TheFranchise

Gimme 29k. I'm feeling optimistic.

My wife, kids and I were at the ticket office this morning getting ours. There were a couple of people that came in behind us, but the big thing I noticed was that the phones never stopped ringing. 11 AM can't get here soon enough!

UNT does this for students. They did it at orientation when I transferred in 2013.

Over nine days . . . that's an average attendance of 15,000 per day. Apogee should be able to beat that. I think if we continue to win and start by pounding SMU, that won't be a problem.

Funny you should mention that. I received this poster in my student e-mail this afternoon.

All up in the student section with the Mrs. Franchise, and the two Junior Franchises!!!

FYI, I was told by one of the ticket officials that students and their "guests" will not be turned away on gameday. What does this mean? We could end up with more students at the game than they actually have student-allocated seats. Man, wouldn't that be awesome!?

"Jim Jim" fared as well as expected against that rough Texas D-Line. He carried the rock nine times and had the second-most rushing yards on the team with 30. He hit his stride on the first drive of the fourth quarter for the Mean Green though with a three carry sequence of eight, four and six yards. The eight yarder was his longest of the evening. I expect a healthy does of "The Jimmy Show" Saturday. Jimmy likes to run.

I really want to see this happen. There are only two possible outcomes, and I think no matter which one it would be highly entertaining.

I liked this gem: Re: SMU UNT Prediction Thread by Smu97186 » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:46 pm I don't think the Baylor game should be used to judge our team, so based on that i see a decent win, maybe 28-14 So we're going to dismiss the Baylor game for SMU but use how UNT played against Texas as evidence for SMU victory. Ah, I shouldn't get too worked up. As I've said before. They call themselves the freakin' ponies. That's like us referring to our team as "The birdies."

Enjoy the season, my friend (except November 29) and thank you for your service!

Dude, where's the fun in that!?

No they won't . . . because most of the whole country can't *legally* watch or stream. Just sayin' . . . I mean, freakin' Time Warner provides the LHN in its channel lineup but won't let you stream it. But other than that, I agree with you completely. We have to show up tonight!!! And I'm ready for 7 PM now!!!!!

Man, that is a dang good read!

Mean Green football is nigh upon us, my friends! I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve!!!!!

God bless you sir for your service!!! Thank you. And God bless Texas!!

Man, I'm unbelievably excited about this game!! I'm wishing I could make it to Austin but work schedules and budgetary concerns just made it an impossibility. However, I'm planning to have family over (that grew up UT fans, mind you) with me cheering on my school (because they love me more than a neutered cow, haha) to stream it and cheer on the Mean Green!!! That and my kids will be all decked out in green, too. On a side note, my wife grew up Aggie so she's naturally all over this and is going crazy-mad-UNT-happy about it.

Holy crap, that's beautiful! I have that Mean Green travel mug, too and am very pleased with it.

As a former marching band person in high school, I can tell you that this would drastically change the halftime show because there would be gaps in the formations. However, if you don't care about the halftime show and just want a "presence" in the stands, then sending a smaller group makes absolute sense. But then you have to decide who can make it or not. Personally, as a department I'd try and split the cost with the students interested in traveling or just make them foot their own bill to go. "You wanna travel to Austin with the band? Ok, for your ticket and room & board it's going to cost about $250. We'll pay $125 if you can come up with the other half." Now of course, in that scenario you run the risk of having like 20 saxes (it's a known fact that all male sax players are sports fans, so every dude that plays the sax will want to go) 14 trombones, eight trumpets, six tubas and about four clarinets making it to the game. So if a band of about 52 excites you, then cool. EDIT -- forgot the drum line. You can guarantee almost all of them would want to go because all drum-liners like to party so Austin is a no-brainer for them. So let's say a band of about 75 or so.

Actually, these two do not surprise me that much at all. I run into a TON of Aggies around here. I meet far more Aggie grads than I do UT t-shirt fans. And as for OU, there are far more OU t-shirt fans hanging around here than there are actual grads of the school. (again, just based on the number of people I run in to) In fact, I'd venture to say I've run into more OU t-shirt fans than Texas t-shirt fans.