SilverEagle

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK!!! Jack is on the left......😎

In the spring, Mr. Farrar reminded me a lot of this guy, who ate our lunch in the Bowl game. They list him as 5'8" but I think he's closer to Farrar's height. I would be very happy if Mr. Farrar developed into another diminutive player like this one.....Devin Singletary - Wikipedia...who ALWAYS ate our lunch when we played FAU.

When it comes to pure QB ability, Ruder is you guy. From what I observed in the spring he had the strongest arm, the most effortless release, and when he took off on a scramble he was surprisingly quick and fast. My only possible concern about him is his mental consistency. It gets down to how he (or any other QB's) reacts to an interception. If he's not having that issue, then he is a better choice than the other two. HOWEVER, I think that if Ruder starts having mental/leadership issues, then Stone Earl is your guy. He's one of those QB's that doesn't pile up big stats, but he's going to do anything that he can to win......much like Harris at UTSA.

The shirt above, minus the "State" and the "flying worm" perched on the nickname......like this one below.

I can't be there. But could someone come up to Coach Morris during the "milling around and meeting the fans" portion of the evening and ask him if he knows where we got our unique nickname? I did that to our previous coach and he proudly proclaimed "Joe Greene". I had to have a little more conversation with him than I thought I would have had otherwise.

Absolutely. But I've been very disappointed with other "logoed" products. They had some straw wide-brimmed hats at the stadium store, but the logo was so small, you had to be standing 3 feet away before you could tell that there was a NT logo on it. When it comes to logos, they need to be bold, large and simple. The SOW, NORTH TEXAS, and the alumni's NT star should be the main logos for hats and shirts. And if I had to choose between those three, it would be the NT-Star. But no one in the alumni association is interested in pushing it. I have yet to find where you can buy a cap with the NT-star on it.....and I'm a life-time member. Sorry for the rant. C-Rod, I have a couple of Boonie-type hats and the most practical premium that the alumni ever gave out.....a specialty cooling towel with the NT-star on it. The "we" I was referring to was the overall fan base who shows up for games. If the weather is as bad as I fear on 9-2, then we will have a brunch of one-and-done casual fans........of which there's already too many.

Well, then I assume that it will take place sometime around mid-morning at the IPF. Otherwise, if it was at the stadium, they would have to start at daybreak. If the current weather system stays in place until Sept 2nd, we are going to be in a world of hurt. With it starting @ 3 PM, they are going to have to give away straw hats and specialty cooling towels instead of those cotton promotional towels they've given away for decades. Either that, or they need to suspend their umbrella ban just for this one game.

Just based on what I observed of everyone's ability this spring, it should be Ruder. Rogers will go at it very hard, and so will Earl. But if Ruder has his head on straight this year, he will be the starter. My main concern is that we have had so many WR's and TE transfer, all the QB's are essentially starting over (with a few exceptions) and need to connect with the new guys and get their rhythm down with them. This is why I am not all that impressed with the ULM/UT highlights regarding Rogers. He was throwing to a completely different set of receivers in that game. The most adaptable QB will prevail. Not the fastest, and not the one with the strongest arm.......it's the one that is the most adaptable.

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Well, at least the ones that regularly come to tailgating to mooch food and drink and then go back to their dorms when the game starts won't have as far to walk.

Ok, after watching this I think it's time for a little "6 degrees of Decatur HS Football" 1964 Coach Bill Davis hired as head coach. The community's charge to him "Beat Jacksboro....little else matters". Fred Maples was on that 64 team as the starting QB. Fred Maples was later an assistant under Neal Wilson 1967, Neal Wilson was hired as an assistant coach. (he got to move a few miles closer to his home town of Era). On that 67 team was Gary Prescott, who later coached under Neal Wilson and was later the Head coach at Northwest HS. 1968 Neal Wilson was hired (at age 24) as the head coach @ Decatur, after Bill Davis moved on in his coaching career. On that 68 team was Ronnie Gage, who played DB, and according to a close friend of mine who was on that team, he was a favorite of Coach Wilsons, even though he was not an all-star player. After Neal Wilson moved on to Boswell, one of his assistants was hired @ Decatur, but was replaced after a few years by......Chuck Mills. Chuck Mills took Decatur further into the playoffs than either Bill Davis (who later coached at LD Bell) or Neal Wilson. And Coach Mills' offensive of choice (at least at Decatur) was the wishbone.,,,,one of the best ones I ever saw. My guess is that he ran the wishbone at Lewisville......which is probably where Ronnie Gage learned it as an assistant.

Find the video of the 1988 UT/North Texas game. North Texas was running what FFR (and others) called the "Flying Wishbone". It worked very well.

Hmm, back then, they must have required them to report the actual number of people in the stadium.

No one has mentioned this, but in addition to the money that we are getting from DATCU, I anticipate that every employee at the various locations will be more than happy to provide customers with season ticket applications. In addition, I anticipate that those same employees will be more than happy to help the season ticket applicants do the paperwork for automatic withdrawals from their accounts for season tickets and the Mean Green Club.

Yep! Plus, this guy will take it out of the backfield and he will return punts. Welcome to the MG family!

2022 UNT Football Media Almanac - University of North Texas Athletics (meangreensports.com) Go to page 116 of the Media Almanac. It has the all-time attendance starting in the year 1971. There are notable downturns, and occasional spikes. But overall, the yearly attendance has not changed all that much over our Hayden Fry years, or our best years in 1-AA when we were nationally ranked on many occasions. We sold out Fouts field (20, 252) for the first time in Oct of 89 against SFA. SFA forgodsakes! Our subsequent sell-outs and almost sell-outs were against...... Montana, Sept 1994, 20, 730 McNeese St. Oct 1994, 20,733 SMU, Oct 1990, 22,750 (SRO, it would have been more, but the Fire Marshall wouldn't allow any more fans in) TCU, Sept 2001, 22,837 (expanded to 30, 500 capacity) Baylor, Aug 2000, 28,315 (see above) Baylor, Sept 2003, 29,437. (See above) I'm still wondering what brought those sell out numbers (numbers that the Joe Greene/Steve Ramsey teams couldn't draw) to (the very crappy) Fouts field against the likes of SFA, Montana, and McNeese. WITH NO TAILGATING ALLOWED! I would suggest that we need to look at our game day experience. Does it promote a sense of community/belonging or is it just scheduled cooking out, drinking and general chaos....with most people wearing green and then going home when the game starts? This is the kind of pre-game that will encourage people to go into the stadium and PARTICIPATE! Even against an opponent like Kent State.

They are wearing more green than any UNT official does at any NT event......or photo-op.

Have a great day......but keep it legal. And stay out of the hot weather.

OMG! What a great idea! Can you imagine at the end of Mason Fine's (and his very able WR assistants) "drive" against UTSA? My God! The NT fans would have crashed the web-site. It would have been the single largest donation event in North Texas football history!

Well, Historically I can......and I have. As I have pointed out an infinite number of times in the past. FUND RAISING was not part of the North Texas culture until the early 70's. The Mean Green Club (now called the North Texas Scholarship fund) was started by Hayden Fry when he arrived in 1973. The North Texas endowment fund did not get established until 1974. 84 years after the school was founded.

When it was apparent that RV would not continue as AD, I favored Mosley to be his replacement. I was disappointed when Baker was hired (I had never heard of him), but I couldn't believe that shortly afterward Mosley was hired as Assistant AD. I took the opportunity at two different kickoff events to tell Mosley that he was my first choice back when Baker was first hired. I also couldn't believe that the North Texas administration actually made two competent hires in short order. Our administration has come a long way from the days of hiring the Bob Tylers and Craig Helwig's of the world.

😉 I was just trying to figure out how he was a four-year letter winner. In the 60's you couldn't play varsity sports until you were a soph.

Ok, which years did he play?

Just wondering. Was this a posted position that she came after and competed for against other qualified candidates. Or was she recruited to apply for the job?

East Carolina has to be one of the worst "directional" names. There is no state called "East Carolina".... only North or South Carolina. So, the name should be either NE Carolina or SE Carolina. Talk about directionally/territorially challenged. And then there is the overly vague collection of "directional" names. Starting with... Northwestern.........Northwest of where? Our name at least gives you a state to work with. Southern Cal.....that's a lot of territory to go hunting for their campus. Southern Miss......see above. South Florida.....see above. Southern Methodist,,,If you assume that the name is referring to the deep south, then that covers an area starting in Maryland and ending in Texas. They might as well have called it "Find-us-if-you-can- somewhere-in-the-southern-states-University."