Rick Gosselin (DMN) Article on North Texas

[All About UNT]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/columnists/rick-gosselin/20131015-gosselin-an-infusion-of-money-and-lots-of-it-has-bought-north-texas-a-future-in-d-i-football.ece

"DENTON — I’ve driven by Apogee Stadium dozens of times in the past few years. It’s hard to miss the “wings of an eagle” grandstands in the east end zone that peer out at I-35.

I finally decided to take a peek inside the home of North Texas football last weekend and visit Apogee for a game. I saw something I didn’t expect to see: a Division I football team."

[All About UNT]

make sure and show his some props in the comments or Twitter. If he thinks nobody cares... he won't bother again.

[Harry]

Nice article!

[Harry]

Gosselin: An infusion of money (and lots of it) has bought North Texas a future in D-I football http://t.co/PtqpQoE5ri

— Rick Gosselin (@RickGosselinDMN)

October 16, 2013

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[Marty]

George mentioned on The Ticket this morning that both Gosselin and Craig Way were at the game Saturday night. Gosselin has written a couple of articles on Coach Mac in the past 2 seasons. Good to see any publicity about the Mean Green!

[TheWestie]

Gosselin was one of the parade of guests in the booth with George and Hank during the third quarter.

[NorthTexan95]

Here's a good quote from the article. It's definitely worth a read.

Middle Tennessee represented the first home game for North Texas since that showing. I wanted to see how the Mean Green would be greeted and treated by the home folks. Only 21,000 showed up. I expected more. So did the school.

“I’m not disappointed, but I’m not satisfied,” Villarreal said. “This is a building process and we’re making progress.”

But to understand where North Texas is, you first must understand how far the Mean Green has come. When Villarreal was hired in 2001, he discovered a photo on his desk. “It was a picture of the last home game before I took the job,” Villarreal said. “I could count the people in the stands — 187 of them. At the very top there was written 'Good luck.' I don’t know who left it, but I’ve kept it on my desk.”

Edited October 16, 2013 by NorthTexan95

[Army of Dad]

Here's a good quote from the article. It's definitely worth a read.

I hadn't heard about the picture RV keeps on his desk before.

[LongJim]

Good article. I think DFW media is ready to embrace the program if it continues to improve. Lord knows there's not as much to talk about at the tiny privates this year.

[VideoEagle]

make sure and show his some props in the comments or Twitter. If he thinks nobody cares... he won't bother again.

One of the few times I've ever tweeted something not work related! But done! I added the #Hit6 as well.

[UNT90]

Good article. I think DFW media is ready to embrace the program if it continues to improve. Lord knows there's not as much to talk about at the tiny privates this year.

The DFW media has ALWAYS been ready to embrace UNT athletics. Hell, half of them are UNT grads. UNT just hasn't given them any reason for such an embrace. They have actually done the program a favor by ignoring it's failures (a favor I wish they wouldn't do).

Give them a reason to talk about us, and they will talk about us a lot more than they do about SMU or TCU.

We just haven't given them that reason.

[VideoEagle]

The DFW media has ALWAYS been ready to embrace UNT athletics. Hell, half of them are UNT grads. UNT just hasn't given them any reason for such an embrace. They have actually done the program a favor by ignoring it's failures (a favor I wish they wouldn't do).

Give them a reason to talk about us, and they will talk about us a lot more than they do about SMU or TCU.

We just haven't given them that reason.

Very true. Frankly we don't have to be world beaters to get improved publicity. Beat the teams we are supposed to and be competitive against the Georgia's. We were competitive against Georgia according to one of the top sports writers. Now we need to beat the teams we are supposed to beat!

Starting with La Tech.

[UNTLifer]

Good article. I think DFW media is ready to embrace the program if it continues to improve. Lord knows there's not as much to talk about at the tiny privates this year.

Nobody likes to talk about tiny privates...trust me.

[emmitt01]

Nobody likes to talk about tiny privates...trust me.

This man speaks the truth. Having to sell "personality" is no small chore.

[UNTLifer]

This man speaks the truth. Having to sell "personality" is no small chore.

Ain't that the truth. Just ask my wife!

[casual fan]

The best part......UNT is on the front page of the sports with the 2 largest pictures.

smu is on the bottom of page 9, no picture, and the headline is "SMU numbers not adding up."

[meangreenthirteen]

The best part......UNT is on the front page of the sports with the 2 largest pictures.

smu is on the bottom of page 9, no picture, and the headline is "SMU numbers not adding up."

It tastes so, so good.

[FirefightnRick]

Nice!

Rick

[Baby Arm!]

This man speaks the truth. Having to sell "personality" is no small chore.

"But a dog has personality. Personality goes a long way"

[greenjoe]

I appreciate the article. However, no one has mentioned that within one hour of kickoff there was a very hard rain. I suspect that lots of potential attendees decided not to chance the weather and stayed home. Had we had a dry day, I would like to think we would have cracked 25 K.

Beat LaTech

GO MEAN GREEN

[Zeke]

I know I've seen that picture of the crowd at the NMSU game before - it was horrible. Does anybody have that photo?

[forevereagle]

I know I've seen that picture of the crowd at the NMSU game before - it was horrible. Does anybody have that photo?

Call RV, sounds like he has a copy handy.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Had my Radio Shack head phone radio on for the last part of Gosselin's interview with Jub on the Mean Green Radio Network and he almost sounded like a cheerleader for our football program saying.........."once the wins start happening here regularly the crowds will come."

......(BTW, ain't winning so nice for a change)?

Well, I think Gosselin was partially correct with the attendance assessment because we've had winnining seasons before without SRO crowds so..........................P-R-O-M-O-T-E !...this is still the DFW Metroplex of which our school is located with 1,000 other things our casuals & borderline fans can do on Game Day. Wish it weren't this way...but it is until we once and for all change this culture.

GMG!

Edited October 16, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

[Army of Dad]

"But a dog has personality. Personality goes a long way"

Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal.

[Green92]

It made my afternoon to open a post and see Pulp Fiction references. Thanks!