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Stop the internet! Harry, isn't this Fred "blueshirt" Bleil? Picture taken at the 2006 SMU game in Denton. Wasn't he at Tulane in 2007, now will be at TSU-San Marcus in 2008? Photo courtesy of Rick Yeatts Photography

I stand corrected. It was blueshirt Bugar, another quality coach.

Wish Fred was still here in some capacity. I thought he was a pretty good coach. Plus, I miss his blue shirt.

Of couse it will Keith7. It's a scientific internet message board poll, isn't it?

We're talking Fouts. It won't take much. Dead crickets everywhere!

Fireworks at Fouts. I can vision a couple of misguided rockets, packed with C4..... Oh never mind!

Although I had no problem with the name, North Texas Exes sounded too ut'ish to me. Texas Exes is for the whorns.

From the Sun Belt Board- As controversy widens, Louisiana Tech's Derek Dooley apologizes to ULM officials By Paul J. Letlow • pletlow@thenewsstar.com • June 28, 2008 Louisiana Tech athletics director and football coach Derek Dooley has apologized to ULM officials for comments he made at a booster function earlier this month. A day after ULM athletics director Bobby Staub confirmed that he wouldn’t schedule athletic events with Louisiana Tech, Dooley said he met with Staub and football coach Charlie Weatherbie on Friday to clear the air. “I apologize that my comments at a Tech booster rally were used to upset the administration and alumni at ULM,” Dooley said. “I did not intend to be derogatory, and I obviously should have chosen my words more carefully. I have spoken with both Bobby and Charlie, and I hope they understand.” Staub responded: “I greatly appreciate his apology and whole-heartedly accept it." On June 2, Dooley spoke in Bastrop where he outlined his vision for the future of Tech athletics. It was one in a series of stops by Dooley promoting the program. When asked about the chances of ULM and Tech playing in football again, Dooley indicated that his scheduling philosophy didn’t allow for a regular renewal of the series. In that discussion, Dooley used the word “elite” in describing Tech’s academic status, which offended some ULM fans and officials who perceived it as a dig at their program. Dooley said he regretted the way his comments were perceived. Once local college rivals who met annually, ULM and Tech haven’t played in football since 2000. Tech competes in the Western Athletic Conference while ULM is affiliated with the Sun Belt Conference. Dooley said that Tech has four non-conference dates to schedule each season. As he constructs future schedules, Dooley is seeking two guarantee games, and a home game against a Football Championship Subdivision team (formerly I-AA). In a 12-game schedule, that leaves one date to fill, where Dooley is attempting to schedule home-and-home regional games that give Tech exposure in markets outside northeastern Louisiana. “We feel like we can get some regional exposure in recruiting areas outside north Louisiana,” said Dooley, whose staff recruits South Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.

Rick, it's been a long time since Denton was my home, so I could be smoking my shorts on this. Back then, the reference to the Mean Green was a reference to the Defensive Unit only. Not the whole team. We were the NTSU Eagles. And we had a bitchin' defensive unit called the Mean Green Defense. On the other hand, this is the first time I have laid eyes on the article. NT can be called whatever the consensus wants us to be called; just build me a new stadium and win!

Are you kidding? What the hell would big government/Democrats do then? They'd be out of work. Insert sarcasm.

While on vacation in South Carolina last year, I ran into a chap from England. He seemed well to do and we ended up chatting about government run health care in England. He explained that for surgeries, folks are put on a waiting list, and, according to him, it didn't matter what the scope of the surgery was. He explained that people with money simply pay for the procedures (surgeries), medication, etc., themselves, thus bypassing the health care system. If you want to wait for three months for a gall bladder or treatment for gall stones, then fine. The government will pay for it. Sorry, this is not how I choose to live my life.

Because your dumb ass university has always wanted "seperation" in athletics. Well now you have it.

To further compound the problem........ During my time ('64-'68) at North Texas State, er, UNT, when the team started tearing everyone up and our defense was something to behold, I seem to remember the DEFENSE being referred to as the MEAN GREEN DEFENSE. Whether the GREEN came from our school colors are because of our star defensive lineman Joe Greene, I can't remember. But, the rallying cry at the games was EAGLES.

You mean it's not true? Besides, what makes Snopes the authority on internet rumors? Probably owned by those ultra-rich, left wing conspiracy groups. Lighten up ladies. It's a long way until 2-a-days.

This has to be a hoax. Isn't it? Obama Explains National Anthem Stance Is this guy crazy or what! On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:48:04 -0400, 'LT. Bill Ginn' USAF ret forwarded: Hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin, presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was forced to explain why he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. According to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...... During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. 'As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides,' Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like to Teach the World to sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.' WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this could possibly be our next president. I, for one, am speechless . . Pass It On Before It's too Late. Let's Teach The World About This Idiot.

BUSH'S RESIGNATION SPEECH The following 'speech' was written recently by an ordinary Maineiac [a resident of the People's Republic of Maine]. While satirical in nature, all satire must have a basis in fact to be effective. This is an excellent piece by a person who does not write for a living. The speech George W. Bush might give: Normally, I start these things out by saying 'My Fellow Americans.' Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not fellow Americans any longer. I'll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: There's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out. Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record numbers of homeowners, including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we're mentioning minorities, I'll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton administration. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in. Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security. We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this 'blood for oil' thing. If I were trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied; People Died' crap either. If I were the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named 'Clinton' established that policy. Bet you didn't know that, did you? Now some of you morons are considering another and more evil Clinton for president !!!! Go figure that one!! She wants to take your kids away and let the 'Whole Village' raise them! i.e. governmental indoctrination .. Look this one up you dumb asses! The rest of you morons want to be led by a junior senator with no understanding of foreign policy or economics, and this nitwit says we should attack Pakistan, a nucular ally. And then he wants to go to Iran and make peace with a terrorist who says he's going to destroy us. While he's doing that, he wants to give Iraq to al Qaeda, Afghanistan to the Taliban, Israel to the Palestinians, and your money to the IRS so the government can give welfare to illegal aliens, who he will make into citizens, so they can vote to reelect him. He also thinks it's okay for Iran to have nucular weapons, and we should stop our foreign aid to Israel. Did you sleep through high school? You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to out spend and out-tech them. That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you, and the bastards are all over the globe. You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not. That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm disappointed how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor.' Instead, you've grown impatient. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops. Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, dang it, you might just as well FedEx a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing. In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times, USA Today, or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol or Dancing with Stars. I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads. So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient for years. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall. Oh, and by the way, Cheney's quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there are just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008. So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, kiss off. PS - You might want to start learning Farsi, and buy a Koran.

Is Tobe Nwigwe a 9th year Senior or something? Seems like he's been with the team for a lifeteam.

No way! According to MapQuest- Estimated Time: 4.0 hours 36 minutes Estimated Distance: 279.98 miles See you in Houston!

So La Tech will schedule Tulane and LSU but not ULL and ULM? That's just not right. In state schools should try and help one another by playing every so often. I'm pissed that UNT can't get more games with Baylor, TCU, SMU, Houston, and UTEP. Scheduling Rice was a nice surprise for me.

Really, emmitt01? Tell that to George Martin. It's hard for me to believe how many have forgotten what really took place on that fateful day. Ex-Giants DE Martin finishes 3,000-mile walk for 9/11 charity Associated Press Updated: June 22, 2008, 9:20 PM ET George Martin Completes His Walk Across America SAN DIEGO -- It took 10 months, 24 pairs of shoes and 40 pounds of flesh, but former New York Giant George Martin can finally rest after taking the final steps of a cross-country walk to raise money for people with health problems linked to the Sept. 11 attacks. Martin began walking from New York to California on Sept. 16 to draw attention to the plight of rescue and recovery workers who developed respiratory problems after working in the dusty ruins of the World Trade Center. He marched the final 4½ miles Saturday, arriving at a finish line in San Diego, where he was met by police officers, firefighters and other NFL alumni. The trip began on the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan and covered 3,003 miles, winding south to Tennessee, west through Texas, and through high plains and desert to California. Along the way, Martin trudged through rainstorms, winter ice and brutal heat, averaging 22 miles per day. He lost 40 pounds, burned through 80 pairs of socks, and raised more than $2 million, organizers said. "These heroes need our collective support," Martin said in a written statement. "Many who answered our nation's call for help now cannot even walk up the steps in their own homes due to severe respiratory and other ailments. Some are dying. They deserve our help." Former Giants DL George Martin walks across America in effort to raise money for his foundation, Journey for 9/11. Martin was a co-captain of the Giants team that won Super Bowl XXI. A defensive end who played in the NFL for 14 years, he is now an executive at AXA Equitable, a financial services firm. He lives in New Jersey. Some medical studies have indicated that thousands of people may have been sickened by exposure to toxic World Trade Center dust. The number of people who suffered permanent damage is still unknown. Martin's walk wasn't without hitches. High winds forced him to walk some segments of his route backward, from west to east, because headwinds were exhausting him. He had originally planned to head for the Golden Gate Bridge, but adjusted his route part way through to finish in San Diego. Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press George Martin Cross Country Walk

You realize that a typical Tech comeback would be, "the NO Bowl" is not a high enough profile bowl for us to play in. That bowl is for the sunbelch." When in fact the La Tech boys would kill to go bowling in New Orleans!

Could this be a distribution center for Fastenal? Typically they do not have very large facilities that would employ 90 people.

I read that Obama has asked the governors of Tx and OK to cancel the "Oil" Bowl. Or, change it to the Saudi Bowl.

I have actually used GANG OF GREEN on other user boards.

Good point. Unless the idea was completely derailed by Mattress Mac.