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  1. Sorry, man...I think this is such failed logic.

    The idea that the addition of more guns into a random, hostile situation somehow keeps down the chances of casualties is, well if any of the Brain Trust had said it, stupid...but I've more respect for you, so I'll just say illogical.

    The image I have is of a crowded, auditorium like classroom...take the Lyceum...gunman walks in...200 people start scrambling over one another, knocking each other down for the exit with a complete self-survival/disregard for other's instinct. Now you want to add what...2,3,5 people with concealed weapons attempting to return fire at what I'll assume(hope) is their first human target, a circumstance no one know's exactly how they'll react in when first presented...save perhaps for the gunman who knew premeditatedly he'd be popping off some rounds at people and has already displayed his disregard for human life, and add trying to return fire amongst the pandemonium of fleeing people...and this somehow will create a safer situation?

    To preface, I do not have a CHL.

    I have friends that do, and the process is very rigorous. These same guys are avid hunters and are constantly at the range. If someone walked into the Lyceum and started spraying, guys like my friends could have him down with 1 shot within a few seconds. I believe there are many folks in Texas like this...

    ...Unfortunately, and this is the cause for aprehension, there are folks who just tote around a sidearm or maybe have a CHL but don't shoot often, who in the same case, would absolutely cause more harm than good. And you're right, there are probably more of these guys than the helpful ones.

    I can't say I'm definitively pro or against this legislation just because I know if I could have one of my friends with me when something like this went down, I would be safer, but I don't have an entourage so there would certainly be opportunity for this to happen when they're not around.

  2. Don't you think we should let the guy coach at least 1 SBC game, or even OOC game, before we annoint him the best in the belt? Yes, he has been the head guy at a big 6 school, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he will automatically suceed at UNT. One would think that would be the case, but we just don't know.

    To ramk him above Cristobal or Blakeney is laughable at this point in time. You didn't say the coach with the most impressive resume, you said the best coach in the belt.

    Way, way too soon.

    OK, with this criteria (SBC tenure) would this be your list? If no, how would you rank them?

    Howard Schnellenberger - since 2001

    Larry Blakeney - transitioned to SBC play in 2004.

    Rick Stockstill - since 2006

    Mario Cristobal - since 2007

    Willie Taggart - slight nod over Berry since he was the OC at WKU while they were transitioning to SBC.

    Todd Berry - 1 year in SBC

    Hugh Freeze - 0 games as HC, but he was an OC in the SBC last year!

    Dan McCarney - 0 games in the SBC

    Mark Hudspeth - 0 games in the SBC

    Joey Jones - 0 games in the SBC, let alone D1 ball.

    You are right, the question is "Best In The Belt". And, you're right, we don't have any tangible results of his time at UNT.

  3. The conference has a few new faces this year, and apparently CFN likes our coach the best according to this thread.

    I happen to agree with them, but I'd love to stack them from top to bottom and, of course, I'd love to see what you guys think, so here goes:

    1. Dan McCarney - Serious skins on the wall and a shiny NC ring to show for it. No way this guy will get "out-coached" in the SBC.

    2. Mario Cristobal - Probably the best up & coming coach in the league. He wont be at FIU for very much longer.

    3. Rick Stockstill - Has his team at the top of the SBC every year. He consistently brings in good recruiting classes as well.

    4. Larry Blakeney - He built Troy at the D1a level from a good foundation at D1aa level. Even though the way he gets his talent is shady, there's no denying he's one of the best in the league. Look at his team's record.

    5. Howard Schnellenberger - Cant argue with this guy's credentials, but it does appear that the game is passing him by, or he is starting to not really care anymore.

    6. Todd Berry - He's bounced around more than a pinball, but he does have some good head coaching experience.

    7. Willie Taggart - Another up & coming coach starting at the bottom of the league. He should have WKU competing in short order.

    8. Mark Hudspeth - He has some experience, but not alot at a high level

    9. Hugh Freeze - This guy is raw.

    10. Joey Jones - This guy is rawer, but there are no expectations on South Bama... yet.

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  4. Since none of us read the "Denia News" how do they plan on encouraging game goers to take a train that is not even up and running? I say we all meet at Mr. Frosties two hours prior to the game and caravan through the Denia neighborhood to the stadium.

    :o Sir, are you suggesting a new TRADITION?? If so, I am in.

    We need someone to teach this to all the Greek groups and incoming freshmen every year as well.

  5. There has never been a toy more epic than the POWER GLOVE. I wore mine to school in the 2nd grade and accidentally punched one of my friends in the face with it. His nose and eye were jacked.

    Hold on.

    Although the original idea of wearing nametags with your GMG.com moniker is a decent one... What if we all wore Power Gloves with our GMG.com moniker's on them???? What about THAT??!!

    Green P1, you're a genius!

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  6. I don't doubt that McCarney is being sincere with his comments, but I wouldn't read a lot into them. Sure NT is hurting at some positions but the Belt seldom is going to get confused with the SEC. I think coaching can make a big difference as was evidenced by the end of last year. In fact, I think NT is going to be by Belt standard great at running back and average in the rest of the positions with the exception of QB and defensive tackles. QB is a mystery as it has been most of the time since Hall graduated, but at least there are numbers. Defensive tackles looks weak but no worst than it has been since DD's last championship team with the exception of last year. At least I don't see NT using their best DE in the interior a la Gilmore.[/b]

    I don't think any new coach is going to come in touting the great team he inherited. I am sure the talent from McCarney's view who has been at the very top of the mountain at Florida looks almost non-existent. However, If it take more than a couple of years to build this program to the upper level of the Belt;; I for one will be disappointed. I really don't think a break even season next year is expecting too much.

    We did retain the same d-line coach you know...

  7. Couldn't agree more. Moreso I wonder if Abron realizes that UNT could have beat Ark this year and that with a new coach they shouldn't be making any waves until a couple years from now (if things change at all). If he reads their board he can see how most people over there are viewing his being signed. The high falootin Razorback fans, for the most part, are impartial to the signing.

    I guess I'm not seeing this... Of the few threads I've seen on him, they seem to be pretty high on him.

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  8. OK, it is now official. We will have both an autographed UNT football (autographed by the coaching staff headed by HC Dan McCarney) and an autographed UNT basketball to auction off in a silent auction as part of the upcoming GMG.COM BB Game (March 26th). I have the football in hand, and should pick up the basketball next week after spring break.

    Bidding for either starts at $25 with raises set at a min. of $1.00 (all bids must be rounded to a whole dollar figure...no cents allowed). The balls will be available at the game on the 26th and at the after game party at Metzler's BBQ on Londonderry Lane in Denton. Bidding will close sometime during the after game party with the winning bids being announced at the party.

    If you cannot attend the game or the party and would like to bid on one or both balls, just PM me with your high bid and I will do the bidding for you...starting as low as possible and going to the high only as a last result. I definitely will not just bid your high immediately...as there is a chance that you might win at a lower level than your high. Trust me...I will be very fair about the bidding if you want me to do the bidding for you. PLEASE let me know ahead of time through a PM if you want someone else to bid for you and the high you have given them to use...otherwise...if I do not know ahead of time, no one will be allowed to bid for anyone other than themselves.

    ALL proceeds from the silent auction go to support the UNT Cheer Squad.

    Questions? Just PM me....this is a great chance to secure and autographed football or basketball! GO FOR IT!

    Go Mean Green!

    Who all signed the basketball?

  9. I saw it. and while any mention is better than no mention, I would prefer we be called NORTH TEX, or NORTH TX, instead of NO TEXAS.

    Isn't there some Sports Information office that is supposed to get in touch with TV and radio and tell them these things ? ( ie; Mean Green, not Green Wave, UNT not NTU, the true story behind the nickname "Mean Green" )

    If you think that's bad, imagine how fans of ULM feel about that spot.

    You do realize this is from 1983 correct?

  10. C-USA sounds good, but let's suppose Texas State, UTSA, and perhaps another regional rival head to a viable form of the WAC. Is that something we have to consider? Just looking for some opinions.

    Heck, if that's the case, why don't we just rename the WAC the "New Southwest Conference"? No need to go WACY!!!!

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  11. Not to steal anyone's thunder here... But we've won more than a majority, and we've been doing it for more than the past 2 years.

    Since the first 20 win season (2006-07):

    3-4 against BCS teams not ranked in the top 20, all 4 losses coming on the road.

    4-1 against CUSA, the only loss coming on the road.

    8-1 against Southland schools other than UTA (10-4 overall), the only loss coming on the road. Last loss to UTA was in 2008.

    7-0 against SWAC teams, also undefeated against non-D1 opponents.

    9-1 against other D-1 conference (Atlantic 10, Missouri Valley, WAC, Summit, etc.), the only loss coming on the road.

    So, basically... We're playing .500 ball against power conference teams that aren't the equivalent of a Top 6 BCS football team. These schools have basketball budgets an average of 4-5 times higher than the Sun Belt average, and more often than not they're paying us to show up expecting us to be a guaranteed win. Instead (other than the ones who would be ranked in the top 6 if this were football), we've been taking it to them just as well as they've been playing against us.

    We're .800 against CUSA opponents and .900 against other mid-major conference schools.

    We never lose against "lesser" opponents.

    Also, the only coach that has won more Sun Belt conference games over the past 3 years than Johnny Jones is Ken McDonald. Ken has 33. JJ has 32. That doesn't count SBC tourney wins... Throw those in, and JJ takes the lead.

    The only teams outside of the BCS conferences that have longer 20 win streaks than we do are Gonzaga, Memphis, Butler, Xavier, BYU, San Diego State, Utah State, and Akron. Say what you will about what just one 20 win season means today vs. 25 years ago... But looking at the company that 5 or more in a row puts you in shows me that a sustained streak like this means something. The next longest 20 win streak in the Sun Belt is 1 year. One team: FAU. At the end of last year, the longest 20 win streak in the Sun Belt was also 1 year. One team: Troy.

    Someday, this run of success in basketball is going to end. I hope it isn't next year, or any time soon after that. I feel fortunate that this run came at a time when I was old enough to appreciate it, young enough to embrace it, and professionally flexible enough to experience as much of it in person as I've been lucky to see.

    Something very special and historically rare has happened and continues to happen with this basketball program. Hopefully the next group of guys can keep this tradition growing and thriving.

    :goodjob::cry::goodjob::cry:

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  12. Each month when I read a Texas Monthly, I see ads for Texas State-San Marcus, TCU, UTSA, UTA, SFA, and some of the other Texas universities, but no North Texas ad. So not having a St. Pat Day parade float representing the 3rd largest university in the state does not come as a shock to me.

    I'm thinking the two are very much not related.

    The lack of advertising in Texas Monthly may have something to do with the University's priorities in advertising, but a float in a parade? C'mon... this is more along the lines of an Alumni Association thing.

    To blame the University for not having a stupid float in a parade is ridiculous.

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  13. If you care to read it...here's a little on the piracy issue. My organization, IPI, is quoted in the study. We have done a good bit of work in this arena. Note the point of 71,060 US jobs lost and $2.7billion in worker's earnings lost. This is not small change. Still think it's "fun" to pirate music, videos, TV, etc., etc.? Try asking one of the 71,060.

    Pay to play;

    Is downloading music illegally really stealing? Experts think so

    BYLINE: By Zobia Chunara, Northside, and Nykia Tanniehill, Walter Payton

    The battle between the music industry and illegal file-sharing services has been a long struggle that many teens are familiar with. From the crackdown on Napster in 2000 to the recent shutdown of LimeWire in October 2010, the government is slowly fighting back against free consumer access to thousands of unlicensed music files and sharing software.

    Once regarded as invincible alternatives, even other peer-to-peer sharing sites such as BearShare, Ares, BitTorrent and FrostWire could be in jeopardy. Among the many music lovers who are disappointed are teens, and while some are becoming comfortable with the idea of paying for their favorite song, others are determined to seek out alternative options.

    Though piracy is an age-old offense, these recent cyber shakedowns stemmed from a variety of factors -- many of them being economic. A digital music study conducted by the entertainment research firm NPD Group concluded that in 2009 alone, U.S. consumers had paid for only 37 percent of all the music they acquired that year. Frontier Economics also recently estimated that U.S. Internet users annually consume between $7 billion and $20 billion worth of digitally-pirated recorded music.

    Cara Duckworth Weiblinger, vice president of communications at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) -- a group that represents recording industry distributors in the United States -- says that downloading music illegally is like stealing the artists' work.

    "File-sharing sites are clearly recognized as platforms that only cheapen music's value and threaten musicians' ability to put food on the table," Weiblinger said. "File-sharing sites ... threaten investment in new bands and they cost musicians their jobs. We believe in music and the rights of musicians to get paid for their work. Paying for music and legal services helps the next generation of talent succeed and reach the public's collective ears."

    However, Kenwood senior Rachel Smith believes that her money is just as valuable. Smith has already discovered other file-sharing and video-converting websites such as beemp3.com and, like many teens, believes that the rise in illegal downloading resulted from a desire to find a more cost-effective option.

    "If I paid for all of my music, I would be broke for decades, so I'm pretty much looking out for myself," Smith said.

    Smith is not alone. According to the Institute for Policy Innovation (IFPI), many other music lovers are guarding their pockets, and thus emptying those of the industry. IFPI reports that 71,060 U.S. jobs and $2.7 billion in workers' earnings are lost each year as a result of global music piracy.

    If it's still difficult to imagine Lady Gaga crying over a dollar lost to illegal file sharing, Professor Jacqueline Lipton, a professor of Intellectual Property Law at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, suggests that teen users think of the issue as being less about an artist's paycheck, and more about protecting his or her intellectual property.

    But Lipton thinks that getting teens to understand an artists' right to protect his or her work is growing more difficult in the Internet age.

    "The problem is that now we have this 'cut-and-paste' society, where you can make immediate digital copies of any song because it's all software code and code can be copied very easily and very quickly, and it can travel very far geographically," Lipton said. "That wasn't possible before the Internet."

    Katherine Graden, a junior at Northside, believes that the chances of artists putting a permanent end to every illegal digital avenue are nearly impossible.

    "I think that LimeWire and similar websites are a testament to the teen culture and their determination to have access to all the music they possibly can," Graden said.

    RIAA also sees no immediate end. "As long as there's Internet, illegal downloading will always be around," Weiblinger said. "There will always be people who think music should be free and will break however many laws to get it. But what we can do as an industry is make sure fans have the best music experience possible by providing convenient, affordable and legal ways to access their favorite tunes."

    Weiblinger is talking about Internet radio sites such as Pandora, Last.fm and MOG, where fans can stream their music for free. These sites also offer a music discovery element, providing fans the opportunity to hear new music from artists with similar sounds as their favorite bands. However, there's a catch.

    "If a fan wants to download music and keep it forever, it's likely they'll have to pay at least a few cents for the song itself," Weiblinger said. "Paying to permanently keep songs is one of the ways fans can support musicians and contribute to the investment in new artists."

    In the meantime, teen music fans are daring to be creative with their options as well -- subscribing to pay-per-month sites like Rhapsody, sharing files through blog interfaces like Tumblr and WordPress, streaming music on sites such as Pandora, Grooveshark and Epitonic, or following Smith's lead with online video converters.

    However, for other teens, like Graden, the end of pirated digital downloading might be an opportunity to share music in more old-fashioned ways that bring music lovers closer together.

    "I think the best and most fun way to get new music is to switch iPods for a few weeks with a friend and get a look into different styles you may not have listened to before," Graden said.

    The Greatest!

    I'm not sure how channelsurfing is pirating though. I thought they were just tapping into public feeds and putting them on one site? Maybe this is my ignorance.

  14. Boy...if you're gonna skirt the rules at least make sure it's for kids who can make you a winner and give your fan base something to cheer about.

    What does it matter? The guys who play for SMU are living such rockstar, warlock, tiger-blood drinking lifestyles that they will be winning* no matter what sanctions are put on them. They just wont be winning any basketball games.

    #WINNING!*

    I wonder if they will allow kids to get out of their LOIs? Cunningham would look nice in Green.

    *winning = delusional.

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  15. Why would we wanna go to the Not In Tournament??? Its like getting a ribbon for last place in field day

    As opposed to not playing any more basketball? The NIT is still postseason basketball, even if it's a consolation bracket. If we get invited, which is probably a longshot, then we should absolutely go!

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