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Saturday vs UTSA will be Ryan's last regular season home game at UNT(Notice I said regular season). It has been a wonderful experience for him as well as his parents and family. We really appreciate all the support that the Mean Green Family has shown Ryan personally. I never had any reason to follow UNT before Ryan started to play there. I played against North Texas State in 1986. Texas A&M 48 - NTSU 28 and that was about it. Ryan was offered a scholarship to play Football by Todd Dodge. UNT was the first school to offer so Ryan accepted. I have missed 5 UNT games since 2010.(Army,Ohio,three yearly trips to Florida). It was a matter of being able to drive to get to the game after youngest son's Friday night football games. Being able to travel and follow the team all over the Southeastern US has been the best part. I will truely miss the travel/road trips. Being a part of the move from Fouts to Apogee was pretty cool too. Another very nice surprise has been the Green Brigade. A REALLY entertaining band and better than a vast majority of Big 12 and SEC Bands. Again, thanks to everone for your support of Ryan. JEFF BOUTWELL

Had no affiliation to UNT at all. I grew up in Manhattan, Kansas and was an avid K-State fan (so there is not a person on here who has seen worse football than me). I moved to Texas, long story short I had a little boy and am not able to get back to Kansas so I adopted UNT as my team in 2010. I have to say I can not be more pleased with my decision. I have met alot of nice people and everyone in the athletic department has been nothing but the best to me and my family. Because of this I now have alot more green in my closet than I do purple. I look forward to what the future holds for UNT athletics and I believe in this program 100%.

I would love to hear everyone's story as to why they follow UNT? What is your connection and how did you end up there? As for me, I have had UNT in my blood from birth. My grandfather, Harold Miller, was the Union Director in the early 70's. My grandmother, Phyllis Miller, managed College Inn (the restaurant and ballroom). Can you believe they actually had weddings at that place!? My father, Steve Miller, went to school there in the late 60's and was there when Joe Greene came into town. My father got a job in human resources for UNT and went up the chain to eventually be the Assistant Vice President. He passed away in January of 2005. They still have a scholarship named after him, a plaque near his office, and, a staff award named after him. I am proud of that. Years after his death I would run into strangers and hear stories of ways he left a big impact on them. As a kid my father would take me to many UNT games-basketball and football. I remember the McNeese State? game here in the rain among many others. My Sister went to UNT for her undergrad and masters and my brother later went there for his undergrad. I wanted to go to a school outside of my home town. But, when I was a senior in high school my dad said to me, "Travis, you can go to any school in the state you want to, but you are paying for it." That meant I was going to UNT because 1. I had a scholarship there and 2. it was affordable for me. I instantly fell in love with it. I got my bachelors in Philosophy in '04. I met my wife just after graduating. She also bled green and was a UNT cheerleader. I am proud of that too. She is now on her last year in the doc program... at UNT. I am really proud of this! I left for a year and then came back on as a Hall Director in housing for five years. I managed Mozart Square for most of that time living with the basketball teams and soccer teams (it was interesting being on the inside with them when certain news broke-as well as the news that never did). I enjoyed working with all the head coaches-including Coach Mac when his football players lived in the halls. I can definitely say that Benford, Mac, and JJ all really cared a great deal about the character of their players. While working in Student Affairs I got my M.S. in Recreation. I no longer work at UNT (stopped last October), but my connection is just as strong as always. I love this place for what it has done and been to my family. It is a source of pride and a place where I met my wife, built a family, made a living, created lifelong friendship and memories. Thank you guys for having a forum like this that we can keep connected, remain involved, and waste precious office time. What's your story? This post has been promoted to an article

Kick-off is over a week from now. There is a 90% chance that the forecast will change.

Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc: The football stadium got funded and the coach's salary was raised. Therefore, the library funding fell short. Defunding the football stadium and coaching salary will therefore fund the library and its staff. In all honesty, it does not speak well of our overall academic standards if faculty are going on record with logical fallacies like this. It's embarrassing, really.

I beat my cousin in NCAA when we were 10,he was using a custom UT team with himself as QB(all 99 stats) and I chose UNT randomly. Beat him and he didn't talk to me for a week. It was awesome. The rest is history.

Fouts has been closed for three years, buddy.

I'm flying in from NY for this game. My ass will be at Apogee even if the gates of hell open before kickoff. Go Mean Green!!

Is the BB team's rally slogan also going to be "Hit Six"?

My wife and my connection to North Texas is from our son playing football for the Mean Green from 2007-2011. We have really enjoyed the whole game day experience and expect to be going to games for many years to come. My wife and I graduated from the University of Iowa in the early 1980's. The first we had ever heard about North Texas was in 1978 when Iowa hired Hayden Fry away from the Mean Green. I was in attendance at a Hawkeye basketball game when he was introduced to the crowd for the first time and he confidently proclaimed, "We're gonna win!" Iowa had endured 19 straight losing seasons before Hayden was hired but he was quick to build the foundation of a winning program. My freshman year in 1977 was Dan McCarney's first year as an assistant coach for the Hawkeyes. Hard to imagine but he has mellowed over the years compared to his early days as a coach.

Plus, these are interesting offensive stats, but what about our opponents? How did we do defensively? Also, very convenient to remove Tristan from the average to better reflect the "team" average. The offense used Tristan that season as a shooter. I don't think that it is fair to exclude him and exclude Clarke. Both participated in the team. Benford and JJ both allowed those shooters to take the number of shots that they did. Seems revisionist to remove them.

Something like this?

AD Department officials asked at the basketball game that we pass this around. Despite some sources showing game times for the Mean Green at Tulsa game, TV officials will decide on game time next Wednesday. Go mean Green!

I wish i had never seen this That is hilarious! I get the reference now and I am inclined to insult my own program as well. As a proud UTSA alum living in UNT territory, I would like to offer my apologies for some of our overzealous fans. Some of us must have a little too much liquid courage or are just plain delusional. We know that we are a fledgling program and our meteoric rise is the result of hard work and a bit of good fortune. I think we have the potential to be a respectable program, but there is still a long way to go in this journey. I respect the Mean Green and am glad to have them as an conference member. I hope we win on the 23rd but if not I wish UNT the best and hope they win the title.

All doubts about Benford aside, I want him to prove me wrong. I had doubts almost immediately after the UAH game last year that finally boiled over when ULL beat us by 31. I wanted him gone after that, and did till around May when I just figured might as well get on board since he's gonna be here anyway. I make no apologies for questioning him. But, if he starts to turn this thing around I'll probably be one of the bigger defenders on this board. I love basketball and want a winner. We do NOT have a history of winning teams here. Look at our all-time records if you want to get depressed. We'd have to win a 70% clip for several seasons just to put us over .500 all-time. That's why so many of us loved JJ. He was turning that around. Maybe we weren't making the NCAA's every year, but we were in the hunt. Look at his record in the SBC tournament! I'm not asking for much...just a team that is in contention and doesn't embarrass us. Losses to UAH, ULM (x2) and shellackings to schools with losing records, embarrass us. If the players hate us like Andrew says, that's too bad. However, other than their families, no one roots for them harder than I do, I guarantee you that.

or... Does Work Affect your GMG.com Productivity? I put "Somewhat, but I mostly keep it in moderation", since if it really gets busy, I won't have time to look at gmg at all, and it doesn't affect me at all. But... then there are the slow days, and it might as well be "My employer should either block me from gmg.com or fire me now". Today is pretty slow...

I started out at Texarkana College in 2007, biding my time for when my girlfriend would graduate high school. Got the Associates two years later, then packed it up for Denton for either music or RTVF. From 2009 to this past May, I had an awesome undergraduate career; SGA, President's Sustainability Council and Chair to the We Mean Green Fund, Board Member and President of the Composers Forum, lots of late nights on the Square, Kevin Roden's house for Drink & Thinks, shows, 35 Denton (and Oaktopia tomorrow!), got engaged then married over my Senior+ year (she was the Intern for the Alumni Association for 3 years as well), went to every home football and a few basketball and soccer games, performed in amazing ensembles, and got a job running the live streams for the College of Music, etc. So now I've got a BM in Music Composition ('13), my wife's got a BS in Psychology ('12) and just started a Masters in Counseling. If admitted, I hope to start an Masters of Public Administration next Fall. I still work for the College of Music Recording Services and when my wife left the Alumni Association, I stepped in and now run the Alumni Pavilion. Love love love this school.

I didn't make this but it seems to drive home forevereagle's point:

I don't. They are usually heavy on the latter and light on the former.

If it rains, and attendance is poor, the library will recover its $1.7 million budget shortfall.

Woke up to one of the classic statements about the library and stadium, and had to do the ol' clarification dance. The hilarious part is that the fees for the library and its services are 65% higher than that of the athletics program - all of the athletics program. So that said, I think the priorities are in order. As for that odd regulation, it does seem strange that funds for salaries/wages/benefits have to come from a specific source. I would understand why you couldn't cover football with state funding, but I don't get why something that's directly tuned to academics (library salary/wages/benefits) can't come from funding aimed specifically at academics. But from what I've gathered, here's the deal: At some point, however many years back, UNT's libraries were joint funded through state funds and student fees. Back then, the fees were designed to be a supplement to state funds to bump salaries, get new materials, etc. Then, the student library fee was increased (again, many years ago), and some people thought that the fee alone could cover the expenses of the library, salaries/wages included. So for employees past a certain cutoff date, they were paid out of student fees. And for employees before a certain date, whose pay came from state funds, they continued to be paid from state funds. To offset this, both the previous and current Dean of the Libraries asked for a fee increase, but they were declined. Now the issue is that ALL library employees have to be paid through student fees, no grandfathering allowed. This means that a student fee that was never designed to support the pay of all of the employees and running operations of the library has to do exactly that. Apogee or not, the library system would still be dicked right now.

I only care about one thing. We haven't been bowl eligible for nine years, so let's not be LA Tech and screw up a bid in hopes of getting something sexier. Just go, and just win.

My point in this is simple. Don't brow beat people's opinions with a bunch of wide reaching statements that have no basis in fact. Plus, why does your avatar focus on the crotch and not the face?

Nicholls is not a very solid program. Since 2000, they have posted a 113-233 record. Quit trying to bad ass everybody. We beat a team we should have beat. And quit shaking your head, you're probably gonna vomit.

There are level heads calmly discussing the differences in funding models and that is what I would encourage anyone here who jumps into the discussion to do. Calling people who are fired up about the administration kneecapping the library "hippies" and "baristas" and other meant-to-be-demeaning terms is counterproductive. This is a great opportunity to educate people about the differences between athletic funding and academic funding and how the "football versus academic" us-against-them is a foolish strawman. If you love your alma mater, you need to be furious about this Budget Office decision.

Apparently you missed the phantom natural gas smell reported by a Denia resident the day of the homecoming bonfire and her fear that the leak would blow up her neighborhood. Guess what was never found? A gas leak or even the faintest smell of natural gas that she (and she alone) had detected. They are still out there. Just resorting to more desperate tactics.

What? THAT'S what you waste your one post per day on?

So there are 35 bowls for 70 teams, right? As of right now there are 58 teams that are bowl eligible. Another 15 are only 1 win away from eligibility (I think...didn't check to see how many had 2 FCS wins), and that doesn't count the ones that need 2 or 3 more but have a cushy schedule that will probably get them there. There will obviously be shuffling due to some conferences having more teams than slots and others not being able to fill all of theirs. But it stands to reason that for some conferences (like CUSA), 7 or 8 wins may be necessary to get a spot unless you're in a great location for a local bowl if you have a 6-6 record. As long as we win the next 2, we'll definitely be safe, but for the other CUSA teams there is a good chance that some will be eligible but left out of bowl season. This of course means less money for us when we split the pot. So unless something weird happens and a bunch of teams on the cusp lose out, UTSA probably won't be getting a shot. FAU would also seem unlikely to fill in. La Tech, who knows, because the NO Bowl may still want them at 6-6 over a non-Louisiana team with a better record. Any other thoughts?

So...has he been fired yet? This is top-notch humor. Is that still a thing? I'm not a big tweeter...can we get that linked up here? Honestly...why do you still post here? It was fun for a while...the making fun of you and your very slight grasp on basketball (and reality, really)...but it's grown tired.

Even though the Sunbelt could possibly be better on the gridiron, our perception as a good football team is so much greater now. If we were 7-3 in the sunbelt we would get the, "ya but," all day. CUSA has done wonders for us.

I think markets dictate reallignment. DFW helped UNT out, San Antonio helped us out. You also had facilities to pitch, but they play a minimal role in reallignment compared to market size imo otherwise why would we get an invite without any facilities in place. You guys had what, close to ten consecutive losing seasons heading into this one? So you didn't earn it on the field.

That was a good team we beat tonight. Jump on the bandwagon now.

If you are already determined to be over-budget and now are willing to cut services but not staffing, what happens to those who are working for or in those services that have been cut? The absurdity of making a blanket statement that we are not going to reduce staff, but instead cut services is in essence an admittance that a legitimate analysis of the problem was never conducted and only a reactionary action was taken. If you remove services, how can you not reduce manpower and keep the same productivity? It does not balance out. This is very much a situation of someone making a complaint about the system instead of ever actually looking at the problem.

I'll applaud Benford's recruiting when the class isn't ruled academically ineligible before a minute of basketball is played. Right now the one freshman on the team is in academic purgatory waiting on some ruling from the NCAA on whether he can play or not. We have 2 sophmores on the squad and only Maurice has contributed any minutes to this still very young season. Everyone else are Juniors and Seniors.

I feel compelled to discuss this, as an English major. I did the best I could to dispel some of the lies and misinformation. This is outrageous, however. The Union was the problem. Very deceptive practices by the administration. We have crumbling buildings for things we excel in, and the best Library Science program in the country. Unacceptable.

Why do our guards drive the ball and just throw up junk? I get trying to draw a foul, but dude some of the shots Alzee and some of the other guys put up are just garbage. This team is missing a PG. They need a pure distributor who can take care of the ball.

Considering our wins are Northwood and Nicholls State, I think it's a little too early to go score boarding with our 2-1 record...

can't wait for the fake benford tweet

Yeah, but if Marshall loses tonight and beats ECU, don't we still host the CCG - guaranteed? The answer's yes (as long as we win out)

Is that why he is a chronic mouth breather?

Benford has definitely slowed his roll on the subs. Substitutions that is. Suit is looking a little snug.

I have a love hate relationship with this team. One minute we look good the next we can't dribble. Fundamentals are sorely lacking here. If I was Coach Benford I go find me a PG who didn't think he was Harlem Globetrotter. Jones isn't even close to Josh White. Can DT come be our game manger PG for bball? Also stop throwing the ball to the walking TO Voss.

With all the usual intra- conference smack aside....UTSA has warp sped into NCAA FBS very impressively much like others we have seen, ie, South Florida, Central Florida, UAB (when they added football) and what seems will be similar scenarios at Old Dominion and Charlotte. You all have schooled many of us with instant attendance building no matter how you did it. Just who is this us I speak of? Start with Houston, SMU and much of the rest of CUSA. Honestly, I don't want UTSA to come down to any of our attendance averages but the rest of us to get up to yours. We have no idea how many yall will travel next week when the Road Runners make their first trip to Apogee Stadium, but I think it will be more than any other of our opponents thus far. UTEP is down now but when the Miners are back in the "W" column they will come to Denton in droves--I really believe that. But isn't this UNT and UTSA thing really apples and oranges for the most part? I think North Texas fans/alums because of the nature of our long time history of playing intercollegiate football has had to endure (quite frankly) a road which became well traveled with some success but also with many dips, detours and all but "the bridge is completely out' situations. I also think many of our alums resent the fact that yalls road to the NCAA FBS came much too easy but, that is not any of your faults because of that, either. Truth as I see it? North Texas/UTSA will become one of the best "well attended" rivals in the new CUSA and even in the Southwest, but give us time to get to know you without our thinking we are being forced into having to kiss you (so to speak) on the first date, OK? Now lets talk chicken once again...will that be original or crispy?

It isn't the Library people, they're too smart for that. Mostly random students and parents who have no clue. What are we supposed to do...tell everyone who wants to give money to athletics that they aren't allowed to? Or that they have to support something academic first? We need a lot of funding and endowment support. Getting alumni involved with more exposure and visits back to campus will do that...and athletics will always be the biggest draw - not for every person, but for the amalgam. We're finally using athletics for exactly what it's supposed to be used for - visibility and alumni relations. Blaming a state budget issue on a fee/donor/income based budget that doesn't draw from any of the same money pools is ignorant, you're right. But when informed, many of the ignorant ones continue to rant with no basis whatsoever.

"There are nearly 300,000 NCAA student athletes, most of which are going pro in something other than sports."

Winning NCAA FBS football programs have increased donations across the board at most all their respective "schools of" and 'colleges of" academic departments A Symposium At The Willis" is not going to pull em' in from all corners of northern Texas with check books in hand, but an excited North Texas alum who just had an Apogee Experience most likely will, comparatively. UNT Library folks are isolating and demonizing the wrong dog on this hunt (if that is what's really going on). GMG! PS: To The Willis Library Staff Who Make Us All Proud: Host one of your potential big donors in one of Apogee's luxury suites on Game Day; ie, a luxury suite (or group of seats) that I'd all but bet a pay check UNT AD Rick V would be more than cooperative with your staff to insure it to happen.

How many people show up to watch a kid do a science experiment?

It's not a self inflicted insult. Anyone who follows or has followed UNT knows that the history of this program has been to have a few really good years, followed by more than a few really down years. The insult is that for all the talk that UTSA fans like to do about how great their program is, how they deserve to be where they are, and how heads are going to turn, you've won one game against someone with a winning record. You will win some more in the future, but you're not a big deal, and that's why you're not respected by a majority of this fanbase or any other. If you came at it humbly and more in line with reality, that you're a very young program, you're ecstatic to be a part of CUSA, and the future looks like it could be bright, I don't think you'd run into much resistance outside of the few who truly resent being associated with a startup program. Truth is that your fanbase approaches most situations like this is your training ground for being in the Big XII or SEC in a few years and that no program's history matters because you have none, and it's off-putting.

Or peridot... Really just whatever shade URCM is feeling that day.

"It’s not the kind of morally conservative Christian campus I knew at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor." Thank God. Oh, that doesn't sound right....