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Her daughter is CNN's Senior White House Correspondent Pamela Brown.

The North Texas alumna, former Miss Texas and Miss America, and sports broadcasting pioneer has passed at 70 after a lengthy illness. She was Miss Texas 1970 and she was Miss America 1971.

One of the reason I was convinced to attend NT in Spring of 1978, Denton had all those beautiful girls.

A UNT legend for sure. Impacted so many lives, and was always talked about with my class

The idea that a merger between C-USA and the Sun Belt is inevitable is ridiculous. Schools will cut, and cut some more, before this scenario ever happens. There are too many egos, too many lists, too many rankings, too much prestige (or lack thereof), and too many perceived or real slights that would ever allow this scenario to come about. Not saying the idea of a merger is right or wrong, but we're still a long way from this ever happening.

"I am from Denton, Texas, and I will never let you or anybody else forget that," George said in a 1985 interview. "I am a small-town girl from a small town and a small-town family. If I hadn't come from Denton, I wouldn't be sitting here right now with this great job and my great husband and my beautiful children." Phyllis George

She was one of the greats out of North Texas, and in her own right, well deserving of the recognition she received in sports broadcast.

Prayers for her and her family.

So they kick USC out and add North Texas, I am not sure about the road trips.

Are you referring to SMU?

Many of you will recall the 1967 Denton High School production of South Pacific starring (?) Phyllis George as a native girl and GreenJoe as a lonely sailor.

She enrolled in TCU on a scholarship for Miss Texas winners but only for one semester. When she won the Miss America contest she left TCU after a few weeks and never completed any coursework. She never finished her degree as far as I know.

Big loss. She was really the first woman after Billie Jean King to make a major mark on behalf of women in sports and broadcasting.

When I was in elementary school in Arkansas in early 50's we closed because of the hookworm.

Prayers for her family.

maybe since Ark can seem to win in the SEC they would like to join a new conference (😜.

Perhaps.... but aint nothing wrong with fat girls... as long as we can put 30,801 in Apogee, win, and have plenty of cold beer.....and burn the barrel out of Boomer...…..

RIP Ms George.

every time I read a thread about conference alignment I come away thinking the MWC would be a better fit... also, to me it doesnt seem like the TV deal is worth it... who still has cable TV anyway?? why not allow the NCAA to produce all the sports content through its own app?

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/columnists/chuck_landon/chuck-landon-lets-hope-selig-is-wrong-about-c-usa/article_77bc42e3-4869-5fdb-adeb-29863f02b193.html What's good for "Old Dominion" is good for CUSA??

Wow, Prayers out to the family.

This was an awesome series... I hate that we lost it.

I dont care if we have the Texas School for Deaf Fat Girls in our conference......lets go fill Apogee and play football....

Well, this seems like a good thing https://www.google.com/amp/s/247sports.com/college/north-texas/Article/Amani-Gilmore-North-Texas-Mean-GReen-football-land-kentucky-wildcat-football-transfer-quarterback-Seth-Littrell-147133878/Amp/

Sure looks like it. Great pickup.

If you were paying attention this was part of a conversation about the challenges of restarting college athletics in these times. When you bring people out of the houses and start interacting with people who may or may not have practiced safety then the risk of infection increases. I completely understand we can’t go on forever like this, but the countries that have had more open policies did a better job of containment early. We didn’t unfortunately. We have to increase tests and more importantly contact tracing.

There are plenty of choices, the most likely nothing will change.

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I am certainly no expert here but I seem to recall there was some sort of official tie-in between the Miss Texas pageant and TCU. As as aside, almost every student at North Texas knew Phyllis George's father as he was the security guard at the library exit to make sure no one was stealing books! He was a very kind man who was always ready to chat.

We need to compare who we have on those weeks the will be playing Army. If we actually get to play our games, I like our schedule better. Sept. 10, 2022- Cal @ North Texas (I'm still waiting to hear that this game will happen, or that we are hosting a comparable P5) Sept. 16, 2023- Memphis @ North Texas (UTSA's game with Army is scheduled for Thursday the 14th, which means it's going to be on TV)

“I’ve been told by multiple sources that the AD’s have had conversations behind the conference’s back that would tell each other, ‘Listen, if we’re unable to play via a mayor’s ruling, a state governor’s ruling, You guys go ahead and look out for yourself.'”Joel Klatt said, via The Herd with Colin Cowherd. In recent weeks, the possibility of college football games being played in packed stadiums has come into doubt. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently suggested it was unlikely fans could attend games until late in the year. Furthermore, Los Angeles extended its stay-at-home restrictions through July. For schools like UCLA, USC and Stanford, safety protocols by state and local officials are now creating uncertainty for their ability to play college football in 2020. As a result, athletic directors are reportedly going behind Scott’s back and coming up with alternative solutions to help their conference allies.

100 percent.

Im for whatever benefits the University, and puts fans in Apogee....I cant wait to get back...

You are correct that people can test negative one day and then positive a day or two later based on their contacts and precautions. The White House is one example. I know we can’t go back in time and do this right the first time, but that is why we have to be more cautious now. The countries that have more open rules now acted earlier, like Sweden and Singapore. But they have also faced challenges including a second wave. Vietnam isn’t the best parallel since it is smaller, less developed, and authoritarian. But this is an example of contact tracing and preventative measures that could have been taken. We can replicate some of that now. We can’t test everyone every day, but we should seek to test those that contacted others found infected, and then test those that they met as well. Authorities also widely and meticulously documented anyone who potentially came in contact with the virus. Western countries like Germany only documented those infected and their direct contacts. Vietnam also kept track of second, third and fourth levels of contact to infected persons. All of these people were then placed under successively stringent levels of movement and contact restrictions. And from very early on, anyone arriving in Vietnam from a high-risk area would be quarantined for 14 days.

Oh no,...your ratings don’t like right wing bias? Say it ain’t so Joe? And me my ilk’s dissenting opinions are dangerous. Maybe we should be locked up, right Comrad? LOL

Glad to know next time someone goes after Trump's appearance you will be there to defend him.

Going after an appearance of someone - always the mark of a weak argument.

I can’t think of anything more ridiculous than getting my advice on health from the Crypt Keeper? This is your Director of Health. Good God!!!,.... just how bad has it really gotten out in L.A.?

So what would you consider a credible news source?

If you had asked me whether Florida Tech had a football program or not, my answer would have been a complete guess.

I find it strange that some fans criticize other fans because they want a regional conference. The value of a regional conference is not so much the ease of fans attending games, but the cutting of cost for team travel. Comparing private very well funded TCU with NT who primarily pays for its athletics through student fees and tuition is of little value. What CUSA could easily do, is just divide the conference into two divisions and require no scheduling between the teams in one division versus the other. The divisions would only complete at the championship level. I have no idea why we are wasting time debating the value of the MWC for NT in the most inopportune time in NCAA history. The MWC has no interest in going East or including NT.

The problem is that people would chose a CUSA/SBC merger over the MWC if there was an option.

Yup, age and a compromised immune system due to an underlying health condition. Rick

I guess they will lose the cannon this year, that save 20 bucks.

This is a legit question I've had many many years, but joined GMG last August and forgot to ask. Why don't we play SMU in Men's Basketball? I mean the last time we played them was in 02, but I don't understand why Wren or god forbid the SMU AD to try to schedule a series! I mean attendance would be great, TV is a maybe, the players would probably like it. I mean it just doesn't make sense. Is SMU scared?