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Noble Willingham! Anyone on the board seen the Corn Dog Man
I hate to tell you this.....but Noble assumed room temperature several years ago.
So, having a dead NT celeb on the sideline.........I'd say no to that.
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I agree whole-heartedly that Walter Chapman should be in the HOF.
I wonder if the fact that we were an Indy from 1975-1982 hurts players from those years. Because I don't know who's on the committee, but if they are people who weren't around then......they probably put a lot of stock in All-Conference selections, of which none of our players from that era would have ever had the chance to receive.
Malcolm Jones should also be in the HOF, IMHO.
Of this group....Brian, Lance and Burkley are all deserving of this honor. And, I know Krista was great in soccer......I'm not familiar with the other two.....
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Also, he was fined an undisclosed amount.
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Candidates with a good shot at being MTSU's next strength coach include:
Richard Simmons; Jack LaLanne; and "Izzy" Mendelbaum.
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My "picks to click":
True Freshmen: Dominique Green; Charley Brown
Redshirt Freshman: Brock Stickler
Juco: Willie Ransom
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And yes, I like myself better than I used to.
Good.......at least someone likes you MORE now.
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I have about a three hours (and change) drive from Texarkana up to Denton. This year's trips may be longer, as I plan to make a stop in Terrell........to visit my good friend Jim Plummer, who will be in the state mental hospital by then.
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Oh wonderful. I finally get around to ordering my plates for Parker College of Chiropractic.......and now you tell me this. Great, just great.
GPCofC!!!
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Jurors acquitted HealthSouth Corp. founder and fired Chief Executive Richard Scrushy on Tuesday of all charges related to a $2.7 billion earnings overstatement at the rehabilitation and medical services chain.
Scrushy had been charged with fraud, false corporate reporting and making false statements to regulators. He was the first CEO charged under the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reporting law.
Scrushy blamed the massive accounting scheme on subordinates including all five finance chiefs who served under him at HealthSouth.
In all, 15 former HealthSouth executives have pleaded guilty since 2003, when the scandal erupted publicly and drove the company to the brink of bankruptcy.
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BTW, didn't Coach Fry have teams ranked in the Top 20 twice while he was at NORTH TEXAS?
One year....1977....we were in the UPI poll (top 20) for about 8 straight weeks. The highest we got was 13th. We finished 16th.
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Good idea, Jimmy.
And, as to why would Hayden come back to UNT, after leaving us because of the lack of fan support:
I think Coach Fry will always have a big place in his heart for North Texas, because we hired him after smu dumped him. Heck if there's any place he should hate it should be smu....but Coach Fry has even gone back to their campus recently. (for a reunion of the '68 Cotton Bowl team?)
And one more thing about Coach Fry: Just tell him something can't be done (like finding a big money donor for a stadium) and I think that would just make him that more determined to prove OTHERWISE.
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Yeterday my boss asked "Did you go to NT". I said yes. I was happy to see he used "NT" not UNT.
"UNT" is only a slight to those who allow it to be. I use both UNT and NT, and don't get bent out of shape, if someone calls us "UNT".
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I agree that more stations would be great. But in this personal computer world that we live in.....I think we should do a better job of letting fans know that they can hear every game on their PCs.
The thing that's great about now-a-days.....someone in Borneo can hear our games if they want to. Maybe a story in The North Texan would enlighten more of our spread out alums, about how to access the games, via the computer.
One more reason to do this: You NEVER KNOW where that big donor might be. In 1994......he was in Thailand.
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Well, he got the school name right so that's a good start for him.
What's up with Kobie Baker? Didn't JJ get him some interviews with other programs and now he leaves for personal interests?
I think that both Kobie and Fred Rike interviewed at other schools (Rike @ Tulane?)...but neither one of them took the jobs or were offered the jobs. I'm thinking Kobie interviewed at Bama.
Anyway....I thought our staff was in tact for the upcoming season.....so this hiring kind of caught me by surprise.
Anyway...welcome aboard, Jai.
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DENTON (6/24/05) -- University of North Texas head men’s basketball coach Johnny Jones has announced that Jai Steadman has been named an assistant coach.
Steadman, who spent last season as an assistant coach under Tic Price at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana, replaces Kobie Baker on the North Texas coaching staff. Baker left the Mean Green this summer to pursue personal interests.
"We are excited about the addition of Jai to our staff," said Coach Jones. "With his background and coaching experience, he will be a great asset to our program. His expertise in recruiting and on-floor coaching will help us continue to take our program to new heights."
Steadman spent last season with the Cowboys, primarily working with the perimeter players on the court and also taking part in the program’s recruiting efforts. Prior to joining McNeese State in 2004, he served as an assistant coach for the Michigan Mayhem in the CBA earlier that year.
Steadman was the head coach for Randers Cimbria of Denmark in the European Professional League before taking the position with the Michigan Mayhem. He led Randers Cimbria to its most victories in over 50 years and to its first ever postseason appearance in 2003-04, making him a coach of the year nominee for his work with the Denmark team.
The 1997 graduate from the University of Nebraska spent time at TCU and Tyler Junior College as an assistant coach as well. Steadman signed on for three seasons with Tyler Junior College after graduation and then spent one season at TCU before going to Denmark. He also served as an administrative assistant with the Cornhuskers when they won the Big Eight title and competed in both the NCAA and NIT tournaments.
The Lincoln, Nebraska, native, was a basketball and football letterman at Lincoln Southeast High School, earning all-state, all-conference and all-city honors in basketball. He went on to play at Hastings Community College as a forward and center.
"I am very blessed and fortunate to have the opportunity to work for head coach Johnny Jones and the outstanding University of North Texas," said Steadman. "I look forward to the opportunity to helping the Mean Green basketball team soar to new heights."
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DENTON (6/24/05)– The University of North Texas and KWRD-FM 100.7 have announced a new three-year contract to broadcast all of the North Texas football and men’s basketball games. The deal also includes campus station KNTU-FM 88.1, which will carry all football games and broadcast all North Texas women’s basketball games.
“I'm pleased to see us continuing our partnership with UNT Athletics,” said KWRD Vice President and General Manager Pete Thomson. “UNT's commitment to excellence both on and off the field is admirable. We are proud to continue to be the anchor station for UNT football and basketball broadcasts.”
KWRD-FM will enter its fourth year this season as the flagship station of the Mean Green radio network, and the new deal will run through the 2007-08 season.
“We are excited to begin a new, three year extension with KWRD to serve as the flagship station of the Mean Green Radio Network," said Hank Dickenson, Sr. Associate AD and coordinator of the network. "Our first four years with "The Word" has produced an excellent relationship and afforded us both the power and clear FM signal to deliver North Texas football and basketball broadcasts to our core audience, the fans and alumni living in the D/FW Metroplex. It's also exciting to have sister station KPXI in Tyler/Longview on board the network again - we figure there are more than a few interested fans there due to Jamario Thomas (the nation's leading returning rusher, who hails from Longview). Finally, we couldn't do what we do from a network perspective without the outstanding technical support received from our campus station, KNTU, also a 100,000 watt signal."
Each football broadcast and men’s basketball game will be preceded by a 30-minute pre-game show. KNTU-FM will carry all 27 North Texas women’s basketball games throughout the season for the fifth consecutive year.
The voices of the 2005 Mean Green Radio Network will be familiar as George Dunham will return for his 17th season as the play-by-play voice of North Texas football and basketball.
Dunham will be joined by Hank Dickenson who is entering his 10th season as the color commentator for the Mean Green Radio Network. Producer/Engineer Steven Bartolotta and statistician Chris Wiley will enter their fifth season with the Mean Green Radio Network.
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I beg to differ about the schools "maxing out" and it being beneficial. Yes, we may get more students because of that. But, if those students wanted to go to UT or A$M, and they were "maxed out"......we'd be dealing with more of what I started this thread about.....students who go to UNT, but wish they had been able to go elsewhere.
And one more time....I can understand if someone wanted to go elsewhere. I can. But what I'll never understand, is once those people are attending UNT and on course to graduate UNT......why they don't start loving UNT.
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Why?
Because NT hasn't got the same kind of social clout that UT/A&M do. It's a matter of reputation, and simply said, those schools have more of it than we do. I blame this on the merchandising- they have so much of it and we have very little. I can't tell you how many kids I came up with in HS who wanted to be at UT/A&M simply because the names were familiar. Once we become a household name in our state, we'll have the same thing happen to us. A better football team, academics that get better each year and the near-impossible admission reqs for those schools will help out.
You may right about clout. But you know what, in this day and age, there are a lot of high schools which are higher profile than others.
I could certainly never imagine a scenario, where a Grapevine High student was a fan of Southlake Carroll, just because SC, is higher profile, more well known, and is occasionally on TV.
So, I'm not discounting that kids will come to NT being Aggie, Longhorn, fans whatever. But, isn't it normal for you to pull for the school you're attending? Isn't that normal?
I guess not.
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How many of us have experienced, what I experienced ONCE AGAIN today.
I was at a friend's business.....and was wearing a UNT shirt. An 18 year old female employee at the business....saw my shirt and started up a conversation. It seems this young lady is going to UNT in the fall.
I was telling her how much I loved my college years.....and how I still go to Denton numerous times each year because of sporting events.
It was then that this nice young woman let me know that her first love is......UT. Her dad graduated from there, and she bleeds orange. As a matter of fact, she told me......."I'm thinking about transferring to UT after a year or so."
I've seen this so many times. UNT is their second choice, and because of that, they seem to hold it against UNT. They never ever develop the natural love for ones' alma mater, because their first love is a place that many of them never attend. (Can you say....Craig Miller and Oklahoma?)
Anyway, maybe this young gal will get to Denton and love UNT and stay there. But who knows? When I was a student back in the mid-to-late 70s......there was a student who lived in Kerr Hall, who was a big Aggie fan. He, as far as I know, never attended one NT game of any kind. One day, I had the gall to ask this putz, "How come you don't love North Texas?" His response: "How come you do?"
Anyway, I submit that the number one reason why we deal with an apathetic student body and alums.......many of them went to UNT just because it was there. Not because it was their choice.
And that I'll never understand. If you go to a school......shouldn't that school, your alma mater.....isn't it sort of natural for you to love that particular school?
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All I can say is...I'm sorry that they haven't responded to you. They SHOULD have.
(Also I know that if I was Athletic Director......and I saw a post like this.....I WOULD DEMAND SOME ANSWERS.)
But, that's me.
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Are hotels priced-high during the New Orleans Bowl? Just curious. When we went to Mardi Gras, we spent like $350/night at the DoubleTree and we weren't even that close to Bourbon Street. I wouldn't think they were that bad during the bowl game, but tourism is the only money-maker for that city.
The New Orleans Bowl is held during a relatively slow tourism time of year for New Orleans.....the few weeks before Christmas. (and it's always on a Tuesday).
Because of that, the city's hotels offer up great rates for New Orleans Bowl fans. I stayed at the Marriott one year and at the Wyndham (on the river) last year. I think both years I paid around $79 a night.
So, don't worry about the rates if your Mustangs get in the NO Bowl, Southern Stang. It's very reasonable. But hey, aren't all you SMU grads rich anyway???????
GMG!
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Good, I hope it happens. And if it does, on Bourbon Street, I'll play a little game called:
Pee On Their Topsiders.
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(from CBS Sportsline):
NEW YORK -- NBA owners and players agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement Tuesday, averting the possibility of a lockout.
The league called a news conference in San Antonio before Game 6 of the NBA Finals, with commissioner David Stern and union director Billy Hunter announcing their agreement.
The deal came on the fourth consecutive day of talks between the sides. The league's old seven-year agreement is due to expire on June 30.
Details of the new six-year agreement were not immediately disclosed, but the sides had been trying to reach compromises on several key issues. Among them were the owners' desire to raise the minimum age for draft eligibility to 19, reduce the maximum length of long-term contracts from seven years to six, and reduce the size of annual salary increases in those long-term contracts.
Among the main items the players were seeking was a reduction in the so-called escrow tax under which 10 percent of their salaries are withheld if the amount of revenues devoted to players salaries exceeds a specified percentage.
Owners had already offered to raise the salary cap from slightly more than 48 percent of revenues to 51 percent, thereby increasing the amount of money each team can spend on player salaries.
The NBA has a system known as a "soft" salary cap, allowing teams to exceed the cap threshold to retain their own free agents, and to sign free agents under the so-called midlevel exception that was added to the labor agreement in 1999 after the sides went through a 7½-month lockout.
Another lockout could have begun July 1.
The agreement will still need to be ratified by the league's Board of Governors and by the members of the players union at their annual meeting in Las Vegas next week.
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They have us ranked 61st in the nation. MTSU is 65th (as I recall).
Anyway....anyone who has been following us for a while, knows that 61st is pretty high for us in one of the pre-season mags. I can remember years, when every Belt team was ranked between 90-117.
It's a good pre-season mag, but I wouldn't buy it. I think you can get whatever you want out of it, just by perusing it at your local bookstore.
Got an interesting call from my Dad
in Mean Green Football
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Sadly but true but there was a time when USM wanted to be like North Texas and some of you were around when this was the case.
Seems I've even heard our AD say something to that effect because he was at USM around that era.