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I went by there today...drove up to the Athletic Center to see it up close. Seeing it on the webcam...or seeing it while driving by the interstate...doesn't do justice to all the work that has been done. It'll get you really excited. I recommend it to all....stop by the AC and check out the progress....UP CLOSE.

Anyone as excited as I am to see genuine work done on the stadium. I am real excited about the future of Mean Green sports.

Sometimes it is better to have no history than bad history... UCF was relatively unknown. We are known, but for decades of suckiness. Anytime a team saw us on the schedule, the fans snickered and the coach marked a big W next to our name. There are very few Boise States in the college football world... most underfunded teams are more like ULM and North Texas.

Thanks to all. For my birthday, I want for all of us a great Mean Green football season. Joe

Having a longer football history is pretty meaningless when the 30 years in between were spent in 1-AA hell or outright going backwards. I'm familiar with our teams of the 60's, thanks. But when Joe Greene started playing here: the Super Bowl I was still in the future, the ABA didn't exist yet, the Apollo program hadn't tried a launch yet, Elvis hadn't married Priscilla, the Constitution only had 24 amendments, England didn't have color TV, Walt Disney was making movies, the original Star Trek had yet to premiere on television, the Department of Transportation hadn't been created, John Lennon hadn't met Yoko, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. When Joe Greene retired from the NFL in 1981, this year's incoming freshmen were more than a decade away from being born. It's a rich and valuable history... But it's a distant one. In the post-Jimmy Carter era, we're (maybe) on equal footing with Central Florida. We have a one year D-1A head start, but they are in Orlando and had Daunte Culpepper and Assante Samuel. We did some very special things here at North Texas back before my 60-something retired father was old enough to vote or drink... But saying that we shouldn't have to play catch-up to UCF because of it is the same as saying Studebaker shouldn't be outsold by relative upstart automaker Lexus. It ignores some pretty important developments that happened in the intervening 30 years.

Joe Holland Happy Mean Green Birthday!!! Tony

Gotta believe in the Mean Green! I can see a turnaround happening. I don’t know how major, ] but I can definitely see improvement coming.

More importantly, he made some mean chicken tenders.

Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back onnnnn!

LOL That might even work if both my wife and I were not coaches. I can't in good conscience look into all those eyes and tell them coach won't be there because I want to play in a game myself.

We actually played 12 seasons in 1-AA. And it also merits mention that Fry's teams played a decade after Joe Greene was here, so it's not like we were terrible as soon as Mean Joe graduated. The point is that after Fry left, we had exactly one winning D-1A season (Moore going 6-5 in 1980) until the 2001-04 run of success. As great as the Greene and Fry eras were, there hasn't been a whole hell of a lot of D-1A success (except for the 4 years under Dickey) since then. Instead of 30 years, make it 20 for better accuracy. And I don't mean any disrespect to our 1-AA teams, either. I'm confident that the coaches and players who were here for those 12 seasons would have preferred to play at the top level, and I don't mean any insult to their successes. But if we're going to talk about 1-AA success as a reason we ought to have a leg up on UCF... What about Louisiana-Monroe and Western Kentucky? They both have 1-AA football national championships. Arkansas State lost a national championship. We never even won a postseason game in 1-AA. Again... Our history isn't much of an advantage when it's decades in the past and tainted by a 12 season exile in 1-AA surrounded by losing seasons at the highest classification.

poor Blake Dunham... look at whats' gone and... shat (all) over hiz thread.

Think about it. North Texas has been playing football how many years longer than UCF and we're trying to catch up to them? How sad. The bright side is, at least we are now making some progress facilities-wise.

---It indicates that he can't read or else hasn't read anything in the past 25 years or so. ---His mind died when SMU received the NCAA "death penalty" for cheating.

Gotta love UNT music!

I would really like a transfer. The right guy would help out a lot with us losing so many guys after next season. Also, most transfers will have to sit out a year anyway so coming to a loaded team won't matter to the guys who want more playing time. A transfer who sits will have a great opportunity to start and play major minutes once they are eligible to play.

Thank you for your continued support of North Texas music.

FWIW: **************************************************** "The Pac-10 has been in contact with Texas, which is why I've said over and over to consider any discussion in the media about Texas not being interested as nothing but a pure smoke screen. Texas largely has 4 ideas as far as how to play their cards: join the Big Ten (if offered), join the Pac-10, create an alliance/new conference with the Pac-10/Mt. W/Big XII, or stay in the Big XII (w/ aid from a new Longhorn Sports Network). The Pac-10 angle is the least favorite, as I've been told, b/c of travel. So, we asked the Pac-10 to drop Washington State, then bring us & Aggy in. That'd make 12. And, if they wanted to expand further with Colorado, Kansas, Utah & another team, that's fine by us. But, we don't want to be traipsing up to Washington & Oregon multiple times a year in every sport. Plus, WSU is dead weight of the lowest caliber. WE DID NOT ASK THEM TO DROP 3 TEAMS. We asked them to DROP DOWN to 3 northern teams. Our preference: Washington, Oregon & Oregon State stay. Texas does not want any part of TCU, SMU, Baylor or Houston. The point is that we want to prop them up and put them in a good position b/c we may work with them to carry their games on the Longhorn Network. As it stands, Texas by itself isn't that attractive to DirecTV, etc. But, adding in the aforementioned, whose games are never carried, would bolster the network's attractiveness to the cable/satellite companies. As I've said repeatedly.......we WILL listen to the Big Ten if they offer us a spot. Money talks. Plus, travel is better w/in the Big Ten than the Pac-10. The money's better, the academics are better. Our preference w/ the Big Ten would be to take us, Aggy, Nebraska & Missouri, and be joined by Notre Dame. That'd improve travel and keep some familiarity. But, that is probably unlikely b/c only the decay of the Big East would push Notre Dame to make a move (though if the dollars are enough, they could move for that alone.....as in $30M/year). The Big East is dead man walking if the Big Ten snatches 2-3 teams from them. They couldn't even field a football conference b/c they won't have enough teams. Even if they expand by grabbing East Carolina and others, they're 100% guaranteed to lose their BCS qualifier status. Believe it or not, but there is talk that the Big Ten could grab Pitt, Syracuse & Rutgers to force Notre Dame to join the Big Ten. That'd leave only 1 team left, which will probably be Missouri over Nebraska. If Nebraska is spared, that may spare the Big XII. But, it'd still leave us with about 1/3 the earning power of the Big Ten, which is NOT a position we want to be in. As to the reported "Western Alliance", if we go that direction, it will be a totally new conference. It won't be us joining the Pac-10. And if we do it, Washington State absolutely will be left out. They are worse than Baylor. The alliance is an idea with legs, but the Pac-10 members need to decide they WANT to compete w/ the Big Ten and SEC. They are a very slow to adapt conference, and they may decide they're fine being the new Big East."

As much as I would prefer that a North Texas alumnus be an expert on financial matters, you'll pardon me if I find him a bit more credible than you. "Ed Wallace ,born Louis Smith, is an American radio personality. He is the host of Wheels with Ed Wallace which broadcasts out of Dallas, Texas on radio station KLIF 570 AM. The show, which is also broadcast over the Internet, focuses mainly on automotive subjects. He also writes a weekly column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and is a contributing writer for BusinessWeek online. Two segments of Wheels with Ed Wallace, which is heard from 8AM to 1PM (Central Time) every Saturday morning, which do not deal with "car talk" are called "Secondhand News" and "The Backside of American History". "Secondhand News" presents news stories which might have been missed over the previous week. "Backside of American History" offers history lessons that have been forgotten on subjects as diverse as the Teapot Dome Scandal and Pancho Villa. The show has been given the Dallas Press Club's Katy Award for "Best Radio Documentary" and Wallace is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA for outstanding business journalism."

Plus one to you. That is a very good way of making what may be a better response than what I tried to say.

Remind me how that has turned out for the defense the last 2 years? If Canales year 1 is anything like Deloach's was, this could be a 2 win season. Just sayin...

No. let it rain

Why? Keith

And this is the grammer you are so proud to display and so quick to beat up on others when they play this game?

Really? And what about all the years prior to moving down to 1AA in 1983(or was it 1984). You see Tasty, UNT did have Div1 football prior to dropping down to 1AA. Ever hear of Joe Greene, Steve Ramsey, Ron Shanklin, etc., from the 1960's, and several great teams coached by Hayden Fry in the 1970's? Didn't we beat Tennessee back in the day. We have have a much longer football history than UCF in 1996.

NT was only in 1-AA 1983-1994, or 12 seasons. We moved to 1-A in 1995. One of North Texas' greatest teams was ranked #1 in 1-AA. Corky Nelson's 1988 team led by Scott Davis beat 1-A teams Rice, Texas Tech, and Texas*.

Should have been in bonds a year ago. Now is the time to get into stocks since the Obama Recovery is about to make us all millionaires.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/04/30/2155351/and-americas-economy.html