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Who wants to go to Detroit? Hell I bet Michigan State doesn't even want to play in Detroit.

This. He knows how to get guys in the right position to be able to run after the catch. That was the biggest thing I saw from watching tape of his offenses. Guys will run free and his QB will find them. The days of 5 yards curls and outs are over....

The Detroit Lions don't even want to play there!

The way I will look at it is this: I have been clamoring for a new stadium since at least the Corky Nelson era, including my approx 1989 proposal to build a U-shaped stadium with a high-rise hotel to close the U (hotel guests with rooms on the stadium side of the hotel would be charged for game tickets and be included in attendance). Now I have been given a stadium. I need to be involved in the funding of that stadium. My Club Level donation will help fund the stadium, and they are giving me a couple of really good seats, with extras, to the games as a gift back for my donation. And on we play one of those season finales on a really cold, wet late November night, I will be especially happy with the gift the school gave me for my contribution. Be a part of the solution. GMG

You're absolutely correct. Let him come in, and develop physically while not burning a year of eligibility. You can always pull his shirt if abnormal cirumstances arise from a depth chart point of view.

I don't think anyone was complaining. The topic was fairly simple: "what would you ask RV in the podcast?" And some would like an update on baseball. We haven't heard anything in a while. I think we will have baseball eventually. We came close a few years ago when the deal with the semi-pro team / stadium fell through. As for your rant, you could substitute "new football stadium" for "baseball team" and that's the exact same conversation we were having several years ago. "you want a new stadium then do something about it, we're underfunded, the alumni suck, we'll never move forward, we 'll never get funded, blah blah blah." What in the hell is all that construction going on across I35?

Cannales > Ford also.....

You are correct, however Conroy Hines > Clayton George.

Your assumptions are not correct! Tax deductible is NOT tax credit...your actual cost would be $6250 x 80% x your marginal tax rate...say 20%...this is the amount you would save on taxes...the rest you pay cash for. so if this gift of 6250 is deductible (and remains so) then try 6250-1000= 5250 out of pocket cash should you pay it in year one. a little more or little less if paid off over several years...providing the deduction is allowed in the future (with Obama socialist govn't in place, don't count on it)

UNT has a very nice group of Receivers back and the addition of Tyler Stradford, the position change for Riley Dodge, the emergence of Bennie Jones and Willie Taylor, and new recruits Chris Bynes and Brelan Chancellor should give fans a reason to be optimistic. It will also help to have the presence of Lance Dunbar, and a QB who can make all of the throws. Let's not forget that the TE position will have some catches as well in Canales' offense. Look for big offensive numbers to come out of Denton this fall.

SE, I was not trying to be critical, I just think to have a well rounded D1 athletics program, NT needs to add baseball. Outside of UTEP, all the D1 football schools in Texas field a baseball team, as do many of the D1AA (sorry, can't keep FBS/FCS straight). Looking forward to the podcast. Thanks Harry.

On the subject of baseball, how come every school in the state of any size (smu doesn't count) can manage to afford baseball but we cannot? The northern suburbs of the Metroplex have some of the best baseball talent in the country, and that makes it even more important that we field a team. Recognition in many areas is what we need, and that area of recognition could possibly come very quickly.

Excited or not, you need to hope that he is successful.

So is he selfish too for leaving Ft Hayes St ??

We don't have to deliver much at all. The school gets a tiny percentage of what everyone uses. It costs the energy supplier a fee that most are paying to someone anyway. NT might as well get on the receiving end of such a fee! I just forwarded the article to my nephew who is one of the higher ups with Green Mountain Energy. Mean Green Power from Green Mountain sounds like a winner!

"At the beginning of the television series, Sky flew a Cessna T-50 twin-engine "Bamboo Bomber." The plane, a World War II surplus UC-78B, was owned by legendary Hollywood pilot Paul Mantz[2] and flown by employees of his Paul Mantz Aerial Services for filming of the flying sequences.[3] At least two other T-50s are known to have been used for on-ground and in-the-cockpit scenes as well as a Beechcraft in a lost episode.[4] The best-known Songbird was a twin-engine Cessna 310B. The airplane used was the second production 310B (N5348A), which was provided by Cessna at no cost to the producers and piloted by Cessna's national sales manager for the 310, Bill Fergusson. Fergusson got the job after the motion picture pilot already selected was deemed unqualified to land the airplane at some of the off-airport sites required. Some months after a library of stock footage had been compiled, additional sequences were filmed using a different airplane.[5] The original 310B was eventually destroyed in a 1962 crash at Delano, California, that killed its owner-pilot.[6] Cockpit sequences were filmed using the static test fuselage, also provided by Cessna.[7] A byproduct of the use of the Cessna 310 as Sky King's "Songbird" was the name becoming attached to the 310 series. Cessna has never given the 310 a type name (though most Cessnas were given such names, e.g., the 337 "Skymaster", 172 "Skyhawk", and 182 "Skylane"), but because of its use in Sky King, Cessna 310s are known as "Songbirds" within the aviation community." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_King

I think so too and would hate to see him waste a season sitting the bench playing a few series to spell Dunbar.

I would like to know if the stadium gift shop will have RV's game worn green sleeveless sweaters for sale.

If you were made of hot dogs and you were starving, would ya eat yourself?

green helmet with logo only for 2011 ?

It's a "must win" for this reason. If there are any true traditions at NT this is one. Go on the road and take an a$$-whoopin against a big name, have the fans write that one off as nothing more than a paycheck and show up for the home opener anyway...then watch us get driven at home by a menial squad. If we want half of the home opening student crowd and a third of the alumni crowd to return for any more games next season we "must win" the Rice game. We can win all the games we want afterward but the first impression is already made. Win and you increase your fan base...and hook those who are seeing the team for the first time. Lose and it's "same ol' North Texas".

I have no interest in doing that research since it was you who was being critical. I do agree with the last sentence in your post. North Texas had a baseball team in 1920. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60999/m1/134/?q=athletics Here is a link that tells when it went away. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61002/m1/167/?q=baseball

i have been to cliff lee's last two starts (including tonight's) and he is the best pitcher i have ever seen and is a joy to watch!

Are consumers ready for Texas Longhorns Energy? The University of Texas has signed a six-year deal with Dallas-based Branded Retail Energy, which will likely be the first of a number of deals with the company that will see some of the country’s most powerful collegiate sports brands sell consumers electricity and natural gas in deregulated markets. Consequently, Texas Longhorns Energy will be available to consumers in mid-August. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/66314

I really hope everyone who is screaming for baseball will put their pocketbooks where there "I wants" are. I have no problem with UNT adding baseball, but there sure better be a bunch more folks than the one designated "big donor", (who may or may not still be a viable option) willing to support the team, and I don't just mean by buying a few season tickets. So, are those who continually clamor for baseball willing to step up and help make it happen? I'd throw a little into the pot, but baseball isn't my thing so I would not be considered one of the prime donors. I'll do what I can, but what about all you guys who think the sun rises and sets on the fact that UNT needs baseball????? To make it happen UNT needs a decent stadium, the money for equipment and scholarships, a fix for title IX issues and then money for on-going support. RV will not add the program or even consider adding it unless and until he has a good handle on where the funding will come for multi-years going forward. I hope that funding is there for UNT.

Has anyone heard anything? It seems like it should be about 2 weeks away, maybe 3 at the most.

Stadium rendering of the finished project? Timetable for widening Bonnie Brae? Is it too late to clip the Wing? Rendering of the expanded stadium (50k) Exactly how will they modify it? Plans for a jumbotron over half court (SuperPit) Timetable for women's basketball? Timetable for a new track? How long will Fouts be around? Will there be signage as you enter Mean Green Village? Has SMU officially said "No" to North Texas?

At least until the last series of the season?

The last 3 minures of the season.

i would love to have baseball but we can barely get people to turn out for a 20+ win basketball team. an upstart baseball program would be playing to parents.

I wasn't complaining either, just pointing out that to add baseball (or any other sport) requires $$$$$ and lots of it. Many folks clamoring for baseball could help a great deal if they pledged $$$$ toward the start of the program. What you call a "rant", I see as pointing out the reality of the situation. Yes, many of us were clamoring for a new stadium and many of us stepped up to put our pocketbooks where our mouths were on the subject. Should those clamoring for baseball not be expected to do the same? As RV once told me when I was jabbing him about bringing men's soccer back..."just provide me with about $300,000 and a sustaining financial; base for the program and we are good to go". Not a direct quote as I have slept a few times since the conversation, but the point was made. Substitute "baseball" for"men's soccer" (but add more $$$ as baseball would cost more including a new stadium) and the answer is the same. I would imagine the entire Mean green nation would love to see baseball return to UNT. Just come up with the $$$$ and it probably a done deal.

Don't we go into every season praising our recievers or talking about how great that group is going to be? Then about mid-season we realize that they can't seperate from the defense so screens and crossing patterns is all we can complete.

Wow...what a concept...fiscal responsibility. Agree with the concept. Also agree that the current array of sports being funded are not supported well enough to allow for more non-revenue sports at this time. That could all change with an infusion of good old US Greenbacks.

Dallas Baptist- No Football to fund UTA- See above Sam Houston- Football is funded at 1-AA level Texas State SM,- see SHSU SFA-see SHSU and Texas State The only JUCO's even close to D/FW that have Football is Navarro and possibly Trinity Valley. I seem to recall hearing that at JUCO's two players (in Football, I don't know about the other sports) split a "ship", so their funding for Football is very much below any four year school. I'm sure that Tarleton, Midwestern, and A$M Commerce all have baseball as well, but they fund football at D-II levels.

why would you want to add another underfunded sport at north texas?

All those folks clamering for baseball have to do is to fund the program and baseball will be set to go at UNT. So, whose up next with a six figure donation? It's great to say UNT should do this or that, but it's another thing to find a way to fund it or establish it under current budgets and Title IX regulations, etc. I'd love to see men's soccer return as well as baseball, but, folks, without the funding it just isn't going to happen. UNT has suffered mightily from the lack of support financially and about any other way you can name from its alums and fans. It's just a fact of life that money talks in college athletics. Heck, UNT struggles to get a decent number of season ticket holders for any of its programs much less any level of real financial support from the vast majority of alums and fans. You want baseball...or soccer....well, get your alum pals to join the Mean Green Club, to buy season football and basketball tickets, to join the Alumni Association and re-connect with their university so maybe they will open their pocketbooks a little and help UNT build a strong and lasting financial footing. The folks who are contributing are doing what they can. If everyone just did what they could it would make a world of positive difference. Complaining about why things don't get done is great, but it never moved anything forward. Neither does the attitude that "I'll wait until I see what I want happening, or when they get rid of that coach or that AD, or that staffer who said something mean to me or ignored me, or that university president, etc, etc.". Excuses are a dime a dozen. It really is way past time for Mean Green fans, alums and supports to "put up or shut up".

Not excited about this move.

I will purchase 2 of these when UNT gets into a better conference.