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I appreciate your point, but I am a little ole faculty member at a community college in East Texas - and believe me, my contract salary is considerably less than a faculty member at UNT. Yet I manage to scrape together the funds for season tickets to the football games. If people want to attend North Texas games, they will attend - if the don't, they won't. Financially, $10 vs. $24 tickets IS NOT playing a role in those faculty member's decision to turn down your invitation. They may be giving you the song-and-dance that $24 tickets are keeping them from attending - but come on, do you honestly believe that to be true? I can understand this more if you were speaking of blue-collar, hourly-salaried workers - but UNT faculty members? Could it be that your faculty friends see attending North Texas games for the $10 price as an "entitlement" related to their employment at North Texas? I have encountered such sentiment among the faculty at my place of employment.

One question. Did you see any positive movement out of the AD office considering stadium naming rights?

While I really do appreciate the effort being made to involve these faculty and staff members, I find the "excuse" to be indicative of the attitude of way too many who earn their paychecks and livings from UNT. It's often, pay me...pay me more, but don't ask me to do anything in the way of supporting the hand that feeds me! Really really sad. Please do not EVER tell me who these faculty and staff members are nor in what departments or areas they serve. I am asked on a regular basis to donate to various departments and programs at UNT. And, I give. And, I give often. My wife and I are permanent members of the President's Council due to the level of our giving, and we have hopes of "moving up" to the next level in the next couple of years. So, I guess it's OK to ask me to support your academic departments and other UNT functions with my hard earned money, and to sit and hear from department development officers and faculty members why I should donate and hear why faculty and staff certainly think I should because their various departments "need the money" and that I am alum of UNT, but, heck, that ticket price is just way too expensive and the "free" parking is too far away for these folks to help support the same university they seem to think I should support. Nice...says a great deal to me about the "stinking thinking" of many of those who owe their living to UNT. Nice real, nice. Again, please do not mention these folks by name nor the departments in which they are employed. And, no! UNT should not lower ticket prices...these same folks wouldn't come if the price was $5.00 per game. Really a lame excuse. Says a great deal about these people.

In my wallet I have a ticket stub from the 11/24/2001 OU-OSU game at Norman. This endzone seat (section 38, Row 55, seat 8) cost $50.00. I bet it costs more now. Why was I at this game? My wife is an OSU grad and we enjoyed listening to the OU homers gradually lose their bravado during the game as OSU won. Why do I have this stub in my wallet? It was watching my wife cheer at the game that I decided that I wanted to marry her.

My acct professors all made in the 150k and up range, I think they can afford it.

Wait. There's a game this weekend? How does it affect the expansion of the SEC?

Why is every game not a Green Out game? SMH

Since A&M has been trying to pull off their own network for years, the fact Texas pulled it off when the Aggies could not is the real root of the problem!

Then it will be something along the lines of why are we playing SWAC teams, or this is just a football state etc...

Being realistic is not a requirement for posting.

Their QB will be lucky to be standing at the end of this game. We will take their passing game away and load the box with 8 on defense. We will win by 14+, mark my words and place your bets now.

Plus....the tickets are higher for this game and the Houston game....because they're "name" teams. Just like the K State game last year. Most schools charge higher prices for their premium games. BTW....they can always go give Jerry Jones $29 to stand in a hallway at Cowboys Stadium.

UNT games are inexpensive. If it was free they wouldn't go because parking is too hard or the start time or they're busy or some other excuse.... The bottom line is going to games is not important to them.

We don't have a chance in either of the first two games this season without Romo at the helm. This team has absolutely ZERO at the run game and our secondary is currently comprised of Jenkins (on an oxygen tank), my dad, a night duty cleaning lady from the Arlington La Quinta, and Alan Ball (who is on the depth chart right after the cleaning lady). Oh, and we're matching up Spencer, Brooking, and James with HBs/FBs/TEs and they're getting torched. The combination of the craptastic secondary and lack of athleticism at LB has done a pretty good job of making slugs like Sanchez and Alex Smith look like half-decent QBs. So right now I've got: 1) No secondary 2) No run game 3) Slow linebackers I'm going to go ahead and add 4) No depth at WR 5) Jason Garrett playcalling (particularly in the red zone) These are the 5 things I fix before I worry about Tony Romo. And there's plenty I don't like about Romo. I can take the interceptions where you get fooled by the defense and a linebacker slips underneath into coverage and picks you off, or the ones where the line and backs don't pick up the blitz and you make a desperate throw and get picked. But too many of Tony's are just "WTF" throws, where you can't figure any rhyme or reason to it (like the one in the Jets game). But he's a gunslinger, so I think there's always going to be some of that. He's capable of putting a team on his back and winning. He's a guy who CAN win you games. He's not a bus driver, though, and he's not that next level - Aikman or Staubach. He's more Danny White or Dandy Don. He CAN also lose you games. But he's also not Drewy Testabledsoe, Hutchinson, Quincy Carter, or any number of sh*tbirds we've had manning the position since Aikman. I think if you have enough help for him, his decision-making in crunch time is not nearly the issue that it is now.

Well, I was in attendance at the show, and I took some good info away from it. Heard some very positive comments about several players including Kokjohn, Chancellor, Boutwell, Attaberry, JJ, McNulty, Thompson and Osborne...I can't think of any others, but what i liked was he was praising in public! I liked that. He seemed to also be in a very good mood discussing the team and where it is right now. More humorous than in the past from where I sat. Sure, lots of coach speak...ever listen to Stoops' OU show or Mac's Texas show? Ever hear Dodge, Dickey, etc. All were full of coach speak. I get that, and you just have to pick out the little tidbits of info that always seem to flow during the show. I thought there was a good deal less of the "I have skins on the wall talk"...yes, some, but much less, and more positive comments about UNT players overall. I definitely enjoyed this session. I do agree that Coach Mac is not as "open" about some of the things going on with the team...such as injuries...than some coaches in the past, but that's just the way Coach mac operates. He's not alone in that as far as coaches go...I guess we all just need to get used to that fact. He did give us tidbits about JJ probably not starting but getting some playing time Saturday, that DT was our #1 QB and that McNulty and Osborne were competing for #2, that the call was Chico's to put McNulty in on that goal line series, etc., etc. Seems to me that's pretty good "stuff". I also got to meet some new Mean Green fans and alums and say hello to some long time fan and friends. How much better can an hour get for a Mean Green fan? Yep, I had a nice evening...even sold another Apogee coin!

Well fellas it's about that time. I know most of you don't have as much confidence in us as I do, or have way too much confidence in Indiana(looking at you, Vito), but I will go on the record first. I guarantee that we win this game. It's tough to get a true feel for our team considering the opposition we have faced so far, but I have seen some things I liked(Brelan Chancellor, better tackling), and some things I didn't(the Tebow package). After doing my research, I expect both offenses to be able to move the football. I understand that Indiana is a Big Ten team, but this isn't your average Big Ten team. They're rebuilding just like us. Their cupboard was left a lot more bare than ours(they don't have Lance Dunbar). So, I'm going on the record with this score. UNT 48 IU 31 Offensively, Lance Dunbar is back. 200+ all purpose yards with 3+ TDs. Derek Thompson throws for 2 TDs and 200+ yards. Defensively, we give up a lot of yards, but make the key stops when we need to. Our defense registers 4 sacks and 3 turnovers. Oh, and we score a TD on defense or special teams. The Mean Green go to Tulsa with a full head of steam, and with an injury-plagued Tulsa team, look to make it 2-3 heading into the rest of our conference games. This ship is about to turn, and it's about to turn much quicker than most of you think. Just watch.

I hope we show whomever wrote this article they are full of it. I truely feel we will win by at least 7-10 points and turn on the green light in the Admin building. GO MEAN GREEN ----GO NORTH TEXAS

NT football games are a bargain and I don't buy that excuse. If they wanted to be there bad enough they would be and they would gladly pay $24 per game. But having grown up with a single mom who was a professor at several schools (including UNT), I can tell you that the vast majority of professors aren't making the kind of money you guys are talking about. My mom started at I think 43k at UNT in 1998 after already working for several years as a professor at IU and being successful there. That's not a lot of money when you have a bunch of student loans to pay off. She's making great money now, but that's because she's head of her department. Just saying there's a wide range of salaries among professors. That being said, I make less than 40k and I'll be at every home game. I might be in general admission, but every seat in the house is a great seat and it's tough to find a better way to spend that money.

Nothing shocking about it at all. Texas will probably cut a deal on their tier 1 and 2 money to let OU save face from getting played by Scott--even though OU would make LESS with equal tier 1 and 2 revenue distribution. I'll bet Texas won't budge on tier 3, nor should they--but that's what this is really all about. That and the fact that schools said "no" to a Big 12 network when it was suggested--and "no" to a Lone Star Network when it was suggested. Now that a huge tier 3 deal was pulled off with ESPN, people are pissed. Yet it's no different than any other league. Kansas made over $7 million in unshared revenues off third tier rights in 2009-2010 alone and nobody threw a big hissy fit over that. Texas and OU sure didn't--even though they only made about $300K each on third tier rights. The ACC had no problems with UNC making over $11M two years ago. The SEC didn't fold, and aTm is apparently all right with Florida making over $100 million from Sun on their 3rd tier, and the Big 10 isn't breaking up because tOSU sold its third tier rights in a $110M deal--you know--in that conference of "equity" and all. Hopefully, when UNT sells their third tier rights--and I hope it's for millions--Monroe won't come groveling with their hand out. Or perhaps UNT could just pre-empt that and give Monroe some of Apogee's naming rights money. I mean, even though UNT's administration and alumni had to do all the work to deliver the goods, everybody should share the wealth, right? In the interest of "equity", and all. To me, it's the same level of absurdity.

It doesn't? I wear it with whatever when I'm out of the house.

Ya, because inviting UNT to the Big 12 wouldn't be perceived as a sign of weakness or desperation at all...

You sure as hell wouldn't. But, other conferences have no problem with it. The Pac-12 won't budge on it - as was already reported. Neither will SEC or Big Ten. Face it...no one wants to play by Texas' rules. They've got a Frankenstein situation with their network. They can scream "capitalism", "markets", and whatever else they want. If no one wants to participate in their shenanigan, they can't be forced to do so. As this and other articles state, to keep OU on board they'll have to alter and share the profits of their network. Other schools not named Baylor just aren't going to do it. By the way, it's 1:41 in the afternoon. Someone remember to wake Baylor up from their nap, change their diapers, and feed them their bottle.

If Texas doesn't want TCU, I can't see any appeal to UNT. They already have DFW. And if I'm being wholly objective, we aren't perceived to be a better academic institution than TCU or SMU. Or even UH, in many areas. So again, besides potential, I don't see what we have to offer that the Big 12 a) doesn't already have or b ) is improved by our addition. What's the advantage to UNT over Louisville, Memphis, or similar? Again, I love my alma mater, but I'm just trying to be realistic.

Not really. But in any case, why should they concede? They are the only reason most of the Big 12 teams make the money they make. Everyone is celebrating A&M "doing what's best for them" but I can't see how this is much different. Texas doesn't have to care just like the rest of the teams don't have to put up with it. Again, Baylor athletics wouldn't be anything if it hadn't been aligned with Texas. Seriously though, is there anyone on this board that would honestly advocate UNT leaving $300M on the table because we care so much about how MTSU or Troy feels about us having a lucrative TV deal, in the interest of being "fair" to our conference mates? I sure as hell wouldn't. And I think anyone that says otherwise is deluding themselves.

A comment from the report he did on UNT last year that caught my eye: "What I found interesting and somewhat surprising was the fact that UNT home football attendance has been fairly stable without the football team enjoying a winning record."

In the current college football landscape, La Tech isn't going to be very attractive. No TV market, don't have great facilities, no recent or traditional football or basketball success. I don't think they will be at the top of the list for anyone's expansion. Not a bad school, just doesn't meet the latest $ requirements.

UNT wins by 9 points....

Pain.

Our new weapon reveals himself. DT to Tony Mitchell for 4 TDs.

If you put Indiana's players in UL-Lafayette's jerseys, we'd be favored.

Do they actually think people are going to buy these for $16? If you're trying to have a "green out" and you want it to work the shirts have to be free or REALLY cheap, like $5.

why the f*** would the Big 12 want SMU...only in SMU's mind.

Conference realignment: Charles Grassley monitoring situation It will get interesting

Hopefully the Big East brings on five more schools. You would think how close they came to no longer existing (at least as a football conference) would make them want to pad their numbers a bit. Who knows whether TCU would help UNT out in that regard, but at least it would shake up something and either allow a move to CUSA or the Sun Belt to go into expansion mode.

What ranked team did we beat in 1974? We had two wins that year, the most impressive over the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference's San Diego State Aztecs. If you mistyped, and are referring to the oh-so-referenced Tennessee game in 1975, The Volunteers had a disappointing 5 loss season with no bowl bid, at at the time NT defeated them, they had already dropped 2 of the previous 4 games and were not ranked in the AP poll (they would finish the season unranked as well). And assuming you were referring to the Tennessee game per usual, the 1975 NT team did not win a single other game over a team with a winning record that entire season - other wins came against the likes of Drake, WTAMU, Cal Poly-Pomona, and UTA (all which had losing records, even at their low level of competition). To hold that team and that win up as the gold standard of NT football is fallacy, especially in light of accomplishments made since the mid-70's. I hope we get "back" to far more than that.

They have a stadium with many empty seats that need people in them....I got nothiing!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............. ........... ....... No idea

Someone, anyone, tell me what the attraction of SMU is to the Big XII.

Step 1) Punch an Aggie. Step 2) Take a deep breath. Step 3) Realize that our plot in the grand scheme of college football is not changing. We are already an outsider. Schools like Baylor, Iowa St, etc are about to join us. - After all of the dust settles, what really changes is that there are fewer big money schools, and more on the outside looking in. I can't see the 4 conferences breaking off into a new division. I just think they are going to end up renegotiating their TV contracts and making more money. Maybe they rewrite the BCS rules a bit and now allow the 4 new superconferences 2 auto-bids, instead of one. That still leaves 2 open for non-AQ conferences. Maybe this leads to playoffs down the road, but right off the bat? Not likely. I'm going to treat the rumor of these conferences "breaking off into a new division" as pure rumor being floated by the schools most likely to be harmed in all of this shuffling (Baylor, etc) until proven otherwise. - We have, before us, the same challenges that we had before all this started...but we have a new stadium, the most glorious tailgating grounds in the state, a committment to a quality coaching staff and athletic department. I still think we're on the uptick. Unless our administration suddenly pulls a 180, we're going to be fine....and in 5 years, we'll be better off than we are now. Mark it down.

If we're being honest...

Actually the blame goes much further back than that. The REAL root cause of all this can be traced to when the University of Oklahoma and University of Georgia sued the NCAA over ownership of their TV rights. That case was the Pandora's box that unleashed big money into college football.

I know that UNT makes money playing teams like Alabama, but wouldn't it be better for the program (in the long run) to avoid massive beat downs? Is it a truly mandatory part of being a smaller program? Sheesh, it sucks the life out of the players and the fans. Especially the casual fans.

We gotta win. Plain and simple. Winning gets us noticed. Losing makes us a punchline. Winning will solve attendance problems and get us more home games and therefore lessen the need for money games. Many are quick to criticize the Sun Belt. The Sun Belt is our home conference and we have not been doing well in what some have described as a weak conference. We need to talk up the Sun Belt and win there. The rest will take care of itself. GO MEAN GREEN

Just preaching to the choir here, but we better be taking our destiny into our own hands as opposed to putting our faith in Wright Waters. At the end of the day we need to take care of ourselves.

Well, to be fair, he DOES remind us that he coached a Big 12 team, and that he coached on the National Champions Florida Gators... Seriously...he coached on the National Champions Florida Gators...he always says so...within 10 seconds of speaking....

No I don't think so, it's supposed to be finished in December.

Is UTA's College Park Center going to be opened for the game?