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So if this ends his career, when's the earliest he'd be HOF eligible?

I'm working on a list of everything in my pantry. I'll try to have it posted this afternoon.

I see a lot of people disagree with you. When I was a student, we were referred to as the North Texas Eagles 95% of the time, but "Mean Green" was a well-known nickname. People are apparently ashamed to be the Eagles now because it's not "different" enough. So what? We were the Eagles long before we were the Mean Green. Personally, I'm proud to be a North Texas Eagle, and I'm proud to be North Texas Mean Green.

FYI: In state rankings....Texas Hoops has the power forwards ranked this way: (amongst all players) Abron----6th best prospect in state York---29th best Robinson---42nd best. BTW...during the Blakely era...we had a player named Kenneth "Tree" Robinson. I guess having Forrest Robinson would be the natural progression.

As douchy as a running internet conversation with yourself about a predicton made by yourself and commented on by no one but yourself? I'm not saying...

I cant belive I'm actually reading this *%$@# (stuff) !

Don't know why we are arguing this guys...they have less than 1/3 the students we have. They also live in a town of just over 20,000 people. The closest town worthy of mention is Monroe at just over 30 miles away...with it's own school in the city. If ULM can't make a metro of over 270k popular..then how the heck will Ruston have any sort of media market whatsoever??? Yes...UNT's Football team is slumping right now...but I still wouldn't trade our potential future for your future. Lets take a look at the cities that have existing CUSA teams within them. I have to use 2000 Census Results in most cases UCF- Orlando (over 2 million people in the metro) Marshall- Huntington WV (a 285k Metro) Rice- Houston Tx (almost 6 million metro) SMU- Dallas (over 6 million metro) UTEP- El Paso (751k metro) Tulsa- in.......Tulsa (almost 1 million people in metro) ECU- Greenville SC (183k in metro) Houston- in Houston...derr....same stats as above Tulane- New Orleans (1.2 million metro) USM- Hattiesburg Miss. (148k metro) Memphis- in Memphis TN (1.2 million metro) UAB- Birmingham AL (1.2 million metro) Now lets see what Ruston is working with.............oh......................oh dear..................man that sux. So you take Ruston's 20k (does this include the 10k students?) and give them absolutely positively nothing to do on the weekends............next thing you know.....they are showing up to every football game. Now take our situation.....we have barely begun to tap into the school spirit potential we could have in the metro alone and still have the same amount showing up to our games as "LA Tech's extremely loyal fan base". What does that tell you? LA Tech has peaked....that stadium...if ever replaced at all will never be the quality of stadium that we are currently raising. The state is poor and the CUSA knows this. They aren't trying to get into the 87k graduates of LA Tech's pockets....but maybe the 175k alumni of UNT with over 100k of them in our metro alone would make more sense?????? Kinda a no brainer. Now I am not saying we are a shoe-in for any expansion by the conference.....but Ruston will not be able to tout the "but we were in the WAC" card...or the "but we have 17k in the stands" argument that they currently spout out. If we get beat out....it will not be by this school. GMG

That would be good except Riley can't throw a ball farther than 20 yards.

When people say we are a commuter school they are being ignorant beyond belief. We have around 7,000 students living ON campus. Take away the graduate students, and that is about 25% of the student body. New dorms are being planned, and are on the way, as the current ones are filled to capacity. There are 7-8 MASSIVE student apartment complexes within 0-2 miles of campus, and ALL of these are served by the UNT bus system, so these students really are not even commuters. There are also an even greater number of medium and small complexes. Also, students are a MAJOR player in the house rental business in Denton. We do not have to sugar coat the numbers, we simply are NOT a commuter school anymore.

I think they won't know the official number for a week or two...but the first day of class numbers are biggest ever: http://newsgatheringblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/08/record-number-of-unt-students.html

The actual name of the event is the Hotel Encanto Aggie Classic. Live Stats for the games can be found on the NMSU website, as well as the JSU website for the Sunday game. UNT sits at 2-0-0 heading into the weekend. We do not actually play New Mexico State this weekend, who of the 3 other teams at the tourney would likely be the toughest test. Instead we play... Prairie View A&M (Friday Night): The Panthers are 0-1-1 on the year, including a 0-0 tie against Nichols State, and a 4-1 Loss to Texas-San Antonio. They are a scrappy team though. If anyone was at the game last year at UNT soccer field (a 1-0 loss for the Mean Green in the pouring rain before the football game vs. Ohio) you know this. We out shot them and out played them, but did not come away with the win. This year though the Mean Green should take the Win. Jacksonville State (Sunday Afternoon): The gamecocks are winless on the year, with losses to Kennesaw State, and Gardner-Webb. They did take Georgia State to overtime, but lost that one as well. That means JSU is 0-3-0 on the year, with all losses coming to teams that are far from power houses. If all goes as it should this weekend, UNT should sit at 4-0-0 when it is over. After that it is Friday night at Sam Houston State, and then a very exciting game Sunday against New Mexico back home at the Mean Green Soccer field!

Rocket laser cannoned arm Tune will throw a frozen rope 65 yards where only the receiver can get it.

So we're at record size?? Women are gonna love NT

The game is NEXT week. I think you started tailgatin' a little too early.

My first wife went to PESH and was a Golden Girl. Very leggy and game...as the guy she cheated with ending our marriage would later find out as well. But hey...that's life in the big city.

This chit is too easy... the jokes should keep coming... but seriously. Three questions: 1. What are the appropriate uses for the semicolon? In my opinion it is an underutilized punctuation, especially in sports writing. 2. Who is the recognized authority in regulating grammar? (not whom) 3. Is it permissible to flog writers who do not use "an" before words beginning with the letter "h"? Chihuahua, its time for una Bohemia o Negra Modelo... mejor un tequilazo!

You know, I actually get, and am somewhat sympathetic to, the concern over the mercenary nature of the player in question. But, if he consistently seals off a side of the line, throws some hellacious blocks on an edge rusher, and catches 50+ balls and 8+ scores this year, he can do what the heck he wants with his money in the future and it'll be a wash as far as I'm concerned. Blount spoiled us with high expectations. Blame him.

they should watch Necessary Roughness and shut the hell up. Honestly, our campus is like decade by decade museum of architectural design from the 20th Century.

No matter which way it happens, one thing can be sure - you can now buy #5 North Texas jerseys in stores in the greater Denton area to commemorate the occasion.

My alma mater's game as well...Go, Rams! No, really...go.

I don't think our campus is beautiful per se but as many said, it is getting better. With the new buildings coming up etc, landscaping will be heavily thought of. I don't think UT Austin has a beautiful campus either but that will get overlooked because they are UT. It's all about perception.

Wow. That's too bad. MT had a chance to run over Minnesota this year and continue piling up wins against AQ schools as well as making a run at another 10 win season. This leaves them with an uphill climb. Dwight Dasher, "You are really dumb, for real"

QUIET, YOU! Tell Devonta we're small. Tiny. There are monastic orders that have larger classes of initiates than what we generally accept at North Texas. Our school is so small, when you walk in the front door, you're already halfway out the back door. Our school is so small, he won't have room to change his mind once he gets here. We're so small, the ZIP code only has three digits. When someone drops a piece of paper on the floor, that classroom has wall-to-wall carpet. If you get a foot-long hot dog in the cafeterias, they have to fold them in half. Students get around on unicycles because there's no space for full bikes. We're a small school, is what I'm trying to say. SMALL. Tell Devonta.

I guess we should have watched him when we had the chance...

HEY. DICKS. This thread was started for serious football journalism grammar discussion. We had a great conversation going until the same old suspects came along and started making their stupid jokes. Take your hijacks somewhere else. Now then... Where did I leave the other part of my infinitive?

Well, it is Greggo. Wasn't he on your show when you were in high school? He was probably broadcasting on your radio station, also.

I wonder what their policy is for couples who are married but are brother and sister? Im sure that issue has been crossed there.

Pittsburg Pirates at Jefferson Bulldogs. Go dogs! They are reloading after losing 4 kids to D1 schools, not bad for a 2A team.

He was "big Joe" during his college career

Jesuit College Prep School @ Flower Mound High School Go RANGERS!

We are the Mean Green Eagles!

Why? By having our nickname as the Mean Green it makes us very unique and recognizable. If we were just the Eagles we would just get lumped in with about 100 other schools and teams that use the Eagles as their mascot.

Here's the huge negatives: No bowl tie-ins....as a matter of fact...there aren't any at large bowl spots...are there? And when bowls have a tie-in with a certain league and it doesn't have enough bowl eligible teams....the bowl usually has a backup conference (i.e. The Sun Belt) which gets first shot at sending the replacement team. No all conference honors for your players. To this day, some of us think that the great DT Walter Chapman (and others from our Indy era) are not in the NT Hall of Fame....because current committee members have no All Conference honors for those players....to go on. Scheduling for all the other sports...is pure Hell.

Dive up the middle? too soon?

Yeah... I've never really understood the commuter school thing. I live in a townhouse with 3 roommates 4 blocks from campus, so are we commuters? Do people actually expect upperclassmen to live in dorms when apartment complexes like the The Forum exist? I want the college experience, not the dorm experience, so if that means I am contributing to UNT being a commuter school then I'm not too worried about it.

It's not like USC's done much since then either, but they were nearby when it happened. Could they be the James Brady of this terrible, terrible analogy?

Love the comment "We're not trying to get into CUSA, you are. Point, set, match.

Should we start a poll now deciding which poster will be our Joe Mauer?

-1 one me all you want for my perspective but imagine the amount of debt the City of Dallas (and surrounding cities) would be faced with given the current economic climate we're in right now. Dallas and other cities in the area are currently considering tax increases and budget cuts. The short term gains wouldn't be worth the long time burden the DFW area would be faced with. No city that has hosted the Olympics has ever made a profit hosting the Olympics.

I'm so thankful Dallas didn't get the Olympics bid.

Houston will come in bruised and battered after being thrashed at home by UCLA in the opening week.

So my memory is fading. Someone please refresh me. In the last 5 years how many QB's have we lost to injury when playing one of our opportunity games (formerly known as body bag or pay day games.)? And BTW - isn't our O-line suppose to be a major strength of our team? Thanks for believing in those guys and their ability to protect the QB.

Can we stop with this? Football ball is not Basketball ball at this school. Whoever started drawing lines between the 2 should be ashamed. Basketball ball at this school has a lot to offer a player the caliber of Jordan Williams. 4 20 win seasons in a row and 2 NCAA appearances in this time certainly show that this team has the core and coaching to give someone like Jordan Williams every benefit as a player that can immediately step in and ooze confidence. Jordan and the rest of the players, like White and Thompson, Odufuwa, now, can leave a legacy and continue building the winning tradition and program. This program is teetering on the cusp of something great, and the players that join in will forever be remembered as the ones that got us there. Jordan feels it, as we fans do. That is completely different from football ball. Good for UNT's program, but more importantly, it will be great for Jordan Williams to blaze a trail and be a core component to getting us to a greater level. It certainly won't be easy, but he will have great coaching, great teammates around him, and family right next door. I, like Jordan Williams, am ecstatic with the potential.

Let's take it one step further. We all know sheppers is a definite sept call up, so let's put him in the asg for his MLB debut. We all know he is destined for greatness, so why wait?

We spike the ball and yell "SCOREBOARD"

If run in the red zone this is an INT.