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TV’s 30/30 documentary entitled “Pony Excess” would show many that the arrogant attitude on the Hilltop which landed SMU on Death Penalty row has not changed at all. What has changed is what a school has to do to earn its way to the top a school along with its wealthiest supporters can purchase now.
As has been said before: “He who has the gold rules” or the subtitle to even that is: “NCAA—GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY—WE’RE DOING THIS OUR WAY.” All the NCAA rules changes with NIL & the Transfer Portal which has led to the elimination of amateurism no longer being a part of the NCAA seems was ready-made for a school like SMU. To be called a P5 school today definitely has a price tag attached to it.
I just hope UNT doesn’t go back to its “3 giant steps forward—5 giant steps backwards” modus operandi of the last half century because we can’t buy athletic success fast enough.
GMG!
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This latest projection is from “The Weather Channel.”
Mavawous’ (Billy Crystal)
GMG!
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The following are not approved for entry into DATCU Stadium:
- Purses, bags, containers larger than a small clutch bag.
- Backpacks.
- Binocular cases.
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- Camera bags.
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- Computer bags.
- Coolers.
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15 hours ago, emmitt01 said:
I don’t care if you’re from Texas, or even a place hotter, unless you have been in this heat working out for the past month or so you are not ready for it
Yep. True.
Game should still be moved to PM because it’s not too late to do so.
Nevertheless, I’ll be there for the 3pm kick to show visual & vocal support.
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1 hour ago, BearInsider said:
Cal fan here. Really looking forward to coming out to Denton and watching the game in person next week. A few things about this Cal team:
- The Bears transfer portal class was top 20 nationally
- Cal's defense will be its strength. 10 of the 11 projected starters have started games in the past. The only three newcomers are a safety who was the MWC DPOY last year, a CB who was an all MWC performer last year and RS freshman ILB whose the best athlete on the Defense. 1st team AP12 ILB Jackson Sirmon leads the group.
- If the defense has a weakness, it's the pass rush. The strength will be in the secondary where the Bears have four pre-season All-Conference players and a freshman AA is now relegated to a back up role
- Offensively, Sam Jackson will be the starter at QB and he's a first-time starter and clearly the biggest unknown on the team. He was a high four-star recruit, he's undersized at 5'11, he's got a big arm and is very athletic. How he plays this year will likely dictate the type of season the team will have
- The OL is the weakest unit on the roster. The hope is that former UNT OC and OL coach Mike Bloesch will be a difference maker. All five players are former starters so there's a lot of experience but last year this group was truly bad. They are better-run blockers than pass protectors
- Our RB Jaydn Ott is a difference maker. Got some Freshman AA recognition last year. He's the team's clear-cut star and can do it on the ground and as a receiver
- The WR corps is very deep and experienced. A lot of big WRs. Some speed but only one proven difference-maker in Jeremiah Hunter
- TE group are more blockers than receivers. Former UNT TE Alberding has locked down the back up role and will play a lot
- This is Justin Wilcox's deepest and most talented team. That may be damning with faint praise. And his ability as a HC is suspect given the mediocre record. He hired Jake Spavital as the OC who struggled as a HC but was among the best OC/QB coaches in the Pac 12 and a lot is expected from Mike Bloesch
It's hard as an outsider to handicap UNT. New coaching staff with quite a bit of personnel turnover. Feels like the MG have a strong RB room, a solid WR room and that the OL may be the best unit on the field? Can your new starting QB run - is a he a dual threat?
Welcome Bear Insider!🤠
Hope we get to meet many from California this Saturday.••• Once spent a week (by way of Houston) & a 2 day tourist drive near Cal Bear Territory (that is, staying in San Francisco off Balboa St near the Pacific) & with my sister & her husband who worked at General Letterman at the Presidio. It was still the vacation of a lifetime. I lived in Honolulu one time & that Hawaiian city is no match for the late Tony Bennett’s favorite city.
We look forward to a well played football matchup with no idea what we or what y’all will bring to DATCU Stadium. That makes it even the more exciting. Travel safe.
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57 minutes ago, GrayEagle said:
San Diego is the 30th largest media market in the United States. They usually have quality teams. They want out of the Mountain West.
I don't think so. SMU would report that as 35,000.
Is this truly Jack the GrayEagle.? LOL! I've never in 52 years being around you heard you say anything that would even hint of being disparaging about S M U. Nothing--(as in nothing--EVER!
See you this Saturday afternoon at fabulous DATCU Stadium!
Go Mean Green!
Beat the CAL Bears !
GMG!
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On 8/24/2023 at 12:12 PM, TheReal_jayD said:
Con: He is super fast and athletic
Pro: Very inexperienced
Fast will take a QB a long ways quicker.
Remember the Rice Owls game at DATCU during covid & Jason Bean's long run for a TD? It was a thing of beauty. Once Bean turned the corner no one was going to catch him.
Here it is at 0:15 on the time line
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Were not 2 of our UNT team captains walk-ons?
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1 hour ago, Dannymacfan said:
The Logo is a ledger book?
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38 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:
UTSA ass-kiss Mike Craven made sure to take a swipe at not only Rogers but Stone, also
No matter why/how it happened, he was never a top 5-7 QB in Texas heading into 2023. If he was, he’d be starting over the ACU transfer who couldn’t factor in last season.
What a pile of 🐔 💩 he can be at times.
Mike Craven may have a legit nervous breakdown after Traynor becomes Jimbo’s heir apparent at TAMU.
As it is, I’m not sure the AlamoDome is large enough (as Kyle Field will be) for Traynor’s ego. Just watch & listen to that guy. Would love to play poker with that RR’s face (& the egomaniac attached to it).
(Hope to see all these guys & more on September 2’nd) ***That day was a “white out” game hence the white T-shirts.
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Seems UNT’s DATCU Stadium is not the only football venue with a wing zone end zone. Notice how Seattle has a Jumbotron at the top of theirs.
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GMG! BEAT THE CAL BEARS! See y’all at DATCU (is it dat’sue)?
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Surfing the web minutes ago I read where an NC State coach told Stanford & Cal to—DROP DEAD!
This photo came from ponyfans.com
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15 hours ago, SilverEagle said:
You know Jim. We all have stories about crappy jobs that we had when we were still young and struggling to save some money to go to school. Where I come from, the typical job for teenagers (in the summer) was hauling hay. Now, I didn't do that all the time, but the few times that I did it, I got to help haul alfalfa hay and stack it up to the very top of the metal hay barn in the middle of the summer. As arduous and shitty as that job was (and anyone growing up in rural Texas understand just how shitty hauling alfalfa hay is), it was not as challenging as another job(s) I had to work at with a small construction company in my hometown. It seems that one summer the construction company (Camel Construction) got awarded two flat roof replacement jobs at downtown businesses, plus the job of replacing the flat roof on the High School auditorium. All these jobs involved scraping off the old roofing and tossing it about two stories down to the pickups, but it also involved conveying the hot tar to those roofs via a pully system and five-gallon buckets.....in the middle of the summer.
So, whilst doing the auditorium job (which took about three days) me and the guys I was working with (the owners of the company...one a UT grad and the other a Harvard grad) had gotten down off the roof completely soaked in sweat and began trudging back to our various trucks. As we started our journey, a gaggle of football coaches passed us on their way to the field house. One of the coaches was a particularly annoying coach who was very fond of the sound of his own voice. He never walked anywhere, he tended to strut from one locale to another.... all the time incessantly chattering in his annoying speech pattern. As they passed us this (aforementioned) annoying coach spoke up and said "gentlemen-gentlemen, now I don't want any of you to work too hard". Now, the two owners were too exhausted to say anything, and they kept trudging along. But I disliked the guy so much I had to stop and say "Coach, you know something? If you weren't so full of shit, you'd just weight 100lbs"........ His colleagues loved it! And they hooted and laughed at him the rest of the way to the field house......one of them was the head coach Chuck Mills.
Jim, I've never been inspired to say that to anyone else. Let's keep it that way.............😎
Well, Buffalo Bill, my lips are sealed.
You did have quite an Interesting job back in the days of your youth.
In my Gulf Coast home town of Danbury in Brazoria County (near Alvin, Texas) we had rice farms & I spent a few summers of my youth walking in flooded rice paddies while running from blunt tail water moccasins among other things. I had a shovel on my shoulder & digging a hole in a levy to move water from one paddy to the adjacent one. The heat, humidity & snakes would keep one alert. After about 3-4 months of dealing with that we’d be cutting rice near the 4’th of July.I drove a Case 10:30 tractor while pulling an auger wagon so I’d pull up beside a Case combine who’d empty its load of rice into my auger wagon & then…..I’d take my load to a rice truck (up from the Texas valley) & then auger out my rice into those trucks. They would take the rice to huge dryers.
UNT alum Chuck Mills & (back then) the Decatur coach as I recall I read in this thread that Chuck had passed. He was really one of the good guys & I was sorry to hear he was no longer with us.
See ya’ on the 2’nd of September, Bill, at DATCU Stadium.
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Discussing this weather with another UNT alum yesterday and......he did remind me that UT-Austin will have 100,000 fans show up at DKR Memorial for a 2:30 pm kick-off on Sept. 2'nd -- the same day we kick-off at 3:00 pm. Their game will be televised so......are Tea-sipper fans tougher than Green'bloods?
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More UNT Gear•••
Driving around Weatherford (Parker County) & Fort Worth I’ve been amazed at all the Texas Tech stuff on autos. It amazed me a school 4 hours from DFW has so much support & so—while in SW Fort Worth I go by Rally & get these for my car.
LET’S FILL IT, FOLKS!
GMG!
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6 hours ago, greenjoe said:
Happy Birthday Gray Eagle !
Plumm, I was at Fouts in that rain storm as well. I’ve taken showers and not gotten as wet.
Greenjoe—a good one! 😆
See you & a whole host of other green’bloods soon!
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On 8/13/2023 at 11:58 PM, NT80 said:
The AAC is only $10m to leave, but has like a 27 month give-notice provision to announce leaving, thus you're looking at now joining for the 2026 season! Lol
And utsa is giving most their monies to their head football coach along with his 10 year contract, their AD & their school president. Doesn’t take long for a school to empty its coffers.
Still it’s like Cush’ told Jerry Maguire: “I just want to play some football!”Sept. 2••3:00pm••DATCU••Stadium
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Absolutely at the top of the list of one of our greatest supporters of all things UNT & Mean Green I’ve ever known.
I have known you & your lovely late wife, Jessica, Jack, since the days you were an executive with Jimmy Dean Foods, Inc. over in Dallas. (I believe you worked with Jimmy’s brother).
SUMG & I laugh about the time we all sat in a monsoon covered by a clear plastic sheet to watch us play the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at old Fouts Field. Then there was the snow game in Denton vs. Bobby Bowden’s Fla. State Seminoles. We were there!We’ve all had some laughs & a few disappointments along the way following the school who bestowed to us our degrees (& many good memories) but whatever the score, we still show up to sing “Glory To The Green” accompanied by the Green Brigade, don’t we Jack?
Nevertheless•••HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA’, JACK!
GMG!
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North Texas had so embarrassed SMU in this matchup as seen below in the video that SMU began using some of their techniques which reminded many of their Death Penalty years; that is, of buying success instead of doing it the old fashioned way—-earning it without buying it.
Who knew that MBU (Moneybags U) would soon play a big part in a new “Playing For Dollars” NCAA.
Post their huge loss to UNT, SMU powers would soon meet & had to be thinking: “These guys come to University Park next Fall & we cannot afford to have a repeat “non-performance” of the disaster which took place up in Denton.” They had a plan to insure that would not happen again.
So…..•••SMU started proselyting other schools football players. TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech & UH got protective of their own star players once SMU’s methods became known to all. And SMU wonders why there is no interest for their style in the Big 12? “Hell, we let SMU in the Big 12 & they’ll start stealing our players, too, & telling recruits that only country bumpkins go to schools like the ones in Fort Worth, Waco, Lubbock & off Cullen Blvd., Houston.”
•••Henceforth, SMU from now on (or until the NCAA rules committee regains their ever-loving sanity) the Mighty Mustangs would spend “whatever it took” to all but replace the team that embarrassed all of University Park at UNT’’s Apogee Stadium that particular September evening in 2018.
Later, SMU football letterman Garry Webber suggested to the SMU kingpins probably saying something like: “Hey! There are zero NCAA FBS schools with 30,000’ish sized stadiums garnering any expansion interest at any P5 conferences so here’s $50M toward getting that end zone expansion started.”_________________________
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See some of y’all at the Cal Bears/Mean Green game at DATCU Stadium.
*This will be ‘Grandpa’s’ 53’rd Mean Green home season opener vs the PAC12’s CAL Bears.GMG!
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I have a hard time having a P5 conference in Texas & Southwest that does not include UT & OU.
Plus Cincinnati & Central Florida being in any conference along with other Texas universities just seems an odd & total misfit.
UNT was not in it, but I still miss the Southwest Conference. Pardon the nostalgic moment, but it’s what old men do, right?
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2 hours ago, outoftown said:
I wish i were as certain that all AAC schools will be as level headed. SMU strikes as so desperate to find anything that may hold even the slightest potential of being more reputatble, they would do it and not blink about paying out. After that it gets more difficult, but if SMU does leave for such a conference, it might increase the pressure on others, similar to what colorado leaving did. UNT wouldn't have a choice though. It would be blackballed.
Like TCU, Baylor & UH are blackballing SMU?
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Honestly, I thought all this was mostly pipe dreams banter until I read ESPN could be in on the assisting of forming a new AAC; that is, ESPN along with AAC Commissioner Aresca). That makes it at least an outside chance.
If any of this doesn’t happen now, who’s to say it can’t ever happen? •••Realignment seems to be here to stay.BEAT THOSE CAL BEARS🐻
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(If this has been posted, I will remove this link).
I think many are prone to not believe anything they read in America today, especially on the internet & when you have pathological liars permeating Washington D.C.--both sides of the aisle, but this one (to say the least) is very interesting to most of us. I take it with the grain of salt. We know to do that, don't we? Yet AAC Commissioner Arresca must have a game plan to get this far & with him all things are possible. Still, to be part of this discussion is huge step forward. Who would have ever thought any of this this is (in fact) real--if it is real? At least something to talk about for another 100 plus degree day.
Nevertheless...Bloom Where Planted, North Texas!
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8 hours ago, Cr1028 said:
Forgive me but I don’t see anything in that Texas game that looks any better than what Austin Aune and Stone Earle showed last season. Where is the part that makes Chandler Rogers (not Aaron Rodgers) elite and a good portal transfer?
👨🦳OK! I’m Old & I Do Ramble! (I’m not alone, though).
UNT did not play anyone with near the talent of UT-Austin last Fall plus I’m not sure this thread was meant to pick the 2023 starting UNT QB, was it? Some will tell us that in NCAA FBS level football you can never have enough talented QB’s on hand. (Who is UTSA’s 2’nd string QB)?
I only have to look at some of our critical fan base to understand why start-up programs can catch up to or pass a 100+ year football program. We are not always the best judge or most astute experts of things relating to NCAA D1 athletics. (God Almighty, please don’t let UT-Arlington start their football program back up again).
We have 2 or 3 college football geniuses on GMG who are still mad that A.D. Fry took us out of the Missouri Valley to go Independent. He did have a plan with that, but so few followers in Denton. (See the below 1973 photo of which I think there is a former Denton mayor or city councilman in it).
The Mighty Mo’! I sometimes wonder if some of the critics ever bothered to check UNT’s cumulative record (especially in basketball) during those MVC “glory” years (sarc’). It was truly nothing special to get all that worked up about.
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New Update: Game Day Temp now down to “98” degrees. 👍👍
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Good one, Hunter Green! 😆