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Pretty childish of you Jim...wasn't even talking about you, but it seems the post hit real close to home for you...unlike you, I will not mention personal stuff like whether you are a Mean Green Club member or a season ticket holder or a donor at any level to the program...that is your business not mine, but get the chip off your shoulder. You know so much about me that you have no clue what profession I spent over thirty years working within. And, I never saw you around during the Fry era either! Who cares? Maybe we ran with a different crowd...you know, I recently just met a guy who has been around the program since 1961...we had never met, but shared stories of being at the same games in the late 60's and 70's. I saw Abner play while he was a student and athlete at UNT, did you? I was in a class with Joe Greene and watched all those MVC games at Fouts. I'll bet I can name at least a hundred folks who knew me at the time and still do that would not know who you are if you were standing right in front of them...what in the SAM hill would that prove? That you were not there? Ridiculous of you...just ridiculous. The reference to Hitler just shows how immature you can be. Stupid that was.... And, let's see...FRY ERA...yep I was there...Coach Fry even told me in person in an office of the local bank where I was working at the time that he was headed for Iowa BEFORE he announced it to the school and media...even drew the first "Fry styled Hawkeye" on a sheet of paper for us (I was one of his bankers at the time...knew him very well)...I was at the ice bowl game against Fla. State...I was part of the original "insurance program" that the Mean Green Club (in its early form) developed (did you contribute to that program or do you even know of its existence?)...ask greenjoe about that...my kid was a ball boy from the time he was about 10 all the way through his jr. high years during the era that mainly included Jimmy Gales (yep, they just let random folks walk out and have their kids be ball boys for umpteen straight years...check with Wendall, Deon, etc., etc.)...want to see a photo of him with Deon? I went by the name I have always gone by...Mark Miller...was a season ticket holder...want to see my name on the plaque of the donors who gave to turn the seats green at the super pit? It's on the wall of the Super Pit...have you been there lately???? Been around this place since 1965...yes, I did have to leave for a few years serving in the US Air Force and doing graduate work but paid my Alumni dues and donated to the athletic dept. and my academic department every year even when I was away. So, spout off about what you have no clue all you want...if the shoe fits for you...wear it, but don't jump on me after getting your info third hand. If you want to know the facts...you know where to find me. I'm usually around UNT somewhere...what about you? If you don't find me there...PM me...I'll give you my phone number and you can give me a call. Or, you can continue to get your info third and forth hand. WOW...you really went off on this one...seems I ruffled a feather or two...I wonder why? It was not directed at anyone in particular...that's why I named no names nor did I direct any part to "you" in the post AT ALL. Amazing reply...simply amazing. So, it's great if one wants to knock UNT and the Athletic Dept. at every turn, but let someone support it with the same enthusiasm and, in your book, that's wrong! Interesting...but, since you seem to get your info third and forth hand, what should one expect? Hang around with the negative crowd and it doesn't take long for one to also turn negative just. Thanks for the personal attack...very big of you. You are so far off base that you can't even see the place. Like I say...people can be part of the solution or part of the problem...personal choice...you win the lottery...you get to make yours...I win the lottery UNT gets a big piece immediately. It's about UNT for me, not about the folks currently running the place! It's my university. I support UNT and UNT needs OUR help. That's all that matters to me.

I was very impressed with 90's performance. His sideline stance was perfect; helmet on, foot placement, right hand on hip. Applauded at the right time and offered the appropritate amount of encouragement to his team mates. I was unable to ascertain his hand cup technique during his "swat to the butt" of team mates as they came off the field but knowing him, he had it down. Even had the water bottle held at the correct distance from his mouth when he drank. I'd give him an "A" for effort. Thought I'd interject a bit of levity to the thread.

I predict lots of deleted comments today.

Now that was 't so hard was it?

Took me far too long to notice that I had won this thing! I need to post more often. Best of luck next year everyone! I'm gonna go celebrate by bathing in a tub of Ranch dressing while watching Fox News, and reflecting on the success of Tony Benford's first year as head coach of the Mean Green.

Last night Benford called my home and offered me a sholarship. I told him I don't have any eligibility left and that I am 33 years old, 5'10" and kinda chubby, plus I hadn't played competitive BB since 9th grade in 1995. He said I was exactly the type of recruit he was looking for and that he thinks I could play in the Big East....

Not at all. I hope Benford completely changes his coaching style, stops yelling such inspirational nuggets from the bench such as "Go up strong, Jacob!!!! We went over that in practice!!!!", stops an inane substitutionm pattern, thinks and not reacts during a game, and recruits talent in here that can beat bettter competition. The odds of this happening? I'd put it at less than 2%.

Wow Plumm, just wow. Regarding the SMU event, looks great but when is it? Also, posters on here would complain that an open house was planned at the same time as football practice. Regarding UNT, we just had a day that included a 5k run, fan flag football game to raise scholarship $$ in the memory of a deceased player, had a ribbon cutting of a new practice facility for the basketball program, introduced the All-Century Team, had a garage sale for the fans, had a silent auction put together by KRAM and wrapped it upwith the Spring Game. Seems like a full day.

What is the most realistic results we should see in 2013? I know that someone mentioned that one national publication has us going 2-10 awhile back. That seems awfully low. I would expect us to win 4-6 games in 2013, with wins over Idaho, UTEP, UTSA, Tulane, and a win or two over the following teams (USM, La Tech, MUTS, and Ball State). I am on record as preferring Berglund over DT at QB, but the more I think about it, the more I still believe that we should win no less than 4 games this fall no matter who is our QB, assuming we keep reasonable health across the roster. What is your realistic prediction for this year? If we win 3-4 games, does Coach Mac come back in your opinion? I say that he will, but just curious to see what the board thinks. If he wins 6 games or more, would you favor an extension? I would definitely favor that.

It's quite a journey from irreverent ban-ee to irreverence ban-er. It is thus with all guilt.

I'm expecting beer and ribs, which is always a winning season.

I prognosticate that those who proliferate this forum will procrastinate with their predictions until the possibility of participation in the NCAA is past, and then come on here and say I told you so.

Change the word "raised" to "pledged" in thirty days. Change the wording to basketball enhancement fund, which included the goal of practice facility, upgrades to scoreboards in super pit, support of student athlete scholarships, and a fund to support future expenditures on coaching either through change or the need to pay more because of conference realignment, then you would would have an accurate article. Change the amount that Ernie donated, then this have been an accurate article. The overall premise is good i guess, but it is full of exagerrations and things that just are not true. The practice facility did not cost three million dollars. Does anyone do any fact checking around there or do they even care? It is true that Ernie was the largest donor, I will give the writer that, the rest is just spin, and for the life of me, i don't know why?

Now where did I put that gold star?

Great video, way to go coaches and teams!

Love it

I think we sign a couple of floor coaches.

Did the mail sell itself?

I predict someone will come on here and tell you that you are part of the problem, that you should blindly follow everything NT and to not ever, ever, second guess anything the AD does. Damn it, everything is just perfect here and no changes at all need to be made.

I predict Andrew will tell us how much our signees, whomever they are, love Benford and will win 15-20 games. I also predict several of them won't be here in 2014.

Seriously??? The "Hitler argument": aka Goodwin's Law already? A bit early for it to rear it's ugly head. "Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies is an assertion made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an internet adage It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches In other words, Godwin said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis."

That's funny, I've had the feeling that you would like to see the team do poorly next year just so your predictions will come true.

If you want to pick out an arbitrary number like 2005 and spin it, then you might be correct with this limited snapshot. However, the totality of facts are different. Juxtapose the two programs. -UNT has a .505 all time record with 25 conference championships. -UTEP has a .389 all time record with 2 conference championships. Yes, they are worse off than us and not just in the past. Colleges such as Texas State or UTSA going D1 are located in far more desirable locals than EP will hurt their recruitment. If a kid could go to San Antonio, DFW, Houston, San Marcos, or El Paso, is he or his parents going to choose EP? EP is a really tough sell and it will be harder very soon. I am from EP and know what people think of it inside and out. Yes, there could be historical discrepancies such as we have played since 1913 and they have only played since 1914. Or, does history even matter? However, UNT's record versus UTEP is 13-5-2. They do have 4 more bowl wins then UNT. Either way I respectively must disagree with your assessment.

Thanks for the info

Probably as long as it will take many of UNT's "talk a lot, but do nothing" fans to step up and support the program with any of these three....time, talent and/or treasure! Talk is cheap and takes no effort. Actually doing something will make a difference. But, that is a concept that is lost on way too many from UNT it seems. People who continue to complain about everything UNT fail to understand the history that got us to where we are...and that is on the edge of bigger and better and growing daily. Supporters were "lost" in generations, we get them back one at a time. That hurts, but it is what it is. We can all decide to be part of the solution or we can decide to continue to be part of the problem. Personal choice...each of us makes a choice.

I'd make the argument that the reason the "money sport" athletes don't donate is because they've contributed so much already. How much $$ has Manziel brought to Aggieland or RG3 brought to Baylor? They'll likely never make more on an annual basis than they brought to their schools.

Yea, just about 99% of our fans are at least 45 minutes away. Maybe you could car pool.

Now holds 3 offers UNT, Tulsa, Tulane

If Benford needs some wins against D2 schools to get the team to jell and build confidence -- schedule all cupcakes. It's really only been in the last dozen years or so that the thinking on scheduling changed towards challenging yourself in OOC. Hell, even just a few years ago schools like Syracuse played total cupcake non-conference slates. The problem is, I have no reason to believe that these wins will help the team come together since we played two of them last year and lost one.

I got an under armor away jersey. It was number 65 which was the same number I wore in my playing days. I plan on framing it and adding it to my man cave.

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/04/report-riley-dodge-to-join-texas-longhorns-in-offensive-quality-control-position.html/

I'm purchasing football season tickets for the first time this upcoming year. I called and asked if a parking passes allows you to park a RV at apogee. I got two answers 1) yes 2) I'll need to buy a RV permit. I saw under FAQ that you need an RV parking permit for fouts but nothing if the apogee parking pass covers RVs. Any help would be great. GO MEAN GREEN

I think a single game is $50 or $69 bucks on top of your blue parking permit. Have no idea how much for an entire season.

Those guys must have been heartbroken when Benford left and decided basketball just wasn't worth playing anymore.

And all you are doing is attempting to justify your dislike of Tony Benford by placing any blame of Tony Mitchells failures on him (Benford). Is it any different? You want Mitchell to suceed to prove it was Benford. It goes both ways so get off then high horse and give it up. Let's just cheer on the players and the coaches and hold them all accountable going forward.

Yes please Didn't qualify @ Texas. Hopefully that issue is behind him Prep School in NC and was recruited by Marquette in 2011

Absolutely. I think some people may be overreacting (understandably considering our recent history) to the QB situation. BB had an injury, and the coaches wisely limited his action and probably advised him to play it safe and bide his time until August. Meanwhile, DT is fighting for his life as a starter and, according to some accounts, has answered the bell and elevated his game, at least a little. AM is trying to prove himself, and it sounds like he is beginning to do exactly that. The coaches may fully anticipate that BB will greatly surpass the other two when healthy and unleashed, but out of respect they have left him at the bottom of the depth chart until he has a chance to unquestionably prove himself on the field. Sounds fair enough to me. I tend to think that we have bigger fish to fry...like recruiting struggles in basketball. Disclaimer: I live out of state, so I only saw highlights of the spring game. I may have missed something that others witnessed in person.

If any of you have had a hamstring injury, you know it can a while to get back from one to being at 100 percent. That said, I think a hamstring is the kind of injury one might expect from someone who hasn't been on the field for a while, and I think it's something Berglund can work through and overcome.

Seems we're making some great inroads with local connections.

Tony Benford has singlehandedly torn this entire fanbase apart. Just imagine how explosive things will be come year three of that contract!!

Please, just leave.

because it's clearly not supposed to be perfect... if you are questioning that, why don't you question the opening shot which still shows the little kid... or question the fact that you can still clearly see it's a steelers jersey he throws that magically turns into a UNT shirt (or towel, whatever it is)

Before the Fall semester started, I took my car up to the Goodyear on University Drive. As I waited for the courtesy shuttle, I struck Wup a conversation with an older gentleman. As the conversation steered towards football, He mentioned his grandson was Scotty. he said Scotty's choice was UNT, but McCarney was holding a scholarship for another quarterback. That was before Bergland had transferred.

No. Science doesn't say emotions don't exist. For science to study emotion and reach a conclusion about whether any particular emotion exists, one would first have to define the terms so that the study could be conducted objectively. Oh, and science can study religion - it's a productive field within anthropology. What science has a hard time with is the study of 'God'. He/She/It can't be seen, heard, touched, or smelled. That doesn't mean God doesn't exist, only that science works on data - not magic.

When you have to dart back to 50+ years ago to bring up glory moments, then you clearly have a losing culture. UNT won 4 straight conference tites and still couldn't get more than 20-22k and that's at best. If we were to win 4 straight conference titles, we would easily put at least 40-45k in the stands. Hell, we put almost 30k in the stands despite losing to Texas State and going 5-7 (we sold out the Texas State and La Tech game plus put 32k in Reliant even though we were 0-3) and we had 6k in a practice facility that only holds about 4.5k for our spring game. The culture at UNT needs more than winning to change it.

What press clippings does BB have to read? He didn't even get a mention in the FWST story. The kid injures his hamstring and all of a sudden people label him a diva who hasn't grasped the offense yet. Stupid.

If you are a bastard, you and your next 10 generations can't go to heaven. It is in the bible. Look it up. Just plain silly. Religion is a joke, all of them.

What issues are those that religion addresses with resolution?

" I do nt know many jobs that would release you after one successful year." Nor do I. Now what?