evening Mean Green fans! Here's my season preview for CUSA. Good luck this year! Em This post has been promoted to an article

there are only so many sources of revenue for a university state: I&O Instruction and Operations....based on enrollment and types of programs offered and undergrad VS grad student enrollment and used to cover faculty and staff salaries and dedicated to only those legally allowed uses Formula Infrastructure...used to build and maintain classroom and lab space and other needed campus infrastructure and again based on enrollment and types of degrees offered and lab space and classroom space utilization.....so unless you can hold classes on labs in an indoor practice facility there will be no state funding involved in any indoor practice facitity tuition and fees: spent how ever the university wishes with some exceptions.....I do not believe it can be spent on dorms other services: parking intellectual property revenues from patents and inventions dorms....I believe dorm fees can only go towards the building and operations of dorms student union sales and profits athletics profits and ticket sales and merchandising sales and the like.....spend how you wish endowment proceeds and donations: unless the money placed in the endowment was ear marked for a specific program or use can be spent how the university wishes same thing with donations.....it goes to something specific or it can be used as wished by the university grants and contracts: there are no grants and contracts for indoor practice facilities and grants and contracts are very specific in their use so state money is out, endowment is extremely small and I would imagine most of it is for specific uses, other revenues from merchandising and IP and other things is very small, donations are small and grants and contracts are out that leaves tuition or some new source of donations as the way a practice facility will get built and north Texas as we all know north Texas is already nearing a critical point with their bonding capacity and bond rating and they are going to possibly surpass that critical point to build new dorms and even with dorm rates going up dramatically to help pay to build new dorms there is still a good chance that the north Texas bond rating will be lowered one notch from AA to AA- after the dorms are build and bonded and that means there is pretty much little else that will be getting built for Denton or the rest of the system without additional sources of revenue in the form of increased tuition and fees, state funding, donations or the like and since state monies were pretty much held steady this current session and tuition revenue bonds were voted down at the last minute that means for the next two years funding is going to remain about the same as the previous two years which means new buildings for classes and labs will be covered with existing revenue streams and no new revenues or bonding guarantees from the state and if system binds drop below AA- that removes them from the category that many institutional investors will consider investing in and that greatly increases borrowing cost and limits who will buy those bonds.....so with the system already looking at a possible downgrade to AA- because of building new dorms and another couple of planned projects and even with dorm rates (revenues) going up to cover the dorm portion of the bonds there is no more ability to take on revenue neutral and especially revenue negative projects without increasing tuition or running the risk of dropping below AA- which would be painful so either tuition goes up dramatically to provide new sources of revenue to cover campus construction and ease the burden on the systems bonding capacity or donations will need to go up dramatically specifically for athletics......and I doubt even if north Texas did have the bonding capacity for revenue neutral or negative projects that athletics has the revenues to cover athletics projects and I suppose one could try and call a baseball stadium or a covered practice facility some type of quasi-academic facility, but I would imagine the administration would get called out on that as an increase in athletics fees without following the printed laws about what is needed to increase athletics fees and it would become a major issue

Make or Break for the Mean Green? Yes Make or Break for DMac? No If DMac coached ANYWHERE else? Yes

Does UNT have ROTC? A friend of mine is a coach at South Grand Prairie and all the GP high schools got new indoor facilities with ROTC wing attached which means alot of the funding came from the US Govt. Just a thought regarding funding.

Here's the problem: We're not a 3A school. We're within the top 30 (top 25 by some counts) largest state universities in the country. We're larger than many of the perennial national title contenders out there. I know some may disagree, but to me it's embarrassing to even consider dropping down in weight class to fight 145 lb welterweights just because we're kind of sucking as a 250 lb heavyweight. Look, the only element some of you seem to care about is having regional rivals and/or in-state conference mates. If this is the case, why did we ever leave the Southland Conference? Do you remember how we dominated and played in I-AA national championships every year? Oh wait . . . didn't work that way. In fact, it only took us 8 years to win as many conference championships in I-A as we did the entire time in I-AA. What happens when we acquiesce to being left behind and even applaud the development of a new division? Sure, being among schools like Rice, UTEP, Louisiana Tech, and UTSA doesn't seem that bad. But, what happens when one (or two or three) of those aforementioned schools finds a way to assemble the revenue/attendance/influence to move up and leave our sad little "3A" conference? We would end up even more irrelevant as a football program than we were in 1994 prior to the move to I-A. And, just in case you don't think it's plausible for any of the above schools to be included among the big boys, consider this: Rice could probably join a better conference any time they wanted. They have such a sterling academic reputation that plenty of the "big boy" schools would kill to have them among their brethren. Also, they have a baseball team that has won a national championship in recent memory. Finally, they simply have enough wealthy alumni that if they really wanted to (they haven't shown the desire so far, but just wait) they could pull some strings. As for UTEP, they could shift to the Mountain West at any time, and there is the distinct possibility that the entire MWC might be included in a jump up to a Division IV. If we remain complacent and sit back while many other football programs in the state move up in rank, we may be shocked at just how many of them eventually jump together and leave us staring up and wondering what happened. One point that I've made before is that when you list out the top 40 or so largest state universities in the country, almost all of them excel in one or more of the major revenue sports (for the sake of this discussion I'm including baseball). And, nearly every one of those schools is highly respected academically. No matter how you try to slice it, a school's reputation is a school's reputation, and academics and athletics are intrinsically linked in the general public's perception of an institution's efficacy and overall well-being (with the exception of Ivy League schools and various other highly prestigious private institutions--some of which aren't even all that bad at athletics). We REALLY need to start acting like our peer institutions (large, national research, state universities). I know we don't currently have the athletic budget or endowment that most of the other schools on that list have, but we must take our lumps in the meantime while we slowly work toward getting there. Knowingly embracing a divisional separation that officially casts us as "less than" most if not all of the relevant football programs in our state and region will NOT be good for our overall reputation as an institution of higher learning. It also will not necessarily help us win, as noted above. And, it will NOT help us build a fan base and/or increase athletic revenue. Quite simply, it will set us back further than, perhaps, we have ever been since the inception of our football program 100 years ago.

Guess he doesn't see a bright future

Agree with this post. I don't think that anyone dislikes SMU much more than me. But I will never pay to see them lose......unless it's a NT/SMU game. I'm kind of like Amon Carter and how he felt about Dallas. He hated them so much that when he did have go over there, he would never stay overnight and he would take his lunch with him so that he would never have to spend a dime out of his own pocket to benefit Dallas. I'm quite satisfied to read the results in the paper, or see it on the Saturday night sports report. As I'm always fond of saying It's always a great day in sports when SMU & Notre Dame lose.

It was shooting laser guns at Cobra and never killing anyone. Duh!

R U GAY BLACK WOMAN?!?!?1?!

The soccer team should go into the season as one of the favorites to win C-USA. A very tough non-conference schedule should have the ladies ready for improved conference competition. http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/041213aaa.html Here is a quick record comparison based on 2012. (2012 Results) Conference USA Conference Overall 1. North Texas 8-1-1 16-5-2 2. Colorado College 8-2-1 14-4-5 3. Middle Tennessee 8-1-1 14-5-1 4. Florida International 8-1-1 13-6-2 5. Rice 8-2-1 11-7-3 6. East Carolina 6-2-3 10-7-3 7. Tulsa 6-3-2 12-6-4 8. Charlotte 4-4-1 10-8-2 9. Louisiana Tech 3-3-2 10-5-4 10. Marshall 3-7-1 7-11-1 11. UTEP 3-8-0 10-10-0 12. Florida Atlantic 3-7-0 5-13-0 13. UTSA 2-4-2 2-12-3 14. Old Dominion 2-8-0 4-14-0 15. Southern Mississippi 1-9-0 4-12-1 16. UAB 1-10-0 2-17-0

Yesterday while on campus, I casually mentioned to a fellow alum "why not keep Fouts for our track & field stadium?" I know its not in the master plan but master plans have been known to be changed. Whistles and bells inside a practice facility? If that is the difference of UNT getting 2 star recruits versus 3 or 4 star recruits bring on the whistles and bells! Do you want a Cadillac or a Ford if you have a choice? We got a darn good deal with Apogee Stadium according to ex Big 12 "stand in" Commissioner Chuck Neinas, ex Dallas Cowboys SuperScout Gil Brandt and a cast of thousands, so could we get a similar great deal for a practice facility along with all the extras, too? No Sun Belt Conference school should ever trump the University of North Texas with any kind of on-campus sports facility or venue. We have to think forward as a new CUSA member--not in ways that may have kept us barefoot, pregnant and un-inspired (so to speak) the last few decades. Yes, I agree, Harry, that there has to be a pecking order of need or which of UNT's varsity sports programs gets the next nice venue or marked improvements (like the Super Pit), but lets also not forget which NCAA varsity sport still brings home the bacon (or should) and gets us the national recognition we had not so long ago (like 4 NO's Bowls last decade). IMO, the key to this indoor practice facility is to make it as multi-purpose as you can without defeating the original purpose for its existence. We can't have the football team being bumped off its scheduled use because Ma & Pa Kettle's Senior Social Club has a (planned a year in advance) bingo tourney inside this facility and it taking place during an August Texas heat spell with the beginning of 2-a-days. (I know, one helluva' terrible illustration with that....especially now that I'm 62)! LOL!

Although I am not sure how something no one used to have, has now turned into a necessity; I would vote for an indoor practice facility before a baseball field. In my view, any indoor practice facility should be build for use by most programs including the obvious soccer as well as be an indoor track facility.

JesseMartin...spell check did not catch that one. A good point to make is that most other organizations utilize indoor facilities including softball, band..anything that needs to go indoors in BAD weather.

I agree UNT needs an indoor practice facility. In fact, I agree with PlummMeanGreen that we need this over a baseball stadium.

Harry, did you have one of your GMG.com little birdies at Ponder's Ranchmen Steakhouse yesterday over-hearing our group's round table discussion of this very subject? LOL! I whole-heartedly agree that we need this over a men's varsity baseball stadium for now because its just another part of the NCAA FBS venues arms race happening now. Could UNT get more diversified funding for such a venue if the Green Brigade Marching Band could also use it, ie, "multi-purpose" thus maybe UNT getting some auxillary funding from the UNT College of Music? That might be too much a stretch but worse thing anyone could tell our powers that be is....no. GMG!

All the big boys have it, it's a pretty big deal IMO. Especially when 2a and 3a high schools have them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2k3EXIgrXo Surprised no one posted this. Really felt refreshing watching the video; A media day in which actual media attends. The difference from year's past in the Sun Belt is immediately noticeable.

I 100% agree with you about winning over Denton. I have said for years that North Texas needs to focus on becoming the #1 team in Denton and worry about the rest of the Metroplex down the road.

JM, can it be said that maybe about 80% of the present Power 5 conference schools "NEVER" seriously compete for an NCAA football national championship? New Criteria To Remain NCAA FBS ? I'd have no problem with a 40,000 seat minimum seating (Apogee would only need 9,500 additional seats) to be in some proposed upcoming new Super Conference plus some kind of attendance criteria to be met every 2 or 3 years because.........North Texas would be able to meet both criteria. (Fact is and IMO, probably the last 15 or so schools to gain admission into NCAA FBS level should have had tougher criteria to meet but obviously did not). Sure, I know there will be some on this forum who can only live or think from our past who will disagree with the attendance part but in 1994 the Mean Green Nation pulled together like no time before (or after) to meet that era's new NCAA D1-A stadium criteria as well as its new attendance criteria. And for what its worth, hasn't our entire UNT constituency all but doubled in size since the early 90's? Fact remains back in that day, our entire UNT constituency wanted NCAA D1-A classification real bad and we all did whatever it took to regain it. Many have said that 1994 football season was one of our favorite Mean Green moments of past decades. And if some of the coaches in the NCAA who are making $5 million per year want a stipend and even say so on ESPN (like yesterday) in a verbal grand stand move as they are basically in essence saying..... "look at me, ain't I just something so darn Tea'Sippin' special".......... then let them pay those stipends out of their own annual pay checks. (I have no problem with a sensible stipend but room and board from full scholarships ain't too bad of a deal, either) GMG!

This thread just makes me grateful to live close to Luling, Lockhart, Driftwood, and the central Texas German/Czech meat market style BBQ

Wow, a lot of important seniors are leaving after this season. Let's make this one a good one!

. ---Great Post... Houston was considered a great program starting in late 60's and into the 70's under Yoeman. We did well in Joe Greene era (wish we could have played more "name" opponents), sagged a bit but were making great strides in the 70's under Fry and against some very good name teams ... then he left and we were sent to football's Siberia as was several other programs. Fry and UNT had hoped to become the SWC's tenth member ... didn't happen. The privates in the SWC [ SMU, TCU and Baylor , especially SMU ] didn't want us in... likely feared what having a large state school in Metroplex would do to them. Don't let SMU kid you, they were the force that kept us out ... most conferences were going to 10 members then, the SWC never did. It has been a long road back to recognition since. Games I really remember are shutting out Houston in the 70's, almost defeating Texas with Earl Campbell, the Tennessee win, and coming from behind and defeating Tech in Lubbock in the tortilla game ( I was there with wife and kids). ---We need to win another big one ... been too long.

i guess with this guy on board NT has all the means necessary to win C-USA

Sad, funny, and true. Look at our "rivals"-SMU, because when we wanted to play, they didn't? MTSU-because they were expected to be the big dogs in the early days of the Belt but we were instead? Houston-because we've played a little over a dozen times and it's a fairly close record? Louisville-because we used to play them fairly often decades ago and had a similar back-and-forth like we do with Houston? I don't think any of those comes anywhere near what most schools consider to be their "rivalries".

Are we sure?

We'll see. He's a kid who you never know if he's just holding out for better offers. Hopefully we can keep him. Because we aren't a big name, sites are usually a little slow on noticing our commitments. Usually the kid's high school coach has to notify rivals or whoever that their player has committed to us. Rivals should have Means and hopefully Graham down soon.

The TD throw at the 1:58 mark is nice. Still, for those who loose sleep over DT throwing off his back foot now and then, y'all are gonna need counseling if this kid ever see's the field? Rick

The second kid from Desoto. I believe it was Jackson. When a committ is that soft, I just really don't consider it a committ.

Not doubting, and he looks like a fine ballplayer, but has this been confirmed? Also, what receiver are you referring to PMG?

Love the size and mobility, arm strength and delivery need some work. Good to have commit #2.

welcome aboard Connor!

Really nice get for Coach Mac and company!

Nice.

U of H in Texas Stadium in the mid 70's comes to mind. Also, the trouncing of Tulsa here in 1967 for the conference title.

From where this program had been before our move into Apogee Stadium perhaps a win over Big 10 member University of Indiana and at Apogee Stadium should be considered? Also, how about an ESPN nationally televised win at Apogee Stadium over what would be a NO's Bowl bound ULaLa football team just last Fall, too? Is Apogee Stadium becoming a bigger deal to our Mean Green football program than our Grand Young Lady off Bonnie Brae is presently getting credit for? Our game against Big 12 Kansas State last Fall, too, was closer than I think most realize or remember. If your football program is playing close games against perennially Top 25 football programs how could that be looked at as anything but positive? GMG!

Tell 'em like it is Emmitt. SMU IS the "Evil Empire". Their history of ridicule of NT means the start of the 2014 series is the first battle of a scorched earth war that Atilla, the Hun, would even cringe at such a first strike capability.

His preseason 2012-2013 status as a consensus top 10 (top 5 according to chad ford on ESPN) player on draft board's can be used by JJ at LSU. His 37th overall pick can be credited to Benford.

Both of those teams are well-known for what most univerisites in the state are well-knonw for--having front-runner fanbases. Its funny how far Tech has fallen back from its glory days under Leach--couldn't happen to a better bunch, either. As for SMU, well, even as they have improved under June Jones quite dramatically, to most people in Dallas and the rest of Texas, they are always going to be the team that cheated incessantly and then got left behind when the SWC disbanded. Hard to draw crowds in Dallas, TX when you don't really matter anymore...

Means Green now? Great.

That doesn't affect your memory. You've seen it, you can't unsee it.