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After claiming 6 Sun Belt championship titles in 2012-2013, the Mean Green teams were shut out in our first year in Conference USA. The soccer team finished 2nd in both the West and in the conference tournament to affiliate member, Colorado College. I hadn't realized until I came across the following articles that the Tigers were leaving for the Mountain West in 2014. The soccer team has a great schedule and hopefully Coach Hedlund's team has a great chance to claim the first of many C-USA championships for North Texas this upcoming fall http://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/cc-women-s-soccer-joins-mountain-west#.U4TENfldVjQ http://www.themw.com/#!/news-detail/mw-wsoccer-coloradocollegeaffiliatemember_02-20-14_w8v6u4 2014 Mean Green Soccer Schedule: Aug 22 Texas Southern 7PM Aug 24 Oregon State 11AM Aug 29 @Houston Aug 31 @ Lamar Sept 5 Abilene Christian 7PM Sept 7 Vanderbilt 1PM Sept 12 Oklahoma 7PM Sept 14 @Houston Baptist Sept 19 Gonzaga 7PM Sept 21 TCU 1PM Sept 26 LA Tech 7PM Sept 28 Southern Miss 1PM Oct 3 @UTEP Oct 5 @UTSA Oct 12 @Rice Oct 17 @ Florida Atlantic Oct 19 @FIU Oct 24 Charlotte 7PM Oct 26 Old Dominion 1PM Oct 31 WKU 7PM There are 12 home games slated for the fall with 1 Pac 12, 1 SEC, and 2 Big 12 foes making up one-third of those contests. Make sure you mark your calendars and try to make it out to at least one match to support one of our most successful programs in our quest to win C-USA hardware. A few early games even coincide with a home football game the next day/previous day. Abilene Christian/Vanderbilt (SMU) and Gonzaga/TCU (Nicholls State). I'm thinking I might start a tailgate on Friday night, catch a soccer game, and then keep up the party the entire next day

untjim1995 speaking some hard truths that the big money eagles don't want to face. this thread should be required reading for any fan who wants to get a little insight on the way things are done here at UNT with regards to both the overall administration and athletic administration. unt90 has produced some quality material herein as well

Underrated post. UNT90 gets it. it's not just RV, though. It's his entire senior administration in the athletic department. We as a collective fan base need to demand more of our athletic department. I applaud RV for assisting in the facility upgrades and navigating us towards CUSA, but if we want to go to the next level then upper administration and the big money donors need to clean house and bring in the next AD who will take us there

For the past 7-8 years, TV schedules have been announced in mid-June. In fact, our own CUSA announced the 2013 TV schedule on May 7, 2013. http://www.conferenceusa.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050713aaa.html

http://www.fbschedules.com/2014/05/college-football-teams-most-true-road-games-2014/ The list has 10 teams with 7 road games, my title mentions 9 because Utah State will use the "Hawaii Exemption" to play 6 home games (and 13 total games) Barring RV dropping a currently scheduled "bodybag" game, we'll be on this list in 2015

because C-USA claimed all the teams that are current members who won the award - which is why MUTS, F_U are on both lists Harry, you're right. It's a brand new article. The NCAA typically announces these a year after the fact and MeanGreen 93-98 was right to look up Sun Belt from last year to see if we were honored. we weren't - and now we can all see that the C-USA list had already listed all the current members who received the honor on their list

Brooke Foster with the walk-off HR - NT 11-8 Tulsa. Congrats, ladies. GMG

kind of late notice, but if you're in Denton or close by: come on out to the softball season finale! First pitch is at 1PM. Just pull your vehicle on up to the outfield wall and catch a great game vs. the C-USA regular season champs, Tulsa. Our softball team is playing to win a school-record 30th game today and to clinch the series win in the rubber match before heading off Boca Raton for the championship tournament

that shouldn't be a problem. The first bowl game is typically played the third Saturday in December (or two weeks after conference championship games), and final exams are usually the first full week in December - this year graduations are on the 12th and 13th

C-USA is currently sitting on 2 $35 million contracts with CBS sports and Fox. Combined they pay $14 million annually which breaks down to $1 million/school in TV revenue. By going back up to 16, the TV contracts don't have to increase the payout so I say wait until contract renegotiation comes back around. I think the current contracts run through 2016, two years from now. As contract negotiation is going on, Banowsky should discuss with the networks if adding two schools would increase revenue, if not, I say stick at 14. There's no reason to get a smaller piece of pie The bad thing about mega-conferences is that you would only see Marshall, MUTS and Southern Miss in Denton once every 14 years under that scenario. I'm perfectly fine with not having to go to some of the East schools very often, but 14 years between visiting destinations would be a long time and would stink for growing our brand in the east. It surprises me that other conferences haven't looked at UL, they sit in one of the most fertile per capita NFL states and should probably actually be number two in that state if they were ever funded properly by TV revenues, etc. Tulane and La Tech have more past prestige, but the Cajuns have more potential. They also have a larger, more rabid fan base than the other two.

calm down there, triple post. SilverEagle was referring to the '05 game in Austin being at 11AM

1. Zero New Mexico State is in the WAC/Sun Belt. I think you meant New Mexico. And Nicholls St isn't all lose-lose. It's a chance for another home win at Apogee, which is always preferable to a road game. It's also a chance for Mac to work out any kinks from the first three games, and first conference game, before taking a week off. Many fans love to watch the young guys get in there... an FCS school or lower FBS (a la Idaho last year) allows us to see some of our future Mean Green stars.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/28/report-conference-usa-buys-bigger-slice-of-bahamas-bowl-pie/ Thoughts?

While I encourage buying through the ticket office, I also want to have as much green in the stands as possible so I'm putting this link out there for folks who might be looking for a slightly cheaper ticket: http://www.stubhub.com/university-of-texas-football-tickets/texas-vs-north-texas-8-30-2014-4456332/ 2 tickets in the upper endzone for $61.40, the rest are $75+ . The visitors sideline is marked on the map My guess is the ticket office tickets will be in section 32 or maybe 131/132. I saw on some earlier posts that the official visitor tickets (sold through the ticket office) might be in the corner or endzone, so who knows. Does anyone know officially where these tickets will be so we can try to clump together? edited to add TicketCity link below: http://www.ticketcity.com/austin-tickets/north-texas-mean-green-at-texas-longhorns-aug-30-2014-1123667.html

looks like he's certainly willing to break rules, though. Or maybe they just don't apply to him?

you just now found this?? that's been common knowledge for well over a year. I agree with the point you're trying to make, but A&M and Baylor both signed several game series with the ponies a long time ago

.@Lauren_Poole pitches the shutout here in the mountainous terrain of El Paso! NT sweeps the doubleheader with an 8-0 win on a run rule. — Mean Green Softball (@MeanGreenSB) March 22, 2014

four. NDSU-OU, NCSt-SLU, SJ-UCONN, NMSU-SDSU my only loss on day one was that NC State-St. Louis game...15-1. a lot of good basketball thrillers today. Looking forward to what tomorrow (err, later today) holds

April 2nd, according to a Mike Grant comment at the bottom of the 2nd link http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000326264/article/2014-pro-days-schedule - - - - http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000326264/article/2014-pro-days-schedule#Alphabetical

it seems like, given the current climate, Cincinnati and BYU are the most likely candidates to join an expanded Big 12. However, Houston is probably in third. i think forevereagle misunderstood Harry. It seems like Harry was saying the Big 12 will add one team from the east, to remove WV's island status, and they will also add one more school - either Houston, or possibly SMU. forevereagle somehow read that to mean Houston and SMU only? in terms of the current climate changing: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/10620388/anti-trust-claim-filed-jeffrey-kessler-challenges-ncaa-amateur-model ... perhaps it is the beginning of the end. overall, our school's history has indicated that we will not be able to stay with the Big 5 conferences if this comes to pass

...and Old Dominion NCAA #13 Tulsa vs #4 UCLA NIT #3 Louisiana Tech vs #6 Iona #3 Southern Miss vs #6 Toledo CBI South Dakota State @ Old Dominion Fresno State @ UTEP Princeton @ Tulane CIT East Carolina vs Wright State

Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss both land NIT bids as #3 seeds. East Carolina has accepted a bid to defend their CIT title will any other C-USA teams be continuing their seasons in the CBI or CIT? will keep you updated as news comes in Conference USA 2014 postseason tournament participants: NCAA #13 Tulsa vs #4 UCLA NIT #3 Louisiana Tech vs #6 Iona #3 Southern Miss vs #6 Toledo CBI CIT East Carolina vs Wright State edit: i agree with NT03 below. I would think MTSU and UTEP would probably play in one of these if they so desire

but why does a sport that doesn't even exist (baseball) get a page, when several successful sports don't? shouldn't it be merged back in with the "others"? otherwise it seems disrespectful, while the traffic doesn't justify its own sub-forum. - I would think at the very least it should be Mean Green Baseball/Softball Forum

RV's penny pinching to add baseball (specifically building up the dinero for schollies). His man Kuehne is still backing Benford and RV wants some more donations to build a baseball stadium so he's gotta keep him happy. on a related note, watch for men's track to disappear or become unfunded around that same time. it's time for RV to go. He's done what he can do here. We need someone new at North Texas who can take us to the NEXT LEVEL. getting rid of RV also includes getting rid of some of his stale upper level associates I'm thankful for all that RV has done and accomplished, but I think his work here is finished

Go Mean Green! what an exciting win!!