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I said a couple of days ago that I would post some thoughts on my series on UNT’s 100th football anniversary on the blog. Here’s all three parts. After talking with more than a dozen people over the course of several months, I came away with the feeling that there is a lot of excitement among UNT officials, boosters and fans about the future of the program. There is also a sense of trepidation. UNT is on the cusp of arriving at the Promised Land in terms of a conference home with its move to Conference USA. In one way or another, UNT has spent around a decade trying to make that switch from the Sun Belt. The question now is how UNT will take advantage of all its has in place. You never get all your good quotes into a series like that, even one that runs three days and more than 6,000 words. I had 24 pages of single spaced material to work with. This is one comment from UNT athletic director Rick Villarreal that I didn’t find a place for that stuck with me: “You don’t make this investment to just have a nice place for people to come. When you build [a new stadium], you expect to recruit better players and draw more fans. There needs to be a payoff. In what we do, it’s measured in wins and losses.” Villarreal went on to make that point that the investment UNT made in other programs like tennis paid off eventually. Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/08/unt-100-series-wrap-up-thoughts-top-25-out-recruiting-tidbit.html/