DeepGreen

I agree. SOW needs to be more visible. Obviously, the green SOW would look better, but I don't know what color the helmets will be this year.

You are blessed to have a child. They can be a pain in the ass at certain stages of their lives, but eventually they do grow up and mature. Well, somewhat. But know this, when they leave the nest, either for college or a job, you will miss them. Cherish the time you spend with them, raise them in a good environment, and love them everyday you have them. Time goes by so fast, as you will soon find out. And by all means, take them to Mean Green football games. I still make road trips to Denton with 2 of my 3 daughters, even though they are aggie$. Good luck. I'm certain everything will turn out fine for you and your family.

Never mind.

But Harry, it appears that out of 2,134 users, I'm the only one with a warning label! Is this an anti-Sicilian conspiracy? My feelings are hurt.

What is a Warn: 0% mean under my avatar? I just noticed that on one of my last posts. Did I do bad?

Good stuff GrandGreen. We get 6-7 state 100 players and within a couple of years we have our best teams and SBC championships. Yet, we still believe in stealth recruiting and have been lazily recruiting the past couple of years. Or so it seems.

Let Plummer speak.

Oh, no! Don't do anything to draw attention to little, itty bitty North Texas. We are content to be in the backseat of all sports in the region, the state, and the nation. Gosh, please don't say or do anything. Let's just keep everything status quo forever. I couldn't find a better way to sound sarcastic.

Bump.

You are correct, Sir! Give me OOC wins over SMU, LaTech, Akron and play Tulsa really close and competitive, sprinkle in 5 key SBC wins and I'll be happy. The SBC title would be great, but not a meaningful as those OOC wins. What about Texas, you ask? I want a competitive game. That's all I ask. No blowouts.

We might as well sell out the football program and put 100% of our efforts into basketball.

You're kidding, right? Takes someone with passing skills to deliver that kind of pass.

Classic Cobbs touchdown! A beautiful run.

Alabama A & M is ranked higher than Rice? Good list.

Damnit, then if this is the case, heads should have rolled in Denton. From RV down to every swinging richard assistant!!! NT needs to put a damn product on the field that can win OOC games AND the SBC AND the NO Bowl. Then your fans will come. Until then, we are pi$$ing into the wind. Again, what harm would it have done to include ALL 10 D1A Texas teams? And we wonder why NT is not listed by the better recruits on the Area 100 and State 100 recruiting lists?? DeepGreen Frustrated in SE Texas

Rick, how much trouble would it have been to make that bowl available to 10 out of 10 Texas D1A programs? Forget we are not a top 25 team. Forget last seasons 2-9 record. But don't forget 25 straight conference wins, four SBC Championships, and four NO Bowl appearances. And somewhere you cannot forget two national rushing champions within a span of two years. The fact is, as members of the SBC it means jacksh!t. The bowl is being reorganized as the Texas Bowl and there is no excuse for not including North Texas in the mix. No excuse.

I'd settle for information on anything. Hell, I'd even settle for some of PlummMeanGreen's 4 page epistles!

Earlier in the year, I won the auction for two passes to sit in the AD's suite for the SMU game. I don't think I'll be able to attend the SMU game due to my father's 95th birthday party that we are giving for him. Assuming I can transfer the passes/tickets to another person, I would like to offer these up for sale. I purchased them for $275.00. Make me an offer and I will consider it. I reserve the right to keep the tickets. DeepGreen

To my point, before last years craphole season, North Texas won 25 straight conference games, 4 straight SBC titles, 4 straight appearances in the New Orleans, and one year ranked 4th best D1A team in Texas ( I know, but it is a ranking!), and we get snubbed by this bowl. As long as we are in the Sun Belt, we can expect nothing more than stepchild treatment. Personally, I'm tired of it.

YOU need to read the article. The MWC was also omitted but TCU was given special dispensation and was included. Now, do you feel better about this crap?

This could be the trick that killed slick. And right now my name is Slick. Honestly, I have never been so pissed as I am this morning after reading that article.

Athletic website has a merchandise link, or you can buy online from Voertmans.

This is the ultimate slap in the face. All of Texas' 1A programs are eligible to play in this bowl with the exception of one - North Texas. If the officials of our university bend over and once again take it in the b%tt, then this university and it's athletic programs are a joke. If the BOR, Lee Jackson, Rick Villareal, Dickey, and whoever else is running this train wreck in Denton, do not from a investigative committee and file a complaint with someone, somewhere, then we know where this program and university is going. Nowhere! Our officials need to at least put up a fight damnit! Do nothing and we will all know the future of NT. Everyone of you who want to hang around the Sun Belt and play for crap, well this should be your wakeup call. Again, this is the ultimate slap in the face.

Is there a correlation to the old nestors making athletics "operate with one arm tied behind the back" for the past 40+ years and the fact NT has a paltry $40 million war chest? I think so. Alums have simply given up on our University and do not give the big donations back to the university. And who can blame them.

Didn't Rick Villareal mention his vision of having a retail type mall near Eagle Point and/or the proposed new stadium at Eagle Point? This is what is going on at Univ. of Central Florida. I can definitely hear that "whooosing" sound. http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/sto.../17/story5.html ORLANDO -- Retailers are lining up to be part of the University of Central Florida's on-campus shopping strip that will be attached to the new 10,000-seat convocation center under construction. When the center is completed in the fall of 2007, the 60,000 square feet of space to be occupied by restaurants and stores will give UCF a mixed-use dimension not before seen at other state universities, observers say. For retailers, part of the project's allure will be the new housing component -- three buildings that will add living quarters for 2,000 more students. At present, some 4,000 students live on campus. Add another 4,000 off-campus living accommodations within walking distance to the convocation center and you have some 10,000 students in close proximity -- or roughly the population of the city of Mount Dora. No wonder retail space, which is being leased at $26-$28 per square foot, is quickly filling up. The revenue stream from leasing retail space at the convocation center alone is expected to generate roughly $1.5 million annually, says John Tittman, director of finances at UCF. In fact, Tittman adds, there's more than enough income to cover the $7.12 million debt service on the mixed-use project. Revenues are estimated at $3 million from events; $1.3 million from the sale of suites and club seats; $5 million a year from housing; $1.5 million from in-house rent of the convocation center; and interest earnings. Campus-friendly stores Chris McCarty, a business and economic expert at the University of Florida, says he's not aware of any universities in the state that have as much retail on campus as UCF will have. He says the concept makes a lot of sense. "Parking is such a nightmare at most campuses that many don't even want to drive out for lunch," McCarty says. Bill Merck, UCF vice president for administration and finance, says the $250 million project involving the convocation center, retail space and student housing also will include three four-story parking garages that will add another 2,100 much-needed parking spaces. Merck says that with another 1,300 parking spots on a lot across the street from the convocation center and service parking available, he doesn't anticipate parking to be a problem. "Remember, students will be living right here and they won't be driving," Merck says. "It won't be like TD Waterhouse."