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Now as to why I have a strutter as my pic? I'm simply an ambassador, showcasing Texas State's prime collection of beautiful women to others from universities who aren't as blessed to see trim like this day-in and day-out.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I guess if you like girls marching around and kicking the air, then they're probably alright.
Here's a link for you:
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I know he's playing against some 3A competition, but there's no need for the "spotlight" on this guy during the highlights. You know exactly who you're looking for. He's huge compared to those other guys.
Welcome aboard Sir Calvin!
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Lest you think I'm an old curmudgeon, let me say I am retired from the Air Force, been shot at many times, deployed to various hell-holes around the world for many years, etc etc.
As I said in my post, if this is a recruiting tool, fine. The military is sworn "to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and to do that, you have to have to recruit. Providing color guards at football games, sponsoring race cars, etc are all effective in this effort and justified.
But what part of the Marine's mission involves training football teams? There is so much waste in our military budget and this bothered me tremendously while on active duty. I did whatever I could to reduce this, especially as I became more senior.
Unless the university reimbursed the Marines, here is what this probably cost: federal per diem in the Dallas area is about 200 a day. If there are 8 of them and they arrived yesterday and leave tomorrow, we are speaking of 3000 in addition to their wages. I'm not aware of any Marine bases in the DFW area but if there are, then we are just speaking about the time away from their normal responsibilities.
3000 is nothing to the federal budget but as I told my troops when I saw waste, think of it as a citizen's entire year of income tax. In other words, your year of hard work paid for a football workout.
Off my soapbox now and back to football!
What about "Toys for Tots"? That's not necesarily a recruiting tool (unless we're starting to recruit little kids), would you call that waste?
As far as recruiting, it could possibly be a recruiting tool as well. As we know, most of these guys will not be playing football professionally. So with their degrees, they could enlist,go to Officer Training, and become an officer in the Marines if they wanted to. Maybe in order to have this workout, the Marines provide a presentation post-practice?
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Very awesome facility, and hopefully a stop for prospective students on their campus tours.
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Player Pos Min FG 3Points FreeThrows Rebounds AS TO STL Blocks Fouls Pts
Tony Mitchell Jr. PF 16:31 4/5 80 0/0 0 3/3 100 4 5 9 1 1 1 2 0 3 3 11
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The lights are permanent. I don't think they have been properly aligned yet. Some of them may not bee facing the field the way they should.
You're probably right.
During a stadium tour I was on, Cooper Jones was telling us about some kind of endangered hawk nesting in one of the light towers. Of course, you can't disturb the nest since it's endangered, so they cannot finish that light tower until the hawk leaves. They anticipate cutting it close for the home opener.
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as fans who paid for his ship we should know what he did to violate it. it would also set the tone to recruits and their parents about what coach mac expects in the classroom or off campus from his players.
I think we're all just as curious as you are, but this is not sound logic. Not everyone who reads this board are MGC members either.
Best of luck to Darius. Time to move on.
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Not to kick you when you're down, but Carey was going to wear #4 this season.
Wonder if he'll be catching passes next season from another previous UNT player who now plays at a FCS school in Louisiana?
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We're tied in the first quarter, 39-39, there's 44:40 minutes left and we've both got the ball.
Sounds like someone with the Jumbotron company needs to use the internet to look up football rules.
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You're going to have to rethink the Darius Carey part of this.
Uh, I got nothin.
Gonna have to pray that Bynes is healthy and ready to go & Stafford magically learned how to catch. If either of these guys (or maybe Olawale/some other WR) can step up, then they might be able to be a leader for us alongside Lance. Hopefully Thompson can prove himself ready to be a starting QB early.
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Another possibility would be for the ever versatile Chase Baine to move back to WR where he once played. However, I like him as Thompson's backup.....followed by Dodson.
Do you just not like Brett Osborn?
Or, did you just forget we brought him in? He's challenging for the starting job, and if he's not the starter will certainly be the backup.
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Ugh. This is a significant blow to our offense.
Obviously, we don't know the circumstances, but whatever it was, I wish it didn't have to come down to dismissal.
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Just curious... does anyone have any inside info regarding season ticket sales so far- or at least what the dept. is hoping to achieve by the beginning of the season? I secured my 2 seats a couple of days ago, but am not proud to admit that I have not been to Fouts field since I graduated back in 88! I am just curious as to the number of season ticket holders UNT had in previous years, compared to what this new season will bring with a new coach and stadium. Please tell me that at least the opening Houston game will be an anticipated sellout!
There has to be a tremendous number of alumni like myself still living in the DFW area that have just been patiently waiting for this miraculous day for the program to arrive. I am beyond excited for this season to begin. I will turn 50 this year and really thought I would never see this stadium become a reality in my lifetime. I have spent almost 25 years dealing with friends and family members who attended Tech, TCU, Texas, A&M, etc and endured their football bragging rights, season after season. I never understood that UNT continues to be such a great University, great facilities, location, etc. but did not get the support and coverage of other places. I got back in touch with the UNT program within the last few Dodge years and at least started listening on the radio and scouring the tv listings for coverage now and then. I watched Dan McCarney's entire press conference online and was so amped up, I wrote a letter of support to the North Texan that appeared in the last issue. I am trying to keep my level of hope down to a reasonable level, since I know this could no doubt take several years to really take shape- but I plan on being there for every game lending my support regardless!
Hopefully there are at least another 1K alumns out there just like you. Welcome aboard!
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I agree with Harry on Defense. Orr stepped right in last year as a freshman and made things happen. He'll only get better, and I look forward to talking about him in the future like we talk about Spencer,Hurd,Kassell.
On offense, the obvious choice is Dunbar, but I also look for Darius Carey to step into a leadership role as well and carry that role into 2012 after Lance is gone.
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I hate to be that guy that cites a facebook post, but he says he's on his way to UNT this year. If so, he'll be another great DB addition along with Swarn & Warner. I don't recall hearing about him signing, and looked through the archives, but did not find any threads on him. Maybe this is old news for some of y'all... if so, sorry for the duplicate post.
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Here ya go...just taken today btw. I just needed to save it.
Oh no. It appears some of the SOW broke off.
R.V. is so cheap.
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Would it be advantageous for UNT to attempt to absorb TWU and/or Midwestern State into our system? I guess it would need to be approved by those two schools' BORs, as well as ours, but has this ever been brought up before? Hopefully y'all can enlighten me.
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Pretty interesting. Did you notice one of the recurring themes was about his hiring (assistants) ability?
I don't think that'll be a problem with what he brought to Denton.
I hope you're right.
On paper, these guys look to be legit, but with higher expectations on the team come higher expectations on these coaches.
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The women's teams aren't referred to as the Lady Eagles any more. They are referred to as the Mean Green just like the men's teams. Here is an example from meangreensports.com.
This makes sense. Why have different names for mens & women's teams? "Mean Green" seems pretty ubiquitous to me. As long as Scrappy is around, we'll be represented by an eagle. Mean Green Eagles!
There are a few things to piss, moan, & complain about with our traditions, but this should not be one.
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There could be some historically significant fun about to go down here.
So did the Mexian team beat the USA? I'm pissed!
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Right, it was used as a rep for confederate regiments in Texas, and had a good history behind it. I guess my point is, if your from Texas and want to take some kind of pride in being Texan and want to show your southern pride, what's wrong with the Lone Star Flag. Why would anyone in Texas want to fly the Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia...ie "The Rebel Flag"?
Rick
Skynard, man. Skynard.
I'm certainly proud to be from the south, and very proud to be from Texas. I had several distant relatives fight/die for the Confederacy (Gen. A.S. Johnston @ Shiloh among others), and I'm proud of them too.
All that said, I couldn't justify flying the rebel flag, or even having it on a license plate because of what it has come to mean today. Today, it's equated with white-supremecy, ignorance, and hate (and toothlessness).
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Careful, there are those who would say that flying the North Texas battle flag would be the same thing.
This is sad.
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Chad Ford's top 100 players for the 2012 Draft is out on ESPNinsider. Tony Mitchell is rated number 64. This makes me happy. Next years draft is going to be stacked, I'd love to see Tony at UNT for 2 seasons.
This can change if he has a great U-19 Championships tourney. Time will tell.
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Looks like a video game.
He's heating up.. He's on FIRE! From downtown... Yes! Boom shakalaka! Intercepted! Jams it in!
Happy Birthday NT03
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Happy Birthday NT03!