[UNT vs. WKU 🏈 Watching Party Thread]

14 hours ago, Jonnyeagle said:

I'm interested.  What's the food like?    Also how cold is the beer and do they have taps?

Here is a link to the menu.  Good stuff!  https://www.chopshopmckinney.com/menu

[UNT vs. WKU 🏈 Watching Party Thread]

I’ll start:

[Former UNT WR & Olympic Bobsledder Johnny Quinn to be the keynote speaker at next week’s UNT AlumNight]

 

Join the UNT Alumni Association Collin County Chapter for AlumNight — the first stop on your journey back for Homecoming! We’ll enjoy an evening of delicious food, craft cocktails and great entertainment, including live music and a keynote speech from U.S. Olympian and UNT alumnus Johnny Quinn (’06). 

Don’t miss this great chance to connect with fellow UNT alumni and reminisce about your days on campus. Event includes heavy hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, the opportunity to meet Johnny Quinn and more! 

AlumNight Featuring Olympian Johnny Quinn
Thursday, November 3
6 – 8 p.m.

Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West
6007 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024

Cocktail Attire

Registration:  https://untalumni.com/events/alumnight-featuring-olympian-johnny-quinn/

[GET HYPED]

[San Antonio Roll Call]

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

van Gogh Mean Green!

[When CBSS, ESPN & Game TV cameras are inside Apogee—Which side seems to be almost totally ignored?]

25 minutes ago, GRN-WHT said:

It just isn’t that simple. 
 

The camera positions are on the press box side in every stadium in the country. 
 

It’s the network’s job to cover the game, not to be a PR arm of the university. 
 

Once again, the problem is bad football. 

WKU took a different approach at their stadium.  They put a press box and cameras on the visitor side and the much larger club level and seats on the home side.  That way, the stadium looks more impressive on camera and better view of the WKU sideline instead of the visitors.   Seems a little wheels off that their logo on the 50 faces the visitor side for the cameras, but it all seems for the cameras.

 

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

[DRC Sunday column: UNT fans may hate the idea of it, but UTSA is the rival the Mean Green have long needed and now have]

31 minutes ago, TripleGrad said:

UTSA is not a rival.  It's just a conference member.  If we weren't both moving to the AAC would anyone -want- to continue to schedule the game?  No.  And that's the difference between competition and rivalry.

While I agree with this currently, I think potential is there.  If UTSA continues to get national recognition and remains competitive, their proximity and competition for recruiting could make them a good natural rival.  The same reasons hold with SMU.  In both cases, teams need to be consistently competitive with each other.  We currently lack that consistency.  

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

For friends in Tarrant County:

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

19 hours ago, Green Crazy said:

I'm going to try it out this week.

I think you’ll like it.  I’ve received feedback from several that this is the best place we’ve held these.  

[How to Improve GameDay Experience at UNT]

I wore my kilt to the game, which I do periodically.  (Don't judge.)  I'm walking in and one of the security guards at the gate said "Sir, she is going to need to check inside your bag."  I looked at her oddly and then looked down at my sporran and said "This?!?"  Sure enough.  I awkwardly opened it up and gave a gentle pelvic thrust so she could see inside it.  That was a first in my history of game day experiences.  I could hold more in my pockets than I could in that thing.  

[Can we beat UTSA, WKU, or UAB?]

[How to Improve GameDay Experience at UNT]

Great ideas.  I received a game experience survey today.  Hopefully you did too and can add these to the survey.  Seems like each week I see that they changed something that seems to be based on survey results.  This week they cut the ADA lot space in half so people could still get to the prime tailgating spots.  They seem to be listening if you share feedback in the surveys.

[UNT vs. UTSA Football Watching Party]

BATTLE FOR FIRST PLACE IN CONFERENCE USA!  Join fellow Mean Green fans to watch the University of North Texas take on the UT San Antonio Roadrunners from the McKinney ChopShop Sports Garage. We'll have plenty of UNT swag and door prizes to be awarded at half time. $5 Mean Green Shots will be available. The game will be shown on multiple TVs around the restaurant and bar with game audio throughout. This event will be the next best thing to being at the game!  https://fb.me/e/2VFHu2eKb

[La. Tech Video Game Highlights]

Well, we had video-game-like rushing statistics. 

[Attendance For UNT LA Tech: 16,590]

2 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

TCU is ranked and were playing another ranked team for first place. At a place that is expected to win or they will fire you…they fired the guy with a statue in front of their stadium because he was slipping.

We have nothing like that. Our coach looks out everyday at the practice fields named after a coach who got eventually got fired with a 42-64 record. Our students are basically told that football isn’t important here. And they’ve been told that for decades. 

If I recall correctly, you can thank Matress Mack for that.  Dickey didn’t even want them named after himself.  (Wanted them to be named posthumously after former UNT QB Andrew Smith.)

[The Sleeping Giant]

[Parachute “drop in” pre game Saturday ?]

56 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

I'm just so glad all 200 fans witnessed. 

No doubt.  If not for the band on the field, I was thinking from the air the Navy Seals might have thought they had the wrong stadium.  I'm not sure how the home side looked from the student side, but the student side looked pretty anemic again today.  I suppose we've lost them for the year due to the early season non-conference losses?

[I'll say it]

51 minutes ago, peanuts104 said:

I would rather die then have Tom Herman as our coach.

Ha!  Makes me laugh when folks use the word “then” when they meant “than”.  Really changes the sentiment of the sentence.  

[Parachute “drop in” pre game Saturday ?]

 

[This weekend’s unis]

I think I would like it better if the decal  on the helmet matched the number on the sleeve.  Too many different fonts, colors of green, patterns, etc.  

[This weekend’s unis]