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The listing for the job was only posted on the UNT jobs website today. So yeah I'm sure he's been chosen for the job, lets just hope nothing stupid happens and he can't clear HR. Not listed on the UNT Jobs website was this ticket sales consultant job. http://theaspiregroupinc.teamworkonline.com/teamwork/r.cfm?i=98438 Because it's not with the AD, it's with The Aspire Group, an outside firm who does nothing but ticket sales, and marketing. List of people they work with... http://www.theaspiregroupinc.com/?section=who-we-serve Also, digging on their website I found this blog post from their founder. This guy gets it. http://www.theaspiregroupinc.com/raising-the-bar-for-millennial-and-student-attendance-3/

Disciplined implies that someone else is keeping you in order and that you are able to listen and follow orders. Discipline implies that you are keeping things on the right track on your own and can manage yourself.

Mean Green pride at Louie Mueller's Also, I put the Battle flag on my mortarboard when I graduated

My front row seat to Fouts being demolished. Also, Scrappy creepin'

He's from Stephenville: about the same distance to Denton as it is to Waco.

Yurp! Dat photo mine.

Food for thought... I used the color picker on my Mac and whipped up some stuff in Photoshop to check on which greens being used around the web were correct, or at least close to correct. The shade of green @Harry uses for the banners on GMG is the same RGB values as what UNT uses on their Brand Identity website, as www.meangreensports.com and on the new UNT homepage www.unt.edu. Pantone 356 is an Emerald green, Pantone 355 is a Kelly Green and Pantone 357 is a Forest green. If anything, my Heart of Dallas Bowl shirt that I thought was too dark is most correct, and my Fouts Field Finale, Mean Green Stadium and Pit Crew shirts are all too light. As far as I can tell the player's workout shorts and the green on the sleeves of the coach's polos are the right green. I Googled and found this NT Daily photo that shows how Chico's shirt is the correct green, and that banner is too light. Not sure if the banner is just plain wrong, or if it looks lighter because there's always light coming through from behind it. In this photo that I took at the Littrell intro press conference, again, note the color difference from the backdrop to the helmet, which has always been right. The darkest shade of green in Smatresk's official UNT Tartan pattern tie is also correct. (Again though, not sure if banner is wrong or just looks light from light coming through behind it.) From what I can tell in this photo from the @UNTPrez twitter account, Smatresk's Kilt and tartan socks are the correct shade of green. As are the walls in the Bookstore. But NOT those cheap shirts on the bottom row. Incidentally, I think the reason we used the Forest Green for the 05-06 seasons was because of the cost for new uniforms and repainting all the helmets at the time. The current UNT shade of green was introduced in April 2005 as part of the new branding, including the SOW. It then took two entire football seasons, a new coach and a football uniform supplier change to roll that color out onto the football team.

Hatch wasn't fixed: meth head went up a stole it to get $ for scrap metal.

We've never gone from forest green, to lime to kelly in a three year span. We used the same dark shade of Forest Green from 1983 when we abandoned the Hayden Fry era Flying Worm uniforms until 2007 when the Todd Dodge era coincided with the University as a whole changing to a new shade of green as part of the same new branding campaign that introduced the SOW. Dodge didn't pick the green that he used on those hideous Under Armour uniforms, that was the new official UNT green. Pantone 356. https://identityguide.unt.edu/create-our-look/color When Dodge got canned and RV hire Mac, the shade of green didn't change. What DID change was the uniform supplier. Under Armour's uniforms and the 2011 Nike uniforms were made of totally different materials and THAT had an effect on the perceived color of the jerseys. The material on those Nike jerseys made the color look weird in all but perfect lightning. I've had trouble since 2011 making them look right in my photos. The 2015 jerseys were made from a different material that had less of an iridescent quality to it and therefore the color look closer to the official UNT green. Look at basketball, track, volleyball, soccer, softball etc: They've all had the same shade of emerald green since the rebranding in 2006. The green around the floor of the Super Pit has been he same shade of green since then. On a personal note, it's been a struggle to get the green to look right since 2011. I had crappy cameras from 2011 until the 2014 season but even then it was hard. The iridescent material reflects what's around it, and that could mean blue sky, or the color of the jersey of a guy on the other team while he's trying to tackle one of our players. If you look at a lot of photos you'll see that the jerseys and the helmets look like different colors and that's why. Bright open sunlight made them look great, but shade, like when the sun had gone behind the pressbox but it was still bright enough out that the sky lit up the field and not the stadium lights, made them look horrible. Kelly Green during late 60s. 1994 Forest Green, white Eagle head silhouette on helmet. 1995 Forest Green, Cartoon Scrappy head on helmet 2002 Forest Green with white facemask, script North Texas on helmet - Looks brighter because of good lighting in Super Dome. Looks black in the middle of the chest from sweat soaking in. 2003 Forest Green with black facemasks, script North Texas. Note how black it looks from the sweat on Booger. 2004 Forest Green with black facemask, script North Texas on helmet - Same jerseys, but looks darker because it's under the lights at Fouts. 2005-2006 forest green with block letter North Texas on helmet Todd Dodge Southlake Carroll uniforms from 2006 And then 2007 -2010 Dodge era Under Armour uniforms - note how many shades of green the fan apparel is. Guy with a hat and shirt that are different shades. 2010 Vs K State : Fouts Finale 2011-2015 In this spring game photo the color is awful because it was mid-day and the green looks too blue. Our eyes don't see it but everything looks bluer to a camera in mid-day because of how much blue sky everything reflects. Especially the shadow areas on white pants. Canon cameras don't make the shadows look blue but Nikons, which I use, do. Here they look too Kelly Green because the whole photo has too much yellow in it. My laptop screen wasn't calibrated right back then. This photo makes them look too blue because of the camera's white balance (not my photo) These next two photos they look better, but still not great under the lights at Apogee. Not an Apogee problem, a fabric problem. Finally a day game shot, with a newer camera, showing the true jersey color in full sunlight. 2015: New uniform design with a different fabric because Nike stopped making the previous material. Nowhere near as iridescent as before, and the color looks more accurate under most lightning conditions. Also I had a better camera and laptop for these. 2015 jerseys shot with a studio flash, most accurate representation of the actual color. They looked accurate in the daytime But still picked up a lot of yellow color while shooting at night under the stadium lights. I get it, I don't like that we've been all the hell over the place as far as our identity as a program in the last 15 years. From week to week when I wear my green on Fridays, my favorite thing to wear is still my forest green 2003 football shirt with a white facemask script logo helmet on the back from my Freshman year. That's what we wore when we beat Baylor in 2003 and my favorite Mean Green memory of Booger running that fumble in for a TD. Other weeks I'll wear my favorite SOW shirt or something else. Of all the Mean Green stuff I own that I've amassed in the past 13 years most of it doesn't match. The giveaway Pit Crew shirt I wear to bed most nights is Flying Worm era Kelly Green. My Fouts Field Finale shirt and my super rare Mean Green Stadium shirt are both made by Gildan and are the same shade, but my Heart of Dallas Bowl game shirt is a Jansport and is darker. This has less to do with someone in the AD being a moron and the clothing suppliers having umpteen different takes on what Emerald Green is. But this isn't new: I saw Kelly Green shit for sale in 2005 and I've seen forest green Son of work stuff in the past few years. I'll admit though, the licensed apparel and gear problem has gotten WAY better since we started using CLC instead of going at it by ourselves. The rainbow of different shades of green has narrowed quite a bit. But even on the University's own brand licensing web site, they use a photo that shows how many different shades ofgreen our officially licensed products can come in.

Dude I broke this news days ago.

Tenacity of Trice with size and power of Orr.

Driving past Apogee today I noticed that the hatch on top of the electronic sign is fixed. Hank has been interim AD for less than two weeks and the hatch got fixed. Does he deserve a shot? Question no info.

Those are just the actual "lockers" brochaco. THIS is the whole place. Lounge area Spa area Another player lounge Full Team meeting room Sports Med hot tubs Sports Med area with branding everywhere Wide Receivers meeting room So I mean that's Bama, and I don't expect us to be anywhere near matching them because that's insane. I didn't look up any numbers for what all this insanity cost them but I know A&M spent like over $200 Million on their new football center, I'm sure all of it from donors. We had to spend months a while back trying to rub enough pennies together to get $3 million to renovate the Super Pit. But a lot of places that we have/should/ought to be recruiting against DO make attempts to move towards that and that puts us at a recruiting disadvantage. These are 17/18 year old dudes after all. I knew football players in high school who decided on a college because of their school colors matched our high school's and they wouldn't have to buy new clothes.

Here are all the in-progress photos that the Mean Green Game Ops twitter account has been posting. Looks like they're doing locker room and the big team meeting room. Team meeting room where Todd Dodge and Dan McCarney were both introduced as head coach. Let's hope they get a live chicken and some rum and clear away that bad mojo as they redo the place.

They're not bad, when compared to what we had at Fouts. Player lockers: Player lounge area: Weight room: Sports Medicine center: They were great and on the same level as Big Time power conference schools in 2004 when the Athletic Center was built. But, and it's a big but, that was 2004. Starting just a couple years later big power schools started to pour insane money into locker rooms, creating places that rivaled a lot of NFL facilities. Example: Here's Oklahoma's locker room a few years ago. And here's what the Sooners have now. There's been a huge player facilities arms race the past few years, and we built locker rooms right before it started. We were looking at what bigger school had at the time, while those bigger schools were looking at Oregon, who kicked it all off with their Nike $$$. Here are our peers: Ponies Houston Boise State Here's what Southern Mississippi is building LA Tech Charlotte ODU Tulsa (ok not too different from what we currently have) FAU UTSA: Here's what they have on campus at their football facility And here's what they got installed in the Alamodome since they're now the primary tenant. Western Kentucky And then there's how the other half live. Texas A&M Baylor Ohio State Oklahoma State Florida State went from this To this So yeah what we have now was nice but not amazing when it was built and it looks impressive if you played high school football at Pilot Point, but is a turnoff for a lot of kids from bigger schools who will make recruiting decisions based on how much they feel a school will cater to their needs and make them feel special.

Be sure to send Brett all your first person accounts from all the big concerts you've attended at Apogee... Oh wait...

Note: Editorial not written by Brett Vito or myself. Even though I once saw him accidentally wear Green on a Friday.

The new Bucc-ee's across from Texas Motor Speedway on 114 is a bunch of UT and A&M stuff, and a teeny little TCU section. And nothing else. And it's entirely within Denton County. By SEVERAL MILES.

I was wondering what was up! I up'ed his post then noticed it was his and was like "WHAAAAAAA??"

They both look scared to death. Like someone off to the right was putting in a Jimmy John's order over the phone and ordered a #5 Vito and Dodge had a visceral reaction upon hearing the V word... Now this..... This looks F'in badass.

But Woody's has Elk jerky...

You talking Lockhart Smokehouse or ACTUAL Lockhart Texas (Black's, Smitty's and Kreuz)?? Lockhart Smokehouse's brisket was meh but damn their regular sausage is da bomb. Because it's actually from Kreuz. Bet The House's regular sausage is ok, but their jalapeño cheese sausage is OMG. Both of them come from Fischer's Meat Market up in Muenster. When I've spoken with Cody and Shawn that's the biggest thing they've said they've had to deal with, finding good people who can put as much care into the place as they do. Especially when you have to get there at like 2am to toss some briskets on. Weekends are usually consistently good because Shawn, Cody and Jessica are all there.