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These light fixtures you speak of...kerosene or candles?

Wow, lol enjoy the BE suckers

The kids gone. I don't care for drama speculation.

Leaving Conference USA for the Big East could cost UCF and three other schools as much as $7 million dollars apiece in exit fees. UCF, Houston, Memphis and SMU will move to the Big East before the 2013-14 season. They are each contractually obligated to pay their annual share of television revenue under Conference USA's dual contracts with Fox Sports Network and CBS Sports for five years and an additional one-time $500,000 fee. That totals about $7 million. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-05-16/sports/os-main-c-usa-meetings-0517-20120516_1_usa-commissioner-britton-banowsky-conference-usa-exit-fees

Half full? I think that's going WAY to the side of optimism.

No matter what numbers you throw around, Ford stadium will still be half full for games no matter who SMU plays. Basketball will be dismal for them, as they will not be able to compete with established programs. SMU will probably take the place of Baylor over the last few years in not competing, but still collecting big money from the Big East's successful programs.

The BE's current contranct only pays $5.3M per all-sports school. The $7M is just the exit fees. Memphis and UH's basketball credits total almost $10M along with $12M in new member fees, you are talking about $6.5M going to each remaining school. It will take about 3-4 years for the schools leaving CUSA to catch up to what the 8 remaining schools will be getting. Now the BE may have made $9M per school last year but not on its TV deal alone. CUSA schools in total made between $3-4M last year. WVU probably made a higher share than other BE schools seeing as they won the BE last year.

Rudy's in Allen has been a big supporter of UNT as well. They have an NT Alumni flag proudly displayed in the restaurant. Last year they hung football schedule posters in the window and on walls, they let us have watching parties there, they stored football posters in their country store so that Collin County fans didn't have to drive to Denton to get one, and they had their own banner made and hung outside advertising that Rudy's in Allen was the place to come watch UNT football. I think it helps that the Area Director that is over the Denton location is also over the Allen location.

That's the point isn't we ain't Boise State. Boise State has an established national profile. UNT does not. How did Boise State do it...by playing major FBS teams and winning. It's not only winning, but winning big. Not all wins are created equal. A win over a ULM is not equal to a win over LSU. Boise State won the WAC five times between 2001-2006 and remained completely off the national scene...the view was the played against weak competition! Boise State did not emerge as a major player until they defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in the memorable 2007 Fiesta Bowl. It's both schedule and winning!

Bingo. I sometimes think yesteryear syndrome causes some of our alums to think we were once a national power and somehow fell to the depths of the Sun Belt. News flash ladies and gents...in the minds of the REST OF THE WORLD winning 4 straight conference titles, going to bowls, and going to the NCAA tournament WAS the high water mark. I sometimes wish I had saved the post where Tasty breaks down just how "amazing" those wins in the Fry era really were...based not on how we felt about the wins but rather on just who the teams we were beating really were. Playing, and beating, ULM or ULL or FAU or Ark State in ONE game of your season isn't a statement on where you stand as a program. If it were then EVERY BCS level conference wouldn't have a Sun Belt team (or five) on the OOC schedule each year. Please, those who seem to have their eyes set on bigger things, what is the harm in a OOC schedule that looks like this?: Colorado State, ULM, Insert lower tier BCS school, SMU How does that speak to our lowered expectations? How is it good enough for Boise State (that school we like to point to as the target we wish to reach) yet somehow beneath a school who has never even dreamed of reaching the heights they have? Or, better yet, tell me how simply scheduling to win was a recipe good enough for K-state...yet not good enough for us.

This game will also be call The Semi-Final pitting #1 vs. #4

Couldn't agree with you more. When we played Louisville, Duke and UCF we were firing on all 12. When we played Akron the team came out pretty flat and it showed.

I hope not. Unless its TXST. We should concentrate on scheduling MWC schools and lower tier AQ schools.

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http://sports.yahoo....of7pYk.8Kc5nYcB The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014,

It never has to be trimmed because it stopped growing when it reached the perfect length. It strains soup without getting damp. Its shade of salt and pepper changes to complement whatever RV is wearing. It exudes the smell of potential North Texas victory. It intimidates other facial hair, so RV never has to shave. It is...the most interesting mustache in the world. "I don't always warm lips, but when I do, I warm lips that are cheering for North Texas. Stay Green, my friends."

Please remember you wrote this when you feel the need to bring up Hayden Fry, any game played in Tennessee circa 1975ish and the 88 Texas team. thanks.

For once you're right. No one but a complete idiot or a natural born cheater would say or even insinuate such a claim. Did you get booted from North Texas, or is this just a really bad boyfriend night? I mean this seriously, because the bitterness you're showing toward the flagship of the UNT System is beyond belief.

This game will NEVER pit the two champions against each other. One or both will likely get a BCS bowl or the National Championship, OR one or both will qualify for the new 4-team playoff once the playoff era begins.

Boise State plays a FCS school just about every year. The past couple of years they've mixed in a game against the MAC and one against a BCS school. Hardly scheduling up. Our non-conf schedules are much tougher than Boise's. It ain't the schedule, its the winning.

The SEC and the Big 12 staked out a big chunk of real estate in that world on Friday by announcing a five-year agreement for their champions to meet in a Jan. 1 bowl game that will be determined at a later date. The first game will be Jan. 1, 2015. The working name for this new Bowl is the Champions Bowl. One unique feature of this new arrangement: The Champions Bowl will be bid out. The Sugar Bowl is the preferred site, but I'm thinking Jerry Jones has a war chest of his own to bring the game to Cowboys Stadium. Atlanta and the Georgia Dome will want in. This another blatant money grab by two richest conferences to the determent of the other conferencess. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/dennis-dodd/19085364/champions-bowl-changes-college-footballs-big-picture http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19084239/sec-big-12-agree-to-bowl-matchup-champs-will-play-if-not-in-playoff

so the champions of each conference will meet unless one of them is picked as a top 4 playoff team....i'm pretty sure this bowl will NEVER see the two true champions of the conferences. one of these conferences will always have a top four team...seems like a stupid agreement for this bowl...they won't ever have the true champions of the two conferences

Without listing reasons your wrong I'll just say this... SMU has consistently done less with more. UNT somehow finds a way to do more with less. I'll put my money on people like that all day and tomorrow. UNT is not the first program that had to start at the bottom in order to rise to the top. We are on our way, and we'll get there, brick by brick. You sir, are just an angry little troll with too much time on your hands.

So PMG - YOU would be OK if SMU or Houston no longer wanted to schedule us????

While in the SBC, we thought like the SBC, we raised our barometer to an SBC level (Bottom 25 for the most part) with not one Top 25 football team the whole time we will have been in the SBC; North Texas got lazy in the SBC as in all we need to do is win the SBC and that will do it for this group of fans we have in Denton who don't expect much else because they haven't seen much else. UNT won in the SBC's first 4 years of football operation before the rest of the SBC some just out of 1-AA not only caught up with us....they passed us. Beep! Beep! If North Texas plays the SBC game in CUSA, we will be just where we've been in football the last (how many years now) in the SBC? The SBC was good for a place to land until our leaders got their heads out of their asses and finally decided a large metro university should probably aim higher than the SBC and WALA! CUSA landed in our laps because SMU went east and we were the only school left standing in DFW who played FBS football; but CUSA will be a challenge none like we've had in in a long time--like a time when there were not 30 plus bowls to reward some pretty damn good football teams from other eras and for North Texas that could be starting with the Mean Joe Greene era. There comes a time you just have to leave the past behind unless you can learn from it's pit falls and not repeat them. I think CUSA powers expect North Texas to think much higher than we have in a long, long time. .02 GMG!

more wins than SMU this century!!

I think it's a BRILLIANT idea to blackball D1 teams that we could potentially beat in the OOC. Lord knows we're so high and mighty that we'll just blow through the CUSA slate. No need to schedule to help gain bowl eligibility while we find our footing. Who do we think we are? And what long line of bowl wins and top 25 seasons gives us this attitude?

So you are saying we should drop our series with SMU ?

haha. You beat me to it. Truthfully, I would love to see us continue playing LaLa and MTSU.

. And it appears that the move by SMU and Houston to the BE is becoming less worthwhile..... but perhaps more expensive in travel and changing leagues charges... too bad.. Also if the A&M excells in the SEC then they get to play their Big-12 buddies. Will this mean the better teams from each league will want to schedule the other league less now since they risk playing them again later? If #1 appears in one of these leagues and #2 doesn't ..this puts pressure on NCAA to extablish some type of playoff. .

I guess this is the Big-12 and SEC's response to the semi-partnership that has developed between the Pac-12 and the Big Ten. It looks like the ACC to some extent and the BE are going to be SOL.

This seems to be a pretty big blow against the bowl system as it's currently set up. Watch out, ACC.

My guess there were more people involved than Odoh in that decision. Why would he under any circumstances refuse to talk to the new coach of the team he signed with? I can understand why NT attempted to play hardball with him. This kid didn't deserve a release.

No shame in that. I couldn't even the field either.

Wow. Texas just annexed a large part of Oklahoma. What deal!

Cam Feldt wont even start, Thrice will be 1st team

Ok, I just had to weigh-in with my history/old coot comment of the day. When I went to North Texas, Sack and Save was a Gibsons.......the forerunner to WalMart. And the McDonalds was totally dressed out in Mean Green colors (the apple green color) and decorations.... including the ceiling light fixtures that had Mean Green football helmets as the light shades.

"I intend..." and "I guarantee..." are two totally different statements. If SMU shows interest and throws money at him, he'll go.

chancelor isn't one of the 4 best kick returners in the conference???? this dude has lost all credibitliy.

Fortenberry will make 1st or 2nd team at the end of the year.

1. Get a big hat. 2. Put names in hat. 3. Pull names out of hat.

Ya, Feldt on the team and Trice not on the team makes little sense.

You shut your whore mouth. How dare you speak ill of the Sack and Save?!

I hope everyone not on this list uses it to prove Phil Steele WRONG!!!!

You FOX loving, neo-conservative!! I don't care if you make sense, you said a bad thing happened in the last 3 years, so you are a neo-con FOX lover!! Simple as that! Also, Don't let this crappy ethanol infused gas sit in your carborator for more than 2 months without running the engine. If you do, be prepared to have your carbs rebuilt. Trust me on this.

What's an even bigger issue is people trying to score political points on anything and everything, don't you think?

It's called a loss leader - Stores, especially grocery stores, sell something so cheaply they make no money or even lose a little money. The purpose of the loss leader is to get you in the store with the hope being you'll buy other items with high margins while there. But to say milk has risen from .90 to $3+ in three years would be incorrect. If anything that .90 milk was a loss leader and not the true price of the milk. Dairy products are heavily subsidized by the feds and prices paid to producers are regulated to the point that a producer in Texas makes about the same as a producer in Wisconsin etc regardless of the cost to produce. That, according to the government, is one way to keep prices and supply reasonably steady and similar across the country.

Absurd. A gallon of milk was not 90 cents 3 years ago. Not even close. http://future.aae.wi...rea/301?area=US

The Target by my place has a half and full gallon at the same price. I can't think why anyone would buy a half gallon.