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Today we honor our past. Many of the characters on this T shirt became life long acquaintances of mine after their historic first-ever run to the Big Dance in ‘88 in Salt Lake. For them, and those who came before and after, we never forget you guys and your accomplishments. GMG! Rick

Light that sombich.

Good win! Back into second place in the conference standings. Oh, and thanks ECU.

NT 67 --------- Rice 61 Final

that stretch chaos ending with bad takes by Jossell and Wright was infuriating.

I'm guessing you didn't see it when it had orange seats.

You're all wrong about why Ron Hunter was upset. I was there and heard it all clear as day. Ron was coaching his team when he caught something in the corner of his eye. "A Rugaru," he shouted in a panick. An assistant came over and asked him, "where, where?" "Right there! It was right there! I swear!" "Coach, it's just a couple students," said the assistant while pointing at two well put together students clad in their favorite North Texas attire. Security came over and asked what the commotion was about to which Ron insisted he had seen a Rugaru. Confused, the security guard went and got one of UNT PD's finest who determined there was no Rugaru, just a couple of students enjoying the game. The officer and security had the students return to their seats and told Ron there was no Rugaru in Denton, America. Frazzled, Ron redirected his attention to the game. I wasn't sure what had happened until today, reading this thread. Now it all makes sense. Saying he was also there, making up claims of what was said, and giving descriptions of red-headed people who weren't there. Maybe Ron was right. Maybe the Rugaru was in fact at the Pit yesterday. Maybe MeanGreen_MBA is the Rugaru.

This is a lie. As the one who yelled at Ron Hunter I can promise you I am not a red head. I also never cursed at Ron. I said “Ron you need to sit down during games” as this was due to him standing with both feet fully on the court all game and the refs not saying anything. I never once cussed at him. He got super pissed and told me I need to “keep my ass in my seat” and wanted to come up and fight. It was classless behavior by a coach of an AAC team would should handle himself better. I’ll be in the same spot next game so maybe come introduce yourself instead of spreading false information.

Usually a promo schedule is put together before the season. Not when there's only five games left.

I've been going to games since the late 60's. We filled up the old Pit and did so again, or had great crowds, during the Blakeley years when the SP first opened. Students showed up, the community was involved, etc. and the local population and enrollment was much less then. It takes effort over an extended period. This isn't a one and done tailgate, all out effort for one game on the schedule. This is about promoting the program, the players, the season over the long haul. Engagement is the issue.

The AD's job is to make it interesting. Show highlights of the program beating Purdue, winning the CBI, winning the NIT, winning conference titles inside the SP, etc. Introduce team members and coaches. Create excitement. Engage the students, keep them engaged constantly, etc. Trust me, there are a mountain of great ideas that have never been tried.

Why? Because in our league as it stands, the regular season means little unless you have a great OOC record and/or are on track to be undefeated. Our season is made in March. We either win the auto bid and keep playing meaningful basketball, get invited to a decent tournament like the NIT, or go home. There are no true at-large hopes. We should be prepping our roster so that anybody is ready to get on the floor and contribute. Instead, we're hoping nobody fouls out or gets hurt. The last thing we need is for a young bench guy to see his first meaningful minutes in the conference tournament.

This made my day. How did this nugget get past the ESPN approvals?

I'll take a ugly win over a loss any time!

Easy, cowboy. This is a part of frustrating opponents and having a daunting home environment. Our fan doing this, or his version of the story, should've had 1000 more of our fans helping him. If the officials aren't going to call the rules of the game it's unfortunately up to the fans to loudly help them along.

Per the student who was addressed, he hadn't gotten his keys out like the rest of the students yet. An opposing trainer asked where his was, and the student said he was pulling them out, worry about the f***ing game because your team sucks. 🤣 Apparently Ron overheard that and intervened. Then on his way to the locker room he stopped and cursed another fan out, despite no cursing from the fan. The fan/we just wanted him to get off the court, I'm surprised how much leniency the refs gave him with that all afternoon. The one time Hodge gets pissed at a call going into a timeout, the refs are quick to restrain him.

We’re the greatest team of all time again. Time to start cutting down the nets at Dickies 😏

Incredible 3rd and 4th Periods! Inconceivable!

An away win is not very disappointing under most circumstances.. Rice played a very good game and in this particular game had IMO a couple of players that had great performances. This game went as a lot of Rice games have ended with the Owls on the wrong side of a very close game. NT is not going to overpower many teams with superior players, they win with stellar defense and coaching.

This crew has done several of our games and they always gush over our defense. I love it. Overall, not a pretty win, but it's a win. We need to figure out our offense outside of B Lo and Wright or we are going to get knocked out of the first game in the tournament.

The Mavericks would never associate with us again, but if we want to actually sell some tickets we should unofficially market this to students and local sports fans as a protest. If it could boost attendance from 3K to 5K and chants got picked up on big-time basketball Twitter and Instagram accounts, it'd be worth it.

As someone who was also nearby, I can attest that you just made that up lol. Come introduce yourself next time jackass

Ended the losing streak last game, now let's turn the win into a streak.

I hope you are confusing talented with ready or polished or something teachable because if they are not talented enough, the coaches failed miserably in recruiting. All players should be talented enough and recruited to fit the system. They might need to up the effort on defense or something else but talent shouldn’t be in question

Hey, basketball team..... JUST WIN! But it would be nice to see some of the bench guys play. Let's see what we've got.

Does the SID not report to the AD, who oversees the whole department? The excuse making for the AD is getting old.

surprising calls for DEI from GMG

I would as well. What is the new landscape? I call bullshit on this take. I see the stands full at other universities in Texas and around the country. As others have mentioned, nothing is done to attract the students, nothing. North Texas has done a horrible job of making students proud to be students here. I went to both Tulane games this weekend. Walking to enter the SP I passed two college aged males, one in a UT shirt and the other in an OU shirt. Walked into the game and passed a girl in a Baylor shirt. That is ridiculous and should be the exception not the rule. Be proud of your school and that starts at the top and filters down. The take on the SP being old and outdated is also a cop out. It is a great arena to watch a game with very few, if any, bad seats. Like everything else at NT, change the culture. A perfect example is what Cuban did when he bought the Mavs. Nobody wanted to go to games and tickets were easy to come by. It didn’t take long to change that mindset, but it takes effort.

And just like that, Tulsa goes to Philli and puts an end to that streak. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401725586/tulsa-temple

Granted, I haven't attended a game in Denton in a few years so I guess it could be falling apart now, but I have been in several other college arenas. From my experience there are way worse ones than the Super Pit.

People like to watch their team win. If they can win pretty, great! But winning ugly isn't a deal breaker. Random thought about our facilities: if we are trying to appeal to a student that typically doesn't know or follow sports, would they even know that the Pit is an old or average facility? They could probably nit-pick about lightling but, other than that, I can see them coming in and not really thinking about it.

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too

We had an 8 minute stretch where we only put up 3 points. We were getting good looks from 3 and getting to the rim, just couldn't get shots to drop. I don't think sets had anything to do with those 8 minutes. Droughts are going to be magnified and feel long because of our slow pace. At the end of the day, if we want to compete in March, we've got to hit those open shots and get points off turnovers. I believe we had 3 offensive rebounds and 2 steals in those 8 minutes with 0 points attached. Can't have that.

we're gonna get every one's best shot in conference, and especially road games are always gonna be a challenge. interestingly, I think it was our efficiency in out-of-timeout sets that won this game...somehow we can draw up successful one-off plays, but can't turn those into 3-option offensive sets. maybe that's the next step in Hodge's development.

for as much as we complain about announcers, these guys are blowing us tonight... props to them for paying attention to us.

Brenen Lorient’s game is straight out of 1988 and I’m alllll here for it! I think he’s easily our best all around player

UNT students have demonstrated over the years that they have little if any interest in their athletic programs. The 10's of $ millions we have put into bricks and sticks over the last 20+years has been wasted on them as will be future capital improvements. I have no idea as to how to change the culture but looking at the success of our men's basketball program the past 5 years evidently its not by winning games.

That North Texas fans were lying when they said “We’d come to games, but the teams aren’t winning” Both the mens and womens basketball teams are 12-1 at home right now…and I’n pretty sure there were 105 people in the stands today

So I don't make it to many games, sadly. Just the way it's been with my schedule and living an hour and a half away. I can't make a 3 hour round trip back-to-back days while having to keep young kids happy. I joked with my wife yesterday that next season I'm getting season tickets and I'll just make the drive to games alone and leave her with the kids. She didn't find it funny. What surprises me every time we go, and I again pointed it out to my wife yesterday, is how few students go to games. I don't remember student attendance being so poor when I attended UNT but maybe I'm not remembering well. Our student attendance, be it at men's or women's games, just sucks and I don't understand why.

I don’t know Rick. That's a very minimal drawing. Maybe if you could include the names of the players/coaches as they appear on the shirt. J

Making it a doubleheader weekend before heading home. Let’s give the ladies a well deserved home court advantage at 1pm.

I don't think I've ever seen this from our AD. So, a step in the right direction. They really need to look at how minor league baseball teams do promos. There is soooo much inspo they can get.

Standings through Saturday's games, and each team's Sunday schedule: UNT: 3-1 (CMU) Troy: 2-1 (TSU, Samford) Samford: 1-1 (TSU, Troy) TSU: 1-2 (Samford, Troy) CMU: 1-3 (North Texas) All North Texas has to do is beat Central Michigan again to claim this tournament championship, as they hold the tiebreaker with Troy and Samford only has four total games. I think this could be a fun team to watch. I don't think we're going to be much of a home run threat, but we are succeeding with small ball. This young team has scored 24 runs in their first 4 games. Last year's squad only scored 4.2 runs per game.

And 0-4 against the Mean Green in the last 13 months. 😎

NT 76 ---------- Tulane 66 Final

I don't believe this for one second. This stuff is about Quad 1 and Quad 2 games. That's what resumes boil down to. It doesn't matter what the school is named. Alabama hosted McNeese State this year who's NET is about what ours is and made the tournament last year. You look at most other AAC schools and their OOC was similar to ours. My opinion is this is why our coaches don't want to schedule tough OOC: "There several performance incentives included in the contract, including one tied to the number of wins UNT posts in a season. Hodge will receive $7,500 if UNT wins 20 games, $17,500 if the Mean Green reach the 25-win mark and 37,500 for winning 30 games." https://dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/mean_green/unt-new-basketball-coach-ross-hodge-agree-to-basic-terms-of-five-year-deal/article_32af169c-33ec-5e85-8226-5637457e6cc5.html They schedule a couple tough tests to appease the fans and "prepare the team" and then load up with winnable games. High major schools don't care about wins, it's all about winning the conference, making the tournament, and then winning that. Playing North Texas doesn't change that either way. Schedule them. FAU played at UCF and Michigan State this year. So can North Texas.