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I love your sig about uniting as one. We're so small time, all we do is bicker.
Yeah, isn't it so sad? All we really do as a fanbase is sit and bitch at each other about how much our QB that TODD %^&* DODGE RECRUITED sucks, and that we need to make a change in our coaching staff. Really? We do? Again? Pretty sure this one is a major upgrade.
Boise State didn't become a national title contender over night.
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I hope you have lost any and all ex-girlfriend's phone numbers.
They all sucked, no point in trying to go back to any of that. Besides, they all live 1500 miles from me. I may be drunk and stupid but I'm not stupid and desperate.
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Pure class.
Damn right man. I'm the epitome of class. I swear, and I defend equal rights for all.
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This should end well.
Indeed it should.
Also, as a reminder to everyone, Todd Dodge went 6-37 here. Mac is 7-11. %^&* if you think that he's done a bad job with Dodge's players.
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And what I'm referring to is the amount of negativity on this %^&* site. I'm going to be candid and speak my mind here, for 2 reasons. One, I'm drunk. Two, I don't really care if this gives me a warning post or a boot off the board entirely, as I have a life outside of here, and could just make a new account under a new email and no one would know the difference anyways. So, here we go.
Look, I'm new here, and to Mean Green nation. Though I know about the years of crappiness that you guys have been through, I haven't personally experienced it, nor do I totally understand how it felt. I get that.
What I do not get is how one game is having everyone go into %^&* panic mode. Look, we lost last night 44-21 to a better team. This is a team that was one win away from a BCS %^&* BOWL LAST YEAR. I don't care that they lost to TSSM, I don't care how pathetic their D looked in the other early games, I don't care about any of that. This was a team with a new head coach, a new QB, new receivers, new system, etc., that had their best player, Mr. RB Sims, not at full strength. It's easy to see how a team like that, a team that probably came in with too much confidence this season, lost their season opener to a team that was playing it's first FBS game and was prepared to give it 150% that first game. It doesn't take a genius to see that.
It also doesn't take much to notice that we probably weren't as good as our 5-7 record last year indicated, and that we (including myself) were getting wayyyy too cocky with how well we played in LOSSES. That being said, the two teams we've beaten this year are FAU and Texas Southern. The four losses were against Houston, LSU, Kansas State, and Troy. Outside of the Troy loss, which was easily a winnable game (and in fact a game we SHOULD have won), these are 3 teams that are much, much better than we are. We should not have expected a different result than what we got. The 2 wins came against teams that we are better than. We should have expected to win, and we did. So, why the negativity??? Because Houston got upset week 1?? Please, for the love of sweet %^&*, stop applying transitive properties to football, and sports in general. THEY DO NOT WORK. The sample size of ONE GAME is far too small to draw from. Over a period of time, yeah, you can come to a conclusion. But not over one game. One does not need to look farther than this NFL season and the slew of examples we have been given. Do any of you guys actually think the Cardinals are better than the Patriots? Fuck no they aren't, and that's why they lost to the damn Rams this week. If you apply transitive logic, the Rams should destroy the Patriots and shut them down offensively. That isn't going to happen 99 out of 100 times, obviously. Football is amazing because of the variables that come into play. If the better team always won and nothing ever differed from that, the game would suck, and we all know it would.
I'm going to make a final point here. Under McCarney, we are now 7-11, with a 5-3 record at home. I am going to go ahead and assume that absolutely every single %^&* one of you that are being so negative right now, would have called Mac a wizard and a genius had you been told that he'd have a 7-11 record and a 5-3 home record at this point, had you been told that immediately after the 2010 season. Give the man a chance to recruit for 4+ years, a chance to work out the kinks and get the guys HE wants for HIS system into place, before we start judging him. Remember, he's essentially playing with Todd %^&*$ Dodge's recruits right now, and doing all he can to make a respectable team out of them. Anyone who thinks he hasn't done a good job to this point is a %^&* challenged person.
And I am done. I love you all, and have loved my time on this site. I'll be back under a pseudonym at some point in the future, since I'm probably going to get %^&* banned for saying %^&* so many fucking times, though none of you will know that it's me, so I don't even know why I'm bothering to give you that promise. I look forward to going down in history on this site as the fastest to leave this place, and I really look forward to being apart of the future that remembers UNTstormchaser as the drunken liberal atheist who called for peace, pissed everyone off by defending guys, and then left a curse-infested goodbye to all of you.
Go Mean %^&* Green.
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Attendance will not be an issue. I'm shocked that anyone thinks it will. We lost to HOUSTON last night, you know...that team that was a win away from a BCS bowl last year?? They're almost as good this year, they just had a really poor start. The student section will be 100% full, the wing will be close to it because of the special deal, and the alumni side should be fine. I see a 10% chance of us being UNDER 25K for this one.
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I'm struggling with firstrow as well, it says the video is not available yet.
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Better than box score watching, but not ideal. It may be the scoreboard feed with the PA announcer. If so, you'll get a lot of Make Noise graphics. Much better than nothing though.
Well that'd certainly suck, but I guess it is still better than box score watching lol.
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Eligibility to play in the Big 12, not here. He sat out a year once he got here, because he enrolled in the spring. His grades were perfectly fine to play here.
False. He was ineligible to play in the Sun Belt as well. The reason he had to wait out for the Fall semester last year was because he had to get 30 credits total or something like that before he qualified academically by NCAA standards. The reason he came here and didn't do that at Mizzou is because the Big 12 does not give nonqualifiers a chance to re-establish their eligibility, whereas the Sun Belt does. If he was academically eligible, and enrolled here in the Spring, he would have been able to play last Fall.
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I'm so glad that thefirstrow.eu is going to have the game. I hate box score watching.
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Coleman is absolutely massive. I saw him in the dorm yesterday for the first time, and it was honestly the first time in my life that I've felt legitimately dwarved by a person. At least when I've been next to TMitch or someone, I'm still a large enough dude to not feel tiny. But, Coleman is probably the biggest human being I've seen in person.
This makes me excited for basketball season, because I don't think many teams in the Belt or otherwise on our schedule have someone as big as Coleman is. Hopefully, he's as good as advertised, because we will be nearly unstoppable with him clogging the middle and allowing Tony to float freely. I can't wait for the season to freaking start.
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I don't understand how anyone can blame the cop for this. As a general rule, I dislike cops. I don't disrespect them, I love what they do, and I'm in awe of the bravery they have to pick that as a career, but I've just been witness to too many situations where I see the power getting to their heads and, instead of focusing on the things that actually matter, they get caught up in putting down anyone they can. That being said, I've also had a couple of my own experiences where cops could have totally screwed me over for something I actually did wrong, and they didn't, so obviously I'm not one of those idiot post-adolescent "rebels" who disregard authority as if they're better than everyone else, and I would absolutely never disrespect an officer. Anyways, with that being said, I don't care how old someone is, someone can be completely insanse and dangerous at any age, so you have to treat everyone the same as a cop in that situation. The woman refused to cooperate, broke the law, and was acting like her age granted her some kind of waiver for her actions. While the cop may have been a tad excessive, that's irrelevant. He's human too, and I know if I was in his situation where some old bat is screaming at me while I'm trying to just do my job, whatever it may be, I'm going to get pretty irritated pretty damn quickly.
It really doesn't come down to anything other than the fact that he's the law and authority, and that trumps any cultural law of treating elders differently. I love older people, I think they all have amazing stories and have such amazing insight and perspective after living for so long and seeing so much...but that doesn't mean that some old bat gets off free when she's in the wrong. What you are and what you have done in life becomes moot the second you're in the wrong and get called on it, be it this situation or a similar one, or something like cheating on your wife and getting caught, because at that point, you've done wrong and you'll be punished the same as everyone else.
How anyone can side with the grandmother is beyond me.
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http://www.readtheho..._demonstrations
I strongly doubt this is racially motivated since it's happened to white students in the past, but it's still assault, it's still dangerous, and I hope our students don't get that stupid.
As a student, I can say with both pride and sadness that we will never do this. Why both? Pride because it's a retarded idea and dangerous, so I'm glad we don't do this...but sadness because the reason isn't that we're too smart to do it (speaking as a whole in regards to the on campus students), but because we're too stupid to even think of that.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad we won the game, but...
As long as we are limited to short passes, every team will stack the line to stop us from running. We have to get better at throwing down the field, or we will be in for a long season. We held on to beat FAU tonight. We went 0 for 3 in the redzone...IN ONE SERIES?!?!?!
We came into this game looking for answers to problems in the redzone, and the kicking game. It seems the kicking game problems have been fixed, but I'm even more concerned about the offense now. Having a redzone problem against Troy is one thing, but having the problem against FAU is something much worse.
I think we solved that problem today. DT threw a ton of deep balls tonight, and most of the deep ones were spot on. Chancellor has had a couple of long pass TDs in the last 2 games now, and we were going down field a lot today (as well as last week), so I don't think teams will be as generous with bringing a safety into the box going forward. I think we showed a definite improvement on the deep balls this week compared to last as well, so I'm not too sure that it'll be too much of an issue.
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The running game was bad because FAU didn't respect our passing game. They played the safties up most of the time and shut down the running game. I'm not sure why we didn't throw more on 1st down. The FAU LBs and DBs were crushing our RBs at the line of scrimmage way too much. Thompson should have been able to carve them up all night. Our bigger plays seem to come from play actions and deeper passes.
Exactly, and that's why I'm not concerned with the running game going forward. FAU wanted to stop the run at all costs, and they did, and it ALMOST worked out for them.
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1. Thompson was better than last week. He was 18-30 for 251 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT. This is an improvement over last week, though FAU isn't as tough as Troy. But, despite a few poor throws and one TERRIBLE decision that nearly cost us the game, he played well enough to get a win on the road against a conference opponent, even without the run game helping at all. Speaking of the run game...
2. It sucked. The ground game needs to be better going forward. Obviously, it has been the strong point thus far and we can't hit the panic button over one bad game, but the blocking was suspect today, and the backs had no chance. You can almost never put a poor running performance on the RBs, and today is no different. There was just nowhere for them to run. FAU came out with the intent of stopping the run at all costs, and they did just that. I don't expect every team to focus on the run this much, especially as the passing game continues to improve (hopefully) going forward. So I'm not really too worried about the ground game today...FAU wanted to stop the run more than they wanted to win the game, and they suffer for it now.
3. The defense looked great again. I'm very happy with how the D has played this year. We're forcing a lot of turnovers (and blowing a few opportunities for TOs as well...but at least we're getting in position for them), getting a lot of pressure on the QB and actually getting sacks as a result of that, and we've been pretty good in controlling the run. Last week I complained about tackling, this week I can't really do that, so hopefully the tide has started to turn in regards to that as well.
4. Special teams was much better than last week. Atterbury didn't have his best game, but he's one of the best punters in the country and he is of no concern going forward. Olen absolutely has his confidence back (thank GOD he made that first 47 yarder...he misses that and his head might have never come back), Chancellor was at least a little more aggressive in regards to punt and kick returns, and we didn't allow a return TD. I'm happy with this.
5. The playcalling was suspect again at times, at least in my opinion, but it was also not as bad as last week. I HATE the call to punt on 4th and 1 from the 35 early in this game, especially after Olen just drilled a 47 yarder (it's also 4th and 1...we could just go for it maybe?), but outside of that I can't remember anything specific that angered me about the playcalling, as opposed to last week when I could name a few different occasions that I nearly threw something at the person in front of me out of anger at the coaches.
It wasn't pretty guys, it really wasn't, but it was a win. Maybe FAU IS actually better than we give them credit for (like their fans would like us to believe), but I doubt that they're good enough to warrant this being a 6 point game. I really thought this was a 27-3 kind of game coming in, but we didn't really play all that well and they played better than expected, defensively at least. But, on the bright side, we're 2-3 before heading to play a team that got blown out by Texas State. If we play like we did today, I don't see us winning next week, but our defense is going to give Houston fits and I think we'll be in for a close one. Imagine....there is a chance, a legitimate chance, that after next Saturday, we are 3-3. Three wins, three losses. A .500 record through 6 games. Can one of the elders give us the year that we were last 3-3? Apparently this is the first time since 2005 that we are 2-3, and only the 3rd time in a while or something (2003 and 2005 we were 2-3, apparently).
Things are on the ups guys; this was a painful game to watch at times, but let's not forget where we came from. As someone said in the chat room, if this was a Dodge-era team, the score would have been 56-13 FAU, and while that may have been an exaggeration, it wasn't too much of one.
Go Mean Green!
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North Texas vs either SMU or Navy during the Dodge era.....only with much better players.......and a great audience.
I saw the Navy UNT game mentioned in the notes at the bottom of the ESPN box score. Jesus H, crazy game.
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...is not good enough to win, and is overshadowed by the other QB's performance??
Did anyone else watch the Baylor WVU game? Absolute insanity, I've never seen anything like it before. Geno Smith of WVU threw for well over 600 yards and had 8 TD passes compared to 6 incompletions, and on the other side of things, poor Baylor QB Florence threw for 500+ yards and led an offense that put up 63 points and lost. What the hell did I just watch?
I'm not sure whether to be happy about witnessing something so remarkable, or to call the police to submit an official statement about what I saw as a witness to the brutal assault on both defenses today. 70-63 final, around 1200 combined passing yards...TWO RECEIVERS WITH OVER 300 RECEIVING YARDS.
Seriously, what the hell did I just watch?
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I definitely agree that winning is the best way. Nobody knew who Boise State was 15 years ago, and now they're a household name. But at the same time, there needs to be something to supplement the winning, and right now the best we have is family weekend and homecoming. With 5-7 home games per year in college football, you need to take advantage of the few non-home opener/home finale games per year with gimicky bullcrap. Luckily, this year we have the ESPN2 game on a tuesday night to do that. But that's a blessing that we can't rely on having more than once a decade.
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What we need to do to change the culture is not that difficult for our university since we have the potential more than any other school in the belt or even in C-USA.
We need to talk in classes about the Mean Green and we need to promote as much as we can on campus. (professors, departments, and NT daily) Make the sports big deal on campus.
We must talk positive about the Mean Green to the new students and to guests who come visit our university between time to time.
Put in all buildings something positive about the Mean Green (posters, schedules, and trophies history)
Hire people to talk on campus about the sports events and how important it is, let them get into classes and talk about it, do some surveys about the mean green sports and let students get extra points for it.
instead of giveaways t shirts and stuff, why don't we just giveaways bumper stickers for the mean green so everybody can see the pride on cars everywhere in the streets
encourage student's to come to games by allowing the beer in Apogee and the super pit. increase the prizes such as the free tuitions and free cars and etc.. during the game.
Anyone has a bumper sticker on his/her car would get a parking permit discount, even if it's just 5%. it is really a big deal when everyone in the DFW area see a lot of cars that has North Texas signs on it.
Go to retal stors around the campus and give them free North Texas flags and thing for the Mean Green to fill up the stores.
Put more Mean Green flags on campus.
Bring a life mascot (EAGLE) to the university and let students see it in the games and on campus. let students touch it, take pictures with it, talk about it.
Green every thing out in the school.
Remember that the sky is our limit!! as we all decided last year with the UNT president!!
Go Mean Green
I love all of it. Thank you for actually putting in the time and effort to come up with and post ideas.
I think the idea of a black out (or white out) game would be great, if it coincided with a free t-shirt give away. People will go into the game to get a free t-shirt, and they'll stick around for a while to see the results of everyone wearing them.
Having a winning problem fixes most attendance problems, but it's nice to have something different to look forward to.
I have always thought that our drum line should be heavily involved in the tailgating atmosphere.
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I absolutely agree. Put a free UNT "Black Out" shirt on every student seat or something, or hell, put them on every seat. That would absolutely be beneficial in this idea.
StormChaser,
I appreciate your passion and enthusiasm. We need more of that.
I think the response you are getting to your idea is because of the bad taste left by Darrell Dickey's Black Saturday debacle. It was a big, dirty middle finger at the administration, the AD, and the fans.
Also, we are trying to build tradition and spirit by encouraging the wearing of green. The constant re-branding of our school is an annoyance, and now we have yet another shade of green associated with our university. As someone who has only been a part of this university since 2005, I can tell you that there has been tremendous progress in a short amount of time. Progress takes time, especially after a long period, decades, of apathy toward athletics.
We just need to win, consistently, and the rest will take care of itself.
I totally agree with the constant changing of the color and such here. It's ridiculous and annoying to all of us. But having a black out game doesn't effect that at all. Stick with whatever green it is now, keep that for good. Put that color green on the black out shirts' text. Put it on the uniforms as the trim or the number/name colors.
Progress definitely takes a loooong time, but that isn't a good reason to not try to expedite the process. If everyone sat around and just waited for progress to happen naturally and slowly, progress would not happen at all.
It's just an idea folks. I still think it would work, in fact I'm really confident that it would. Students love this kind of crap. Give them free shirts or something too. The community will show up if we give them discounts on tickets, there is no questioning that. And if the students are showing up, and the community is showing up, I think the alumni will be happy.
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when the great Darrell Dickey (the last coach to lead north Texas to a winning season and the only coach to lead north Texas to victory in an NCAA sanctioned bowl game) was fired he ordered some really crappy walmart quality black jerseys with only numbers (probably ironed) on them and the team came out for workouts for the final home game wearing the normal uniforms and then changed into the black ones right before coming out onto the field and they still lost as well...
Crappy idea by Dickey, but that shouldn't poison our view of having a legitimately organized event similar to that.
I think the pre-game atmosphere would be better if the band was more directly involved. The GB marches through the parking lot 2 hours before kick-off but they don't play anything. Sure the drums are beating, but play something. It would be great if the drum line warmed up in the Victory parking lot as opposed to next to the Super Pit. USC cadence is attended by swarms of people prior to their home games. -This is not a complaint, I just think it would add to a pre-game experience. Finally, if it's not logistically possible for the GB to be a bigger part of the parking lot pre-game, how about another student drum line or band? (steel drums, one of the lab bands, etc.)
I definitely agree.
In the end, what you're suggesting doesn't do anything to change the culture. It's a single game promotion that's not going to change anyone's opinion. Those sorts of things work once you already have a product. If you're just looking to fill the stadium, you do what UTSA did and give tickets away with chicken, or chicken away with tickets, or something where people get free sh*t because the economy sucks and students will do anything for free sh*t.
You're over-simplifying it my friend. Obviously, one random game promotion doesn't change the culture, no. I didn't say it would. Establish it as a tradition, give everyone something unique to look forward to every year, get the community involved with promotions from day one, and eventually, it's a part of the culture. Hypothetically, let's say it's always the 3rd home game of the year, starting next season in 2013. By 2020, it's something we're all used to and something everyone knows about and looks forward to. The community knows about it and the promotions that come with it. The students get excited to have another excuse to conform to what everyone around them does. Looking even further ahead, it's an established tradition that no one would want to do away with.
All I'm saying about the idea is that it's marketable, gimmicky and dumb enough to get students excited (it really doesn't take much my friend, and if you throw in the chance for free shit, they will arrive in big numbers), and it doesn't negatively effect anything at all.
my son visited ok state...they have pads hanging over the wall by the opponents sideline and bring in wooden paddles to beat on it with a td or first down...makes a hell of a noise
That is awesome.
I think winning more games than we lose would change the culture more than anything mentioned so far. Win more, and the rest falls into place.
No crap, but instead of sitting around waiting for the wins to come, let's start getting people excited ahead of time. Besides, I think we can all agree that more people=louder stadium=bigger advantage at home=more wins, or at least a better chance at wins.
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I have 2 predictions:
1: If the trend of Thompson only playing well on the road continues, we will win big, 34-13
-Thompson goes 35-37 for 503 yards and throws 3 TD and rushes for another, 0 INT, Chancellor breaks every yardage record known to man after rushing for 130 yards (including a 95 yard TD run), getting 13 catches for 285 yards, and returns a kickoff 105 yards for a TD with other punt return and kick return yards thrown in, Delgado catches 17 passes for 65 yards, our score is the result of 5 TDs going 0-2 on XP, and 2-3 on 2 point conversions.
2: If the trend of Thompson only playing well against better teams continues, we will win a close one 8-3.
-We get a safety late in the first half and miss 5 field goals, Thompson goes 13-32 for 85 yards, 0 TD 3 INT, only TD is Chancellor kick return after FAU field goal, and the XP gets blocked.
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MTSU up by 2 touchdowns....UNT will have their work cut out for them
At this point I'd have to agree, but that's based on a small sample size of them playing well. If we were playing them next week I'd be kinda worried, but they have more than enough time to fall back to earth before our game against them.
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I'm not surprised that it's something so petty and ridiculous like this (and that is in no way a negative comment towards Apogee or the AD), because I'm sure that we wouldn't have let the problem occur for this long if it was some easy and obvious fix. Everyone is annoyed by it. I'm no expert on this type of stuff by any stretch of the imagination, but it at least makes sense to me that the mass amount of cell phone usage when you have 20,000+ people in one location, let alone the fact that it's literally at the intersection of the 2 biggest highways in the region, so I'm glad that this is at least in the stages of resolution. Hopefully for the ESPN game this is fixed, though they're going to have a one time shot at this since they can't test it in-game anymore before then, so I wouldn't be shocked if it wasn't.
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The difference is Dickey actually won. He had a couple of crap years and was deservedly fired, but Dodge was and is worthless as a college head coach.