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  1. Why put Brices photos with these guys? To the best of our knowledge he had nothing to do with the prostitution ring. I feel really bad that his name is getting drug through the mud.
    9 points
  2. Why is Army looked at as such a great draw for fans? Looking at last year's road games for them, the average crowd was 64% of capacity of the stadiums they played in, with 4 of 6 games under 60%. While there may be some draw for diehard football fans, I don't think the casual fan is going to feel that same draw to an Army game. Note: This is not me saying Liberty is going to draw well either. I'm just trying to understand the strong feelings about Army in particular.
    5 points
  3. I know Nathan quite well. Regardless of a tough ending to his career, he is a frequent attendee to Letterman events, loves UNT and proudly wears his Class Ring!
    5 points
  4. That's a pretty ballsy comment two years removed from Portland State.
    4 points
  5. I hope Clayton comes here. But, for the love of God, can we first construct a Mean Green Village Doggie Daycare so that no more pets go missing during games? The Tune family has suffered enough.
    4 points
  6. DRC: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/05/12/c-usa-calls-press-conference-star-tuesday
    3 points
  7. The date for this year's HOD Bowl has been set for Dec. 26th. Time not set as yet. Lockheed Bowl in Ft. Worth set for Dec. 23rd with a 2:30pm kick. I am hoping for the Ft Worth option this year. Just because it's a different Bowl and I like the date better for pre-game activities, etc. But, either would be great. Hit 7! Or.....more!
    3 points
  8. The bowl game was unlikely to have an impact in recruiting for last season. Most of the recruits it would have helped with were already committed by the time we played in the game. I look for the bowl game to help with recruiting in our current cycle. Early returns suggest that it has helped, but time will tell the whole story.
    3 points
  9. Some people feel supporting the military academies as a way of supporting the military in general. Having talked to fans who do come to NT games when we have an one of the academies as an opponent, almost all of them have or know someone who served or is serving in that branch.
    3 points
  10. For the life of me I don't see how swapping Army for Liberty will bring a P5 to Apogee. Even if it does I don't think trading a winnable Army game for a home loss to a P5 is a good thing. Add to that the fact that I don't like being on the same continent with Liberty, much less the same field. And I certainly don't want to visit them.
    3 points
  11. Being in a masterplan and making it happen are two different things. The Liberty series, as I understand it, is the first step in a multiple step process. It appears Baker would have preferred to announce all the changes at once. They didn't say it was physically taxing. They referred to the injury problem caused by Army's cut blocking scheme along their offensive line. Be factual, don't twist meanings to fit your opinion.
    3 points
  12. He would like to see Clayton come to UNT.
    3 points
  13. It's a wonder Army is able to get anyone to play them :-(. EDIT: I got i!. Our OOC scheduling strategy should be to play whoever Army played the week before. They will be so unprepared for us, they won't know what hit 'em.
    3 points
  14. https://www.google.com/amp/collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/11/another-texas-tech-wide-receiver-set-to-transfer/amp/ Maybe Graham or Filani could get in his ear.
    2 points
  15. Good news for both us and the league. I didn't realize only three places submitted bids and from that list I'm not at all surprised it's going to the Star.
    2 points
  16. 2 points
  17. So far that's not a problem as the AAC is tied with the MAC for teams in the access bowl. I notice no single team has repeated yet, either.
    2 points
  18. If the SMU official attendance was 22,127, you know that there may have been 5,000 actual butts in the seats. So much for all those Liberty fans that might be attending the NT game.
    2 points
  19. So far, the auto bid has gone to Western Michigan (MAC), Houston (AAC), Boise State (MWC), Northern Illinois (MAC), and Central Florida (AAC). It would really help our league a lot if we could get a team in that slot. Because right now, the college football media and fans look at the SBCUSA as just basically being the same level of teams.
    2 points
  20. Exactly. We're trading a team that is an honor to have on schedule for a team that is a disgrace to have on the schedule. Furthermore, having Army at home is the equivalent of a low level P5 at home. You really think Army won't draw more than a Kansas or Kentucky?
    2 points
  21. Actually the original mean green club was a creation of Hayden Fry. After he left, it was allowed to die and was as pointed out resurrected as a fan based organization. Then again taken over by the AD. Point to ponder, does a new NT support organization need to be established run by the fans? The current Mean Green is little more than a moniker for the fund raising arm of the athletic department. Something independent of the AD, and free to both support and question the direction of NT athletics could be beneficial. As far as I know the current Mean Green club is a misnomer anyway, it is not a club in the sense that it has voted on leadership or does it conduct regular meetings.
    2 points
  22. Brett and the guys from the NT Daily have gone out of their way to mention that Brice was only arrested for marijuana "possession" and not involved with the more serious alleged crimes.
    2 points
  23. ? The coaches weren't coming off a bowl game last year, they were trying to sell a team coming off a 1-win season. The recruiting off the bowl game will be seen in the upcoming class. So far, it looks like we're recruiting ahead of where we were this point last year.
    2 points
  24. HOD is scheduled to have a BIG12 team this season. If that is the case, I will prefer we go there. If we can finish with a 7 win or better regular season, I could see us taking a very large crowd to face Texas, Tech, TCU, or Baylor in the historic Cotton Bowl. A win against one of those teams, would certainly improve recruiting for us, and place us squarely in the category of rapidly improving G5 programs.
    2 points
  25. We are getting annihilated on the CUSA AND the Sun Belt boards for this. I dont like being a topic on the belt board for anything.
    2 points
  26. 2 points
  27. Wren is a very smart guy. Wren is playing his cards right. I too was at the Dallas Coaching Caravan. While there, I was able to talk to several key athletic managers, and coaching staff members. I suggest people should stop ragging on Wren, and the Army games. Wren is securing commitments on games that will impress the Mean Green fans. I would not expect the Liberty games to be on the schedule for long. Army is talking to Liberty too. Recruiting is going very very well right now! The 2018 class will be a great class. Have faith Mean Green fans! Good things are coming our way!
    2 points
  28. Not sure that is a valid statement.
    2 points
  29. Yes, and the guy who promoted UNT once he transferred. You know, he supported the school he committed to at that time. He didn't announce his transfer and then call every other D1 school soliciting offers. Big difference, at least in my mind. Being a diehard fan has nothing to do with it. Commit, honor that commitment, that is all I ask. If you aren't ready then don't commit. The definition of the word says it all for me.
    2 points
  30. what if he committed, and at his first day of practice a mysterious dog showed up and watched practice from outside the gate?
    2 points
  31. I like how you concede that MTSU will be a better program than NT in 7 years and automatically assume NT will not be in a position to move up. Then further this theory by implying NT won't even be in the second group with Rice, etc. and will be destined to the lowest possible league. NT is spending a lot of money for nothing, and apparently has made a bunch of bad personnel decisions if this comes to fruition.
    2 points
  32. I agree, but why don't we see how this plays out before we all storm the AD?!? The ignorance on this board right now is astounding.
    2 points
  33. It appears we did a very good job recruiting him and thus he committed to us. It is one thing, in my humble opinion, to have schools continue to approach you about attending their school and totally another to court almost every D1 assistant coach to look at you. In my mind, his commitment means nothing. I prefer the young men, Bryce English for example, that commit to our school and then use their Twitter account to promote the school where they committed. For comparison, I liken this to asking a girl to prom, she accepts, but then approaches every other guy in the school asking them to ask her. Show some character, commit or move along. It is nice having him on board, but I am not counting on him being here in the end.
    2 points
  34. It sounds like you and everyone else are just pissed we're not playing Army. I'm surprised so many people can't see the logic in this move. We're dropping two games with Army so we can bring a marquee opponent to Apogee in 2019. To balance out the schedule we had to set the home-and-home with Liberty. Yes, they are not the ideal choice, but it cost us ZERO dollars and SHOULD be games we WIN. You can't say that playing Army. Scheduling two one-off games would have cost us money or would have forced us to schedule home-and-home series with two universities, which would kill our scheduling flexibility. This fanbase has been bitching to play big name school at Apogee and now that we have an AD who is making it happen people are bitching because we had to cut two games with Army. You can't have your cake and eat it too. It was either cut the Army series or the SMU series and Wren made the right choice hands down.
    2 points
  35. Over the last two seasons I have seen him play around eight games for Hebron. He is very talented and definitely looks like a D1 QB. This past season he was the Offensive MVP in district 5-6A. It would indeed be huge if he flips from KU to UNT!
    2 points
  36. Can we all just come together and blame SMU for all things bad?
    2 points
  37. This is obviously the coup Wren Baker was after in dropping the Army games. Well played, sir. Well played.
    1 point
  38. Ignorance! Seems to me that goes both ways, apparently at this point no other further game schedules have been released or apparently even contracted. So if it is premature to question the decision to drop Army and schedule Liberty, than it is just as premature to believe that a high profile series has been lined up. Scheduling is not as easy as all us arm chair AD's think. RV made some big blunders, but he too had explanations. This is all speculation, but I think Baker had read all the complaints about NT scheduling and was given the task of better scheduling. Being that NT was completely scheduled for years, he had to make some room on the schedule. So he cancelled a couple of Army games and undoubtedly will make more unannounced changes to the current schedule to facilitate more maneuvering. Frankly it is hard to envision how cancelling two Army games and adding two with Liberty fits inasmuch as nothing is changed at this point other than replacing an excellent opponent with a start up program. I think many of us forget Baker is not a seasoned AD, and he has never scheduled anything at this level. I think he has been surprised by the reaction that he has gotten and probably wishes he never heard of Liberty. His excuses about Army being a less desired opponent because of the offense they play are frankly lame particularly after playing them three times in two years. Again, he is learning on the job.
    1 point
  39. To be clear, I have never bitched about SMU and Army as our home games. Just wanted to set that straight. I loved it.
    1 point
  40. Starts this year and it'll be same time frame as the JUCO December signing period. Only bad thing is (and it isn't the end of the world) but possibly have kids competing in the state championship run and also making that decision. Obviously they can wait just something I thought about when this was all announced.
    1 point
  41. A fact can never be more stone cold than that one!
    1 point
  42. 1 point
  43. No, because it has been made perfectly clear that Baker is working to provide us with more flexibility in scheduling, was visibly irritated that someone leaked the Liberty series prior to everything being put in place, etc... There is a lot of new personnel in place that, I would assume, affects the structure of the department. Spending what we have on a new basketball coach, the renovations to the AC and the plans for the IPF and soccer/track facility, I would say everything is not "much closer to the same than different."
    1 point
  44. He SHOULD enjoy this. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have multiple schools court you for your abilities. Why wouldn't you enjoy that if you're in his shoes? These are myopic viewpoints. If North Texas can't hang onto a guy when other schools come calling, then we need to do better at recruiting... Not blame the player being recruited. Dumb.
    1 point
  45. He should have been fired when he said any normal person would have faced charges for doing the same thing hillary did.
    1 point
  46. IMO you are allowed to say that...but it doesn't make it true.
    1 point
  47. That is not my only concern, however it seems a couple posters on here want UNT to be more involved and want the athletic department to implode.
    1 point


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