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ColoradoEagle

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  1. You could say the same thing for almost every other season he's coached. His teams are usually on the losing side of close games.
  2. Well, beggars can't be choosers, but this is short-sighted to say the least.
  3. Spend a day there in August or January. It gets as hot and humid as Houston, and colder than any place I've been in my life.
  4. Leaving Denton to go live in Minneapolis? That's a downgrade.
  5. So you think a position coach leaving North Texas for the Minnesota Vikings isn't that much of a loss? It's not gonna destroy our program (lol), but it would've been nice to have that caliber of coach throughout the ranks.
  6. It seems that CVS is the anchor of this new development, and the "Save Fry Street" organization is wasting everyone's time. Those buildings are coming down one way or another. If they wanted to do something useful they could try to convince United Equities to build a new one on the Oak/Welch side of the block with more space. That way you could have your Starbucks or whatever, but also The Tomato, Mr. Chopsticks, etc. "Save Fry Street" is fighting the wrong battle.
  7. Put the money in this bag with the dollar sign on it.
  8. I don't know dude, it's not my job. Maybe that we need new football and baseball stadiums?
  9. You really haven't been to Guadalupe lately, have you? It's very commercial, and most of the smaller businesses were forced out years ago. I'm sure the company who bought the land looked at the best ways to maximize their profits, and found that renovating those old buildings would be more costly than tearing them down and putting a CVS there instead. I'm not really sure what the market is for a CVS next to a college campus, but whatever. Run-down, vintage, whatever you want to call it, it looks junky. Actually it becomes a selling point the school does have. People, especially 18 year olds fresh out of HS and away from mom and dad, like to feel closer to home. Having stuff they recognize close to the campus, like Starbucks, Jack in the Box, Subway, Taco Cabana, whatever, makes them feel closer to home. Also by making the perimeter of the campus look better, it becomes easier for the school to be mentioned in the same breath as UT-Austin, A&M, and Tech. Ideally the whole north and south sides of the campus would be thriving with new businesses. This will bring in your students from more well off areas like Southlake, Frisco, Plano, Allen, etc who grew up focused on their city's HS sports and will transition over to North Texas sports. I think the vocal minority are making Fry Street sound like this amazing utopia in Denton, when it's really one step above your average rundown area of Dallas or Fort Worth.
  10. Charm? It's some 80 year old buildings that haven't been kept up at all. The only business in those buildings that's even halfway worth keeping is The Tomato, and I'm sure they'll work something out eventually. So you think having a campus perimeter that looks rundown is a good thing? Yes to all of it. That whole section of Hickory is ugly and run down. The businesses there haven't done anything to renovate any of it. It sounds like you have a huge problem with big businesses. If the tenants, or the owners of the current buildings, had spent the money needed to renovate those buildings, none of this would have ever come to pass. The Tomato is a nasty ass place to go to eat, and I think the other tenants are a comic book shop and a breakfast bar? Go look across the street from UT-Austin, or even SMU and TCU. TCU's strip is about like ours, but at least whenever I ate at Fuzzy's, it didn't feel like I should be looking for roaches in my food.
  11. According to Rivals, he had interest from Baylor, Missouri, Texas Tech, Wyoming, New Mexico St., and SMU.
  12. If every alum donated $100, we'd be $10,000,000 closer to having a new football stadium. Christ, we could even have one of the top college baseball stadiums in the country with that money. Saying, "Oh it won't help," is just a lame excuse for being cheap.
  13. Agreed with grad88. Those buildings aren't anything special, and have no need of being preserved. The whole perimeter of the school needs to be redone; this is just the first step. Oh, and also, J&J's is much better than The Tomato. It's not even a contest.
  14. I'll be pissed off if we're sitting here 5 years from now with a $3 million tennis complex and a $249 baseball facility.
  15. Easy there. He hasn't signed a LOI yet, and may not even play his first year.
  16. He went to Logan, Utah. Isn't that the same thing? Great pick up on the QB.
  17. Other teams you might get confused over: -Dallas Stars (they play both hockey and football) -Dallas Horses (basketball team that plays down in Dallas) -Denver Mountains -Colorado A's -Minnesota Bears (dreaming about a forest, apparently) -Houston Bulls etc. Sports and logos are hard.
  18. Yes, she only lost by 14 points. Let's give her a 10 year contract extension.
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