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Keep doing what you're doing Austin. That said don't expect others to do what you do. Me personally...I'm just not an over the top loud and rowdy person at sporting events. It's just me and my personality I guess but it doesn't mean I care any less than anyone else. I think of all the things to complain about I think this is right at or near the bottom of the list.

It was never just one thing. We need/needed all of these things to happen but really the main thing is consistent and big winning. We've been awfully bad for way too long and way too often after decent years for people to take us seriously. At this point I'm just so beaten down about looking at and complaining about our attendance. We and folks on this board are not the casual/fringe fan but if I look at things rationally from their perspective I'm not surprised seeing apathy that's been extremely rock hard to break. I think we're better now than we were 10-15 years ago but we have long long way to go.

Really poor attendance but just keep on winning and give folks more of a reason to get inside Apogee.

Team turned things around well. Tough loss last night but playing in Denver has just been a huge challenge for them for several years now. I worry about scoring...after Benn, Seguin, and Klingbeg I'm just not sure how we'll get pucks in the net. Spezza is the biggest mystery to me and his playing time so far is much less than last year. I'm not sure if he's in a funk, it's the structure & system, guys he's playing with or what not but he's played w/different combinations on the wing and still struggling. I doubt Hitch would ever try to resurrect the supernova line with the pairing of Benn, Seguin & Spezza for small segments just to see if it can jump start Spezza but it's concerning even though we're just 9 games into the season. Big and important trip to Canada and I don't think it'll be easy I'd love to get 5 out of 8 pts in the rest of the road trip against Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver & Winnipeg.

I'd just get the cheapest tickets available and once you're in there'll be ample seats available to move around and sit wherever you want. Because it's Army there might be a decent crowd and a better crowd if say we have 7 wins going into that game but there should still plenty of space to move around.

Just an awful first quarter. At the very least looking forward to hockey and baseball tonight.

The play by play guy is alright but the commentator is awful. There are so many people including young guys trying to get a job like this that would be so much better. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but even if I were an FAU fan this guy would bore me to all holy hell.

Trying to watch through the watchespn app on Roku or Fire TV however when trying to log in to my subscriber I don't see Time Warner/Spectrum in the listings. Is anyone else have this issue? It's frustrating as hell as I've logged in before just fine.

I like them. I wish we went the throwback route this week since we are honoring Hayden Fry. That said anything is better than what we endured during most of RV's tenure with boring unis with the most boring helmets always saying North Texas IMHO. All that said, nobody will care if we win.

Can you eat 200 Chick Fil A chicken nuggets in 2 hours?

It might just be my imagination but it just seems to really thin out in the 2nd half both in seats and in the inside of the club. Yeah I'm about 3/4 of the way paying the donation and looking to pay it all off sometime before next season. I would think some would a tad disgruntled but I don't see the number lowering all THAT much if they go that route.

Let's hope many of those folks don't leave by the 3rd quarter like they seem to do at the club level.

Yeah...yeah...hurts to miss that one.

Welp not what I totally envisioned the first two games resulting in L's. They played well against Vegas...should have blown them out but MAF was good and they couldn't get it in the net despite ample prime opportunities. Vegas won't be world beaters but I think they'll be super competitive throughout the season. A lot of blame on Kari from the fans but can't blame him when the defense just plays bad in front of him and leaves the man they're supposed to be on e.g. Hamhius on the 2nd Neal goal and on top of just scoring 1 goal through the first 5 periods. And for the love of Pete Honka needs to be playing....he's so good and dynamic I think he'll help the offense and scoring dept significantly. On to the Red Wings tomorrow night and hoping for the first W in the Hitch 2.0 era.

Welp! I know there's a few hockey fans on here so I thought I'd start an on-going thread for the new season. It's that time of the year where the NHL has officially begun and our beloved Dallas Stars are starting their season tonight against the expansion Las Vegas Golden Knights. It should be a powerful night tonight at the AAC with the rememberance/tribute of the Las Vegas attack victims and the terrible loss of the absolute great Dave Strader. And on top of that I think Grubes will be playing a very good dose of Tom Petty in the arena. This should be quite an interesting and fun year as Dallas clearly won the off-season with the additions of Bishop, Methot, Radulov & Hanzal but obviously I think probably the biggest addition is bringing Hitch back. There's just something right with the hockey vibe here in Dallas with Hitch back here but maybe it's just nostalgia. I'm hoping it all translates to wins and winning hockey on the ice and I'm optimistic it'll happen. Lindy was a good dude and all but I just wasn't a big fan of the way he handled a lot of things his 4 seasons here. I'm expecting a big year because they just seem to have all the pieces in place and I'm a believer in Hitch. Dallas is in a gauntlet of a division but I think they'll be fine. I won't claim division winner of course but most definitely a playoff team and a series win or two in the playoffs. It all starts tonight and my hockey pants are going nuts.

I never disputed that Mean Green wasn't around but I'm talking about official & primary nicknames. So if they played on TV the announcers would call them the North Texas Eagles. I even remember the college football games on Sega/Nintendo in the 90's and seeing Eagles, not Mean Green. When I started attended UNT it was even on the UNT history page/timeline history somewhere that mentioned they officially changed the nickname to Mean Green from Eagles. Unless all of it is false this is why I remember it.

Fixed. Growing up in the area I and everyone that knew of NT knew the school as the North Texas Eagles. The official nickname was changed and I still think it was a bad decision.

I think we officially changed the nickname in the early 2000's. I still maintain we should have remained the Eagles as of the official nickname and have a secondary nickname as the Mean Green. Still a head scratcher to me on why RV and the SGA during that time let this happen.

It was on available ESPN3 so one could have easily streamed it..

I'm a recruiting idiot so I just usually defer to the experts or people here that are really educated about how all this recruiting stuff goes. The level of recruiting does concern me that we lose out to several peer schools. At some point that's going to catch up if the coaching isn't lights out awesome. I've always said that in the position we're in...while getting an ace recruiter is great and all, I won't expect to get great recruits until we win and do it consistently for a few years. With that happening I've believed we need a coaching staff that can truly coach and develop and that means coaching up the team mightily. Boise State did and has done that for years and it's done wonders for them. I'm fine with SL not being the ace recruiter type because that's where a good staff can help with that. I guess time will tell on what this hire is going to do and we'll start seeing it the last third of the this season and next season. I think UTSA is a really interesting subject. Many here have completely trashed on them but I give them nothing but props as they've done a great job getting off the ground and the thing that they have is they didn't have any history prior which means no history of just being losers and putrid. While we've been around forever our history tells the general public and recruits that we stink and we have that losers mentality and culture. Kids are just going gravitate towards something like UTSA IMO and I Just think the way they've started the whole program has been nothing short of impressive and nowthey are not only in a conference with us in just a few short years it looks like they have totally surpassed us program wise and most importantly perception wise IMO.

NT would have found a way to lose by 35

Given just how bad both NT and SMU have been in football in recent history neither of them should look past anything.

For obvious reasons I want to get this game played but if it's not possible then I'm fine with the rescheduling. And perhaps this is a really stupid question but is there a way to charter a plane for Lamar to get here rather than taking buses? If that's possible why wouldn't that be the obvious option at least from a travel/logistics standpoint and not considering the mindset of the coaches/players etc which is a whole different thing. As for the Astros and Rangers I think there's been overreaction on both sides and think there were two sides to the story despite Texas looking bad on the outside but I mean seriously I don't even think it should even be a major concern at this point.

Coaches want to coach at the biggest stage and try to play for P5 championships and national championships. I think it's rather naïve to think and assume SL won't look to move on to a better job if he finds a reasonable amount of success here. In a perfect world we'd love to find our Gary Patterson but that's just not reasonable. TCU has very well compensated him, given him great facilities because he's won and won big. Let's face it if SL is able to win at North Texas of all places don't think it won't go unnoticed. I'll also add that if this does indeed happen then that's a damn good thing because that means he's probably planted some good seeds here and it'll be the AD's and schools jobs not to royally screw it up. Yes if Kiffin is successful at FAU even for just 1 year then I expect him to get some inquiries for a better job with more pay. I don't think many coaches strive to coach in the SBC, MAC, CUSA for the long haul if they're good. I think another thing we forget is while Kiffin has been in the coaching scene for a really long time he's still really young at just 42 years old. He has PLENTY ahead of him.

I wouldn't care all that much for seeing Chelsea speak either. That said I don't think it's a reach to question the decision to pick junior and have UNT displayed all over the series. Hey it's Ernie's money and he's more than free to do what he wishes but the fact that UNT is associated with it in some way or another is what I care about. We've seen junior be on tv and talk for a while now and I just don't see that he has anything at all to offer. You can thank Trump and clan for that. Again before Trump came into the picture I"m not saying everything was rosy and perfect but it wasn't what it is today and has become and far more normal.