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I stopped by the stadium yesterday(Damn it's fantastic to see!) and spoke with officials about stadium donations and wanted to clear up a couple of misconceptions I learned about I think that are floating around. If there are others post them here and someone can probably answer them. For one, if you are a current season ticket holder and, like I was, having concerns that for next year your going to get priced out of your seats, that simply IS NOT TRUE AT ALL. There will be a slight increase as I'm certain everyone understands due to the overall facility upgrade, but they will not be significant to the point you cannot keep your current seats. So please, if your holding out a donation because your worried about having to save up for that BIG increase next year, please donate now and get on board with this project. It does not matter how much you give, just give what you can. Second, again, it does not matter what you give. If your holding out your donation because you simply don't feel what you can give will make a difference, NOT TRUE AT ALL. Every amount counts. We have the power in numbers at North Texas. There is a bland UNT billboard on east I-30 in Fort Worth right now that simply reads(paraphrasing of course) "94,000 alumni work in the DFW metroplex". I'm hearing that number rises to over 150K when considering outside of the DFW area and around the 5 state region? If everyone of them simply gave just $100 we would be making a huge difference overall. So please give what you can. Three, if you are wanting club seats but are concerned about your seats being inside and don't want to sit inside, again NOT TRUE AT ALL. The Club seating IS outside, in the weather. But you will have access inside behind the glass. This is similar to what KajunRaider and the boys have at MTSU, only nicer. You'll have access to someone coming down and taking concession orders plus a damn nice indoor facility to retreat to whenever you want, and there are some incredibly great prices for what is included in this package. Four, if you do purchase Club seats, and when the stadium host other events such as concerts, you as a Club seat owner will have first right of refusal for that event. This is a fantastic option for what you get. I know there probably are more concerns out there and the AD dept is collecting them all for an informational FAQ that hopes to be out this Fall. If you have one share them here or give the AD dept a call and let them know. Folks, I know times are tough right now and this is asking everyone to go above and beyond what you normally do for this school. But this is the biggie for North Texas. THIS IS IT! If there ever was a time to go above and beyond, THIS IS THE TIME. Give whatever you can and get on board now. You'll feel great that you did and next year when you walk into that beautiful stadium with your family and kids/grand kids you can show them what you helped build with Mean Green pride. If you have any questions or concerns at all I suggest you get them answered by calling Cooper Jones at 940-369-8268 or 502-544-9001. Rick

Great. Yet another realignment thread.

Funny that I have had this conversation with several heads, local ballers, evaluators, and coaches and they agree he is in the top. Maybe not the top, like I said, but definitely in the top. And I guess Earl Boykins, Spud Webb, and Mougsy Bogues didn't have an upside either right? You know, not being 6'2" and all. I never knew that your height is what determined if you still had room to get better.

Because, it's better than the gay white ones we have now.

Says the guy that thinks smu's basketball program is more nationally relevant than UNT...

"Be seated men. Don't forget, you players don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any articles. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be coaching this team. Hell, I'm not even supposed to be here in Denton. I'm supposed to be looking for high school coaching jobs in central Texas. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Cajuns. "Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Mean Green again and that son-of-a-bitch Dodge'. We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Troy Trojans and clean out their nest in Alabama, too. Before the Goddamned Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders get all of the credit. Sure, we want to go home. We want this game over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who piss on our state with their presence. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Denton and Troy. And when we get to the New Orleans Bowl, I am personally going to take a leak on that that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch, Vito. Just like I'd shoot a snake! "When a player is lying in a field, if he just stays there all day, a Cajun will eventually fall on him. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My players don't go backwards. I don't want them to. Backwards is for mama's boys! Keep moving. And don't give the Cajuns time to regroup. We'll win this game, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Cajuns that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use the grease to make sausages in the parking lot at the tailgate after the game. We're going to crush those lousy Cajun bastards by the bushel-freaking-basket. "Football is a bloody, messy business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot the gaps. When Lafayette fans are cheering all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was a teammate beside you, you'll know what to do! "I don't want to hear any player saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Cajuns do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the line of scrimmage. We are going to go through that line like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn! "From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our team too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Cajuns we will crush. The more Cajuns we crush, the fewer of our players will be injured. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that. "There is one great thing that the Mean Green will all be able to say after this game is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in to beat ULALA in Denton you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, 'Well, your Granddaddy stayed out in the parking lot and ate bratwurst at the tailgate.' No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, 'Son, your Granddaddy played for the MEAN goddamned GREEN under a Son-of a-Goddamned-Bitch named Todd Dodge!' "That is all."

Careful Emmitt. Phyllis Diller could be married to a UNT alum.

Orkeys Auriene Rihanna stoned Nick Barnfield Kellen Winslow, "Don't Call Me" Jr. John Broussard Adolf Eichmann James Butler Ugly Betty

We didnt make the bottom ten this week! bottom ten

The WAC is looking at adding Montana, Texas State, and UTSA in football and Seattle & Denver is other sports. So does this make the WAC a better conference?

I think you take a very long look at the numbers for travel, and if they work, you have to consider it. But where do you go from there? And are you going to build the program with those teams coming to your house? I just think that UNT needs to think state/regional as far as their conference, and the MWC is way out there. Just not a fan of the Pacific/Mountain time zone conferences for UNT. CUSA is a much better fit.

If you can get out of the SBC without going to the new WAC then you would leave the SBC in a New York minute.

Sounds eerily similar to the UNT alumni assoc. But that could just be me. I am in for The meetings but there would be much more communication and probably some added force behind aquatint free locations if the alumni assoc was involved

"He'll be good for UNT, no argument there." It's this backhanded compliment stuff that makes you the biggest douche we have over here. If you were a fan of a REAL basketball program, like say Duke, UNC, even Memphis, you'd have room to be so smug. You support S M U. SMU!! i don't even need to tell you how big of a joke that is. You coming over here and talking down about our program when you support SMU is like a guy who dates Phyllis Diller knocking a guy who dates Phyllis George.

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When will these questions being answered?

If we do get into a regional conference I'm taking the train to all of the away games...

Good stuff.

Here's what I would do in a perfect world - football playoff, no blowhardism from the "traditional powers" - after viewing and studying this helmet map between phone calls and e-mails: The Far Out West Conference: Hawaii All the California Schools Both of the Nevada Schools The Way Up West Conference The Oregon, Washington, and Idaho Schools The View Is Great Up Here In The Mountains Conference Wyoming The Utah Schools The Colorado Schools The Hey What Happened To The Grass Conference Texas Tech and UTEP The Arizona Schools The New Mexico Schools The No-Whar But Texas Conference The Texas Schools not named Texas Tech or UTEP The Farmin' And Plowin' 12 The Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa Schools ...plus, Missouri, Nebraska, and Minnesota The Gulf Swamp Conference The Louisiana and Mississippi Schools The South Shall Rise Again Conference The Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina Schools The Florida Department Of Tourism Conference The Florida Schools The You Could Cram Us Together And Make One Big Long State Conference The Tennessee and North Carolina Schools...plus Virginia Tech The Johnsonville Brats Conference The Illinois and Indiana Schools...plus Wisconsin The Lake Erie Conference The Michigan Schools and the Northern Ohio Schools (Toledo, Bowling Green, Akron, and Kent State) The Mining And Manufacturing Conference The Kentucky Schools, The West Virginia Schools, The Mid- and Southern Ohio Schools (Ohio State, Miami of Ohio, Ohio, and Cincinnati...plus Pittsburgh) The High Brow Yankee Conference Virginia The Maryland Schools The Pennsylvania Schools not named Pittsburgh Rutgers The New York Schools Connecticut and Boston College

This thread has been beat to death and I'll not take it further except to contest your last statement. The FAU win is Dodges's fourth conference win (WKU twice, ULM and FAU). The first WKU win came when they were provisional members so that doesn't count. Who cares about the coaching comparison? Both had horrible coaching records and unless Dodge either wins seven or gets a conference championship with six wins I think that he should be gone.

I saw the post below about UC-Berkley cancelling several programs because of funds, and it got me to thinking about the cost of all of the far-flungness of so many conferences and the "new economy." I have wondered for a while how long it will be before some state governments begin to put 2 and 2 together and realize how much money is being wasted on unnecessary travel and then begin to nudge schools to make realignments based upon regional proximty (common sense). It makes no sense that Houston is playing schools way out East when they have schools a short bus ride away. Why is North Texas playing MTSU and Troy when they have much closer regional options? Someone at some point is going to start asking those questions! Not just costs...but how about the stimulation of local/state economies? How much money would be generated in TEXAS by an all-Texas (or mostly Texas/regional) conference!? A lot.

Its not bad. Campus PD and the parkin nazis may come by to check on you. I'm assuming youre in a RV? You've inspired me, I may have a campout.

Another thought: How many schools could actually bring their budgets into the black by cutting down on their travel costs AND building rivalries with schools so that fans could actually travel to away games, thereby increasing attendance. A conference with NT, SMU, Houston, Rice, UT-EP, Texas State(?), UT-SA(?), Tulsa, La-Tech, and maybe Tulane, I think all ships would rise from increasing attendance. What about the regional TV revenues that could come from such a conference? If it could just be tried, it would work.

Our family has a pop-up camper, and I was wonderfing the same thing!

The WAC is now in full survival mode. They will/must try to sign 3 schools to make a football league of 9 for 2012. Since there are no viable (gullible) FBS schools available then they will turn to the best available FCS football schools within their geographic footprint. They will also add a couple non-football schools to round out a complete conference schedule for all sports. The WAC still has name recognition value, but beyond that it is a dead-FBS-conference-walking.

Yeah I would love for Clinton to come here, because of his experience in dealing with and preventing crisis in the world. NT would score a big one with Clinton, for sure.

A- Why in the hell do you listen to that God-awful station. B- Radio hosts are not paid to wear pom-poms. It's an opinion driven medium. Wish people could get their arms around that a little more. C- That station really blows, hopefully the new PD will clean some house.

Hey, Nostradamus had the Rangers winning 80 this year, so don't even compare my greatness to that POS. And, may I point out that the Rangers have only won 87 with 6 games left. Now, if they lose out (resting players and all) that means I would be 3 games off from my beginning of the season prediction and 4 games off from my mid-season prediction. I'll take that any day. That hairy faced F$# Nostradamus is freaking Terry Bradshaw compared to me.

Better than what? If football, who on that list equals Boise, Nevada or Fresno? Actually, who on that list is better than them at basketball?

I'd say go watch it live...but, I've got my own hellish dilemma: A friend called yesterday and said he had an extra OU-Texas ticket. I could go watch an epic battle between two seemingly underachieving giants and watch the miscreants of both schools mix it up. That game will end sometime between 5:30 and our kickoff with Lousiana. Free OU-Texas ticket...UNT/Lousiana game...I'll try to squeeze in both. I wish this were a season when OU and Texas played at 11 a.m. instead of 2:30 in the afternoon.

Good player, not hating at all. It's just that nobody who spent time on the circuit this summer agrees that he's the best local PG, and that includes heads, local ballers, evaluators, coaches etc. If he were 6'2 he'd have upside, unfortunately he's a mighty mite. He'll be good for UNT, no argument there. I just don't buy the best local PG line for a second, and glad you qualified it, that's all.

Because when we start winning like Boise State and TCU, it may be difficult to get Top 25'ers on our future schedule IMHO. Or..........what would be a good scheduling formula for UNT with a new stadium on our horizon? GMG!

Thank heavens you qualified that take w/'in your opinion.' Good player and all, but wow

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