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There are people who are actually complaining about the home slate in 2013. Let's take a look at who we will play at home... Idaho Ball State UTEP UTSA MUTS Rice For comparison, here is who we have played at home the last ten years. 2012 Texas Southern Troy ULL Arkie State S. Alabama 2011 Houston Indiana ULM FAU MUTS WKU MUTS 2010 Rice ULL Ark State FIU Troy K-State 2009 Ohio MUTS FAU WKU ULM Army 2008 Tulsa FIU ULL Troy Ark State 2007 FAU ULM MUTS Navy WKU 2006 SMU MUTS FIU La Tech FAU 2005 Tulsa Troy ULL ULM Ark State 2004 FAU MUTS NM State ULM Idaho 2003 Baylor ULL Utah State Troy Ark State You can't tell me that ANY of the schedules are preferable to what we have coming up this season. First, five games hasn't been the exception around here...it's been the rule. We get six this year. Second, there are THREE teams from Texas on this schedule. No, it's not aTm, Baylor and Tech...but it's sure as hell not ULL, WKU and S. Bama either. That's three teams with fan bases that can travel to Apogee. Three teams who will help to liven up the atmosphere. Three fan bases who we can talk s*&t to Monday through Friday at work. It isn't ideal, there's no arguing that. But it is a far far far far far far cry from the crap we've been dealt for a long long time.

Great halftime show !

I would be more concerned if they were getting kids from DFW to flip.

Thx for the advise guys. We had a great time and i love whataburger. Pretty cheap trip Gas 80 Hotel priceline hilton courtyard 57 Tickets 24 That is a pretty cheap trip. The go karting was fun. The nt coaching bad.... Nt frowd support was great and the guy with the green hair in the student section was great. I will miss nt in the belt but i played at la tech, so i have another team that plays you guys. Good luck the rest of the way.

I think I have it figured out! Benford is going for the, "You can't beat a team three times in a season" mentality.

Did someone say Ponchos is good Mexican food... Really...

GrayEagle, I enjoy & respect your posts on Mean Green football but, my friend, your comments on science are pure b.s. According to a recent Gallup Pole - That quote came from - http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA111.html As for "the Big Bang Theory is just that...a theory. Can anyone show scientific proof of the Big Bang?" You need to understand that in science the term 'theory' means something different than the way you used it. A theory in science is a statement that summarizes all we know about a subject. Thus a scientific theory is a very powerful thing. Theories are supported by all the available information & contradicted by none. That doesn't mean that a theory is proved - science isn't in the business of proof - & if tomorrow data are gathered that contradict the Big Bang (or evolution) then that theory will be rejected in favor of a more successful statement or, more likely, modified to fit the new data. You needn't think that evolution is by necessity a threat to your faith - Darwin didn't think that. Many scientists today are men of faith & still fully accepting of the validity of evolutionary theory. Ken Miller, a Catholic, and Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian, are just two examples. What is a threat, at least to your religion, is the tendency of some Christians to reject reality anytime that reality contradicts their literal interpretation of the Bible. If you insist that belief in a 6,000 year-old earth or a world-wide flood is a prerequisite for being a Christian, then you're going to lose all who are rational.

Tulane . . . that "powerhouse" that has somehow stolen several of our recruits the past couple of years.

Still in the hunt...that is all we can ask for. The kid said he would take all his trips before he got here. The Medina loss is not crippling, not even really on my "oh crap" radar

Jenkins commited to Texas Tech today, will play LB. Hopefully that helps us land Woods

Speaking of willful ignorance.

Yes, the power lifter tebo and woods would make for a very nice finish out... Come on baby Santamacjeebus See you all feb 6th. Gmg

Three of the four players that scored tonight will not be back next year. I need more tequila.

I'm not sure about the doom, but I'm gloomy since we were right and UTEP is at home. I doubt I'll be coming home any time this year and was hoping to catch you guys in El Paso, but... THERE'S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR! (See what I did there? Okay, okay, I'm done.)

Honestly, I really don't give a rat's hind end what SMU does anymore. Sure, I hope the extension is signed, but something tells me Rev. Jones, if he is still around, will bow out a prove they are a bunch of _____ cats!

Rooster's Roadhouse is where you are going to eat dinner sir, don't even consider some of these other suggestions. Yelp it and enjoy.

Lets limit this thread to ideas within the realm of possibilities.

I'd like to see the Cheerleaders find at least one person per game wearing a non-revelant t-shirt (a team that is not playing ) and make a big deal about it and give them a t-shirt to put on over their Texas or Notre Dame or whatever shirt. "Look everybody. This guy is wearing a UCLA shirt (everybody boos). Let's give him a North Texas shirt (everybody cheers)." And fans cheer louder when he puts it on.

I understand what you are saying - I don't necessarily agree or disagree with what you are saying but....... When I read posting after posting after posting from UNT90 that is constantly negative toward this program - it is CONSTANT, not occasional - then after a while the credibility and effectiveness of your postings have shot their wad! Suggestion: Intersperse a few positive postings about the UNT athletic program here-and-there and people - including those at 1301 Bonnie Brae - will tend to pay attention. Believe me, that is fact! Your postings were very enjoyable and informative for a long time - I enjoyed reading them - but for the past year + your constant negativity toward the UNT athletic program............... I guess I have never understood why anyone continues to see only the negative and STILL supposedly supports a program. Honestly, if I felt the way you seem to feel toward this university's athletic program, I would move on to other things for which I have positive feelings - feelings that brought happiness rather than anguish and stress. Hell, you can't even find positive things to say about what most on here feel is a very good inaugural C-USA football schedule! But to each his/her own........as a parting thought: I have a neighbor who is a chronic bitcher.......and she is happy as a clam because she always finds something to bitch about. Just say'in... GMG

12-0 C-USA Champs National Championship W over Ohio St. Zach Orr wins the Heisman... UNT subsequently gets invited to the SEC... +/-1 obviously...

In a previous life, I taught English to college kids from other countries in San Diego. The most common answer to this same question I got was the abundance of American flags flying everywhere. Then again, I can absolutely see a difference in overt religiosity between San Diego and North Texas (or East Texas or West Texas). I've generally stopped speaking to people in daily life beyond necessary retail transactions because of the religion thing.

http://northtexas.scout.com/a.z?s=353&p=8&c=1&nid=4865737 Jermaine Antoine is now listed as a soft verbal on scout and visting TCU 1/31

This year I think is very unpredictable, but without a question the team will be a better team than last year's team. However, our schedule will be tougher. I still think this year will show what Mac is truly building and that we'll go 6-6 at the least and return to a bowl game after nearly a decade.

Tulane = North Texas' leftovers

We should swoop in and pick up their DE Smith that has possibly decommitted.

Best part is when we will be celebrating in New Orleans next year while they sit on the sidelines using their tears as lube.

This. LaFrance, Smart and now Medina.

walk-on ? Class of 2013 Cant possibly imagine we would use our last scholarship. We need a reliable back up for Olen, especially if he has another Troy meltdown There is also big shoes to fill with Atterberry gone

Where's Medina going?

FYI that is still in the top 25% in the nation. Not sure if that is abysmal.

I agree. I just think his pickiness holds him back sometimes. Yeah, I think his evaluation of Tebo is an example of his guruness, but d-lineman very rarely slip through the cracks by other teams' guru evaluators. That is just such a high demand position. As for Boutwell, we need him there and Mac isn't the only one that sees that. It's unfortunate, but that's just the state our program is in right now. Words can't express how much a winning season would help our program in every way right now.

AIDS? Oh boy. This thing's about to go viral!

See ya, didn't need ya. Seriously, wish we focused more on Texas and Oklahoma kids. The Louisiana recruits tend to want to either go back home or stay from the get go. I understand that and wonder if we would be better served focusing or efforts elsewhere.

Nor was I. Obviously he tackled high, which is not as easy a fix as some of the people on here think, but he also seemed to get to the ball a little late and was not very explosive in his tackles, which would've resulted in him getting dragged at the next level. Sour grapes I guess. I would've liked to have him because he was a good athlete with potential, but I was never a huge fan of his highlights. Two straight years Tulane has plucked a linebacker from us right before signing day. I hope we kick their butt every year, starting this year so this doesn't happen anymore.

Ball St. returns just about everybody from a 9-4 bowl team. A VERY TOUGH home game. Did I metion that Ball St. has been really good, then sucked, and is now really good again while we have continually sucked? Oh, and they blew out the next team on the list: Ohio returns just about everybody from a 9-4 bowl team that beat Penn St. and destroyed ULM in the Independance Bowl. Ohio returns a senior QB named Tyler Tettleton. All he did was throw for well over 5,800 yards the last two seasons (2,800 yards, 18 TDs 4 ints, 62% completion rating, and a 141 QB rating last year). If you think we win this game on the road, you are just simply dillusional. Tulsa won 10 games this year, along with a win over UCF in the CUSA title game and a bowl victory over Iowa St (yes, a Big 12 team). Tulsa graduates 18 seniors, 8 of which were defensive starters (including the entire defensive fromt 4). They only lose 4 on offense (including no skill position players and 3 O-linemen). The players that take their place will most likely be better than our returning starters. That is just where Tulsa is as a program compared to UNT. All 3 of these are pretty much unwinnable, and most definitely are not an "even match". I could go further, but you get the point. (MTSU, while not unwinnable, is going to be an EXTREMELY TOUGH home game). Don't underestimate the leap in competition that we are making.

It's called keeping it real. We are 8-14. Does anybody know where Chris Jones has been? Why isn't he on the bench?

Lets just play every game at a neutral site, I mean its not like they just spent 78 million on a new stadium we can't sell out We only need one neutral game site a year... And that my friends is a bowl game. Case closed.

Is it just me, or is anyone else concerned that in DMN's list of top 100 area players none have committed to North Texsa? I see committments to UTEP,UTSA,La. Tech,New Mexico State,New Mexico,SMU. These are not exactly powerhouses.Is our direction 3a and 4a high schools outside the metroplex,which is about the same road Darrell Dickey took with some success?Just asking wiser heads than me for opinion.

Plan to be there as a spectator. At 51 (almost 52) and three foot surgeries later my sandlot football/basketball/softball days are long over.

Any students or connected folks know if Smart showed today?

I still say I want the SMU game at the Cotton Bowl during the fair.

I'm probably not well-versed enough to speak to every aspect that you mentioned but let me comment on a few. You said that five hundred years ago the earth was considered the center of the universe. The only Bible references that can be construed to that is not in the book of Genesis. There were a couple of references, one in Joshua and one in Psalms that might lead you to believe that but they are written from man's perspective and not cosmology. Genesis had stated that the world was round and suspended in space when people thought that the world was flat. In fact, astronomers might be thought to be geocentrists because they mark the location and movement of the planets based on their position from the earth. No offense to your girl friend but not believing in evolution is not believing in science is bunk. Only a little more than half of the biological scientists say that they believe in evolution and that number is decreasing even in the face of being denied research funds. In fact, that is purportedly the major reason that scientists won't deny evolution because it would cut them out of research money. (Research funds are the backbone to discoveries, especially in medicine, so they remain essential). There are elements of microevolution in Darwin's theory that are sound but none of that substantiates how man evolved from a simple form to the complexity of the human body. Lastly, the Big Bang Theory is just that...a theory. Can anyone show scientific proof of the Big Bang? I haven't seen it yet but I'll keep looking.

In similar news, the Texas / OU game has been moved to Denver.

The Texas Pickup, The Flying Tomato, Tavern on the Green, and Ricks Place. Can't go wrong.

We might be getting Stratford'd, but Berglund's resume and size are worth the shot. Berglund didn't play anywhere else because he couldn't play--it was because of off-the-field stuff. Maybe that makes him an even bigger risk, but Stratford couldn't play at OU and he couldn't play here either for the same reason--his hands were stone.

No, I was just looking at conference games. But, since you asked, that is another one of those winnable games, but that doesn't mean we will win it

As it exists today, the bible is a book. compiled, translated, and edited over the course of centuries by men with their own best interests at heart. That doesn't necessarily mean that the teachings are bad, but neither does it mean that the book, to the letter, is divinely inspired by god, infallible, and to be taken literally (often times viewed with weird time stamped coded messages). The way I personally see the bible today is that the four gospels (although with some contradictory details among them) have got some pretty good stuff on guidance for living a good life. Basically, be excellent to each other and stop hoarding shit and being all gaudy about it. Also, it's totally legit to hang out with your friends and have a little BBQ's fish and wine. Therefore, I tailgate. The old testament is full of violence, polygamy, slavery, and an irrationally jealous god. I'm in the school that says if we're going to cherry pick laws like no homosexuality, then we should be indiscriminate and abolish shellfish (which oddly I don't eat as a vestige of my own upbringing), mixed fabrics, shaves, and women's haircuts, while we should be aggressively taking slave girls and marrying our dead brothers' wives. By the standards of most modern Christian official dogma, the whole thing is either ALL right, or it's not. Stop using the parts you like just because something makes you feel icky. Paul just, well, Paul is personally responsible for being the catalyst that brought about the reaction of my becoming a very, very non-religious person. If religion is going to be something that actively makes my life unpleasant, nay, miserable, just because my chosen deity wants me to live as such, then I'm out. Alllll that said, to anyone here who is religious, I say good on you. I have no problems whatsoever with it, as long as you have no problems whatsoever with my lack of religion. Unfortunately, too many beliefs dictate that people DO care and people MUST actively proselytize and/or condemn upon failure to convert.

I blame this on Playboy Magazine, Cheetos, Tickle Pink Flavored Boone's Farm and the invention and affordability of the in-home air conditioner! Rick

Actually, my future son's father graduated from UNT. Strong legacy.

Not gonna lie...I did not expect Dru Smith to be a ginger.