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Is this bridge going to be off limits for Denia residents?

Sorry but we shouldn't talk on this issue. Pot meet kettle.

If Lee Jackson has anything to do with it, he'll name it the UNT-Dallas bridge.

When you talk to people in the drumline community around the world and mention UNT...jaws drop. There are very few groups on campus that consistently represent UNT at such a high standard year in and year out. The members of the drumline work their tails off and put in insane hours to be the best in the world, no excuses. Despite this, you're telling me that because they don't play at football games you aren't interested in the work that they put in, the world-class product they create, or the extraordinary representation they give UNT? That's a shame.

I'm hoping that Luke's Locker will be the sponsor, and it will be called the: Luke's Skywalker

I had to heed the Orsini call. I bought 20 endzone seats... for UH vs. UNT

Well, there are 311,800,000 (roughly) Americans. Do the math on your 50 million which I'll capitulate is correct for sake of this discussion, and you've got... 16%. Yup, one percent more than my figure (which was based on 2009 numbers that the healthcare bill was shoved down our throats on) but closer to 15% than the 20% you quote. ...but even at 20%, you're destroying a system that is covering 80% of Americans by installing law that: A. will not actually cover that many more people as we have discovered during the months since the passage (...cause we had to pass it to see what was in it after all). B. does not provide incentive for companies to keep employees on coverage. C. does not provide enough incentive through the mandate to force people to buy it (fine is a fraction of the cost of the insurance). D. will lower quality and choices for the 80% who currently DO have coverage. E. now that all the details are known is clearly a political step to single payer which the people simply wouldn't have accepted this time around. It is interesting to note that since this president has taken office and since this bill has passed, fewer, not more, people have healthcare coverage. This isn't because of the evil health insurance companies or mean corporations, it's because unemployment is skyrocketing and many of the jobs that are available don't offer benefits. Many of the folks filing bankruptcy for medical bills HAVE health insurance. What does Obamacare do to stop that situation? I heard it used over and over again as a reason we needed this bill, but never once have I heard it explained how this bill stops that nonsense? You know, you say "politics aside" then you play politics. I never said, nor did the folks against THIS type of healthcare reform that the system is perfect. It is FAR from it. I run two of those companies that are facing the double digit increases. There isn't a THING in Obamacare that shows me that will stop. In fact this year AFTER the bill was passed, I had a larger than normal increase. Now that Obamacare has passed and I have a small company that won't be penalized, I could just drop coverage, say "screw my employees" and take an extra 5 figures out of here a month home with me. I'm not going to, because I think health insurance is important. ...but I don't FORCE my employees to take the coverage. I have no right. The Government can't FORCE them to take it either. They have no right. The heavy handed measures in this bill should have been a last resort, not a first step. As has been stated in this thread over and over again, there are lots of other ideas that would help and don't include MORE government involvement, but rather less. Decrease the paperwork, red-tape and government oversight of the healthcare industry. Allow insurance companies to compete across state lines. Broaden the ease for small businesses to pool, and allow them to do so across state lines. (I have different policies for my employees in Dallas vs my employees in Chicago, both on Blue Cross/Blue Shield. How dumb is that?) ...but empowering the IRS, and creating a situation where the Federal Government blows through yet another firewall in the Constitution is not the answer to the healthcare problem in this country. It will only serve to fan the flame and turn the problem INTO the crisis it was manufactured into to get the American people to surrender a little more liberty to the federal government. Good debate, and I appreciate you coming back into continue it.

i've never had an issue with any license plate cover...and i've been pulled over plenty of times! remember flyer...we don't give gifts to get a gift...a gift is nonbinding. i'm happy i get something every year from north texas for giving them cash...they could stop and i'd still do it.

Max is going to be everyone's fan favorite by the end of the season. Lock it.

Here are the A-lines competitive shows from PASIC (national drum competition that UNT has owned basically every year since it started): There are tons of videos of different years. It's pretty cool to watch, especially when you consider thus is the gold standard of drum lines EVERY YEAR since they started doing this.

http://www.blurb.com/books/2407262/

That would no doubt be LEED certified.

You need tickets to plan for tailgating? Really? Seems lots of folks have already started planning tailgating activities. Maybe you mean near which lot due to your parking situation...that I get, and agree that I would love to have that settled as soon as possible. But, completely disagree that the AD folks have forgotten the fans. In fact, there have been more fan friendly events this season that ever before...and this whole bit of a delay just might be due to the fact that they had to wait on the Apogee Stadium deal to be finalized before they actually printed the tickets (the season tickets not the single game tickets that are always much more generic). Not trying to stir things up, but I can guarantee you that folks in the Athletic dept. are not holding meetings about how they can "not look after the fans". There are times that things are taking place behind the scenes that are just not apparent to those who are charged with dealing with things on a day to day basis. Does anyone really think the AD folks want to stall in getting parking passes and tickets out to their season ticket holders? When we are less than a week out and we still don't have tickets or parking passes...well, if that happens...then we can panic! Until then...patience folks patience.

I'll chip in $5 to get it named the GOMEANGREEN.COM Walkway. Who's with me?

Are we sure the bridge wouldn't just go to Dallas?

Here's where your argument hits a snag. Back when Dickey was our coach, we had a huge conference winning streak, 4 straight bowls, the two previous national rushing champs who received lots of natinal and local pub, and open practices. In 2005, we averaged about 17-18K per home game, which was no different than it had been before. Lance Dunbar is awesome, but his team has been absolutely horrible for a long time. Joe Bob will know him even more when he runs for 200 yards in an opening season win over FIU. If that makes Joe Bob buy a ticket for our big home game against Western Kentucky, then we are the better for it. But I doubt if we were sending out all kinds of information on practices right now and how great Lance Dunbar is, Joe Bob will buy that ticket for Western Kentucky's visit to Denton if we get blasted in our first 4 games of the season, even if he runs wild in those games.

How about..."down the corridor of years". OR, since it's leading to the football stadium "down the corridor of cheers".

Yeah, same goes for the 1 o'clock lab band, unless those guys play at a football game they don't exist to me either. /geesh, let it go man. Bottom line. Back in olden times there wasn't things like drum line competitions. Then things changed and the drumline at UNT was so dominant we had too many students wanting to attend our university that we had to eventually make it into it's own performing group. Now they tour the world and help recruit to the UNT college of music.

Roger Franklin was saying UNT Antwan Space (Desoto/Florida State) was signaling that it was over Jordan Williams

Over there off Ft Worth Dr ? Are you sure it wasn't Juan Jones ?

I'll wake up on south beach hung over friday morning, unt polo wrapped around my head like a scarf, from a night of celebration from the program changing win the day before. My wife and kids will pick me up with my mavs jersey to change into. Cannot wait.

Wow... didn't we just give him a raise?

That is odd. Since UH and Houston were the basketball Final Four hosts, can we count the games at Reliant in our attendance?

I feel like a closed practice adds a bit more credibility to the Mean Green. However, I do like the idea of a MGC members only scrimmage.

I think its very nice. The club like lighting may just be for photo purposes. Had our locker rooms been green or something ilke that we'd love it. Can we please stop all this SMU bashing nonsense and worry about our own damn selves?

DRC

Right? Been a while since I had one of those early in the morning...

Hopefully he was at least in an Alley or a car or something.

Are you still allowed to provocate like this? Send Vito back to where he came from on a leaky boat?

I will proudly wear a Mean Green shirt on my flight home on Friday. No better place to show a little support for our NBA World Champion Mavericks than on South Beach!

Chris Bynes will be our breakout receiver. I was very impressed with his skills at the August 2010 scrimmages. It was too bad his season ended in the third game.

Because he will be in Miami. Man, way to be a...

Or... Tony Mitchell is rated the 79th best college player in America without ever playing a second in a college game. Not bad, not bad at all.

There you go, letting the fact that this is something everybody does get in the way of a good opportunity to go after SMU

RV and Mac are doing the same thing....

In another thread the subject was brought up Marketing 101 of the Mean Green Football Program. What do the above remarks say to possible new fan to the Mean Green Nation. Remember this might be the first video that they have seen of Coach Canales. What message are you tring to send. Hey I am new to Mean Green Football. This is my first Fall following the Mean Green. Do some of you think there is problems inside the coaching staff. That is what your posts tell me. #2 in command has a problem because his personality has changed. I am not buying this line but some readers might.

The interviewer has a way of bringing that out in coaches.

Not to worry .... when the "official" results come out, somehow they will average around 22K to 25K Pony Math - The don't ask, don't tell in attendance taking

Wow, Canales was way too subdued in that interview. In fact, he didn't look very happy.

Is this Mean Green Football related or The Eagle's Nest related? Let the voting begin.

Guys, I'm sorry to bump this back to the board again but I wanted to thank all, and the verbal well-wishers especially, for the kind remarks. I can't live up to the kudos given but they were humbly appreciated. And to Jim if I can make it to Wednesday, Jessica and I will have completed 54 years of marriage. I'm having some health issues at the moment but I'm hopeful that everything will be under control by September 10 when I'll see you at one of the greater events of my life. Not quite equal to my wedding day or the birth of my children but damn close. I cherish the friendship of those on this board, met or unmet, and hope that we are beginning the greatest era of success in the history of our alma mater.

Substitute the red lights for green and the mustang logo for the SOW and everyone on here would be saying how badass it looks. The fact is that incoming freshmen are going to love that locker-room when they see it for the first time.

Hard to compare. By the time Carey came along, we had quite a stockpile of WRs that weren't around when Casey was. Casey had a lot more balls thrown his way, so he had a lot more catches. But Carey averaged 10.9 yards per catch, while Casey averaged 11.1 yards per catch--a statistical wash. And Carey should have had his best years still in front of him. Obviously, Carey will never be considered one of UNT's greats, which Casey definitely was. But Carey certainly had the promise.

+1 for the green phone.

I did not dig through the records but I do remember us beating Tech a few times and if I remember correctly we beat them 1997 and then again in 1999 the year before Leach took them over. I don't think we won again after that. So I would not have guessed Tech to be in the top half of the Big XII and I don't remember Tech being regularly in the top 25 but it seems like they were in the top 25 not too long after Leach arrived and stayed there. But that may just be my perception.

Leach's name was on the Nation Stage for a long time and his results are record setting. He took a perennial bad team ranked near the bottom of D1 and took them to number 2 in the nation. At Lubbock of all places. Don't kid yourselves Leach was well known outside of Texas.

I sure he means the casual fan, and no matter how you cut it Leach has a much higher profile nation wide. I hope Leach comes to the Belt it will help everyone get better. I do think that McCarney will be an outstanding coach here and very well may lead North Texas to an Auto bid conference.

Jack! have a great B-day. I would like to add that as role model for being a North Texas fan, you won't find a better example than Jack (GrayEagle) Fincher. Jack is very loyal, very knowledgeable (VERY), and best of all, the epitome of professionalism and class. Jack is the one that inspired me to suggest that there should be some sort of recognition for North Texas fans who have attended games in all three of our official football venues. When he and his wife walk into Apogee stadium on the 10th of Sept. he will have done just that. I think that one of the next podcast here on GMG.com should be a sit down with GrayEagle to discuss the History of North Texas football since he became involved as a fan. Again, Happy Birthday Jack!

The White Stripes Seven Nation Army is a great stadium song. Futbol fans on both sides of the ocean chant it at games. Some college football fans also have chanted it. The words are easy enough even FFR would like it.