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Sorry, but I am leary of any academic credentials from Louisiana with the exception of Tuland.

Well, I guess someone has to post it...might as well be the "commissioner"... Green Team 40 - White Team 26, but whose counting? The very good news is that the game raised $1400.00 AFTER expenses for the Andrew Smith Memorial Scholarship. I believe that to be one of the largest amounts to date, so my thanks to one and all for a great event. Cannot believe what great weather we had after the dire forecasts, but you know, there just can't be rain on the GMG.com Bowl!!! I cannot wait to see the photos of the event. Actually has a professional photographer out for the game (thanks UNT 90) who took a ton of photos, so the truth will come out in photos. Thanks to all our sponsors, to all who played and to those who provided additional scholarship monies yesterday at the game. Thanks to the families and friends who came out to watch the game, and to provide the GREAT brisket for everyone after the game. Cannot forget the excellent links being shared as well. Plenty of food and adult beverages to share after the game made for a super end to a super day. The photo of the stadium that KingDL1 took from the air last Saturday was great and I went to the deck at the athletic facility after the game for a new look-see of the stadium. man, lots of work, and it is really looking great. I took the stadium photo over to RV's house after the game and he was very pleased to get the photo, but seemed disappointed that he didn't know about the game. He said he would have liked to have stopped by, and also said he would help with next year's game if we wanted to try to round up some more "exes" like Scott and Andy for the game. He was very appreciative of the photo from KingDL1 and very grateful for the donation to the scholarship fund. OK, how do I lean to cook brisket like yesterday's? And, I have to get some of those links that UNT90 was cooking...Links, brisket, beer and football with the Mean Green Nation...it just doesn't get much better than that! Thanks so much to everyone for making this event so much fun and so successful. I can't wait for GMG.Com Bowl 8. It will be even bigger and better I am sure! We'll get some photos posted here soon...BTW, Scott hall can still throw and Andy can still catch...I think my bride has a crush on Andy!!!!!

Which is what exactly? What the hell are you doing? Being pissed about an oil spill is not a liberal or conservative emotion. When man fucks up and in turn it helps destroy mother earth, shouldn't we all be pissed off?

Once again, The Dallas Morning News has snubbed UNT and shown that they do not consider UNT an "area school." The following headline of the article I'm about to link is printed in the Sunday paper edition of the Sports section: "Area Schools Ready for Anything - TCU/SMU." However, they have, at least, changed the headline for the online version of the story to this: "Conference expansion could open doors for SMU, TCU." Now, I understand that the writer (the metropolis of hair) is also the beat writer for SMU but it still pisses me off to see an article about "area schools" that excludes any mention of UNT. It's not even the omission from the story that peeves me so much as it was the headline and what insight that wording of the headline tells me about the paper's opinion of North Texas. Let the emailing of the DMN Sports editor commence: Garry Leavell (Sports Editor): gleavell@dallasnews.com and/or Michael Kondracki (Sunday Editor): mkondracki@dallasnews.com

Here's the link: BP: Siphon is working I'm certainly glad that, for the first time in a month, something seems to be working. There is other material in this article that doesn't paint a very good picture of the damage that has already occurred; in short: a very oxygen deprived environment for sea life, including those we might hope to be eating. I guess one thing I can't understand from some who have commented on this incident is an attitude that something of this nature is simply "stuff happening" and that we shouldn't expect improved practices from the industry and regulatory agencies. Sure, we need petroleum products (and yes, coal), but, at this point, I'm less willing than ever to leave worker safety and environmental protections to the tender mercies of the industry. But, I'm willing to give what McCain said a chance, that offshore drilling can be done "safely", but only if we've learned something from this and are willing to apply it. I think it was a pretty smart conservative (from a onetime Texas oil family), William F. Buckley, who said something like "regulation is a legitimate function of government".

i don't think t.c.u. will be invited to big 12 unless conference just can't find anyone else. t.c.u. brings no new market to the conference, as big 12 already controls both dfw and houston media. i would look to new mexico or memphis first, or utah if pac 10 doesn't snatch them up.

SMU has always been the Dallas team. It's where they're located. Kate Hairopoulas is the beat writer for SMU. Did you expect North Texas to be picked over SMU? Would Brett Vito pick SMU over North Texas? I don't know how you say that North Texas is not a factor in the SBC. In the last five years of football, that would be true. Before that, four championship seasons. NT stands second in the Bubas Cup rankings but since we do not play baseball could fall to third. That's still significant in the Belt. In the same DMN Sunday paper, writer Chuck Carlton omitted both SMU and North Texas from expansion. I have no idea if he has an inside opinion or if it is just his own but I'd expect the latter, judging from some of the other choices that he made. Also, he gave no idea as to what happens to the teams that he did not list. We don't even know how many will be in the revised Big 10. If it's Notre Dame only then everything else could be as you were. Or, some conferences might try to position themselves for better TV deals and either add teams or make a coalition with other conferences. To say that North Texas is not a player in the DFW market is unconscionable. We have more alumni than any other university and far more potential. To balance that, both TCU and SMU have been major players where we have not. Heretofore, except for our time in the Missouri Valley Conference, we haven't acted as if we wanted higher aspirations. That has changed now. We can't undo the past but the future looks bright. Maybe we need to hire a Paul Tagliabue type to plead our cause.

This is considering the fact that the MAC would even want LA TECH. Based on the cost of travel, CUSA or Belt would be a better fit. I am not sure if the MAC is looking for a media market in Northern LA.

"But SMU averaged 21,000 fans this season at 32,000-seat Ford Stadium, a number inflated by some major ticket initiatives." I'm glad that made it in the article

I'm still blown away by how beautiful that field was given how hard it rained the day before. Can't wait for football season to start back up, wahoooo.

it certainly was a fabulously fun day and we were blessed with no rain!!! that total is astonishing!!! some people went above and beyond the "fee" to pay...good job guys. football, beer, and fun...fabulous stinking day!!! thanks for putting this game together!

A lot of people get mad when things like this happen. And it is understandable. But, people who start suggesting that "we stop drilling as everyone else should too" really don't understand what they are saying. We don't have the technology for alternate forms of energy to meet the requirements for the modern life. Unless people are willing to go back to horse and buggy then we must drill for oil.

I feel old today.

Thanks to Kram, UNT Flyer, and all of the sponsors (and to our 2 esteemed former players for coming out). I had a great time and enjoyed meeting lots of folks. Congrats to the Green Team -- next year *will* be a different story... Now time for Alleve and bed ...

I haven't peeded in a lake in almost 2years. Does that count ?

All of this got me thinking, and searching for crap on my phone, and I was trying to figure out what the oil industry lumps into the water annually, how much is natural, how much is accident, has something like this ever happened before and how often does something like this happen that we don't know about?I found some interesting stuff, nothing that makes this ok but maybe it can add some perspective. http://www.incidentnews.gov/incident/6250. This is written about a massive spill in the gulf of Mexico in 79 http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/oceanography-book/oilspills.htm this will take you to a very interesting online textbook provided by aTm. I tend to trust them on the oil stuff thanks to their tremendous engineering program. They talk about what is normal amounts of oil in the water and where it comes from etc. This year isn't normal of course but it also addresses several major oils spills as well. What we need here is some perspective on the issue as a whole. No amount of man made oilspills is acceptable however there is a certain amount of price you pay to play the game isn't there?

Odd logic thinking that an oil spill would ever be "ok."

This is never okay anywhere.

Eight bus crashes.

Dyslexia

NT is a non factor at this time. NT must win to change that issue.

NT is not a factor in the SBC or in the DFW area....sorry SMU is back as the Dallas team. See the DMN info in this Sunday paper.

Poor birds. Poor dolphins. Hey, how about the fact that 11 men were killed? That seems to keep getting swept under the rug.

This is what happens when we don't.

The American Citizen is having control of everything stripped from them on a daily basis.

This what happens when we "drill baby drill".

I hate to say it, but "stuff" happens. This is a terrible accident that, like most accidents, when the after event finger pointing starts there were plenty of reasons found for the event that, if corrected or handled differently in the first place, would have prevented the event from taking place. Too bad, and it is just as bad that the finger pointing starts, that politics come into play (and man have they ever) and all the special interest folks start trying to do the "I told you so thing". This is so tiring. Instead of marshaling all resources to "fix" the leak and mitigate the damage we spend time finger pointing, playing the blame game and publicly bashing everyone involved except of course those of your like thinking. So very childish. What will come of this is, hopefully, some new ideas and new ways to prevent such things from happening in the future or, should they happen, to "clean them up" better and faster. It does not make anyone, including the president of this great nation of ours, look good going around acting mad and pointing fingers. There is plenty of blame, if that is your game, to go around from the public to the private sector. Fair enough, but now "SHUT UP" and get the thing fixed, cleaned up and move on. For some folks it is always great to have someone to blame for everything, except themselves, of course.

TCU likely goes to the Big 12 to replace Missouri, right?

Then do your part.

Drill more. We can not stop oil/gas exploration/drilling because of far and few between accidents just like we can not stop or place more regulations on cars for their accidents and trains, planes, playground/recreational equipment, baby cribs, and the list is endless. Once we have banned or placed draconian restrictions on everything because of safety then we go back to living in caves. Crap happens......crap happens every day.....live with it. Nobody does it intentionally. Do I think what happened is bad? yep.....will it effect the environment? yep, for a short time...but the good thing about where we live is that the environment will get over it too.

e-more, nobody said we did not want additional improvements for safety or otherwise. it is too bad that good men had to die on the rig but all things considered "stuff" does happen with anything than man makes no matter how many safety nets are installed. rigs will leak oil, planes will fall from the sky, your car will break down but do you really want the government to micro manage every detail? i think not. glad to hear progress is being made on the leak.