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The problem is that UNT markets itself to these types of students. UNT focuses on how their the biggest, cheapest and most accessible university in DFW. I never see UNT really putting an effort into building a sense of pride or accomplishment into attending the university. More like, "hey, we're UNT, we have every degree at an affordable price that almost anyone can earn!"
Makes us seem like the Wal Mart of universities.
In part because they are trying to boost enrollment to 45k students. As we do that we plan on building the staff quality and numbers and then raise admission standards to try and try to be seen as a more prestigious college to get in to. Atleast thats what I got from their Tier 1 overview.
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I live in LA, so I'll be at some of the games. Not sure, maybe the last two.
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Improve shooting and ball control and we will be much more competitive. I hope Coach Jones is drilling them in practice about those two things.
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Darn, the feed is gone now
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Possible outcome. However, the CUSA contract pays for a Champ. game, the would have to re-negotiate that and possibly lose revenue. Their network will have to share the game with the Mtn. and I could see a problem there. Not saying its a deal breaker but some consideration.
Also with 2 leaving the MWC they will have 8 sports members, and 7 for Olympic sports. I can't imagine they would want to stay at 7, so I see 1 all sports like Utah State, or a non-football team being added.
On an added note, if the teams stay and the alliance goes through, the MWC will have to go to 12 to match CUSA. Meaning they take two from the
WAC, or us with one from the WAC in a best case scenario. Either way that leaves the WAC ripe for a raid. The SBC should expand at that point.
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Bad shooting, and bad passes did us in. We only hit 1 three. Still managed to hang in and had a shot. These guys need more experience and coaching, and we can be better. Also everyone but Jones needs to work on free throws.
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First of all, you take care of your backyard and I'll take care of mine. I really don't need you telling me how I need to act for starters. Who are you, the Emily Post of North Texas? Well, I know many more than myself thru the years who need to catch up on that than myself. Red numbers? Bring em' on! I don't give a rat$ A$--never have. North Texas has had too many dumb sheep following the wrong (bad) leadership for way too long as in............most of my adult life? If our modus operendi had been the other way, North Texas wouldn't be up against upstart program UTSA in some of this conference smack board tommyrot! There! I said it! Many others have for damn sure thought it.
I am not running for Mayor of U of North Texas so I could care less if I get "votes or no votes" on any post, especially on a freakin' college smack board of all places. North Texas athletics is still the toy section of the department store of my life and I'd suggest you accept that same philosophy because if you don't, you will probably only be disappointed because we could very well be running in place the next 25 years as we have most of the last 25 years while being totally irrevelant (as was mentioned in the DRC recently).
Shit, look at UTSA getting as much print space as we are on some of those other message boards--so does that tell you the impact our athletic program which has moslty been slobber-knockin' toward the bottom most my damn life--I am not happy about that, either. IMHO it seems you are still taking all this smack sports boards business way too damn serious. For what its worth, I am more worried about what Greece and Italy are going to do with their Euro-Economies and then how America is going to respond to it--now that's the kind of stuff that gets my attention.
I will be 61 years old this month, I've been following a program that most of my adult life has been a running joke. Hirings have been mostly abysmal and the firings of under-achieving slackers have been rare. Many my age & up (who are still around) have seen other programs after programs pass us by while North Texas continually "ran in place" while trying to find its identity, the perfect logo, the perfect branding along with the perfect shade of green (with many slackers on the payroll getting paid rather nicely who could have really just cared less but merely wanted to hang on to get that State of Texas retirement).
North Texas during the last 4 decades has been a program of which the word "potential" has all but become an ugly word for many of us. Yet if I have an opinion I'm going to by God express it no matter where the hell I want to express it. Beggin' your pardon, but you sound just like some in Washington who are trying to tell Americans how they are supposed to act, how they are supposed to believe, how they are supposed to eat, how they are supposed to take a shit and they also don't mind if you express an opinion as long as it is their opinion--let's see how long that last.
Have A Nice Day.
You have every right to post whatever you want, and your opinion on any board. I, however, have that same right to criticize your posts which in my opinion are completely embarrassing.
People don't like what you post and then you start tearing down schools that have achieved more than we have?
You don't get it either, because the last time TCU had a league association with UT there were times the Frogs didn't even show up on the Sagariin radar at all like when yall averaged 2 wins a season for almost 1 and 1/2 decades? Smoke on that one............and still how strange that TCU has such strong feelings about North Texas "NOT" taking their spot in the North Texas Metroplex? Care to explain to this board while yall are still even on this board and not full time on the Big 12 smack board just frog pee'in' away?Other than the DFW TV market, just why do you think the Big East even gave SMU the time of day? Fake attendance numbers at their Ford Stadium sealed that deal for the 'Stangs? I hardly think so. Hell, we are drawing more real butts in seats after 7 losing seasons than SMU is on their way to a 2'nd bowl game in as many seasons.
Hey Froggie, do you remember when North Texas hosted Texas A & M at Texas Stadium before a shade over 50,000 fans? Oh, mostly Aggies you might say? Just like when the Aggies used to come to Amon Carter Stadium back in the ol' SWC, ya' think? (That crowd at Texas Stadium was about 60/40 North Texas fans for what its worth).
AND..........were you around Fort Worth pre-Francione? I was and I know what the losing cycle did for TCU fan support and what it will do again no matter if you are in the Big 12 as in....... (can you say, uh, B-a-y-l-o-r-)? Even if UT or OU are bringing 15,000 traveling fans to TCU just ask Baylor what kind of coffee that and a buck will get ya' in the Big 12. Ask Baylor what part of the conference standings they have dwelled in almost since Day One of their membership in the Big 12, too? TCU cannot compete against UT and OU year in and year out, but UT and OU are short-termers in the Big 12 anyway so enjoy the Horns and Sooners while you can.
Fact still is you of the MWC...........TCU DOES NOT WANT NORTH TEXAS TO TAKE THEIR PLACE IN THE MWC. Look at the TCU responders on this very subject even now? It's almost laughable! Does that give the rest of you MWC'ers a subtle hint of the school that screwed your pooch, ie, "YOUR" conference to social climb their way to the Big East/Big 12?
So all you tensed up TCU'ers you can spin all this irrevelant lagniape about North Texas as much as you want but it still doesn't change the truth of yall being upset almost beyond sanity with the very idea that North Texas could get your DFW spot in the MWC since yall abandoned this league while not giving a rat's butt how it would affect the MWC of today or the MWC in the future.
And Amon Carter Stadium? How ironic that less than 2 weeks after North Texas announces it is going to build what is now the equivalent of a $100,000,000 plus new football palace between 2 Texas interstates for many future Mean Green recruits & their parents to easily see; anyhow, just nevermind how good ol' TCU couldn't stand the region wide publicity North Texas was getting out of that huge announcement that came from the largest damn university with the largest alumnus body in the entire North Texas Metrplex so yall then announce your ACS stadium re-make within weeks?
TCU: You best keep your sphere of support in Fort Worth because it ain't going to go nowhere else except........Fort Worth. Then wait till Mr. Losing Cycle visits TCU again and see how "Your Home Team" town supports you then.
Yeah, great argument. Lets show them our top BCS rankings, or our Rose Bowl win vs. Wisconsin. Oh wait, we don't have one
Talking smack about a team that has done more than us, yeah and you wonder why they are putting you down? Even putting down SDSU, who has been ranked and seeded in the NCAA Tournament? Pathetic. And for someone saying message boards shouldn't be taken serious, you are saying TCU doesn't want us to take their place in the MWC. Based on what? Did you do a gallup poll? Or are you just basing that on ... wait for it.... a message board???? Great logic there.
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Yeah, that is me but we've been a laughing stock for most of the last 15-25 years prior to this one no matter what is posted on a collegiate smack board. If SMU with the crap I've read on their board can get a Big East invite, then I like our chances for CUSA or the MWC.
Yet if you think smack board posters have any influence in any of this then why aren't North Texas athletic employees posting on this one--even just time to time? I take a smack board for what it is: An online cyber trip to a bar with a bunch of athletic boosters from various schools who sometimes act is if they have had one too many. Nothing I posts compares to the unadulterated lagniape you get from SMU or La Tech posters. I don't think the Big East officials read the SMU board then suddenly decided: "Yep! We just have to include those Stangs in the Big East no matter what an entire host of schools say about their fake attendace."
Yes, I have a pissing contest going on with a couple of TCU fans and I don't even pay attention to the California contingency because they post as if they just graduated from middle school.
Yet TCU really does not want North Texas to take their place in the MWC and for what it's worth, I don't blame them. Their Big 12 experiment could turn out to be as disastrous as Baylors has been and a successful North Texas in the MWC would trump a terrible TCU football program in the Big 12--simple as that.
Nopers, conference decision-making on admitting new league members will not come from a college or conference smack board. Mark that in 3 inch headlines because that is a fact.
HINT: ESPN is mostly in charge of the NCAA and just about every thing relating to conference expansion--not conference message boards. We have to hope and even pray that ESPN likes what we are doing in Denton even without Craig James up there in New York's ESPN headquarters to brag about us--seems he probably did his persuasive handywork for another school truth be known.
The thing is your giving them ammo. No they don't make the decisions, but there is nothing good that can come from talking about our school in that way. IMO you should never go to another conference board and bash anyone, even if they bash you. Your a guest there, show humility and people will eventually come around and be courteous. Your just adding fuel to the fire.
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Since I seem to be in the early onset of dimensia, J.R.can you refresh my memory on what that curse was? One of the MWC boards most critical SDSU posters (from CA.) aimed at North Texas was a frequent visitor over here last year about this very time and as I recall pitching for another coach to get our HFC's job.
The MWC better strike while the iron is hot if they want the DFW Metroplex in their conference TV package footprint and looking at their future prospects after schools they will lose now and probably later, I would love to know just what they are thinking their choices really are and why their delay in solving their membershp concerns now.
Most know TCU would prefer that North Texas not take their place in the MWC because they probably know that a winning UNT in the MWC might offf-set a losing TCU in the Big 12 and lest anyone forgets the Frogs did not fare too well the last time they were in another conference with as many large public universities with far more impressive (and much larger) athletic venues. It took Baylor more than 10 years to get out of the Big 12 cellar and as I recall they stilll hover in the lower half of that league even now. And just who won the TCU/Baylor season opener of this Fall?
GMG!
Is that you posting as MeangreenGem over there? Whoever that is, please stop. Your an embarrassment to the fan base and making us a laughing stock over there.
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The MWC has more recognized state flagship schools. They will have good support by being the main state's schools.
New Mexico
Wyoming
Nevada
Hawaii
Colorado State is the second state school. Same with Utah State if its added.
Their fans do seem like a bunch of douchebags though.
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I've been trying to get a good look at the new Unis. Any highlights of the game? Did we just keep the same design? They look almost identical to last years?
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I heard the radio guys saying there were tons of people tailgating that didn't go in. Is that true?
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any attendance numbers?
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Great win, lets keep it going. With that lets not jump the gun. We have to keep the good lessons we learned consistent, and not regress next week.
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The MAC and SBC may have to merge to keep relevance.
If SMU stays we will most likely be shut out of CUSA and its alliance. Unless the MWC has to have the equal amount of teams and has to go to 12, in which case they might add, Utah St and SJSU.
So what was that about SMU not going to BE was better for us?
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Wow, this thing is all over the map (literally and figuratively). Confusing and dis-jointed release. Still not really sure what it is. I'm not even sure they do as it was talked about in different ways.
"consolidate their member football programs into one large association"
"join forces for this strategic landmark"
"creative merger of our football assets"
"association"
"collaborative partnership"
"collective football enterprise"
"high potential, unique partnership"
"merge into a separate football-only entity"
So, what is it? An association? A merger? A partnership? An entity? An enterprise? A collective?
If this is enough to keep SMU and Houston in C-USA and the Big East still wants a toe-hold in Texas, what then? Or if they still leave, will this new collective assimilate UNT?
Keith
Its a last ditch effort to keep UCF, ECU, SMU, Houston, AFA, and Boise from going to the BE. Pretty clear.
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DAMMIT. NO TO smu!
SMU moving would be the best for us. Leaving a hole in CUSA and it may cause other movement in the MWC.
Also we have a series signed with them, nothing like bringing in a BE school to play at Apogee in the future. Besides its not like we have a chance at that spot so why should we care? Of we move up we will do it with our own merits, not by hoping other schools don't get the lucky break. Or do you not have faith we can build the program?
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So no one thinks this is a bad idea? Alright everyone just wear green to the games, but don't forget about the green out, thats a special day where everyone must wear green.
I like the -1, and how this board works. If I don't agree with your opinion , you deserve negative feedback. Well I'm calling you out, why don't you actually show your face and have a conversation about why my idea is bad?
Like I said when I first joined, I hate how this board can never have an depth conversation. All the threads turn into childish jokes. Its easy, if you don't like a topic, or it doesn't interest you, don't reply. I don't mean that in a "stay the hell out" way, I always try to be friendly
and don't understand why people go out of their way to post in threads they don't like. :shrugs shoulders:-
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I'll take any color if we can fill the stands like Penn State
Good points both, but my point is if your going to make a game night a special event make it something different. Drop the green out and make a campaign so that you tell everyone to wear green to every game. A white out would be a special event to get people excited and show up, with years it would become a great tradition.
We have a limited number of home games, lets not waste one with something we are already supposed to do.
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If I saw correctly last week's game was a green out? Should't we always wear green in the stands for home games?
I would much rather have a white out game, ala Penn State
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They were concerned about the color fading, as Smut's has. Also, I heard seatbacks require the rows to be spaced further apart if spaced like Fouts. Now, our new rows seem to already have more legroom so not sure if they could be added later.
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The Rose Bowl is about half and half. There are a TON of seats without backs on them. I know this, because of the 4 games I have attended at the Rose bowl -- I have always been on bleachers.
The silver is the bleachers. It might be more like 60/40 bleachers to seats.
My mistake. I don't know why but for some reason I thought it was all seats
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I would assume it would be along the lines of this, to try and create an image that represents an idea/identity. Its probably for official, academic, and scholar use only. The athletic department would not be affected, they can make their own logos/rules.
http://www.identity.ucla.edu/graphicstandards/UCLAStandardsManual0904.pdf
We have our own rules as well.
http://www.unt.edu/identityguide/print-paper.htm
Our big stone signs won't be effected.
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Why would we want all seats? Backs to the bleachers maybe, but name ONE major COLLEGE stadium that is made up of mostly individual seats. The are bleachers so you can pack more people inside. He'll remember when Michigan expanded their stadium to over 108 thousand. Not one piece of construction equipment. They just moved the seat numbers closer together and poof. More "seats".
Besides the two already mentioned, the Rose Bowl as well.
Good point though, I do like the backs to the bleachers some stadiums have. As well as green bleachers, just makes it look nicer. Anyone with connections to RV able to ask him if that is going to happen in the future?
I don't even...
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I'm tired of people on here complaining about students not caring about athletics. They go to The University of North Texas. UNIVERSITY. Every student's first priority should be about their school work and their future careers. Football is not the main reason they are here, or basketball, etc.
I'm not talking about the people who say they wish the students would support the team, because I wish that too. I am talking about the people who say the students don't support the football team hate the school or do a disservice to the university. Its a ridiculous statement. Support should not be a tyrannical requirement.
Better yet, lead by example and show them how its done. People will come around more that way than bashing them and calling them less for not going.