NorthTexan95

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate these "Mac-nuggets" about how he did things at I-State. Keep 'em coming!

This looks sharp!

Fast enough to chase down runningbacks and strong enough to lay the wood when he catches them. I'm also impressed that the kid was offered by Air Force. Sounds like a good kid off the field as well.

I remember talking about this awhile ago. I thought the scoreboard might be used as a secondary unit. I think the plan was to have a new scoreboard that was one large screen that would provide the most functionality. I also thought it wasn't feasible or possible to put the old turf in the new stadium.

If you missed it there's a new Mean Green Insider video on the MeanGreenSports.com website. Hank interviews Rick and there's a lot of talk about football, the coaching search, and possible conference realignmnet. It'll get you fired up. http://www.meangreensports.com/newMediaPlayer/sl/console.htm?CLIP_FILE_ID=741641&SPID=&DB_OEM_ID=1800&CLIP_ID=730975&id=741641&type=vod&DB_MENU_ID=&oemid=1800&SPSID=

I see your avatar is a video clip from the swimsuit competition. Ewww ..

Athletes.

SMU's upward trend? With all they have going for them they still are averaging about the same as us? I don't see a whole lot of potiential growth for SMU unless they can replicate TCU's on field performance.

You're right about me overstating our case. I like to call it "best case scenario". I think the stadium alone is worth a a couple thousand. The new coach ... some big wins ... and you have another few thousand.

It's an advantage because we have a lot of room to grow.

Big difference ... in our favor.

There's only one spot left and Mike Nelson appears to have the entire DLine. I'd expect a RB coach to be the final hire with a couple fo GA's to help out.

There been some talk on this board about UNT vs SMU when it came to attendence. I'd thought I'd post the weekly attendence for home games for UNT and for SMU this past season. UNT Rice: 23,743 La-La: 17,015 Ark St: 14,589 Fl Int: 14,718 Troy: 14,289 Kan St: 21,952 Total: 106,306 Average: 17,718 SMU UAB: 16,612 Wash St: 18,184 TCU: 35,481 Tulsa: 19,329 Houston: 20,741 Marshall: 17,513 Total: 127,860 Average: 21,310 So SMU averaged 3,592 more than UNT this past season. However, SMU had one home game with TCU that completely busts the bell curve. If you remove this game their average drops to 18,476 (758 more than us). In other words, SMU ... with a new stadium ... in a better conference ... playing better "name" home opponents ... with a high profile head coach ... coming off a winning season and bowl victory ... had basically the same number of fans attend their home games as UNT when you remove all the TCU fans who came over from Ft. Worth. I don't need to state all the negatives UNT faced coming into the season and during the season. Considering all the benefits we have coming into 2011 (new coaching staff, new stadium, better "name" home opponents) I would hope we would see a significant bump in attendance next year and pass SMU. Honestly, I wasn't expecting SMU's attendance to be so low this past season until I looked at the numbers. If we can get things turned around on the field we could race right by SMU very shortly. In a couple of years we could be the team in the area conferences are wanting to have. I'm excited to see just how big this "sleeping giant" really is.

The one thing I didn't like is that he supports the current BCS system. Booo! I really like his other answers, though. He knows how to get people fired up but also seems to know how to not stick his foot in is mouth.

I hope so. If we're serious about moving up to CUSA or MW then we should start by paying a staff somewhere in the range of those leagues.

Tibia ... fibia ... tomato ... tomato ..

I believe that's the non-weight bearing bone in the lower leg. Same thing Jack Younblood played with in three NFL playoff games in 1979. Hard to believe they would let a high school kid play with that injury. Maybe it's just a very small fracture.

Excellent! She is now the Angel of Mean Green Christmas. I have updated the original post and my signature.

I agree that it was an excellent documentry. There's two things that stick out in my mind. One - I agree when Dale Hansen said that when a booster buys a kid it's really the kid who owns the booster. Two - SMU was caught because they were stupid. Dale Hansen was only able to nailed them because they were stupid.

Merry Christmas 2010 to the GMG Board – the Angel of Mean Green Christmas is here! I’ve been a member of this board since June of 2004. In that time I have never set a profile picture. Why? I don’t know. I just never got around to it. However, that all changed last week. It Friday, December 10th 2010, when I noticed that a girl’s picture was appearing in my posts. She was originally called Cutie Girl. I had no idea who she was or where she came from. I attempted to change my profile picture to something else but it would not change. I finally contacted board admin Harry who was able to remove her. Now I realize that wasn’t the best decision. Although her origin is mysterious she was well received by board members. Others posted hoping she would appear for them but to no avail. Cutie Girl only appeared for me. It was suggest by one poster that she was a stalker. If true then I can only hope to be stalked by someone like her. I now believe she was a gift from heaven to this board and I am simply the conduit for her. She is the Angel of Mean Green Christmas. They say good things happen in three and I think this proves it: McCarney hired, Canales retained, and the Angel of Mean Green Christmas appeared. Fortunately I saved the picture and she has now returned to my profile. How long she remains is a question I cannot answer. I suppose she could choose to leave us at any time. Until that time she shall remain with us. This is my present to the GMG board.

So according to that post Quattro is the WR coach, Hines is out ... and we're still looking for two defensive coaches.

Excellent! It's all coming together. Now we just need to find that 40 year old QB and female kicker ...

Hopefully he can get a confirmation on Bowen's status.

If she's doing the stalking then maybe it's not so bad.

Sorry ... not my doing. I've sent a message to Harry to find out what the issue is. Of course, if I had to pick a picture to be stuck with this would be a good one.