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  1. North Texas Hats

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Until our image has been re-established, I advocate that the main thing that we buy and wear is green. I agree with MGD. Buy the gear that is the closest to Kelly green and then wear it as much as possible.

    I hate those black-on-black, or white-on-white hats.

    Agreed. I think it's physically impossible to wear too much North Texas gear. I still wear some old North Texas shirts from when I came to school in 2002.

    Give me a minute while I dodge the bullets.

  2. Excited About Our Recruiting Class So Far

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Well then, there's the main problem. If a North Texas graduate can't believe it, then why should we expect the recruits that we go after to believe that North Texas is a perfectly viable option to A$M...or any other D-1 school in Texas for that matter.

    It isn't delusional to believe in your school. If we're such an unworthy school, then Todd Dodge would have said "no thanks" to us, just like he did to Rice.

    We all had better start doing our part to promote this football program. If we expect Todd Dodge to do it all for us, then we'll end up missing another golden opportunity to move forward like we did with Hayden Fry.

    When Hayden Fry took over as head coach back in 73, you couldn't have made him say that A$M (or any other SWC school) was better than North Texas...even if you held a gun to his head.

    We must all have the same mind-set.....it's worked well for A$M all these years.

    Good post. North Texas is a great school, with an excellent education, an up-and-coming football/athletics department, and if you haven't seen UNT's master plan yet, it will also be one of the most beautiful campuses around as well.

  4. Excited About Our Recruiting Class So Far

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted · Edited by BonfireBrian

    In the past, UNT has recruited against the likes of Louisiana-Lafayette and Arkansas State, but not this year. Here is a list of who North Texas has beat out for these recruits.

    Players received scholarship offers from the following schools, but chose North Texas:

    Air Force (2)

    Army

    Baylor

    Boise State

    Central Florida

    Houston (3)

    Illinois

    Indiana

    Iowa State

    Louisiana-Monroe

    Missouri

    Navy (2)

    Nebraska

    Nevada

    New Mexico State (2)

    Rice (2)

    TCU

    Texas A&M

    Texas State

    Tulsa

    Utah

    Utah State

    UTEP (2)

    By conference:

    Big 10 (2)

    Big 12 (5)

    Conference USA (10)

    Independent (3)

    Mountain West (4)

    Southland (1)

    Sun Belt (1)

    WAC (4)

    Players received interest from the following schools, but chose North Texas:

    Alabama

    California

    Central Arkansas

    Clemson

    Colorado State

    Houston

    Iowa

    Iowa State (2)

    Kansas State

    McNeese State

    Sam Houston

    SMU (2)

    TCU (3)

    Texas Tech

    Tulane

    Tulsa

    Wake Forest

    By conference:

    ACC (2)

    Big 10 (3)

    Big12 (2)

    Conference USA (4)

    I-AA Independent (1)

    Mountain West (6)

    Pac 10 (1)

    SEC (1)

    Soutland (2)

    Players transfering to North Texas from:

    Booneville Northeast (Mississippi)

    Navy

    Rice

    *** Please note: I compiled this list myself, so it's possible I made a few mistakes. If I did, sorry.

  5. Original Plans For The Stadium Call For A Starting Capacity Of 32,000

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    i would think something would come out:

    A. Signing Day

    B. Spring Game

    C. University Day?

    D. Sometime during spring practice

    E. August... to get students excited

    one thing I would advise all of you to look at is the UNT masterplan... its 144 pages and you can get it (at least I did) by searching on Google UNT Masterplan. Its really interesting to see what the expected future holds for UNT

    That master plan is extremely exciting. I highly recommend that all of you take some time to look at it, and realize how great North Texas will soon become! The new stadium is in this plan, and so are the plans for Fouts Field's replacement in that area.

  7. Unt Vs. Mtsu Game

    in Mean Green Basketball

    Posted

    First off, I am now 2 for 2 on Basketball trivia during 2nd half timeouts! Yes that was me down there answering the toughest trivia questions they can throw out at me!

    I was impressed with the way the team played defense. Defense on the perimeter really limited the outside shooting of the MUTS, and forced several turnovers. On offense we moved the ball around well, but sometimes we were reluctant to actually take a shot or get the ball down low. Keith Wooden was open in the paint all night, and we didn't get the ball to him enough. The MUTS made it close a few times, but never led in the game. Really fun game to watch!!!

    (P.S., they give you the answer before they ask you the trivia question)

    I was one of the contestants during a game last year. I thought it was funny that they give you the answer, but then again, who wants to look stupid in front of all those people anyway?

  13. Important Message

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Thanks for all of the hard work that all of you admins do. Even though I don't post very often, reading GoMeanGreen has become a good habit of mine. My fiance doesn't like it to much, but she'll get over it.

    Harry, I would love to have access to the premium content as well. Thanks.

  16. To potential recruits reading this board

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Also, here is a list of notable alumni, also from Wikipedia:

    Athletics

    "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, professional wrestler

    Toby Gowin, NFL punter

    "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL Hall of famer, NFL defensive tackle and assistant coach

    Abner Haynes, AFL and NFL running back

    Don January, PGA Senior Tour golfer

    Billy Maxwell, PGA Senior Tour golfer

    Ray Renfro, NFL wide receiver

    Ron Shanklin, NFL receiver and former All-Pro player

    David Von Erich, deceased professional wrestler dubbed the "Yellow Rose of Texas"

    Kevin Von Erich, real name Kevin Adkisson; professional wrestler dubbed "the Golden Warrior", brother of David Von Erich

    Tra Telligman, UFC Fighter, dubbed Tra "Trauma" Telligman

    Eric Pegram, NFL running back

    Arts and media

    Joe Don Baker, film actor

    Joseph Patrick Cranshaw film actor, best known as "Blue" from movie "Old School"

    Shirley Cothran Barret, Miss America 1975

    Joan Blondell, film and television actress

    Pat Boone, pop and gospel singer, actor and television personality

    Mike Cochran, journalist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner

    Brave Combo, Grammy-winning polka rock band

    Rogers Cadenhead, author of computer books, Web publisher and member of the RSS Advisory Board

    Thomas Haden Church, film and television actor

    Bob Dorough, bebop and jazz pianist/vocalist who wrote and sang many of the Schoolhouse Rock songs

    George Dunham, sports radio talk-show host and "voice of the Mean Green Radio Network"

    Bobby Fuller, rock singer/guitarist best known for his band's cover of "I Fought the Law"

    O'Neil Ford, major regional architect whose works include San Antonio's Tower of the Americas

    Phyllis George, Miss America 1971, actress and broadcaster

    G. Harvey, oil painter and sculptor specializing in Southwestern art

    Kyle Hebert, voice actor

    Don Henley, singer/songwriter and drummer, both solo and with The Eagles

    Buddy Hickerson, creator of the syndicated comic strip The Quigmans

    Sara Hickman, folk singer/songwriter

    Ray Wylie Hubbard, country music singer

    Norah Jones, Grammy-winning pianist and singer-songwriter

    Scott Kurtz, creator of the webcomic PvP

    Michael Lark, comic book artist

    T. Lewis, illustrator of the comic strip Over the Hedge

    Tom "Bones" Malone, jazz trombonist; played with the Saturday Night Live and Late Show house bands, and with The Blues Brothers

    "Blue Lou" Marini, saxophonist; played with the Saturday Night Live house band and the Blues Brothers

    Lyle Mays, composer/keyboardist with the Pat Metheny Group

    Meat Loaf, rock singer and film actor

    R.K. Milholland, creator of webcomics Something Positive, New Gold Dreams and Midnight Macabre

    Jesus Bautista Moroles, granite sculptor

    Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator

    Dr. Phil McGraw, television personality and psychologist

    Larry McMurtry, novelist, essayist and screenwriter; won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Lonesome Dove, and an Academy Award for the screenplay of Brokeback Mountain

    Roy Orbison, rock singer/songwriter

    J.D. Reid, Texas-based freelance writer, often featured in AmericanWay Magazine

    Bob Ray Sanders, Coulumnist, Editor, and Vice President for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TV personality, Known and requested Public Speaker

    Ann Sheridan, film actress

    Clinton Howard Swindle, journalist and author

    M.B. Tankersley, poet

    Peter Weller, film actor; star of RoboCop

    Noble Willingham, television and film actor known for his role on Walker, Texas Ranger

    Business

    Byron Baird, CEO of Mrs. Baird's Bakeries (now owned by Grupo Bimbo)

    Rhys Best, president of Lone Star Steel Company

    Mike R. Bowlin, chairman of ARCO

    Frank D. Bracken, president of Haggar Company

    Norm Miller, president of Interstate Batteries; co-founder of the Great Race

    Linda Hefner Woltz, president/CEO of Sara Lee Hosiery

    Wende Zomnir, founding partner and executive creative director of Urban Decay Cosmetics

    Politics

    Michael C. Burgess, current congressman for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT

    John Creuzot, judge in Dallas' Criminal District Court No. 4

    Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas agriculture commissioner

    Ray Roberts, former congressman from Denton; nearby Lake Ray Roberts is named for him

    Dick Armey, former majority leader for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT, former economics professor and wrestling coach at North Texas

    Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_North_Texas_people"

  17. To potential recruits reading this board

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Don't forget that North Texas has the #1 graduation rate among student-athletes of any Public Div. I-A school.

    Some North Texas firsts from Wikipedia:

    First jazz studies program in the U.S., which is consistently ranked the nation's best.

    First emergency administration and disaster prevention program in the U.S.

    First peace studies program in the Southwest.

    First oil and petroleum accounting program in the U.S.

    First patent for silicon-based ultra-sensitive chemical sensor for use in integrated circuit fabrication.

    First business computer information systems program in the U.S.

    First PhD program in art education in the U.S.

    First bachelor's degree in electronic merchandising in the U.S.

    First online school library preparation program in the U.S.

    First accredited counseling program in the U.S., which still ranks among the nation's best.

    First school in the country to offer a degree in Mechanical and Energy Engineering

    First college in the South to integrate; Class of 1956 was first integrated graduating class.

    First football team in modern history to go to a bowl game after posting a losing overall record. The Mean Green finished 5-6 overall in 2001 but won the Sun Belt with a 5-1 conference record, thus earning an automatic bid to the New Orleans Bowl.

  18. Another thing to vote for...

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Help out our fellow Sun Belt member Western Kentucky in the Capital One Fur Factor Mascot Challenge.

    You can only vote once per day, so it won't take too much time away from voting for Caris.

    It is extremely close right now. WKU has already moved into the Semifinals, and needs our help to get over the top.

    After you vote for WKU, you can do a right-in vote for North Texas.

    http://www.capitalonebowl.com/Voting/Default.aspx

    Enjoy!

    Sideline Spirit - Athlonsports.com

    in GoMeanGreen.com Hall of Fame

    Posted

    This was posted about a month ago and Caris won the 3rd round. She is now in the final round and needs our votes again.

    From athlonsports.com: The winner of this year's competition will win a prize pack for their school including $1,000 cash, 42" and 32" Samsung LCD Flat-Panel Televisions, A Samsung Sports Camcorder, and Hi-Fi Conversion DVD recorder. Furthermore the winning contestant will be featured in a photo shoot in Athlon Sports' 2007 College Football Annual.

    Time to vote. You can vote as many times as you want, so it's a great thing to do when you're bored at work!

    http://www.athlonsports.com/college-footba...&participant=39

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