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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.
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Bump.
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One thing will fix this and all other problems......CONSISTENTLY WIN OUTSIDE OF THE SUN BELT. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
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.
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We might as well sell out the football program and put 100% of our efforts into basketball.
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Makes you wonder what he could have done if we had a screen pass in our playbook.
You're kidding, right?
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Classic Cobbs touchdown! A beautiful run.
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Alabama A & M is ranked higher than Rice?
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Does it truly come down to "what have you done lately" and the fact that lately was 2-9 in '05? But it's more than just that. Season tickets, attendance, attractive wins and tv interests. Much of the tv interest must come from OOC wins as well?
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
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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.
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Any info/observations on how the 'young guns' are firing/misfiring ?
I'd settle for information on anything. Hell, I'd even settle for some of PlummMeanGreen's 4 page epistles!
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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
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I read the article and I don't take it as a slap at NT. TCU brought a good crowd to Houston last year and are a perenial Top 20 team from the state, CUSA is a conference with much more cred. than the Sun Belt. I guarantee you that if NT were a consistent Top 25 team, instead of a 65+ team (100+ last year), and from a strong conference with national appeal that NT would have been included. When NT becomes consistently successful, try in our OOC games and either join a new conference or see the Sun Belt improve by leaps and bounds we can expect to be treated in this manner.
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.
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You all need to wake up and read the article. The Sun Belt Conference was ommitted, not North Texas.
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?
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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.
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Where is the best place to get this merchandise? Do I have to drive up to Denton?
Athletic website has a merchandise link, or you can buy online from Voertmans.
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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.
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Just do your best to endure all this, Jeff. I guarantee you that all this won't last forever and as some like to put it: THIS TOO SHALL PASS?
We are one of the largest universities in Texas that sometimes operates like we're one of the smallest and that part is a shame for all who attended UNT like many of the ones on this board and beyond who have gone on this "non-stop" roller coaster ride for more years than there ever should have been.
Had UNT football attendance grown (accordingly) thru the years and decades with all the boom growth on campus and in greater Denton, in a perfect & normal world we should now be at a point that we would never have less than 30,000 per home game & would have needed a larger stadium years ago.
So it's just very difficult for one to to put a finger on what it is that is making all this annual "non-significant growth" at the Fouts Field turnstiles occur during a time of boom growth within a 20+ mile radius of our main campus.
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.
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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."
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The hacker registered as Polly? We were hacked by a parrot?
When you start taking donations for the software upgrade, I’ll help.
Those who made fun of Polly Parrot, aka Parrot Eagle..... you know who you are. Paybacks are hell.
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yes. the athletic deparrtment staff needs more bodies and reorganized. it is too busy now to handle things correctly. they can't get basic ticket packages right. more media is too complicated for them to attempt but a simple daily update would be nice. trying to be big time on pennies,.
So, our 11th year back into D1A and all we are getting is smoke and mirrors? How much could it possibly cost to hire a journalism student to report on the practices and input it into the website?
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Now I'm officially jealous.
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I'll weigh in on this. I'm on the monthly charge for the Premium Content on the athletic site. You can watch football games and basketball games, or whatever, when you absolutely cannot attend a game. I live 350 miles from Denton, so it is a good thing to have.
But, I am disappointed that after almost three days of practice, all we have is interviews with players (which is very good stuff), and DD's media day comments. Again, good stuff. But why can't we be privy to what's going on at the practice field? A simple training report covering both practices would be nice. I mean, am I asking for too much?
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UAB ovresigned on recruits, now MTSU has this three star that will be on the team this Fall. From the SBC message board:
"...Offensive lineman Jamaal Lewis (6-foot-4, 280 pounds) has inked scholarship papers with MTSU after originally signing with University of Alabama-Birmingham on National Signing Day in February.
Lewis practiced in shorts with the Blue Raiders Tuesday, as he must complete a five-day NCAA-mandated acclimation period. He has already been certified by the NCAA Clearinghouse and will be admitted to MTSU pending acceptance of his final transcript.
"He's a real good player, and we recruited him at South Carolina," Stockstill said. "When we got (to MTSU), he hadn't qualified, so we didn't continue to recruit him. Then he got qualified right before signing day and signed with UAB. ... Well, UAB oversigned and couldn't take him, so they called us to see if we were interested and we were."
Lewis, who won't turn 18 until late in MTSU's season, was a standout at Butler High in Huntsville, Ala. He was named to The Huntsville Times Super All-Metro team the past two seasons and tabbed honorable mention as a sophomore. He was also named to Huntsville's All-City squad three straight years and All-Region twice..."
What the NCAA should do is pull a scholly or two from UAB for next year for oversigning this year. Either way, MTSU benefits and the player doesn't have to sit out a year.
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If OU releases him from his scholarship, does he still have to sit out a year if he ends up at NT or another D1A school?
What the hell, offer him preferred walkon status.
DRC posted 10:55 PM Monday, full article
in Mean Green Football
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Let Plummer speak.