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Know the foe: North Texas Mean Green
What is now the University of North Texas began as Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute in 1890.
The name changed to North Texas Normal College in 1894.
From 1901 to 1923, the institution was known as North Texas State Normal College.
The campus in Denton, TX, was called North Texas State Teachers College from 1923 to 1949. The name was shortened to North Texas State College in 1949.
The transition to university status took place in 1961. The name was North Texas State University until 1988, when State was dropped.
North Texas system
The North Texas University system also has locations in Dallas, Fort Worth and Frisco.
Frisco, coincidentally, is where James Madison won the Football Championship Subdivision title in 2017 with a 28-14 victory over Youngstown State when Pirates coach Mike Houston was directing the Dukes.
There were 32,596 undergraduates in the fall of 2021 and 9,776 postgraduates.
Location
Denton is located about 40 miles northwest of Dallas.
The driving distance from Greenville, NC, to Denton is 1,300 miles. Driving time is 18 hours, five minutes.
Mascot, colors
North Texas has had an eagle for a mascot since 1922.
The mascot’s nickname is Scrappy.
School colors are green and white.
Nickname
North Texas teams are nicknamed Mean Green.
The nickname developed when the 1966 football team was second nationally in rush defense.
Defensive tackle “Mean” Joe Greene, a four-time Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was a sophomore on the 1966 team.
read more: https://bonesville.net/2023/02/03/the-new-american-part4-north-texas/
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25 minutes ago, BleedingGreen said:
Abou -Jemison matchup best big man matchup in conference .
Many great matchups in this game .
Vladislov Goldin would like a word with you.
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The rankings mean nothing as I have posted 100 times on here.
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Don't get me wrong, I hope he does well but goodness, according to Bert the dude is making basically $500K! Almost double all the rest. That's a lot of scratch where I come from. Can't argue with what he accomplished at ISU.
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2 hours ago, Danish43 said:
Any good hotels somebody can recommend near Rice?
Hotel ZaZa is nice but not cheap. There are plenty of good options there unlike in Denton sadly.
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You know it must really suck to be UTSA. First, they have a used car salesman as a head coach that is the biggest conman in college football. Secondly, they play in a rented stadium that is 20 miles away from their shitty campus. Their basketball team plays in a high school gym and is an embarrassment to the AAC. Traylor has been so lucky with Frank Harris, a guy he didn't even recruit.
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I'll take dudes over stars any day.
Trust In Morris (TIM)
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That's why I am sort of disappointed when people bring up the former coach and make comparisons etc and try to justify and compare them. This staff is such a breath of fresh air and I am so excited about where they can take us. There is really no comparison to me.
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3 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
I love that you singled out a flop in this class
Singled out a flop? The #1 recruit in the class and they crowed about it and let everyone get their hopes up knowing he would never qualify the entire time and then waited until almost the 1st game to sheepishly let everyone know he didn;t have his grades. Sorry Charley, but you really need to stop polishing a turd.
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I like that song "Hey Now" by Gary Glitter as an opening song.
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14 minutes ago, SUMG said:
I wonder if any other school in the nation......has a head football coach AND a head basketball coach, who both made their teams....as walk-ons?
Grant has treated walk-ons well in his tenure....giving scholarships to both DJ and JJ.
As to Eric.....shouldn't say this....but some of the walk-ons he's bringing in.....impress me more than some of Littrell's signees.
I am not aware of any. I would put this class up against anything Littrell ever did.
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12 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
We were saying the same things on SL's first signing day:
https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/Season/2016-Football/Commits/Looking forward to finding out who of this year's class is going to be the next Mason Fine, LaDarius Hamilton, EJ Ejiya, Rico Bussey, Khairi Muhammad, etc... That was a pretty special class!
You are joking right? Littrell had way more time to recruit that class, and half those recruits never played a down. The top recruit of the class William Johnson was ineligible for grades at his time of signing and they kept that from the fanbase until two weeks after the season started. There were some good players out of the class for sure and Mason Fine was his biggest recruit, but he had absolutely no competition for Fine and Graham Harrell was the one who found Fine.
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6 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:
Based on the early results in such a short time, if this recruiting staff stays together somewhat, will UNT sign a 4* on the next class? Or, in the NIL era is this almost undoable?
I think so. You are right, the chances of the entire staff staying intact is 0% but they will replace it with similar. They are just too good. I think the next class will be off the charts good. They are finally utilizing all of the potential we have had in terms of location and facilities. I also think the AAC is a big plus now as well.
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^^^^^^he is spot on!!
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49 minutes ago, p_phelps said:
Have a good hunch the last last non announced commit is Starling
Sure hope so!
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On 1/24/2023 at 10:00 AM, greenjoe said:
Attention North Texas Baseball fans…
As promised, next Wednesday, February 1, my Breakfast Kiwanis Club will be having Danny Suges speaking on the status of the reviving of North Texas Baseball. He will provide need of conversations he and other baseball promoters have had with Jared Mosley.
We meet at 7:00am at Rudy’s and if you’ll come, I’ll buy your breakfast. Just find me and I’ll do the rest.
Joe Holland. 940) 206-5177
When you reschedule please let me know.
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2 hours ago, Doug Rush said:
Eagle83. That idea has been discussed. Having a practice facility in Denton and playing at the RoughRiders stadium the first few years is absolutely an intriguing idea. We have also been approached by minor league operations who have an interest in discussing building a stadium. Our group is committed to helping get this athletic center built and then we think baseball should be next. The interest from the DFW baseball world has been outstanding and we feel we have an administration that wants baseball to happen sooner rather than later now. Both Danny Suges and Kevin Mckinney will be at the Kiwanis breakfast and both of these guys are absolutely committed to the cause and are studs.
meangreenbaseball.com
Sincerely,
Doug Rush
Thanks for all you are doing to bring baseball back @Doug Rush
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Just now, UNT Mean Green said:
Exactly. Those highlights against Austin Westlake and Duncanville are highly impressive!
He stood up like a man against a powerful Duncanville team full of college talent.
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1 hour ago, greenjoe said:
Mean Green friends. Please refer to the North Texas baseball on the Mean Green Athletics forum. Stay warm. J
Thanks Joey. I will check that out.
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5 hours ago, jtm0097 said:
I was impressed by his run blocking. He is not afraid to get in a 3 point stance and block down on a LB or DE. I liked the effort he was giving on runs that were several yards down field. He was still sprinting downfield looking to make a block. His pass blocking was not bad against the small DEs he was facing. I imagine he will need a year in the weight room to add strength for blocking FBS DL. Overall, I think he has a lot of potential. This is a good pickup for 2-3 years down the road.
One other note, the RB he was opening up holes for is a highly ranked prospect in 24. Bryan Jackson, averaged 128 yards a game and 2 TDs. I see his top 6 schools are OU, Michigan, UT, USC, Tennessee, and Baylor. We recently offered Bryan as well.
Good break down and analysis
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This guy is a beast!! Wow what an exciting time to be Mean Green!!
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6 minutes ago, Caw Caw said:
This is still a revisionist lens. He and the staff averaged a top three class in CUSA even walked away with a #1. Whether the staff developed or held onto that talent is a separate debate. But we have 2 NFL receivers and a slew of all-conference guys. Improvements to O-line. I'm excited about the future here, but come on just because it didn't pan out with Litrell doesn't mean him and the staff didn't have their merit.
When it comes to Morris, like in the case of say... Darden, some of these offers have dried up UTSA has an almost full class, most of their recruiting was done before the ESP. We will get a gauge of the reality of where we stand next cycle. Some of these recruits would have been picked apart by the same for only having one other off or only the service academies, etc.
It's an exciting time but the results are far from in, and it's just a bias against Litrell and what he accomplished. Even Morris stated this isn't an empty cupboard and spent a lot of time recruiting the guys he had already on campus. That's not necessary if Litrell was as bad at recruiting as you all seem to think he was. Let the roster walk and bring in your own guys then. Both things can't be true.
Dude I like you and usually your posts, but I am calling bullshit on this one. If what you said is true and Littrell was setting the world on fire with his recruiting, why in the F did we have 8 QB's on the roster, none of which could play? Why did UTSA curb stomp us in recruiting year in year out, starting with landing Frank Harris who we all know and will know again this coming season? I guess UTSA was just that much better than us with all of their facilities? I won't say Littrell's recruiting sucked but he certainly did not take advantage of many tools he was given like the indoor practice facility?
Also on that note, if another poster comes on here defending Littrell's recruiting versus past coaching staff I think I will throw up. Littrell had WAY better facilities and conference etc to sell. Way better. He did enough to get by and that is basically it and to say otherwise if revisionist. The man did not win one conference championship in 8 years and C-USA is not the SEC.
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Love this kid. Immediate starter!
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VIEW FROM THE EAST: NORTH TEXAS The new American
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They sort of remind me of Memphis as they have a solid base of local support.