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first game in 2 years tonight... team won...didn't look too great down the stretch, but they found a way...a few observations... grant always calls the players by their first name when coming off the bench whole team stands and gives a high five/low five to players coming off the court whole team counts down clock when under 10 grant never looked confused or clueless i like this guy and the team is doing well...will certainly be back next saturday for the game against rice

I know Benford did not set the bar high but I think Grant might lead to this team to its best record in the last five years. Benford best conference win record was eight wins. I think this teams beats that number this year and the team will beat Benford's best season wins over the last five years. Grant took over a team that did not make the conference tournament last year. He had very few hold overs from last years team. What gets me really excited it is how young we are. We do need to get someone who can relieve Ryan on the court once in a while. We put a lot of pressure on him and depend on him at the end of the games. The guy never comes off the court. He does get a little sloppy at the end of the games sometimes but I think it has more to do with fatigue then talent. He is a great player to have on the team he just needs a little help to let him rest once in a while. I dont think he has missed a minute on the court this year. FIU leads the league in steals but we made a lot of lazy passes last night. I am excited for the team, the coach and the fans. Nice to hear the crowd get into the games again. This team never quits. Thank you to Wren for getting us a real basketball coach!

I have video of the winning shot...if only I knew how to post it? Edit: Sent it to Harry. Rick

I'm sure it helps that the weather is beautiful today.

good sign!

DRC late night hoops rewind http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/01/27/late-night-hoops-rewind-unt-69-florida-international-67-ot

Ugly win beats a pretty loss!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2754651-the-best-qb-in-every-college-football-conference-for-2018 Conference USA: Mason Fine, North Texas Why He'll Star in 2018 Fine will be a junior, as will his top three receivers. Rico Bussey Jr., Jalen Guyton and Michael Lawrence combined for 158 receptions, 2,271 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2017. All Fine has to do is not force things and he'll continue to shine. His 15 interceptions were among the most in the country last season.

They called it on Lockett after the Beard offensive foul, then undid it. Weird. Shoutout to DJ! Huge game-winning three, when he hasn't been on a great shooting run since the Rice game. Still had the confidence to hit the game winner

NT 69 ------- FIU 67 Final

As I have sat in traffic on 288 and other places in Denton I wondered how it became to be like this. I was fortunate enough to learn how it was done. I recently attended a planning approval meeting held by the Denton County approval board. The discussion was a new subdivision on Ryan Road. The developer and land owner both from outside of Denton. To them it will be take the money and run type so they dont care what happens in Denton after they are long gone. Little history for the area. Ryan Road is a two lane road that leads to elementary school on both ends and hits Teasley on one side and Country Club road on the other. The City of Denton has already approved three new large subdivisions that lead into Ryan Road. At times during rush hour and school getting in or out the traffic gets bad. The traffic can almost backup to the CVS on Teasley and back towards Guyer high school. It is a mess in the area and Ryan Road is supose to be built into a four lane road in the future. In the mean time we are adding more cars to a already bad area. Anyway back to the meeting. A spokes person for the city or county was present at the meeting. One person on the board seem to get it, Mr Sullivan. Anyway the leader of the advisory board asked the City/County person from Denton about the road expansion. She gave the hee haw answer and said Ryan Road was set for expansion in the future (date unknown). The board agreed it would bring additional traffic but approved the subdivision anyway. The reason given from what I heard this how it has been done in the past. The reason we have real traffic issues is because on how things were done in the past. It is time we hold the people in City government accountable for our roads and traffic. I understand the county and city see more property tax revenue to spend on I dont know what. Maybe it goes to the cost of legal bills of being a sanctuary city. One other example I like to throw out is Loop 288 from Colorado Blvd to I-35. Ever notice that all times of the day the traffic is bad. Part of the problem on 288 is they have too many traffic lights bunch up together and of course it narrows down to a funnel at i-35. I was involved in a road built in another state and attended all the meetings. One fact was brought up no traffic light should be located within 1/2 mile of each other because it cause traffic issues. This is from a national study by the highway traffic safety. I think we three in the area less then a mile a part We have out grown our roads and we continue to build new subdivisions and businesses reasons on the roads that cant handle them. We need to get proactive and not reactive in our thinking in Denton. The city needs to serve the people of Denton and not give the Buckees of the world tax breaks. I understand that Buckees will be a great employer for the city of Denton, maybe up to 200 part time jobs. I do understand giving breaks to real companies that can bring full time decent paying jobs to the area with the potential for growth. Lets face it Buckees will put up there 86 gas pumps and they are done growing. A gas station is a gas station. Taxes for these type of businesses might help the homeowners tax bills. The city/county needs to stand up and say no developments or business that add to the traffic issues until the roads are able to handle the traffic.

DRC: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2018/01/27/drapers-huge-3-lifts-unt-win-florida-international

Not a well played game by any means, but a victory and that is what counts. I don't think I have seen a NT team with this many close games;. Horrible executed plays at the end of game and ot. Woolridge and Draper were the heroes, but again a maximum effort from most. This team is so short handed, but still has been in nearly every game.

Was scared we were once again not even going to get a shot off in a clutch scenario. We did and Draper made it count

And scrambling for the ball, no less! Awesome. And thanks for the video Rick.

Ice veins shot from Draper for the win! Awesome.

Hasn't been pretty getting there, but we are 5-4 in conference, nonetheless

well i just knew him when i was an RA at victory hall with in 2010 when he was part of dodge's staff. When i said a "good man" i just mean a nice guy. I don't know a dam thing about what he did or if he was good or bad at his job.

Doesn't demand have to go up for prices to go up? How can you raise prices when attendance is already not good?

Based on what? Last year’s student section attendance was terrible. It was markedly worse than 2016. What caused that? We already don’t have great attendance on the alumni side and this increase has the potential to make it worse.

Check out @Im_Tht_Dude40’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Im_Tht_Dude40/status/957332439919218690?s=09

Kind of funny to hear him talk of respect. As for the possibility of finding a job with a Vandy degree, I could go for that if he didn't mention the "next 10 years". So unless he plans to only work for 10 years, this is because he thinks he has a shot in the nfl.

I'm glad I live too far away to attend UNT basketball games in Denton. My heart couldn't take the pressure of a UNT game.

FIU 35 -------- NT 29 Halftime

It will take more years of success to match all of the regional peers except UTSA and UTEP. Houston, SMU and Rice are better known and respected from their years in the old Southwest Conference. Louisiana Tech has always seemed to attract good athletes due to previous success on the field and movement with SMU, TCU and Rice to the WAC. The Holtz name in coaching could be another draw. If we can get Hallett, Faison and Shaw with our last available scholarships we should end up above all of our regional peers except for Houston. Our chances of getting all three are rather slim but still possible. But, if that happens (or maybe even in part) it will improve our chances in next years recruiting.

If you are waiting on the DMN for coverage then you are going to be waiting a long, long time.

Very good strategy. Hope that the recent successes of Mason and Bussey will entice more of the top players in Oklahoma to come to Denton.

You are such a joy and full of classy comments.

What, did you prefer to keep him another year?

I will never understand why some of you are TOO GOOD to pay $240 to seat your family of four in the family section. Unbelievable that your line of thinking is “if I can’t get my 50 yard line seats I’m entitled to at the same price I’ve always paid, I just won’t go.”

http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/072617aac.html

I think the SuperPit is a great facility, but venues are not what makes a great atmosphere, that is the crowd. The best most fun athletic events I have ever been to where in the old Snake Pit. A real dump, but generally sold out and NT playing the best teams in the nation.

The Atlanta Falcons model on concession pricing shows otherwise. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/22212592/atlanta-falcons-drop-prices-make-more-money-mercedes-benz-stadium-concessions Yes, at this point it does relate to ticket and/or required donations. No way should current season ticket holders be asked to pay more for their same seats. Tickets prices as a whole in areas of our stadium that aren’t typical (if ever) occupied should have a lower price point. We need butts in the stands regardless of price paid. These said butts will spend money on concessions and maybe even apparel. More importantly our players and potential recruits want to see fans.

So it's Deja Vu, Terrell family, all over again! :)

Its as simple as supply and demand. I drove my family of five to Denton for 4 home games and held season tickets for the first time this year. The cost of travel and the increase will likely prevent me from being a season ticket holder in the coming year. I do understand the thinking by the athletic department but I believe its a bit premature. IMO it makes a lot of sense to do this next year if the seasons goes as planned.

I am normally in lock-step with my man SE-66, but disagree here. You can add pictures and explain how blacks used to have to bow to drink water... the evils of segregation... the south lost the war, but continued the battle with blacks, etc etc etc. You don't have to keep some watered down cheap monument that now doesn't convey any of that. If you want to honor dead Americans who fought on the wrong side of the war, put it on their tombstones. Create a museum entry for how it used to be and not allow it to be washed and sanitized with time.

too bad, it was a great game. If you have lost interest in football, no big deal. But don't let what may happen someday down the road effect your passion for the team you really want to support. We need you

But, we didn't win by enough points!!!

Tailgating and bumming tickets off someone is the way to go

Conley was a good man but we needed someone younger in that position.

There is a culture crisis. Do they seriously want to be a tier one research university and all that go along with that? Because, outside the Ivy League, athletics is a HUGE player in that equation. Or do they want to remain everyone’s 5th college choice. There are many alums, members of this board, faculty, and administrators that can’t see the bigger picture and are perfectly fine remaining the commuter school that so many have made fun of for so long. Its a cultural problem throughout the university. If history is any indicator, those who try to change it will be met with stiff resistance. Average is just fine for a lot of folks.

Again, Aggies can sell their tickets on Stubhub & whatnot, because the DEMAND is there. That same demand to sit in section 205 at Apogee is just not there. Dear Athletic Department, Please, please don't price me out of my seats only to turn around and not sell them, or sell them on a game by game basis for less than what I paid for them last year. Sincerely, Die-Hard Fans who buy more than 2 seats in your premium sections.

This will naturally be followed by an increase in enforcement by the Yellow Jackets by making people show their tickets in order to enter the premium seat area, to which people will respond by complaining about the getstapo tactics being employed. And around and around the crazy train goes. Choo choo!!

No issue with them raising the required donation. As Cerebus already stated, we need to raise more money. I'm curious, though, if CUSA as a whole has raised ticket prices? I thought CUSA games used to have a floor of $35/seat. At $165/seat for 6 games we're not getting much of a discount---or incentive---for committing to the entire season. I've had 4 seats in 208 (and the equivalent in Fouts) since 2001. At no point has that section been even remotely close to half full--which leads to folks from around the stadium moving in from cheaper seats once the game starts. Not sure how doubling the minimum donation for already empty seats is going to do anything but push more people to buy cheaper seats and just move over during the 1st quarter? Of my original group from 2001, nearly all of them are cheap b@stards and don't believe they should have to pay anything for our games. When they instituted the $250 donation nearly all of them dropped out altogether and just buy $10 walk up tickets. Of course they still sit in our section every game on those $10 wing zone seats. Also---are these seats resold via ticketmaster or the AD on an individual game by game basis?

I went to private religious school my whole life. Middle school (Junior high in my day, kids) didn't have sports. High school had intramural flag football and no interscholastic sports of any kind. College had (really, really, really bad) Division 1 basketball, but no football, never had it, never will. So imagine my excitement when I stepped onto campus at UNT to enroll in grad school. There was going to be a football team! There would be beer! And helmets! And tackling! And big stadiums! So in 2008, I wandered into Fouts, which having no other bar of comparison, I didn't mind, and I watched Todd Dodge, which having no other bar of comparison, I wondered how in the world anybody could be so consistently incompetent. But I had football! And beer! And really, really, really bad coaching to watch. Since then, we've got Apogee, and I've been pretty happy to have a place to go six times a year to drink BEER!, hang out with people, and watch football, and helmets, and tackling (ruled targeting if done by a player in green). And I've seen infinite ways for people to be pissed off about the whole thing. Shitty stadium leads to not big enough stadium leads to we never sell out leads to our conference sucks leads to winning our conference isn't good enough leads to I'm paying too much but charge the students MOAR! So long as I can afford it, so long as there are games six times a year, I will attend, and I will enjoy it, leaving the high blood pressure and worries of national prestige to those who prioritize such things in their lives. I'm too old to worry or care as to whether anybody is going to hire or fire me or take me on as their accountant or go on a date with me or whatever the hell else we can come up with because of the football team I follow (hint: none of that ever happens. Ever). I'm here to enjoy myself, and I will, even when Liberty (shudder) comes to town.

I'm not sure which "demographic" you hang out with, but nobody I know regularly gets d*** slapped. Did the price of that go up too?

This is premature and frankly uncalled for given the manner of how the season ended.

This thread next to the "RAISE THE STUDENT FEE!" thread amuses me. I think what we're demanding of students is a $300/year increase. $130/year increase.

They should break up the MG donation away from the tickets. My MGC expires when it is time to buy my season tickets so i pay for two tickets and the MGC at one time. I may move to the wing for next season.

No...that would be discrimination