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Saturday vs UTSA will be Ryan's last regular season home game at UNT(Notice I said regular season). It has been a wonderful experience for him as well as his parents and family. We really appreciate all the support that the Mean Green Family has shown Ryan personally. I never had any reason to follow UNT before Ryan started to play there. I played against North Texas State in 1986. Texas A&M 48 - NTSU 28 and that was about it. Ryan was offered a scholarship to play Football by Todd Dodge. UNT was the first school to offer so Ryan accepted. I have missed 5 UNT games since 2010.(Army,Ohio,three yearly trips to Florida). It was a matter of being able to drive to get to the game after youngest son's Friday night football games. Being able to travel and follow the team all over the Southeastern US has been the best part. I will truely miss the travel/road trips. Being a part of the move from Fouts to Apogee was pretty cool too. Another very nice surprise has been the Green Brigade. A REALLY entertaining band and better than a vast majority of Big 12 and SEC Bands. Again, thanks to everone for your support of Ryan. JEFF BOUTWELL

Hey Cowlishaw:

You don't have to get the best recruits to do big and great things. Ask Boise and TCU. Just keep on winning and prove the naysayers wrong.

quit reading the Dallas Morning BIRD CAGE LINER a long time ago. This reminds me why. They have so called reporters that spew crap like this about a "home team"...hey Calishaw, you no knowing what a football team looks like jerk, do you not realize that UNT is the only team in DFW that is going to a bowl game ..... do you realize that UNT is the only team in DFW in the hunt to win a conference??? Of course not, your head is too far up Patterson and June Jones A_ _ to see the light of day.

Had no affiliation to UNT at all. I grew up in Manhattan, Kansas and was an avid K-State fan (so there is not a person on here who has seen worse football than me). I moved to Texas, long story short I had a little boy and am not able to get back to Kansas so I adopted UNT as my team in 2010. I have to say I can not be more pleased with my decision. I have met alot of nice people and everyone in the athletic department has been nothing but the best to me and my family. Because of this I now have alot more green in my closet than I do purple. I look forward to what the future holds for UNT athletics and I believe in this program 100%.

http://ntdaily.com/conflict-at-sga-session-as-new-legislation-introduced/ According to the above NT Daily article, SGA is paying for a 56-student charter bus to go to the Tulsa game. Great news!

Oh. Apparently I must justify myself. I apologize for my tardiness. My crew holds season tickets. This is the second home game we've missed this season, but we still made sure our tickets got used for both games. The first miss was unexpected. This miss was because we were the official barbecue cookers for our entire college and had been awake since 2am and cooking since 3:30 am. By kickoff, we were pretty darn wiped. Out of my crew, the Mama- that's me- was the one who wanted to go inside the stadium and go to the game, exhaustion or no exhaustion. Everybody else didn't want to go in quite as badly as I did because they were pooped, and that was after twelve hours of working our tails off to feed several hundred people. Go ahead and let those negative reputation votes y'all gave me, and will continue to give me, make you feel nice and smug and more full of green pride. I don't support this school and this athletic program less than you do because my family went home after a tailgate without going into the game on *one* occasion.

I think he stays here until he's done coaching- whenever that happens to be- and retires. He just makes it seem like UNT is a mission for him, more of a calling, than a coaching job. I like that about him.

I have been a fan of Tim Cowlishaw from watching him on ESPN's Around The Horn plus I regularly read his DMN column. I went to his Drunk On Sports book signing in Plano this summer to have him sign his book for my son. I asked him to write "Go Mean Green." He was laughing while he wrote that out. Right there I knew how he felt about North Texas.

They're SMU pole smokers anyway. I stopped reading the DMN years ago.

Anytime somebody makes bold absolute claims like this...you run the risk of looking like a fool. Baylor is nothing more than a doormat... Never gonna be anything more than that... Boise state can never compete with the big boys... Things change in cycles. Great programs go through bad times, mediocre programs have great years, bottom dwellers rise from the ashes and shock the world. You never know what will happen. Just keep on supporting our alma mater. If the support is there, our chances are much much better to raise our level of success overall, and years like this one may not end up being a flash in the pan. This could be the beginning of something special like Mac has said. Our potential is there because of our numbers. We just have to make our alums notice. "Never" "always" etc.... The words of fools. Lets just appreciate what we have gotten to see this year without arrogance, and don't let any outside noise ruin our fun. Spread the good word amongst our alumni and maybe one day we can throw these absolute statements back in Tim's face... You know, in a nice way... Go mean green

Things to do: 1. Quit buying the Sunday Dallas Morning News except when UNT football is prominently mentioned on front page. 2. ?

And what do you expect? He went to UT.

What a Peckerwood.

What else do you expect from him. Most annoying analyst on ESPN A.T.H.

I think most of Denton and the majority of UNT faculty and teachers feel the way that those have spoken out loudly and absurdly about this stuff regarding athletics. When you have focused on education, music, and art, you're gonna have this stuff pop up. Not one other school in this state would run into these people and their anti-athletic cause. Not UT, A&M, Tech, Baylor, TCU, SMU, UTEP, UTSA, Texas State, UH, Rice, SFA, SHSU, etc... Please, folks, don't let this turn into a repeat of the late 70s again, where we make it abundantly clear that athletics shouldn't even get decent funding. We lost Hayden Fry, I-A football, and generations of money-giving alumni that love and fund Longhorn, Aggie, Sooner, etc...football instead of ours. Don't cost us Coach Mac because of this North Texas State Teachers College mentality!!

Although I have been lurking in the background of this site for about a year now I have never registered or posted anything (yikes) BUT, what a perfect subject for my first post. After graduating high school from Coppell, I decided to head west like many of my friends and attended Texas Tech for my first two years of school. It was not a terrible experience by any means- had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people. However, I needed a change. The change came in the spring of 2007 when I transferred to North Texas. Naturally, I began to compare things between Texas Tech and North Texas. First, I noticed how personal your education can feel at UNT. Both universities have an enrollment of 30k+ but in my opinion the North Texas faculty is much better at making your education feel like they are there for YOU and not the other way around. Second, the personality, it was nice to see students wearing something other than a polo shirt, khakis and Sperry’s every single day with the personalities to match. I know this is superficial and somewhat hypocritical because I do own these things myself, but the main point being the sheep like atmosphere will never beat our uniqueness in my view. Third, and this may be silly, but the trees and grass on our campus were an awesome change for me. Glorious wind stopping trees, never take them for granted people. Finally, the last thing I will mention even though there are many more things I could is Apogee Stadium. After I transferred, Fouts Field was the only thing I was not absolutely in love with. Now that we have Apogee for our program to call home, there is nothing I do not love with all my soul about UNT. I brag about our beloved university to everyone I can every chance I get and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. This is my connection and why I follow UNT. GO MEAN GREEN

I played football at UNT and was a four year letterman. I met my wife at UNT. She played Soccer and lettered three years. I was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma at UNT as well. My brother, stepfather, and stepbrother are graduates of UNT. Most of my best friends either played football for UNT or were Phi Kaps at UNT. I love me some Mean Green! P.S. My girls want to go to school at North Texas.

Thanks folks...just yesterday I was 25 and blinked...time machine took me all the way to 66! But what a great ride it has been so far. Being made all the greater by all the wonderful Mean Green Nation members I have met and admired along the way! What memories all those photos bring! Thanks Harry! Go Mean Green! Beat UTSA!

Here is where the rub comes in and your facts run a little astray. North Texas was considered for admittance to CUSA a couple of years ago and we were told our facilities were holding us back. Since then we have built Apogee, completed the Athletic Center, upgraded our soccer and softball facilities, raised money to upgrade the Super Pit and secured a fee increase. We are also on the verge of adding baseball and a stadium on campus. We have upgraded our coaching staffs across the board and secured numerous 6+ figure donations. This, along with deliverying the DFW market, got us in to CUSA this time around. UTSA, on the other hand, provides a television market with no other requirements. Outside of your new fountain, you were just required to lace up your shoes and join the party. That's alright though, because we are used to earning our way. We have to, because nothing has ever been just handed to us.

All doubts about Benford aside, I want him to prove me wrong. I had doubts almost immediately after the UAH game last year that finally boiled over when ULL beat us by 31. I wanted him gone after that, and did till around May when I just figured might as well get on board since he's gonna be here anyway. I make no apologies for questioning him. But, if he starts to turn this thing around I'll probably be one of the bigger defenders on this board. I love basketball and want a winner. We do NOT have a history of winning teams here. Look at our all-time records if you want to get depressed. We'd have to win a 70% clip for several seasons just to put us over .500 all-time. That's why so many of us loved JJ. He was turning that around. Maybe we weren't making the NCAA's every year, but we were in the hunt. Look at his record in the SBC tournament! I'm not asking for much...just a team that is in contention and doesn't embarrass us. Losses to UAH, ULM (x2) and shellackings to schools with losing records, embarrass us. If the players hate us like Andrew says, that's too bad. However, other than their families, no one roots for them harder than I do, I guarantee you that.

I'm not an ESPN or a Fox Sports, but I put out a power poll based on all kinds of sources, other ranking, stats, and everything I reflect back on. I'd say I'm a pretty big basketball watcher. I always take vacation for march madness. So I'd say and most people who know me say that I know what I'm talking about.

Uhmm...I think Coach Mac and his staff are doing a heck of a job motivating our guys without the need of militarized tatics. Actually, don't see how this would help a football team get motivated...obviously isn't helping Hawaii all that much in terms of winning. I would stick to coach Mac's tatics, which seems to be a mixture of tough loved disciple along with compassion when the time is right and earned. All that leads to one word: family.

One of the big advantages of being in a bowl is getting nearly a month of extra practice time. Getting that extra time for the youngsters is huge.

The other catch is they can't be a full-time student, so they have to take less than 12 hours their first semester. Once they, or any student athlete or not, becomes a full-time student their 5-year eligibility clock begins, which includes one redshirt year. That much I am sure of. However, I'm not sure if they can enroll at the university that they are "grayshirting" at or if it has to be a community college. Either way, they also can't practice with the team. Once they join the team they have the 5 seasons to play in 4, they still get their redshirt.

You keep talking about the DFW market being the main attraction that got UNT into C-USA. I see why you'd think that. And yes, I do understand the concepts of "marketing" and "fan base" and all that jazz. I got my undergraduate degree at the third-largest university in this state, which happens to be in Houston. After the first season, in which I was a shy kid who only went to two games with a few friends from high school, the only game in Houston that I missed for the rest of my undergraduate career was when I attended a funeral. And that school, which had been having some pretty darn good football seasons and overall sports accomplishments, was flat shut out of the Big 12 when four former SWC schools made the move. (Was I confused? Yes. Bitter? Nah. I'm the oddball that always liked Houston's spot in C-USA better.) But my point is... By your logic, Houston should have been invited to the Big 12 instead of Baylor because the Houston television market is far more attractive than the Waco market. That obviously did not happen. Hell, SMU or TCU should have been invited instead of Baylor. Nope. Your argument in its context is invalid. This point is pretty silly. Fourth largest university in the state- just barely- with over 120 years of academics and many more than ten seasons of football. Every school has its frustrating, disappointing, maddening seasons. Those are part of the "dues" that we paid. Don't take this post as hostile. I like that UTSA has a football program. I like its spirit. I was so antsy during the first part of the Houston-UTSA game that one of my neighbors called to see what all the yelling was about. I can't believe you guys snagged Coker. But the dues... you guys just haven't paid 'em yet. And it ain't all y'all's fault that you guys got first crack at the big piece of chicken (sorry, I just couldn't resist that one, but it does fit here), but after seeing what Houston had to go through in the SWC years and UNT had to go through since I came here during the Dodge years- and knowing that longer-lived UNT fans have experienced much, much more frustration and disappointment and heartbreak than I- I'm just saying, man. Dues. Y'all haven't paid 'em. You guys were able to drive up to the window and *poof* Welcome to FBS... would you like mashed potatoes or another one of our fresh sides with that?

Glad to hear Rex is ok and in good spirits. Major comeback. Yes, that's the attitude of a winner. Godspeed, Rex.

Grew up in Lewisville. In 88 went to UT on an academic scholarship, UNT in my view was like a community college and my parents forbid me to go to TX Tech because it was lower than community college. For various reasons, transferred UNT after 2 years. Didnt take long to fall in love with UNT (what, classes dont have to have 800 students in them??). Reconnected with the girl who became my wife at UNT. My father in law played football at UNT, my brother was a kicker for UNT behind some guy named Gowins. Have pretty much had season tickets since I graduated with my masters in 94, though some seasons it was just me and my father in law. Now we have a large group of friends who have become season ticket holders and tailgaters most saturdays. Stop by our tailgate anytime. We have mean green flag and KA flag, big box trailer we pull to games. mickey

They were probably competing with the Rangers on TV in a rain storm the weekend after Thanksgiving.

After the last nine years, what do we really expect people to say? Let's win a few conferences championships and finally show people what we can do. Cowlishaw is an idiot but others are noticing. GMG!

It's the toughest thing that UNT has to overcome, the DFW sports media apathy by its top members. Sure, we have lots if broadcast and print alums in the DFW area, but except for George Dunham, no one else has any pull at the top of the DFW sports media ladder. Tim cowlishaw just represents the SWC mentality perfectly. It's gonna take beating an AQ team AND winning the conference to make a dent with these people. The only reason they haven't dumped SMU completely is because of their SWC history and the rise from the death penalty that many of the DFW media helped to bring about. It's just how it is....

Who cares? A. DMN is the worst run publication I've seen B. TC is trying to follow Skip Bayless' career path by committing to making every issued opinion bold. I think he's just keeping with this character he's created - on that requires he take no middle ground on anything. Truthfully, he has little risk making this proclamation because when we become a consistent winner again, no one will call him out on it because no one will have read it (I refused to give the link a page click, sorry). The greater risk to him was compromising his strategically established persona.

It took me two tries to get a degree. I began in '61 and took a break after a couple of years to wear a more olive drab shade of green for Uncle Sam. I returned in '68 and graduated in '70. I love my North Texas with all my heart and soul and I am thankful every day that it is so much a part of me. I also love all these great comments and hope they keep coming in...wish I had a million Green Up Arrows.

Born outside of Buffalo and grew up just north of Philly. Got beat up every day until I started hitting the gym and learned how to fight, but even then the closest I had to friends were a couple of groups that let me tag along so that I could be graced with their presence. My family didn't like me much either, so I just wanted to leave. I wasn't very motivated to do well in school because I just couldn't see things ever getting better, so I dropped from AP classes to prep classes and almost dropped out of school just so that I could leave. I couldn't get the approvals signed though, so I stuck around and finished just under the top quarter of my class with decent SATs even though I didn't bother to study. Nobody in my family had a degree but I knew I wanted something more, and affordable far-away schools with good art programs were pretty much UNM and UNT. I guess my parents wanted reason to get along better or something, and my dad flew for free as an air traffic controller, so we visited Denton and I felt so free being away from everything and loved the campus so I applied to exactly one school and was accepted. I didn't get a scholarship, but I was up for one of the store manager positions at the grocery store where I worked so I figured I'd just save up for a year or two and then start college (35K plus bonuses in the 90s was pretty lucrative for somebody just out of high school with no family connections). A couple of months before that would have happened, and a week and a half before the start of the fall semester, I got a call - a scholarship recipient decided to go elsewhere and there was a spot open. So I packed up all my stuff and said goodbye to the few people that sort of cared and moved 1500 miles to a school in a state where nobody knew me. A year and a half before that I'd had a dream about an amazing girl and when I woke up I drew a picture of her. The Saturday before classes started, I met her which was kind of weird. Sadly, we broke up and I had a hard time with relationships until a few years ago when we got back together and got married. In the years in between, I studied hard so that I could keep my scholarship and got better grades in tougher classes than ever before, was involved in just about everything on campus and exercised like a crazy person in between. Until having a family, the only times in my life where I wasn't severely depressed were when I felt like I was making a difference through campus involvement, volunteer work, tutoring, etc. UNT taught me that with a lot of hard work and a bit of timing and luck, anyone can accomplish just about anything, as exemplified by so many amazing people I've been fortunate enough to meet through our North Texas network of students, alumni, professors, etc. I wasn't interested in sports from a spectator's standpoint until some of the girls from the UNT Volleyball and Basketball teams asked me to come to games and bring friends. I got hooked, just because the atmosphere is so great when you know that almost everyone involved has something invested in the outcome, more than just a passing need to find a team to cheer for. So in between overextending myself with too many commitments, I made it to games that I could and followed the results of those I couldn't. For me, UNT Athletics gave another opportunity to show support of the one place that gave me a chance and showed me more than anyone could ever learn in a classroom. I may be far away now, but helping to organize the alumni in Arizona just gives me another opportunity to give back as much as possible until I pay off my damn student loans. Hey, that scholarship only lasted 4 years and didn't cover housing, so...you know.

sounds like good news... hope he takes enough time to recover properly though

I fell head over heels for UT as a 9-year old when it won the national championship (1.1.70). Wore burnt orange for the rest of my days until I got to UT. I learned quickly it wasn't for me. Too big, too many topsiders and starched shirts/jeans and too far away from my girlfriend. In January 1980, I transferred to NT based on proximity to my family/girlfriend in FW and the time I spent in Denton with a former girlfriend's family (Jeff Hawkins, et al). The first NT sporting event I saw was NT vs UT in basketball, I believe a few days before my first class. May be embellishing but NT beat UT with a buzzer beating shot from near half court by the great Pat Hicks, winning in OT (may have been more than one) something like 107-106. I was hooked. My first football game was against UTA in the Fall of 1980. We dominated in the opening of their new stadium, a few short years before they gave up football. Joined Talons, built bonfires, drove the bell around campus before games to rally the dormies, shot cannons, participated in parades, trailered the Model A to away games, was a beertender at the RBL, delivered pizzas for Domino's, J-school grad, and the roommate I met at NT introduced me to my wife after we both graduated. Wife is a RN-grad from Baylor, but went to art school at NT and is pretty loyal now. And props to the great Peacock for mentioning our BB/BS relationship. I am very proud to see his talents selling North Texas recruiting kids to NT. My brother graduated from NT also, and we are the only college graduates our family has ever produced. Until we moved to Colorado in 1994, I made at least 9 football games a year. When we returned to Texas (I missed NT, er my family, too much) in the Fall of 1996, I took my son (meangreen2018) to his first home game when he was 6 months old). He has not missed a home game since he was born and will be starting at NT in the Fall as one of its most dedicated fans. My step-nephew is a J-School/Photo major. My son and my daughter have brought at least one friend to every game since they were old enough to have friends. Some of those friends will attend NT. Some won't but they remain fans. My tailgating crew consists of the parents of some of those kids, none with previous NT ties (one has a daughter attending now), along with NT Letterman Jeff Katon and his NT grad wife Rina. Jeff played in the other Rice game we won before this year's win. On weekends when we compete well against or upset, i.e. Georgia, I get texts from all over the country from friends, co-workers and family members, none of whom went to NT, who know how passionate the Campbell's are about our team. I am so proud of my school, of my teams, and the student-athletes that play for my school. I am humbled by those that support NT through my connections with them. I am elated my son will be here for the next 4-10 years. And I very appreciative of the time waste that GMG.com affords me daily. GMG

You were the smart alec first. We are not at home so we are going on the road to play the game. We will not have a lot of fans at the game to support the team. Though we are the "home team" for the first two games it is on the road.

Except for those SMU and Army series.

He won't answer it because he can't. He can't give one example if what UTSA did to EARN their seat at the table, yet he wants to argue they belong. This is why UTSA will never recwive any respect from the fans of the teams in their conference. Such a huge entitlement attitude in their fan base. We beat them by 30. Wish it were 70.

You are so misinformed on this subject. But what would one expect someone who has only followed college football for 3 years. Still waiting on that earning a seat at the table answer...

NT03 has eyes everywhere.

Look at Columbia up 24-21 with 2mins to go in the 1st half. They are playing Mich St.

Jennifer Aniston Natalie Martinez Katy Perry... aaaand Vera Farmiga

I went to UNT because they were the fastest to complete the admittance process. Was pretty lazy witth the college application process towards the end of my senior year and if I hadn't found something quickly I was being shipped to ACU. Being top 10% in my class I could have gone to any state school but UNT got me out of ACU the quickest.

Well, moved to Denton just before my senior year of HS in 1965. Seemed natural to head to UNT after graduating from DHS. Already had part-time jobs to help pay for college expenses here in Denton so just stayed. Got involved in tons of activities while at UNT and just loved the place. Went off to grad school at OSU and then the Air Force during the Vietnam Nam era, but always Denton was home, and UNT was MY UNIVERSITY. After returning from the Air Force and settling down in Denton with my bride, who was a two-time UNT grad and employed by UNT at the time, I went back to UNT for my MBA. Well, the rest is pretty much history. We love Denton and we love UNT.

That's awesome, man! I LOVE that we have what some other schools would refer to as "T-shirt fans." In my book, fans are fans. And any program worth their salt would NEVER turn away a fan of their program. That's why I've always found that to be a stupid term. Glad to have ya', smoothfresh and let's hope this program continues to make us even more proud each week! As for me, I've worked in different aspects of broadcasting for over a decade, now. (television, radio, online journalism -- I covered every professional sports team here in D/FW at some point or another as well as the TCU football and baseball teams) But, sports is a hobby to me and my real passion is film. You see, I graduated high school back in '97 but have slowly taken hours here and there but never earned a degree. At the end of 2010, during a brief job change from the world of investments back into television, my wife and I decided I needed to finally finish earning my Bachelors. Without hesitation, UNT was my first and only choice because of our outstanding RTVF program, but I was going to need to get my basics done first. I enrolled part-time at TCC and within 3 semesters I had earned my Associates. This past January, I set foot onto the UNT campus as a student for the first time at the age of 33. I'm planning to graduate within the next 2 years with my Bachelor of Arts in Radio, Television and Film with a heavy emphasis on film. After that, I want to make films full-time. I already have a few ideas and plan to share them with the world when the time is right!!!!! *Yes, some have a sports theme . . . who am I kidding? Most of them do.* In the meantime, I plan to study my butt off, brainwash my two children into being all green all the time, and catching every UNT sporting event I can. After all, as a student I get in for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

The provost's letter is a direct response to public outcry. Believe me, he would have never responded so quickly if there wasn't a growing movement. Nevertheless, the Provost never states that the cuts aren't mandated, they are, it's just a question have how they will affect the library. Right now, it appears that the administration is beginning to muddy the waters so the PR damage can be minimal. I know this topic isn't football related, but you folks know better than most the hurt that comes with supporting a university that appears not to return that support.

Back in 85 or 86, I joined Big Brothers' & Sisters' as a lil brother. I was matched up with a recent UNT Grad (Campbell) who is/was/always will be the most dedicated UNT fan I know. In fact, we got kicked out of BBBS for going on an overnight trip out of state to see UNT/NTSU play the ASU Indians in Jonesboro. I will not forget that game, as each time ASU scored, they shot off several rounds of fireworks. They had run out of fireworks by halftime. While I didn't start at UNT, I have made up for it in spades. I transferred to UNT in 97 to start classes, but it was rushing the field after the MTSU game in 2001 that solidified my Mean Green Madness. I have worked at UNT Admissions for 13 years, and I am now an Assistant Director of Undergrad Admissions, and do my best to make as many more new members of the Mean Green Family as I can. GMG

Best wishes to the Mean Green energy machine!!

UNT90, that's a stereotype. You would be surprised how many members of Gomeangreen.com are women.