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A little bit of national love from Rich Cirminiello I haven't seen posted: http://cfn.scout.com/2/1342652.html Stockpile more shares in … North Texas Entering the season, the Mean Green hadn’t had a winning streak—of any kind—in nine years. The program has now won four straight, capped by Thursday night’s pivotal defeat of Rice in Denton. North Texas is improbably bowl-eligible for veteran head coach Dan McCarney, and is still holding out hope of catching Tulane in Conference USA West.

My apologies if this was previously posted..... Even so, nothing like a positive UNT blurb..... ____________________________________________________ February 3, 2009 9:37 AM Posted by ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg If things pan out as expected, which is never a given in recruiting, Michigan State's 2009 class could be a program-changer. ESPN's Scouts Inc. currently ranks the Spartans' class 21st nationally, the program's highest rating in quite some time. As national signing day approaches, here are five recruiting moments from the last five years........... ..................Five memorable Independent and Others recruiting moments Riley Dodge, QB, North Texas In 2008, Dodge switched his commitment from Texas to play for his father, Todd Dodge, at North Texas. It was the second consecutive time a highly-touted quarterback from Southlake Carroll (Texas) shunned Texas for another school. Dodge was a backup last year after recovering from surgery, but was abruptly thrust into the starting role a few weeks ago when Mean Green starter Giovanni Vizza announced he was transferring. The Link

Let's just snap our fingers and make this happen! Here's the link My apologies if this has been previously posted. Bob

We were 8-2 that year with losses to only Memphis (12-30) and Arkansas (15-17) Here's a site that you can see all the scores of all past UNT games: http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/su...s.php?year=2005 Scroll down and click on the desired year range to see those scores. Bob

New news I haven't seen posted before. Enjoy! Here's the link

Some kudos to the board: Where North Texas fans congregate: Go Mean Green earns bonus points for having a running thread discussing the Countdown since the Western Kentucky preview.

This won't last long, but look at the front page of ESPN.com today - May 1st. They need to thank North Texas for that reference.

As soon as I wrote this, I found out that it's an IT problem at the DRC. Brett should be back up and running by this evening.

Very interesting and great find. Here's his index at the DRC Looks empty at the moment!

Here's the Link 5. The pain in the butt in each conference race will be ... These teams don't have enough in the bag to win their respective leagues, but they're going to ruin the dreams of several favorites, or give a far tougher game than expected. Sun Belt - North Texas Bombs away. Head coach Todd Dodge installed his high-octane passing offense with some wacky, wild results ... and no defense. Oh sure, there was a 601-yard passing game against SMU and 478 yards and eight touchdown passes against Navy, but the Mean Green loses both games. With the offense getting a year to jell, and with the defense getting the most immediate attention from the recruiting class, going from the dregs to the top of the Sun Belt might not be that long a journey. No, UNT won't have a great all-around team, but it'll bomb its way into a few wins.

Article from CFN: http://cfn.scout.com/2/728747.html 1. North Texas The class is heavy on ... The passing game and the secondary. If you're going to throw the ball like the North Texas does in the Todd Dodge offense, you need players to run it. Dodge got them with Riley Dodge, his son, coming in as the team's top quarterback prospect, but do-it-all playmaker Jeremy Phillips and athletic Willie Taylor will compete over the next few years. Five receivers are coming in, along with seven defensive backs, led by star JUCO transfer Adryan Adams at corner, to change the defense immediately. The player who'll someday be a really big deal ... QB Riley Dodge The player you might care about this year ... OT Nate Jenkins What it all means to the real world of college football ... Those Sun Belt fans who got tired of North Texas winning all those championships a few years ago will have to get used to it again if this class is as good as it looks on paper. Dodge has created an exciting atmosphere around the program, and it shows with a loaded group of prospects that should immediately make the Mean Green a player again.

You can read it all and then some at www.midmajority.com Here's the UNT blurb: Game! Of! The! Night! 12/20/2007: Centenary at North Texas Centenary (Summit) at North Texas (Sun Belt) Super Pit - Denton, TX 8:00 PM EST We hear there's some battle royale of double-digit undefeateds happening somewhere tonight, but we don't give a %^#&. Our invisible G!O!T!N! broadcast team will be in Denton, providing virtual "TMM 360" event coverage of two teams that couldn't be more different, disposition-wise: the Gentlemen and the Mean Green. Centenary (7-4, 1-1 SL) is 3-1 against the great state of Texas (loss: at Baylor), and notably took advantage of Bobby Knight's niceness and beating Tech earlier this month. This right here is the 15th-best 3-point shooting team in the country, and the Gentlemen are great from the line, sinking 75.5 percent of their freebies (that's 17th best). And don't forget about the Gents' "white-glove defense", which may allow a lot of shots to go in but ends a lot of possessions prematurely: Rob Flaska's squad forces a Badlands Conference-best 17 turnovers a game. Tonight, the staid Gentlemen will travel from their geodesic Gold Dome to the funky Super Pit, where they will be challenged to get down. North Texas (7-2), defending Sun Belt champions, have shown themselves to be gritty on the glass again, averaging a league-best 37 rebounds and grabbing 59.7 percent of all available missed shots (only 13 teams do it better). The Mean Green are led by 5-10 Josh White, one of the most exciting freshmen in Hoops Nation with his game-winning heroics against Oklahoma State earlier this season, and his 18.6 ppg. He's a nice player -- a perfect gentleman, even -- but the team is Mean! Mean! Grrrr! Tune in for the ultimate battle that will determine the collective mood of Hoops Nation.

My cousin took the route of knowing that he probably wasn't going to play sports professionally after college. He ended up getting a scholarship playing hockey at Harvard. That degree looks mighty nice no matter how you slice it. I bet Tomlin ends up playing at Rice if he can get the opportunity. Just a guess.

Read the article here. And here's the UNT blurb: Excuse me if I say that UNT is a joy to watch. Sure, people use that as a throwaway time-filler statement, but watching the runnin', gunnin', generally undersized Green makes me so happy that I just want to go out and shoot some hoops. The computer disagrees slightly, giving this team a downward bump for a gutty 88-72 loss at Texas, followed by a whopping points-dock for letting Hartford play them too close in a 105-97 Super Pit showdown. Saying "Super Pit" is a joy too. The article also mentions USA and UTA.

You have to wonder if this is the year we get multiple bids to the Big Show. Here's a link from the Mid Majority website. The Sun Belt. It's been a good, if not super-spectacular, early season for a conference that's been pretty much pre-assigned to a single bid for the past decade-plus. Sure, the overall nonconference record's in the toilet (.408) and it can't beat the SEC (0-7), but there have been some good signs: a 5-4 mark against Conference USA, even pulls against the WAC and ACC, and winning records against the A-Sun, OVC and WCC. And there have been a few teams distinguishing themselves. Like South Alabama, coached once again by Ronnie Arrow (who took a few years off to build up Corpus Christi). Team USA is 6-3, and beat Southern Miss last night, 75-68. And 6-2 Western Kentucky, whose 69-62 overtime slog win over Nebraska means that the Huskers can't use the term "Big Red" anymore without paying WKU licensing fees. And there's North Texas, another darling of the computer poll. The league champs' game with Texas was on the Full Court last night, and I thought they handled themselves extremely well after the Longhorns stormed them out of the gate. The Mean Green pretty much won the last 35 minutes of that game, freshman Josh White was fantastic (28 points), and UNT outrebounded them too! Final score: Dirt Brown 88, Mean Green 72.