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To a brand new season ticket holder! Ive never been so excited for a season! Go MEAN GREEN

Just when I thought all the great Texan hospitality was 100%, enter Froggy. You remember your MWC "one and done" win in Boise? Decked in TCU purple that day in the stands, in Boise stores/eateries were Idaho fans. Our large Boise base cheered you guys on. My plan to tour Ft. Worth and your campus is questionable now after insulting the UI and my UNT friends. By the way, do some research on UI and UNT football history. Not only are these great academic institutions, they have their fair share playing (have played) on Sunday. Idaho fans are proud, as our UNT fans. Here's a brief primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Vandals_football Admittedly, not quite the storied prestige of TCU, but we are unconditionally loyal through the good and bad. Just like you, I imagine, have been through Tohill, Shofner, Dry, Wacker and Sullivan . . .but you do sound like a small froogy, so you still may have been that wink in Horny's eyes? You do talk about those 26 years of mediocrity, right?

Same here, bought two season tickets for the first time.

This posts makes me want to abandon this board and Vito's blog until game day just so that I have no clue who's going to play on game day. But then again I was a kid who opened my presents before Christmas and re-wrapped them so my parents didn't find out.

Chancellor is the best kick returner North Texas has seen since Brock McGrew . . . maybe better. He holds the all-time North Texas records for K.O. return yards in a game, season, and career. Do you remember his 2 90+ yard returns for TDs against K-State the last game in 2010? Or his 285 return yards against Houston in 2011? He's turned out to be a pretty good receiver, too. He was our leading receiver in 2011, and certainly would have been in 2012 had it not been for his injury. He had 2 TD catches against LSU. Everybody remembers Jimmerson's run against LaLa last year, but we don't win that game without Brelan's 34-yard TD run. Did you know that Brelan was our all-purpose yards leader in 2011, on a team that had Lance Dunbar cranking out yards? 1628 yards that season, a mark that stands as the #6 North Texas all-time best. So I really don't know what you mean when you say "Potential is all Chancellor has shown." Do you mean he hasn't received the big postseason awards? Do you mean he hasn't carried us to a bowl win? Well, okay, if that's what you mean. But you'd have a hard time naming players on this team who have already shown more than Brelan has shown.

I think that I see a pattern here. Even if you know...keep them guessing. The coaches are doing that with every position. Quarterbacks? All four have been mentioned. (Note: Gill is apparently no longer on the team and Williams now has #6). They could have decided to go with one or they may want to see how each handles game conditions. Running backs? Byrd has experience but Pegram is looking good and Jimmerson will play. Coach Grant did name the top two or three receivers but was noncommittal on several hot prospects. Only Lemon and Y'Barbo were mentioned as locks on an established (except for center) offensive line. No one has even asked about the tight ends. It wouldn't matter if they had. On the defensive side even Whitfield is in jeopardy. Orr and Trice are leaders but no mention of the progress of any others. Methinks that it's fairly well known who will play early but I don't doubt that more will see action this year because our depth appears to be much better. I'm beginning to not want to know. It would be like knowing what's in each Christmas package and spoiling the opening. I like the element of surprise. I may be disappointed that a personal favorite doesn't start or get significant minutes but I'll get over it. It's wide open! Oh, wait a minute, hasn't that been used?

I'm going to hash tag #back2back. As in going for back to back wins for the first time in 8 years

Good to see the women continue their UTA series

I wonder if there is any Fb division team that provides less coverage. Covered by one beat reporter who rarely has access to anything. If you are going to restrict the press to next to nothing, at least expand internal coverage.

http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/081613aaa.html Not sure if posted yet, but - new interview out there.

Rick

Scholarship guys should NOT get priority over walkons where numbers are concerned. That sucks. Walkons work harder in some cases.

Well, it does say "hit 6" and not "finish with 6". Maybe it's short for "hit 6 as fast as we can first and then see what our end of season goal should be," but that would be a bit long to squeeze all together with a hashtag.

This thread is full of shirt.

I think if is the minimum goal. Let's get to 6 and then shoot for 12

Don't forget to join us at the Alumni Center Saturday at 10:00am. We'll split into teams and cover Denton city as best as we can. I'll have some blue painter's tape cut into strips. Please use as little tape as possible to do the job. We're not covering windows for a hurricane here. Many hands make light work. GO MEAN GREEN

If we win big vs. Idaho, why not keep wearing the throwback jerseys at home for the season.?..perhaps we could catch lightning in a bottle by wearing them. A lot of schools have at least two uniform looks each season. Seems a waste to just wear the throwbacks one time.

I always love the revisionist history on this forum and the over inflation of worth DMac did not "choose brock" over Scotty Young Scotty Young choose Louisiana Tech over north Texas Scotty Young was transferring to LaTech on June 9th of 2012 and the brockster was still a Fighting Artichoke at that time and did not look to north Texas until September of 2012 it is hard to "choose" one player over another when one player is already enrolled at another university 3 months before the other "choice" decided to come to north Texas #Hit4Plus2MoralVictories

What will our record be for OOC games this season? 8/31/13 - Idaho @ Apogee 9/7/13 - Ohio @ Athens, OH 9/14/13 - Ball St @ Apogee 9/21/13 - Georgia @ Athens, GA Bonus: ?? - ?? Bowl @ ??

Question all you want , but it's directly from someone at practice. Someone who sees who is getting the snaps with what teams. Believe me , I was shocked too. I projected Brock to be our starter. Might just be Mac trying to light a fire under the kid. I hope that's the case

This

Tinkering is what fall camp is for. Early fall camp.

My wife has a CHL and I can confirm she knows exactly nothing about guns. I dare say that neither do my mother-in-law or sister-in-law who took the class with her. Popping off a few clips and watching some video's and taking a test does not make one a gun expert in any way. I think that people should be able to carry guns, but can confirm that although my wife took the class very seriously, she is no gun carrying expert, and has much less experience shooting a gun than I do, and I do not have a CHL.

I'm on the optimistic train with OOC wins over Idaho and Ball State with a bowl loss.

He will probally just start against Tulsa.

And...it was Harry himself who started this thread in the football section. Got to love it...but, there are a few football/WBB dates similarities...like Nov. 9th and, of course Dec. 21st! Good looking schedule for the ladies. I like.

Without a doubt this is very upsetting to those who give a damn about personal freedoms, but I think a large part of America has become drugged on self importance and greed and will just let happen to them whatever happens. Fortunately, we are not all part of that crowd and my money says we out-number them 4 to 1. This thread will be moved or removed....too controversial for this crowd but some in D.C. will pay for all that is happening with their hides because even they cannot overcome the patriots that still exists in America today. All they do has to be intertwined with lies, deceit and behind the scenes tomfoolery but like the Good Book says..........."be sure for your sins will find you out." (And no, I am not a Baptist or Methodist preacher--just a simple believer, that's all).

I haven't seen anyone mention this so I will throw it out here. I spotted this at the new temporary UNT Bookstore on campus. First time I had seen it.

You think he might resign in season?

Somebody asked if we had the worst coverage in FBS and the answer has to be yes. The perfect storm of the coach keeping the media out, lack of interest, a lousy beat writer, and close proximity to a major media market that doesn't care about UNT and you get the worst coverage of any team in FBS and I would say worse than most FCS teams. I just went to meangreensports and besides fluff videos about freshmen, there's no practice coverage. The only school I can think of that is in a situation close to ours is Texas State and at least they have some practice coverage on their web site. When I visit my mom in Bozeman, the coverage of Montana State blows UNT's coverage away. I guess I had learned to live with it until I saw all the Vandal updates and hear my friends talk about their school's camp. Like I said, it's more than just one cause but the effect for us fans blows.

After 10 minutes of trying to find a way to tell you how wrong you are, I corrected myself. Your ideas are great. I would love more coverage, too. Let's make an event of this. But your presentation sucks. And you seem bitter. That's fine. I like your stories, your reasons to not like some of the way things are handled here. In my world, though, you can't sell an idea to any group by telling them how wrong they do things, or how much they suck, or how they don't get it. Even if you think that's justified. I think that was the big turn off...for me anyways. Instead of saying "I have a great idea; let's try to build something", you tell everyone how terrible things have been and will be if they don't change. I apologize to you and myself for getting caught up in that debate. You're allowed to handle it however you choose. There are probably people out there more receptive to this approach than me.

Well, that makes about 200,000 (give/take) northern Texas UNT alums who don't get it and have never gotten it, either. As we know, others of our entire UNT family who buy our gear don't necessarily go to athletic events. A Sad Story I'd Bet Many Others of You Have Also Experienced One Very Similar: Years ago, I was out at what is now the Sports Authority across from Hulen Mall. The previous year they had 2 or 3 racks full of North Texas gear from which I bought a couple of articles and apparently UNT sales had gone very good but then the next year.............NO UNT SPORTS GEAR! I asked a young lady where the North Texas gear was and she said: THERE IS NOT ENOUGH INTEREST IN NORTH TEXAS FOR US TO STOCK IT! I told her I felt she may be wrong about that and told her about the 2 or 3 racks that had been at this very store the year before that apparently had sold out and you know what? It almost seemed as if what I had said actually pissed her off. Then ....A BRIEF MOMENT WITH THAT SPORTS AUTHORITY SALES STAFFER OF SOME UNT EDUCATING: I told her we had the largest of all Texas-based universities group of alums than any other single school including UT and TAMU and she looked at me as if I didn't know what the heck I was talking about. All this taking place less than 50 minutes from the Denton City limits, too. MORAL OF STORY? What all this above means to me is that North Texas needs someone of an official capacity educating our very D-FW area sports gear stores managers, corporate buyers, shoppers etc, etc, etc, even if you have to bring them & their families to an Apogee Stadium luxury suite or prime seats (if available) on a Game Day to wine, dine and entertain them. it is still so amazing how you can catch flies with honey (and an open bar, too). Addendum: I was told that it was the corporate buyers who call on all these sports gear franchise stores who made the big and final decisions on which schools to puff or promote with their respective gear. GMG!

I'm not going to lie. It bugs me we know more of what's going on in the Vandal fall camp than UNT's.

I was in the Ticket Office today getting my own and they had everyone's manilla envelopes splayed out for their triple checking. They'll be mailed out tomorrow.

Hey...agree...except that this was how long ago? And, unfortunately for all of us...long before the new branding and licensing program was put into place by UNT. Just "doing it" now is not quite that realistic. It may be an "excuse" for you and whoever would go out and do these "underground" so to speak, but HIGHLY doubtful these could be produced today under proper "authority" and OK, nor could they be sold through any area of UNT...like the Apogee store for instance. Don't know if screen printers check this sort of thing or not, but lots here feel it would be easy to get done in a clandestine sort of way...hope they do...I am a buyer if they do.

Now...that is some good logic here folks. Do we really care as long as whatever play is called is gaining positive yardage and leading to scores? Not me! Tired of losing...however the Mean Green get back to winning is plenty A-OK with me!

As long as we run more than we punt or kick, I'm good.

Maybe they are being realistic! Hell we haven't had a winning season in 8 damn years. I'm pretty sure at the end of the season if we were at 6-6 most on this board would be happy.

You know what's embarrassing? People here actually interpreting this as our team's ultimate goal. They're going to go into every game to win it. Stop crying as if they circled 6 games as losses.

Needs to be lime green sir...

Kick it really old school and sport a leather helmet. (Is leather fire retardant? I've never seen a burning cow...well...except on my tailgating grill.)

See you Saturday morning at the Pavilion! Let's do this!

well. way things are going - we may be too.

Oh, I believe it. I did get a trip into Tulsa one summer. Flew in and got off the plane and immediately was soaked. So, yes, there is absolutely nothing that can come close to what the team and fans are going to experience. But I look forward to all the other stuff my niece has planned in the four days. The game, tailgating, meeting you guys is top priority though. It is a great measuring stick for us to compare our team's fundamentals-discipline to last few years of big plays, but only to be called back due to someone fighting an opponent half a field away. Flags. Flags. Flags. You will see all business, little, if any, jawing ---- I think. Anyhow, this is fun. I have maps out of your area, reading the history of the area and just calling it my get away with fellow Vandal fans. Wife is staying, She has work. I am in year three of retirement. Never have been in the great state of Texas. Niece (lives in Irving) has warned me for the furnace blast. LOL

I like the interlocking NT as well. Stay calm, here it comes. I also like 3XL's uniforms. A lot too. Don't kill the messenger!

Taking things a little personally today.

Love the idea behind representing history but the mismatching colors make me feel like we're a little mickey mouse. But, I suppose everything needed to be just as it was. As long as they win, we'll work on the "look good doing it" with time.

Sounds like they are not really throwback unis as much as they are commemorative or special occasion unis, but I get your point. Don't mess with mojo even if it is just one game.

You don't either (unless you actually meant assault weapon, which would be anything that could be used to commit an asssault). You are 0-3 in your examples. The correct definition of an assault rifle is a weapon that is selective fire (semi-auto and full auto), magazine fed, and fires an intermediate rifle cartridge. A Tommy gun is a submachine gun (and already legal to own if you can find one to buy and pay all the extra taxes). A BAR is a light machine gun (and legal to own if you can find one and pay the extra taxes). A bazooka would be considered a destructive device (legally) and is usually not legal to own in working condition, though I think there are exceptions that make it legal.