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I went to the Great American Shoot-Out in Duncanville last night. My Bride went to elementary through high school with TX Bluechips-Navy coach Stacy Houston and wanted to offer her friend our support after Stacy's recent loss. Stacy Houston is the father of former North Texas recruit Deion Jackson-Houston who was killed in an automobile accident this past week. Stacy is an outstanding man and is handling this devastating loss as well as could possibly be expected by any father. Our prayers are certainly with him and his family during this difficult time. I talked briefly with Johnny Jones at the the Shoot-Out. He said he was there to watch several prospects but as always didn't provide names. He said that he was leaving Saturday morning to go to Oklahoma for a junior college talent showcase. I talked with several former Mean Green players, Ty Thompson who was assisting with the TX Bluechips-Navy, Brandon Gilbert who is now an assistant basketball coach at South Grand Prairie, and Kenneth Mangrum who is an assistant coach for Fred Rike at Angelo State University. Brandon said that he has a very talented point guard on his team that he'd love to see eventually play for North Texas. I talked to former North Texas basketball staff member Ervin Davis and asked him how his younger brother Chris was doing in Europe. He said I should ask Chris when he arrives in a little while. Chris was home on vacation and I had the pleasure of him introducing me to his beautiful bride and precious baby daughter. He said that he is having a wonderful time playing in France but that it is always great to come home. He said that although he understands French pretty well, he cannot speak it fluently, but his older daughter sure can. He said that making North Texas games is extremely difficult because of the conflicting season schedules and the great distances involved but that he has been able to fly home to catch a game during Christmas Break during several of the past years and plans on doing that again this year.

No question. UNT will be much better at QB, and be significantly more balanced (and to Riley's credit, we would be with him had he not injured the arm and retained the strength he had at Carroll), causing opponents to sit back and guess instead of tee off and be aggressive. I think we'll score 37 points per game this year under Canales, and with the experience in the OL, the quality of backs, and the explosiveness at WR. Not to mention opponents won't know what's coming.

Putting aside the accuracy of his football prediction... I like the way the Arkansas State guy thinks.

I don't know how we should start the season, but by Week 8 we'll be singing the classic "Nah Nah Nah Nah"

ACDC TNT but change the chant to UNT we're dynamite, UNT we'll win the fight, UNT the mother load, UNT watch us explode.

http://www.collegesports-fans.com/football-previews/2010-preview/north-texas-mean-green.html EXERPTS With so much experience returning across the board and a few standout performers on hand, things look ripe for another big improvement on defense in 2010. While North Texas won’t make anyone mistake them for the Texas Longhorns, they should field a respectable defense for the first time under Dodge. I’m afraid I’m falling into a trap for the 3 rd consecutive season but I like this team. They’re deep along both lines, they have a great allotment of skill players and a good secondary and they have a few standout players on both sides of the football. Furthermore, they have about as easy of a schedule as they could manage without playing any D-1AA teams, so it is put up or shut up time for Dodge in his 4 th year. I think his team will play with a purpose and this could easily produce a six win season and a potential bowl berth.

I would pick A. However, I kinda like playing with the idea of bringing back the two-tone, Apple Green look from the Hayden Fry era:

Yeah, playing a COMPLETE game is always better. By the fourth quarter Wyo was looking like a pair of incontinent adolecent's underwear with all that brown and yellow. How anyone could like Penn State's togs is beyond me. They look more like a uniform template than a uniform. As for Georgia's helmets, the Green Bay Packers did it first and better.

Most of these schools have color describing an actual object. Our name is a color, much like Syracuse (I know it may have been a native American when they were Orangemen). What color is Syracuse's helmet now??? Orange. Ours should be green. It just makes too much sense.

There was a nice write up on this in the Denton paper today. My link

Oooh, thanks for that. He is really very nice. When I got his autograph and at an earlier con, I got all tongue-tied but he was super sweet in spite of me being starstruck.

I got Adam Baldwin's autograph last time he came through. *hubba hubba* He's as big and buff in person as he looks in the movies. Nice, too. Listened to a great panel discussion with him and Alan Tudyk about Serenity/Firefly. *sigh* Adam, Alan and Nathan Fillion make listening to my husband and kids playing Halo:ODST bearable. And, a last plug for the sci-fi con: these guys typically put on pretty good shows, too. I was at the last one with Sean Patrick Flanery of The Boondock Saints. He also gave a great panel discussion on his career. Now, I just gotta decide which shirt I wanna wear: "Seduced by the Dork Side" or (written in elvish) "If you can read this, I found your ring." Talk Nerdy to me.

1) Penn State (all) 2) Texas All-white

I hope we never get confused for the Texas Longhorns. We have a huge convict deficit compared to the Horns.

I think I like it. I would prefer the SOW, or even better, the NT Exes interlocking NT. But I think it looks better than any other helmet we've had in the past 10 years.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100629/D9GKTGRO0.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-28/greeks-stage-national-strike-to-protest-overhaul-to-pensions-labor-laws.html this is your update ttg.....yes, it really happens. the greeks have serious problems financial problems.

Not sure why but I love the white/white/white look.

I'm right with you.

To be honest, I don't really like that helmet in the video.

I'd be fine with that helmet. Though I prefer the white one.

Thought you might like to see this thread (there are probably 20 more just like it). No sense reinventing the wheel.

i would like to see a "talon"[eagle claw] on the helment, simular to clemson's use of a tigers paw. i would like to see green helments/uniforms simular to marshall's. i would like to see a winning team, simular to troy,s. i would like to see the north texas dancers wear even less, simular to the million dollar saloon. i would like to see the market at 14,000, simular to 1997/98. i would like to see well enought to find my meds,........