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Another Mean Green public servant. Kudos!

My dream for the Sun Belt is that it becomes a battle for supremacy every year between all of the teams, but only because we're all good enough teams to win consistently out of conference as well (at least against the MAC's, WAC's, CUSA's of the world). If the winner of the Sun Belt could average 7-9 wins a year and not have 6 of those wins come in conference then I think we'd be in pretty good shape.

Hope the easter bunny brought everyone some goodies. My Easter Bunny surprised me with some recruiting magazines and cookies.

I'm in for a little money or some sweat...either way, let us know.

Was talking to Brett Vito yesterday while watching our softball team drop a double-header to Texas Tech and he told me something that I thought was of note. Apparently Justin Willis will be SMU's signal caller when they visit Fouts this fall. For those that don't know he just graduated from Denton Ryan. A little hometown flair for everyone and I'd think it might bring in a few more of the "casual" fans.

Apparently it's a 17 hour drive to Akron, OH. Road trip anyone?

This is awesome as we could now fly in on a Thursday and make a weekend of it.

Write this down. 4.2 speed and moves like his translate into a whole different set of options for an offense. If I'm the Texans I pray that teams blitz like they've been doing. The screen pass becomes that much more effective. Also, USC does not lose that national title game if Pete Carroll puts the ball into the hands of his most talented player...Reggie Bush. After that botched pitch they completely went away from him.

This is classic NT Daily reporting. Report the schedule, which is the point of your story (or so the title would suggest), but also be sure to throw in a few jabs about how we got "plastered" by teams last season. Way to have that hometown flair to your reporting!

Where is the implication of racial bias in Blackistone's column? Yeah, he mentions that the firing won't go over well with black coaches in Dallas but that's no revelation...there was a separate article by a difference writer spelling out that very thing in today's sports section. I'm no Blackistone apologist and I agree he pulls the "race card" quite a bit but I think he deserves a pass on this one.

I thought we could use a break from the doom and gloom of record predictions or the Green Grenade improv hour. http://www.fazed.org/video/embed/?id=63 Enjoy

You better have more than a hurricane fence on Saturday if you're playing for the green team.

SEPT 2 @TEXAS --L in a big way SEPT 9 SMU --W...nailbiter, if you guys don't believe that Dickey knows his job rests on this date you're crazy SEPT 16 @Tulsa --L by less than last year...bout 15. Sept 23 @Akron --L but not by more than 10 and only because we're on the road SEPT 30 MTSU --W and a big one OCT 7 Florida INT'L --W by 20 OCT 21 @Ark State --W but only with a break here and there OCT 28 @Troy --W NOV 4th LA TECH --W This is my upset special NOV 11 @Louisiana Lafayette --W by 3 NOV 18 Fla Atlantic --W by about 13 NOV 25 @ LA MONROE--W But this is my "trouble" game because of how they always play us at their place...I'll say we win by 5 but have to make a stand late I have us at 9-3 which even to me sounds like a bit of lunacy but here is why. It's still the Belt folks. How can ANYONE say it's impossible to run through the belt? Also, the SMU game smells of statement game to me...for Dickey and this team. La Tech may have been picked with my heart and not my head though.

Bump And can we pin this Harry or Lo-ro?

Middle Tennessee has us sandwiched between a road trip to Oklahoma and a game in Nashville against Louisville. They may try to get up for us but I don't think they'll have it in them.

Son, you just bought yourself a Jaeger bomb.

For those that don't know the women's soccer team plays the Chinese National team tomorrow at 8pm. I will be bringing the mobile tailgate to the parking lot at around 6:30. If anyone is interested in bringing some brats, dogs, burgers, etc and replies by tomorrow morning then I will bring the grill. If not, it's a pizza thing.

What the hell are you thinking?!!! Don't you know that the University of Texas is having a scrimmage? You have to watch them because they have the word "Texas" in their school name and that means they're representative of all Texans! Geez, it's a school from our state and that means they should have your unwavering support. Did I leave anything out untplaymaker et al?

Hope, I'll get with you on Tuesday. -Curtain Call

Green team, get your excuses in order. Pain is my business and business is good.

I already have the car mats. Mine are black instead of green though.

While I won't go so far as the say the days in the Big West didn't count I will throw out a few things to try to temper the notion of "we have done nothing." 1)RV vs. Craig Helwig- Under Helwig football was just the athletic department's bitch. True, football is still whored out to a certain degree to pay the bills but it's not seen as a necessary evil now...RV has actually tried to make it a point of pride. How well we've accomplished this I'll leave to the naysayers to hash out. 2)Progress- Yes, I said it, progress. The athletic center, the new new facilities for ladies sports, tailgating, and even something as small as the new jumbotron are the result of winning in the lowly Sun Belt and going to a fake bowl game. Even if we had won the Big West consistently does anyone think we'd have seen these things? The answer is "no" because it wouldn't have built the excitement. As minute of a detail as it may seem New Orleans is a destination city, Boise Idaho not so much. 3)We're not a perennial powerhouse who knocks off Notre Dame, Penn State, Ohio State and Oklahoma like we used to be. Wait, let me take that back...we never were. This notion that we're failing because we're not top 25 or CUSA isn't knocking down our door is a bit misguided. Should that be our goal? Of course, and I think we will get there. But there is a lot more that goes into it than we are willing to admit. If we attended sporting events across the board and gave monetarily with the same ferver that we use to complain on this board we might be a step or two closer. And before anyone says "I'll show up or give when Dickey is gone, we win OOC, we're top 25, etc" ask one of your Aggie friends how many games or payments they missed when they were getting ass pounded last year. My gues is not many. Long story short we do indeed have a long way to go but it's not an overnight process.

A classic quote from the radio commercial: "If you haven't joined the Mean Green club it's because you haven't called me or I haven't called you." So, either I should take it upon myself to give you money or I should wait for my phone to ring?....................I'm still waiting for my phone to ring.

Yes, I do know a good shirt maker. I am going to have them make me a generic NT t-shirt with "Don't get all mad...but we're being outcoached" on the back.