[Mean Green 2007 Fb Schedule Finalized]

9/1 @ OU

9/8 @SMU

9/22 FLA ATLANTIC

9/29 @ ARKANSAS

10/6 @ LOUISANA LAFAYETTE

10/13 LOUISIANA MONROE

10/20 @ TROY

10/27 MUTS

11/10 NAVY

11/15 @ARKY STATE

11/24 WESTERN KENTUCKY

12/1 @ FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL

My predictions:

OU-L

SMU-W

FAU-W

UA (AU?)-L

ULL-W

ULM-W

TROY-L

MTSU-W

NAVY-L

ASU-W

WKU-WWW

FIU-W

That would be 8-4, but I doubt we'll do quite that well. Just couldn't figure which of the "little" games we'd end up dropping.

Candidates include SMU, ULM, MTSU, ASU...figure we'll probably win 2 of those 4.

Hard to figure, though, in a conference like ours where the "good" and "bad" teams flip-flop so often. Yeah, UNT, MTSU, and Troy have been pretty dominant over the life of the conference (our last two seasons notwithstanding), but still, we've pretty much been the "big three" from 2001-2007. Others do well here and there and then are at the bottom for a year or two again. Just a very fickle conference as far as what is considered an "upset".

About time they got the schedule released.

I saw the blerb in the DMN this morning.

AND I AM OFF ON 9/8 AND WILL GO TO THE NT @SMU GAME!

Wife wants to go too. I told her I don't care if it is rain, hurricane, tornado, blizzard, or if Jesus Christ appears at the 50 yard line before the game to start the Rapture and Apocolypse...we are staying for the game.

LOL

[Returning Fans?]

Who else has been dragging back other Exes into fandom?

I got my ex-girlfriend from freshman year to move back from Houston. She was in the Marching Band 95-98, and somehow ended up literally touring with the Texas Exes a few years ago with a boyfriend, going to all home AND away Longhorn games. Now she's back on the Green side of the Force (and we're adding a new member to the Mean Green family in October!).

Also got a former STG president back, some old Pre-Law majors, and some theater people.

Who else has brought people back into line? Even when we're not AT the games, they're on our TV or radio. Sometimes when it's televised we invade a bar and make them turn it on and piss off all the other schools' fans. Much fun.

[Sbc Vs. Cusa]

Wait...didn't Dickey and co. campaign that we not try to get into CUSA or WAC? I thought that was the deal when the big SBC realignment happened when USU, NMSU, and They-da-hoe left. Did we actually try for it and then save face in the press?

BTW, "Daddy" (ooh! slap me! what is up with your name anyway??)...you can't be "an alumni". Unless you have multiple personality disorder, much like I thought Emmitt had when the "I am North Texas" shirts first came out. (Really? You're ALL of NT? Cool.)

Brief Latin-to-English lesson:

1 male graduate-alumnus

many male graduates-alumni

1 female graduate-alumna

many female graduates-alumnae

many male and female (or maybe transgendered? not sure if there's any Latin or English reference for that one) graduates-alumni

[An Absurdly Premature Assessment Of: North Texas]

Oh, yeah? Check this out.

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?...imageID=2568773

That rocked.

[Even In 1910 We Had An Interlocked Nt]

I thought about shaving it into area strays, though I think Nair might work better.

Seriously, though, how many people do you think we could convince to shave "NT" into their head in some form or fashion?

Maybe we could get some Fry Street kids in on the action, too.

[Interesting Tailgating Accessory]

A number of venereal diseases come to mind. Shocking that this came from Austin.

[Vitto Blog, Quinn Has 2 Year Deal With Signing Bonus $3000]

Some of you sounded like you were concerned it might not happen.

Me, I was never worried at all!

[Unt Insider]

A bunch of us tried similar stuff a few years back. We got a lot of flak from a few people "high up" who were concerned about protecting our rights, thinking Wal-Mart and everybody else selling our stuff would be too hard to make sure we were getting our money because there would be too much of it out there, etc.

My thoughts were basically along the lines of...isn't that why we employ attorneys and accountants and such, to ensure that contracts are properly written and enforced and that all of the money goes where it's supposed to?

Changes in leadership have been very helpful in altering the previous, somewhat "isolationist", point of view.

[I Think The Mean Green Will See More Improvement Than The Cowboys]

I don't think it's exactly going out on a limb saying a 3 win team will improve more than a playoff team.

I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the topic of this title.

Just based off of our returners, new coaches and new players, I'm thinking that the first "building" year will end with between a 5-7 to 7-5 record, with the following year having 8 or 9 wins, if all live up to anywhere near expectations.

[Thinking Of Lineberry]

A 310-pound guy pressing 225 27 times is like me pressing 100 27 times. That's pretty low. Athletes at the pro level should normally be able to press 2/3 of their weight around 50 times. That's a pretty low level of upper-body muscle stamina for someone who should be working out every day!

The 1-rep max is killer, though.