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So, here are a few of the "gems" that they lovely people of Dallas have called in to 9-1-1 recently. From yesterday... A woman called in to report that while she was at the Dallas Zoo with her church group her vehicle was broken into. After 20 whole minutes she called back to inquire why officers weren't there yet. When it was explained that calls are dispatched in order of priority and that this area has a high call load her response was as follows. "What am I supposed to do?!! It's beginning to get dark and there are a lot of black people out here!" Yep. That's what she said. A woman called in to report that her husband came home drunk and feeling a bit frisky. The woman, who was already asleep in bed with their toddler, refused his drunken advances. So, doing what any man would OBVIOUSLY do after his attempts at making sweet love are rebuffed, the man stood up on the bed and.......peed on his wife and child. From today... A woman from far North Dallas called in to report that her vehicle had been stolen from the Kroger near her house. Since she did not know her license plate or VIN she was told by the call taker that we couldn't dispatch police. (Without this information it is impossible for officers to place the vehicle on the regional and national databases as "stolen", therefore it's a wasted trip for the officers) She demanded to speak to a superviser. After talking to this woman for five minutes and figuring out that she lived three miles from the store I offered to have an officer take her home to get her info. (This is HIGHLY unorthodox because we don't run a damn taxi service...but being inconvenienced just doesn't suit the North Dallas crowd so it wasn't worth the headache) Before we could get officers en route to her, though, she called back to tell us that she finally took the time to walk around the parking lot and found her "stolen" Infiniti. A thirteen year old girl called to report that a fellow thirteen year old girl was threatening to send several other thirteen and fourteen year old girls to beat her up. Seems this little girl was attempting to woo the fourteen year old father of the other thirteen year old's unborn child. I literally could not make this stuff up if I tried.

Where did you go? I want to get back to UNT basketball. How do you see things going this week?

I definately agree but, let me give you some advise. Irregardless of what people post on this board I try not to loose my prespective because I could care less. I have literally just learned to except it and move on. Some people are just wierd and you can't do anything about there mispelling and gramar weather you agree with them or not. Its not like you're corrections are going to effect them alot in the longrun. You might as well just accomodate them and make them feel at home by giving them posting priviledges rather then chastize them.

Yep...this stuff matters. This is an impressive accomplishment for the FB team and the coaches and the support folks. Well done!

This will be the last I say on this b/c we have pretty much beat this dead horse but you do realize you can go back and look at old posts, right? Well there are posts from last January that have the name Andrew on them but when people replied to your quote it said quoted by Skiver. You can go back and look at when Jrodan and Chris became ineligible last year and there are a bunch of quotes by you and it says Andrew was created in Feb. 2012 but these were quotes by you in January of 2012. But anyhow carry on and let's hope Benford and the boys can turn it around.

He was talking about helping start of South Alabama from scratch

Travis's letter is the one that will be on display at The Alamo. Just didn't want you to be disappointed or look like a complete dork. LOL

Vito makes a good point about kids who take care of their business in the classroom tend to take care of business on the field as well. Shows dedication to excellence in everything you do

None of them could carry the fake tony Benford's jockstrap on twitter though

Kid committed to Tulsa last Friday and had planned on starting classes today (Mid-term transfer) Some issues surfaced and he couldn't get them resolved. Plans a visit to Denton http://northtexas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1459895

This year's Mean green signing day event will take place on Feb. 6th at Apogee Stadium (Club Level Area)...Doors will open at 6PM and event begins at 6:30PM. Dinner and beverages will be available. Cost is $10 for Mean green Club Members/$20 for Non-Mean Green Club members. RSVP to Taryn Houghton by Feb 4th at 940-369-7284. One again this will be a very nice event and a very enjoyable one as well. If you attended last year you know what I mean...if you could not attend last year, make plans now to attend this year. You will be happy you did. AND, it makes a very convenient time to either renew your Mean Green Club membership or to join for the first time. Jessica, Taryn and other staffers will be in attendance and can easily help you join or renew your membership. Why not save $10 per person and join up at the event...or before. Either way, you get to enjoy the evening with other members of the great Mean Green nation and you get to save a few bucks in the process. What's not to like? See you on the 6th. Get those RSVP's in ASAP...you really do not want to miss out!

I read your bio , your not really from Ohio

I didn't appreciate them publishing this at the time, and I don't appreciate you putting it up here either dude. Wish folks would just leave me alone.

Agree...nicely stated. Seems you have your priorities in order regarding this stuff. I know there will be plenty of folks who don't agree with us on this, but I am pretty sure that the vast majority of college athletes do not end up making a living playing their sport of choice. That being said...just because one has a good GPA does not excuse crappy on field performance in a scholarship athlete. They are student-athletes after all. Good students and good citizens can be great athletes as well.

Well, it didn't help that our APR was so bad we had fewer scholarships to give. Also, just saying.

Given the child molesting Penn State allowed to go on for decades, this is the kind of thing that makes me not care about being 4-8 on the field. When he arrived and began to go out on the coaches tour, Dan told many of us that the academic performance was so bad that he was shocked. He vowed to turn it around. And, it appears as though he has. We complain a bunch about on the field performance, or lack thereof. But, in the long run, these guys getting an education for their future is more important. Give credit where credit is due. Great job, coach Dan and staff. And, great job, fellas! Hard work does pay off in life...in every endeavor. Keep pushing.

That is what I meant. I am driving down to see it when its on display in late February. Would have been nice to go see the letter, a good game, and drink beer on the river walk all at once. I read they don't want it out because of the ink in the light or something. I get two trips this way. Oh well, more beer!

If the nBE decides to move to 16 and somehow the MWC decides it needs to follow suit, I could see one of their best options to be inviting UTEP, UTSA, Rice, and UNT (assumption is SMU, UH, and Tulsa in nBE). I really don't see either of them feeling the need to go to 16, but if MWC wanted to establish a Texas foothold, it is probably easier to go to 16 than 14. You really have 2 different conferences at that point though and it will be tough to keep everyone happy. I think it is way more likely the MWC stays at 12, but UNT in the MWC with three other Texas schools would be our best case scenario at this point.

For some reason church schools and cow colleges have been able to rise above their humble origins more successfully than teachers colleges. Our administrators have tended to be stuffy old pedagogues with no vision and an inability to understand what is going on around them. Our first president with a PHD in an academic field was Dr. Kamerick from Kent State who arrived in the late 60's and did not stay long.I do not believe we even had a real athletic director until Hayden Fry as our athletic programs were being run by the PE Department as if we were a glorified high school. We have allowed successful programs to slide (men and women's golf) and have not taken of advantage of the opportunities that have come our way either athletically and,in many cases, academically. So much of our success in the past has been in spite of ourselves rather than through intelligent planning. But cheer up! I am really enthusiastic about our future. We just have to win.

I'm with you man... I'm protesting it

We have not had a decent winner here since the 2002-2004 seasons as an FBS member. Going back to when we rose up from purgatory, in 1995, we are 70-142, or an average in those seasons of 4-8. Our average attendance is usually between 15k and 19k. The local media of the area don't give much attention this way. All of that combines to why we have been easy targets to be ignored, disregarded, or abandoned as conference mates. We think Tulsa and UTEP and Rice will look at us connections to DFW area alums and fans. We think that Tech and UH and SMU and TCU and Baylor will recognize us as potential rivals at some point in the future because of our size and location. We think that Abner Haynes and Mean Joe Greene and being the first SW based team to be integrated makes our history as a college football team seem close to our SWC brethren and way above some of the fellow Big West/SBCUSA members we play. In reality, and I hate it because I never really wanted to admit it, none of this is how others perceive us, which is why we are affiliated in conferences with schools that sound like airports or have hyphens in their name. Those higher than us on the Texas college ladder have never wanted (nor been given a reason) to want us in their conference. UTEP and Tulsa will bolt as soon as possible, just as Rice and La Tech would too if they could. We are no sleeping giant. We are a big, fat guy that has been in a coma, given just enough to survive on, but never given enough sustenance from anyone, including our own administrative family, to get up and get healthy. When the doctors (other schools higher up the food chain) and the hospital (conference) looks at us, all they see is an unhealthy patient. A lot of the family (administration, faculty, alumni, and local residents) would prefer us to just die so that they can collect the inheritance (no more $$$ to athletics), but a few family members know that we can get better if we got better medicine and eventually different doctors. But the doctors we want all seem to be connected to the HMO (SWC schools) that want as little done as possible for the patient. So, we drift along, believening, hopelessly, that our patient will wake up and become a champion because of his location, size, and age, not recgonizing that those around us don't look at any of those things when they see the patient. They see no sleeping giant. All they see is a big, fat guy that really doesn't appeal to them at all.

I say keep up with the lie. C'mon, you can do this. I can help, skiver is a close personal friend and he gave you his login and password so you could use it instead of taking the 30 seconds to do it yourself and you just changed the name to avoid any unseemly entanglements based on his past reputation on the board. Then, he created a new login under his old name to avoid any confusion that was going around. If you stay totally committed, you can keep denying it and we can continue to enjoy calling you out.

When North Texas didn't even make the SWC meeting agenda for membership in Fry's last few months in Denton, he started looking ASAP for another job for himself and his coaching staff. He wanted to go to bowl games and he also wanted to coach before larger crowds. Some think Fry did all the SWC talk just to garner attention for himself--I am not one of those. UT's Darrell Royal was said to have been one of our strongest supporters for SWC membership, but still there were "4" private schools in that league who may have said "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah with lipservice for UNT membership" but would have voted no,no, no, no in a closed ballot. Honestly, Mean Green 93-98, I cannot add too much more than what Gray Eagle has so elegantly posted above. G.E. won't like me saying this because we tend to agree to disagree on the subject, but (still)...........IMHO.......SMU has never been our friend and never will for those of you who think they are and will be in the sweet by and by. Their Prez' Gerald Turner avoids the subject of North Texas almost as if you were talking to him about a possible outbreak of the bubonic plague with ground zero on his campus. He's SMU all the way insasmuch as he thinks he is President of an Ivy League school which he is not. I don't think SMU's standards are even remotely close to Ivy League standards. Yet as I put myself in SMU's shoes I think I know how I might feel about a large DFW Metroplex public university and now a system that is building campuses (law school, pharmacy school, possible MD school, etc) all around the Hilltop and for anyone to think that SMU'ers haven't noticed all this would be most naive on their part. Still iSMU is a private and UNT a public and I think UNT'ers understand the differences and the missions of the 2 than SMU'ers seem to, but it's still that difference which gives them just enough to look down their noses at us albeit they don't seem to do the same with other public universities of equal or less stature than UNT's. That alone is very telling of their attitude toward us. Don't be completely surprised or shocked if the SMU/UNT home and home football series gets bought out, either. Would that be a final convincer for some of you if that happened? North Texas (as said many times on GMG.com) just needs to take care of North Texas. I think we will all be totally amazed with the results of doing that if we can just put all the right pieces in place up there. From the Abner Haynes Era all the way thru the Fry era, anyone ever notice how many schools we would have like to have played would not schedule North Texas? Many of these very same schools have large margins of wins versus losses over North Texas subsequently because they just would not tee it up with us when they knew we were better and we would have piled up many "L's" on their side of the ledger versus UNT. You have to hand it to all their AD's who were smart enough to know when to play North Texas and when not to play us. Tulsa and TCU are 2 such schools--there are others, of course. Can one only imagine how may more "W's" North Texas could have piled onto many of our all time series records versus many other schools if they had only scheduled us when we were up and they were down? It seems what we have rarely done at North Texas is learn from our past. We take 4 giant steps forward then 6 back. Darrell Dickey's bowl era would have been more significant for UNT and his future career at a higher level if we had only pulled a La Tech back then and just made a Top 25 poll even with "1" of those bowl teams. We did not and then the "go backwards" aspects of our program would begin its cycle again. Mo Green (D.Kalk) told me in the 80's that UNT never has the infra-structure in place to ever go to the next level. We now have the stadium, in the opinion of many the head football coach, but those 2 together are still not enough to advance North Texas and that's is all I'm going to say on the subject. Many of us have seen many schools go past North Texas the past 4 decades and they did it many times while we were operating in the mode such as we've been in the last 10 years or so years.. Whoops! I said I wasn't going to say anymore. GMG!

No. He cannot make throws on the collegiate level. He has less of an arm than Riley Dodge, and Dodge had a popgun. Comparing McNulty to Johnny Football is pure insanity. But, then again, so is being a fan of UNT athletics, so I kinda get it.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2013/1/14/3875576/mascot-buffet-least-to-most-edible-41-21

Heard that he was given a pre-visit suspension. But seriously, I hope he is a basketball player, not just an athlete. EDIT: I guess we know that either Norris or Casimino is definitely out. And that is a good thing.

I was planning to go see it as well. For those wondering, the letter(the real deal) that Travis wrote while under siege and before dying at the Alamo wrote. It will only be on display from Feb 23 to March 7.

Went to Huntington Prep.

Ani, Ani Ani fi who?

Church schools and cow colleges produce well-connected alums who, occasionally, make a ton of money in professions like business, oil, law (see: SMU), and agriculture (for all the prior three plus ag, see: A&M). Teacher's college predominantly produce teachers and other solidly middle class alums. Teachers don't make a lot of money. We don't have billionaire angel alums plowing millions of their fortunes back into the academic and athletic programs. There's no UNT version of Joe Jamail. There's no UNT version of T. Boone Pickens. We have had alums who have done well for themselves who have given back to the university in both athletics and academics: look at many of the Geazles, guys like Zeke Martin and Ken Bahnsen. When you have those outliers among your alums, people like Jamail (UT) and Pickens (OSU) and the Dedman family (SMU) can make a huge difference in moving things along in a positive direction.

What was the charge?

What if the majority had refused to assent? Why would they give in to the dissenters, one of which was sure to be gone soon? Did he try to reason with the minority or did he just record the vote? What would Jim Delaney have done? Other than that I understand that all conference politics are not black and white and I agree with your scenarios. Sometimes you just have to play hardball but the wishes of the majority should prevail. IMO that's the commissioner's job.

Sorry if I'm confused on the timeline of this M,...but WHEN was the meeting that took place in which NT chose to not support bringing in TxSt and UTSA? Rick

Hah! That post is funny. . . . and suicide-inducing at the same time.

I think the Sleeping Giant is a spot-on descriptor of UNT. You cant deny our student and alumni population. You can't deny our location in a prime area for both TV opportunities and football talent. However, We're like a freaking Giant Rip Van Winkle on Ambien. Eventually we have to wake up right? We stirred a little between 2001-2004, but never really woke up.

That was me, not JJ. I knew you were drunk, but...really!!!

I think you are talking about this party animal....... http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth61037/m1/34/?q=president President from 1951 to 1968. The Mean Green club was started by Hayden Fry. Before then, there was no auxiliary fund raising done for the athletic department. I was advised by what I consider a reliable source, that in fact it was almost forbidden. I was also advised by the same person that any sort of giving to the University was discouraged....hence the lack of any sort of endowment until recently. Now, I find it astounding that general giving to the University was discouraged, but again, my source is pretty reliable.

e.g. not i.e.

Does it take a certified pilot to tell you that the pilot at the controls has been a career co-pilot or that an engine is out and his last few landings have been less than spectacular? I don't care how he does it or who does it. I just care about the end result and that I'm on the ground on time, safely, with no broken bones, and that my lunch is still in my stomach. It's like Todd Dodge saying after a 70 point loss that a QB made the right reads and graded out properly and that the offensive play calling was flawless. Ask Tasty how we are going to win against FIU and he will humbly tell you, "Score more points". You take it as him being a smart ass, I take it as him saying "How the F should I know? That's not my job". He can tell you who's killed us in the past, and maybe how they've done it, but he doesn't pretend to be a coach.

You don't need to know x-and-o's to identify a disaster. Likewise, think I speak for a lot of folks when I say it is not necessarily the losses that are scary. It's how we're playing. I remember watching Billy Gillespie's first year at UT-El Paso. They won 6 games total. SIX. But I don't remember a single fan or friend (including myself) that thought it was not worth going through. Those Billy teams (not necessarily the Kentucky ones) played with so much heart, hustle, and desire you couldn't help but be proud of them. You just knew it would be turned around. Andrew can continue to believe what his rec experience tells him. I'm happy for his optimism, and certainly hope Benford turns it around. But it better not be too far off. Whatever basketball revolution he thinks is happening is not being seen by our non-rec expert fanbase. As an aside, I can't believe how rough this going has been. Benford opinions set aside, this staff has way too much expertise to justify what is going on.

We've been known as the Sleeping Giant of Texas for decades.

Did he ride up here on the South Alabama men's and women's basketball bus and get dropped off? Seems convenient enough to me.

Fixed it for you!

Yay?

And . . . Cue epic Plumm post.

This literally says it all.

You wisely left the head coach off your list of potential leaders on the team. Well done.

Detaching yourself from your base town is not the way you want to build a fanbase, IMO. No matter what the history is between the institution and the townies, you gotta keep positive and keep trying.