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  1. Just checked my e-mail - I received a message about tonight's game, dated yesterday:

    Subject: Article: WBB Hosts Season Opener Against New Mexico

    From: "North Texas Women's Basketball" <mail@neulionnetwork.com>

    Date: Sun, November 13, 2011 3:15 pm

    Anyone else? I get email about all the sports - Football, Men's BB, Women's BB, Soccer, Volleyball, Track, Swimming, etc.

    Maybe you need to update your preferences:

    Mean Green Mail

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  2. Thanks to all of our veterans for their service, including those in the Mean Green nation:

    - I know we have at least a few veterans on GMG (although the only one I can specifically remember is DeepGreen) - thanks to all of you.

    - Thanks to Ryan Boutwell's dad, and any other Mean Green athletes who have family in the military

    - Thanks also to veterans who have also been Mean Green athletes - I know that we've had both a football and a basketball player in recent years who were veterans.

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  3. While "If you build it, they will come" may not necessarily be true, "If you don't build it, they won't come" is much more true. On the surface, it does seem suspicious. But Troy was able to upgrade their stadium within the past 10 years, and is surviving. Is Troy not under the same Board of Trustees? What about South Alabama upgrading their program to FBS - again, are they not under the same Board of Trustees?

    What if UAB was in the SunBelt, or was FCS - would they be allowed to build a new stadium then? I know, there's no answer for a hypothetical question like that.

    It makes me even more thankful that we finally have Apogee Stadium.

  4. This is such a warlike thread. Attack. Killing.

    Can't we all just get along ?

    You must be a baseball fan. Just remember what George Carlin said:

    ...And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:

    In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

    In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

  5. Last time we played UH in the Astrodome were you one of the pushers back then; that is, pusher of the amplifier carts.

    That was 1980. No, I was on cymbals that year.

    The synthesizer was featured on an obscure (even then) Barbara Streisand tune called "I Ain't Gonna Cry Tonight". And then the best part of the show - we did a "Best Little Whorehouse" medley!

    I have a picture of the 1980 band in my gallery:

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  6. Why did they quit that thing where one band member pulled a wagon with a battery powered amp for either an electric bass or electric guitar? Yes, of course, another one marched in front of that one, playing the bass or guitar. I think this was in the early 80's.

    I got Shanghai-ed to push one of those amplifier carts in 1982, when I was the equipment manager/truck driver for the band - they couldn't get anyone else to do it!

    I think 1980 was the first year we had the synthesizer, and I think the bass was added in 1982. I don't know when they stopped using it. Why did they stop using it? Probably because the amplifier carts were so heavy, and were not very mobile. Each cart had a large Peavy amplifier with two 15" speakers, four car batteries, and an inverter. It likely also was that the synthesizer just became obsolete, and they decided to stop using it, rather than invest more money. And it also likely coincided with the drum line starting to do actual formations, not just marching forwards & backwards between the sidelines. That's all that the carts did as well (go forwards & backwards).

    The halftime show in 1981 was fun - we did an arrangement of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor using the synthesizer. A Bruce Hall friend, and one of the original "Zebras", Mike "Spunky" Brunone, was the keyboard player that year.

    With all of the mallet percussion, tympani, etc. in front of the band, sure, why not bring it back? - without the marching!

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