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So I came back to Denton this week. I'm a coach so we have been practicing football since august 1. Wow how I missed this place! I cannot wait until 9/10/11! Has anyone else seen how fry st is about to boom?

Translation: Fry Street is being made attractive for Dentonites/alumni/out of towers who might actually have money to spend. Oh how I'll mss the high school drop outs and their hacky sacks in front of the Tomato.

You mean it's being given a much needed facelift? Fry is a dump right now. It needs to be upgraded

For some Fry street will never be the same. They enjoyed people urinating on the sidewalks, running into the drunk high school kids with their skateboards, the college drop outs still wanting to act like they are actually college students, the vomit on the sidewalks, each and every weekend, etc., etc. To be fair, some of us will also miss the great hangouts like the State Club, the Tomato, etc. But, Fry Street has long ago lost it's "luster" as unique and attractive place to hang out. It has pretty much become a "dump" and in it's present and recent past forms was doing no one much good. One may or may not like some of the ever-so-evil to some corporate money that is flowing into the area, but it is beginning to move forward with redevelopment and may one day return to a vibrant and economically sound area for both the city and the college students. Fry Street long ago stopped being a great place to hang out. It's time to move along. Very happy to see the re-development beginning.

At 107 degrees at kickoff yesterday, and starting at left guard in his very first game the boy served up his first pancake. Weatherford's 5th grade beat Burleson 12-6. How is this Mean Green related? Because his daddy told him that's how Ol'GreenGuts used to do it! Rick

I can't believe how much Denton changed from when I first arrived in 2006 to when I left in 2010. I think more change has happened in 2011 than any other year. So many restaurants/new apartments/new buildings @ UNT (oh ya, Apogee too). I don't know why anyone would chose to go to school out in Lubbock over Denton.

I think we only managed one win last year under Todd Dodge. The WKU and Middle victories were under Canales; and I don't think they would have been possible had Dodge still been here. I agree with the rest of your point though. This coaching staff is terrific and will lead to victories this year. There is no reason why we can't beat every Belt team.

No. I thought this was some type of inside joke between you and NT80. You were serious???? If so, just a little (like, waaaay) over the line.

But, FIU also has no information or film on this team. I guess they game plan off of last year's offensive tape and last year's WKU defensive tape. Not really a good set of circumstances for them. THey have no idea how UNT's personnel will perform in Bowen's defensive scheme. Lots of coaching advantages in this first match up.

Now this is the kind of music I'm looking forward to hearing in the new stadium. It is so DAMN loud y'all won't believe it! I just spoke with Mike Gallop the team's equipment manager and he said the first one really caught them by surprise inside the teams lockerroom. And there's this crazy ghost-like freight train echo immediately following each shot. Sounds like a Scott Davis pass zinging overhead. A special thanks go to coach McCarney for stopping by and visitingng with me and the new Cannon Crew. And a huge thank you goes out to all those who helped put today's event on, including Meangreenfreak and SoundMan. Both of these guys are currently working on getting the Bell and Model A up and going again. Without great alumni like these I don't know where we would be? Rick

Idiots abound on both sides. You want to see a conservative example? Any Obama story on Yahoo! news. Saw one guy that had a photoshopped (duh) avatar of Obama with his arm around bin Laden's shoulder. Nevermind that Obama ordered the strike to kill bin Laden...nevermind that minor detail.

6 wins this year. We don't play in the SEC.

That's good to hear, because the Star-Telegram completely ignored us in their special football edition. One section to TCU, one section to the Big XII and "national" colleges, and section to area high schools. Nary a mention of the Mean Green.

...and it could have been worse. Complete domination from the soccer team today. Obviously, the competition was weak, but we took full advantage. We play SMU this Friday at 7pm. If you can make it out, please come, it is going to be crazy.

Think this is the quietest it has ever been before the opening game. Game is like 4-5 days away, and not much action yet. Could be an affect of closed practice/scrimmages possibly??

I think four years of Dodge has caused people to be hesitant to be overly optimistic. We're like a dog that has been kicked repeatedly...even when you go to pet it, it will cower down.

Florida and Georgia don't want to be involved in the SEC? Thanks for the laugh. I live in Florida. Florida and Georgia alumni love the SEC more than their spouses.

Is this going to happen? I thought they weren't going to open again.

If you have a problem with his post, why not point out what the problem is? The lack of coverage is apparently not the Green Gang's fault, but his post seemed to make a fair observation, IMO.

Could we please point the cannon to the southeast after each game and give the Denia neighbors one shot each game?

There has been a rumor about a game this week. Actually, I think that a lot of people are waiting to see the "new" team under Coach Mac. There will be lots of talk after the FIU game, that is for sure.

What if hypothetical questions didn't exist?

This made me laugh my ass off for a good few minutes after reading it

Leach is missing out.

I'll take "sentences I never expected to see" for $400. Did Captain Jack give 'em what for??

How do I go about joining this booser club? Not that I don't do just fine on my own.

I'm so excited about this season!

Great job, Vito! Anyone else notice there was no coverage for SMU and TCU in this DRC annual football edition?

Yeah, it's much better as an instrumental. Otherwise, it's just a pathetic penis envy song.

Greatest fight song of all time... if they played the Longhorns every game. But they don't, so it's the dumbest fight song of all time.

A&M doesn't need Texas, it's the other way around. Also, the whole state doesn't buzz with the UT-A&M game. I can think of very few, outside of their graduates - who don't constitute "the whole state" - who even care. A&M is doing what's in its best interest - moving to the strongest football conference in the country, and leaving a crumbling conference behind. Only OU and Texas are stupid enough to believe the Big 12 is salvagable, The list of replacements for Texas A&M is a joke. Houston? SMU? Air Force? Pathetic.

He also has only one score listed...DURING his presidency. That's not much to average. The fewer ranking marks you have, the less valid the score (and no score is valid while someone is still IN office). It's really not fair to include any president on those lists that has been out of office less than about 50 years. I'd actually say none of us can accurately judge any president that left office from around our HS years onwards, because we have too much of a personal attachment (either for or against) to their terms. The reason I throw 50 years post presidency is because that would basically mean most of the people that were really around for that respective president's time in office would be moving into the twilight of their life (or deceased depending). And most of the historians would have grown up (or perhaps even been born after) the presidents they are passing judgement on were long gone. I could just as easily say 75-80 years to make it more an absolute thing, but I think 50 works pretty well.

Oh?

I had always thought UNT, University of Texas at Arlington, TCU, and SMUt, but now that you wrote it out that way...it just makes so much sense! How can this not happen!?

No one here thinks Apogee is getting kind of dated?

--READ.... Look at title of thread... this is not a UNT football one. (I am not the the person you directed this to)

--Activity had picked up in Afghanistan before Obama took office.... If Bush had concentrated on it and finished that war first instead of going after Iraq which had nothing to do with 9-11, then Afghanistan would be over.... Besides Saddam (even if he was a bad guy) feared that the same would happen to him that had happened in Iran.. Al Qaeda was his enemy as well and Islamic terrorists in his country were mostly the folks that he was doing in because he feared they would try to overthrow him. Afghanistan has been our war for 7 years... mosly Bush years.... That is longer than WWII lasted ... He did not get the job done. What has Killeen got to do with Obama..??. Many in the Middle East consider the Bush Iraq invasion as an atttack against Islam... as did the Killeen guy. Bush unfortunately even refered to it as a Crusade for awhile. That unfortunately got their attention. Never ignor the truth.... even when it is not what you want it to be. ----Ever heard the phrase "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". ? Saddam was an enemy of Islamic extremists that wanted control of his country and doing terrorism elsewhere. Reagan had provided Iraq weapons to fight Iran and those guys. ...plus no one in 9-11 had ever lived in Iraq.

---Hmmmmm... But you didn't find doubling the National Debt, messing up the internationl rate of exchange of the dollar (which increased prices of imports especially oil and oil products) , having the stock market drop about 6000 points in 2008 , the economy going South in 2008 partially because so many the government controls were taken off the financial community, the beginning of the bail-outs .... plus getting us into a war hunting for WMD that didn't exist and getting many Americans killed and seriously wounded as a result... as disgusting................... I do .....so do many others.... ---That is why they were not re-elected to Congress or the White House thus we now have Obama.. [ that.. plus showing bad judgement by chosing a person from the wilderness as a VP candidate that had never set foot in Europe or Asia and also had no understanding of America's big city problems or many other problems facing the lower 48....] You sure are selective in your disgust. .. They are not being released.... wake up.

RENAMED FOR KEN BAHNSEN A FEW YEARS BACK---COACH BAHNSEN COACHED FOOTBALL AND TENNIS---ALSO TAUGHT DRIVERS EDUCATION

To expound on your post, or "pile on" if you're still inexplicably a Dodge apologist, we would have hd more than the one win coming into Canales' short tenure with any other coach in America through the first eight games. Any other coach. Even the dickey monster. Seriously. Yes, even him.

It's being corporatized by big city developers!!!! Woooooo!

I like BYU and think watching them play the Red Raiders, Horns and Sooners on a regular basis would be great theatre. I think it is a joke to think Arkansas would think about leaving the SEC for the unstable Big 12. Adding Notre Dame, BYU and Houston really makes the most sense. This would not be a bad league: Kansas Kansas State Notre Dame BYU Iowa State Missouri Oklahoma Oklahoma State Texas Texas Tech Baylor Houston You would have BYU or Notre Dame consistently coming out of the North with Kansas State a threat. You have Texas or OU consistently coming out of the South. Either way I am excited about seeing the SEC teams come through Texas. It has been a long time since I have been this excited about watching Aggie pigskin. GMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wacfY-w0Vjc&feature=related And I apologize if this comes off as a democrat bash simply because that's the link I used but that's not what this topic is about. If someone has a good Conservative video feel free to post the link. I like to read articles that are conservative and liberal slanted. I think this helps me try to get a good idea of the entire political spectrum and how all the parties feel on different topics. Obviously I disagree with many, if not all, of the liberal points, BUT I still completely respect their thoughts. And then I read the comments section..... The above video is the type of stuff I typically come across. Just a complete lack of knowledge. I would be willing to bet that these completely off thoughts spread like wild fire throughout the liberal army. Like I said... I completely respect knowledgeable democrats that are capable of debating a good subject. But these videos and comments I keep coming across are driving me insane. Talking with some liberals the other day about their thoughts and they actually thought that rich people pay a less AMOUNT of tax. Ex.) They thought if they were paying 10 dollars total in taxes, a wealthy person was paying 8 dollars total in taxes "because they are rich and the republicans only want poor people to pay taxes." They thought healthcare was really going to be "free". Like poof magic free. Money from the skies free. "Obama's stash" type free. When asked how we should encourage job growth they thought we should raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations. They thought we should "make gas prices lower" by simply "telling the oil companies to charge less". They thought public education was funded through federal taxes. How do you even begin to debate with people like this when they are so far from being anywhere close to anything remotely correct? The problem is - we aren't dealing with intelligent democrats (or republicans) that simply have a different view on things. We are dealing with completely uneducated citizens that are completely off base. Quite frankly, its pretty scary. This was just my most recent experience and democrats feel free to share any conversations you've had with conservative idiots because I'm sure they exist too.

I embrace our stadium embracing the Corporal of the Surf, the Jester of Tortuga.

And he wouldn't have as big of a wiener.... so they say.

If you do stay home it is as good as a vote for Obama...the Obama campaign is counting on people who will stay home that would have otherwise voted against him. Think VERY VERY seriously about this before you give up your opportunity to vote. If you don't vote, it's the same as saying you like where Obama has and continues to take this great nation of ours. If that's the case, then stay home or go and vote for Obama...it's pretty much the same either way. No rant, just the way it is... I see I must have picked up an Obama fan with the -1. Ha!

Interesting spin. I'm not sure what any of this has to do with Rick Perry running for President, but I'll bite. While it is mainly government driving the spending during a time of war, wartime spending by the government (particularly during the period of history we're talking about here) was VASTLY different than Stimulus & Project spending as seen in the New Deal and 2009 Stimulus Act. First, during WWII, virtually all US manufacturing and agricultural processes were diverted from producing product for the private sector and put towards the war effort. General Motors built Airplanes. Ford built Tanks. We had VERY unlimited supplies of agricultural goods and they were rationed - meaning that every bit that could be produced was being consumed in the effort. HUGE demands on factories that were not historically able to run at the productivity required meant that manufacturing innovation had to take place. Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering technologies took quantum leaps forward during wartime to keep up. Since most able-bodied men were overseas fighting, women joined the workforce on mass for the first time and began to earn extra dollars to spend in their households. Waste wasn't an option as every resource (capital, fossil fuels, raw materials, food) was needed to support the war effort. Government funds were spent VERY efficiently during this time. If a job took 3 guys, 2 were assigned and were expected to make it happen... ...and usually they did. There wasn't any of this $200 for a toilet seat (sarcasm, to be sure, but always the go-to example of government waste) crap in 1942. Folks who lived through this time and contributed sell themselves short by giving the credit to FDR, a President who time has shown to be pretty weak on economics. He was a good wartime President, but he wasn't making much progress on the economic crisis of the time until Japan hit us in Pearl Harbor and we went all in. How we manufacture changed. How we worked changed. Who was working change. most of the models of efficiency business (particularly manufacturing) follow were created at that time. It wasn't some temporary road construction jobs or building a dam, it was something with far more impact than those types of temporary projects (and thus jobs) could ever hope to have corrected. The real proof in the pudding came in 2009, when we tried it again with the same results. Only this time - there is no WWII to give bad policy cover.

It was with great joy that I read that the FCC has finally killed what was wrongly named the "Fairness Doctrine" once and for all. This is part of Obama's late, but appreciated, move to cut some...emphasis on some...of the massive federal regulations that continue to stymie production. As you may know, the "Fairness Doctrine" began in 1949 and required broadcasters to give equal time to all sides of a political issue or risk losing their broadcast license. The Reagan (God bless him) stopped enforcing this rule in 1987 and liberals have ever since tried to get it re-instated in the hopes of killing off the Rush Limbaugh's of the world and in attempts to save the Air America's of the world. Well, under the Obama Administration the FCC has announced that the "fairness Doctrine" is no dead. The FCC and the Obama Administration realized that the proliferation of media outlets made this possible and with PBS, NPR, CNN and MSNBC...along with most of the newspaper industry, even the FCC and the Obama administration knew there were plenty of liberal media outlets to counterbalance the conservative outlets and talking heads on both sides. One must give credit where credit is due as as late as 2007 John Kerry was pushing for the return of the "fairness Doctrine". The credit goes to the FCC, but the Obama Administration had to sign-off on this, so credit goes where credit is due. Thank you President Obama for getting this one right and removing this outdated and ridicules regulation from the books. Good things happen...yes, they do!

Definitely, some validity to your points, but if selling out because your stadium is much smaller than most current Big XII stadiums and selling out because the opposing team's fans filled the stadium to watch SMU get their rear ends handed to them time and time again by the likes of OU, OSU, Texas, etc. is the way they want to make some fast cash I guess that's fine, while the other sports including men's basketball gets pounded as well. And, SMU would probably need to add men's baseball. That's a bit of a cost factor as well to offset some of the "riches" earned by being the conference whipping boy for many years...I would think that Baylor would love to see SMU in the Big XII. Just cannot see this as a good move for SMU at this time.