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I listen to KNTU on the way home to hear the Channel 8 news. Before the Channel 8 news comes on, they have some students reading "rip and read" news. Tonight, I heard 2 stories on Oklahoma football and one about Texas football. Not a word as to whether North Texas fields a football team or not. Hey KNTU...We're the Mean Green This post has been promoted to an article

How about movie night at the new stadium? How about the Eagle head statue going into the stadium for the players to touch on the way onto the field? How about Tony Mitchell being on the U19 National Team?

I agree, KNTU shouldn't be pandering to all 5 jazz listeners in the DFW area it should be a service first to the RTVF students and the University as a whole. It doesn't help the students when all they learn is how to be a DJ in a dead format and rip and read AP wires.

You mean it hasn't already?????

Has to be more to it than that...Scott Feldman hasn't pitched in the bigs for a year and a half, Jason Marquis throws in the opposite league, and he's 4 for 10 with a home run against Craig Breslow for his career.

Just a word of thanks to those who have posted on this thread about their positive experiences. Sometimes it takes a bit of time to understand the "value" in something and sometimes it takes a visit back to actually see things as they are today. The many successful professionals in almost every field that are graduates of UNT attest to the quality of the education one receives at UNT. It is true that one must then actually "work" and put forth the effort to achieve success in their careers. A degree from any university does not guarantee success. It is what you make of it and it is the choices one makes upon graduation. The success of UNT graduates is well documented, as has been attested to on this board many times. Appreciate the actual examples folks...keep 'em coming.

Near Easter of this yr my wife and I, '04 & '03, came back in town to look at new houses and while in town, we ventured up to check in on the new stadium and meet my rep on season tickets and seeing the stadium and where we thought we'd want to sit. Afterwards, we took our 2.5 yr old son Hayden and 3 month old daughter Addyson for a stroll thru campus on a Tuesday at 12:00 a month or so before finals. My opinion: The new buildings being constructed are impressive, well designed, fit in with the rest of the campus architecture and in our eyes, the campus is better looking today than when we strolled on to it for the first time nearly a decade ago. My wife left A&M to come to UNT. I left a full ride soccer scholarship (rare for a male) in Missouri to come home and come back to UNT. I had offers all over and could have transferred anywhere. Was no last resort. As was the case for each and every FB recruit we signed this spring. They all had numerous other options, but CHOSE to come to UNT over somehwere else. I see my campus and school for what it is, but that in know way impedes my hope for progress, my ambition for better and my ultimate support of any endeavor to move our school forward.

USA Basketball - Story Link Full Detailed Roster EDIT: Also, here is the Mean Green Sports article on Tony making the team: Link In case there was any doubt (I don't think there was), Tony is the first NT player ever to represent the USA at the international level. This post has been promoted to an article

Sec 110 Row 1. Front Row in the Endzone, its what the daughter wanted, she thinks it will improve her chances of TV Facetime.

Do you really think a radio station in Austin and/or College Station would run the story of another program. Even the pros are on the back pages in a true college town.

Don't be so quick to the trigger... Ryan Braun is hitting over .300, and with the upheaval at the QB position in Minnesota, playing time for Sage Rosenfels isn't out of the question....

Good points 90 Grad. I guess it's just me. I don't think sports stories about other universities should lead in front of stories about North Texas. In fact, I don't listen to KNTU to hear about other schools. Is that a shot at KNTU ? Well, if the shoe fits. To be as fair as possible, there was a story about a North Texas track athlete well after the story about Texas and OU. I don't want to hear about the Red River game or how much assistant coaches at OU are getting as a bonus on KNTU. As I said, I listen to hear the Channel 8 news. Dale Hansen can cover Texas and OU well enough. If there's non-sports news about another university, fine. Tell me. Sports on KNTU, at least college sports, should be limited to NT.

Take heart, Mean Green fans. They picked FIU 8th in conference last year. Just shows you how quickly a turn around can happen in this conference.

I'm trying to plan our move back to the metroplex so I can stay in South Florida thru the 1st of Sept to catch the FIU season opener. In-laws think I'm loopy. They're probably right. Section 104, Row 13, seats 9-12.

I'm not sure what the intended message was from this post. It says you listen, which I inferred to mean you listen on a regular basis, but you call out one night where there were stories about other universities, but not UNT. I'm assuming you are talking about the sports segment. One night isn't really a trend, though it looks like other posters are dog piling with the assumption that this is normal coverage. I listen to KNTU periodically on the way home, but not every night of the week. I've never had a problem with their coverage of UNT athletics. Yes, they do cover sports news outside of UNT, but when there is something newsworthy with UNT athletics, I've found it's usually covered too. It's a daily news show. The statue story didn't really break yesterday. The movie night story, from what I can tell, can only be validated through someone's recount of a twitter posting and isn't a sports story, though I suppose could have been reported in another segment if an unknown movie being shown in two months at the stadium is newsworthy right now. The Mitchell story came out on Monday, not yesterday. It wouldn't surprise me if it was covered on Monday. My two cents.

What exactly is there to report about the UNT team right now? I'm sure they probably needed stories to fill time and a couple came up on the wire about UT and OU. I would rather have something about UNT too, but our football team isn't exactly a hotbed for stories during the summer.

STOP ASKING HIM FOR ONLINE REFERENCES. Have you no long term memory?!? Have we not been getting some big weather around here lately as it is?!? If nothing else, do it for Libia.

It's not a list of schools that haven't cheated. It's a list of schools that haven't been found guilty of cheating. Just sayin'.

I hope not. There is no part of this thought that makes me happy.

According to Texas State, 456.

The Washington Examiner

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Meanwhile, Kapler gently weeps...

KNTU is a metroplex station, not just Denton. While the coverage will be mostly centered around UNT they will cover any sports story that has revelance in DFW.

fixed.

If one is being realistic, this is about where UNT should be picked at this point by all the talking heads. The proof that UNT is better than 6th place will come on the field this fall. I really don't care where anyone picks the Mean Green to finish as it is all speculation at this point until we all see the results of Coach McCarney and company's work with the team. I think lots of people will be pleasantly surprised at what this team will accomplish this season. Many might even ask if it is really composed mainly of the same players that UNT fielded last season as it will look and play so differently under Coach Mac and company. GO MEAN GREEN!

The girl I talked with seemed to have no problem at all giving me seats on the aisle in 205... I am guessing that 205 still has a lot left... Don't know about 209, which I think would be in a different price point...

Hey, Army, I "got it"! Thought it was pretty funny too. Alas, the "fun" is missed by far too many. Bottoms up!

I might have to agree about the look of the campus when I hit here in 1960, but I do take offense at the "school of last resort" comment. Tell that to one of my roommates at West Dorm from Poteet, TX. He finished med school and was a pioneer in laproscopic surgery, or tell my other roommate who earned his PhD at Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have been fairly successful myself, and many of the men who lived near us in West Dorm also became successful. If we indeed wound up at North Texas because it was the last resort, our selected alma mater did a wonderful job of educating us.

Here's hoping Jordan Williams will land in the World Champ's lap in the 2nd round tomorrow!

You'll note, Chone Figgins has never been quite the same player since that thread disappeared.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tmN4vk4oQ

People love to generalize, but generalizations are usually not too helpful. When I hear that North Texas is a school of last resort, or that fill-in-any-school here has the prettiest wimmin or the best Greeks or the sorriest dining halls, or that fill-in-any-city has the worst drivers or the most fickle sports fans, I kind of roll my eyes. So NT was perceived as a hippie school in the 1960s and '70s. Nothing special there. So were just about all of them, with the possible exception of Bob Jones University and such. Not only were dope, sex, and freedom freshly discovered all across our great nation, but hundreds of thousands of guys stuck around in school as long as possible to keep out of that Asian adventure. Those striving to keep their student deferments ranged from Weather Underground wannabes to future chest-beating podium patriots. Their efforts gave most big schools of the era a distinctively Hashbury air. It wasn't a North Texas thing.

The last time you referenced PolitiFact as a source, you misrepresented a Sarah Palin quote as a fact (it wasn't).

Silver with an all-time low.

Sarcasm is lost on too many people these days ...

Silver...you have to be kidding...what a horrendous example you cite. I am not offended, just amazed that anyone would use that as an example. You can do much better than to use that example...it doesn't even work! Note" You are correct that "realistic" doesn't have to mean negative...but many folks who are negative by nature often use "realistic" as their cover excuse. Don't believe it...sit in a few business meetings where some colleagues make negative comments as a general rule...ask them about it and they'll say something to the effect...I was not negative, i was just being realistic...while everyone else in the room rolls their eyes and knows the truth. How do I know...well, I led such meetings and attended such meetings during a 30+ year banking career...and, I WAS one of those people for a short period in my career. Even had it pointed out to me by a very close friend. After that, it didn't take me long to see it for what it really was and return to a more positive attitude and outlook. Got a lot more accomplished and had a much more successful team after that revelation. Experience in that world is a great teacher. You are also correct that it doesn't change many people's minds very often or change the way they look at life, but just on the oft chance one person is able to sit down and take a good hard look (as happened to me), it might just help a small bit for someone. Going through life looking for the negatives just doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Bad things happen, and you definitely cannot put lipstick on that pig. The pig example is much better than your Auschwitz one, by the way...But, the pig farmer sees lots of beauty in his pigs and the folks working on those pig farms have jobs, and I do love ham, bacon and pulled pork sandwiches. Lots of good can come from that pig....lipstick or not. And, calling a pig a pig is not negative in the first place. So, yes, calling a pig a pig (which it is) is very realistic...calling UNT's campus ugly is not realistic, it is negative and simply an opinion. Calling UNT a school of last resort is being negative, not realistic and is definitely some one's opinion. I think I'll leave it at that.

I don't know, I always thought this section was pretty when I walked through.

I did not realize it at the time (and even argued to get out of it with the registration folks as a freshman in the fall of 1966) when they placed me in "Advanced English" due to my SAT/ACT scores. that I would not be required to take that exam. I thought I would "crash big time" in Advanced English, but what it did was get me out of having to take that awful "Student use of English" test. I would have probably had to take that thing multiple times to pass it, but never had to even try. Advanced English did not waste time with grammar, outlining sentences, punctuation drills, etc., etc., but rather concentrated on literature and writing...which, as it turned out was "way cool". I had a Texas Poet Laurette for a prof, Dr. Sampley for my first semester and then followed him up with the semesters of Maxine Turnage. I was lucky to get to go this way...both were excellent, and no "Student Use of English" exam. It tells you how much that exam was dreaded in how vividly I can recall my first UNT registration and my English class experiences. That exam was a killer...it sucked! many a student left UNT never having been able to pass that thing...do not tell me that UNT is or ever was a "college of last resort". If you thought so, you were sadly mistaken. I know a guy who couldn't pass at UNT and transferred after sitting out a couple of years to UT..his degree is now from UT! Don't know how that worked, but true story! So, should we conclude from this that UT is much easier than UNT? Of course not...just as no one should conclude that UNT was or is a "college of last resort". Stupid thinking and shows a lack of both knowledge and experience if one feels that way.

ok here is the response i got from UNT. we will have some gear available in green for the fall but it will be limited because the change was made in January and most orders for merchandise have to be placed in late Novermber or early December with Nike. Nike will be adding our color, Kelly Green, to their regular color palette in 2012. So, there will be a lot more and a wider variety of gear for purchase. that is from UNT directly.

MeanGreen61, what do you expect when you troll that wac board for months? I'm lucky that since I work with a bunch of UNT grads I know how good of people they are, but the same probably can't be said for fans of schools like San Jose, Idaho, Utah State. 61, you successfully trolled and pissed off a bunch of people. Congrats I guess on that, but if you got 51 registered members to think UNT fans are the most irritating...I wonder how many more casual viewers saw it? Probably a lot more. For the rest of y'all, the new stadium is looking good. I like it when we play you guys in basketball, hope to see y'all on the football field too a few years down the road. PEACE

Sir...I believe you are wrong on fthe rape, etc. not being illegal until you get caught.....maybe like the difference between "law" and "evidence".

A really, really stupid program.

Nice. But I'm both slow and naïve.

Oh, goodness, say it isn't so! E-gads, you mean PETA is "less than what it appears"??? This is pretty typical of the far left and far right wings of most issues. They yell, scream and cause lots of press to follow their every move (ie: Green Peace, PETA, etc.) yet when the bright lights of real inspection fall upon them they are often exposed for what they are...fringe groups just trying to push an agenda...with the agenda being the most important thing....that and preserving their own organization and egos. PETA it seems doesn't actually care as much about "animals" as it does moving it's press loving and radical agenda forward. It's the thought that counts, right? Not those "pesky animals" that get in the way of their own self-righteousness. Say it isn't so!

--On the board of directors and on Enron audit committee was Wendy Gramm. Phil Gramm (husband) then pulled out of his re-election race and they left the state. ---As for the Volt or electric cars.... they may work ok if a person only drives short distances and lives in a large city...terrible if you need to drive long distances...or live in sparse area... can't recharge quickly.... also remember there are environmental electric generation concerns as well..... My last concern... they have batteries.. how long do they last and what happens to them when they get old. Looks like that is trading one problem for a bunch more.

Oil-giant Venezuela tries to limit energy use See, this is what we need to do, destroy and bring down those bastard oil companies and just live with the rolling blackouts as the rationing heats up. Won't August in Texas be fun without air conditioning? Who do you think will suffer the most when that happens? The sick and elderly, that's who. But AARP and the libs continue to blame the conservatives with the Mediscare rhetoric. Ah yeah, lets hear it for the SOCIALIST way! Rick

Mitchell isn't officially on scholarship...Skiver's just being a douche.

You really seem to like to throw that term "shill" around a bunch when it comes to the oil companies and really any big business. Are folks shills if they just don't agree with some anti-business agenda? Just wondering. No biggie. So, to you it's OK for dealers to up the price of the Volt $10-20K, but not OK for big oil to charge for its products based on supply and demand? What am I missing here? The VOLT is so great that they are already showing up on used car lots? I wonder how all that electricity is generated that these wonderful electric cars will run on? Wind power perhaps? Perhaps the editor at the Startlegram is shilling for the electric car advocates...Hmmmmmmm, I wonder. I like alternative fuel ideas and think there should be continued research and production. Anything to get off the Middle East's oil pipeline, but I do think we should look to ways to produce more oil/gas locally...the US/Canada, etc. The current administration is not helping that much...perhaps they are "shilling" for the environmental lobby. What do you think, Silver? This sort of "tit for tat" stuff is ruining all possibility of sane political discussion and thought these days. BOTH sides are at fault in that, and it is darn sure time that BOTH sides grew up and started acting in the best interests of this great nation of ours. That's one reason that I have tried to stay out of the political talk here on GMG.Com. It does ABSOLUTLY NO GOOD, and it will not change any one's mind about these positions. Too rigid and too closed minded it seems. That's a shame. there was a time when our politicians (think LBJ) would talk all they wanted in public and then get together behind the scenes and work out a compromise and actually get on with the business of this great nation of ours. Too bad things have become so rigid and so "public" and so "tit for tat" (yes, on both sides of the aisle) that not much good gets done. Time for everyone to take a step back and maybe, just maybe try to see a little...maybe just a little of both sides of the issue. As is often the case, neither side is 100% right nor 100% wrong.