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Folks; I just received notice of a historic event for UNT. The invitation was titled "History Will Be Made" and it refers to the announcement on August 15th of the single largest private commitment to UNT that it has ever received. I am extremely excited about this and cannot wait to find out the details of this historic gift for the university. Folks, GREAT THINGS are truly happening at UNT these days, and it is a great time to be a member of the Mean Green Nation. People are definitely noticing the greatness that is YOUR UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS!!!! Be proud...be Green! GO MEAN GREEN & WHY NOT NORTH TEXAS INDEED!!!!! Click here to view the article

I love Blakeley's legacy as much as anyone can that did not personally witness it. But, I'm not on board with naming the court after anyone at this time. I'm not sure anyone has earned that honor. Especially since we've never had a coach win an NCAA tournament game.

Because maybe they're brand new to the whole North Texas thing and are coming by to check it out, you know, potentially thereby increasing the fan base. Please, for the love of all things, refrain from posting photos of people in the stadium wearing the wrong color. It doesn't make people want to return. Unless there are 30,000 people on GMG.com that can fill the new stadium every game whilst wearing the perfect shade of green as measured by some secret laboratory, let people wear what they want to wear. They'll get the green shirts soon enough once they become repeat customers.

In college basketball, if you win every game starting from your conference tournament opening round, you will be the national champion. No such scenario exists in college football. The greatest competition in college athletics determines its champion based on opinion polls.

Uh, we are not even close to set at QB. We have an unproven redshirt Soph starting, who I think will do great, but we don't know that. We have a JC transfer as a backup and probably a true freshman as our #3 after Fall workouts (Cooper Jones), with a senior walk -on (Baine) who just got on scholarship this year and a true freshman (McNaulty) that will probably enventually be switched to defense. Not exactly set. If this kid is looking to transfer and start right away, then he will be going the FCS rout, as nothing like that will be promised from a FBS school. If he is confident in his talent, then we are probably one of the best spots for him.

I totally agree....Riley is not a quitter. I went to all 12 games last season. He played to the best of his ability while dealing with a number of injuries. Considering the circumstances, transferring from North Texas was in his best interest.

Let's just go ahead and forget about him again.

Four pages of debate over something that is pretty clearly a bit. So envious of GreenP1 right now...

Maybe that's why the lettering on the outside of the stadium that says Univeristy of North Texas is so small. They left room for the Sponsor or Name of the stadium. They could have know that this was coming and planned ahead.

Tense.

Just spitballin', but was it Hayden Fry to Kenny Lyons? No one's ever around to set me straight on my history.

I hope it's baseball

Thank you. Too many people around here want to act like Forrest Rucker never existed.

Its not a thread about our traditions, so really it is kinda of new. You know, kind of different from everyday posts about how everything at our alma mater is just perfect, terrific, or going to be the best real soon...

Seems to be doing well for himself.

I assumed most of this quitter crap is done in jest, no one who ever watched Riley at all could question his courage. He was a Parade All American who chose to forgo a ship at UT to play for his father at NT, that should give you a pretty good feel of his relationship with his father. Once here he did nothing but give his all to the team. I wish he would have stayed at NT but I can certainly understand why he didn't. Some of you seem to forget his effort and his playing hurt for NT after his dad was fired. I hope he is very successful at McNeese and sets all kinds of records but now my focus is all the players and coaching staff that are at NT now.

Listen, I'm not calling him a quitter at all. I understand unforeseen circumstances. My point was just that if you're calling RD a quitter you must do the same for Mitchell. And if he doesn't exhaust his eligibility here what would everyone be saying then about him? I'll bet we'll say he's doing what's best for him and his family... And thank him for his time here and what he did for our program.

Yeah, well... he got what he wanted, didn't he? An invite to an AQ BCS conference, so what does he have to worry about now?

Jeez, where have journalistic standards gone?

Meh, pants I do not understand. Looks like they should be for Cincinnati.

Denton. Thursday, Jan 12

http://collegehoopsnet.com/jon-teitels-forgotten-legends-series-north-texas-kenneth-lyons-169281 JT: Do you think that anyone will ever break your scoring and rebounding records? KL: I do not think that anyone will ever break my records. If a player is good enough now as I was back then, there is no way they would go to North Texas.

Stump seems like a terrible nickname for a quarterback.

Technically Tony Mitchell didn't quit on anything...

Told you. All trolls go native at some point.

Who cares.

My point, and reason for feeling the way I do, is that I refuse to label someone with such a negative word for choosing family over self. Would it have been easier for him to stay at a school he's comfortable with, in the offense he already knows, with a coach who knows him, and a team already supporting him? I guess that's the point of argument but I believe so. Did he leave our team and join another? Yes. So those of you claiming his label as quitter is simply a factual statement will point to that and smile as if you've won the argument. But, the tone with which you call him a quitter proves that you're not just stating fact but also implying weakness in his character or person. So, please, next time you get excited about Tony Mitchell or Tyler Stradford remember that according to your own rules, they are quitters to. And we don't like quitters at North Texas.

Weren't we set at QB last season?

While getting beat by 30 in my rec game tonight I witnessed the greatest basketball player I've ever seen in person (not in the NBA)... Tony Mitchell. While playing in front of a crowd of about 100, at about 30% effort, he showed just how much better he was than anyone on that court. You can just tell that he is legit NBA prospect. My favorite was his between the legs power dunk on a fast break. I heart him. The end.

I read a post on the internet regarding Baylor's new uni's and the overriding comment was "when you have no history or tradition, you can have 11 different uniforms".

Why 2 different helmets and 12 different jersey combonations? Someone has excess money in this depression.

oh cmon man boo freakin hoo! -1 me all you want people but are we seriously this sensitive for RD? his dad got fired... it happens everyday. HE WAS A HUGE PEICE TO THIS TEAM WHO WE NEEDED!!! i wasnt questioning RD before he quit... but i seriously doubt people were coming up to him everyday at school talking crap to his face about his dad... even if they were, you show character when the chips fall against you.... i know for a fact his teamates would have rallied around him ... RD took his talents to Lake Charles oh well tho life goes on....I hope Brent Osborn can take the mental pressure of D1 ball better than RD could.

I was pushing for xenophile.

Not sure if the P works, but I like the way you think.

Without the specific quote mentioned, I think the guy is just proud of what he accomplished and an athlete that left it all out when he was here. I would agree that the article doesn't paint Kenny in a humble light, though.

It's tradition bro.

Adios, Mark Stroman.

Are many people really expecting record levels of success this next season? I'll admit to zoning out a bit since Knoxxy broke my heart, but this seems a bit silly to me.

Effective July 25th the North Texas AthleticTicket Office will be relocated to the northwest corner of Mean Green Stadium.

How can people question why A&M would want to go to the SEC? If the SEC woke up tomorrow with the Big 12's money, it would blow it's brains out. The SEC and Big 10 make wayyyy more money than the Big 12.

UT & TAMU are joined at the hip. Who's going to perform the surgery down in Austin where our politicians gather? It would be intriguing to see both go independent, though, because we should already know what one does the other soon will duplicate? For those 2 schools to go Indy' would IMHO open bigger doors (better conference/better known opponents all season long) for UNT quicker that otherwise most of us 'boomers will be long gone to see happen in Mean Green Country. The stadium is nice but for what has been going on in the NCAA last few years to the present we're still behind where we should have been. NOTE: Who is going to invite Gene Stallings to our new stadium debut game? Former UNT Board of Regent Winn Brown (now deceased) told me at a North Texas function that we should have made our dramatic move upward post our Abner Haynes/Sun Bowl era. I always wondered why it didn't happened post Joe Greene era teams when North Texas should have vaulted upward to never look backwards again; and that was while Hayden Fry was still at SMU. The UNT Mean Green had as good a college football team in NCAA D1 in 1968 that there was when our level of talent had all but defeated the "almost" NCAA National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks that same Fall. Wouldn't we all (who were around) have loved to have also seen seen North Texas play the Houston Cougars back in that same 1968 season? From Good Will Hunting the word...Ironical was that....neither UT or Arkansas had 1 black player on their 1968 teams while UNT and UH had already integrated. UH with Warren McVae in 1965 and UNT with Abner Haynes 10 years earlier. Darrell K. Royal's 1969 Texas Longhorn NCAA National Football Championship team would the the last year UT had an all white team, too. Nevertheless, there are just some things about our program's athletic history I know many of us will never quite fathom; that is, why our leaders always seemed to want to retreat after we had reached some fairly impressive plateaus. That modus operendi on our leaders part became enough to have made many, many, many of our alums through those decades just say....screw it; so they fell in line with many other Texans to support the 2 Permanent University Funded state university darlins'. Just sayin'..

Maybe they don't need A&M per se, but it is a fact that they are drooling at the prospect. A&M has an open door anytime they want. Clemson is already good to go as the 14th team whenever the Aggies are ready to jump ship.

And I guess it is officially "Mean Green Stadium"

1. Robertson is a stadium that even an MLS team is embarrassed to play in. It is a glorified high school stadium built in 1942. Even Stevie Wonder thinks it looks like a piece of crap. 2. Who cares what houston fans think about our new palace. We've waited far too long for this to become a reality to worry about what a team that plays in a stadium that makes Fouts look like the Taj Mahal thinks. If you switched from driving an exploding Pinto to a Corvette but your neighbor, who rides a burro around town, says he prefers Porches to Corvettes would you give a f£#% about his opinion? I know I don't.

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Mean Green Sports Article The team name is Politekhnika-Halychyna. Finding a jersey may be tricky, haha.

In class 15 hours, study for 45 hours, sleep for 8 hours a night still leaves around 50 hours a week to eat, meet an attractive reason to stay in Denton for a few years, and work on basketball. Two rec games a week isn't goint to take away from study time.

Let him know I will offer free tutoring.