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Hi Rick, This is Grant Gilbert. I just want to say thank you. I didn’t go to a small school, a cheap school, or a convenient school. I went to the school of my choice! I made a conscious decision to go to a school that wasn’t a subsidiary of another school, had sports programs to enjoy, had a tradition, and was located where I could be an extremely active member of the alumni association. Those are some reasons why I chose North Texas! I’m proud to be a UNT alum. There is no better time to be a part of the mean green nation than now. Thank you for giving us an awesome stadium, good athletics programs, and now a real chance to get competitive with CUSA. Congrats to Johnny Jones and Karen Aston, but you better stay put, Sir. Thank you

1. Baseball 2. Baseball 3. Baseball 4. Baseball 5. Baseball

1. North Texas- No competition. This is like Charlie Sheen vs the world on a who can do more drugs competition 2. Tulane- Trust me- hot AND smart. Rich dads too. and new orleans, who doesnt like it? 3. UNC-Charlotte- had an ex from there, her sorority sisters looked pretty good- decent ladies come out of charlotte 4. Tulsa- OU takes the cake in Oklahoma, but Tulsa has some definite sleeper hotties 5. Rice- 3rd worst in texas in terms of attractiveness, smartness quotient brings em up. Plus they can also party, do my taxes, operate NASA, do public policy, solve hard math problems etc 6. FIU- with 47k students, there's got to be some nice latin ladies. if not,, theres always miami proper 7. UTSA- Cap students who go to UT after a year- YES everyone else- No. 8. Marshall- the only thing thundering in this school is the thighs of the daughters of coal miners 9.ECU- Great football team but if I want something easy on the eyes I drive to Charlotte or Chapel Hill 10. UTEP-you really have to mine for the hotties here 11. UAB- Birmingham is the biggest city in Alabama, so there has to be one 12. Southern Miss- go ahead, find someone who Brett Favre hasnt slept with 13. Louisiana Tech- if you want a girl who looks like Karl Malone, you stop in Ruston

Harry you have to give yourself a huge pat on the back as well. Building community at North Texas was something virtually nonexistent back during the Matt Simon years and your willingness to put in the hard work and I'm sure countless dollars into this website have been another key contributor to this. No question in my mind that this board has been one of the big reasons we see 15K minimum average attendance even in 2-8 football seasons. Kudos to you and all of the staff (is it "staff"?) of GMG.com

If we are going to thank former football players, I would like to thank someone from my Mean Green generation (and my favorite QB ever).....Jordan Case (#8 on your program), who headed up the stadium committee. He is also a significant contributor to the Mean Green Club fund.

I think NT will be very competitive in the CUSA, but the first priority is to finish out the Belt with a bang. Redshirting players for CUSA is crazy, if you want to do better in NT's first year you get them a year of experience. I expect recruiting to get better not worse; there is no reason to give this years recruits another year when in general NT should anticipate getting more advanced recruits.

I think you're wrong

He recognized greatness, and it is in Denton. Pow Pow! He's our new Asst. Coach!

And to think, RV did all this while sipping hurricanes and cuba libres in New Orleans during the Final 4...

I mean, yeah all this stuff happened, but there's not nearly enough complaining in this post for me to take it seriously.

1) Baseball 2) Access to throwback baseball jerseys from the 80s (was looking for those at the garage sale) 3) Club level seating with a bar at the baseball stadium 4) Tailgating for big Friday night series openers at baseball 5) A regular season road trip and a bowl game next season in our farewell tour of the belt

Trilli was was fired mid-March, 2001: RV was not hired till April 4, 2001 so I don't think he had anything to do with the Trilli situation. Trilli was technically fired by an interim AD, but in all reality; no place but the old NT would he be allowed to stay as long as he did. I also am getting a little fed up with the poor Trilli thing being fired after the funeral of Marcellus Wright. It was indeed a tragic situation but the saddest part of the saga was that Trilli kicked Wright off the team months prior because of his lack of effort. It was not Trilli's fault because no one knew of his condition but overall it was not NT at its best.

Check.. Love it

In a short amount of time, UNT has a made great strides, which have drastically altered the face of the campus and, in my opinion, greatly improved the overall college experience. Since 1999- when I began- I think of the following: Gateway Center Built Mean Green Village built New Student Rec Center New Business Building Greek Row expanded/Sorority housing built New Dallas Campus & Law School (love it or hate it) Two NCAA Tourney Appearances Four Bowl Appearances New Stadium New Conference (twice) I'm sure there are other things I'm missing... but that's a lot in just 13 years.

That's what happens when the swamp rats stop running in their wheels to create electricity for the dial-up Internet company. Damn I'm looking forward to these rivalries!

Cool story bro.

I don't have any idea what you're claiming to be right about... Did someone tell you we would never sign another player if Forrest was not named head coach?

1. baseball 2. 12,000+ football season ticket holders 3. Indoor football practice facility 4. 4,000 basketball season ticket holders 5. CUSA retracts utsa membership offer

1) SMU death penalty... again 2) Baseball 3) indoor football practice facility 4) Upgrade SuperPit 5) New Swim facility

idon't consider the lack of another non revenue sport a flaw. if we added mens baseball we probably would have to add at least one other womens sport. the bottom line is that the only sport we have that produces somewhat of a positive is mens football, and i doubt it is that much. our mens basketball program eats up $800,000+ in coaching expentures, draws 4,000 average, of which about 1,500 are students[just a guess], which doesn't leave a lot of income when your base is about 2,500. SMU spends more money and gets less out of it than any university i know,and even they can't afford mens baseball. i can't justify $7 million or so dollars to build a baseball park whose fans will number about the same as our womens basketball attendance, plus the cost of coaches and scholarships.strike 3 for me.

1. An end to helmet threads 2. An end to uniform threads 3. Return of the old Miller Lite Tent 4. More Stadium Parking 5. A short Plumm post

15 ppg, 10 Assts. last season. From Miami, Fl (played in Ft. Lauderdale) before moving to to Houston. His goal was to lead the SEC in assist his freshman year. Also had a 25 pts 15 assist game while playing a game in New York or Atlanta. Seems to be a better player than the 6-9 Juco guy. (I'd pass on him, btw, from the video I saw and being a 6th man on his Juco team) Not sure I like 5-9/5-10 guards on the college level. Very tiny kid. Maybe Tasty can get Benford on the GMG podcast to get an update on this kid and who he plans to run off. (Of course we need to tell Benford that JJ appeared weekly on the podcast)

1. Baseball 2. Baseball 3. Baseball ... 100. Super Pit Upgrades 101. Indoor football facility 102. Dedicated Bball practice facility (Can't the old Pit be used for this?) 103. Center Tennis Court 104. Find Ray

Hopefully someone in the "media" will ask RV. This is my new #1 now that we are moving up conferences.

I wish The University and the City of Denton would go ahead and reroute Bonnie Brae around the outside of the athletic village closer to I35W and unify the Athletic Village. That would be so much safer, particularly with Denton's anticipated growth to the south and the increased traffic. The land inside the Athletic Village could better be utilized for parking areas and safe pedestrian walkways between facilities. 1 Apogee Stadium 2 North Texas Athletic Center 3 Darrell Dickey Practice Facility 4 Waranch Tennis Facility 5 Denia Rattlesnake Refuge 6 Future Track Facility 7 Future Baseball Complex 8 Lovelace Softball Stadium 9 Soccer Stadium

I think that land is larger than you think.

"They're" is the contraction of "they" and "are" not "there are", which has no contraction and needs to be written as two words. Carry on.

UH fan here who would like to build off our 1:1. Easy enough trip for both fanbases.

Top UNT official: C-USA a great fit, what do you want to know? Jack Wall, the chairman of the UNT board of regents, called Conference USA a great fit for the school today. I called Wall a couple of days ago and got a call back today when he returned home. If there was any doubt about what UNT's plans are (and let's face it, there weren't) they are out the window now. Wall talked about what a great situation for UNT's fans and the fans at other C-USA schools to be within driving distance of their league rivals. I certainly won't miss some of those long trips, although the worst of them (Idaho and Utah State) were knocked off UNT's schedule a few years ago. It should be interesting to see what UNT officials have to say about the move to C-USA tomorrow. There are several questions that come to mind: -- Does the move to a new league move up the timeline for the addition of a baseball program? -- How much does UNT anticipate its conference revenue distribution will jump once it is in C-USA? -- Does UNT believe its programs will be ready to compete right away in C-USA in revenue sports (football, men's basketball)? http://meangreenblog...sa-a-great.html How when we will UNT have a baseball program?

Might I recommend physical therapy? You may throw out your shoulder patting yourself on the back. By the way, how do we sign Hardwick without losing someone? Seems like somebody is on their way out.

We have 7,000,000 North Texas citizens to get our 31,000 to fill Apogee Stadium. Not sure why that is a problem if we're pro-active enough to solve that shortfall. Who can Rick V hire to make this happen? What kind of promos? As some of you said: Start with filling Wing Zone section first for every home game for starters? Hire a full department with proven performers who have filled other NCAA D1 stadiums? ? GMG!

I'm too busy promoting the program. I am a man of action not words ...

Baseball. I'll think of the other 4 after we have baseball.

Just take the conference champ from each Conference. Logic says that the "big boys" will most likely defeat the "smaller" schools, but at least they have a chance. The rest of FBS gets to go to bowls. Problem solved.

Seeing that AI background , I think we know why he didn't choose SMU

1) Go to a bowl game this decade 2) Sell out game at apogee 3) Upgrade pit 4) Baseball 5)sell beer at apogee

Very nice addition !

It's a gamble, and everyone knows it. Already rumors are indicating that potential transfers/recruits from Larry Brown have already eclipsed what Doherty has done. And unlike Doherty, Brown can actually coach. This has real potential for us, but also has the potential to blow up in our faces. I think it's worth it for us to take this shot because had we gone for the type of hire that everyone thought we should have gotten (Scott Cross, your Jones, Benford, etc), that is faaaaar from guaranteed as well. Young up-and-comers can look good as assistants or HCs of lesser conferences and not be able to cut it in the next level. It's a risk and a gamble either way, but if we're going to gamble it helps to get this kind of national attention. And not because of our supposed insecurity, but because it's getting coaches and recruits talking, something that hasn't really happened with us since the late 80s.

La Tech, FIU, Charlotte, UTSA and even Old Dominion have something UNT doesn't have................the one major flaw of UNT..... BASEBALL!

true... got a radio degree for some reason LOL

Posted Today, 07:52 PM Mark Gommesen, on 03 May 2012 - 07:47 PM, said: I wonder if the subject of baseball will be raised at tomorrow's press conference. Hopefully someone in the "media" will ask RV. This is my new #1 now that we are moving up conferences. Absolutely, should be everyone's #1.

Really, it doesn't matter where he ends up. Unless he ends up playing for the Lakers, I'll probably support wherever he goes.

UNT is exploring baseball. http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20120314-baseball-north-texas-exploring-addition-of-baseball-program.ece

The Baseball complex is in the Master Plan. http://stadium.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=1810&ATCLID=205184438

Looking at google maps, there is plenty of space for a baseball stadium in the lot behind the softball field. I am quite certain a team is coming and that that spot is where the stadium will be. CUSA is a SERIOUS baseball conference. We go baseball in that conference, and there can be no crappy erector set stadiums.

Sounds like TSU-SM wanted a few scoops of ice cream with that cake, too, Harry. If anyone has read the TSU-SM board over the years, it is more than blatantly obvious which Texas-based university located in the northern part of Texas that they perceive themselves catching up to and passing. For the moment, they do have a lead in endowment coffers, but a few of the right investments or Big Donors (like from our fellow alum in SE Asia) can change that part dramatically. We have no reason to diss the SBC. Saying we want to advance is not dissing the SBC. It met our needs at a time we needed it to meet our needs. And anyone tell me which Belt school wouldn't have jumped at the same opportunity FIU and UNT have received from CUSA? GMG! ADDENDUM: Just listened to the TSU-SM podcast with their AD and I ask this of NT Exes and MG fans: After you listen to that steaming pile of bobcat manure with some of his obviously condescending statements about "the bottom part of the SBC going to CUSA"; so some of you still want to hold hands, sing kum bah yah and make TSU-SM a regular on any of our varsity schedules? I did not like what I heard from this NCAA FCS level AD whose school has yet to play one NCAA FBS matchup as an FBS school at all. Up yours, Texas State! We have much bigger fish to fry than helping you try to become the next North Texas at our expense! I defer to the score listed below the green lettered sentence that shows TSU-SM has quite a long ways to go before they quite arrive. PS: Sorry to those who actually finished this rant, but the Irish part of me comes out from time to time. Yet I detest those who can be condescending without having any earthly reason or record of accomplishment to be so.

Plumm...I am in 100% agreement with you, but I also think as good a question is...what can the actual fans do to help increase attendance? Well, here are a few ideas: 1) Buy season tickets and actually show up for the games 2) If, for whatever reason, you cannot make it to a game, make darn sure your tickets are in the hands of someone who can attend...do it early...as soon as you know you can't attend. 3) TALK positive about the program to your work associates, friends and neighbors...encourage them to attend a game and perhaps take them to a game 4) Stop complaining about every little so-called slight or problem you have had with the Athletic Dept. over the last ump-teen years. It's getting old and people are tired of hearing about your personal problems...and, those around you and readers of these boards see that stuff and it does no good...take your issues up privately with someone who can actually do something about it...and "get over it" and move on.... 5) Join the Mean green Club and the Alumni Association...put your support where your mouth is and where you say your loyalty lies...it helps. 6) Encourage recent grads to get in the "habit" of donating to their university...they can easily start with a recent grad membership to the Mean green Club for as little as $50. 7) Participate in the Coaches Caravans, attend watch parties when you can, wear your Mean Green Colors in public as often as you feel comfortable...show your pride... OK, I'll stop at seven, but you get the idea...lots we can all do to help, and it is a lot more enjoyable to be positive and help instead of negative and part of the problem. These things will definitely help attendance...you know they will.

UCLA has "North Texas" on their helmets?

Couldn't disagree more. The mock-ups that people have posted look great. What looks bush league is having "North Texas" in script on the helmets.