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Just in....I heard he was still going to root for Scottsdale CC and Kansas.

What if he has drum-line experience and flair. Would that make you excited?

DRC: Running back shares special time with mother who saved for a year to afford trip to LSU

I trust no source other than Twitter

I'll just say I hope he's better at jumping fences when dogs are attacking him...

McNulty

I heard Josh White posted the news first, but I had already unfollowed him

Thanks, Silver for the memory rush. I was the conductor during this little bit of fun with Lamar. 1974 was the only year that Mr. McAdow did not direct the marching band. He left this to his grad assistant, Jim Hansford who later left to become director of bands and orchestras at Oklahoma Baptist University. As Hansford did not have an assistant, he selected me so I had a great time directing the music in the stands, pre-game and basketball games my entire senior year. I have tried to stay away from this debate, but here I go again. I have never met any serious musician that really enjoys marching band. Sure you have a good time and build lasting friendships but it is a detriment to becoming a first rate musician. The time is better spent in practice and performing in ensembles that do not cause damage to your embouchure, force you to bad performance technique, or even take you away from your primary instrument as it did with me. I am very fortunate to make my career in music. As the director of an opera company in New York City, I have heard hundreds of people audition for a spot in our orchestra. No one ever said to me after failing to win a spot, gosh, I wish I had spent more time in the marching band. Today, most schools with music programs at the same level as North Texas go so far as to discourage music majors from participating in their marching bands. This is done at Michigan, Indiana, and Cincinnati to name a few. Marching band techniques are taught in a classroom to music ed majors. At North Texas, we make music ed majors play in the marching band, and given the lack of spirit on campus for the football team, its a good thing or else we would probably field a band of about 50! Given the band is also a class, it stands to reason that we perform in the same styles as are done in the Texas secondary schools. I despise the corps styles as much as anyone but that is what is done in Texas secondary schools and that is what we need to be teaching our students if they are to have any chance at success after graduation. And in Silver's defense, even using the corps style, we could mix things up a little (a lot!) but that feedback is appropriate for the director of the marching band, not the many hundreds of students who come to the campus a week early and spend about 15 hours a week in marching band activities in return for their one pitiful credit hour.

MGB

Let you guys judge for yourselves: This would be huge.

A sign that says "Football!!" Another that says "Sports!!!!"

I will have my balls and more Saturday, grill hot and beer cold. Stop by and BS a while. I look forward to seeing all our tailgaters Saturday. Sounds like we will have just about perfect weather. It’s time to get our group together again, I can't wait to see the gang. GO MEAN GREEN!!!!

EVERY GAME SINCE I WAS ABOUT 6 MONTHS OLD... I AM 16 NOW. GMG!

Need I remind you that it's perfectly OK to get excited. Fans do that you know. For now, until he proves otherwise, it's GREAT NEWS !

Having him on the scout team will do wonders for preparing for what we'll see aginst ULL & ASU this year. There's another positive, GMG.

Somehow...someway...the Jews are to blame for this.

I don't know, Harry. Riley Dodge might disagree. Still wondering if all the offers were for QB or if some of the major programs had a position change in mind. Still, a very very good get.

Because we are in FBS, I don't think we can participate.

Then I think the GB should march onto the field, lie down and play their entire show on their backs. zig when the other guy zags.

Hopeful, but I don't see us as another Boise State quite yet. In fact, it's going to be progressively harder to be a Top 20 team when the Big 5 control the purse strings. You'd almost have to catch lightening in a bottle to make that happen. Having said that, I think a consistent Top 50 is obtainable. In fact, my hope is that North Texas, Tulsa, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech and East Carolina are all in that category every year and no one in the bottom third. There could be others but I see those five as the best bets for now.

Has a in home visit w/ UNT coaches tonight

Exactly! Their drum majors are going to dance around on the field while the rest of the band plays at fff! No dynamics changes (who needs those, amiright?), plus, I'm going to finally get my tuba highlight (Bonus, the rest of the band will put their horns down and dance around)! I'm very much so looking forward to this show. <sarcasm on> This is exactly what every marching band in the state of Texas should do during their halftime shows. Can you imagine every nerdy kid at <Your School Here> High School gettin' down on the middle of a football field while all the cool kids are in the stands watching? LOL... no. Not to mention, it will help tremendously when the spring semester concert season rolls around. The UIL gives extra points when the entire woodwind section puts their instruments down and gyrates to 16 bars of low brass riffs @ fff. <sarcasm off> If a high school in Texas were to enter the UIL marching competition and do something like what TSU, GSU, PVA&M, and other historical black colleges do, they would receive extremly low marks from judges. I've seen it happen. The Green Brigade are a highly talented group of musicians who in most cases, God bless them, plan on teaching at Jr. High & High Schools. Just like getting a finance degree should prepare you for working at a financial institution and excelling there, the students in the Green Brigade should be educated to excel in their profession. So, while you piss & moan that you are not being entertained enough, they are learning how to write and execute drill for when they graduate and enter the workforce... and they perform it at a very high standard. I don't have enough good things to say about the GB. My ONLY knock on them (and they're getting better every year) is their football acumen of when to play and when to keep quiet. I'm like the KRAM1 fan for the Green Brigade. Go Green Brigade!

Who wants to go see the Creighton game on the 9th & back to Dallas Saturday Morning for the football game?

Some nice home games. A new arena and conference make a huge difference in the level of competition. I don't see us winning 24 games this year like last year. And for this year's big UNT-UTA matchup...Mitchell will be hard to defend, a deep UNT roster, and being at Denton, and us losing our 3 leading scorers, it's probably a 10-15-point win for ya'll this year. 2012-13 UTA MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Fri., Nov. 9 at Cal State Bakersfield 8p Fri., Nov. 16 OKLAHOMA 7p Sat., Nov. 24 at Samford 7p Wed., Nov. 28 at North Texas 7p Sat., Dec. 1 at Texas TBA Mon., Dec. 3 at UT Pan American 7p Thurs., Dec. 13 HOUSTON BAPTIST 7p Wed., Dec. 19 at Oklahoma State 7p Sat., Dec. 29 NEW MEXICO STATE* 7p Mon., Dec. 31 DENVER* 2p Wed., Jan. 2 BOISE STATE 7p Sat., Jan. 5 LOUISIANA TECH* 7p Thurs., Jan. 10 at UTSA* 7p Sat., Jan. 12 at Texas State* TBA Thurs., Jan. 17 SEATTLE* 7p Sat., Jan. 19 IDAHO* 7p Thurs., Jan. 24 at Utah State* 8p Sat., Jan. 26 at San Jose State* 9p Sat., Feb. 2 at Louisiana Tech* 7p Thurs., Feb. 7 TEXAS STATE* 7p Sat. Feb. 9 UTSA* 7p Thurs., Feb. 14 at Idaho* 9p Sat., Feb. 16 at Seattle* TBA Wed., Feb. 20 UT PAN AMERICAN 7p Sat., Feb. 23 TBA (Sears Bracketbusters) TBA Thurs. Feb. 28 SAN JOSE STATE* 7p Sat., March 2 UTAH STATE* 7p Thurs., March 7 at Denver* 8p Sat., March 9 at New Mexico State* TBA Wed.-Sat. March 13-16 WAC Conference Tournament (Las Vegas, NV) TBA

I found this on the above mentioned page. I guess you guys need to go over and tell the students how stupid they sound?

The thing is, if he can't play QB, he can play other positions (safety or receiver come to mind). That's why I like this pick up (as long as he's got his head on straight).

We Southern Jews, like our non-bcs friends, are tired of the east coast jews having all the power.

That article makes it sound like he left the JUCO because he couldn't win the starting job.

That depends, how many pieces of flair?

Guy was not a lock to start for Scottsdale. We did not just pick up Football Jesus. Just a pretty highly thought of 3 star that so far has yet to prove his potential.

Paging Mr. Vito.... Paging Mr. Vito....

Who's Ryan Kole? This post has been promoted to an article

I love the GB and also appreciate what bands like TSU and Grambling bring to the table, but leave it up to a North Texas football board to reminisce about when our band beat up Lamar's band. I long for the day we talk about our team beating up on everyone around.

2 gallons of Mean Green punch (new recipe, more deadly) Fajitas (The real stuff from a market with a Spanish name) Nachos Beer Pack of hot dogs for the freeloaders ;-)

IMO Romo has never been the root of the problem. The team just wasn't very good and didn't have any depth. I don't know what it is but I think Jason Garrett's job in influencing Jerry on building a team seem like it is a key factor. Some of the moves made the last couple of off seasons doesn't seem very Jerry like. And I think over the last couple of years Romo has gotten better and better. He's the only reason why the Cowboys ever have a chance every week. If the offensive line improves as the season progresses then this team could really make some noise.

Most people at a football game don't really care about that fact (myself included). As a musician, I respect the hell out of the Green Brigade. We have some of the greatest musicians in the world. No one would debate their musicianship. But we're not much for showmanship, and I think that's the point of the discussion. I'd rather watch a TSU or a GSU... or even the AGGIE band over most others, any day of the week. To your point, however, one of the reasons I say that is because it IS unique. If every band tried to emulate said style of performance, it would grow tiresome. I don't need the GB to do what TSU does. But I can definitely enjoy TSU for what they bring to the table!

Fun times to be had by all. Got about 10 extra coming along. Beer.

TCU went from First to Worst in 38 years. 1928 National champions and went 0-11 in 1976, my sophomore year at TCU. in my three year at TCU the fooball team won 2 home games. I started attending North Texas sporting events with friends in fall 1975. Although I defected TCU as a fan, I am very hppy with hat they have overcome and believe UNT will experience similar turn around. 35 years since your 9 -2 season!

This! The other thing that needs to happen before we can be like TCU or Boise St. is COMMUNITY SUPPORT. Both of those schools enjoy LOTS of community support. Meanwhile North Texas and/or it's events, are virtually unknown anywhere north of Oak st. or east of Carroll ave.in Denton.

I like to get hammered. I also like to go in and watch games. I am not greek. Many friends are. I hope this helped shed some light on the greek/non-greek tailgating issue.

I'm with meangreenglory Karl benson word is good as gold

UNT is now on the rise. With the move to conference C-USA, Apogee, coach Mac, and several seasons of additional athletic fees, North Texas should pass other programs in not just Texas but all of the FBS. The reall question is will the giant North Texas Alumni base rise up, take pride in our university, and support this program?

Whitfield... he did alright I guess... for a freshman... that had never played corner... in teh season opener... in front of 90k fans... on the road... against the team that played for the national championship last year... i guess...

Thanks so much for all the love! We really, really appreciate it. You'd be surprised how long signs take to make. At this point, we're planning to make more Thursday as well: Dear Sunbelt- it's not you it's us. A general UNT football sign And one for Chancellor. We still don't have anything brilliant for him. Ideas? I love the idea of a hit rating sign. I'm sure we could do that! We're also getting them laminated this year, so we'll have them the whole season (trying to learn from our soaked signs at the FIU game last year). We haven't ever had any trouble bringing signs into Apogee. I also brought in huge heads last year and they didn't say anything. We're pros at this point

Sign ladies? We have a late entry.

In situations such as these, I like to ask myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg8-dii9Ma0? "SAY 'NORTH TEXAS STATE' AGAIN. SAY 'NORTH TEXAS STATE' AGAIN, I DARE YOU. I DOUBLE DARE YOU, MF, SAY 'NORTH TEXAS STATE' ONE MORE GD TIME"