ColoradoEagle

That was a very funny thread.

I've got a couple stylish ones. First one I ever got had in big block letters... MEAN GREEN BASKETBALL When I wear that to wash my car, they can see that shit from space.

Good point. Also you don't even mention the fact that these kids, who are always in the most popular clique, walking around the school with NT gear on will do a bit of advertising for us.

Texas A&M Olsen Field (7,053) Houston Cougar Field (3,500) Rice Reckling Park (5,227) Middle Tennessee State New Stadium (??) - Opening for 2008 Florida Atlantic Dolphin Stadium (36,331) or FAU Stadium...conflicting info - Currently in the middle of a capital campaign to build a 5,200+ seat stadium Can't find pics of their current stadium if it's FAU Stadium East Carolina Clark-LeClair Stadium (3,000) Memphis Nat Buring Stadium (1,200) Southern Miss Pete Taylor Park (3,678) Tulane Turchin Stadium (4000+) Couldn't find a concrete number for capacity, just over 4,000. The stadium is currently undergoing a $1.5 million reconstruction/expansion project for the 2007 season. North Texas ?? (??)

UT-Austin Disch-Falk Field (6,800) TCU Lupton Baseball Stadium (3,500) Baylor Baylor Ballpark (5,000) Texas Tech Dan Law Field (6,000)

And the dumbest post of January 23, 2007 goes to...

The softball team was set up for Title IX so we could have a baseball team. The reason we don't have a baseball team is because the TCL Denton Outlaws backed out of building a stadium on UNT land (thank god, going by the mock-ups), so they don't have anywhere to play. The reason that RV doesn't just start up a team and play at a local HS or something, despite looking incredibly bush league, means that we would have no leverage in recruiting Texas at all. Recruits could go to UT-Austin, A&M, or Baylor with great stadiums, Rice & TCU with nice stadiums, Texas Tech with a ghetto (but still there) stadium, or North Texas which plays at a high school or on a field with peewee league bleachers. A program, that by all accounts, could be cancelled at any time because the school hasn't shown any commitment to the program. This puts us on bad footing in a sport that's not established yet on the college level the same way football or basketball are. If we can wait two or three years, and build a stadium at least on the level of TCU's, if not Baylor's, then we can start with a clean slate, working towards being a perennial leader in the sport. That way when the BCS effect kicks in, NT is a big baseball school and doesn't have to rely on conference so much. All you guys who are saying we just need to throw up some bleachers and get the sport going must love watching games at Fouts, because that's the same plan they followed.

Yes. We can use a car for first base, a tire for second base, and a really big dead rat for 3rd. I'm not sure what to use for home, but I'm sure we could find something. For bats, all we need is some lead pipes. I think Home Depot might be having a sale.

I believe we stand a chance against OU, which is more than I could ever say with DD. I don't think it's probable to beat them this year, but it's at least possible now. I do agree with Green Mean in that it will take a little while to catch up with TCU in football.

I have no intention of helping out UTD in any way.

I'll say the Bears. Why? Because everyone else is saying the Colts.

Good luck.

I don't like the idea of starting a baseball team that doesn't have a permanent home on-campus. Do it right, or wait until we can.

I think it's time to let him go wallow in his self pity elsewhere. We've got a new coach, and are looking at and doing things he never even thought possible. To Green Mean: No, I can't see it from that perspective. He was paid (nicely) to do a job, and he was failing at that job. Since then we've learned that he really wasn't even doing half of the job. It sucks that stuff happens like that in life, but UNT isn't there to play mommy. If he'd at least been doing his job, and you could tell he was giving everything into it, and he loved the players, and the school, and the city...that'd be one thing. He shat on everything while he was winning and we put up with it. He stopped winning, and people weren't so willing to forgive anymore. Karma is a bitch.

The Cajundome in Lafayette, LA and not a chance.

Jimmy Johnson has a cushy job at Fox and is 63 years old. I don't think he's going back to coaching any time soon.

I would like to know if any of the SBC members outside of us, WKU, and Troy are putting more money into their programs. Are they investing more each year? It's not just that the SBC isn't winning at football or basketball currently, ups and downs happen. My problem with the conference always has been the vast difference in athletic budgets between our conference and CUSA/WAC. UNT is constantly building and investing more, but it seems like a lot of the schools are content just to field the same product each year and grab their paychecks. If this has been discussed before, just point me in that direction.

Funny that he didn't show up in the stadium video from a year or two ago, not on that recruiting video from the MGI yesterday, etc. He's our most famous football alum, and probably one of the most famous players ever, and we don't have much marketing with him at all. I'm sure he wouldn't say no?

We gave the visiting players a ton of shit, but none of it was mean, and about 95% of them ended up laughing and talking with us. Some of them even while the game was still going on. Every visiting coach except for that tight ass from South Alabama came over and thanked us for coming out. Monty Towe from New Orleans especially loved us. The whole goal of the group was to have a lot of people there making noise, and to try and replicate a bit of what might have gone on during the Snake Pit days. And I agree with UNT_92_Fan, another part of the goal was to get the Talons off their asses and to the games. There were points where there were as many Talons there as there was Pit Crew, sitting on either side of the court and starting North Texas chants, defense, etc. That year was starting to look like NT would start getting some basketball tradition back. The following year the Pit Crew approached the AD, and didn't receive any official support. Because of that and Gak couldn't front any more of his money, the organization folded. I'm glad to see it back with official support now, but I don't feel like, from the posts I've seen, the group gets what actually goes on in an arena like Cameron.

Athletics did contribute shirts to the group and announced them at the games a few times. I don't remember the AD ever doing any major promotions with the Pit Crew, though. I know they did the concert. food, and searchlights at the TCU game a couple years ago, but I don't think the AD had anything to do with that. Hopefully now that the Pit Crew has the support of the AD, they can turn it into what it was supposed to be. I'd love to see a section or two full of students doing chants and yelling at the visitor bench. Also don't forget about "Cheater!" whenever there's a foul. That was hilarious to me, and unique. By the way, the hats and the wigs...lame.

To me, a 30k stadium in 2007 is equivalent to a 20k stadium with a track in 1951. Bad decisions that do nothing but negatively affect the school.

Hopefully it shows up on youtube or google video.

Fans of the conference will know, that's not the point. UNTFan23 stated that even casual fans should know who played in what bowl games for the WAC, and that's simply not true. I'd honestly be surprised if most casual fans could list all of the Big 12 matchups.

I haven't read the whole thread, but the WAC isn't BCS. I doubt your average sports fan could rattle off the CUSA matchups either. If you can't see that the Sun Belt has a piss poor reputation, you haven't been watching TV. Even during the bowl season, they were showing all of the conferences records in bowls. All 10 of them. No mention of the Sun Belt, despite Troy beating Rice into the ground.

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