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  1. 1 hour ago, jtm0097 said:

    Lol, thanks for confirming that none of your engineering friends from 20 plus years ago don't go to games. I hate to break it to you, but my buddies from the finance program don't go to games now either, and I left UNT 13 years ago. They didn't target the business students when I was in school or when I graduated.

    This is exactly my point, the marketing department/student outreach sucks. They need to do a better job of targeting kids currently in Denton. It seems there are a lot of people in the athletic department that do just the bare minimum and collect a paycheck. 

    I agree, winning does wonders for a program. It's a damn shame DATCU/APOGEE opened in 2011 and we still haven't sold the stadium out.  

     

    I used to have a Band Director (NT McAdow student), who one day stopped us in the middle of practice and asked "how many of you believe the old adage that practice makes perfect?". Well, we thought that was an easy question, so we all raised our hands.  "Well you're all wrong" he said. GOOD PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT AND THIS PRACTICE IS THE WORST I'VE EVER SEEN". The rest of practice ended up better.

    My point?  Under DD and Littell, North Texas won a lot of games. They set impressive rushing and passing records.  But when it came to winning games that REALLY COUNTED (the good practice part of my analogy) like conference championship games, and bowl games,  and games against La Tech at home with a big crowd watching.........WE GOT OWNED. 

    Winning the conference championships, and bowl games, and big games at home in front of large crowds , does wonders for a program.

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  2. Find a way to keep the students from broiling in their seats. Such as no games before 6 PM early in the season. 

    Get the spirit groups more involved in engaging the students and alumni DURING the game (I don't give a crap about our cheerleader's gymnastic skills) They (the aforementioned students and alumni) come back when they feel that they have been an active part of the team's win.

    The cheer/ Talon staff should try to engage/encourage the tailgaters to participate in the pre-game team walk into the stadium. Start the "NORTH-TEXAS" chant and continue it until they are past the crowd. It would be a great start for crowd participation prior to the game.

     

      

     

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  3. 9 hours ago, Rudy said:

    Well, when a man and a woman have had too much to drink, they hook up. Due to their intoxicated status, they forget to use a condom, and the man doesn't know how to pull out.  Then the woman forgets that she is out of "Plan B".  Nine months later, they have a baby.  6 months after that, I'm getting called to their house repeatedly for domestic violence calls because neither one can act like a fking adult. Then I have to explain to one that the other has established residency and does in fact live there, despite that they don't pay any bills or their name isn't on the lease, and I can not "make them leave". 

    But fear not Rudy! Because more and more school boards are pushing for an "abstinence-based" sex education program. Unwanted pregnancies and dysfunctional new parents are soon to be a thing of the past.... therefore, making your job much easier. 

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  4. 10 hours ago, Rudy said:

    Should have been done when the stadium was being built. 

    WHAT????   Plan ahead for traffic? Are you kidding? That's not the Texas way. Build those mega-housing editions first, then maybe......just maybe, worry about the traffic impact. Not to mention the stress on an over-stressed grid and water resources.....or the lack thereof.

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  5. 2 hours ago, FirefightnRick said:

    Thank y’all for the kind words.  

    You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families.  My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family.   Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me.  Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment,  or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times.  
     

    My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station.  I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert.  

    I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen
     post on national “Stadium Day”.  So I’ll see how it goes.  
     

    So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green.

     

    Rick

    For clarification. He is a Battalion Chief (Battalion 1, A-shift). Since there are many of them, that makes him A Chief.....not THE Chief.

    So proud of you Rick. You are the perfect model of a true fan. My hope is that more and more people will be inspired to emulate you.

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  6. 8 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

    I think "foundation" is the wrong word.  If you want the program to grow and move up, then you have to start scheduling and beating these upper "mid" major programs.

    Maybe I'm getting too picky about words in my dotage.  I think foundation is (or should be) the appropriate word. I think I would prefer to talk about taking on greater and greater challenges in order to continue to strengthen our foundation. 

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  7. On 2/16/2024 at 9:44 AM, Matt from A700 said:

    Apologies in advance if this is an inappropriate or spammy post, but I wanted to extend an invitation to join the Mean Green Infantry. We are a new, unsponsored group of passionate Mean Green fans dedicated to increasing fan and alumni engagement and raising our profile by coordinating group outings to make our presence felt at away and neutral site games.

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/meangreeninfantry

    Last weekend we had over 35 people buy together for the men's basketball game at SMU. We're going even bigger for the last game of the regular season at Rice. So join us! Those group tickets are only $10-30. We're also working on a pregame tailgate. Here's the link to our event page for the Rice game, I'll be making our initial purchase of tickets next week:

    https://www.facebook.com/share/RQYQAKVGsHKZXjTY/?mibextid=9VsGKo

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    Hmmm, interesting idea. It would seem to go along well with our military-sounding nickname for the  Band "The Green Brigade".   Are you going to develop a flag/guidon that represents this passionate clan from the North Texas alumni/fan base? IF so, a natural representation of an infantry would be someone walking like this guy....

     

    Image result for North Texas "walking eagle" school image

     

    ....or maybe this guy.....Image result for North Texas "walking eagle" school image

     

     

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  8. 2 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

    Who is Chuck Curtis?

    Chuck Curtis - Wikipedia

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    After one season with the Giants, Curtis returned to Texas in order to pursue a coaching career. He began at Holliday, where he led the 1958 Eagles to an 8–2 record and barely missed the playoffs. The following year Curtis moved to 2A Jacksboro, where he turned around a program in the dumps for 10 straight years and culminating in the state title in 1962. The Tigers outscored their opponents 602–43 that year. Curtis soon moved on, as he succeeded Homer Johnson as head coach at 4A Garland. Guiding the Owls to back-to-back state titles in 1963 and '64, Curtis became the first coach in Texas high school football to win consecutive titles at different schools in different classifications, going 26–1–1 during that stretch.[3] He also joined, at that time, Waco's Paul Tyson, Amarillo's Blair Cherry and Abilene's Chuck Moser as the only coaches to win three straight state crowns.[citation needed]

    I take it back. Todd Dodge could never coach and recruit as well as Chuck Curtis. Chuck Curtis, if given the same resources with an opposing team, would have consistently kicked TD's ass. 

     

    Chuck Curtis: Glory on and off the field | Local News | cleburnetimesreview.com

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  9. 16 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

    Let’s see.  Southlake Carroll has 4 state titles without Todd Dodge (3 before him and 1 since).  

    Austin Westlake was a real downtrodden program before the “legend” got there, only going to the state final in 1990, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2006, and 2009 while winning 76% of their games all-time…and they really fell off after he left, only going a combined 28-2 (with both losses to North Shore) in the last two years.   And Drew Brees was their only notable alumnus…as long as you don’t count Sam Ehlinger or Nick Foles, and this guy who was under center during Dodge’s state title wins: https://247sports.com/Player/cade-klubnik-46056879/high-school-219672/

    Yeah, Dodge has been a real do more with less kinda guy.   Ever taken the time to look up his coaching record when he isn’t in an ultra-affluent suburb.   

    I've always referred to him as the "ultimate opportunist".  Kind of like Chuck Curtis. Only Chuck Curtis had a lot more personality.

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  10. Do "edge rushers" check for off-tackle/end runs before going after the QB? Because one of the most effective runs against our defense was a simple off-tackle run to the left. I think on two occasions it got a TD, and on other occasions it got very large gains. We're not talking about trick plays with lots of motion. They just handed it to the RB and he straight away took of toward the left DE (who often wasn't there) and was often untouched by anyone playing any position in the DL. 

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  11. 22 hours ago, Green Otaku said:

    People are upset at the players because it's a change to how things were done, I get it. But people have to step back and realize they are working within the system in place, change that and it changes what they can do. For a while I had felt like the big schools were unhappy with schools like App State, Cincy, Boise, other strong G5s, that found hidden gems in recruiting that allowed them to compete. Recruiting is hard and not every player you bring in pans out, so what could these programs do to get these players they missed? Do what they do with coaches from the G5, just buy them. 

    Hmmm, sounds like a farm system inside a farm system for the NFL.

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  12. 47 minutes ago, UNT78 said:

    This is happening! We were never going to be a major player nor will SMU. Maybe, this is the new UNT for the better and a playoff in the future could be in our reach someday @ whatever they call this division with 100 teams left out.

    But it gives me great satisfaction that they have paid MUCH MORE for their situation than we have.

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  13. On 12/31/2023 at 10:05 PM, emmitt01 said:

    NIL is pay-for-play, and anyone who denies this is either not too bright or being disingenuous.   
     

    Texas doesn’t offer 100k to EVERY o-lineman recruit a year ago because they’re actually utilizing their name, image, or likeness.   Kids aren’t signing with SMU because they think “yeah, the culture of this place fits me.”  

    Kids are earning a salary and the NCAA is expecting people to believe it is anything but what it is.  

    Since I was mentioning in another thread how Hollywood blew daises and rainbows up the rear ends of the general population back in the 30's to help them have a vacation from reality. They also took a reality-based look at college football........IN 1937! 

    Saturday's Heroes - Wikipedia

     

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    Saturday's Heroes is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward Killy from a screenplay by Paul Yawitz, Charles Kaufman, and David Silverstein based on George Templeton's story. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, the film stars Van Heflin, Marian Marsh, Richard Lane, Alan Bruce, and Willie Best.

    Plot[edit]

    Val Webster is the quarterback of Calton College's football team, but besides dealing with criticism of his play, Val needs money, which he gets by scalping tickets to the games.

    A teammate, Ted Calkins, commits suicide after being caught moonlighting at a job, and Val's ticket scheme is exposed as well, causing university president Hammond to expel him. Disgusted by the hypocrisy in college athletics, where the school reaps hundreds of thousands of dollars while the athletes stay broke, Val teams with sportswriter Red Watson to bring attention to the matter, with girlfriend Frances providing moral support.

    Val lands a job coaching for a rival college. When its game against Calton comes up, the outcome convinces Hammond and others that something must be done to change the unjust way student-athletes are rewarded for their play.

     

     

  14. On 1/3/2024 at 5:47 PM, Arkstfan said:

    Likewise it was becoming clear that there was an incredibly serious risk that we could not feed ourself as a nation. 

    There were no chemical fertilizers that were cost effective until the Harber-Bosch process was developed. Until then there were only organic fertilizers that were cost effective and mining of guano was a major industry. Fun trivia. During WWII the US laid claim to a number of small islands in the Pacific as potential bases. Several of them it turned out that US had actually claimed as territory in the 19th century because there were deep layers of hardened bird crap that were mined to use as fertilizer.

    Soil exhaustion was a critical issue. Erosion was a major crisis that finally came to a head during the severe drought that clobbered the Plains states and much of the south during the 1930's with some areas being in a drought for 8 years which led to the dust bowl.

    Norman Borlaug gave us the third key to food security (along with proper land management and chemical fertilizers) by developing the better strands of wheat that produced more grain per stalk and were more resistant to adverse weather.

    In span of basically 30-40 years the US went from struggling to feed itself to being a huge exporter of food.

    Along with teachers colleges and agriculture colleges, mechanical arts or engineering became a major function as the Industrial Revolution evolved into the modern assembly line and rapid product development especially consumer goods.

    It is really amazing that in the span less than forty years the US survived two major wars, three periods of food shortages, a deadly flu epidemic, an economic disaster that had as much as 25% unemployment and rode through most of it with a sense of optimism and community.

    Well Hollywood in the 30's helped a lot with that. People were looking for an escape from their reality, and Hollywood came through for them....big time.

    Also, crime in the west was not as much of a concern as the crime rate in general in the US. Horace Greely's encouragement to "go west young man" was an much an effort to push the socially unacceptable people living in the cities, out into the wide open spaces away from the citizens that were burdened by their dysfunctional behaviors, as anything else. Maybe they would become successful......or maybe they would fall victim to indians and the elements.

    Social thinkers, and/or what we would call "influencers" of that time pondered the problem and came up with a solution. They all noticed that most of the crime commited in the US was by people who had no formal education. They pronounced the educated class in America as the most moral and upstanding of people. They declared that an educated man would be a more moral citizen of the US. SO, they got behind an increase in construction of more Colleges, mainly teacher's colleges, thus giving more of the citizens an opportunity to formally improve themselves. 

    All of this sounded good, and a lot of money was poured into new colleges so that more Americans would have the opportunity to formalize their good moral character with a higher education.

    Then in 1924, what was called the "crime of the century" took place. The case of Leopold and Loeb....Leopold and Loeb - Wikipedia. Turns out that the educated/intellectual man wasn't so moral after all. I'm sure all those social thinkers/influencers were sitting at their breakfast tables reading the headlines and pulling their hair out.

     

     

     

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  15. 1 hour ago, Glory to the Green said:

    I think the main thing we need is an accurate passer.  Preferably a player who has some game experience.  

    Seeing a few more QB’s entering the portal yesterday gives me confidence that we’ll land a high quality QB. 

    You mean like Mason Fine? The record setting QB that never won a conference championship game or a bowl game?

    I am not attempting to denigrate his statistical accomplishments, but it takes more than an accurate passer to build a winning program. 

    It is a good start however. 

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  16. On 12/25/2023 at 9:23 PM, Arkstfan said:

    I say Memphis State because I grew up with it being Memphis State. Never understood the passion to drop state off a name, in my experience I think it adds flair. I understand wanting to change SW Texas State to Texas State. One time in a shop in Little Rock was looking at all the sports stuff, clerk asked if he could help. Said I'm looking for something more than just Arkansas. Oh like what? Arkansas State.

    Three schools were on our hate list. Memphis State, Loser Tech, and SW Louisiana.

    Utterly indifferent to La Tech now but I might just take a 2-10 season if the wins were over Louisiana and Memphis.

    I'd call em West Tennessee Teachers but too long to be fun.

    It seems that just about every state school that was founded around 1900 started out as a Teachers school. Especially in the rural areas of the U.S. 

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