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  1. Love this quote from Rick Villarreal (update on UNT-LSU game status): “If LSU wants to get on a plane, fly down here and play on Saturday, I’m sure we can work that out.” Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/08/love-this-quote-from-rick-villarreal-update-on-unt-lsu-game-status.html/
  2. UNT had a media availability period today, which allowed me to get in a couple of questions I have wanted to ask Dan McCarney. Iowa transfer wide receiver John Chelf will be eligible this year and will play against LSU. Chelf spent two seasons with the Hawkeyes before recently transferring to UNT. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/08/friday-night-notes.html/
  3. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/08/a-couple-of-quick-practice-notes-pegram-tidbit-mac-video-coming-later.html/
  4. "UNT had its home game against Troy on Sept. 22 and its game at Florida Atlantic on Sept. 29 added to the slate." read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/08/unt-has-another-two-games-picked-up-for-tv.html/
  5. We're back this Wednesday night at 9:05PM to begin the 2012 podcast schedule! Come and join us for our "Catch up" session where we go back and recap events that took place up to this point and start to prep for what should be a very exciting year for UNT sports fans. Special guest and UNT beat writer for the DRC Brett Vito, and UNT basketball analyst John Hansen will join us in the studio and give us the latest from the street. Join us in the GoMeanGreen.com chatroom at 9:05pm on Wed. night (TONIGHT!) and participate in the live podcast! GMG! GMG CHATROOM LINK
  6. I have taken a bit of a break from my post spring series on UNT’s roster, but now that I am back from vacation it’s time to get back at it. I started off with some positions where UNT has a lot to be confident about — quarterback and offensive line come to mind. Today, we take a look at an area of concern, UNT’s cornerback spot. UNT struggled at times last year at cornerback, despite having some experienced players — Royce Hill was a four-year starter and Steven Ford played two years for the Mean Green. By the middle of the year, freshman Freddie Warner had become a starter only to be lost to a season-ending injury. The number that sticks out is that UNT ranked last in the Sun Belt in passing defense with an average of 265.8 yards allowed a game on the season. There is no doubt UNT had its problems in the back end. I just wonder how much of them were directly attributable to the cornerback spot. Some of them? For sure. The whole problem? Probably not, especially if you take a closer look at the team. UNT was torched by Houston’s Case Keenum, Tulsa’s G.J. Kinne and Arkansas State’s Ryan Aplin, three really good college quarterbacks. But when it came to Sun Belt Conference play, UNT actually ranked third in pass defense with 215.0 yards allowed a game. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/07/post-spring-football-series-part-9-cornerbacks.html/
  7. In a surprising twist, the timing has worked out perfectly when it comes to our post-spring football series. The final part — coaching — is today. Monday is Sun Belt media day. One can argue back and forth about where the impact of coaching is most evident on the college level. I have always been of the opinion that college football is not really an Xs and Os game. It’s a Jimmmys and Joes game. The coaches who succeed are not always the ones whose strengths are game plans, calling a game or making the perfect adjustment. More often than not, the coaches who win are the guys who get the talent to campus, can keep the top players on the field and have them playing well together. In that sense, UNT went from the outhouse to the penthouse last season. Dan McCarney came in and totally revived the program. The players gradually bought in and played hard until the end of the season, even when they didn’t have anything to play for against Middle Tennessee. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/07/post-spring-football-series-part-10-coaching.html/
  8. I was a little short with the information on Arthur Casimiro this afternoon. I was on the way back home from vacation and posted what I could with my I-phone. I had a chance to catch up with Casimiro and his new junior college coach at San Bernardino Valley Quincy Brewer and have a little better perspective on UNT’s latest commitment to pass along now. Brewer compared Casimiro’s game to Pau Gasol’s. Don’t get me wrong. He’s not Pau Gasol, but he’s left-handed, has a good hook shot and can shoot the short jumper. Casimiro spent a short time at Southern Idaho before transferring to San Bernardino, his second JC. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/07/additional-info-and-thoughts-on-arthur-casimiro.html/
  9. http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/07/just-for-fun-unt-head-to-head-rundown-in-football-recruiting.html/
  10. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/tuesday-night-recruiting-notes.html/
  11. read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/unt-gets-its-qb.html/ This post has been promoted to an article
  12. One topic that I have been meaning to get to over the last few days, but haven’t had a chance to is where UNT stands as far as quarterbacks go moving forward following Brock Berglund’s decision to attend junior college. If you have not been following along, Berglund is the former Kansas quarterback who visited UNT and later decided to go to Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College, due largely to an NCAA ruling that would have forced him to sit a year and pay his own way if he enrolled at another FBS school. Point being, Berglund was high on UNT’s wish list in a year this team absolutely has to sign a quarterback. That was Dan McCarney’s take on national signing day in February. And it’s not too hard to see why. UNT didn’t sign a quarterback in its 2012 class. UNT signed three in 2011, but Cooper Jones has since moved to tight end and Brent Osborn was a JUCO transfer who will be a junior in the fall. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/thinking-about-unts-future-at-qb-post-brock-berglund.html/
  13. Dylan McDorman, a defensive tackle out of Wichita Falls who was scheduled to spend the upcoming season as a grayshirt and then join the team in the spring, will enroll this fall after all. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/mcdorman-to-join-unt-in-july.html/
  14. Over the last couple of days, I have had a chance to catch up with UNT’s new basketball coaches Tony Benford and Mike Petersen and picked up some extra tidbits and thoughts to put on the blog. I spent a few minutes with Benford to start on a profile (it’s just something you do with a new coach in a major sport like men’s basketball) and also talked with Petersen after he added Cayla Petree to his staff. Benford spoke a little about this on his interview on TXA 21 last night, but he also mentioned to me how important this upcoming recruiting class will be for UNT’s future. He called it the biggest and most important class for UNT going forward. It’s a good point, one I had not thought a lot about. The assumption is that Tony Mitchell is headed to the NBA after this year, but you also have to figure in that Roger Franklin, Jacob Holmen, Justin Patton, NIko Stojkovic and Brandan Walton will be seniors this year. That is a whole lot of talent to replace in one shot. UNT will have a six-man recruiting class this next year, and the staff is getting off to a bit of a late start considering the assistant coaches have just arrived. New LSU head coach Johnny Jones, the guy who built UNT from a disaster of a program into a consistent winner, laid the foundation with a lot of players that Benford and his staff can build around. Benford said he has been impressed with the quality of the players he inherited not only in terms of their basketball talent, but also in the type of people they are. That has made the transition easier. But there is still a lot of work to do. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/random-wednesday-afternoon-basketball-notes-and-thoughts.html/
  15. New UNT women’s basketball coach Mike Petersen has finalized his coaching staff. I spoke with him for a few minutes this afternoon about the new lineup and the final addition — former Cisco College head coach Cayla Petree. Petree played at Cisco and then at Texas Tech. She spent five seasons as the head coach at Cisco, which is not a traditional power Region V. Petree led Cisco to the semifinals of the regional tournament last year and the quarterfinals the year before. Cisco lost to Midland, one of the top teams in the region, each time. That performance caught the attention of Petersen. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/petersen-finalizes-womens-basketball-staff.html/
  16. After a brief hiatus to cover some news of the day over the last week or so, it’s time to resume my post spring series look at UNT’s roster position by position. Today, we move over to defensive tackles. A year ago at this time, UNT appeared to be in a world of hurt at the position. UNT leaned on Kelvin Jackson and Shavod Atkinson in 2010 and lost both to graduation. Head coach Dan McCarney vowed to play a lot of defensive linemen and rotate them, which was good idea in principle. The problem in 2010 and to a certain extent last year was UNT didn’t have enough guys who could play to rotate. UNT ended up leaning on Richard Abbe, Tevinn Cantly and Ryan Boutwell, a trio of guys who was far from proven. Boutwell came into the year as an undersized converted defensive end. Abbe needed to lose weight. Cantly looked the part then and still does now, but had struggled to put it together on the field, due partly to a series of injuries. The interesting part of the situation is that Dan McCarney is about as respected a defensive line guru as there is in college football. The hope was he could work some magic, along with defensive line coach Mike Nelson. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/post-spring-football-series-part-7-defensive-tackles.html/
  17. A couple of people have e-mailed me over the last few days to bring up a question about UNT’s place in the college football world that I thought would make a perfect blog post. It seems like a lot of UNT fans are wondering when the school’s football program is going to see the mass influx of talent that people have been waiting on for years now. I can understand why that expectation is there. UNT has a terrific new football stadium, arguably the most accomplished football coach to come through town since Hayden Fry in Dan McCarney in place and the Mean Green is headed to Conference USA. UNT has more to sell than ever before. The expectation is that the highly rated Metroplex recruits should come rolling into town any time now. That could soon be the case, but it won’t be until UNT can fill the one big void in its sales pitch. To be blunt about it – UNT has to win. In UNT’s case that is what has always been the key, just like it is for most programs. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/06/the-missing-piece-winning-is-still-haunting-unt.html/
  18. I’m back from a short vacation and am ready to resume my post-spring blog series on UNT’s roster position-by-position by evaluating the Mean Green’s offensive line, but first a fun story. Vicky and I went to Portland for a few days and picked up a car at the airport. The guy from Enterprise looked at my license and said, “Denton, home of the Mean Green.” Long story short, we got to talking and it turned out the guy went to Troy for a couple of semesters before graduating from a school in Florida. (Insert joke about the Troy guy working at Enterprise here) Anyway, just thought that was interesting. But back to the matter at hand. UNT’s offensive line was a big strength last season. Lance Dunbar ranked third in the Sun Belt with 1,115 rushing yards on the season and UNT allowed just 16 sacks, a total that also ranked third in the league. What is a huge positive for UNT going forward is that most of the group is back and some young players gained experience in the spring that will allow them to provide added depth. The lone player UNT lost who played a significant role was tackle Matt Tomlinson, who was a first-team All-Sun Belt selection. JJ Johnson was expected to start at center, but was hurt in the season-opener and never really played a major role outside of being a great leader. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/05/post-spring-football-series-part-2-offensive-line-back-from-a-little-vacation.html/
  19. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/05/thinking-about-unts-window-of-opportunity.html/
  20. There were times last season when UNT looked pretty good offensively. The Mean Green exploded for 59 points in a season-ending win over Middle Tennessee and scored 38 in wins over Troy and Louisiana-Monroe. And then where were the times UNT looked pretty bad, including five times the Mean Green scored 21 points or less. Ask UNT’s coaches where they need to improve so the former is more common than the later and the topic of speed and explosive play from the wide receiver spot always comes up. UNT finished with just 11 pass plays of 30 or more yards last season and two of them were to running back Lance Dunbar. Offensive coordinator Mike Canales joked at UNT’s football banquet that Derek Thompson had an 83-yard touchdown pass. He threw it about 15 yards to Lance, and he did the rest. Dan McCarney has said on numerous occasions that UNT has to get faster as a team. That includes the wide receiver spot. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2012/05/post-spring-football-series-part-4-wide-receivers.html/
  21. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2012/05/where-the-john-odoh-issue-stan.html
  22. North Texas will make a jump when it comes to the level of competition it faces in several sports when it joins Conference USA in 2013. The challenge is one the school’s coaches and players said they are prepared for — not to mention looking forward to — following the school’s official announcement Friday that it is leaving the Sun Belt Conference. C-USA added four other teams in addition to UNT in its latest round of realignment — Texas-San Antonio, Charlotte, Louisiana Tech and Florida International. “We are definitely excited,” said Kelsey Hodges, a member of UNT’s soccer team. “This will give us more rivalries with more teams that are closer to us. The higher level that Conference USA is at is exciting. We will have the chance at higher rankings and will have better competition. The expectations will go up.” UNT has faced members of C-USA on a regular basis over the last several years due to the proximity of some of those schools. The UNT football team fell last season at Tulsa and lost to Rice two years ago. Both teams will be among UNT’s new rivals in C-USA. UNT knocked off Rice in men’s basketball two years ago. Read more: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20120505-unt-eyeing-new-challenges-in-conference-usa.ece
  23. Let's talk some realignment and CUSA!! Special guest Brett Vito of the DRC will be joining us. And we will be doing this live with the chat room so bring your humor and hot sports opine! http://www.gomeangre...om/forums/chat/ This post has been promoted to an article
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