SUMG

That was in '99, E-bone. That was during the last year of Spike Dykes tenure at TTech. You didn't have to get into a shootout to beat TTech back then... Also, losing to us and Dickey....lead to that being Dykes last year (whether he wanted it to be, or not).

In both preseason b-ball mags which I have....Arizona State is picked to finish 10th in the PAC 10 conference.

Good post, Jim.

ESPN Game Plan carries SBC games, Jim. (Their website may not claim us, but they do carry our games). Today, for example, Troy-ULM is on Game Plan. I go to Channel 600 on DirecTV......there they give a listing of all their televised sporting events...including the times of all of their Game Plan games.

Same as last year, except substitute Troy for NMSU. West: UNO, UNT, ULL, S Bama, Troy, and Denver East: UALR, ASU, MTSU, WKU, FIU FAU will be added to the league in 2006-2007, as a 6th team in the East Division. When that happens, I hope they do a geographical switch, moving SBama and Troy to the East, and putting UALR and ASU in our division.

Street and Smith's college basketball mag is out. They pick us 4th in the West. As mentioned in the title, they do pick Arkansas transfer, Kendrick Davis, as the pre-season "Newcomer of the Year" for the SBC. Athlon's mag is also out. They pick us 5th in the West. Needless to say, Denver and Yemi Nicholson will be very tough to beat in the West.

so maybe.......what? I'm not clear on what you're trying to say...can you clarify?

(I think it's pretty obvious that our league won't have a bowl game in NO this year. Here's the story from AP: The governor of Louisiana says everyone needs to leave New Orleans due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. "We've sent buses in. We will be either loading them by boat, helicopter, anything that is necessary," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said. Army engineers trying to plug New Orleans' breached levees struggled to move giant sandbags and concrete barriers into place, and the governor said Wednesday the situation was growing more desperate and there was no choice but to abandon the flooded city. "The challenge is an engineering nightmare," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said on ABC's "Good Morning America." As the waters continued to rise in New Orleans, the Pentagon began mounting one of the biggest search-and-rescue operations in U.S. history, sending four Navy ships to the Gulf Coast with drinking water and other emergency supplies, along with the hospital ship USNS Comfort, search helicopters and eight swift-water rescue teams. Red Cross workers from across the country converged on the devastated region. The Army Corps of Engineers said it planned to use heavy-duty Chinook helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags Wednesday into the 500-foot gap in the failed floodwall. But the agency said it was having trouble getting the sandbags and dozens of 15-foot highway barriers to the site because the city's waterways were blocked by loose barges, boats and large debris. Officials said they were also looking at a more audacious plan: finding a barge to plug the 500-foot hole. The death toll from Hurricane Katrina reached at least 110 in Mississippi alone, while Louisiana put aside the counting of the dead to concentrate on rescuing the living, many of whom were still trapped on rooftops and in attics. The Red Cross reported it had about 40,000 people in 200 shelters across the area in one of the biggest urban disasters the nation has ever seen. A full day after the Big Easy thought it had escaped Katrina's full fury, two levees broke and spilled water into the streets Tuesday, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city, inundating miles and miles of homes and rendering much of New Orleans uninhabitable for weeks or months. "We are looking at 12 to 16 weeks before people can come in," Mayor Ray Nagin said on ABC's "Good Morning America, "and the other issue that's concerning me is we have dead bodies in the water. At some point in time the dead bodies are going to start to create a serious disease issue." Blanco said she wanted the Superdome _ which had become a shelter of last resort for about 20,000 people _ evacuated within two days, along with other gathering points for storm refugees. The situation inside the dank and sweltering Superdome was becoming desperate: The water was rising, the air conditioning was out, toilets were broken, and tempers were rising. At the same time, sections of Interstate 10, the only major freeway leading into New Orleans from the east, lay shattered, dozens of huge slabs of concrete floating in the floodwaters. I-10 is the only route for commercial trucking across southern Louisiana. The sweltering city of 480,000 people _ an estimated 80 percent of whom obeyed orders to evacuate as Katrina closed in over the weekend _ also had no drinkable water, the electricity could be out for weeks, and looters were ransacking stores around town. "The logistical problems are impossible and we have to evacuate people in shelters," the governor said. "It's becoming untenable. There's no power. It's getting more difficult to get food and water supplies in, just basic essentials." She gave no details on exactly where the refugees would be taken. But in Houston, Rusty Cornelius, a county emergency official, said at least 25,000 of them would travel in a bus convoy to Houston starting Wednesday and would be sheltered at the 40-year-old Astrodome, which is no longer used for professional sporting events. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was considering putting people on cruise ships, in tent cities, mobile home parks, and so-called floating dormitories _ boats the agency uses to house its own employees. Once the levees are fixed, Maj. Gen. Don Riley of the Army Corps of Engineers said, it could take close to a month to get the water out of the city. If the water rises a few feet higher, it could also wipe out the water system for the whole city, said New Orleans' homeland security chief, Terry Ebbert. A helicopter view of the devastation over Louisiana and Mississippi revealed people standing on black rooftops, baking in the sunshine while waiting for rescue boats. "I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air Tuesday. All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics. Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu said 3,000 people have been rescued by boat and air, some placed shivering and wet into helicopter baskets. They were brought by the truckload into shelters, some in wheelchairs and some carrying babies, with stories of survival and of those who didn't make it. "Oh my God, it was hell," said Kioka Williams, who had to hack through the ceiling of the beauty shop where she worked as floodwaters rose in New Orleans' low-lying Ninth Ward. "We were screaming, hollering, flashing lights. It was complete chaos." Looting broke out in some New Orleans neighborhoods, prompting authorities to send more than 70 additional officers and an armed personnel carrier into the city. One police officer was shot in the head by a looter but was expected to recover, authorities said. A giant new Wal-Mart in New Orleans was looted, and the entire gun collection was taken, The Times-Picayune newspaper reported. "There are gangs of armed men in the city moving around the city," said Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief. Also, looters tried to break into Children's Hospital, the governor's office said. On New Orleans' Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores and grabbed merchandise. In Biloxi, Miss., people picked through casino slot machines for coins and ransacked other businesses. In some cases, the looting took place in full view of police and National Guardsmen. Blanco acknowledged that looting was a severe problem but said that officials had to focus on survivors. "We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue," she said. Officials said it was simply too early to estimate a death toll. One Mississippi county alone said it had suffered at least 100 deaths, and officials are "very, very worried that this is going to go a lot higher," said Joe Spraggins, civil defense director for Harrison County, home to Biloxi and Gulfport. In neighboring Jackson County, officials said at least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm. Several of the dead in Harrison County were from a beachfront apartment building that collapsed under a 25-foot wall of water as Hurricane Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast with 145-mph winds Monday. Louisiana officials said many were feared dead there, too, making Katrina one of the most punishing storms to hit the United States in decades. Blanco asked residents to spend Wednesday in prayer. "That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors," she said. "Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive; we will rebuild." Across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, more than 1 million residents remained without electricity, some without clean drinking water. Officials said it could be weeks, if not months, before most evacuees will be able to return. Emergency medical teams from across the country were sent into the region and President Bush cut short his Texas vacation Tuesday to return to Washington to focus on the storm damage. Also, the Bush administration decided to release crude oil from federal petroleum reserves to help refiners whose supply was disrupted by Katrina. The announcement helped push oil prices lower. Katrina, which was downgraded to a tropical depression, packed winds around 30 mph as it moved through the Ohio Valley early Wednesday, with the potential to dump 8 inches of rain and spin off deadly tornadoes. The remnants of Katrina spawned bands of storms and tornadoes across Georgia that caused at least two deaths, multiple injuries and leveled dozens of buildings. A tornado damaged 13 homes near Marshall, Va. ___ Associated Press reporters Holbrook Mohr, Mary Foster

Just a guess here, but I think the temporary home for the New Orleans Bowl will be: Lafayette. We have a league member there. The stadium is just the right size for our bowl (I know they've had as many as 38,000 in there, for the A & M game). Also, it was just announced that the league offices have been temporarily relocated there.

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Gee....7,000 posts. I can think of maybe four that were relevant.

We have a lot of evacuees staying here in Texarkana. I met a guy at the gym today, who is an evacuee from down there. This fellow lives in one of the Louisiana towns in St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans. (one of the hardest hit areas). He told me that he and his extended family plan to go back to New Orleans, once they can. And once they get an insurance settlement.....they're moving to another state. They don't plan on rebuilding, but plan on getting out of there. I asked him if he thought more could have been done with the levee system/pumps, etc. and he said, "No." It was his opinion that really, there shouldn't be 700,000 people living in that small of area, below sea level. Anyway, God Bless all the folks dealing with this. This is the most crestfallen that I've been about a national situation....since 9/11.

First of all....1-AA schools have the 11-game regular season limit, too. So, most of them already have a full slate of games. The only way that a game with LSU could be rescheduled.....would be on December 3.....and that's out of the question, because the SEC Championship Game is that Saturday. So, if the game is cancelled......we'll have a 10-game season. In 2001, when 9-11 happened, most teams were in the same boat, so there were more scheduling opportunities. So, IMHO....if the game is cancelled......there will be no make-up, and we will have a 10-game regular season.

If the game is postponed......the possible roadblock to playing it in December is the SEC Championship Game (which of course, LSU may or may not be in). Any LSU fans know what weekend the SEC Championship Game is? It's got to be either the 3rd or the 10th of December.

Emmitt....that "North Texas" is not on the shirt he's wearing. It's on the photo, which came from the official site. I think they put "North Texas" in the corner of each photo on the official site.

First of all, I don't know why I'm being singled out as the only one who thinks the home schedule is crappy. There were about 7 others who said it on here, before I did. As far as supporting the team: I have already renewed my season tickets, even though I live 190 miles away. So, save the lectures about being a good fan. To all of you who think this is a great schedule or that we should support the team no matter who they are playing: Are you in the Mean Green Club? Do you have basketball season tickets? Usually the biggest "mouths" about being a great supporter, are amongst the cheapos who don't give a nickel to the program.

And when it matters what SUMG "thinks" is a good schedule, then his name will be listed as "Head Coach". ←

The Super Pit has been sold out ONCE for a North Texas game (the SMU game in 1976-1977). There have been some other great crowds: West Texas State and Bradley in 1975-1976; Texas in '80 (Pat Hicks 35 foot shot game); Depaul; Texas in Trilli's first year. But, only one sell out. Also, I have followed us since 1975....we've never been in the top 20 in basketball.

Jimmy....your running post total changes on ALL your posts, once you post. Geez, it would seem that someone who has posted almost 7,000 times, would know that by now.

This schedule has cupcakes on it......but only for home OOC games. (UTPB; Angelo State). Chattanooga will not be an automatic win.....and SFA will be tougher than we expect. Also, UT-Pan American gave us fits last year, even though we won. Plus, those road games (at: Tulsa, Houston, A & M, Az. State) will all be probable losses. I have no earthly idea why we would go on the road to play Nicholls State. If you're gonna play Southland teams (Lamar last year; SFA and Nicholls this year), why not play UTA? And we shouldn't hold their lousy facility against them, when we're playing football in Fouts. So, it's a bad schedule. Because it has a lot of nobodies at home, AND I don't think it's the type of schedule where we rack up a lot of OOC wins, and build momentum going into conference play.

(from www.meangreensports.com): DENTON (8/26/05) - The Mean Green football team will get its first test of the new Fouts Field surface at Saturday morning's intrasquad scrimmage. The Sportexe Omnigrass field, which passed its final inspection yesterday, is a 100-percent rubber inlay surface and has been named one of the safest turfs in the world. The squad's second scrimmage of the season is open to the public and begins at 8:30 a.m. The Mean Green open the season at Louisiana State on Sept. 3.

I wonder if there's any connection whatsoever....between us getting a basketball game with Az. State (who we haven't played since '76, I think).....and a transfer from there. Just curious... Those things do happen some times. For example, we had signed a player to a Letter of Intent named Victor Mitchell. (His brother was former UNT great Fred Mitchell). Well, Victor decided that he wanted to play at UT. So, Coach Blakely got a series of games (home and away) out of UT, by releasing Victor Mitchell from his letter of intent. Victor never went to UT though. He ended up at Kansas.

Here it is: Fri, Nov 11 Abilene Christian (Exh.) Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Fri, Nov 18 Hardin-Simmons Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Tue, Nov 22 UNC-Wilmington at Wilmington, NC 7 p.m. Wed, Nov 30 Arizona State at Tempe, AZ TBA Sat, Dec 03 Chattanooga Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Tue, Dec 06 Texas A&M at College Station, TX TBA Sat, Dec 10 Nicholls State at Thibodaux, LA 5 p.m. Mon, Dec 19 Angelo State Denton, TX 7 p.m. Fri, Dec 23 Houston at Houston, TX TBA Wed, Dec 28 UT-Permian Basin Denton, TX 7 p.m. Fri, Dec 30 Stephen F. Austin Denton, TX 7 p.m. Mon, Jan 02 Tulsa at Tulsa, OK TBA Thu, Jan 05 Louisiana-Lafayette* Denton, TX 7 p.m. Sat, Jan 07 New Orleans* Denton, TX 7 p.m. Thu, Jan 12 Florida International* Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Mon, Jan 16 Denver* Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Thu, Jan 19 Arkansas-Little Rock* at Little Rock, AR TBA Sat, Jan 21 Arkansas State* at Jonesboro, AR TBA Thu, Jan 26 Troy* Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Sat, Jan 28 South Alabama* Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Thu, Feb 02 Louisiana-Lafayette* at Lafayette, LA TBA Sat, Feb 04 New Orleans* at New Orleans, LA 1 p.m. Thu, Feb 09 Middle Tennessee* Denton, TX 7 p.m. (DH) Sat, Feb 11 Western Kentucky* at Bowling Green, KY TBA Wed, Feb 15 UT-Pan American Denton, TX 7 p.m. Sat, Feb 18 Denver* at Denver, CO 3 p.m. Thu, Feb 23 Troy* at Troy, AL TBA Sat, Feb 25 South Alabama* at Mobile, AL 7:05 p.m. Sun Belt Conference Tournament

(from www.meangreensports.com). I don't know how to copy and paste something from a pdf.file, but if you go over there...you can see the entire schedule. Hopefully, we get return games from the Ags and Ariz. State. There are no marquee home games this year on the schedule. Here's the story, maybe someone more computer literate than I can post the entire schedule): In non-conference action, North Texas will face one opponent from both the Big 12 and Pac 10 conferences and two teams from Conference USA. The Mean Green take to the road to play at least four teams from top-10 RPI conferences, including Arizona State, Texas A&M, Houston and Tulsa. Houston and Texas A&M are two of seven opponents from the state of Texas on the schedule. "Again our non-conference schedule will be very challenging, including games against several teams that advanced to postseason play last year, in preparation for our always tough Sun Belt Conference schedule," said North Texas head coach Johnny Jones. The Mean Green, which has won at least nine games at the Super Pit three of the last four years, will play 13 home games, including a December 3 outing against NCAA-Tournament qualifier Chattanooga. While six of its first 11 games are on the road, NT will open its season at home against Hardin-Simmons on November 18 and play its first four Sun Belt Conference games at the Super Pit as well. The Mean Green’s first league game will be against last year’s Sun Belt Champion Louisiana-Lafayette on January 5. The regular season ends Feb. 25 and the Sun Belt Conference Tournament will be played March 3-7 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. "Our players and coaches are excited about embracing this opportunity and look forward to the challenges it presents," said Jones. Head Coach Johnny Jones will collect his 50th victory at North Texas with the Mean Green’s first win of the season.