[SportsDay Recruiting Letter Poll]

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There are a lot of cool designs here and I love that schools are putting so much effort into little things like these.

IMO, the Mean Green's is the best for simplicity's sake. 

[Partial Season Tickets]

Actually, they have done 3 game packages before. Glad to see they are still an option.

[2017 Schedule Poster]

Have you reached out to the athletic marketing team? They used to mail these and all you had to do was pay the cost of mailing.

[Fans To Vote For Flag Design Outside Apogee Stadium]

I see the coolness of the battle flag, but I think people who drive by with no ties to the school won't understand. I would go with the North Texas one during the week and have the battle flag for game days. Mixing it up would be a good attention grabber.

[Texas gunslinger Graham Harrell is back home — and thriving]

Man, a solid article about a young up and coming coach at UNT and people here find a way to turn it negative... Amazing

[NCAA approves early signing period for football, prohibits oversigning]

Coaches have to over offer. No team or coach in the country gets everyone they offer. There's no way you could wait until one player says no before you could offer the next player.

[Would This Be Acceptable Re: Mizzou?]

I'm out on all 2 for 1's.

[DRC: Report -- ODU to receive $1.32 million to play Liberty]

Deadspin is reporting Liberty is paying the $1.32M to guarantee a home opener for their first FBS game. My guess is that offer was not on the table for other games.

[2017 Graduates- 2 Free Season Tickets]

New Graduates, hit this up!

[Give me Liberty or give me death!]

Again, it's less about the actual Army game and more about preparing yourself for the rest of the year.

[Give me Liberty or give me death!]

I think Baker's point here is that it's hard to shift gears mid-season to play a team like Army. No one is scared to play Army, but when you look at OOC games you are trying to put your team in position to do well in conference play. Playing against the triple option does not prepare you for anything you will see the rest of the year.

[Give me Liberty or give me death!]

Why is Army looked at as such a great draw for fans? Looking at last year's road games for them, the average crowd was 64% of capacity of the stadiums they played in, with 4 of 6 games under 60%. While there may be some draw for diehard football fans, I don't think the casual fan is going to feel that same draw to an Army game.

Note: This is not me saying Liberty is going to draw well either. I'm just trying to understand the strong feelings about Army in particular.

[Give me Liberty or give me death!]

You could sub North Texas for Liberty in this thread and move it to an OKST message board and these are the same comments people here would complain about OKST fans making.

[Home-home series w/ Liberty]

I think you should wait and see what other moves may come down the road. My guess is that this was a calculated move to make room for some other changes. Changing an FBS schedule after being behind the curve must be one of the toughest jobs an AD might encounter.

[New Tennis Scoreboard]

Tennis Scoreboard

Really wish WB would start doing something

[Combs to transfer]

Who is "Gran(d) McCasland"?

[Is it time to drop "North Texas" and become UNT?]

Win and people will recognize UNT and North Texas

[Rice basketball gets bad news.]

With the way coaches are leaving schools after 1 or 2 years, why would we expect players to just stay where they're at? The tone is set from the top. At least the players lose a year of eligibility. One could argue the coaches are a big part of why this is happening.

[MGB: Baker talks about why he waited to fire Tony Benford]

He may not have directly hired an FBS coach, but he hired a hell of a football coach at Northwest Missouri State. One would also think he was involved in hiring and firing decisions as deputy AD at Memphis and Missouri.

[MGB: Baker talks about why he waited to fire Tony Benford]

“Kids don’t respond to interim coaches like they would head coaches. Generally speaking that is the players’ worst academic semester. They are less focused in the weight room and in life. There are going to be more issues with behavior. For all of those reasons, I felt it wasn’t the right thing to do.”

[From the Desk of Wren Baker]

Interesting that a post that started as a list of things that the department is working on and trying to communicate to the fans has turned into this. Wren and the rest of the staff he brought in have a lot of experience in this business. They know what a good employee looks like, what an employee that needs more direction and support looks like, what a bad employee looks like, etc. I would assume that there are things going on that don't really fit into a positive letter to the fans about what is happening on Bonnie Brae. If you want all the info on the dirty laundry, it looks like there are some jobs open in the department. Apply and right the ship.

[Possible indoor practice facility location]

I would have the IPF run perpendicular to the Athletic Center going from the existing outdoor field towards the IM field (IM field gets relocated). You end up with the same orientation as Apogee's field. The outdoor practice fields then fill the gap between the IPF and Bonnie Brae. You could also use some of that land next to the bus stop to add a new, larger weight room, offices, the new nutrition stuff that Baker mentioned in his letter, etc. that is connected/part of the IPF.

[New $12 million athletics project is set to start construction in April]

1 hour ago, BTG_Fan1 said:

I'm hoping that they re-use the Fouts turf in the IPF, to save some of the $...

Hopefully this is sarcasm?

[Facilities tour by Leadership]

Ahhh yes. UNT does a couple of things like the big boys like flying a private plane to see facilities in person and getting serious about a practice facility and people here are upset. SMH

[NT Daily covers UNT Fan Meeting from Monday]

4 minutes ago, UNT90 said:

George actually said that Hank spent the last 15 years making excuses for RV and tried to use that as a reason to hire an AD. Did you read what I just wrote?

George would trade 10 straight losing seasons for his buddy getting the job. George cares more about his friend than he does UNT athletic success, just like some on here that don't post anymore cared more about RV than UNT. 

Another thing that struck me was that about 85% of the 100 people that bothered to attend the meeting were 45 years old or older. Not  only do we have a small fan base, we have an old one. Old people die. So we literally have a dying fan base of about 100 strong.

Want that to continue? Hire Hank Dickenson. 

 

 

Or perhaps he is just making the point that Hank is a different person with different ideas than RV. Hank wasn't in position to buck his boss on everything that they ever disagreed on. Sometimes you have to go along with what your boss wants even when you disagree that it's the best way to go. I think you're very wrong about George caring more about his friend than UNT athletic success. You guys disagree about whether or not Hank could accomplish the goal of improving this place, and there's nothing wrong with that. No candidate will ever be everyone's first choice. The goal is to get behind whoever gets hired and support the student-athletes who bust their humps for this place. I think George will be on board with whoever is hired. Would he like it to be Hank? Sure. But I don't see him disappearing if it isn't Hank.