[DRC late night hoops rewind: UNT 54, Florida Atlantic 51]

Very PROUD of this UNT Mean Green basketball team !!!  These guys just make you feel good again !

[Just picked up a new UNT shirt]

On 2/8/2022 at 11:14 PM, Tom McKrackin said:

Pretty stoked about this purchase:  I plan on wearing it to the games. I know you’re jealous!!

Tom, after all of the GMG family love and good hearted trash talk about “THE SHIRT” you really need to let us hear from you buddy.  I mean I actually used to have one of the hats with the beer can holders in the brim with long rubber straw !  So,  did you really buy the shirt ? Come on Tom, really ?

[🏈Vintage Classic: The Day the North Texas Mean Green Demolished the Arkansas Razorbacks.]

That game was so damn much fun for the Mean Green Nation !

[Just picked up a new UNT shirt]

48 minutes ago, Tom McKrackin said:

Pretty stoked about this purchase:  I plan on wearing it to the games. I know you’re jealous!!

Yessiree !!!  That shirt and a  quart of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - Just bring  me the head of Alfredo Garcia and Go Mean Green !

[DRC: UNT aiming to make late recruiting run on signing day and beyond]

4 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

Keep downvoting you douchebaging morons.

peanuts104:  Occasionally your posts make some points that hit the nail squarely on the head and cause me to affirm or reassess my own point. However your below the belt insults like above are unnecessary and wouldn’t be acceptable in any locker room or 82nd Airborne battle situation I have ever been engaged in.

Please be more respectful sir.

[COVID]

Likewise, I tested positive last week for COVID19 and FLU even though I had the two shots, booster and flu shots.  First night with  bad chills and mild cough. Next night chills gone but cough worse.  Starting to pull out of it though.
Much like how I felt after the Portland state debacle under McCarney.  Sooo, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ??

[Ex Mean Green Great Marcus Trice’s Doctrine (For UNT To Recruit DFW)!]

Marcus was such a great dynamo at UNT. Every tackle was an explosion.  I always thought Trice reminded me a lot of Bill Bates of Cowboy fame.  He put a lick on opposing players that reverberated throughout the stadium.

[How to get excited for 2022?]

21 hours ago, WanderingEagle said:

The same SMU that has beaten us by a combined 73 points the last 3 years? 

The worm will turn for North Texas this time.

[Jason Pirtle: Thank You]

Pirtle and Tyreke !   Two players with big hearts and NEVER gave up.

[How to get excited for 2022?]

4 hours ago, Side.Show.Joe said:

We couldn't beat a 6-6 MAC team to end this season.... SMU is going to curb stomp us to start next season. You've drank too much of the green Kool-aid.

I’m not with you on this one - we will beat SMU.

[UNT opens at -3]

19 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

Toledo favored by 10.0 over MTSU

Appalachian St favored by 3.0 over Western KY

Fresno St favored by 11.0 over UTEP

BYU favored by 7.0 over UAB

Louisiana favored by 5.0 over Marshall

Tulsa favored by 9.5 over Old Dominion

UTSA favored by 2.5 over San Diego St

Miami (OH) favored by 3.0 over North Texas 

UNT90: my misunderstanding.  When I saw the Topic Heading“UNT OPENS AT -3”  I thought that meant UNT favored by 3. 

[UNT opens at -3]

16 hours ago, UNT 90 Grad said:

Of all the CUSA teams bowling, UTSA the only team favored in their game.  😕

Put the Scotch down UNT90, you’re confusing the crap out of me !

[Frisco Football Classic Shirts]

Is there a proprietary rights problem with the bowl shirts specifically saying  “ UNT VS. Miami of Ohio” ?   (or is it in the small print on the shirt and I just can’t see it ?}.  It seems lacking .

[Congrats to Cincy and pretty huge for G5]

Does Cincinnati’s strength of schedule hold up ? Or is that what the committee would use to bypass them ?

[No Homecoming Parade?!?!]

4 hours ago, letsgiveacheer said:

What bad news. Not to get any of us old timers started, but the parade used to be such a big deal. There were at least 20 high school bands participating as well as a few service bands. The parade started at about 10 am and made its way from Ave E to the square via Hickory and then once around the square.

After the parade, the various departments and schools had their open houses. Kick-off was about 2 pm and following the loss game, there was a big concert with the university symphony featuring some B list artist. Great memories.

“Here’s to the sunny slopes of long ago.”

                                           Gus McCrae

[Who is #26?]

3 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

Interesting.  There is no 26 listed on the participation report.

You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. You have just entered into Apogee Stadium, home of the Mean Green.  🤠

[SMU and the Big 12]

19 minutes ago, BigWillie said:

I am no SMU fan, but I wonder how he can say that when they are undefeated? Is it strength of schedule?

I believe Bowlsby is just trying to find a polite way of saying “no” to smu. Have you ever had a date that you didn’t want to see again ?

[Just a little perspective]

2 hours ago, SMUMustangs2018 said:

You are so pathetic. SMU is a significantly superior program to NTSU. You are in because SMU is gone along with other peer programs. We will beat you until the end of time and we will always be able to pluck the best talent from Denton just like we do to the Frogs. We will probably keep playing your team, hopefully as a home game permanently when we get our XII logo.

Pony Up

 

I’m glad you came to this Mean Green site and posted  smumustang2018. Moron trash talk is great for local rivalries.  Can’t deny the little pony is having a great year, but I’ve  known these two institutions for years and years and the reality is the tide will change again, the Mean Green will beat Peruna and we’ll all keep pissing at each other over cold beer.

[IT IS OFFICIAL UNT TO the AAC!]

Calm down you guys !  I can see you a year from now ... “when do we get in the SEC” ?  GMG 🤠

[Last minute SMU led pustch to disavow NT from the AAC]

9 hours ago, DentonStang said:

I don't understand this line of thinking that comes up from time to time. 

 

SMU was one of the worst teams in all of football for 10+ years and not much better for another 10+.  We spent 1997-2013 in a conference not much better than yours.   For a lot of that time TCU was also garbage.  What field could be any more level? UNT had every opportunity to match or pass SMU and didn't have the administrative and/or booster support to pass SMU's incompetent administration and boosters.  It's been level for decades and we have been playing you frequently. 

I’ve watched SMU since I was a little boy in Dallas and played ball around Ownby Stadium.  I know SMU and it’s peaks  and valleys.  SMU doesn’t have the staying power to win consistently, never has, never will.  Within two more seasons the Ponies will be scratching the bottom again.  About UNT, if it ever gets its act together consistently it could dwarf SMU in market identity.   

[DRC: UNT Sunday column: The Mean Green are floundering while SMU and UTSA are soaring. That's an issue for UNT]

9 hours ago, MeanGreen22 said:

Maybe Brett should see if the Dallas Morning News or San Antonio Express is hiring. Because he loves talking about SMU and UTSA more than UNT fans care to listen. 

Actually I’m glad Vito isn’t too timid to state the truth in a way that hopefully gets the attention of UNT’s leadership.   They don’t listen to me, or you for that matter, but it’s hard to ignore a metroplex news article (even from Denton) that sticks out like a sore thumb for all to read.  This program and thousands ,yes thousands, of North Texas fans, alums and students should indeed expect more.  UNT is a super University that can and should do better.   Vito’s article is a business reality that hopefully gets read by the real movers and shakers who impact leadership.

[You're the A.D....What Does It Take to Keep SL?]

Right now I’m more concerned about Wren and the AD position at NT.

Its a given that the football program needs a management fix after six years and being in the tank again.  AND ... with conference realignments being so strategic  at this point the AD position is critical .

[247: UNT Falls Flat Against UAB (some eye opening quotes)]

10 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

What do the Viet Cong have to do with this discussion?..............😎

I know... flashbacks to Tet, PTSD, jammed M-16, 120 mm Chi-Com rockets. The UAB game was a complete FUBAR !

[A Shoutout to Tyreke Davis !]

Tyreke Davis is a baller and played D-1 , leather banging football against UAB.  Love to watch a leader do his job !

[DRC: What we learned -- UNT's poor performance in loss to UAB raises serious questions about where the Mean Green are as a program.]

Vito’s article calls it straight without all of our emotional frustration.  It was a bad performance and a bad loss for North Texas .