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“strong references” ?

Obviously you haven't paid attention to previous Winter Classics. I guarantee they get more than any First Responder Bowl to date.

Winning football games Trumps integrity.

I grew up about 90 miles east of Chicago, so I was exposed to hockey at an early age. I have fond memories of first seeing hockey in person when I attended some Dallas Blackhawks games after moving to Dallas for work. It is great fun pounding on the glass and hollering insults! Try it sometime and your interest level will likely increase.

Just goes to show that people still believe in second chances, as they should. Rick

Back to the First Responders Bowl taking place at Ford Stadium.... Imagine UNT being selected for that bowl game against whoever. Now imagine game day with one of the end zones re-painted(?) in green and NORTH TEXAS in white. SWEET!! And smut not qualifying for a bowl. It would tear the heart out of all smut fans.

Would really like some 6’5” TEs! GMG

I admit I was being a little bitchy. As you know it takes a decent amount of time to track offers and quite honestly I was feeling a little put out being asked to show the offers when it is publicly available info.

Easy there. I was just posting the six listed on 247 for @Danish43. Including us, he would have 7, but they don't have our's posted either.

Honest question here. Should he change careers or just retire? No second chances in life?

No doubt this is a member of the UNT 17 that got swindled by RV...

Yeah, RV couldn’t even get the FCS scheduling part right. F’ing Portland State, Rhode Island, Bethune-Cookman, Lamar, Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, etc...all Dumb opponents for us to play. There are exactly 3 FCS schools to schedule to get people to show up in Denton—SFA, Sam Houston, or Grambling. He avoided all of them

Can we play Grambling rather than Rhode Island? Would love to see their band at Apogee

Offers from LSU, Missouri, Houston, TxTech, Oregon https://247sports.com/Player/Tyler-Bailey-46080265/

Now that football season is starting I would like to hear the board's opinion of who is UNT's rival for football? I know many may say it is SMU, but a rivalry is two ways. They don't rate us. We are the poor public school kids. They are the douche bags who paid private school prices for a public school education. As much as I would love a rumble with the South Side Socs, I mean what would be cooler than beating a guy and getting to say "stay gold pony boy" (forgive The Outsiders references). Outside of the illegality of a rumble, the ponies just wouldn't show. We aren't in their universe. So I pose the question, who is our rival? For me it cannot be UTSA. That gives them a certain legitimacy that I just can't stomach. We have been playing football for over 100 years, albeit mostly badly, but this johnny come lately just can't justify the visceral response that a rival brings. UTEP has regional rivals in UNM and NMSU, and they are UTEP (before you hate on me I am from El Paso. UTEP sucks). Perhaps we need to create one? My vote is LA TECH. Why? Because I know nothing about them. But what I do know: They are an established Div 1 program that is road trip distance from Denton, Texas. Sure so is Rice, but no one cares about RIce. Maybe LA TECH already has a rival like UL-Lafayette, or Louisiana Monroe. I don't know. But I think there is a chance would could build something... Anyways looking forward to the group's opinions. GMG!

Hokie Pokey State just eliminated Florida State and advances to the CWS. They have a damn good team. Rick

My former high school played against Mount Vernon. We were a diverse school, and they were not. When they played this past year, I heard their players were using racial slurs against my high schools players. The game was so chippy that they had a post game meeting between the refs and coaches from each team. The head coach before Art literally left for a job 15 mins down the road at Winnsboro. I have heard Mount Vernon is like any small town from East Texas. The school board is full of “good ole boys”. There are people from Mount Vernon defending this hire on the East Texas sports forum. They are trying to argue that he had a clean record at Stephenville, and he didn’t get charged with any crimes. I’m glad I moved away from back woods East Texas.

I believe Norvil will be the DL player for a break out season! I picked the other listing because Norvil was not listed. Hambone is another DL player that will have a breakout season.

Luckily there is less (not necessarily none though) recruiting going on at the high school level. I wonder if the punishment to have to go back to the high school ranks is accurate, and likelyit is not. But I can kind of live with it, as I am sure he feels the loss of renome acutely. Still I would seriously hope that Mt. Vernon keeps a very attentive eye on its football programs (read not just the players) demeanor off the field at all times. That said, if I were on the board at a high school, I probably would have said let some other school take that man on. Even if he is succesful on thefield, hiring him is not a message I would want to have to explain to the Moms and girls and media in my school district.

Would have been great to get the game at Apogee. However, I'll sacrifice it at the Cotton Bowl for a year for the Winter Classic. It's become a huge deal, and this is great exposure for the league, the state, the city, and the Cotton Bowl. And the Stars' opponent are the Nashville Predators. Their fans are die hard, and they are pretty much our rivals. Their is no love loss between the two teams. Nashville will bring a bunch of fans too. Make no mistake, this is a MASSIVE HUGE deal. And it will sell out, if it hasn't already. When I bought my tickets the evening of the first day they were on sell, there were nose bleed seats going for over a thousand dollars.

6'1" 181 4.5 sec. http://www.my.hudl.com/profile/10099485/TY-WILLIAMS https://247sports.com/Player/Ty-Williams-46085033/

DT/NG 6'1" 285 5.1 sec. Other offers: Tulsa, New Mexico, W. Illinois, McNeese, Howard, Ho. Baptist https://www.hudl.com/profile/8035678/TaShoyn-Johnson https://247sports.com/player/tashoyn-johnson-46076732/

Fun fact. When I attended a conference at McMurray eons ago (around 2001) the students from ACU and Hardin Simmons told me that their officials would check the bar parking lots for university parking stickers. If you were identified as being at a bar, you had to report to the Dean of Students. We naturally gave them a ride to the bar with us.

How do JUCOS qualify academically to get into Rice? Hell, I couldn’t get into Rice even now.

Maybe a few of them, but in general, I doubt it. Dyess is out there, so there's plenty of places to let your hair down in Abilene.

He said 10. Feel free to call him a liar. I got tired of searching but those plus the other offers I posted gets to 9.

So this guy, right?

DRC: https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/unt-announces-naming-rights-for-indoor-practice-facility/article_d635cf1c-18ac-5bc8-a5db-b62eaa79e305.html

However, I will give you 2010 and 2015. Not happening in 2011 through 2014 though. We were bad from 2011-2014, but not get beat by FCS schools bad. 4-8, 9-4, 5-7 FBS teams typically handle FCS squads with relative to moderate ease. In that timeframe (2010-2015), SHSU played at least 1 FBS school every year. They had 1 win. The win: A 48-45 OT snoozer vs the 1-11 New Mexico Lobos.

Possibly so. Wouldn't hurt to maybe see what the monetary figures would be and ask for their blessing. If they're cool with it, do it. If not, don't.

Thank you to both families for the generous donation to allow this to happen. I wonder if the athletic department will try to slap a corporate sponsor on the side of it as well. There will be a lot of frontage space on the north side of the building that faces a major freeway intersection. Could be another good revenue stream.

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I could get in line with that. I think it'd be a very cool thing to start.

Slab on the beach. Lest we forget.

If they sell it out it will count towards SMU attendance numbers.

Would rather have 30k in a 30k seat stadium than 45k in a 93k seat stadium.

Nah...that stadium has a tape worm, it can never truly get full

Ahhh, the RV FCS Scheduling Tactic is now being employed down there at UT-KFC.

Yes, THANK YOU!

THANK YOU Lovelace & McNatt families!!

I think the biggest question for me is: If we hold on to Littrell past the 2019 season, and he doesn't have Mason Fine, how are we going to fare? Not that I think Littrell isn't building a solid roster full of good players, but an all time great QB can cover up a LOT of deficiencies.

NT is very confusing. Is it Northern Tennessee? Nebraska Tech? Nevada Tigers? I mean, NT could be any number of schools.😁 I like the idea of those unis being a Homecoming tradition.

Hamilton at 9? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Brett, you are out of your frickin mind to have him that low.

ACU will bring a large contingent to Apogee. You would be surprised how many alumni they have in the DFW area. They used to pregame at McKenna Park. The activities in our tailgate area may shock them.

1) That makes no sense at all, but okay. As for the point of your argument, it has changed so many times that you win. 2) Again University Park and Dallas are wet so all businesses can sell/serve alcohol. The CVS at Greenville/Lovers sells booze and so does the one on Mockingbird and Skillman. 3) what overwhelming demographics? Please provide a little proof to you claims.

This is a dumb argument anyway, I have no idea why I dove into demographics, I was just explaining my experience with SMU and why I dislike it so much.

It's just a mentality thing. I had heard of it before. Never thought too, too much of it. Then the game at Ford happened last year. I don't care about the demographics or the application process or the acceptance rate of that school. All I know is that just about every stereotype that I had heard before attending that game at Ford last year was solidified with my own ears and eyes, all of them. You're much like a defense lawyer trying to defend an indicted serial killer. Eventually you too will see.

I prefer to look at it this way...we are unrivaled!