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I got this email this morning. If you need any more information, please contact Derrick Morgan of the Alumni Association!! Dear UNT alumni and friends everywhere: I was recently contacted by Xiaohu Xia, a UNT alumnus in Chicago who requested the alumni association's assistance in finding potential Houston-area granulocytes (white blood cell) donors for his Ph.D. advisor professor, Zhibing Hu, a Regents Professor of physics. Since then, I have been gathering information to forward to you and to ask you to forward to any UNT alumni and friends near Houston who may be willing to help a fellow North Texan in great need. Zhibing recently received a stem cell transplant for his leukemia at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Unfortunately, he has developed a severe infection that is not responsive (so far) to antibiotics. Currently, he is in critical condition. In order to fight the infection until the doctors find an antibiotic regimen that is effective, he requires white blood cell infusions. Since stored blood at the blood banks are treated with chemicals, it cannot be used to obtain the white cells he needs. Fresh blood is required to provide the white cells needed. Although all blood types will work, the process of screening potential donors and the donation process is more involved and time consuming than normal blood donations. Thus, for practical reasons, donors from the Houston area are preferred. If you know of someone who may be willing to donate, please forward this email to them. Next steps for potential white blood cell donors… 1. Read the attached white blood cell donation information form and follow those instructions accordingly. 2. Inform the MD Anderson Blood Donor Center that you are hoping to donate to a specific patient and 3. Provide the patient name, Zhibing Hu and his Medical Record #734-242. In the event anyone has difficulty with the attached instructions, here is a direct link to them: http://www.mdanderson.org/how-you-can-help/donate-blood/donation-instructions/granulocyte-donation-information-07-27-11.pdf You can find this form and other information at: http://www.mdanderson.org/how-you-can-help/donate-blood/donation-instructions/index.html Please keep Zhibing in your thoughts and prayers, as he is literally in a fight for his life. His need for donations is vital. If you have any questions or need any additional information, please direct them to the MD Anderson Blood Donor Center at 713-792-7777 ext. 5. Thank you in advance to everyone who may be able to assist in some way. Your support is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Derrick Derrick P. Morgan Executive Director University of North Texas Alumni Association 1155 Union Circle #311250 Denton, Texas 76203-5017 940-369-7053 UNTalumni.com derrick.morgan@unt.edu

The DC game watching party will be at Hill Country BBQ

The University of Tennessee!!! This article breaks down what institutions are spending on recruiting athletes to their schools: http://businessofcollegesports.com/ Highest recruiting expenses, 2010-11 1. Tennessee: $2,296,023 (Men’s: $1,878,771/Women’s: $417,252) 2. Auburn: $2,117,645 (Men’s: $1,530,917/Women’s: $586,728) 3. Notre Dame: $2,070,316 (Men’s: $1,612,608/Women’s: $457,708) 4. Alabama: $1,694,202 (Men’s: $1,339,537/Women’s: $354,665) 5. Georgia: $1,540,743 (Men’s: $1,039,220/Women’s: $501,523) 6. Florida: $1,501,899 (Men’s: $1,065,716/Women’s: $436,183) 7. Georgia Tech: $1,489,599 (Men’s: $1,173,904/Women’s: $315,695) 8. Arkansas: $1,480,557 (Men’s: $1,060,500/Women’s: $420,057) 9. Michigan: $1,480,357 (Men’s: $1,039,948/Women’s: $440,409) 10. Texas: $1,470,389 (Men’s: $989,370/Women’s: $481,019) SUNBELT Schools Men’s Sports Recruitment Expenses Arkansas State $204,772.00 Arkansas – Little Rock $134,606.00 Denver $230,427.00 Florida Atlantic $195,797.00 Florida International $331,056.00 Louisiana – Lafayette $255,716.00 Louisiana – Monroe $76,809.00 Middle Tennessee $288,982.00 North Texas $142,082.00 South Alabama $308,886.00 Troy $141,298.00 Western Kentucky $349,431.00 Schools Women’s Sports Recruiting Expenses Average Per Team Average Per Player Arkansas State $104,456.00 Arkansas – Little Rock $99,490.00 Denver $220,978.00 Florida Atlantic $64,437.00 Florida International $89,817.00 Louisiana – Lafayette $84,788.00 Louisiana – Monroe $50,469.00 Middle Tennessee $85,986.00 North Texas $88,848.00 South Alabama $130,728.00 Troy $95,288.00 Western Kentucky $138,016.00

WKU and Taggart announced a new four-year contract on Wednesday that more than doubles the head coach's base salary to $475,000 after he led the Hilltoppers to a 7-5 record, the best mark in the school's three-year history in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Article talked about how CSU is going to cast a wide net for its football coaching search. Graham, also a former CSU quarterback, said the school doesn't have the kind of money to lure a big-name coach, like Washington State did when it hired Mike Leach last week for more than $2 million a year. But some former head coaches of major college programs that might get a look from CSU include North Texas coach Dan McCarney, the former Iowa State coach; Texas State coach Dennis Franchione, a former head coach at Alabama, TCU, New Mexico and Texas A&M; or even Mike Sherman, who was fired last week after going 6-6 this season and 25-25 in four years at Texas A&M.

Just a reminder, that the game is also on ESPN 3 tonight - so for me people like me who live out of the area, we can still watch the game!! GO MEAN GREEN!!

Just to shed some light on the situation. Jim Harbaugh was offered and in principal accepted the UNT job. He literally shook hands with Rick saying "I'm good if you're good" boarded a plane to San Diego, got off the plane and had a voicemail from Stanford offering him over a million per year. He then called Rick to apologize and said that he was going to accept the Stanford job. Almost 2 days later this was the same thing with Jimbo Fischer with him accepting the UNT job in principal, but being offered the Florida State job. So, I am say that UNT were hours away from having having either Harbaugh or Fischer as a head coach. But that is how the ball bounces sometimes.

Uni Watch 2011

Dan McCarney, North Texas: 5-7. The former Iowa State coach brings instant credibility but faces a murderous early-season schedule. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/08/22/new-coach-primer-hot-seat-watch/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t12_a5

The issue is the fact that the state of Texas really does not want any "independent" institutions. There has been talk for years to merge Midwestern Stat University with UNT - which I do think is going to happen in the near future. The thing with TWU is, they do have other campuses, but are not being allowed to be called an offical system. The word on the street is, that is they were to have to merge with another system - that TAMU would want to merge (which they have tried to do before). But I don't think that would really fly. I either see them merging with us down the road.

Top 25 Marching Bands

Right now, the ladies are tied for 6th place - even though it is early, they are playing well. Again, there are 24 teams in each region (3) and the top 8 teams make it to the NCAA Championship.

UNC-C Women’s Head Basketball Coach Karen Aston Contract: May 2, 2007 – May 1. 2012 Annual Salary: $150,000 Bonuses/Perks: * 5 percent annual salary if the team competes in the NCAA Division I Women’s basketball championship * 10 percent annual salary if team advances past the first round in the tournament * 15 percent annual salary if team advances to the round in which there are 16 teams remaining * 20 percent annual salary if the team advances to the round in which there are four teams remaining * $10,000 if the team wins or shares the regular season Atlantic 10 conference championship * $10,000 if the team wins the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament * 5 percent annual salary of coach is named Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year * $10,000 if the combined average GPA for recruited scholarship student-athletes on the women’s basketball team exceeds 2.5 * $15,000 if the combined GPA exceeds 2.7 * $5,000 for each recruited scholarship student-athlete who graduates within one calendar year of the last semester in which the student is eligible to compete * $1,000 per speaking engagement. No more than 10 per year. * University will provide coach with the use of a late-model automobile, including liability insurance and reasonable costs of operation and maintenance. * University will reimburse coach the cost of professional tax return preparation for both N.C. and federal individual tax returns.

Looks like people are tweeting that Karen Aston - the Head Coach at UNC-Charlotte will get the job. http://www.charlotte49ers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23200&ATCLID=204860823 Interesting Career 1994-1996 Baylor (asst.) 1996-1998 North Texas (asst.) 1998-2006 Texas (asst.) 2006-2007 Baylor (assoc. head coach) 2007-present Charlotte

A Director of Women's Basketball Operations. Think this is the first time we have had a position like this. Makes me feel like we are close to hiring someone. https://jobs.unt.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1302122275188

Read on a Women's Basketball Scoop twitter account: Texas A&M / UNT -- Vic Schaffer getting a look here? Hearing rumblings of how someone has reached out to UNT on his behalf. Stay tuned! about 14 hours ago via Twittelator

CBI: Host teams are required to make a financial guarantee of $70,000 to the tournament organizers. CTI: Host teams are required to make a financial guarantee of $30,000 to the tournament organizers.

Duke in Charlotte.

Of course. Today the DMN posted its run up to National Signing Day. And would you believe it, UNT is NOT listed in the schools to follow!!!! This is getting really sad. We have to do something until they A-Holes give us some respect.

Interesting press conference. It was great to hear UNT mentioned. The AD was talking about who Coach Fran was going to have to compete against recruiting - June Jones in Dallas, Mike Sherman in College Station, Mack Brown in Austin and Dan McCarney in Denton. He went one to say that all these guys have been successful at all levels, so he needed to hire a coach who could compete with these coaches.

In the end it looks like we are getting a much more experienced offensive line coach!!!

from football scoop: North Texas: We hear Indiana State offensive line coach Mike Simmonds will be going to North Texas as the offensive line coach.

http://www.thehoopsreport.com/bracket.aspx

Hey guys, Since we are going with Nike - they have a site where u can design uniforms. http://www.niketeam.com/V2/new/builders/teamid/index.asp?&ref= I played around with it for a bit and this is what I came up with.

Just wanted to throw this out there. I was just looking at our staff for this year and previous staffs, and we have always had 8 Assistant Coaches + a Head Coach. But I am looking at other staffs and they have 9 Assistant Coaches and a Head Coach. The most glaring omission, is we do not have a Assistant Coach for Linebackers. I wonder why that is. Thoughts?