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Good article.
Nice to see Stebo's little brother Adam is writing for the DRC.
LOL, they are not related. By the way I miss the Green Derby Tavern.
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Interesting. Also the ball flies better in the summer due to the heat. That could possibly be a good thing since pitching is generally stronger than hitting at the beginning of the season.
If UNT baseball is playing when summer starts that means they'll be in the College World Series in Omaha.
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Are you saying you don't want us to use the end zone bleacher seats at Fouts in the new baseball stadium?
Save the Fouts bleachers for the new track facility.
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Amen brother.
Here are my two wishes for the new stadium.
1. Have the backdrop be Apogee Stadium. That would be a hell of a back drop and would look better than having a back drop being the softball field or I35.
2. Keep same style/design as Apogee.
If the homeplate, pitching mound and centerfield alignment points to Apogee that would make the field a hitters friendly park to left field with a south wind and a pitchers friendly park with a north wind. So early in the season, which is winter/early spring a north wind will help the pitchers, as the weather heats up, a south wind domimates it will become a hitters park.
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C Vo, you're citing professional stadiums. Might as well put pictures of Dr Pepper ballpark and Dell Diamond in there.
UNT does not have this kind of budget. That sucks, but we just dont have it. And even if we built a huge, fancy stadium like that, do you think it would fill up? Not likely, unless UNT is ranked or CWS-bound...
These are stadiums my son's high school aged summer team has played in over the past year or so and it's what the boys are being exposed too. I feel it's important to build a facility that will excite potential recruits. UNT does not need a stadium like a Double A ballpark. The seating capacity needs to be 3,500-5,000 with maybe an overflow/green berm area down the foul lines or spacious outfield area.
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In '88 I had a baseball schedule/poster hanging up in my dorm room. I don't think I still have it.
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Now you need to add a Softball Forum to the board.
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How about Bobby Valentine? I am sure he would love to leave Boston.
Your going to have to do your homework on College Coaches. Throwing random names out there is not going to cut it!
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BAUM STADIUM U. OF ARKANSAS
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REYNOLDS BASEBALL STADIUM-OKIE STATE
NOTICE THIS FIELD IS AT GROUND LEVEL-NOT GOOD!
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LA GRAVE FIELD-FORT WORTH CATS
QUICK TRIP PARK GRAND PRAIRIE
ARVEST STADIUM SPRINGDALE ARKANSAS, ARKANSAS NATURALS
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The baseball facility is something we should get right. The last master plan I saw for the Mean Green Village showed the home plate to center field sight line pointing at Apogee. That would put the right field fence against Bonnie Brae. What I would like to see is plenty of shade covers. I have a high school age son that's plays showcase tournaments at College fields during the summer so it's nice to have plenty of shade. I know the College games are played in winter and early spring, but this facility and coaching staff should host summer showcase tournaments during the months of June through November. This allows coaches to look at potential recruits and it gets High School kids to the facility.
My first hope is everything is 1st class and matches Apogee in detail and styling. I like the playing field lowered/dug out so when you walk into the stadium you have to go down to your seats. I would also like to see something done that's unique to the outfield fences. Do something like have a short right field fence next to Bonnie Brae so monster shot homeruns can land close to the street. UNT SHOULD HAVE ITS OWN GREEN MONSTER IN RIGHT FIELD!
There are a lot of great baseball fields in the metroplex. Don't forget UTA has a baseball program and I also like the look and feel of the Air Hogs Stadium in Grand Prairie. I also like the Ft. Worth Cats field. It's small and doesn't have a whole lot of room between home plate and the net/backstop so fans feel right next to the action. Oh, and a tunnell from the dugouts to the locker rooms is nice, just like in the Pros.
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I know this thread will last forever before we have a baseball game, but who should be the Head Coach when UNT brings back baseball?
My favorite would be a local Denton standout and a former UNT baseball player Skip Johnson, who is the pitching coach at UT Austin.
I also like Gary Gilmore head coach at Coastal Carolina. He's built a great baseball program at a very small school that 20 years ago was Div. III.
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YES! We have a Baseball Forum!
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We're goin' to party likes it's 1999! A video I helped produce and edit back in the day.
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LOL, There's nothing better than spending time coaching your kids in youth sports. Soon they will be in High School and then off to College. So enjoy the the time you spend with them.
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I miss Griggs Bennett and the Corkscrew, Gene Hartman's Campus Barbershop, Jim's Diner and even Judy Smith had her Rose's Costumes on Fry St. for a time. I still remember the arcade behind the Corkscrew in the late 80's. Good Times!
Now with corporate owned businesses, you won't get to know the mom and pop people that make Denton a special place.
I don't care how Fry St. looked. It was unique and it was Denton. Now, it's going to look like every big college campus place (Like places on Guadalupe St. in Austin) that you can find anywhere.
Oh, and Otay's. I still remember the Denton Fire Dept. there every Thursday night to make sure they stayed under the Fire Code numbers in that little building that was a former convenient store.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell didn't say the Minnesota Vikings will move to Los Angeles if Minnesota lawmakers don't pass a financing package this year to build the team a new stadium.
He didn't say they wouldn't move, either, and that appears to have turned up the urgency to bring an end to this long-running saga.
If the Vikings do leave this would be the second team to leave Minnesota for Shaky Town. The Lakers left Minnesota years ago. The L.A. Vikings just doesn't sound correct. But, neither does the Utah Jazz!
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I stuck around to catch the band after the game. Man, I'm not usually much for the whole southern rock genre, but these guys were awfully good.
KHYI 95.3 FM has been playing Reckless Kelly for years.
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I love country music, and I listen to the 'Wolf" KPLX 99.5 FM and KSCS 96.3 FM.
I have never heard of KHYI FM 95.3.
I live in Grand Prairie. I always had fair FM reception for KNTU 88.1, while the Word 100.7
would come in sharp and clear.
I will test 95.3 for recpeption on the car radio and the radio at home this afternoon.
I would like to know more about the "UNT Radio Network"
The only radio network I know is 88.1 and 100.7.
Are there other radio stations arcoss the state that carrrier NT football and basketball games?
Where are the other stations in the UNT Radio Network located?
KHYI is the only REAL country music station in DFW!
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This is not the first time the MGRN will be on THE RANGE. Football and Men's Basketball games were on KHYI about 10-12 years ago. So Hank does have a relationship with the stations ownership. I've been a loyal listener to this station for 15 or more years since they first started broadcasting. They have the greatest DJ ever in Brett Dillon. It's the only REAL country station in DFW, all the other are just pretenders that play the Nash-Vegas crap. I love it because it's not a polished, pretentious station. It's the way local radio was in the 60's and 70's. If you live in Southern Oklahoma, Sherman-Denison, Gainesville or the northern part of DFW (Frisco, Denton, Plano) the signal will be fine. Any area in northern Ft. Worth or in central Dallas will not get it. KHYI has a few technical problems with the left channel intermittently going out from time to time that's distracting when it goes off while listening in your car and sometimes the station has dead air, but that’s what I love about KHYI. This is a Texas Country-Red Dirt Music station that has a unique on air sound.
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All three were working yesterday and should be running like the dickens today with the 40 mph wind gusts. I have read wind turbines are shut down during high winds to help protect them from damage, so they may not be working until the high gusts die down.
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http://vimeo.com/user10390462/energy-for-tomorrow
This video is entered in a TXU Energy student video competition. The video features UNT's role as a leader in creating alternative energy on campus. Vote for this video if it's your favorite.
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Fall Practice
in Mean Green Football
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I have a good story from back in the day when Dickey was coach over at the old practice fields Vic Trilli shows up to watch practice. The receivers were running drill routes catching the ball from a backup QB. Dickey walks over by the drill to watch and Trilli asks Dickey "Shouldn't the receivers catch the ball out in front" of them and Dickey responds by saying "I just want them to catch the freakin' ball" GREATNESS!