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It depends on how many of their wives they bring.

DRC: Backup QB was a bit player on the field who made his presence felt in other ways before playing key role in win over Florida Atlantic https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/brett-vito-shanbour-goes-out-on-high-note-at-apogee/article_7968d0c3-91c1-5d7c-bea3-d04ebb551875.html

Shanbour displays the kind of character you hope all athletes have. Super, that at last he had a game on the field to match his overall value to the team.

I couldn't care less who we play. I watch us to watch us.

ESPN (the people that pay for the bowl) projection: SERVPRO First Responder Bowl Cotton Bowl, Dallas Dec. 26, 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Bonagura: BYU vs. North Texas Sherman: North Texas vs. BYU

You don't like Houston, Nutsak and possible defending conference champ UAB all at apogee? Those will all be big crowds with decent weather. Make Charlotte homecoming, ACU the home opener and you should have 5 crowds of 26-28 k. UTEP should be better and they usually travel well here. That's not a horrible home schedule.

Look at that picture of Shanbour. Quinn, it's O.K. for a man to tear up like you did. I "moistened" up a bit reading that fine article on you. Thanks for all that you do for UNT and all that you will do in the future. Godspeed.

I read the original article. I didn't see signs of a cover-up. The event was not on UNT campus. Even so, they reported to police, and even hired an independent investigation of program, which found was not systemic and only an isolated event. I think the news doesn't like the outcome of the investigation and trying to blow it up bigger than it is.

San Francisco beat LIU Brooklyn, previously 3-0, by a score of 84-52 today. San Francisco is now 4-0 and has won all of their games by more than 30 points. They are in a similar situation to us where they haven’t really been tested yet, but that’s a team that looked really good against us and made us work for everything we got in that final game after we were chopping other 20-win teams up like slaw. I think both programs are going to look back at their respective CBI runs as the beginning of special stretches of basketball.

Dodgefan there are two reasons that I hope SMU loses every game they ever play. First is that most of them are arrogant jerks. Secondly, we recruit against tthem every year and I woul rather recruit against them when they have lost ten games than when they have won ten games.

Chris Davis is the UNT Hall of Famer who's jersey is hanging in the Super Pit. He has a Nike EYBL AAU team and my daughter will be playing for him this spring/summer. Not only is it a great opportunity for my daughter but really cool to have a coach with a UNT connection.

They travel well... Basically every Mormon is a BYU fan.

I could watch this over and over again...

*Millennials

A sell out would be crazy! The LaTech game was such a great atmosphere! The “North” “Texas” chant was the best I’ve ever heard!

We need to hang as many on them as we can........... a fitting end to some of our problems...... GMG

Abilene Christian and Houston are the OOC home games. In division will be UAB, UTSA, and UTEP. Not sure who our cross-division home game will be against but it should be either WKU, FIU, or Charlotte. Won’t be FAU or ODU since we had them the last two years and shouldn’t be Marshall or MTSU because we had them the two years prior. Charlotte is the only CUSA team we haven’t played in football so good chance they are one of our two cross-division opponents. Here’s a mock of what it could be • Abilene Christian • Houston • UAB • UTEP • Charlotte • UTSA

I think we should invite the TSU kicker as a special guest.

Please kill us. Don't take your foot off the gas pedal. Shut us out and hang 60 on us. Make it abundantly clear that Wilson is a complete fraud. Inspire our AD to hire a real coach like Litrell instead a f'ing "recruiting guru".

As a current police chief, someone who has worked with college police extensively, and as someone who has worked as an investigator in a department the size of Dallas, allow me to weigh in on this question alone. I am not making any judgement on the actual handling of the investigation, just the appropriateness of jurisdiction. First, the UNT police department is not a small outfit. There are 65 full time employees, with the majority being sworn officers (the rest being dispatch and civilian personnel). UNT officers attend the same training and have the same licensing standards as “city cops.” Second, the jurisdiction of a university police department is their campus, within the city they reside in, and any county where the university has buildings. To give you a non- UNT example, pretty much any place you step within Dallas is the jurisdiction of the Dallas County Community College police because their buildings are everywhere in the area. This is in place because criminals (and therefore investigations) don’t restrict themselves to the physical grounds of the school. Imagine for a moment if a fraternity hosted an event at a house 3 miles off campus and something happened. It would make no sense to have a University administrative investigation that could not go hand in hand with a police investigation by the Universtity’s PD. Now the campus police could defer to the city police (as it appears was discussed in the basketball players situation) but it is not mandatory. The reason, I assume, that people would want to see a situation involving UNT basketball players handled by Denton Police is to avoid the appearance of impropriety. And I assume this has to do with the perception that campus police are subject to the influence of the university president, BOR, or the campus budget. On this point I would agree that giving up jurisdiction is a good choice...but only for the optics of it, not because of inability of campus PD to do the investigation properly (again, it appears Denton PD was consulted and deferred). Also, bear in mind that in a situation like this the detectives of a campus PD can devote the entirety of their attention to this one case...sometimes with the larger entity, not so much. Finally, and again I cannot say this definitively without viewing the investigation, sexual assault investigations are not always as cut and dry as they are made to seem. If the physical evidence, victim’s account, witness statements, presence or absence of alcohol, etc are even questionable there may not be enough for a slam dunk criminal charge. Referring matters to a grand jury (as it appears was done here) to let them hear all that you have and make a determination is not uncommon. Please understand that, again, I am not admonishing or validating the work of UNT PD here. Just trying to offer a bit of perspective to show that campus police are not inherently unqualified or out of their lane to undertake an investigation like this.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the accusation regarding UNT officials. Maybe I'm missing something. So on the heels of the Baylor controversy, with a magnifying glass on sexual assault (especially among colleges)...we're to believe that UNT officials got a complaint and in order to protect the basketball program (led by 62-95 Tony Benford) they led a cover up and tried to sweep this under the rug.... The question in the tweet above is actually a good one. Why would they do that? What possible good could come out of that for UNT? What would the motivation be to take the risk of a cover up and hang this victim out to dry? What's the upside? To keep this under wraps so our losing basketball program doesn't get hurt?

Coca-Cola sales won't be that great, either

I think we're missing the important question here... What are the odds of an appearance of the box cannon?

Exactly. Why in the world would we try to hide something going on under Benford? Any chance to fire him would have been welcomed.

Whether you're running a football team or running a business....having a Quinn Shanbour on the team is so huge and it's so rare. His value can't be measured. I hope he stays in the program and I hope he goes into coaching. The sport needs Quinn Shanbour.

Those of you that dislike GH so much have no idea what he means to recruiting QB's.

Good article BV. Rick

I actually prefer when we play SMU in Dallas...it's like we get an extra home game

https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/north-texas/ - I wonder if I should go ahead and book a hotel room for College Station?

This is a NT Daily article about the WFAA report from last week. There's nothing new from what I can see.

Alan Bowman is already a glass cannon and Harrell would run enough QB draws on 3rd and long to make sure he never walked again.

I’m a fan of Quinn’s but I don’t want to see him until its 99-0. Win. GO MEAN GREEN

It's torches and pitchforks for Frank if UTSA gets their butts kicked in this game. He's coaching to get one more year. Prepare for the nUTSAcks as always to throw everything at their Super Bowl, every trick play, every low blow, and every rabbit punch. End result no matter what: North Texas goes bowling as always, and Rice and the Border Twins stay home.

Great picture! Subtitle “ Passion” thank you sir!

Shanbour was incredible the other night. While I was stomping around my living room, pissed at the hit on Fine, Quinn was composed and effective, taking full advantage of the bad situation.

Remind me what a "nice lead" is when speaking of North Texas. 28-0 ?

Makes a lot of sense now. One of the bigger boosters at UNT told me UNT initially referred the crime to the Denton PD sex crimes unit. Denton indicated they would get to it but had more pressing issues and would just as soon prefer UNT keep the case. My guess is UNT PD didn't want to risk it being delayed or falling through the cracks. In all reality, I have no issue with UNT PD investigating based upon what you said. However, I still see how the appearance isn't great to the general public.

No, they spent all of their buyout money on the cannon.

Ok, now I’m hoping we stay up around 10 points all game and pull away late on a pick six or fumble recovery...so their AD is left thinking “if a few plays go our way we win that game...better sign Frank Wilson to an extension so he can keep the momentum.”

https://www.ctpost.com/sports/jeffjacobs/article/Jeff-Jacobs-As-the-season-dies-it-s-worth-13365185.php I ran across this article (and it's not the only one on this subject) and it got me to thinking.....what would happen if UConn decided to drop football and just focus on basketball? (A lot of people think it would be a smart move....can't say I disagree) What would happen if there was a vacancy in the AAC eastern division with Navy sitting in a geographically mismatched AAC Western division?

Might wanna look up who owns Central Market...

He's my main target when Littrell leaves. If Littrell gets hired away while Brown toils at Troy, the writing will be on the wall: "I can't get out of here despite what I've accomplished... time to 'move up'." And North Texas will provide that type of opportunity for him, while more than doubling his salary.

I've written about this before but my introduction to the wacky world of North Texas football was in 1971 when we opened our season against BYU in the Cotton Bowl. I think every Mormon in Texas was at the game and outnumbered our fans by quite a bit. On the plus side, if one was inclined to steal a bicycle, you were in heaven.

What an amazing photo capturing this moment...

I read the report and don't see how this person came to those conclusions.

Houston will be a sellout, if not, it'll be very close. UAB and UTSA seem to travel well.

I'll take that bet...

The WFAA report was misleading (intentionally IMO). If you got the emails and communications from the University when they launched and completed the law firm review, the law firm the University retained was only to review the climate and culture of the men's basketball program. Basically to make sure that the MBB staff and University personnel weren't creating a climate where this was common. They had nothing to do with the criminal investigation. The law firm would have interviewed student-athletes, general students, coaches and staff to assess the day to day climate. In fact, it would have been inappropriate for them to get involved in the criminal investigation. The police did the criminal investigation and according to the response tweeted from the University they spoke to all cooperating witnesses and followed up on all leads. So the girl in the WFAA report either didn't cooperate or the police/DA/grand jury didn't have any evidence to charge them. Unfortunate deal all the way around but this feels like sensational reporting to create website hits. Even to the fact that the WFAA report is very careful to not point out things like all the players had been dismissed before they were charged, all the coaches were gone, etc. If you just glance at the report, it's made to seem like this is recent involving current employees and student-athletes.

I scanned all 4 of my tickets (kids were in bed though). Just doing my part!

It looked pretty decent. Much better than many feared. The ADs efforts seem to have paid of.