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  1. There is an established process for donating to the Mean Green Club and not accepting the "benefits". This impacts how much of the donation can be written off. The IRS considers the membership fee as a charitable donation. The benefits are pretty much nominal gifts to members and I don't believe are intended to equal the value of the donation.

    The statement I received following my donation shows that I can only write off $400 of the $500 MGC membership, which would equate the benefits as a value of $100. The rest is considered a charitable donation by the IRS.

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  2. Once you meet the Research Funding threshold, you only need 4 of the other 6 categories. Endowment is just one of the 6. We are going to have the 4 areas covered before we get to the research dollars needed (which are rising, just not as fast as we'd all like).

    Tech and UH already had a head start on the research funding. No surprise that they reached this status first.

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  3. I could really care less at this point about conferences. Because I have a usable brain, I look at a map of the United States and see that it makes no sense for us to be in a conference with schools from Florida and Alabama.

    The problem is the money grab that college football has become. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, helmet stickers, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, attendance problems, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, uniform changes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

    Yeah - but Blah will not draw in the casual fan.

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  4. I saw this and thought some of you might be interested. The Honors College is hosting "Great Conversations" on February 28. From what I can tell you pay $65 (or can even sponsor a table) to have dinner and converse with people like: George Dunham, Coach McCarney, Dave Barnett, Bill Lively, Tim Madigan, the owners of Armadillo Ale Works (Denton's first microbrewery) and there are more. More info at http://honors.unt.edu/greatconversations.

    Your link accidently has the period included in the address. Corrected link below:

    Great Conversations

  5. I saw this and thought some of you might be interested. The Honors College is hosting "Great Conversations" on February 28. From what I can tell you pay $65 (or can even sponsor a table) to have dinner and converse with people like: George Dunham, Coach McCarney, Dave Barnett, Bill Lively, Tim Madigan, the owners of Armadillo Ale Works (Denton's first microbrewery) and there are more. More info at http://honors.unt.edu/greatconversations.

    This is always a fun event (only slightly biased since I sit on the planning committee) and helps raise money for the Honors College. A win-win for all!

  6. note:in 1994 we averaged 19,500 playing only 4 home games,Abilene Christian,Montana,Mcneese State,and Sam Houston State,playing 8 road games including a 20-24 lose at Boise State in a 1AA playoff game. we were 7-4-1 for the season. go figure.

    We averaged 19,500 tickets sold, not butts in seats, in the 1994 push to I-A.

    I personally was two persons at each of those games (bought cheap end zone season tickets that I never used and entered with my student ID so I could double up).

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  7. I stopped watching NBC5 after they didn't even give the score when we beat Indiana. I sent them an e-mail (never got a reply, but didn't expect to) and let them know I would no longer watch their news broadcasts. I have not since and don't plan to anytime in the future. They'll probably never notice, but I feel better.

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