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For the love of God, no matter how many hotels/motels sell out do not under any circumstances stay at the Red Roof Inn in Lubbock.
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Just now, DeepGreen said:
What f*#k is Wren Baker doing with the team?
Chair of the NIT committee
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Congrats Mean Green.
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1 hour ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:This happening or not, TT does have doodoo fans/alum. But given a ton of their upbringings and geographical location I guess I get it, sort of.
Most of the comments I’ve seen from Tech fans are calling out the classless act of leaking this info before the NIT final.
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7 minutes ago, Andrew said:
I think all this success should be attributed to @Army of Dad coming out and stating he would never get season tickets or watch another UNT basketball game again. Since his departure to hunt/fish and whatever else he is doing the programs trajectory has been through the roof. We should be thanking him. After his last post it’s been some sweet UNT basketball!
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I’m happy to help and I saw a lot of green last duck season. Green winged teal, but still green…
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On 10/26/2021 at 3:01 PM, MCMLXXX said:
Have you been to a Basketball game since Benford left?
Obi Wan McCasland has given us hope.
No and I doubt I ever will go to another one. North Texas has pulled a Lucy on this Charlie Brown enough already.
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On 10/25/2021 at 9:38 PM, UNTLifer said:
Please be specific.
Let’s start with the number of sold out games at Apogee…
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8 hours ago, kj86 said:
There is no G5 program in the country that will fill 30,000 seats to watch a loser. Get the right guy in here and win games and you'll see the place full. The lack of interest is solely based on the quality of the product.
History would indicate otherwise.
I get it, that green kool aid tastes great. If you drink enough of it you start seeing sleeping giants and sold out home games. Lord knows I’ve drank a bunch of it myself (as well as making literal mean green alcoholic drinks).
‘You just wait until we get/do “X”!’
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4 hours ago, TreeFiddy said:
Maybe we could go update the meangreensports and wiki websites and they won't notice.
Brawndo has what plant crave. Brawndo has electrolytes.
Funnily enough there’s a brewery in Lubbock that is making tailgate beers with electrolytes in them…
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I wasn’t close to UNT athletics for as long as you, but I’ve come to the conclusion that UNT will always be ‘little ole UNT’ forever. No where near enough of the alumni or local community care if North Texas wins or loses. That’s partly because the school itself doesn’t care if they win or lose and partly because it’s always been that way. Just watch, they’ll find a way to douchebag up a decent basketball program again.
For as nice as Apogee is, it’s not very big and is never full. Even with all the alumni within 90 minutes of Denton it’s never full. The school and the vast majority of it’s alumni simply do not care about Mean Green athletics. I used to think that eagle could change its colors, but after years of futility the Benford debacle was finally enough to get me to see that UNT will always be UNT. ‘Twas ever thus.
Should North Texas be more than it is? Maybe/probably. Will it ever really fulfill that potential? Almost certainly not. (I think that’s mostly it’s own damn fault, but outside forces will also act to help stop substantive advancements)
Ultimately you have to choose to take the sane and sensible course where you understand that nothing will ever really change or stay in the crazy house with hundreds of your fellows.
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On 10/15/2021 at 8:47 PM, Pavlovs Eagle said:
The sad thing is I'm not sure the powers at be really GAF.
This
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2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
I think you underestimate what removing the dead weight, & replacing it with someone who cares, can do for the players’ desire to actually play!
The idea of an interim is not to install your permanent replacement immediately…. It’s to tell everyone (fans, MWC/AAC, & most-importantly… players!) that we don’t tolerate this kind of performance & are actively looking for HC candidates who believe in UNT like we do. We’ll identify, and hire that guy in December.
In the meantime, for the players, the dark cloud hanging over them will be gone, and inspiration for a brighter 2022 season begins the day it’s lifted.
Or, Baker can let the fire rage on a little longer & beat down the players even more than they are.
Obligatory reminder that he allowed Benford to coach every game on his contract…
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On 9/26/2021 at 9:08 AM, ScreamingEaglesFan said:
I guarantee Janeway couldn’t have survived being assimilated by the Borg!
They only assimilate those who have value. She would have just been killed…after she tried to befriend the borg because they told her they were the good guys.
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On 9/20/2021 at 2:47 PM, Udomann said:
Honestly, the best position that I can see for us is to wait a few more games before letting SL go. And I say this as one of the long standing anti-mumbles crowd.
Why? The way his buyout is structured. He has (apparently) a requirement to pursue other positions. The best chance he has to get one is later in the season, not now. Letting him go now has him knocking around the market for a while, doing nothing since no one is really hiring good OC's at the moment.
Come November when teams start canning staff, we want him to be at the top of the market. MAYBE his stock improves by then. It can't get worse, so we get the benefit of that improvement in both our win/loss and and his marketability. If he lays more stinkers, well, we are already sitting in a closet of them, learn to embrace the stink.
The only gain from canning him now is we show we are serious about our staff. The gain from waiting is it vastly improves our financial future due to his hideous contract costs. No one is salivating over Seth right now. But just maybe something can change in the next 2 months to make folks squint really...REALLLLY hard and see something salvageable.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I learned early on in life that statements like I put in bold seem to attract forces that seek to prove you wrong.
It can almost always get worse. Don’t tempt fate.
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1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:
Like most here, we will not be quitting the program, but it is time to step back and re-evaluate. We need to do something different. Tired of hear about the mythical "sleeping giant". Something different needs to be done.
UNT’s history would suggest that won’t happen.
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2 hours ago, outoftown said:
He has. Softball coach for example (didn't really resign, that was just put there to look good). The guy he hired after is nothing short of a revelation. I also think the womens golf coach had been let go. Still your worry is not unfounded. What he has never done to my knowledge - no matter how obvious it was that it was necessary - is fire a coach during the season (which is why it never looks like a firing). In the Benford case that was unbelievably frustrating.
I have little doubt that if this team wins 3 games or less this season, he will fire SL. But I am very afraid that he will not pull the trigger until the end of the season. It is also to no small degree WB who dug a financial hole by paying a coach that never won a championship as if he was better than any other coach in the conference. Sadly, looking at how fast realignment is moving, I fear NT cannot afford to wait firing him till the end of the season, so WB needs to get over his usual ways.
The next games on the docket are: @ LaTech (his best chance at anything before middle of the season I think) then @ Missouri and then home vs Marshall and Liberty. Scary. Unless this thing improves fast, WB will have plenty of opportunities to give SL the boot.
It’s probably too late to change the trajectory UNT is on when it comes to realignment.
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4 minutes ago, greeneagle1 said:
Each player deserves an additional year of eligibility. If rosters need to be expanded to do so, then the NCAA needs to make it happen. So many players (ours and beyond) had their seasons cut short by this. I hope they make it right.
I get the sentiment, but what to do about all the incoming players?
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6 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:
This makes it sound like just breathing any air can make you catch it. Still have to be within infection range of 10-15 feet or so of someone who has it. Which is why mass public gatherings are being cancelled.
I agree on most of this. I think the WHO has subscribed to this belief as well as reading between the lines from over a month ago they have been suggesting this would happen for a while now but have been careful about their wording to avoid mass panic.
Be smart, do your part, take it seriously without massively panicking, and hopefully we can nip it in the bud societally.
Yes proximity to an infectious person and breathing in the virus can make you catch it. Having sporting events with no or very limited spectators is a reasonable precaution. This is mostly transmitted through breathing it in, not as much from touching your face.
Agreed on authorities (here and abroad) trying to strike the right balance in messaging to prepare people without causing a panic. Not an easy balance to achieve of course and once panic starts it’s probably more infectious than COVID-19.
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14 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:
Do we really know? Do you trust the number from China? Seems like this might have been around for a lot longer than they are saying. This whole thing sucks. A lot of this impact would have been lessened f China did not hide the information.
Mortality outside of China has shown to be fairly consistent so far. I wouldn’t bet against China obfuscating the truth, but genetic studies of the virus suggest this version is a natural mutation that occurred in October or November last year.
China being a lying authoritarian regime probably didn’t help, but this disease appears to be pretty infectious so it’s also likely that wouldn’t have mattered much anyway.
I highly recommend listening to the Joe Rogan podcast with Michael Osterholm.
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2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
Did I hear right that this virus (obviously much more virulent than the flu) is susceptible at 80 degrees Farenheit?
If so, it is much closer to the flu due to it's life cycle (hence we talk about "flu season", then in late spring it's over) than something like Ebola.
If that's true, I hope to see life return to normal very very soon. Especially here in Texas and other Southern states where we're about to start warming up (we were over 80 degrees yesterday!).
No science that I’m aware of yet to indicate that. Other Coronaviruses are NOT affected by heat (MERS, for example). It’s too early to tell about this particular virus, but we shouldn’t count on summer to help us.
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9 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:
Most of the people upset about this who are calling it an overreaction probably won’t change their minds until it hits close enough to home for them. Or until it has reached high enough confirmed infection/death numbers to where they can’t keep posting the same meme comparing COVID-19 numbers to flu numbers.
Hopefully by taking precautions like this these people can still look back in a few months and think they were right about calling these actions overreactionary. But in reality these measures may be the reason we can prevent it from getting to the point it is in over in Italy.
Meh, it’s a bit of both. Both extremes are silly. COVID-19 is much more lethal than the usual seasonal flu, but the ‘cancel everything so it looks like are are doing something’ is also silly.
It looks like you mostly catch this disease from breathing, unless you’re planning on stopping that you are kind of hosed. We really can’t shut down everything everywhere for months or years until a vaccine is tested and ready.
COVID-19 will likely get worse in terms of death totals. It’s scary because it’s so new, but it’s possible that this could end up killing less people than other causes of death this year. Much as in a wilderness survival situation panic kills more than the elements, even if the elements claim their share. Obviously if you are personally affected it feels worse, much like a highway fatality is worse if you know the dead than it is for those just stuck in traffic.
Don't freak out and fight over TP, stay away from others as much as practical if you’re ill and stay away from both extremes (sky is falling and nothing is happening).
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2 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:
Come on, don't cancel the Big Dance... even if fans don't get to attend don't take everything away from the players. TEN YEARS WE WAITED.
IN AZKABAN!
Sorry, nerd joke just came out.
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9 minutes ago, Cerebus said:
Did you rescind ‘the board may panic’ directive? If so, does this tweet allow panic mode to be reengaged?
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Save yourself and just drive to Denton or Abeline or San Angelo something, somewhere else.