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1. If you are counting on other teams to fill your stadium then you are SMU. 2. Wyoming is a very good team and a measuring stick for where we are as a program. They were 9-4 last year! 3. You need to beat upper-level Mid-majors if you want to start establishing a foundation to build on.

I like the game! 👍

Wyoming and the MWC are peer schools we should try to schedule. Much better than any FCS!

Congrats to long time UNT supporter and fan Rick McKinney (BBA '90) on his retirement after 30-years of public service with the Fort Worth fire department. Thank you Rick for your many contributions UNT athletics and the community. Go Mean Green!

What Wyoming brings is a respectable G5 team that has been to four bowls the past five years and won three of them. Gimme more home and homes like this.

The Wyoming series is exactly what fans have been asking for since as long as I've been a fan ("Follow the Boise model!!!!1!!!!!!1!). We're trying to play teams we're supposed to beat... at home.

#1. I totally agree #2. Also agree #3. This is not directed at you, as a lot of people use this phrase. BUT, our first football game was in 1913 and we are still talking about "establishing a foundation?".

Wished we had thousands more fans like you.

I’m excited to play Wyoming. An intriguing team with name recognition. One of their alums is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. We will eventually merge with MWC PAC forces. May as well see where and how we stack up. Plus that away game in the mountains is going to be sweet. GMG

You asked for “a reason”. Maybe you can turn this into a top 10 list based on the responses.🤣

Congrats Rick. Now that you have some free time on your hands, you'll finally be able to do something for your alma mater! I kid, I kid!! Enjoy the next phase.

Scott Bakula?

I think it was more for the opportunity to mingle with co-workers on the set...

Mods, feel free to move this, but it is football(parking) related the MGSF has decided to take away the assigned parking privilege we have been paying for all these years in the Black Lot. They are saying that too many people(~12 per game)are not parking in the right spots, the parking lot monitors are not doing their job. So to alleviate that problem, they are taking away assigned parking from us all. This is a making of their own actions. They take away paper parking passes and switch to digital. No way to see on the windshield. This is an issue they created. I bought into a program that promised assigned parking and am still paying for that. They reduce a benefit, but not the price. Assigned parking is a huge value to me. It is nice to know where you are going to park every time. this was not thought out well. if this is a problem for you, please call the MGSF office and let them know

I blame fracking for our foundation troubles.

They have a fair amount of fans and alumni down here. I wouldn't discount their attendance.

I have always appreciated Rick’s love for this school and I wish we had more like him.

Congratulations to the legend @FirefightnRick!

Portland Total Stomp Down

Better Wyoming than Portland again. Sorry, that sucks even for me . Guess I still have PTSD .

It's always mentioned that Rick was "seen but unseen" as the armadillo mascot, but he did get one second (two?) of face time when he fired the cannon:

I guess we are TOO good to play a Wyoming team that went 9-4 last season who beat Texas Tech and also won their bowl game...

Job well done, Rick, for both the fire department and UNT athletics...now you have more time to spend on your desired passions! Will always remember you taking my nephew to spend a day/night at the fire department when he became interested in being a fire fighter...still one of the highlights of his life! Didn't go that route but he was so impressed and you only knew me as fellow Mean Green fan. Thanks and congratulations to a great guy!

Congrats Rick! Great NT fan and friend. Now you can continue your movie career... "There was an even larger role waiting for one new graduate. Rick McKinney (’90) was looking for a job when he was approached by Jim Hobdy (’69), then UNT’s assistant athletic director of marketing, about a request from Paramount to be in the film. "I got a call from the assistant head costumer, Barry Kellogg,” McKinney recalls, “and later that month, I met head costumer Dan Moore, who took me to Dallas to get costume fit for the Armadillo mascot suit." Letter jacket given to the players and mascot during filming on campus. As a former member of Talons who had a passion for football and served as the Eagle mascot Eppy (later re-named Scrappy) during UNT basketball games, McKinney was hired as Rowdy the Armadillo. He also served as the equipment liaison between the film crew and the athletic department. "The filming was different than anything I had ever experienced, in life, playing ball, going to school, and growing up on a farm. The people you were side-by-side with were the sweetest folks ever, but the hours were extremely long," McKinney says." https://northtexan.unt.edu/issues/2022-spring/necessary-roughness-turns-30

An iconic and passionate fan, but more important an honorable service man to the citizens of Fort Worth. Thank you for your service, Rick. On to the next chapter, amigo. GMG

Hamlet was our closer immediately preceding Perry. Before that probably Smart his sophomore year. Prior to Smart you may have to go back to Josh White.

Ah, such a fine quality of education can be had for student athletes at Texas Technical University... 'I don't believe in space:' Texas Tech DB Tyler Owens makes bold statement at NFL combine

Enjoy your time off!

# 3... OUCH!

Congrats Rick!

They should have done this 15 years ago before the stadium opened. That tiny rural road going in there is pitiful.

Congratulations, Rick!

Fans whine about the AD not trying to attract students to games. Then whine when they do something to make it easy for students to attend the Tourney and in turn help the team!

Those areas were actually painted by individual Fraternities and Sororities which helps explain the various color schemes and lettering. They would sit in the areas they had painted.

Best to you and the family Rick! Well deserved. Hope you get a chance to relax and fish and spend time with your grand babies.

Retirement is a great thing, so I've heard. Congrats!

Congrats!

"Twilight years"?! My friend, this is just the beginning.

Congratulations Rick! Proud of you and your service. I also particularly appreciate your participation and support of the Talons and the cannon as well.

Been a rough season for sure. If we had a closer on this team I could see 5-6 more wins this year. I have faith in Hodge, he's given me that through 5 years as McCasland's #2, and as a winner in the JC ranks. Only 2 blowout losses this season. Some gritty wins. He is not Benford, thats for sure.

I've been expecting the Big10/SEC/Fox/ESPN fatberg to drop the cellar dwellers like Vanderbilt to make room for a few more money machine programs.

Makes sense. Start this project in the middle of the season instead of waiting a month. 🤦‍♂️

12-0

We'll sell out against Wyoming if they very cleverly market that we're playing the Cowboys.

Congratulations Rick!

Congratulations. That is a long time to be working in such a dangerous field. I hope you enjoy your twilight years as you have earned it.

Awesome......congrats Rick!

Nah, married going on 28 years. Doing great, but thanks for the concern