2002 New Orleans Bowl Video

[C Vo]

Here's the video I shot and edited back in the day while I worked at The Center for Media Production at UNT. The 10th anniversary of the 2002 New Orleans Bowl win over Cincinnati is on Dec. 17th. It was a good time in New Orleans so relive the memories!

[NorthTexan95]

Enjoyed watching that. Lots of old names to remember. Thanks for sharing.

[Harry]

Awesome post -- thanks for that! Good memories!

[BIG DAWG]

What makes that team so special is that many of the guys on that defense could be argued as some of the all-time NT greats at their position.

If only we had an offense during that run that was just a little more dynamic

Edited December 12, 2012 by BIG DAWG

[All About UNT]

Harry taking photos at 1:53....nothing has changed

[All About UNT]

Seriously.. look at the size difference between these players and what we see on the field now.

[Green P1]

People can talk all they want about the Sunbelt's rapid improvement.... That team would have domintated every single year of it's existence.

[TheColonyEagle]

Will we ever have an LB with the size and speed of Cody Spencer again?

What a freak.

Edited December 12, 2012 by TheColonyEagle

[Marty]

Forgot how good Galbreath was.

[BIG DAWG]

People can talk all they want about the Sunbelt's rapid improvement.... That team would have domintated every single year of it's existence.

Absolutely right!!!

+1

[Huff]

Thanks for posting the video. That was a very good team. Those were four enjoyable years. It is sad to think that two years from then the magic was gone and our program began to sink to the depths where we are now.

[greenminer]

The key to us playing defense is really maybe not one or two guys. It’s having a good player - a talented player - at every position and a quality backup at every position; and you throw in there a couple of dominating players at certain positions, and so now you play pretty good defense.

Miss you Scott!

[greenminer]

And how can we forget Booger's destruction of MTSU on 4th down?

[untjim1995]

An absolutely great defense and solid running game--that night will probably go down as the highlight of my Mean Green fandom. Being there in person, watching my alma mater beat a good team with a recognizable name in a bowl game was surreal. Kevin Galbreath was unstoppable. People forget that Cincy was a dropped TD pass away from beating Ohio State that year--the same team that beat Miami to win the national championship. Kind of sad to say, but I remember seeing that we got 2 votes in the coaches poll that year. That's the closest that I have ever seen a UNT football team get to being ranked.

What's really amazing is that the 2003 team was even better--they just lost a tough game to Memphis in the NO Bowl that year. I thought the 2001 team's season was neat, but we all can recognize that it wasn't exactly a great team, since we finished 5-7 in the SBC's first year and got blown out by CSU in that first NO Bowl. And the 2004 team, while better than 2001, won all 7 games against SBC teams and lost all 5 OOC games, with the NO Bowl blowout loss to a much bigger and faster Southern Miss team that just crushed Jamario and the running game. But those two middle years (2002-2003) were the best two years that I have seen out of any UNT football team. I got frustrated by the boring offense and the fact that we were running roughshod over a new league full of teams that no one had heard of or cared about, which caused attendance to marginally improve. But I do think that if Dickey could have gotten hired away after that, it would've been the best thing for us. It would have told the college football world and recruits that this program could get you places, that we were finally building something great here. Unfortunately, he didn't get any interest, though, and the recruiting really went south fast, as did his attitude and demeanor toward the university and the fans. But I really wonder if he had gotten hired away, who would've been interested in coming here and who we would have hired. There would have been more interest and we wouldn't have had a buyout that made Todd Dodge the most attractive option to hire away from high school. Of course, having watched how we replaced the opposite of Dickey in Johnny Jones, we probably would've still hired Todd Dodge, which is similar to what Tony Benford is looking like right now.

[emmitt01]

People can talk all they want about the Sunbelt's rapid improvement.... That team would have domintated every single year of it's existence.

Liar!! We all know that the real reason we can't compete anymore is that the Sun Belt of the early 2000's was made up of Pop Warner teams and that over time they became the SEC.

[DeepGreen]

Those old style, plain, dark green uniforms don't look all that bad, do they?

[DeepGreen]

Seriously.. look at the size difference between these players and what we see on the field now.

Funny you mention that. Ran across an old program from the early 2000's season and notice how much larger we were back then. At least on paper. The LB's were mostly 6-2+, 220 lbs or more. Wide receiver were 6-2, 200 lbs.

[Cerebus]

Wow. Thanks for this video.

There are ton of current/former posters on that video.

Edited December 12, 2012 by Cerebus

[Stan R]

*sigh* thanks for posting this. Darrell... I'm starting to think he has the right and maybe ONLY recruiting philosophy that works for teams like UNT. Hey buddy, nobody else cared about you, but I DO. We'll make something of ourselves and PROVE these BCS schools wrong. Come here and you'll be adored by the fans and we'll shock the world. Hell even the fans don't like ME! (DD) but look at what I've done. I'm a football rebel and you are too, I know it. Work with me and we'll have fun and make it work.

10 or so years later. Did we make the right decision firing DD? Even after the sting of the black unis faded off I was starting to question that decision. The argument that keeps getting brought up - "well we would never have apogee if we never fired DD and hired *gulp* TD". I cannot argue with that line of thinking but I can't help start wondering if... wait for it...

wait for it...

wondering if Mac should bring in DD as a consultant of some sort. I'm like, mostly serious about that. he knew how to somehow make it work here, and LORD knows that hasn't been easy over the past 50 years. UNT Is not Iowa State, and it is sure as hell not Florida. Someone with a history of knowing how to make it work in North Texas might just be DD.

to clarify: I'm just referring to consulting on making the recruiting work, not Uniform pantone color selection.

[Cerebus]

Those old style, plain, dark green uniforms don't look all that bad, do they?

Those uni's and that helmet are still my favorite.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Those uni's and that helmet are still my favorite.

The unis were nice, the helmets . . .

[Cerebus]

The unis were nice, the helmets . . .

Those helmets were around for four seasons: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Bowl games all four seasons.

IT WAS THE HELMETS ALL ALONG!!!

[Mean Green 93-98]

Those helmets were around for four seasons: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Bowl games all four seasons.

IT WAS THE HELMETS ALL ALONG!!!

I'm pretty sure it was my lucky Flying Worm underwear that I had to retire after the 2004 season.

[H-towngreen]

I wasn't even born when this video was taken. That's how long it's been since NT was winning. Ok, that's not true but it sure as hell feels like it.

[Christopher Walker]

Those old style, plain, dark green uniforms don't look all that bad, do they?

Eh......