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  1. TCU vs SMU

    in Mean Green Football

    Posted

    Just now, Venson said:

    Right now it is looking like UNT is a better team than TCU. Rain or not, both teams are playing in the same elements. If TCU is so much better, they should be winning. The fact that they are being taken to the woodshed right now speaks volumes of how good UNT really is. I am loving it. Never thought I would cheer for SMU, but Goooo SMU!

    LOL, enjoy it while it lasts. TCU will still win this game by 3+ TDs.

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  2. TCU vs SMU

    in Mean Green Football

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    2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

    He just said they caught a bunch of bad breaks against us.  These guys are morons.

    Yes, apparently, giving up 46 points is his idea of playing good defense. They did finally mention the lowly Conference USA team that put the smack down on SMU though. North.....

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  5. Softball

    in Mean Green Athletics

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    On 6/15/2018 at 4:14 PM, Salsa_Verde said:

    I think softball is already the leading women’s sport. The WCWS brings in more viewers than baseball. It has way more parity than women’s basketball and the money being spent on facilities Is impressive. Texas A&M just opened a new 40 million dollar stadium I believe. 

    Not sure if it's #1 yet, but definitely getting close. 

    As a parent of two softball players, I may be a tad biased (or at least overly exposed), but it does certainly seem like the popularity has been growing over the last several years.  Between the ESPN networks (including LHN and SEC) the TV coverage is not lacking.  During the regular season, it wasn’t hard to find multiple live broadcasts of top 25 teams.

    We played in a 12U tournament in OKC the weekend of the WCWS tournament.  Tournament entry was supposed to include a block of WCWS tickets for teams to purchase, but was already sold out.  So, we had to fork out $100+ per seat to sit in the outfield.  It was hot but it was a fun environment and I didn’t have the slightest hint of buyer’s remorse.

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  8. '18 QB Jason Bean (Mansfield Lake Ridge)

    in UNT Football Recruiting

    Posted · Edited by gangrene

    I only saw Bean play in one game, the quarterfinal against Highland Park.  While I was impressed with Bean, I was equally impressed with the 6'2"/6'3" WR, Malik Knowles.  He needs to put on some weight (as does Bean), but he has good ups and was constantly creating separation to catch the ball.  He finished the game with 5 catches for 118 yards and 2 TDs.  I thought he was a junior, but he's a '18 grad.

    Here are some highlights from the HP game, Malik is #18.

    24/7 shows he has offers from Illinois and ULM

    I wonder if the staff is interested and, if so, why he hasn't been offered?

  10. Why NO Bowl Again??

    in Mean Green Football

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    1 hour ago, untjim1995 said:

    I still don’t understand how y’all don’t understand that we didn’t get to choose our bowl slot—the conference tie-ins do that, as well as the bowl committees, and sometimes, the other team and conference. 

    We are small time, we aren’t anything else. CUSA is small time, just like the SBC. Why people can’t get this around here is embarrassing. Doesn’t mean it’ll always be this way, just to get that stupid response out of the way, but we aren’t gonna be anytime soon. 

    This is also true, unfortunately. Most all of the G5 schools got bad matchups.

     

  11. Why NO Bowl Again??

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    4 hours ago, H-towngreen said:

    Once again...how did we manage to end up here? All the nonsense about us wanting to go here for this reason and that reason was ridiculous. There was no benefit to us ending up here. What do we get from playing a team like Troy? We win and it’s “you should beat a sun belt team” we lose and it’s a huge issue for the program as you just lost to a SBC team that we were so eager to get away from bc we were better than them. 

    We should’ve either been closer to home in any of the DFW area games, where we can have a huge turnout with our fan base. Or playing FSU in Shreveport. We win, hey we beat FSU, we lose, oh well, it was FSU. 

    Whats happening now is exactly why this was not a good situation for UNT.

    This is exactly the point I was trying to make in another thread. Except, I'll take it one step further and say Troy deserved to play a better, or at least better perception-wise, opponent too. The bowls should have more P5 vs G5 matchups. Look at Boise State crushing Oregon in the Las Vegas Bowl. 

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  13. What is really disappointing and ironic

    in Mean Green Football

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    14 hours ago, MattMakesLoans said:

    G5s don’t recruit nationally, half the P5s don’t recruit nationally.

    They said on the broadcast during the championship game that SL’s recruiting focus is the 4 metroplex counties.

    But it takes Bowl experiences out of DFW to help entice future local recruits.

    What's more impressive to a local recruit, a win over UCLA or a win over Troy?

  14. What is really disappointing and ironic

    in Mean Green Football

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    I don't have the time to read through the 5 pages of responses (maybe later), but I would like to explain my feelings about this bowl, since I shared my disappointment in another thread.

    1. Playing in the Super Dome is fantastic - no issue with the bowl or the city.  Unfortunately, I'll have to watch it on TV as I have kids activities that interfere with my ability to travel to the see game in person.  (Selfishly, I'd have preferred the Frisco Bowl to the NO Bowl, even though I view it as a less attractive bowl).

    2. I have no issues with Troy and congratulate them on a great season. 

    However, I very much dislike the match-up of Troy vs. UNT.  It has zero national prominence and I feel both schools deserved the chance to "prove" themselves against a P5 school.  I think both schools will gain little to nothing, in terms of national recognition or recruiting, by winning this bowl.  Being ranked 32nd "most entertaining" of 40 bowl games by ESPN (A viewer's guide to the most entertaining bowl games) seems to validate my opinion.  That said, all CUSA teams except USM got pretty crappy match-ups, in my opinion.  But, I'd much rather watch a game in New Orleans than Shreveport.

    There are too many P5 schools with 6-6 or 7-5 records playing each other, rather than playing against non-P5 schools with better records.

     

     

     

  22. Texas Tech

    in Mean Green Football

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    11 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

    Apparently on the Longhorn network postgame show, Ricky Williams threw some shade at our beloved university in saying that Texas was out there celebrating a 6 win season like they were UNT. Sorry Ricky, we got to six wins two wins ago. 

    LOL, no pub is bad pub?

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