flyonthewall

Well you should be here then, because the scoreboard situation is the woat. Gets stuck, doesn't keep time. Takes about a minute for a basket for either team to show up. When the horn sounded for half time the clock read 2:13 and the score said 23-18. Maddening

3 - 0 on the road....let's go!!!!!

that's the thing. You show up to the tailgate, we will give you a ticket. free.....of.....charge......no cost....nada... and music, and food, and drink, and ice cream and bounce house yada yada......all free....of.....charge..... The athletic department and the alumni association are going all in on this one. We need to pack that freakin gym out!!!!

We can't use the parking lot....I'll just leave it at that. It's going to be awesome. I wish you could come.

Joe, its not a choice. We have to get this gym full and let Denton see what they are missing. Then we carry the home court advantage over to Frisco, pack that building out too. This team deserves it.

Ok, just got the email from the athletic department so the cats out of the bag. We will be cooking up on the concourse in front of (the east side) the super pit for the la tech game on the 26th, and also for the ladies game on the following Saturday. They are trying to get rsvp's but anybody that shows up and wants tickets will get into the game. If you can rsvp through the athletic dept. that would be helpful so I can budget how many ribs to cook etal. Same sort of thing as the bowl game. I will have a Western Son Bloody mary bar among other things. Please bring whomever you want and have some fun. Lets pack this sucker out that day!!!! Starts at noon and we are breaking it down at 2 to get everyone in the pit for tipoff. Go Mean Green!!!!

driving straight home from Houston after the ladies game....gonna get to see the whole second half.....Wife says "We need to stop at target to get a few things, then I need to stop at an atm, do you mind?" I am still alive so I answered correctly, and....the target parking lot was basically empty, I wonder why? Saw the whole 4th quarter.....

It's a mean green weekend...

So after witnessing that big win at Rice in person, we hopped over to catch the Jones Boys at Texas southern play Grambling......Texas southern draws better than we do.....

so I asked the question yesterday. "What are we doing with nil money". The answer was "We are not really supposed to know anything about that" "The athletes are supposed to make those deals themselves with whoever is paying them" "We can't set those things up for them" I then asked "If that is true, then how can A&M say they are paying offensive linemen X?" The answer was "No one really knows what the rules are yet." So, what I thought was that people (businesses) would pay athletes to market their business, or their things. What is happening is no where close to this. Athletes are not supposed to be paid to play football, for example, they are supposed to be paid because they have some type of fame and can promote product, service etc. Please feel free to shoot holes in this because I am having some organic discussions next week with some people to try to get our ball rolling. Its gonna be hard because we would be going back to the same well we have been tapping for the last 15 years.

Lol.....yet another opposing fan meltdown. You didn't find a way to lose......you got beat!!!!

Jumping on and off the ship does not do the program any good. We have a leader here who makes calculated decisions based on many factors. For the life of me, I cannot understand why the support of the basketball team is not better. But this is how it is in Denton. We just have to keep adding people and keep building, there is no other way. Our athletic director understands the consequences of going backwards in football, that is we we didn't didn't get caught off guard and we are going to the aac. There are so many moving parts right now. NIL, transfer portal.... I admire the patience to not get trigger happy and to understand how this is going to all play out. I will say this over and over again, because it bears repeating. The money we donate to the mean green scholarship fund directly impacts young people getting an education that they otherwise cannot afford. The actual tickets to the football game are a small part of my outlay to North Texas Athletics. If one kid graduates and moves on to greater things, then it is all worth it. I want to win as much as the next person, I travel to away games, I have followed this thing over a cliff on many occasions, only to be let down, but I sleep at night knowing that there are countless people that have finished degrees, started companies, started families that my donation money have helped. I am not stopping. I am going to do my part to the best of my ability, and I have faith that when the leadership in this university thinks it is time to make hard decisions, they will. Anyone who has ever been in business has hired and fired people. It is not easy. As for now, we have a very special group playing and coaching basketball. Best to enjoy that while it last, because there is a very strong possibility that it is fleeting.....

Like I said on the glorious drive home from wichita kansas....."did you scout us? Did you win a game in the NnnnCccccAaaaAaaa tournament last year?" Wah.....wah....wah.....cry me a river!

I think he needs two years of sustained success to get hired away. Find an above average quarterback and that is not far fetched. You are correct....

Ok. To address why there might be some patience. First throw lovelace out. He is a business man and will not stand in the way if North Texas decides it is time to part ways with Coach Litrell. There are two examples of why patience and continuity could be the correct answer. #1 Gary Patterson. In 2004 he went 5-6 and 3-5 in conference. In year 4..... Then backed that up the next year with a 11-1 season and ranked 11th in the a.p. poll. Many on this board have stated multiple times that we are a quarterback away from being really good. #2 I'm not going to look it up, but many Michigan fans have been clamoring for firing Harbaugh prior to this season. If the a.d. there would have had a hair trigger, would they be sitting today in the top 4 playing for a National Championship? The bowl game record stinks. I agree with that. But this is not a 6-7 team that was on a downward trajectory toward the end of the season. This is a 6-7 team that because of undisciplined play, lost a game to Liberty that it should have won, then the lights came on and ran off 5 in a row, one game against a decent utep squad and then utsa. If the team was "lost", then that would have never happened regardless of talent. I am not disagreeing with you guys about anything you are saying, I am just presenting the other side as I see it. The quarterback thing is baffling, going all the way back to McCarney days and the shit show after Derek Thompson graduated. Andrew McNulty is a great guy and I see him at all or almost all of our home games, but he wasn't a very good quarterback. One thing that both Coach Dickey and Coach Dodge always had was a quarterback that operated well in their system. I can't understand why we can't go out and find a kid with the "it" factor. Doesn't have to be tall, needs a servicable arm and just by god knows how to win? Anyway, one last thing, in all the years I have been supporting this institution, I have never once threatened to stop being a donor. Sometimes it feels like I am bashing my head up against the wall. This tailgate thing that we do has turned in to a four day process, starting Thursday and ending on Sunday when we clean up and sanitize all equipment. But I am not quitting. I have faith that the leadership in this university will continue to make the correct decisions to put our kids in the best place possible to succeed. That means facilities, new conference, education.....all of it. On a whole, I am confident that my donations are helping. We provide young people with an opportunity to get an education that many of them could not afford otherwise. Now, its on to the Rice Owls. Its basketball season and we are damn good!!!! Go Mean Green!!!!!

Guys we were in the middle of a national search for a volleyball coach. How much can you expect one person to do?

This is awesome. Now that the arduous task of the national search for a volleyball coach is completed, maybe we can all settle down and enjoy what is shaping up to be an awesome basketball season.....

well......There is 14 minutes of google stalking that I will never get back.....I'm shocked google even goes back that far.....

Can somebody tell me how the game went in a few brief words please? When I got to my seat after cleaning up it was midway through the first quarter. We were ahead. As soon as I sat down for the first time since 7 a.m. I fell asleep. I dreamed we won.......

Our tailgate team is part of this pregame party. There has been a lot of planning as to how we are going to feed and drink 5000 people. Lets just say I think the "group of alumni cooking" are going to pull it off. As for us, we are going to have a "Western Son Vodka bloody mary bar" Free to all until we run out of course, and we have a sh** ton of vodka. As well as our usual bbq in expanded quantities. I would love to metaphorically leave Frisco in ashes. GO MEAN GREEN!!!!!!!

I feel like they should have done some research into recent history. Us, we advanced to round of 32 in the NCAA TOURNAMENT LAST YEAR!!!!!! We are the back to back defending conference champions. them, they lost to drake in the ncaa tournament last year as an 11 seed and a "first four" participant. If they thought for a second that this game was going to be a cakewalk then they were just well, delusional. Hopefully this game will teach their team what it takes to win against possibly the best defensive team in college basketball. Much like us playing Buffalo, Kansas, Miami, Drake....Oh yeah, the same Drake that beat them in the tourney last year. Look at our record the last two years at this point. Last year 5-5 and the year before, 4-6. Nowhere close to this and we have played better opponents this year. We are getting better every game. This is setting up to be a great week of Mean Green Athletics. Now, Who's next?!!!!!!

Yes. Just got to Oklahoma city. Stopped to eat in Bricktown...... My favorite was the air that went out if the crowd with every free throw t.p. made. It was awesome!!!

Lord the clock can't run fast enough.

The atmosphere here is unbelievable. No reason the pit shouldn't be like this every game

It's cold af this morning...... In wichita kansas...... Hoping for a joyous ride home.