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@brockberglund University of North Texas QB #16 God, Family, Football. Go Mean Green Denton, TX OK...so I am a sucker for the good things around me... Brock posted a tweet that he would donate a toy to a child less fortunate than him (paraphrased) for every new follower to his Twitter page. That was enough for me! This guy seems like a good dude. Love his Twitter home page (shows an artist rendering of Apogee). Editorial...he has the important things in his life prioritized well. Looking forward to seeing him play. GMG

And his follow up: For the record my tweet saying"it just don't excite me nomo I'm ready for the next step in life" Had nothing to do with basketball or school

Our last year of D1AA we played Boise State in the playoffs and we were in the top 14 teams. I was on that team and you have no idea what you are talking about. GL2GREATNESS, your rants are ridiculous and epic in length. No one bothers reading this nonsense.

For gosh sakes, really? You expect the AD to personally call you and ask for $50 donation so they can buy a new door mat? As they should, the Athletic department focuses their time on the big fish, you don't get a new stadium or a new bball practice facility with $500 donations. You get it with $500K to multi-million dollar donations. RV and team have raised more money than most have thought possible for tennis, softball stadium, soccer stadium, part of the football stadiun, bball practice facility, etc. Now you are going to criticize cause they don't send you an engraved invitation to donate? For small time donors (less than $500K), thats what the mean green club is for. Donating to Athletics or any part of UNT is painfully simple. Here is where you go: http://endow.unt.edu Its pretty much always up and has been for ages. click the DONATE button in the top right, the next page you can pick the area of athletics, a college or whatever else you want to donate to for UNT.

Rats. Figured this would happen once he got a qualifying score. Chance to start at UNT as a true freshman or ride the pine for 3 years at OU, Mr. Walker. The choice is yours.

Translation. "While our crack promotions team didn't actually put anything together for this game, we had someone donate money and we're gonna take what we can get here"

Good idea. Glad to see the athletic dept. being proactive here and trying to get some folks in for this game while the students are out on break, etc. Thanks to the "secret Santa" who stepped up to help. I hope lots of folks take them up on this offer...just another benefit to being a Mean green Club member. "Membership has its privileges" ....smile!

#untsextape?

Seems like a good get to me. Still would like to see some help on the D Line side as well. But, overall, this class is beginning to look better and better.

The greatest Kendra Talkin quote ever "Why are they putting those fans there???? Its windy enough already" Man I miss her smile and work ethic..

Yessir, and at our university, perhaps the most awesome view of athletic facilities in the country, Bar none. Tell me one other school that will have softball field, baseball field, football stadium, student athlete academic center, basketball arena, basketball practice facility, and if you squint, off in the distance the tennis facility from one of the MOST TRAVELED HIGHWAYS IN THE COUNTRY!!!!!!! The visibility is going to awesome and one of a kind!!!!!!!! With those damned three fans thrown in there to boot.

I don't know if the infastructure can handle a four sided video scoreboard above the pitching mound. Engineering is still looking in to that. But seriously it is going to be awesome coming from south to north on 35w and looking at the softball field, baseball field, then fans turning and that beautiful football stadium. I may add about five miles to my commute to work just to go that way about once a week.

In response to plan, timeframe, etc. There is no official word on that yet. So what you do is you make a pledge. Say $1,000 a year for five years, and say that you will start paying once everything is off of the ground. This is the same way it worked for the football stadium. By doing this the athletic dept. can go to the president and say this is what we have pledged, and we can get going on this. I know it seems backwards but that is the way it works. One other thing, as I said earlier, and I 1,000 times agree, small contributors are just as important as larger ones. In mass we can do a lot of things. However, larger gifts pledged over say 5 years are "bondable", meaning that you sign a gift agreement for a major gift, and then the powers can be can either borrow from the university's line of credit, or as in the case of apogee, can sell bonds. It is much more difficult to do this with smaller gifts, not saying they are not important . I want baseball and I have already made a pledge, and qualified it that I will start paying it when I have completed my commitment to basketball. By this time there should be a plan and I can see what it is I am contributing to. As many people that will make a pledge to baseball before there is any definitave plans, the faster we will get baseball. so please just take a leap of faith like I did with the football stadium and now baseball and make a pledge, it will only make things easier. If anyone would like to talk about this in person, the chairman of the baseball fundraising committee sits just down the row from me in basketball. I will ask him Thursday if he would mind me posting his contact information. I am more than willing to talk about any of this in person, so you can P.M. me and I will give you my contact info. I am excited to see the interest in this. YOU CAN EAT AN ELEPHANT, YOU JUST HAVE TO DO IT ONE BITE AT A TIME!!!! David

MGB: Get Your Rear on the Record winners

If you look through his photos from Twitter, he has posted a legal memo form his attorney and a press release from his complicated Kansas U "scandal". It really shows how crass and callous the KU administration and Charlie Weis was in the whole ordeal; so glad he was able to get outta there and eventually to the open arms of UNT.

I felt semi-safe hiring Benford because he made Coach Evans his associate head coach and I believed that his mentor would see that the ship stayed afloat. Please tell me that Coach Evans hasn't had much input into coaching this team. He has a ton of experience and needs to step in before it's too late. Poor results will eventually kill recruiting.

Can I specify that my donation go to the recruitment of a 6'3" shooting guard with a 6'8" wingspan, a 43 inch verticle, and NBA 3 range? If so, sign me up.

You are just wrong about "as little as possible". Of the 3 million pledged for practice facility jumbotron etal i know for a fact over one million has been collected. the New floor level video board is already installed, and construction has begun on practice facility remodel. the jumbotron takes almost a year to make after order. a lot of this negatively right now is deserved, but to say that the bare minimum is being done is a slap in the face to the very small group of donors who without ANY help from through university made these projects happen. the lack of patience with some of you is amazing.

If only we had a recent example of WKU firing a basketball coach who wasn't working and finding immediate gains.

I'm going to eat some major crow here... But with the signing of JUCO help on O-Line, it appears that Cam Feldt is not regarded as an answer to fill in next season (or not anticipated to make any impact). Good call Dr. Seuss.

While I would like more in the defensive front, I'm not about to get upset over mass recruiting of linemen on either side of the ball. Linemen linemen linemen linemen linemen linemen linemen.

Certainly we have to be done on the offensive line, right? This brings us up to 5 O-Line commits, including 2 JUCOs, with 4 of the team's top 6 linemen returning and at least a half-dozen well-regarded red-shirt freshmen and sophomores who should be expected to push for stops in the two-deep. I like the depth, but it seems slightly superfluous in the face of questionable depth on the D-Line. Are any of the incoming freshmen candidates to move to the DL?

Manu the slender? http://youtu.be/ilrpqagxBf4

Agree. I particularly appreciate Anderson Cooper's stance of not mentioning the name of the killer.

Seems like some people are killing it because it's not as good as LOTR, which is idiotic. I didn't think it was spectacular, but definitely a solid movie.

To DeepGreen and everyone else...see flyonthewall's and oldguystudent's comments above. This is not rocket science. All you have to do is "want to" and the rest is pretty easy. Was going to send DeepGreen a PM with the info that Flyonthewall just posted, so no need for the PM now...if only folks will read the post. Easy as pie.....and, to what oldguystudent said...I too, get such requests...maybe the reason some are not getting this info is that they are not currently donors. I have no clue, but I do know that it is easy to be a donor...but, if you just sit around waiting for that engraved invitation...well, you might just be waiting a long time indeed. Thanks Flyonthewall and oldguystudent for point out the obvious and how easy it really is to be involved at any level that one chooses. No more excuses ... either you can, cannot or choose not to participate. Your call.

There wasn't a damn thing wrong with your Kingsbury thread... And it actually was very relevant to North Texas...in that he (Kingsbury) being one of if not THE nations top offensive coordinator, who had just coached up a Hiesman Trophy, yet accepted a 4 year contract to head coach at a Big 12 school. This is startling when you consider that officials at North Texas constantly repeat the assumption that we could NEVER get such an assistant coach without Head Coaching experience.....even one straight from a HIGH SCHOOL...to come here for less than 5. Rick

Dude, it's Lee High.

Whatever floats your boat. Suggested a couple of ways for you to keep up. You seem to reject them all. I guess you expect a personal phone call from the AD. Somehow people find out because they make the effort to keep up. You are free to wait on the engraved personal invitation if you so choose. But stop the whining about not knowing if you are just wanting to wait on some personal call or personal invitation. In case you did not realize it, email is the way a lot of things get communicated these days. I asked...did not wait around to be told...when flyonthewall posted about he campaign, which I Had no clue about until then, I PM'd him and got the info I needed...the rest took care of itself. Had I waited around for that personal call from the AD I would still be waiting. So, do as you wish, but don't complain about those who take the initiative to find out what is going on. Like another poster said...the big guns, which do not include me, took care of this in less than 2 weeks. It was funded before any need to go public with this part of the campaign. However, you are free to donate additional if you wish...or pick one of the many other areas that need additional funding. But, the constant whining about not knowing is getting a tad old. Plenty of info right here on GMG.com to handle what you need....there is no lack of info about needs. You either want to and can help, can help but choose not to or are not in a position to help. Whatever the case, it is 100 percent your business and your business alone. And, for the record...I have never had a personal call nor an engraved invitation from the AD or anyone else in the athletic department regarding any facilities project fundraising need. And, in case you did not know it, there are a good many of out of town donors. I wonder how they seem to get the info? Some even a good many miles and states away. Don't know what you need..have said I would do what I can to help you out, you rejected that and said you would not call anyone and indicated that you reject any mail info and requests. So, tell us all...what do you need to feel connected enough?

I think I read the first sentence of the last paragraph and that was not even correct. We were ranked a number of times in D1aa. Either way, try to be a little more concise so people will take the time to read some of what you write.

I was hoping he was headed our way since OU recently had another DL verbal to them. Maybe Mr. Walker likes to build a program and be immortalized instead of being just another player from OU.

http://endow.unt.edu. Click on DONATE button, if you want to specify a purpose you choose the area and can put restrictions on it (i.e. only for baseball)

"Somehow you found out"???? What the hell is that supposed to mean to the rest of us?........You're making all my point! Am I supposed to call and check in with the AD periodically to see if they have "something going on", and offer my donations? You guys live in the DFW-Denton area. Did you know that there are out-of-town diehards who wish the AD was more in touch? Some could be steady donors. I get a season ticket order form for football once a year. Everything else is by some stupid e-mail campaign! I refuse to call our AD and ask if there is anything I can help them with financially. They need to start earning their keep.

I agree. If our basketball team can't beat one girl (or, even worse, maybe a dude with a girls name?), we should definitely fire our coach. Absolutely.

Manzanzas y naranjas amigo. The first year of McDummy we had OMV coming back as a senior. All conference AJ Slaughter and future NBA pick Jeremy Evans returning. McDummy was laissez-affaire enough in his everyday approach that he let OMV bark orders and run that team. I'm still amazed at the sack OMV drug with him. I started worrying in year 2 when nobody on Western could keep anybody in front of them and McDummy didn't seem concerned. I was the first person on haven to question him not recruiting shooters......the bread and butter of mid-majors. The next year was even worse when he had 3 all conference types in Pettigrew, Pattilo, and Kerusch. Kevin Durant's half brother Cliff Dixon coming off the bench. Pattilo and Dixon had a major fist-fight in the locker room early in the season. It went downhill from there. There was an uproar on haven that year. We all wanted him fired but the administration backed him with McReset. Last year the final straw was not the 6 on 5 loss to ulala. It was only around 2k attendance when they were selling 1$ tickets at the local convenience stores. During most of this time we knew the dummy was in over his head. You guys are feeling it halfway through your first year with yours. My heart goes out to your hoops fans. In my gut....you'll have it turned around when you play us

Strategy for baseball. we need a stadium and team. the long term strategy (who will coach, what Will the stadium look like, etc.) is actively being planned. when i made my stadium pledge 5 years ago there was no set of plans. the strategy was we need a stadium. every gift is important, but the function of the mean green club is to fund scholarships for student athletes, not facilities. The fact of life is facilities are built with millions. my stadium pledge required me to also donate annually to the mean green club, i am pretty sure it is the same at club level. Please understand that i personally, forget the athletic department, appreciate everything every person on this board does for this university. complaining means that you are interested and you care. i am smart enough to know that just showing up at games is the best some people can do, and those people have the right to be just as passionate about north Texas as i am. The way our athletic department is setting things up is through networks. mean green club has mean green reps. major fundraising has committees. the story is better told by peers than by paid fundraisers from the athletic department.

I have always bought UNT basketball tickets because I enjoyed going to the games. It was worth the crappy traffic from Dallas to Denton on a Thursday night. Win or lose, I left with the feeling that I received a good return for my money. It was the rule and not the exception that the team was well prepared and played hard. Based on what I have seen this year, this week will probably be the last Thursday I make that drive. I truly hope that Benford and our guys turn it around this year. If not, there will be at least two less season tickets sold next year.

You'd be fired from your job? Please tell me, where do you work that they do random criminal history checks? They don't even do that at MY job. Misdemeanor B theft, unless you have no means, generally results in posting bail long before you have to be back at your 8am job the next day. Hyperbole is fun...but it's not your friend. And to the person who said "once a thief, always a thief" I'm amused. I went to jail as a 16 year old for stealing comic books. Have never stolen a thing since. Told DPD all about it on the job application. Yet, somehow, they trusted me with thousands of dollars and drugs for 3 1/2 years. They trust me to incarcerate people. And my word sends people to state and federal prison. Not bad for a lifetime thief, huh? Take away their scholarship you say? Brilliant! Let's remove them from a team environment, one where they can be encouraged (and shamed) when they screw up. Let's take away that peer support group. If we're lucky this football scholarship is the only way they were able to pay for college. Let's strip that away and discard them while we hope for the best. Ooooor, we could put them on notice that their lifelines have now been exhausted. Let them understand that while we are there for them, punishment is forthcoming in a heavy dose if they step out of line again. Kinda like this crazy concept called probation that is meted out each and every day in courtrooms. But Emmitt, they represent me and my university!!! I pay for their scholarship! I'm sure they'd gladly give you back the 100th (if that) of their tuition that you actually pay personally. And they represent my university too. When I went to that university I saw thousands of young men and women finding their bearings and making multiple mistakes. I think we called it growth back in the olden days. And before anyone says I'm excusing their behavior, tap the brakes. I believe more than just about anyone in punishing crime. But I also understand that the purpose of punishment is not just to be punitive, but also to be corrective. I have no doubt that Mac will find that balance.

Very telling: UNT outrebounded by 9, including by 3 on the offensive end. UNT has 4 assists verse 8 turnovers... Yes, that's right, 4 assists for the whole team... The whole team. Odd stat of the day: Both teams were 9-16 from the line. If we played any team that was even close to half decent, we lose by 20. Every single player on this team has regressed, outside of maybe Franklin. Every single one of them is playing scared. So disappointing. What tells you whether or not the players understand and trust the system is the play of your point guard. CJ today played 25 minutes, had 1 point, 1 assist, 1 turnover, and 4 fouls.

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="GangGreen" data-cid="696211" data-time="1355785284"><p> I don't know if this has already been posted, but I love the headline on MGS.<br /> <br /> "Basketball Holds Lions to 40 Points in Win"<br /> <br /> They didn't lie.</p></blockquote> I had to reply to them. "And they held us to 45..SMH"

Why is this crap so secretive? The only time anyone (sorry, anyone not having strings to the AD) here ever heard of a basketball practice facility/Super Pit upgrade committee was after Khuene had already put them over the top and all the money they needed was already raised. Now, you're telling me there's a fundraising effort going on for a baseball team? I'm a Mean Green Club member (therefore more connected than just any regular alum, but obviously not as connected as some of you guys), and to my knowledge, I've never heard of the University's/AD's efforts to raise this money. Is my measly $50/100 not worth the effort? I bet there are many more folks out there like me, and our measly contributions would add up quickly. And Deep is certainly right to ask for details before pledging. It's really hard to blindly give without being presented a vision.

Stan, I get the frustration, but not sure if it is fair to ding them for not updating on fundraising at this point. What's the marketing: come for the nearly 33% financed upgrades, stay for the perimeter passing? It's a frustrating time, but, as annoyed as I am, I'm trying to at least give myself to mid-January to really pass an official judgment. My last three home games have made that very, very difficult.

Ok, fair enough. I'll accept that criticism. Yes, I would say that I am being impatient. That is my right as a long term supporter of this program who sat through countless basketball games with 500 of the other guys who I'll assume are guys like UNT90 and CMJ, et al. It pains me, PAINS me to see how things are falling apart right now. I think what would shut people like me up on this is SOME SORT OF INFORMATION being put out by the athletic department on the progress of the situation. Honestly, it shouldn't need to come from the group of donors, that's not your (or their) job. I'm going by the level of interest shown by our athletic department during Apogee construction. We had live interviews with the construction company, videos of construction, timelines, on and on including a webcam. Do those things matter? Do webcams mean anything? They do. They do because they show the level of commitment to a program from the top levels of the administration. Where is that on the basketball side? Where is the financial commitment If it is there, someone please enlighten me because I just don't see it if this season was supposed to be one for the ages.

You mean the game that clinched the US making the next round of qualifying for the World Cup? Yeah, so awful.

UNT is a smoke free campus!

It's really sad to me because with each game I feel more and more like I'm witnessing the dismantling of something special that was built over the past six (in some ways longer) years. Unfortunately, we don't have the type of brand that can help us bounce back after a disappointing year. For us, we have to perpetually keep the momentum going because once it's gone, it's probably gone for many years to come (see football as an example). We were supposed to be a 25-50 RPI team, and right now we're over 200 spots lower than we should be. We may not have a perfect roster. We may not be injury free. We may not possess completely harmonious, symbiotic team chemistry. But we still have arguably the most celebrated roster in our history, and it's unlikely that we'll ever again be able to assemble this level of talent. So, unless something changes...the way we're playing right now is as good as it gets. I fear that we'll lose the next three games, which would put us at 5-9, 0-3 to end December. Right now I'm trying to figure out which team shows up against Lehigh: the one from the second half of the Jackson State game or today's Mean Green. If it's the former, we'll lose by 20; if it's the latter we might lose by as much as 40. If I'm wrong about the direction this team is headed, then I think this game will show it. However, if it goes as badly as I fear, then I think we really need to consider making an abrupt and difficult decision. There is still time to salvage this season and accomplish many of those dreams we all had a couple months ago, but that will clearly require a change in leadership. The other option is to throw our arms up in the air, accept a losing record this season, recognize that the next few years are similarly destined to end in sub-.500 records, and then finally admit that a poor hiring decision was made. At that point, with recruiting pipelines that have dried up, a dearth of prestige or regional respect, and utter irrelevance in the world of college basketball, we get the pleasure of rebuilding and enjoying several more losing seasons. I would prefer that we choose to start winning now...while we still can.

You will probably see about the same quality of UNT basketball if u do

Yea... They lost all their sharpshooters from last season in Zo, Tyler, and Hogans... Clarke replaces Walton right?

I wish I could minus 1 you some more. This team is so messed up psychologically from the way they are being "lead", and that it is all Benford's fault. He pulls guys for making one mistake. He took Mitchell out early in the game today because he passed up an open 18 foot jump shot. The team is afraid to mess up, and therefore have spiraled into a team that doesn't even want to shoot. It's too hard to tell if the "new system" could even work because the team is a mess. That is 100% on the leadership. If we ever get past that point, then we can discuss things like offensive systems.

So tired of people making excuses for these athletes because they're just "kids". Everyone at the age of 19 knows its morally wrong and illegal to steal. I love Jimmerson as a player, but we can't cut him slack because he's good at football.