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Maclin and Rogers make one another look good. Neither one of them is going anywhere.....except hopefully to the NFL.
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6 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
There is a movie coming out regarding the Cauble Cowboy Mafia.
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19 minutes ago, wardly said:
Didn't Rex go to prison for dealing drugs?
It appears so.
QuoteAt age 67, Cauble became infamous when he was indicted under suspicion that he was bankrolling what was "reportedly the largest marijuana smuggling operation in Texas during the '70s."[3] A U.S. Attorney "labeled the dapper 67-year-old Denton, Texas, millionaire a 'general' in the 'Cowboy Mafia' of drug smugglers".[4] Members of the Cowboy Mafia were "caught in the seizure of a shrimp boat carrying 22 tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana to Port Arthur, Texas."[4] Many people who knew Cauble believed his ranch foreman Charles "Muscles" Foster had deceived Cauble and was the real leader of the smuggling operation.[3]
Cauble was indicted on a total of ten counts including three violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute (RICO), three violations of the Travel Act and four counts of misapplication of bank funds.[2][5] In 1982, the jury convicted him on all counts. The trial judge sentenced Cauble to serve concurrent five-year sentences for each count and ordered forfeiture of his share in Cauble Enterprises.[5][6] After serving five years, Cauble was released from prison based on a combination of time served and good conduct.[7] Cauble pleaded innocent to the charges[4] and maintained his innocence until the day he died.[7][8]
I'll have to adjust my statement to " But he would have had to acquire more influential/powerful people like Rex Cauble.......who were not under indictment."
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22 hours ago, wardly said:
Hayden Fry was unable to change our culture and neither has anyone since his departure.
Had he stayed he just might have. But he would have had to acquire more influential/powerful people like Rex Cauble. Jitter Nolan ran interference for him so that he didn't have to fight with the NT bureaucracy on a daily basis. But I'm guessing it still took its toll on him.
SO, when Iowa came calling and offered him the opportunity of a lifetime with none of the institutional aggravation that North Texas always presented, he made a no-brainer decision. After all, who wants to deal with the institutional Borg on a daily basis?
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On 11/7/2023 at 5:18 PM, GrayEagle said:
I hate to post this but I'd hate even more if I didn't post it.
What I'm referring to is that according to many we are approaching the end of this world. The signs are that there will be wars, earthquakes and famines. We are very likely on the verge of World War Three and the earthquakes are more numerous and we are also nearing a world wide food shortage.
The end will be the Rapture when the saved in Christ will be snatched up in the air after the dead rise and will be taken to heaven. Those remaining will go through seven years of hell before they go to the Great White Throne Judgment. Most of those will be cast into hell.
Those of you who do not know Jesus (especially) should begin learning about the end times. The best place to learn is in youtube.com/watch?N=RxZoOkymfgl. You have to subscribe to You Tube and you cannot have ad blockers. The sites that give the best information are INRI and pastor Allen Nolan. I know that Pastor Nolan requires subscriptions but his is the best to understand all of the End of Times.
Many of these have time periods except the Rapture. The problem is that it is the first thing to happen so if you aren't saved you will need to start on that portion immediately.
All life is eternal but you must spend it in heaven or hell.
With all due respect........
"But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father” (Matthew 24:33-36). As Jesus explains in this passage of Scripture, nobody knows when the Second Coming will be except the Father. The Lord Himself didn’t know when the Second Coming would occur because only the Father is to know.
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On 11/9/2023 at 6:16 AM, Hunter Green said:
Do away with the Texas helmets and incorporate the battle flag on the sleeves. Or maybe a battle flag helmet?
A Texas Rangers-style waving Battle Flag.
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We hired one of two good/best candidates for the job. The other candidate would be Cody Carthel. Morris and Carthel each have head coaching experience in TEXAS. Which means that they have (or should have) a better idea of the "challenges" of coaching football at North Texas and therefore, recruiting players to North Texas. McCarney like Bob Tyler back in 1981 both came from Big Time programs.....well...bigger than North Texas. And neither of them knew what the real challenges were here. Tyler was the first coach that openly verbalized that challenge when he mused "what the hell is wrong with these people?" McCarney wondered the same thing, but he wasn't so willing to openly verbalize it.
Morris is doing fine on the offensive side. He just needs to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with his DC and let him know that he expects the same level of improvement. Otherwise.........
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1 hour ago, 3_n_out said:
I just don’t get the stark differences between the first and second halves. I know there are adjustments made, but why can’t that be done on the run? They can’t wait to be down by 20+ points every time to make their charge.
The OL got their asses handed to them on many occasions this game. UTSA just showed what physical football was all about. If they look like this against SMU, it’s gonna be Cal all over again.
Or worse. Since SMU will not see us any longer, they don't have to show the least amount of mercy in the final score.
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Was one put out by the athletic department?
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20 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
I was wondering about the Scotch, but then I thought it didn't pair well with the enchiladas.
Hell, I don't even like beer with enchiladas. It's tea, or a tequila drink or water.
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20 hours ago, Cougar King said:
Traylor can't win without Harris
Interesting point.
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38 minutes ago, VideoEagle said:
Technically no, they would have needed to expand Fouts BEFORE the NCAA passed the rule. It was all retroactive. We simply had to drop for at minimum of a few years. But, we could have returned to 1A much, MUCH faster if we'd expanded Fouts.
Hurley was very much in favor of 1AA versus dropping football altogether or worse yet changing to Division III. He wanted scholarship football, but the Regents wanted to balance the budget AND reign in athletics after Bob Tyler was just spending beyond what he was authorized to spend.
16 minutes ago, Cerebus said:I was not here at the time, but my understanding comes from discussing the issue with people who were in athletics at the time, and with a couple members of the BOR who were also here at the time.
If NT had filed the waiver and then proven they had funded the aluminum seating at Fouts they would have stayed at 1A. Other schools in our situation did that.
My speculation is this. 1-AA was chosen because it was more affordable in the short run and joining a conference with local schools cut down on the travel expenses. Joining a 1-AA conference allowed for a clearer picture of what the future expenses would look like. Going the route of purchasing the aluminum bleachers (assuming that that would work) and then staying in 1-A as an independent, besides the extra cost of materials and installation, meant a lot of uncertainties and scheduling headaches. Not to mention the larger travel expenses that could go along with that.
Hurley and/or people who were advising him might have mentioned that the students at North Texas, and many alumni as well, were not fanatic enough to be significantly turned off by our opponents in our 1-AA conference.
After all, we never sold out the original Fouts field during the Joe Greene/Steve Ramsey era, but we did have a sell out for a big game with SFA in 1989, as well as a sell-out for the McNeese St. game in 1994.
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1 hour ago, RBP79 said:
The vitriol the DC is getting is deserved.
,,,especially when a former defensive player, and a professional businessman is moved to post a rant demanding his firing,
I was very surprised.
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2 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
This has been a pervasive thought here as long as I can remember.
It RARELY works.
Marcus Trice, and now JaMori Maclin, are the only two players I can recall over the past 2 decades that we pulled from a P5 school and played at an all-conference level with UNT. There is a laundry list of others, who either didn't help at all, or simply work in as 'also-contributing'.
What USUALLY works, is getting guys like Chandler Rogers & Riley Mayfield, who has proven to be very, very good at their previous level, and is ready to step up.Also Mazin Richards (Eastern NM), Jordan Smart (UTPB), Kaylon Horton (Tarleton) Ridge Texada (McNeese)
My all-time favorite who transferred from a small school was Jorden Case (78-79 starter) who transferred from Sul Ross U.
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1 hour ago, untjim1995 said:
Whatever the reasons, we had no business being a 1-AA program for 12 years. That killed our meager fanbase that we already had by nuking the few that gave to the program as grads from the 50s thru the 90s. That we have anyone from those years to still attend or give to the program is simply amazing. That’s why you get 18k for your Homecoming against Memphis with an enrollment of 47k and 300k living alumni in a gigantic metro area.
(heavy sigh) Look, I know that many out there are going to start rolling their eyes, but here goes again.
When C.C. (Jitter) Nolan was President of NT and Hayden Fry came to the school. We had NO endowment fund and Hayden Fry started the Mean Green Club. So that would be 1973 when it started......one year ahead of our endowment fund getting started.
We had no cultural concept of fund raising. Administratively, North Texas was stuck in the 40's, 50's,60's.
When Hayden Fry was lured away to Iowa, and Jitter Nolan was run out of town on a rail by all the "old nesters" . We culturally reverted to that era.
All things considered, we were lucky to have 1-AA as an option. Otherwise all those administrative :Mathews-ites would have had us playing against the likes of Sul Ross state and other non-scholarship schools.
Quotethe few that gave to the program as grads from the 50s thru the 90s.
Grads from the 50's thru 70's had no cultural concept of giving to the athletic department.
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7 hours ago, VideoEagle said:
One school, I think Cincinnati, threatened to take the NCAA to court but the lawyers worked out a deal where Cincinnati had a year (maybe two) to get their attendance up. They did and thus Cincinnati (I think that's who it was) was the only school that didn't qualify retroactively to got to stay 1A.
It was my understanding that it was LaLa (they were called SW Louisiana State then) that took on the NCAA. I always wondered why NT didn't do the same. Did they not know that this NCAA ruling was coming so that they could designate Texas Stadium as our home field?
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14 hours ago, rcade said:
When UNT got the student vote that built Apogee, a lot of student government, frats, sororities and other student groups worked hard to get their people out.
The President of the SGA ("Flyer") organized this vote. The first thing he did was to tell RV to stay the hell out of it. RV and his minions had organized a student vote that failed miserably. Mainly because it was obvious that the athletic department was behind it and was trying to shove it down the students' throats. AND he was warned that that just might happen.....but he wouldn't listen.
So "Flyer" put together a team comprised of representatives of all the groups that you mentioned above and came up with a great plan to sell it to the students. And for all this hard work I don't think that anyone from that great team was ever given any credit when it came time to put a plaque up on the stadium.
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On 10/27/2023 at 11:52 PM, southsideguy said:
I hope we never play smut again. They do nothing for our attendance (visitors) and help their attendance. If SMUT and UTSA are playing I will be a UTSA for part of Saturday.
I have always said that any Saturday when Notre Dame losses is a good Saturday. When Norte Dame AND SMU lose...it is a great Saturday. If they ever played one another in a bowl game I wouldn't be able to watch. I would have a meltdown brought on by extreme indecision.
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13 hours ago, untcampbell said:
When we play them up there, we see a historical and pivotal piece of real estate and stand along side academy of men and women that will proudly serve our country. We also see a legitimately historical college football program. Upgrade.
When we play them at home, we will get more opposing fans into DATCU in one game than we do from any five games from the team that is leaving our conference. Upgrade.
We got the better brand.
(no offense)
GMG
BINGO! BINGO! BINGO!
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28 minutes ago, Greenrex said:
I was born in Montague County.
😶 bless your heart.
Gregg County here.
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How about someone who can protect the QB, so that he has enough time to get the ball to these great WR's?
And while they're at it, about some guys that will be stopping the run and chasing the opposing QB around so that he cannot get the ball to their star WR?
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13 hours ago, greenminer said:
I'm pretty tired of moral victories, too, but I can still ignore the actual L and observe/recognize improvement.
you are much more generous in your assessment. I am SICK TO DEATH OF THEM.
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The Alumni association has had this logo for about 15+ years. It is one of the best logos that the University has in its inventory and (sadly) it's the most UNDERUTILIEZED. I see very little gear being produced and marketed with this logo on it. No hats, very few shirts, and no flags.
The main representative from Pro-line once told FFR and I that a hat with the NT-Star on it would be a killer product. He said it would out-sell anything that was out there for NT. BUT someone in the long-standing dysfunctional NT administration or the decision makers(?) in the equally dysfunctional NT Alumni association have never seen fit, or had the vision, to market it.
Besides hats and shirts, I would suggest the NT Battle flag with the NT-Star in place of the single star. Not the replace the Battle Flag, but as a flag for the Alumni who gather for tail-gating etc.
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56 minutes ago, MeanGreen_MBA said:
Here is the email I just sent
Christa,
I was given your contact information to ask about the Homecoming Parade.
I am an alumnus with 2 degrees from UNT. My wife and I always enjoyed going to the HC parade, and were disappointed when it was cancelled….in part, we were told, to Covid. I can get that. Now I being told that it is because of the lack of participation, too much clean-up, and environmental issues.
That, I do not understand. Universities across the country have HC parades. How do they avoid these issues? Clean up is not a valid excuse. Regarding participation, I will agree the crowd has shrunk over the years. I would put that on the University about promoting the event, not only to students, alumni, but the surrounding community.
The economic impact is surely a hit for business on the square. Get creative. Have the Greek community compete for prime spots on the route with competition….do something.
Those of us who donate to the University and athletic department were not consulted on this decision. UNT refuse to do the things that make other Universities stand out as the standard. UNT needs to be part of that standard.
Can you please explain why we are not having a parade? Not a boiler plate answer, a real explanation as to what factors lead to the decision. Who is the person that we need to reach out to regarding this?
Please help those of us who want this understand.
Thank you,
Steven KingYou forgot to "cc". president@unt.edu
I am retired from a State Agency. I learned a long time ago, to get the e-mail address of someone's boss when I wanted to make sure that I didn't get ignored or didn't want boilerplate responses.
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Is the "Triangle of Toughness" moving to College Station?
in Mean Green Football
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....and Kiffen?