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From last weeks game. GMG!

The previous longest drive was by Mason Fine. 98 yards with no time outs. Congratulations to 2 greats from the Mean Green family.

DENTON, Texas — Full cost-of-attendance for out-of-state students at the University of North Texas runs about $36,000 a year. Mean Green quarterback Mason Fine has repaid the school for his scholarship several times over — even if it was the only scholarship offer he got. In 2015, when Fine was a record-setting high school quarterback at Locust Grove, Okla., North Texas averaged just 13,631 fans per home game. A total of 68,155 went through the turnstiles that year. In 2018, when Fine was winning his second consecutive Conference USA Offensive Player of the Year award, UNT brought in 23,355 fans per game, a total of 140,131 and a 71 percent increase in ticket sales. “For a long time, I think everybody looked at North Texas from the outside and said, ‘That’s a place that ought to be pretty good: great location, 40,000 students, a rapidly growing area of the country,’” UNT athletic director Wren Baker recently told Sporting News. “And Mason has been a key part in helping turn the program around, which in turn has had a huge influence on the university. Record-setting donations, not only in athletics but at the institution, (and) freshman enrollment is up like 15 percent this year. “Is he solely responsible for that? No. But has he played a big part in probably the No. 1 marketing tool of the university’s success? Yeah, he’s had a huge impact.” read more: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/godsend-mason-fine-has-helped-resurrect-north-texas-football-program-and-pride/wgowwwh9wju018mr3bapmd91k

My head hurts badly I'm cast to this Practice Shed Rescue me daddy! CJK5H

This is incredible. Everyone in mktg/media/etc. is doing such a great job.

I thought Pirtle’s last TD grab was top ten worthy too. Full extension

Today the answer is smu. Sunday it’ll be cal. September 15th I’ll go with nUTSAck. Houston after that...

DRC: https://dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-to-face-vcu-in-men-s-basketball-on/article_d6e521fa-4c1b-58a8-9705-6ec5fc0b09fe.html

https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2019/9/5/20851742/choosing-c-usa-week-2-2019 SMU Mustangs vs North Texas Mean Green - 7 PM ET In a battle of two decent offenses, North Texas should take this one. Expect a lot of points to be scored.

I hope SMU loses their Spring game. If SMU played a team made up exclusively of protesters from Antifa and the right-wing zealots from Charleston...I’d take the protesters and the points

I think the UNiTe campaign is the best ever.

There once was a football team called the ponies, who dreamt of days when they rostered some cronies. Along came the Mean Green, that unstoppable machine, and exposed them all as phonies.

I hate SMU. I hate everything about them. I wish them nothing but failure in the worst possible way in everything they try. I wish this for them every day until the end of time.

Sorry to disagree Plummer, but many of us older fans suffered when NT dropped down a division in 1981(?). Many of us simply quit following NT football. Oh, a casual glance at the Sunday paper football scores. Couple that with poor leadership at the top at NT. We went through hell during those 1AA years(yes, there were some highs), and to some extent, during the climb back to FBS in 1995. Again, poor leadership at the top. We finally have the right mix and the results speak for themselves. But the bottom line is this: Screw SMU and UH!! I don't give a rats ass about those schools and hope we beat and pound the living dog shit out of them! GO MEAN GREEN!

With the focus on Rico & Pirtle, Shorter is going to break out.

https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/ContentGallery/North-Texas-Mean-Green-football-vs-SMU-Ten-things-to-watch-135202594/#135202594_10 I do think North Texas wins the game simply because I trust Fine more than Buechele in the end, so I’ll take North Texas to cover and win straight up. MeanGreen247’s prediction: North Texas 42, SMU 38

Fine's commentary on that play postgame was awesome (7:30 mark): "I don't like that angle... but it's Rico."

Rico looking to continue his fast start that landed him some week 1 honors:

UNT = Stone Cold SMU = Red Tights

https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2019/09/05/-dang-we-can-really-hang-north-texas-reflects-on-last-year-s-massive-win-over-smu?ref=article_preview_title Last year's perspective - hoping for some heroics in Dallas tomorrow, too! GMG

I hope Hambone tees off on Buechele.

All 30 of them...

But just think boys. We need them around just so we have someone to really hate. Who else is there ? UTSA? Not near the history we have with smut. We love to hate them. So... Screw smu and the Peruna they rode in on.

But it's after Labor Day...

Just ramblin’, man... I’ve mellowed out some concerning SMU. Age they say will do such with most. I think it has with me (to an extent). • SMU? Hellsbells! As a youth I once went to an Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl game in the Astrodome & even pulled for SMU! Both DFW area school’s fans have done (since the 70’s when I was a student) way too much “my dad is bigger than your dad” along with all the socio-economic & class warfare tommyrot. (Hey! It’s a private university vs. a pubic university so isn’t that the norm most everywhere in the NCAA)? ➡️ This: SMU students & fans have yet to recover from the SWC implosion; that is, of not having UT, TAMU, TTech & Baylor coming to Dallas every other football season with all the fanfare the visitors annually brought to Dallas. All that was a luxury SMU had for a very long time & a luxury North Texas never had. It is what it is. Still, in the eyes of many on the Hilltop we are a reminder to what they no longer have; albeit we know we’re hardly chopped liver. (Didn’t we beat Texas❤️🖤Tech In Lubbock last 2 of 3 times we teed it up)? In our society today, some may spend a lifetime trying to get over huge setbacks or loss & show it in many various ways ranging from being downright childish & immature or (preferably)—merely accepting reality & the cards given them & then choosing the much more mature role of accepting to bloom where planted. The annual SMU vs North Texas shootout is just one game on each school’s football schedule. Yet maybe we of UNT should try more to understand where SMU (& UH to an extent) were during a pretty big chunk of each school’s respective NCAA football history? That is, to be in such a lofty NCAA football neighborhood & then to be suddenly forced out of it? How would any of us Mean Greeners have felt had something similar been snatched from us? (Yes, the demotion to 1-AA was tough, but not what SMU & UH had to endure). To bloom where planted really turns out to be the only choice for many non-P5 schools until the NCAA football powers-that-be loosen up their ties & come up with new opportunities for G5’s to move up. So without further ramblin’—this Saturday it’s North Texas at SMU. Can all our fans & alums put the past behind (since we can’t change it) & fans from both schools go support their players who (for their school) love & play this game that is pretty important to them in this present era so...To SMU & UNT Fans 💙❤️—💚🖤➡️ Your players this Saturday will appreciate your support more than you’d know & sitting in your seats at Gerald J. Ford Stadium will prove your support for each Mustang & Mean Green Eagle. (After all, these are 18-21 year old kids we’re talking about here & if you think about it—they’ll be the ones laying it all on the field so isn’t this really about them)? GMG!

I think these guys usually call balls & strikes, so I was very happy to read this preview. GMG! https://www.underdogdynasty.com/2019/9/6/18510447/north-texas-mean-green-vs-smu-mustangs-game-preview-conference-usa-dallas-fine-buchele

Did you know that Highland Park existed from 1890 until 1933 when the City of Denton sold the property to The University of North Texas (then North Texas State Teacher's College) to build a golf course? Land developers in Dallas renamed their Philadelphia Place community after Denton's popular Highland Park in 1906. (there were some parks in their development, but they were all in lower areas along the Turtle Creek) Denton dismantled the streetcar (trolly) lines from downtown to Highland Park in 1918 to contribute the steel to the war effort. Visitation to the park declined greatly in 1927 with the construction of Lake Dallas southeast of Denton, making Highland Park expendable for the city. The only remnant of the name is Highland Park Drive which ran along the south side of the park. Highland Park has since been converted from a golf course into the Athletic Village at The University of North Texas and tailgating parties and football games take place on the Highland Park hill every football season.

Safeway Bowl is near Mean Green have nothing to fear so let's give a cheer.

Go Owls! This conference needs to step up.

For Texas Bragging Rights and recruiting it is UH and SMU (1A/1B) For more National Exposure would be Cal.

No message board fan speculation has ever led to a loss on the field

Talk about one individual with the world on his shoulders..... This young man is SPECIAL!

The boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why I poop on company time

Football in Dallas Eagle poops in horses eye The popped collars cry

Great article. Fine will leave a legacy that is matched by only one other. 6forHeisman

Someday I'll tell my grandchildren that I saw Mason Fine play in college.

Skip to the 9:45 mark..thoughts??? GMG https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2019/09/10/free-money-tepper-s-college-football-picks-against-the-spread-for-week-2?ref=article_preview_title

I like the shout out to the new UNT Intro’s own Ashley Pickle.

I have one question. Did Craig James kill 5 hookers? I do not trust him.

Screwed up this Haiku Screwed them up last year too At least it’s a tradition.

The sad thing is that $mut fans still think they're relevant.

SMU right now. Always the next game! GMG!

There’s no doubt that being a fan at SMU from the 80’s would be the worst “payoff” ever. You literally bought players or supported a program that did in the SWC with a team that was ranked very highly with it’s paid players. You then deservedly got the Death Penalty for 2 years, came back with a roster that looked like a 1-aa squad for the next 5 years, then got left behind by the Big XII. Then, to pour salt all over your self-induced wounds, TCU flies by you and does all it can to never be in a conference with you again, all while having several top 10 finishes. Yes, you kept UH as an instate conference mate. But your stuck at our level of play now. We never got one tenth of one percent of the conference setup SMU has had, and we basically died from that blackballing. Everything we have now has been earned on our own, while everything SMU has was bought and paid for from its SWC existence. Welcome to the other side of the tracks, SMU...you deserve every lost fan, media, and $$$ you have earned since 1986. Suck on that...