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  1. HITS: Texas Tech, Houston and Oklahoma State are now joined by the University of North Texas in the growing list of winners of the Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl stadium at Fair Park. Thats quite a list, and UNT fits right in after its 36-14 demolition of Nevada-Las Vegas on New Years Day. The Mean Green celebrated the 100th year in program history with a 9-4 finish, only five years after going 1-11 in 2008. Congratulations to coach Dan McCarney, his staff and his players. The only imperfect note was the bowl games attendance, a four-year low of 38,380. Dallas, we can do better than this, and please remember that proceeds go to worthy charities. See you next year. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/article1370124.ece
  2. A bowl game is sure to bring a teams longtime fans out to cheer, but not many of them can claim to have been die-hards since they were in diapers. Only 17, Ian Campbell already has been in the stands to support the University of North Texas at more than 100 games, including Wednesdays Heart of Dallas Bowl. Ian moved to Flower Mound from Denver when he was 6 months old, and his father has taken him to every one of the Mean Greens home games since. Scott Campbell, a 1982 UNT graduate, said his son also attended many away games and two bowl games, including the New Years Day game against the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Eventually, the tradition evolved from Scott Campbell taking Ian and his sister, Emma, to the games to Ian becoming a fan on his own. Emma, 15, is a fan, too, but doesnt share her brothers attendance streak. Looking back, I realize the moment that I really must have known that I was a big fan was in 2003, Ian said. We played a conference championship game at home. My dad couldnt make it, so I actually convinced a friends dad to take me. That was a big moment because we won the game and stormed the field. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140101-teen-unt-fan-traces-mean-green-loyalty-to-his-diaper-days.ece
  3. Senior Derek Thompson began the season facing questions about whether he would hold on to his job as North Texas starting quarterback. Those questions were nothing but a memory by late Wednesday, when he hoisted the MVP trophy after putting on a gutty performance to lead the Mean Green to a 36-14 win over UNLV in the Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl. Its was a pretty awesome experience to play in the Cotton Bowl my last game, Thompson said. To be able to finish out the way I did, and the way we did as a team with these seniors, was great. I love those guys. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/unt-mean-green/20140101-even-popped-out-patella-can-t-stop-unt-senior-qb-derek-thompson.ece
  4. Read this letter in the Dallas Morning News (link): http://letterstotheeditorblog.dallasnews.com/2013/12/heart-of-dallas-bowl-unt-is-now-a-football-team-worthy-of-a-bowl-game.html/ On January 1 we have a great opportunity to showcase Dallas and the University of North Texas Mean Green Eagles on national TV. Just imagine the excitement of being at the original Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. We need all UNT alumni, friends, and people who love football to put on your green and join us at the Heart of Dallas Bowl. These student athletes deserve our support. In the three years since Coach Dan McCarney and his staff arrived at UNT, we have transitioned into a team worthy of playing in a bowl game and capable of winning. I hope to see you in the stands when we kick off at 11 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Let’s fill the stands with green and show the nation we stand behind the Mean Green. GO MEAN GREEN! Phala Finley, Dallas
  5. Question: What's your thought on the Mean Green season? Is their future looking up with Dan McCarney and Conference USA? Tim Cowlishaw: Hey, they had a nice year and they're favored to beat UNLV here in the bowl game. I'm guessing they will have some excitement in that new stadium for the next few years. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/texas-longhorns/20131219-cowlishaw-i-don-t-see-how-jon-gruden-would-be-a-good-fit-at-texas.ece
  6. Question: Will the UNT football program ever amount to anything more than a contender in a low end bowl? Tim Cowlishaw: I don't know how they would be expected to go about doing that. Never going to get the top recruits to go there, play in a lower end conference. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/texas-longhorns/20131115-cowlishaw-why-i-m-picking-oklahoma-state-over-texas.ece
  7. DENTON — Brandon McCoy stood in front of friends and family on Monday, reflecting on how far he traveled to arrive at one of the most prestigious honors of his college career. McCoy spent 4 1/2 years in the Army after a trouble childhood and four years developing into one of North Texas’ top players and leaders. The journey changed McCoy’s life and caught the attention of the Football Writers Association of America, which presented him with the Armed Forces Merit Award on Veterans Day at Apogee Stadium. “It is pretty special,” McCoy said. “I have been working at this dream for a long time. I have been telling guys since I was in the fields in Iraq that I was going to go play college football and give it all that I’ve got. I never thought I would be honored. It’s really humbling.” McCoy, 28, was kicked out of two high schools and his home in Carrollton. McCoy, known as “Sarge” by UNT’s coaches and his teammates, fell too far behind at Carrollton Creekview to graduate on time in 2003 and was dismissed from an alternative high school for cheating on an English test. He lived on his own for a year before his family convinced him to enlist in the Army. “He didn’t want to listen,” said Darron McCoy, Brandon’s father. “We thought the military would be a good idea to give him structure.” McCoy spent time in Fort Riley, Kan., before spending 13 months driving Humvees on supply runs and in combat missions in Iraq. “The military was at the forefront of changing me,” McCoy said. “You have to give yourself up for others, care about them and give without expecting anything in return.” Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/unt-mean-green/20131111-enlistment-in-u.s.-army-helped-teach-unt-defensive-lineman-brandon-mccoy-life-lessons.ece
  8. UTEP (+24) at North Texas 2:30 p.m., CSS: The Mean Green has won four straight after losses to Georgia and Tulane. UNT is tied for first with Tulane and Rice in Conference USA’s west division. The Mean Green has allowed no more than 16 points in their last four. The Miners lost to Rice and Texas A&M by a combined score of 102-14. North Texas 40, UTEP 13. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20131107-bill-nichols-notable-college-football-predictions.ece
  9. Read more: http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/best-in-texas-breakdown-north-texas-leapfrogs-rice-and-smu-comes-close-to-catching-tcu.html/
  10. SMU fans and students gather on "The Boulevard" before home football games, but many will never make it inside Ford Stadium. Would beer sales change that? (Staff Photo/Brad Loper) As much as I might complain about the price of beer at the American Airlines Center, its tough to imagine watching an entire hockey game without one. Or two. Ish. You might say the same about a Mavericks game or a Rangers or Cowboys game in Arlington. Beer, overpriced or not, goes with sports. This applies no matter where you might be watching, but especially if youre not at the arena/ballpark/stadium. So I forget sometimes that its much more miss than hit for college sports fans and am reminded only when I read that another university is considering adding alcohol sales to its on-campus home games. This came up at the University of Texas last spring, and now it appears to be a going concern here locally at SMU. Read more: http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/10/football-and-beer-seems-like-a-natural-even-for-smu.html/
  11. DENTON UNT head coach Dan McCarney said the Mean Green must improve its efficiency offensively following a 27-21 loss to Ohio last week. UNT converted just four of its 14 third downs, turned the ball over four times and averaged just 2.7 yards per rushing attempt. Read more: http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/mccarney-unt-needs-to-improve-efficiency.html/
  12. 9. Cedric Dale, Lewisville Hebron A three-star prospect, according to rivals.com and scout.com, Dale currently holds offers from North Texas and Texas Tech while the 5-foot-8, 167-pounder has also drawn interest from Baylor, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Okalhoma State, TCU and UCLA. http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/texas-class-of-2014-cb-rankings-beaumont-ozen-5-star-prospect-tony-brown-tops-group-of-strong-group-of-cornerbacks.html/
  13. The guys over at the Morning News put out a slide show/list of the top running backs in Texas college football today. A UNT player made the list that brings up an interesting debate. The Morning News has Brandin Byrd listed as the 15th-best back in the state. I won’t go through the whole list. Go ahead and click through it. What is up for debate is this — Just who is UNT’s best back? Byrd is a power guy who picked up 860 yards at 4.2 yards a pop and scored four touchdowns last season. He looked a lot quicker in the spring. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/05/unt-player-makes-list-of-top-texas-running-backs.html/
  14. The next leader of the University of North Texas at Dallas sees students spending time in companies and not just classrooms. “I want every undergraduate to have experience with this city outside the walls of the university,” said Ronald Brown, who will become UNT-Dallas president in July. That means students working with local employers, from hospitals to accounting firms to nonprofits, as they earn related degrees. Brown recently shared his priorities for Dallas’ newest public university, which began as a branch of UNT in Denton in 2000. Enrollment has grown from a few hundred students to more than 2,000. It’s a mix of recent high school graduates and older adults and of full-time and part-time students. Beyond working with companies to give students practical experience, Brown listed four other priorities for UNT-Dallas over the next few years: Offer more classes taught partly on campus and partly online, in ways that students benefit from technology. Track every student’s progress toward graduation through careful advising and other support to make them successful. Expand course offerings for freshmen and sophomores so they can meet general education requirements; and focus on degrees in high-demand fields such as accounting, health care, computer science and information management. Build dorms so that students can live on campus. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20130401-new-leader-for-the-university-of-north-texas-at-dallas-lays-out-goals.ece
  15. Ellen Pryor started work in January as associate dean for academic affairs at the UNT Dallas College of Law, which is scheduled to open in August 2014 in downtown Dallas. The University of North Texas System didn’t have to go far to find Pryor, who had been the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor of Law at SMU’s Dedman School of Law. Given that law school applications are down and grads are having trouble finding work, Points asked Pryor about starting the region’s first public law school during challenging times for legal education. This must be a busy but exciting time as the law school’s opening nears. Is everything progressing as you would have hoped? I would say that we feel comfortably challenged in meeting the goals and steps that lie between the present and a successful opening. And, yes, it is exciting as well as a little daunting. The source of both the excitement and the sense of challenge is the realization that we have a chance — and a responsibility — to build something that is different in ways that fit both the goals of UNT Dallas and the needs of the time. What is the UNT System’s goal for a number of students in the first year and for the first, say, five years? We think that it's important to offer a part-time evening option as well as a day option, which will be full time. Tentatively, we think that a good size for the first class would be 80 students in the day and 45 to 50 in the evening part-time division. We would keep this size through the near-term future. Has the UNT System set a tuition rate for first-year students? And how will that number compare to costs at private law school competitors? We haven't set the tuition yet. We expect it to be at or below the average public law school tuition in the state. Consistent with delivering the type and quality of education we are planning, we want to be as affordable as possible. To this end, we plan to focus scholarship money on financial need rather than, for instance, on increasing LSAT scores for outside ratings such as the U.S. News & World Report. Is it possible to compare the quality of legal education a student should expect from a public law school to that from a private school? That's an interesting question. I can't think of any accurate generalization about the nature or quality of the education in public vs. private law schools. Public and private law schools traditionally and currently share many of the same core features, and differences in certain aspects — for instance, extensive clinical education or intensive offerings in trial practice — appear in both. What have you learned since January that you didn’t expect about the challenge ahead? I didn't expect that the work of planning a new law school would so perfectly dovetail in time with the "high tide" of the national discussion about legal education reform. In the national conversation about legal education, there are two strands of critique or concern. One is pedagogical — the need for change in the teaching and learning model of law school. The second is cost and debt, especially in a shrinking legal job market. Both strands are important. The first pre-dated the second, and the second has brought more attention to the first. The combined attention to both of these has never been higher, as reflected, for instance, in recent conferences about the future of legal education and the creation of an American Bar Association Task Force on the Future of Legal Education. I've not been surprised at these two strands of concern; in fact, my interest in joining UNT comes from the unique chance to help create something that responds to these concerns and other goals. But I've been surprised at how closely our work dovetails with the national conversation. For instance, in the same seven weeks during which I've been working here, the ABA task force has met, the ABA Section on Legal Education has met to continue its discussion of accreditation standards and dozens of newspaper articles on legal education have appeared. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commentary/20130308-qa-does-dallas-need-a-new-law-school-in-this-climate.ece
  16. With signing day around the corner, here’s a look at how UNT’s 2013 recruiting class grades out… Instant impact: Defensive back UNT’s coaching staff was not pleased with the Mean Green’s performance in the defensive secondary last season and dedicated time and resources in terms of scholarships to upgrading the back line of its defense. UNT signed James Jones, a cornerback out of Kilgore who is expected to compete for a starting job right away. Jones was an honorable mention NJCAA All-American. Cornerback Chad Davis of Fort Bend Bush is arguably UNT’s top high school recruit. Read more: http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/grading-unts-2013-recruiting-class-mean-green-nab-big-name-juco-prospects-but-little-help-from-the-high-school-ranks.html/
  17. http://highschoolsportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/a-look-at-what-schools-produced-the-most-dallas-area-top-100-prospects.html/ This list should be the same list we focus much of our recruiting attention on EVERY single year - year round, 24-7.
  18. SMU president R. Gerald Turner said the Mustangs remain committed to the Big East. They officially become members in July. But over the last few months, the Big East has lost Notre Dame, Rutgers and Louisville, as well as the league’s seven non-FBS schools, which are forming their own conference. And the Big East’s negotiations for a television deal continue to drag on. Expectations of significantly lower conference payouts than expected have contributed to some of the exits. More Big East defections — if that’s possible — and expansion elsewhere could force SMU to reconsider. The Mustangs have been mentioned as potential candidates for the Mountain West. With its numbers in flux, the Big East must work on its divisional makeup. If San Diego State decides to honor its commitment, the Big East’s most likely move could be continued westward expansion. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/smu-mustangs/20130110-amid-defections-and-uncertain-tv-deal-big-east-meets-is-smu-still-committed.ece
  19. UNIVERSITY PARK — Given the Big East’s reconstruction over the last year, SMU can only wonder what its new conference will look like when the affiliation officially begins on July 1. The Big East has added five members and lost three since SMU announced on Dec. 7, 2011, that it was leaving Conference USA for the Big East. On the heels of Louisville’s recent decision to join the ACC, the Big East’s seven Catholic, non-FBS schools reportedly met with commissioner Mike Aresco to air concerns about the direction of the conference. Despite the whirlwind of realignment and general unrest, president R. Gerald Turner said SMU remains committed to the Big East. He said the other future Big East programs also reaffirmed their alliance in a recent meeting. “We’d rather have everybody that we started with staying together,” Turner said. “But knowing how volatile things were, all of us moving into it basically were doing so with the commitment that we would be creating a very good conference even if Armageddon occurred, and it has not occurred.” The Big East’s first big wave of expansion featured the addition of SMU, Houston and Central Florida in all sports and Boise State and San Diego State for football only. Since SMU announced its plans to join, the Big East has added Memphis, Temple and Tulane, and East Carolina and Navy for football only. The conference has taken big hits with recent departures of Notre Dame, Rutgers and Louisville. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/smu-mustangs/20121211-nichols-altered-lineup-won-t-shake-smu-s-commitment-to-big-east.ece
  20. MONROE, La. – Kolton Browning wasn’t supposed to be back on in Louisiana-Monroe’s lineup until the Warhawks played in a bowl game – if they got there. ULM’s quarterback got back a little earlier, just in time to officially spoil what North Texas hoped would be a late run at a break-even season. Browning made his first appearance since injuring his foot early in a loss to Louisiana-Lafayette on Nov. 3 and looked like his old self in a 42-16 thrashing of UNT on Saturday night at Malone Stadium. Browning torched UNT for 324 yards and three touchdowns, adding another chapter to his dream season that began with a dramatic overtime touchdown run to give ULM (7-4, 5-2 Sun Belt) a win over Arkansas. “We were kind of surprised that he came back, but he’s a heck of a football player,” UNT defensive end Brandon McCoy said. “You could see that he was hurting out there, but he kept fighting.” UNT head coach Dan McCarney vowed that the Mean Green would do the same despite seeing its opportunity to become bowl-eligible officially slip away. UNT (4-7, 3-4) can’t reach the six-win mark now and is headed for its eighth straight losing season. “It’s obviously disappointing,” McCarney said. “There are a lot of things that we are trying to do to get better, but it’s not about the future now. It’s about this team.” read more: http://www.dallasnew...north-texas.ece Click here to view the article
  21. DENTON -- Brock Berglund, a former Colorado high school quarterback who began his career at Kansas, has left Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College and enrolled at North Texas. “I am excited to be a part of The University of North Texas football team,” Berglund posted on his Twitter account Thursday evening. “This is a special place, and I am very excited for what the future holds. Many people have supported me, allowing me to live out my dreams. I can't say how grateful I am.” A source within the UNT athletic department confirmed that Berglund has enrolled at the school. Berglund, a former Valor Christian (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) standout was among the top rated dual-threat quarterbacks in the Class of 2011. He visited UNT during spring practice earlier this year. Berglund visited several schools in addition to UNT. Those schools studied Berglund’s transcript and discovered that he does not have the credit hours necessary to transfer and play at another school at the Football Bowl Subdivision level or receive financial aid in 2012. Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/unt-mean-green/20120906-controversial-quarterback-brock-berglund-transfers-to-north-texas.ece
  22. DENTON -- Brock Berglund, a former Colorado high school quarterback who began his career at Kansas, has left Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College and enrolled at North Texas. Scottsdale offensive coordinator Arna Bontempts confirmed Thursday afternoon that Berglund has left the schools and plans to enroll at UNT. A source within the UNT athletic department confirmed that Berglund has enrolled at the school. Berglund was among the top rated dual-threat quarterbacks in the Class of 2011. He visited UNT during spring practice earlier this year. Berglund did not immediately return a message seeking comment, but maintained that UNT was high on his list of potential destinations after visiting the school in mid-April. “I loved my visit to North Texas,” Berglund said. “They have a great group of coaches and a great group of guys.” Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/unt-mean-green/20120906-controversial-quarterback-brock-berglund-transfers-to-north-texas.ece
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