MeanGreenZen

How about posting this thing on iTunes?

Video of some road games were on MG Premium last year. Will this one be there?

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You have the option to turn the "All Play" feature off and then it is just like the game played on all the other systems. I have been playing Madden since the old Super Nintendo days. I have Madden 09 on the Wii and I find it enjoyable and challenging (with the "All Play" feature off).

That is not true. Michael Jordan did not make his high school's varsity team when he was a sophomore (his coach thought it would be better for him and his high school program for Jordan to dominate on the JV level for a little while longer). He starred on the varsity as a junior and senior. The myth about him getting cut from his high school team has been spread by Nike in an effort to sell lazy Americans shoes. There is an awesome book on Jordan by David Halberstam called Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and The World He Made.

I'm glad you are a comedian. Or you used to be. Or whatever. You are still funny. Yes, I know we have signed guys who backed up players who signed with big schools when they were juniors. We even signed Vince Young's high school backup, Jon Ieans. How did that work out for us?

And....?

HAHAHA! The lowly Ponies are recruiting guys who couldn't beat out our recruits. With June Jones on board, SMU is landing backup quarterbacks. Pony Up! http://recruitingblog.dallasnews.com/archi...its-to-smu.html

Steve Orsini has a LONG way to go before he would be a candidate to be the Notre Dame AD. He was not offered the job and if he was offered it he would have been gone faster than you could say "Death Penalty".

No pass. No play. I don't feel sorry for him or any of these other guys. It is COLLEGE football. The COLLEGE part comes before the football part. If you don't like it, I hear there is a professional team in Dallas. What sucks is that UNT, because of its lower place in the world of college football, has to take more chances on questionable academic/character guys to compete. Let's face it, the only reason Gilmore is not in the Big 12 is because of his grades in high school and his low qualifying score. UNT took a chance on Gilmore. He proved his talent was for real. He also proved he is unable to successfully handle college coursework. The Gilmore gamble failed, others have panned out (Jonas Buckles), but not enough. UNT is in a Catch-22 regarding this APR stuff. We have to take recruits like Gilmore to compete, but when those guys bomb out academically we are punished by the NCAA with a reduction in scholarships. Sucks.

How about: "Mary, I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy!"

Personal contact is not allowed? I can understand not wanting alumni slipping the recruits $100 bills, but you can't smile at them or say hello? I dispute the "personal contact is not allowed" rule.

This is me "getting real"... Here is Kinne's Scout page. It shows an offer from OU, Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska among others. The offer from USC does not show up here, but it happened. I don't know why this is so hard to believe. No one on this board knows more about G.J. Kinne than me. I used to stalk him. He has a restraining order against me. That is a joke, for those of you on the board without a sense of humor. http://baylor.scout.com/a.z?s=44&p=8&a...amp;nid=2014736

Because SMU is a rival of Mean Green Football?

Hey Emmitt, I know this might be hard to believe, but teams like USC and Texas tend to recruit the same caliber of players and sometimes BOTH schools offer the SAME player a scholarship. Although I cannot provide you with audio from the wire GJ Kinne was wearing in his underwear when Pete Carroll offered him a scholarship as proof, I can tell you that two years ago I read multiple sources on the Internet and talked to multiple people in Canton who told me GJ turned down USC. And I don't think Kinne is better because Mack Brown offered him a scholarship. I think he is better because I have seen Kinne, Vizza and Dodge play in person and although I like all three players and consider Dodge and Vizza easily the most talented quarterbacks UNT has had since returning to D1, Kinne (in my humble opinion, you are welcome to your own) is the most talented of the three players. As a junior Kinne threw 47 touchdowns and 1 interception and rushed for 1300 yards and 15 touchdowns. His UT career was doomed the moment he committed there, but he will be a college football star.

You are wrong. Here is a partial list of the schools that offered Kinne, including USC... http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewp...sp?pr_key=36593 Kinne was offered by USC, but did not go there because he was not their first choice. Which is ironic, because he went to Texas even though he was the Longhorn's second choice after they got spurned by John Brantley. Here is a selection about his recruitment by the Trojans. http://trojansfootball.blogspot.com/2006/0...update-426.html "The next prospect (not in tier 1 or 2 according to Scout.com) on the Trojans list would likely be G.J. Kinne (6’2”, 210) of Canton, TX. Kinne has offers from Alabama, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee but recently took an unofficial visit to USC"

Yeah, Kinne sucks. Some of the schools that offered him scholarships like UT, OU and USC are horrible at evaluating talent. When you write that Gilmer lost in the first round of the playoffs Kinne's senior year you fail to mention that the team that beat them (by three points) was the eventual state champion. As a junior Kinne took a Canton team that had no other D-1 talent to the state quarterfinals. You question his running style? Kinne rushed for more than 1,000 yards as a junior and as a senior and scored 15 rushing touchdowns each season, too. I saw him play in person many times and I assure you his running style is very Tim Tebow-like. Kinne's problem at Texas had nothing to do with his accuracy or anything else he could control. His problem at Texas was he was playing behind a record-setting quarterback who has two years of eligibility left. GJ Kinne will be an all-conference D-1 quarterback. I don't care where he lands. I would trade him straight up for Riley and Vizza. We will have to wait and see, I guess.

Keep sipping that Mean Green Kool-Aid, Dodge2007, G.J. would certainly start over either of our guys (by the way, I love Vizza and Dodge). I have seen all three play in person and GJ is a more accurate passer and has a stronger arm than Vizza and Dodge. Kinne is certainly faster than Vizza and while he is probably not as fast as Dodge, he is a very tough runner (I would compare him to Tim Tebow in that he can't outrun defensive backs, but db's tend to bounce off him). Here is further logic for why GJ would start ahead of our guys. GJ was recruited by Texas because Mack Brown thought he was good enough to play quarterback for the Longhorns. Riley Dodge was recruited by the Longhorns as an athlete because Mack Brown did not think he was good enough to play quarterback for the Longhorns. I love Dodge and Vizza, but I am not so disillusioned that I think they are better than GJ Kinne. I guess you think Dodge and Vizza would start over Colt McCoy, too... Heck, our guys probably would have relegated Vince Young to the bench if they had played for the Longhorns in 2005... PS -- Bad news for Mean Green fans... the rumor mill has Kinne landing at SMU.

G.J. Kinne is not insurance, he is a headliner. He would be perfect for our offense, but with Riley coming he is not a good fit here. Kinne will go be a star QB at a BCS school. He wasted his redshirt at Texas last year. Instead of transferring to a BCS school immediately and losing another year of eligibility, the best move for him would be to go to a junior college this season, get a year of experience under his belt and then transfer to a BCS school where he could start as a sophomore. It never made sense for Kinne to go to Texas in the first place with how loaded they were at QB, but he is a special talent and that will shine through somewhere else.

Yes, it is my address. I want him to be my cellmate.

I would welcome Justin Willis to Denton: The Denton County Jail.

The Justin Willis era at SMU is OVER. Too bad for him, he showed so much promise at Denton Ryan and as a college freshman. But I guess beating up gay people, fathering out of wedlock babies with girls he met at church and skipping study hall is more fun than being a Division IA quarterback. I was pretty disappointed Dickey failed to land this guy, atleast one good thing has come of Darrell being such a lazy recruiter. June Jones must have been looking for someone to make an example of and he had his perfect fall guy in Willis: an overhyped "star" with a bad attitude who didn't really fit into his system. There was a reason Jones signed 3 QBs in his first recruiting class.

This is old news. This is like someone posting on the TCU board that Cougar McBride beat up a student in front of the UNT library.

Every year we lose players of varying degrees of talent because of grades, homesickness, issues with playing time, issues with motivation, etc. All teams do. I do not have any inside info, but it seems that nautique and kbj do and the names above are the rumored candidates to be leaving the team for whatever reason.

Nautique has officially achieved "Enlightened Insider" status!!! Keep the inside info coming Nautique, I congratulate you on breaking news first.