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A lineman from Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Atterbury played for OSU head coaches Floyd Gass and Dave Smith in the early 1970s and earned a reputation for his relentless effort before an injury ended his playing career. As a high school athlete, he was a standout in football, wrestling and track, earning all-state honors on the gridiron. From OSU, he went on to become a respected football coach with a 48-year career that included stops at high schools in Big Spring, Texas; Sand Springs, Oklahoma; Tyler, Texas; Liberal, Kansas; and Ada, Oklahoma; as well as time at the collegiate level with North Texas. Most recently, he was an admired member of the staff at his hometown Pawhuska High School, serving as head coach for many years before helping with the offensive line during his final season. read more: https://okstate.com/news/2021/8/19/cowboy-football-remembers-duke-atterberry.aspx

Can we stop talking about this dude? I don't care. Hardly any of us care. He's not here anymore. OA3 and Torrey need some love and are still here. Let's move on.

Ruder has all but immediately started Fall practice already listed as co-#1. He for certain has impressed somebody as his rise on the depth chart is very impressive. Most any FBS G5 football program would be happy with either of our co-#1’s. Just a gut feeling, but I do believe Ruder will be the outright starter by game #3. 🦅

I am feeling confident we win 6 games. Phil is legit

Unfortunately that scenario would drive many of us to madness regardless of the name on the jersey.

I can't believe you are at the point of trying to re-define what a vaccine is. No, scratch that, I can. I do believe it. I should have predicted this. But this is rich, even for you Lifer, MD.

Clearly you feel strongly about your this, there are 110 replies to this topic and 42 are from you.. We all want the best players on the field, we all want the Mean Green to win every game, we are on the same page. But calling people homers, starting your replies with LOL, suggesting that people who disagree with your opinions need to be put out to pasture isn't the best way to go about things.

I really like our chances. I think it's between A&M and us. Another note, he is related to Rubin Jones.

I have to say that, when you weigh everything, I don't understand all this opposition to getting vaccinated. Sure it's a personal choice. Although most people are fine with requirements that children be vaccinated for measles, etc. to attend school. But what really is the issue with getting jabbed? The way I see it, the more people who get vaccinated the sooner we can treat this as a bad flu as @SteaminWillieBeaminsaid and move on from masks, social distancing, and the rest of the "new normal" Covid crap.

Is it a good point though? I mean anyone who picks Hiram Gonzalez over Woody Wilson doesn't know football.

I believe it was at a college graduation ceremony, Sir Winston Churchill said, “Never, never, never give up. “ Congratulations to Corey

Thank you for posting this. It is inspirational to see how a young man strives to not only overcome such a tragic incident, but to excel in so many ways.

Chuck’s a good dude, but thank God we now have Bloesch!!

#AuneApologist

I wish Seth would read this and start Kason Martin. Talk about madness

I think both these guys would make solid backups for Hiram Gonzalez

"Tough times don't last, tough people do" alright WHO IS CUTTING ONIONS IN HERE

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This is you and me.

Thank you this is a great story!

Big liberal companies invading the personal lives of their employees.. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/media/fox-mandate-vaccine-status/index.html

As for studies that only take the post vaccination months into account (March-July) when looking at hospitalizations (and thus will sway the vaccine 'hesitant') - just released: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e2.htm 90% effective at keeping people out of the hospital. In Alabama, just read that of their 800 covid icu patients, 12% are vaccinated. No data on the type of patient that is (co-morbidities). Had more people vaccinated, the ICUs would not be filled. It's really that simple. Then we really could treat this like a bad flu and stop with this "come and take it" macho madness.

Do not piss off Harry.

I don't get why you deniers don't get it. I really don't. No hospital system is *ever* designed to be filled to capacity by one disease. Filling up the system and resources to combat one disease immediately makes everything else more deadly. The whole "your body is already efficient at not dying - it only kills the weak" logic only applies if those people are getting sick and not going to the hospital and clogging up the whole system. If that were the case though, we'd see a lot more deaths and not so many recoveries. So that 90% stat you are throwing out there would be lower.. by quite a bit. There are 73 kids in the ICU right now - in Dallas. That is *all* of the ICU beds. That is real. if your kid has a nasty bike wreck, hits their head, passes out and has some bleeding on the brain ... well... they are going to be sitting in the ER waiting around and not getting the ICU treatment at the top facility. Why? Partly because of the freedom covid caucus, but also RSV is terrible right now too. A mask would help with that too. However, this is not make believe. Life measurably gets more dangerous without a functioning health system. Also - I've been telling you that percentages of beds available does completely make sense either. You should only look at total bed available. For instance, at the hospital I know best, it was reported they had 5% of ICU beds available... but in reality it is only 1 bed. 1 bed. You have a heart attack while jogging in this heat? You need that ECMO machine that is normally available? good luck, it is definitely taken already. Your chances of survival just got lowered by someone that is unvaccinated. I can say in complete certain terms that the only people in hospitals are unvaccinated or break throughs on older vaccinated people that have major co-morbidities (cancer, COPD, etc). It is not number manipulation. As for the definition of 'vaccine' - it is absurd to try to debate it. it is like Clinton arguing what "is" is... Vaccines do not provide complete immunity, that is not how it works. No one will claim it does or always can. It is provide enough immunity to stop community spread and kick start herd immunity that ultimately will squash the virus. Flu vaccines are a perfect example. But some dolts will try to argue that 'boosters' mean that those vaccines aren't vaccines. Which is just pure idiocy. Dictionary.com vac·cine /vakˈsēn/ noun a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. "every year the flu vaccine is modified to deal with new strains of the virus"

you can make a point without making an enemy.

Please don't be blasphemous. God had nothing to do with this.

Are you kidding me? You want to hand the job to Ruder before he proves himself here because of who he backed up at UNC and his 247 rating and then you act like anybody knew Mason was going to be anything at North Texas before his first game? Mason had one, ONE, FBS scholarship offer so don’t sit there saying we knew we had depth because nobody knew what Fine would become at that time.

Joey Byerly is clearly the answer here. You know this.

Real eye opener there is Texas Tech... talk about some wasted value!

Wow. It seems every freshman class since 2015 has been a record. This is great, just need more people to stay on campus.

I want to apologize for the last few days, I could have used better tone, and my passion for this team can sometimes be interpreted as being an AHOLE! I love what Aune did for us last year, and will praise him for it, but he was never the long term answer, the videos of practice continue to show he clearly isnt better than Ruder. Which is good! We want our star QB transfer to be better than Aune. Thats what we should be hoping for is that the next guy is better than the last guy. Like I said, unless Ruder has a serious melt down game one, he should be the starter the entire season.

Rest easy, coach.

He should be the day one starter short of anything catastrophic.

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Where's Ashton?

I love your energy man. But you're comprehension is low. You understand the difference between "IS" and "Could it be possible", right? One is definitive. The other leaves the door open to what's possible. There is no way anyone could say right now that Aune IS as good or better than Fine. He hasn't done what Fine has done. I can't believe I'm having to type this.

If you have been following North Texas football throughout your time at UNT and after, then you should be very familiar with the Brock Berglunds, Demarcus Smiths, and Alec Morris of our recent history and should understand our hesitancy to crown Ruder before he has done anything worthwhile in a green jersey.

Literally no one is arguing for Aune over Ruder. People are just saying that he isn’t going to be handed the job because of his 247 rating. That’s it. Also no one is arguing that Torrey should or will start over Adaway. No one.

Which... is precisely why going back to masks would be beneficial for society as a whole. I hate wearing mine (although I do have 2 stylish Mean Green masks!), but although I'm vaccinated, my kids aren't, and I'm not going to ask them to do something I'm unwilling to do. You've done a lot of posting in this thread, but I've yet to see where you've flat-out denied that the vaccine increases your chance of survival if you contract the disease. Do you believe that?

Here's the thing the last year+ has revealed: Equip a population/community with all the information they need to make the right decision, the decision best for themselves and a greater good, in addition to the freedom to make that decision, and we have demonstrated that many - A LOT - of people still make the bad decision. Either because of ignorance or, even worse, they only care about themselves and have zero shits to give about any greater good. I'm all about government staying out of our business, but these pandemics present an ugly moral dilemma for politicians: do you act based on your community's wants, even if it is against their best interests?