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Winning is a very important component, but for the umpteenth time, spirit traditions (consistent ones) and game day pageantry are just as important....IMHO more important. Before everyone starts rolling their eyes and saying "there he goes again", let me remind all of you that if winning was, in and of itself, the most important thing, then why do all the "big time" schools put on such a big show....spirit/pageantry wise? Why bother with 350+ monster bands (like UT and A$M) and "yell practice" and the "hook-um Horns" and "guns up" signals etc etc, if winning the game was the ONLY THING. We have got to get back to basics. The stadium will not be enough. It's like I said to a friend one time when we were discussing education. I said that you can build the most fantastic and up-to-date educational facility for a community. But unless the parents and community truly care about education, all you have is a very expensive, and well equipped, publicly funded day care center.

I'm excited about this! I'm getting my Master's on Friday.

Helmets should be green. My roommate is a manager for the team and he was told they would be green.

Read articles about this... none of the information obtained that led to this event was obtained by waterboarding but instead by traditional means.. The Spanish inquision and even Salem Witch trials got people to say all sorts of things including confessing to being witches, devils etc. It just isn't reliable. About waterboarding... even McCain opposed it... Quit trying to make this a political event .... America got him..... Bush and Obama both contributed as did the CIA and military...

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/opinion/editorials/stories/DRC_editorial_0507.2f6b10a0c.html Even empty and as yet unused, the new stadium is a logical choice for a campaign of institutional ballyhoo, and we’re all for it. It will be a lot more effective, however, if the university can field a football team that can win a few games in its new digs. This is a rose that can lose its bloom pretty quickly if it gets a reputation as a nicely appointed funeral parlor for the Mean Green and their fans.

As I continue to watch the progress of our football stadium, one thing becomes clear to me....it is the nicest small college football stadium in America! I don't mean "small" in a bad way, just not one of the megga stadiums! I always loved SMU's Ford Stadium since it opened. But, HKS and Manhattan Construction have teamed up for another jewel! I get to pick out my seats on Monday, May 9 and I can't wait. Like most of you, September 10th can't get here soon enough! I look forward to seein' everyone and discussing how far we have come. I feel like BIGTIME! I really never thought this day would come! To all the Mean Green Nation.....I look forward to seein' ya soon! ParksAndRecRick P.S. Come to the final Mean Green Caravan Stop in Grand Prairie on May 19! Love to see you at our historic Uptown Theater in Downtown GP. Just a couple miles off Highway 30 and Belt Line!

.......even the "dearly departed"!!!

There are some interesting points in the editorial but by and large I agree with what the university is doing. We do need a PR firm to ballyhoo the University of North Texas as it's never been done before. Is the University of North Texas, in spite of over 325,000 living alumni (nearly half of them in the area) a household name? I've seen posts on this board ad nauseum that we need advertising. Some want billboards, some TV, some radio, some internet, and still others printed media. A good PR firm knows how to best utilize the advertising dollar to get more bang for the buck. If it's effective, it's money well spent. We used to rely almost totally on the state for our existence. That is becoming less and less with each two-year state budget. We need to be more of a household name to be able to attract students and donors. Identifying the four areas was largely rhetoric but necessary to show that this is not only about the stadium. It could payoff in our research goals, rejuvinate our alumni base and attract individual and foundation donors. The stadium naming rights is an easier sell when the university is at the forefront of the area psyche. We couldn't afford to compete with the professional sports teams in the sports niche but we have so much more to offer than one narrow venue. Make no mistake, sports are important but so are other facets of the university's life. A good PR firm will highlight all important contributions of the University of North Texas. So far, I've seen little to complain about under the administration of Lane Rawlins.

Awesome! McCarney could speak at a furneral and everyone would leave fired up.

YES PLEASE!!!!!

It means maybe they'll lose our phone # and leave us alone for a while.

--OK ---- Yay...we finally got the Bastard.... I'll bet Trump will want a death certificate or copies of the pictures.... LOL Good grief.... I never knew he was considered a member of any particular party ... He is just an very odd person that hogs attention.. I doubt either party wants to claim him. Get over it ... it wasn't political. !! .

Love reading the comments to the DRC article. Who would have thought that so many of the DRC readers were branding experts? Someone forward those suggestions to Dr. Rawlins ASAP. We could save a boat load of money. Just think...if we'd have followed the advice of "more posters" years ago, we wouuldn't even be having this discussion.

How does that have anything with politicizing this instead of just saying something like 'yay, we finally got that bastard'? Oh wait, you would prefer to take a backhanded political swipe and when caught with your hand in the cookie jar act like you didn't do it and try to turn the attention elsewhere. In that case maybe you should just drop a Simpson's quote and move on.

My take is that "rub some green on it" is a UNT spin on the common phrase "rub some dirt on it". Rub some dirt on it is defined by UrbanDictionary.com as: To suck it up or man up in any kind of situation. Definition Link The phrase is commonly used in sports, and was popularized by a Peyton Manning MasterCard commercial seen below (the use of the phrase occurs at the :11 mark): I think it makes sense, and the UNT Athletics graphic design people made a pretty cool logo out of it.

You don't think a crack about about Trump wanting to see the death certificate is politicizing?

At first, we're all "Yay, a victory we can all celebrate because all/most of us were in favor of operations in Afghanistan because none of that is at all questionable and all very rock-solid!" And then Rick rolls in with, "No, must make political and divisive! GRR! SMASH!"

--- Fox news got so excited after the Presidential Speech that they announced we had finally killed President Obama... that is true. They quickly corrected it... LOL Guess they got confused because of all the criticism they level toward him... hahaha

Too late.

"What I have said is we’re going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our non-military aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants. And if we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then I think that we have to act, and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Quaida. That has to be our biggest national security priority.” - Barack Obama, during 2008 Presidential campaign Don't act like the President didn't always have the resolve to do what he felt like he needed to do. Maybe he didn't believe in "enhanced interrogations" - but that doesn't mean he didn't have a laser focus on getting bin Laden. The whole reason he complained about the Iraq war was because he said it took away from the Afghan conflict - and more precisely hunting down Osama. Frankly either/both side/s trying to score political points on this makes me sick.

. --Everyone was wanting to get Bin Laden.... AMERICA got this idiot...... just as America won WWII. . Some opposed Iraq but never to getting Bin Laden.. Most Americans have allegiance to AMERICA... not a political party.

Finally...3 pages and a day and a half in and this thing is about to get interesting!

A very disappointing year in softball. This was a senior laden team, including Cantler who may be the best player in NT's short history, that just couldn't ever seem to get it together. A definite step back for a program that had been improving. Has NT ever failed to even make the tournament before? Also, a signal to all those that think that baseball would be an instant winner at NT. Softball is way past a new sport now, and has only had very limited success. Softball is all about dominating pitching, and NT just didn't have enough this year. Unfortunately, what looked like a very good hitting club; also underperformed offensively. With most of the teams big bats graduating this year, the future looks far from bright.

They should have much more in their hand, but like always, the republican leaders let the other side set the agenda and are too busy dealing with fallout of the birthers and such to re-focus the agenda. They spend way to much time trying to be politically correct Don't let the fringe of a party scare you off. After all, if you head over to the Dems, you can find their fringe that thinks Pres. Bush is a war criminal, that he stole the election, and that he intentionally drove up oil prices to benefit his oil buddies (never mind the price of oil right now), and much more (for the really crazies, Pres. Bush was responsible for 9/11). They are all pretty much the same. Say anything to get and stay in office. Both spend way to much, just on different things. After all, it's the Dems that should be really furious with Pres. Obama (still in Iraq, Gitmo still open, still in Afanistan), It's like Pres. Bush never left office. Everyone should be celebrating the death of a dispicable piece of crap that we have been hunting for 10 years, but make no mistake, the celebration for both parties lasted about 2 hours before both started thinking of a way to use it against the other. Pretty shameful.

It's easily as political as jokes about Ford being clumsy, Clinton being an insatiable poon-hound, George Sr. talking about a thousand points of light or Obama talking in a slow, stilted cadence.

But you're certainly the best!

It's a winners' town for winners!

If we start living in a world where it's not okay to make fun of Donald Trump, well, I think you know who's already won. If Trump's a real Republican (or politician), then we're all football coaches.

This scenario would be a dream come true to me. We would basically get in the best non-AQ league and play teams that people know of. When we were in the old Big West, Nevada and Boise State were newer to 1-A within a couple of years. Now that they both have had major success, I would love to be associated with them, not to mention being linked with all of the others in the MWC, who have had histories of success in either football or basketball over the last few decades. As fun as a trip is to go to Miami or Lafayette, I think a trip to Colorado, Las Vegas, or Albuquerque would grow to be appreciated greatly by the MG faithful. I just don't know if that league will ever take us, though. Our school will almost have to get picked on "faith" by the MWC, being able to look past the bad results from football for the most part of the last 30 years, as well as non-descript results from men's hoops (no NCAA wins, a few appearnaces, etc..)and see us for what we are, a school that is finally trying to reach out to the potential that we have. If we are stuck in the SBC, its not the end of the world, but the ceiling for the program will remain a lot lower, just because of the history of the league and its members being so small. I would feel a little bit better about the SBC if a team could ever get ranked in football, but those $$$ OOC games against big-time AQ teams will always make that a tough proposition. Maybe we couldn't compete in the MWC right now, but a berth in that league would do even more for our credibility, both among fans and media, not to mention recruits.

It's just that one party had the resolve to continue to do what was needed to do to bring Bin Laden to justice and the OTHER did just about everything they could to hamper those efforts and now wants to stand up and act like they were in the fight all along. Rick

Dick Durbin comparing our interrogators and troops to Nazi's and Russian Gulag thugs or a Mad regime etc. Rick

Dick Cheney having to defend Bush enhanced interrogation techniques that were required to obtain as much information as possible to protect this country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMCHUmNLAL8 Rick

Obama Signs Order to Close Guantanamo within a year, further hampering our efforts to protect this country. Rick

Obama Rebukes Cheney on Torture, who say's our actions "have done incredible damage to our country's image". Rick

eppy4life really needs to travel back in time to a place where he can be happy. So tired of reading complaints about this and that. Note: I actually agree with Eppy4life here, I'm simply shoveling a little bit of his own HS back to his side of the stall for a change. Rick

All Obama and the raptor amuse me the most: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/the-situation-room-meme-the-shortest-route-from-bin-laden-to-lulz/238251

Don't we need a big man now? Would Miller not be a better fit at his size and to our knowledge no medical issues. We wont start the year with T-Mich, there is talk or red shirting Robinson; this leaves us with who to play post? Hogans, Edwards, Holeman. Who else... Franklin? Knox? We need the size now if we are going to get the size

True, but I have 100% confidence without a doubt that we can win the sunbelt next year! We really need help down low! Holmen can play with his back to the basket and so can Franklin and Williams, but both of thos guys are just 6' 6". Hogans needs some help under the basket for next year! I do have faith the Edwards will be a much bigger force next year. I just do not know how many minutes he can play. Shaw may be more athletic but I am liking Millers body down in the post. We need to push guys around next year. Especially in the small undersized sunbelt