ColoradoEagle

I forgot to put in that I was ignoring the WKU game. Had it been a normal weather day, I'm sure we could have expected at least 15-17,000.

SMU doesn't have the alumni base and current enrollment that North Texas does, much less the predicted enrollment. NT also hasn't been subject to the death penalty. As far as the basketball arena, we could've had American Airlines Center and it still wouldn't have overcome Vic Trilli.

Crazy game.

1-AA.

40,000 is the minimum. The attendance average this year was over 20,000 playing against four nobodies (in the current landscape of college football, no comment on past or future) and Navy, ending with a 2-8 record. Would a 30,000-35,000 seat stadium work for this exact point in time? Yes. I'm sure Fouts worked for that exact point in time as well. As the school is contemplating putting millions upon millions of dollars into a stadium, they have to look at it as an investment and not as a temporary fix. Does anyone really think we'll be in the same conference in 15 years as Louisiana-Monroe, Florida International, and Florida Atlantic? I mean, if that's the goal, fine...build the 35k stadium. Personally I would be surprised if this school isn't at least on the cusp of being in a BCS conference 15 years from now. This is the same reason why I don't want the school to run out and throw up a $1 million baseball field so that we can have baseball. Either do it right or don't do it at all.

I assume you're talking about the Rockies. The Rockies' attendance has outpaced the Rangers' attendance for most of its existence as a franchise. Denver also has only 2.5 million in its metro area to draw from vs. about 6 million in DFW. The Avs, Nuggets, and Broncos consistently sell out tickets and have for years. What I was comparing to were the Mavericks (if that wasn't obvious enough). I remember going to see a game when they played in Reunion years ago, and there was absolutely no one there. They start winning? Lifelong fans appear. Besides, home attendance is less of an indicator of popularity of a pro team than one would think. If home attendance was all that mattered, the Rangers would be regularly contending for a spot in the World Series.

I think that drops you down to the Maverick level. This level is often associated with fans who know that a team exists, but doesn't care. Fortunately these fans will show up en masse once the team has a shot at winning at all, and will proclaim themselves as lifelong fans, even if they don't exactly know any of the players.

This is terrible.

Most of them were given away at the end of the season...

The game will be on ESPN2.

huh?

Ah, I see what you're saying. I'd prefer anything to "North Texas" being spelled out on the helmets and at midcourt in the super pit. This is the one area where I think RV is completely wrong.

I completely disagree. Especially after seeing all the pics from the Navy and OkSU games, the diving eagle everywhere looks amazing and is instantly recognizable. Using interlocked letters is the biggest cop-out, lame design in all of sports.

Nothing like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Word works fine for me. All you need is Real Player.

It was a great game. I would like to suggest that the Pit Crew be moved to center court (Sec. 106-108).

Vince Young in the 2006 Rose Bowl comes to mind.

I'm always more of a fan of chants after big plays, or taunting the opponent. e.g. "IN-COM-PLETE" at Mile High, or "Nice Shot!" after missed free throws. My suggestion would be after a big stop, QB sack, huge play, dunk, whatever... Cheerleader with megaphone (or the crowd themselves): "WHAT WAS THAT?" "THE MEAN GREEN!" Repeat as necessary.

I assume he's talking about Josh White and Dez Willingham. Josh White, it's a possibility depending on what happens with the rest of his time at NT. Willingham, not a chance in hell. I thought the quote was great because it shows this team really got into their heads.

May be off, but still fun to read.:

Because it's almost 2008 and we still can't get enough support to build a cardboard $30 million football stadium. We've been to the NCAA Tournament twice and never won a game. We have the same endowment as the tip jar at Chipotle. We still don't have baseball, and from the renders we were shown a year or two ago, when we do it'll be played in a facility one step above Mack Park. A new conference would be great, but there's a lot of stuff to fix before moving. And, to be quite honest, CUSA is terrible anyways. I'd honestly rather see NT go west with TCU before joining a conference that isn't even as good as the Sun Belt.

The UT-Austin game is a big one. If NT can beat the teams leading up to it (which they most definitely should), a win against the Longhorns would have us ranked. Wouldn't that be amazing after where this team was at a couple years ago...

North Texas beat one of the all time leaders in college basketball tonight. This is by far a bigger win than Texas in 1980 or the two wins to get us to the tourney.