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If I nod and occasionally say "yep" or "no way!" will you shut up?

Christopher...VERY well done, Sir. This took time and talent and you used both very wisely. Appreciate what you have done, and I do think it is something the Mean Green Nation can all be proud of when others take a look. Great job!

Hey, Jamario should've gone to a power conference school but they pulled his offers (I forget where) when they found out about his dyslexia. Then he blew everybody away as a Mean Green running back, and when they sniffed around he didn't want anything to do with them. Whatever the reasons for Dajon being ignored, I hope he does the same...come in wanting to fight off the big boys and show them what they're missing, and when they come a-calling, then THEY get rejected. Sounds like a teen romance, almost... ...back to the topic at hand...any chance we could have Walker be our "man on the scene" contributor for some other well-known (and widely read) sites? That'd be tough to pull off but rather awesome if it happened.

They're out there, just have to find the right taco bell.

Hey guys. So as I mentioned a few months ago, I took up the call to represent our alma mater in the 132+ Project on /r/CFB, which is detailing every single division 1 college football school in the nation during the offseason. Today was our turn and I just submitted my post ten minutes ago. Have a gander! I made sure to make it a comprehensive doozy. http://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1how8l/132_teams_in_132_days_north_texas_mean_green/ This post has been promoted to an article

TM finished with 7 points , 6 rebounds & 2 blocks Got into foul trouble & sat out most of 2nd half Overall, good 1st game

We were on the verge of a good rivalry with the Muts, but the series became lopsided. NMSU was brewing, but they backed out of the conference. I think a rivalry will brew with UTSA due to our feelings about their not paying dues, and their feeling of superiority towards us.

Sic Gloria Transit, Froggie Guy. We are in our ascendency and we will see the day when the Horny Toads will match the decline and near extinction of their namesakes. That day will come some day "just as sure as the turning of the earth". (John Wayne, "The Searchers",1956. And by the way, Horned Lizard, pride DOES goeth before the fall.

Having a great game so far

$14.95 I believe

Wondering how many will jump off the top of the Wing Zone when it’s actually Mcnulty that wins the starting spot?

I have a friend whose son plays for UTEP. He wouldn't even give NT a sniff coming out of high school. I would love for us to put a beat down on the Miners!

Or KFC...

You get rival by at least but two but preferably all 3 of these things happening. Schools are in close proximity to each other. Play games that matter for championships The series is not lopsided. Sadly we don't have any of these with any team. Any of the teams that usually come up don't meet all 3 and most not even 2 (MTSU, SMU, NMSU). This is due to us mainly never consistently playing for #2, and also being in conferences that didn't contain #1. The opportunity for all 3 to happen is now available to us in CUSA. I agree La. Tech is the most likely. If we can make #2 happen.

That may be the best write up on UNT football/ Denton I've ever read.

Welcome to Brazil. Where life is cheap.

"bb could be the greatest QB on the face of the earth, but no coach in their right mind is going to hand him a position or change an offense to suit him until he can PROVE that to them" - GL2Greatness So they changed the offense to get more of the QB run game because Thompson's skills all of a sudden reminded them of a smooth running zone read QB...uhhh...no

They might be ours. . . . But I'm not sure we'll be theirs. On the C-USA board, indications are that Southern Miss and La Tech will be each other's primary rivals. UTEP and UTSA look to be getting a "big brother/little sister" rivalry going. Tulsa's leaving the conference, and I just don't see us becoming Rice's primary rival with the complete difference in athletic and academic backgrounds. If we start regularly beating folks, all that could change though.

After Benford.

I agree but be rivals, we need to win about 50% of the games, pack Apogee and travel well to Ruston. GO MEAN GREEN

Our biggest rival will become La Tech

A kid wanted to be recruited? I'll be derned, we have a diamond in the rough!

How nice to see a well researched article on our history and traditions. We have such a rich heritage here at UNT. It is time to bolster and re-enforce that heritage and stop letting it slip away from us. More about that later.

But, and this is the unfortunate part, Kaspar has never been known to carry around a binder...he didn't really ever stand a chance.

This is really first rate. Well done, Christopher!

I saw a LOT of people donating. The morons who showed up with arms full of drinks and fast food, not so much. Fireworks looked good. But they looked even better with Apogee underneath them! This post has been promoted to an article

Why should La Tech be obligated to bail out ULM for their failures? We don't owe them anything. We have to look out for our own interests and do what's best for Tech. We got to where we are on our own despite everybody else in the state including ULM trying to pull (or push in LSU's case) us down. What's wrong with letting ULM figure out how to solve their own problems and improve themselves on their own like everybody else? Why should we give them special treatment to our detriment?

First, we don't want a local rivalry. That's what ULM wants. We want to play on a more regional and national platform to expand our brand and increase our national exposure. We want rivalries with Southern Miss, Rice, and North Texas and ultimately Tulane and LSU for in-state rivalries. You can't compare LaTech playing ULM to LaTech playing WAC schools (BTW Hawai'i brought the most fans). You have to compare it to the non-conference games we scheduled. We usually have to play 2 money games and 1 FCS game to balance out a money game. (ULM usually has to schedule 3 money games and 1 FCS game to balance their budget.) That really only leaves room for 1 home-and-home game per season. LaTech played or signed home-and-home deals while in the WAC with Texas A&M, two with Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, Cal, Miami (FL), BYU, Navy, Army, Houston, Southern Miss, Rice, UNLV, North Texas, two with ULL, South Alabama, and Bowling Green. Why should we have to schedule ULM? We don't need ULM butts in our seats, and the last time couple times we played them no ULM fans showed up because we pounded them every time.

We aren't pushing ULM down. ULM (Me Too U) is there own worst enemy. The only reason they are in the FBS is because LaTech moved up. It was an irrational decision by their admin because they are a Southland level program without the resources to succeed at the FBS level. ULM basically committed suicide trying to keep up with LaTech. ULM is now in debt to their ears. ULM has lost an entire generation of fans taking 19 years to record their first ever winning season and bowl game at the FBS level. Arkansas let ULM schedule ULM "home" games against them in Little Rock just so they could meet the FBS attendance requirements. They are the smallest public school in the FBS, the worst academic school in the FBS per USN&WR, and have the smallest budget in the FBS. ULM simply doesn't belong. They can't even afford a ninth assistant football coach or even a director of basketball operations. That's how poor they are. Because of all the added costs of FBS football that they can't afford, all of their other sports suffer. They have the 14th smallest MBB budget in all of Division I (link) and only spend more than some SWAC schools. ULM is basically on life support, and the only thing keeping them alive is the hope of playing Tech again. We are the only thing that can save them, and their new AD knows it. Their choices are to die a slow death in the FBS, or swallow their pride and lose what little remaining support they have by moving back to the Southland to become competitive again. It's a lose-lose situation for them. And why should we be obligated to save another university in our backyard that we compete with for students, money, and support? The difference between LaTech and SMU is that we started from nowhere, took significant risks, and worked hard without cheating to earn the competitive advantage that we enjoy today.

The AAC is probably the most stable of the bunch as it is now clear that any team in Conf USA will jump at the chance to leave and join the AAC if asked to do so.

I keep hearing about BB having problems with Chico's system. At what point do we simplify the system? Or, install a system/plays to play to his strengths? Our running game is not a threat to win games (with Byrd) and puts too much pressure on Thompson to win with his arm. That aint going to happen over the course of the season. He is also very immobile. We just need to find a way to have Burgland on the field 75% of the game and stop making excuses. (Coaches and fans)

Yeah,just look at Johnny Manzel.

how about dealing in reality....the reality that at this point 3 D1-A head coaches (Turner Gill, Fat Charlie, and DMac) have seen bb in practice and seen that he is not going to get the start until he does more to prove he is worthy of that.......3 D1-A offensive coordinators have seen the same....and one community college head coach and one community college OC have seen the same even after bb played in the spring game everyone here is basing the imaginary talent of bb on high school press clippings and on recruiting hype and the reality is the reason there is little else to go on falls squarely on the shoulders of bb because when he was ask to step up or was given the opportunity to step up and prove he belonged on the field of play he packed his bags and ran off to some place else to start over again here is a clear timeline of his time at KU http://www2.kusports.com/brockberglund/timeline/ he arrives on campus in time for spring drills, suddenly on March 3rd he has to run back home to mommie......he says he will be back at the end of April or first of June.....then he is suddenly back on April 5th and he has graciously volunteered to hold the clip board on the sidelines instead of actually working and practicing on April 9th he is back in CO and gets in the fight......in the mile high sports "exclusive with bb" he says he is back home to visit friends and family and there is no mention of the fact that he had already left the team in March for "personal reasons" and yet he is back a bit later to hold the clip board in spring drills and then he is back in CO right in the middle of when he said he was back in Kansas to "observe" he shows back up June 4th......he is there for photo day June 15th...then suddenly to his surprise according to the bb exclusive story in mile high sports he is charged in June 24th again this article says the same thing I have been saying http://www2.kusports.com/news/2011/jul/22/qb-brock-berglund-coach-turner-gill-both-pickle/ bb did not commit the assault until April 9th which was nearly 2 weeks after KU spring practice had started and bb had walked away from the team weeks before that and then still came back April 5th to watch practice and hold the clip board and then 4 days later went home and got in a fight.....and he was still not charged from that until June 24th and he showed back up in June for team photos and for the start of summer voluntary drills, but went back home again......and it was not until Turner Gill told him that he was not going to be a starter in August that he decided it would be "best to red shirt and concentrate on legal issues" so again bb had the opportunity to participate in spring drills, no matter what his story was for going home in the first of March he still was able to come back and hold the clip board on April 5th and then had time to fly back home for a "visit for friends and family" in the middle of his clip board holding duties and before he had said he would be able to return to the team at the end of April when he first left the team in March and in the "exclusive" bb story in mile high sports he completely ignores the fact that he left the team in early March and says that he was back home April 9th for a visit to friends and family......right in the middle of KU spring practice where he was the #1 clip board holder then bb states that Fat Charlie told him he would not start at all......but according to 5-10/6' Michael Cummings from Killeen, Texas Fat Charlie told him that he would get every opportunity to earn playing time before he was ask to possibly switch positions to receiver....and we know now that Fat Charlie was indeed a man of his word because Michael Cummings did in fact end up starting several games in 2012 for KU when Dane Crist faltered but of course bb was not there to COMPETE for that playing time because he was busy sitting out the season at north Texas because he had transferred instead of actually trying to compete for playing time at KU.......and he had also FAILED to actually win playing time at the community college in Arizona because a transfer QB from Hawaii beat him out and then "something came up" and he left community college so while all the message board coaches are still listening to the press clippings for bb from high school and his recruiting stats and his personal comparison to Payton Manning, Michael Vick and Tim Tebow and ignoring the fact that 3 D1-A head coaches, 3 D1-A offensive coordinators and a CC head coach ad a CC OC have failed to see the bb hype or to buy into it....and the reason they have failed to see that hype or buy into it is because every time bb is ask to even get on the PRACTICE field or to get into a spring game to prove the hype in practice or in a spring game "something comes up" and bb cuts and runs he cut and ran from KU in early March, he was only willing to be the #1 clip board holder for KU all spring, he acted stupid and got in a fight in the middle of being the #1 clip board holder.....even though he had still not been charged yet he refused to show up for voluntary summer workouts and he was only able to show up for team photo day......he refused to be around the team for the 2011 season so he could drag out his legal stupidity and then in the spring of 2012 he refused yet again to compete for playing time at KU and instead left the team and spent the spring doing his global intergalactic search for just the right fit for brock and that was at a community college in AZ......where he dd not win the starting job after the spring game and then "something came up" and he was gone from there so he did not get to see the field of play for yet a second season in a row.......and now at north Texas he has not shown enough to DMac or to Chico to win the starting job because he is not picking up the play book and because he has "an injury" to his hammy so again perhaps many members of the GMG community are impressed with two year old high school press clippings and the ability of bb to hold the clip board when he bothers to show up to practice, but 4 head coaches and 4 OCs are not that impressed with those "skills" and I am sure they are even less than impressed with his ability to cut and run when even remotely challenged to step up and win some playing time because that is all he has ever really show great skill at doing because he does not even bother to show up to most practices and when he does show up it is to hold the clip board or he is injured or there is some other reason he can't go full strength.....and even the single time he did go full strength at community college he did not win the starting job even after the spring game and he cut and ran from there no D1-A coach or OC is going to just hand someone like that a starting job.....the players at KU saw him as a cancer, the coach at the CC in Arizona did not seem particularly concerned that he was leaving and DMac and Chico have not exactly been singing his praises......which is why he is not even #2 he is #3 and did next to nothing in the spring game for north Texas

Upon further review of the above sudden burst of smack board political flatulence and how some words are considered code in this era.....I will say that my first understanding of the term ghetto probably came from the old "World At War" series (which I watched as a kid on Houston's PBS station--KUHT back in the 60's) with narration by Sir Lawrence Olivia. So the link below describes the kind of ghettos I first became aware of as a kid from the big metropolitan city of Danbury, Texas. Yet no matter how you slice it, a true ghetto-existence cannot be a good thing no matter one's race, creed or religion; especially for those millions who were forced to live in them in Germany, Poland and Czechoslavakia back in the 1940's. http://www.krakow-info.com/ghetto.htm

Associating Fort Worth in any way that links the city to Dallas is just plain wrong. Anyone who has ever spent considerable time in both knows which one is the far better city. Dallas = crime ridden dump. Fort Worth = A city that is constantly working to revitalize old neighborhoods into destination areas (see Magnolia St. and the revitalized Fairmount neighborhood). Not to mention the almost complete lack of $30k millionaires that overrun the city to the east.

I remember Thompson throwing the ball away,UNT90, in the Troy game last year on the dipsy-doodle. He threw it WAY away from anything.

what kind of an idiot coach changes a system to suit a player that has proven nothing to anyone since high school here is why bb is not on the field http://www.denverpost.com/cu/ci_23285021/cu-buffs-signing-jordan-gehrke-adds-drama-qb Go ahead and scoff at Scottsdale's nickname, but don't scoff at the Artichokes' level of play. In earning the starting job last season, Gehrke not only beat out Hawaii transfer Kevin Spain but also Brock Berglund, Valor Christian High's ballyhooed QB who transferred in from Kansas. so after an exhaustive global intergalactic search for the ultimate fit for brock that was a pure business decision he wound up at SCC and then when he could not beat out a kid that was listed at SCC as 6'-1" and 186 and went 22TDs VS 14 ints suddenly "something came up" and he packed up his press clippings and left and the article says he was 6'-0" 165# with a dead arm coming out of high school....so when a guy that is 6'-4" 215 and that works out with guys that work with the pros when the pros are on strike and that compares himself to Vick, Tebow, and Manning can't compete with that "something comes up" and he transfers yet again away from the community college that he hand picked from MILLIONS of offers as his best fit and based on his wisdom of ages learned from past mistakes going to KU ect. and now the guy that was 6'-0" and 165# out of high school with little or no major offers is at Colorado competing for a starting job.....the school that bb decided against and picked KU over instead and now bb is in Denton his 3rd stop in less than 3 years with a hurting hammy and competing for 3rd string at some point you have to ask when do the high school press clippings stop having meaning and when does the guy with all the hype actually step up and EARN playing time.....unless you are the type that thinks you need to change an offense and hand the starting position to a guy that has shown nothing but a propensity to walk away when the time comes to step up and actually prove something on the field or even in practice at what point do you have to face the reality that 3 D1-A head coaches and 3 D1-A OCs have had a chance to "see bb in action".....ok well a very limited chance because when it came time to actually step up and practice bb was nowhere to be found and then a community college head coach and OC had a chance to actually see bb in action and they went with the 6'-1" 186# guy that was said to have a dead arm out of high school and now that guy is playing for a team in the PAC 12 (even if it is a crappy one and the team that bb had committed to early on) and he is going to try and compete to earn a starting position or playing time is it really that hard to grasp that multiple people with experience in the college and even pro ranks are looking at bb and telling him that he actually has to do something to EARN playing time besides show them his high school press clippings and that after they tell that to bb he disappears and reappears somewhere else because "something came up" but yea lets not only toss him the ball and make him a starter lets go ahead and change the offense to suit him as well .....that would really be great for team moral and work ethics bb could be the greatest QB on the face of the earth, but no coach in their right mind is going to hand him a position or change an offense to suit him until he can PROVE that to them and high school press clippings and the inability to actually show up for practices at all or at full strength is not proving anything to anyone.....but it is getting a lot of others that do just that playing time, offers, spots to transfer to and play, and playing time when the starter falters and at many of the places that bb walked away from of course it sounds like that to you....you are incapable of hearing what you don't want to hear no matter the truth of what you are being told

I know re-alignment is all about a bunch of "what if's" and jumping on board with schools that some might even perceive are going to be what they once were but will never be (again) at the Go5 level and those schools and their alums know they won't. And worse for a handful of that group who still have Big Time aspirations, the Power of 5 conferences have almost closed its membership for the unforeseeable future. But for the AAC.........."what if" SMU and UH actually do get a very sweet package from the MWC so they can get into the Texas TV market, ie, such a package too tough for both of those schools to turn down and then they decided "To Go West Young Man? Then what does that do to Tulane and Tulsa who also made very quick decisions to jump to the AAC w/o thinking about that SMU/UH/MWC option which would probably not be available for those 2 schools? Sorta' has them hanging out west from the AAC rest on a very thin limb making those crackling sounds by the second. The other thread I posted which had a Big 12 Froggie Guy get so pissed had this very MWC scenario for SMU/UH in mind albeit I didn't post that scenario. Still for those who think re-alignment talk is dead don't be too hasty with such a thought. And I still see the new CUSA as a long term better situated deal once all the possible conference-jumpings elsewhere play out. The AAC not being done losing members could very well be the moral of this post, matter of fact. GMG!

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either side of your "point" does not bode well for north Texas.....if they did in fact change the offense to suit a player that has never stepped onto the field in a college game or played in 2 years that is a pretty stupid coaching move.....and it is all the more stupid in light of the fact that the player is now injured and listed as third string and if they did change the offense to suit that player and that player is still listed as third string (injured or not) VS second string what does it say about the abilities of a player that perhaps had the offense changed to more suit their style.....yet they are still listed as the third stringer...again not an overwhelming vote of confidence and if he was not starting or listed as first string because of an injury in most every program out there that would mean a listing as second string not third string unless north Texas does something different than most programs unless north Texas has the dumbest head coach and OC out there the reason they changed to offense was not to suit a player that has not played in two years it was to better suit what the OC is comfortable calling and working with because again if it was for a specific player so far that switch is looking very stupid right about now because that player is hurt and riding the pine 3rd string also the specific comment I was responding to was saying dumb down and change the offense even more.....the offense that has already been changed for whatever reason (I believe it was changed to suit the OC not a single player and changing to suit the OC makes sense to suit a single player not so much) ....the offense that should already favor the guy that is right now injured and 3rd string....so again in the context of the post I was responding to dumbing down or changing the offense even more would be even more stupid because the offense already should favor the guy that is currently injured and 3rd string.....but he is injured and 3rd string right now so changing it further would just be a give up for this year and another wait until next year situation because if the guy that is injured and 3rd string is everything that some on this forum think he is then he should be able to run the offense as it is now once healthy and if not dumbing it down and hoping that in another year he can pick up more of it is just laughable why do you assume that bb is worthy of being handed the starting position over others when he could not even beat out a 6'-1" 186# guy that was said to have a dead arm out of high school when competing for a starting job at the Scottsdale Community College Fighting Artichokes.....bb was there for their entire fall workouts and for their final scrimmage game and it was the first time in over a year that bb actually stepped up to compete for a position and he did not win that position he lost that competition to a guy that is 6'-1" 186# and was said to have a dead arm out of high school and had few if any D1-A offers and is now at CU of the PAC 12 competing for a starting position...the Fighting Artichokes of Scottsdale Community College was the place that bb hand picked with the wisdom of ages on his side and the place he felt he would have the greatest chance to get to start and play and that had the offense that best suited all his imaginary feats of strength and instead of winning the starting job he lost it to a 6'-1" 18# pound guy that was said to have a dead arm and instead of staying the rest of the season to compete for that position "something came up" and he transferred before the first game was even played and he has been at north Texas now for about 10 months and he is listed as 3rd string.....has he been injured this entire 10 months.....has he not been practicing at all this entire time.....do the coaches see him as a potential starter or a strong competitor to start, but because of an injury they have him at 3rd string even though most places would not put a starter listed as thirds string because of an injury they would put them as second string as worst again why the assumption that 3 D1-A head coaches and OCs (at least one with significant NFL experience as well) and a community college head coach and OC are all wrong when they do not just hand the position to bb and even a 4th D1-A head coach and OC are supporting to a degree the decision to not start bb at the Fighting Artichokes because the guy that did get the start they offered a scholarship to and are now giving a chance to earn a starting spot and or playing time...so when bb did compete against a dead armed 186# 6'-1" QB with few if any D1-A offers out of high school for a starting position at his hand picked community college that matched all his feats of strength and mad skillz bb did not win the position and the guy that did win the position now has a PAC 12 D1-A full ride and te chance to compete for a starting position.....so it is hard to say that CC head coach and CC OC made the wrong decision because after winning the starting position at the CC the 6'-1" dead armed guy now has a D1-A PAC 12 full ride and a chance to compete to start if you want to say DT is a terrible QB just say it and if you want to say that Turner Gill, his OC, fat Charlie and his OC, the Scottsdale HC and OC and DMac and Chico are all clueless and stupid for not handing the ball to bb and that you know better than all those that have actually watched him practice the few times he has bothered to practice and those that watched him compete in a scrimmage the one time he bothered to do that then just say it, but stop pretending that it is because bb has show anything at all what so ever that proves he has what it takes and just say you think you know better than all of those that get paid and have their jobs on the line that have not seen what you claim to have seen (which what you have seen is high school press clippings while they have actually seen him practice and work out and play.....sometimes when he feels like it)