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Folks...I am 100% aware that this is not football related, but it definitely is GMG.com related. Check out the info on the basketball board regarding the GMG.COM BASKETBALL CLASSIC to be help march 26th at the Mean green Village Gym...tip-off at 1PM. This is a fund raising event to help the UNT Cheer Squad and is being set up for all who wish to play in the 1st Annual GMG.COM Basketball Classic can do so...male or female. This will be a fun event, but we need more players for it to be an even bigger success. We have the blessing of the Athletic Dept. through none other than RV himself and we have the support of Paul Batchelder (Cheer Squad sponsor along with many other duties in the ADept) and Jeff Luster in the basketball office. We hope to have both an autographed football and basketball to auction off at the event...there will be the games and then an after event party and "awards" ceremony at a local establishment. Cost to play is $25 and that includes the collector's edition first printing of the GMG.COM Basketball Classic players T-shirt. If you would like to play (no skills required I can assure you) please go to the basketball thread and sign up in the blog with your ht., weight, playing experience, etc. which will be needed for the player draft. I will also need your t-shirt size. T-Shirts are also available for purchase, and we would love to have those who can't play but are wanting to support the UNT Cheer Squad to send in a donation...large or small...all accepted with appreciation...checks can be made payable to UNT ATHLETICS. You can place "Cheer Squad" in the memo line. PM me for additional details...Corporate Sponsors or individual sponsors are very much welcome. We can add a company logo to the playing shirt for sponsors...I can provide info as to sponsorship amounts and benefits...I know there is some GMG.com'er out there who has a company or works for a company that can and would like to help this event raise money for the Cheer Squad. PLEASE...we need support. So, head over to the basketball board and open the thread pinned near the top for the GMG.Com BB game...open it...click on the link to the blog and sign-up....YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT TIME and you will be helping to support the UNT Cheer Squad at the same time. OK, this will probably get moved, but would be great to pin it on the football board as well...we need as many folks as possible to see this info. Thanks...GO MEAN GREEN...GO GMG.COM BB CLASSIC!

I told that ****** at the league office....

My condolenscences to your friend's daughter.

The football is a metaphor for Egyptian democracy.

Few people realize that Pogo was actually based on Churchill. Fun fact; Marmaduke is actually a thinly fictionalized chronicle of Abraham Lincoln's life and political career. SPOILER ALERT: The final comic is going to be a MAJOR downer.

Hi GoMeanGreen.com Family! Next Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 11:30am at the UNT Athletic Center I am hosting a FREE lunch at 11:30am! Great chance to see our new $78 million dollar stadium, and pick up your season tickets, and more! We will have you on your way by 12:30 or so! Please RSVP at: rherold@gptx.org My cell is 214.724.5670 Rick Herold Can't wait to see ya!

What's goin on all, I just transfered here from out of state (Alabama), and was wanting to find out some stuff about UNT Football. Coming from Alabama to UNT the football is pretty different it seems hah, I checked out the scores for last season and it seemed pretty bad, I'm not tryin to dog anyone btw. With the coach being McCarney now, do you think the chances are goin to go up for having a good season this year? I gota admit I wasnt all that excited about UNT sports but that new stadium is gettin me kind of pumped. Lat question, what are the odds of UNT getting a baseball team?

I have prayed every night for a 2011-12 NBA lockout for a few weeks now. If you don't too then you hate GOD and you hate UNT

TM plays shirts in the pickup games?

Not cool at all - lets you know the mixed bag that is currently Egypt's situation. Thankfully, she was aided by the military and sent on her way safely. I'm hoping that the new government that steps into place is an actual democratic one, and if not, at least stable and well liked by its own people and the global community.

A/S/L?

All right, I can see you don't want to be cheered up here, Dude.

If having to pay an athletic fee, just like all other schools have had for ages, is going to keep somebody from attending UNT, do we really want them here anyway?

Welcome to the board If you are a student please feel free to check out the baskeball game on thursday or saturady. We need all the butts in the seats that we can get. If not a current student and would like a free ticket to the game(s) please PM myself SUMG or The Tasty Greeek or any others out there and we will be sure to help you out. If you are a armchair QB , a smart ass or like heated debates about politics then you have found your home

I blame Obama.

Your request won't be granted until you're a donor.

cant we get a merkin if we need that?

I've never forgiven Egypt for the way they treated Moses. I wish nothing but utter failure upon that nation.

To be honest, I don't understand what this means: "cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century." Does this mean students will not be studying about Thomas Jefferson? Or not learning about the Declaration of Independence and its relation to the American Revolution? I highly doubt either of these is the case. Anyway, from the rest of the article . . . I don't see any of this as related to the facts of history, but to the viewpoint with which it is approached. Obviously, if it is presented from a conservative viewpoint, liberals will disagree with it. When it's presented from a liberal viewpoint, conservatives disagree with it. Again, I'm not sure what was meant by the Jefferson thing, but I see new facts being brought up that were not apparently being addressed in history classes ("portions of history" that had previously been "deleted"?).

Mean Green Sports Article Feel for this team, but at the same time the 2 Freshmen need to step it up. Losing that badly at #5-6 does not look good at all. Bos understandable, but Barboza should be used to the competition level by now, but her results from the Fall and now this match do not bold well. Hopefully the girls can get healthy, this was a match they could not afford to lose if they want to get respect on the national level. To further rub it in WSU had 4 Freshmen playing in the line-up as well. Singles 1. No. 118 Lutfiana Budiharto (JR) (WSU) defeated Paula Dinuta (NT), 6-3, 6-0 2. Raphaela Zotter (FR) (WSU) defeated Irina Paraschiv (NT), 7-6, 2-6, 10-5 3. Barbora Vykydalova (NT) defeated Delia Damaschin (JR) (WSU) 6-7, 6-3, 10-4 4. Veronika Blaskova (FR) (WSU) defeated Amy Joubert (SR) (NT), 6-2, 6-2 5. Carla Venticinque (FR)(WSU) defeated Isabel Bos(FR) (NT), 6-0, 6-3 6. Blasco Fernandez (FR) (WSU) defeated Carolina Barboza (FR) (NT), 6-1, 6-2 Doubles 1. Paraschiv/Vykydalova (NT) defeated Blasco Ferandez/Blaskova (WSU), 8-5 2. Joubert/Dinuta (NT) defeated No. 67 Zotter /Budiharto (WSU), 8-5 3. Damaschin/Venticinque (WSU) defeated Bos/Barboza (NT), 8-1

A rant that would make plumm jealous this is ridiculous. comments, thoughts are appreciated

DRC

If I read this right, presently we are sitting at 558. We have passed Tulsa & OU (ie.564). tt is still 8 strokes ahead of us but we certinly have closed the gap! GO NT Girls

Speaking of woman's golf, although apparently not announced on the official site, NT recruited a very strong player in Jacey Chun from South Korea;

Welcome Ryno10! So, which Alabama team was your favorite? Did you regularly attend games? I greatly admire the "pagentry" that SEC schools put on. I'm hoping that our "pagentry" will greatly improve with our new "venue". Stop by the "gomeangreen' tailgating area this fall and you will be well fed.....and hydrated. We're still working on our game day festivities, as we were not even allowed to tailgate at games until about 2000. We're catching up however.

Welcome! Football will be better this coming season just because of the upgrade in coaching and some pretty good returning talent.

83-69 UNT Wins

Welcome to the board! For what it's worth, this team has a lot of dog fight in them with Canales around. It is really really exciting to many of us that DMac retained him at OC, and he wants to be here. I like to think we will start turning it around soon. Also, our running back is awesome. Say, do you like politics?

Call me crazy but i think this is a good thing. If somehow miraculously we find our mojo back then the best thing for us would be to keep playing. The more you play the sharper you are. Remember what happened the first year we won it. But as of right now it is a moot point if we cant win any game. Time for Josh and George to step it up, we go as they go.

Welcome to NT and we do need baseball!

I don't know how much the chances went up for a good season this coming season with McCarney. Based on his recruiting strategy, it seems he is pretty well in full rebuild mode. But our team last year was quite a bit better than the record might indicate--we lost a number of starters for the year very early in the season. And we do have some good talent on our roster. If you don't know of him yet, you will know of Lance Dunbar. He is the best tailback in the Sun Belt, and probably top 15 or 20 in the country. Winning 10 games is not going to happen, but we should field a team that is competitive with just about anybody in conference. As far as getting a baseball team, we have had tentative plans to do that for some time now. We actually had a donor offer to underwrite the whole program, but our A.D. wanted to make the new football stadium top priority. Once that's done, we'll probably start moving in a baseball-y direction, but I don't think they'll want to do it until we can do it right. Welcome to the board, and welcome to UNT!

I love you.

Because basketball recruiting news makes some people irrationally angry for no good reason at all.

This is actually Men's Golf, and we have fallen behind #40 Tulsa, and #49 Oklahoma. We are currently ranked #28, but that is likely to drop if we don't turn things around on the back 9. We are having a horrid 3rd round so far. Here are the live stats: Golfstat

I'm just old enough to remember reading Pogo as a kid, but I was too young then to understand it. If it still existed today, it would be on the editorial page, not on the comics page. And Garfield is based on President James Garfield! I'll give you a +1 to offset whoever gave you a -1.

Lets go ahead and move this thread. No longer discussing football.

A -1 and a public flogging for DARING to correct our leader.

Good article Brett. Blood is thicker than water therefore I have to go with my boy from Valley Alabama.

Actually, that was Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip. The actual quote is "We have met the enemy and he is us". But, I see your point.

Clearly you haven't seen Cool Runnings.

Guess we need to make George Strait an honorary NT Ex now? Seriously, he was just doing the "community thing" since that was where he landed after his football days. Amazing how that probably has even happened for UNT a few times if someone would merely do the checking. For instance, the Utter family of Denton were big SMU'ers but Papa Bill did very much for the Mean Green. The late Robert Dedman got his Bachelors at UT but SMU certainly benefitted from him years later. GMG!

I like to think of myself as a modern day Martin Luther King, Jr., only my "dream" is to get somewhere in a really big hurry. (Not really... I'm not much of a speeder.)

The updated college rankings for 2-7-11 in Golfweek have UNT ranked 28th in the nation, and Carlos Ortiz ranked 68th in the nation. Both lead the Sun Belt. North Texas has one of the best golf programs in Texas. Congratulations to the Men's Golf Team! Go Mean Green!!!

The new rankings came out yesterday 2-13-11. North Texas fell back to 29th and Carlos Ortiz is now 87th. Both still lead the Sun Belt. In a side note, the only Texas teams ranked higher them North Texas are Texas, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech. Go Mean Green!!! 4 Time NCAA National Golf Champions!!!

K State Article Again without Ranganathan and Lee at 3 and 5. Good wins at #2 and 4 almost pulled out #3, but again disappointed in the results by the 2 freshmen.

WOW...so much incorrect in the above statements that one doesn't even know where to start. The capital gains tax rate of 15% helps middle class American as much as it does those on "Wall Street" you have so much disdain for it seems. If you own a mutual fund or a stock outside of a 401K then you benefit from the 15% capital gains rate when the fund issues capital gains or you sell a stock for a profit. It is no where near just the "fat cats" you dislike so much that benefit from this, plus it helps cut down on the double taxation of savings in this country...one of the ONLY industrialized nations that continues to penalize capital formation and savings with it's double-taxation in this area. Capital gains are not "earned income" in the IRS definition of "earned income". The rich pay more taxes than any other in this nation and over 40% of the people pay no income taxes at all! Public schools will not be the only area that feels the pain of the budget axe in Texas. many other programs will also feel that pain. Butr, many of the areas seeing the cuts have long been spared the cuts and have simply continued to add staff, facilities and support personnel at faster and faster paces...fast outpacing the taxpayer's ability to keep up. I understand your concerns as I have a family full of educators, at all levels of public education, but when I talk with them, they seem to understand that some areas could use some trimming and feel that too many administrators and admins are around doing little to help the real education that goes on in the classroom. It may be time to consider such things as year round schooling...why keep your facilities empty several months each year...consolidation of some districts to save admin costs, increasing the number of kids in classrooms, adding some fees for extracurricular activities, cutting down on board retreats and board admins, making 100% certain that everyone on free and reduced lunch/breakfast programs actually qualify, shutting down daycare programs that do not pay for themselves, etc., etc. Tough times, I get it, and, yes, it calls for tough decisions. Blaming others who may earn more or have figured out how to legally reduce their tax bills is not the answer. Sitting down and finding ways to get creative is...if we have the best educators (teachers and administrators) then they should be able to figure this out without all the "class warfare" and "poor me, it's all the rich guys fault" crap and excuses. How about remembering that every time you buy something outside your home district you are reducing sales tax revenue for your own community. Every time a new program that "feels good" is introduced, how about figuring out how to pay for it...and I don't mean with "stimulus" money that will soon disappear. How many teachers were hired across the state with temporary funds knowing all the while that the revenue to sustain their salaries long-term was not there? Now, many of those teachers face being laid off or fired. Gee, who could have seen that coming???? We all know it will not be easy, and we will all...all of us...share in the pain (yes, some more than others), but what good does it do to whine about it all? It is time those great educators we have (and I truly believe our educators do a great job) to get together and come up with ways to help alleviate the pain. And, they will have to realize that just because a program or benefit "feels good" is not the sole reason it should exist. I truly believe that we have the best and the brightest that can work locally to solve these problems and reduce the pain. No one wants anyone to lose a job, but it looks like that may be coming. Why, well, not just because the state is reducing funding or some new tax has not been placed on "someone else". It has a lot to do with poor long term planning and sticking heads in the sand and not thinking it could happen here! What a lot of this whine seems to be all about is that new taxes are great...on anyone other than me that is! Once again, the "not in my backyard" syndrome rears its head. Tax those other guys, they are rich, just don't tax me and let's keep all the benefits and perks. Looks like that type of thinking just won't cut it in these tough budget times. Time to take a new approach and get down to figuring it out...for the long term.

Mean Green Sports Open up at Noon (CST) against #9 California, play Saturday against TCU/St Mary. Hope the ladies can put up a good fight. CAL has #1 Singles player in the nation and #5 doubles team. Good luck to the Tennis Team.

These may be wrong, as I just did a quick scan, but it looks like the rankings of Sun Belt teams are: #54 - Florida International #60 - North Texas Thats it. A big win today, and we might pass FIU?

Appears the ladies lost 6-1 to #9 Cal, they will play the loser of St Mary's\TCU Saturday at noon. Would be nice to play and beat TCU for metroplex #2 bragging rights. AD Article I would not call this a bad loss. CAL is stacked at #1-3, but lines 4-6 were close matches with a win at #6 singles and #3 Doubles. Ladies play TCU today.