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Basically, they represent all that is soulless and wrong.

Why hasn't everyone been saving up for this? You have had 9 years.

For the love of God folks, the member of my party who is UNEMPLOYED came up with the money to buy through our ticket office. Years from now, when we are left home during bowl season, we will rue the day we were too cheap to show our buying power at a bowl IN DALLAS. We talk about wanting to be "big time" but all I see is "same ol' NT".

As an RTVF major, I can say, "This guy's a straight shooter with RTVF upper management written all over him."

So... You graduated from a basketball school, have metroplex ties (hey, you've been here twice), and coach basketball? If your looking for a job, please put your application in a 3 ring binder (we are REALLY big on binders around here) and drop it off in Denton upon your arrival to town. Welcome, but I really do wish you were a Big 10 fan (as I'm sure you wish the same of me).

Gauging interest in a charter from Fort Worth to the bowl game and back. Cowtown Charter gave me a couple of rates. A large 56 passenger bus would be $12.40 per rider. A 21 passenger Van would be $20. Just a simple yes if interested and how many seats you need. Rick

In 2002 I had a chance to fly with the team to play ULL. We met in Denton, bused to Alliance, only to have our Global airline charter not start. While Global sent for a backup plane,we bused back to Denton, killed some time,returned to Alliance and flew on to Lafayette without incident. The next afternoon we won 27-0,and we bused to the nearly deserted Lafayette airport arriving about 9:00 pm only to discover that this plane also would not start . Global again had another backup plane flown in, sack meals were passed to the players, and about midnight we prepared for departure. About that time a male flight attendant ran up the aisle screaming "he stuck his finger up my ass, he stuck his finger up my ass." Seems like Cody Spencer had taken the banana from his sack meal and stuck it up the ass of the male flight attendant who had picked the wrong time and aisle to bend over.The crew refused to fly until Cody was arrested by local police. We felt that was somewhat of a hollow threat, as they had not yet demonstrated to us that the plane would even start, let alone fly.At any rate, after about an hour of Rick Villarreal best efforts, the compromise was that Cody was booted off the plane, no police were called, and we lifted off about 2:00 am.I don't know if you guys remember Darrell Dickey's sideline assistant trainer known as "Dr. Pepper boy", but I think he was sent with Cody with hotel and rental car money. I have no idea how they got back from the airport to town, as everything was pretty zipped up at that time in the morning.I briefly spoke to Cody at the 100 year event at Apogee and he told me he didn't have a clue why he impaled the attendant,but that it seemed like the thing to do at the time.I have been lucky enough to have flown with the football team 3 times,and always come home with a story to tell.

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1200 student tickets sold 1st day Students lined up outside starting at 5am Hell yes!

Saban has been offered a 10 year 120 million dollar contract from UT. This is coming from my parents CPA who is a big UT alum, but has bigger friends... We'll see if it's true but that's quite a bit of money for a coach

Whew! Just snagged my two student tickets. Freakin psyched! First time ever going to the Cotton Bowl. Thanks, UNT!

Rex Johnson returning a tipped pass for a touchdown versus Tech in 1988 just before half-time. That was the beginning of an impressive comeback and some very shocked Raiders. On the other hand, a couple of weeks later I was at the infamous debacle in Austin where UT didn't necessarily need any feet in bounds for the refs to steal the game.

I figure he'll sit on the UNLV side first and try to play it cool. Probably take his shades and peep a few beefers on the sly while the teams get going. Once he starts seeing us bring the wood and starts to feel our bad boy vibe, he'll ask to share my crown flask or maybe some road G&Ts I'll make earlier that day with my trunk liquor. After that, it's time to take things full throttle, so I'll pull out the habanero chile lime oysters that will have been stashed in the pullout crotch section of my jeans and start warming them up on a foreman we sneak in with a generator. Once he has a taste of those and the house made waffle chips we made the night before, he'll be ready to eat Quoner's Quicked Up Oyster Nachos Bell Grande off a flipflop. From there, we'll probably just throw back all the food and drinks, then be ready to hit that Hindu buffett near Fair Park and show them how to keep the Christ in the week after Christmas. We're talking Seger on a boom box (Night Moves as the opener), a few hot babes and dancers we get to show up and party and the works. Really show those guys how America parties in the New Year. I figure we'll have plenty of safe houses nearby if things get carnal and might even make a few friends. I'm a pretty run of the mill white guy, but I'm known to show mad respect to my soul brothas from another motha. Kinda cool - you guys in or do you plan to just sort of go all Doug Carlson on this one?

Probably standing on the front porch of the Delta Lodge, drinking a cold one watching the Homecoming parade go by in utter disbelief as they spot Dopehouse playing in our front yard, amps on full blast, lead singer completely naked except for a sock covering his man-hood. Then going to the game later that day, sneaking a twelve pack into Fouts in my backpack, sitting in the end zone, and downing the brews with my buddies. My best friend had to go to work that night. We thought it would be a good idea if I called his employer for him and pretended to be him, since he was too blasted. I called from the pay phone at Fouts, told them we were broke down on the side of I-35. I think when the band started playing "Fly Like An Eagle", they figured it out. Needless to say, he got fired. I have absolutely no idea who we played or what the score was.

I saw the price as a bargain since we don't have to travel nor get a hotel room. A trip to Memphis would've been much more expensive than the $150 i paid.

Still can't believe that kid in Keller got off with only probation.

Cotton Bowl - $140, Fiesta Bowl $95 -$335, Holiday Bowl $80-$120, If it were the Aggies, Bears, Cowboys or Techsters, they'd be fighting to pay $75 for a ticket. Friend of mine dropped $190 a piece for tickets to the Fiesta Bowl. That is on top of transportation and lodging. AND they are playing UCF. They will have no trouble purchasing thier alotment and their fan base is 10 times smaller than UNT's and they are not playing in thier backyard. GMG!

This is where I am with it as well. The facts are ugly, but must be faced: NCAA will disappear. Big Ten commish was on last weekend scolding smaller college for hanging on, basically saying they (the 5 Monopoly Conferences) would be forced to separate from the NCAA and do their own thing. It's pathetic. It's also part of the reason why I've said before that they should just drop the charade and make those conferences a minor league to the NFL. Have the NFL draft for the rights to players coming out of high school, like in baseball. NFL teams could trade rights depending on how a kid's college career is going. They could give them bonus money to pay for school expenses. That would get around the ugliness of schools paying the players. Also, it would give some financial stability to a group of athletes who really tear their body up at a young age so that colleges (and their coaches) and networks and advetisers can make millions, now billions, off of them. Baseball players coming out of high school can get a pretty good chuck of cash, even if they are drafted in late rounds and only play a couple of seasons in the minors. It's an ugly thing going on. And, at the heart of it is money. It is, of course, the height of hypocrisy that so many conferences can participate in March Madness for basketball - and every other amatuer college sport - but football is closed off. But, no one will do anything about it. For our part, I simply hope those schools not in the 5 Monopolies will simply stop scheduling them. Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Oklahoma and Georgia kicking this whole thing off by winning their antitrust lawsuit agianst the NCAA over television rights. In the 30 years hence, it's transitioned from the NCAA picking the games to be televised to: (1) the CFA, to (2) Notre Dame getting their own TV deal, to (3) Conferences negotiating their own television contracts, to (4) the Bowl Alliance, to (5) the BCS, to (6) the Big Ten starting a network, to (7) Texas starting a network...and, (8) it will end within the next 18 to 24 months with the 5 Monopolies leaving the NCAA. We were mired in I-AA during (1) - (4), stuck with bad facilities and lack of funds/interest during most of (5) and (6). By (7), we had our new stadium up. But, we will already be too late to participate in (8). It doesn't matter to me. You look at the circus going on between Texas and Alabama over a football coach, the circus of the USC and Miami player pay schemes, and Penn State ignoring a child molesting assistant...and, it kind of makes me feel decent about not being there.

This pricing is too high to get a good crowd. I'll buy several because I'm hardcore, but marginal alumni aren't going to drop $150 plus parking for a couple. They talk about revenue maximizing ticket pricing in sports. $75 doesn't seem like the right number to me. I'm just hoping they sell beer.

Going to my first NTSU game and asking: "Who is Steve Ramsey?" By the end of the 1st quarter I knew. I called my son and asked him what was his favorite game when he was an undergrad. 1. The first goal post game. 2. The Baylor game. I was sitting near some Baylor fans and they were in shock. 3. We still laugh about a pudgy little kid (about 7 or 8) at one of the games who was standing by his dad when the crowd started a long and loud chant of bull s##t at the refs. He was looking around in disbelief. He finally joined in for one chant of bull s##t and then quickly looked around to see if he was going to get in trouble. When he didn't, he started laughing, jumping up and down, and clapping his hands like crazy. You had to see it.

When we beat tech in Lubbock for the second time!

Honestly, who cares?

Basically they are the New York Yankees of college football

They pay a coach $120 million, it'll accelerate paying the players and separating from G5.

Well, this morning I got the privilege of being the first student in line for Bowl Tickets at 5am! Senior year, baby! So worth bombing my final at 8am (still gonna make a B!) I'll be heading down to Dallas for New Year's Eve with some friends for the pre-game festivities! Do any of you have any big New Year's Eve Mean Green activities planned? Let me know!

30 games between 2011-2013

My favorite moment has to be split. First, winning the conference championship in 1994 and it was the last time my dad saw me play. Second, beating Texas Tech in 1997 in Lubbock after several friends who went to TT talked a lot before the game. My favorite UNT moment outside of football had to be during the Fry Street Fair one of those years but I can't really remember what it was.

does he like grey goose???

whoa, breh...why you gotta be hatin' on my main man Guy? what...maybe you're not a fan of bold flavors, killer "rock"tails, power moves and primo satisfying both your mouth and the ladies, but me and Guy sure are.

I like your fan base from what I've seen on this board. Didn't expect 10 replies within a 30 minute span and there wasn't any spam talking. Maybe North Texas has the best fan base in Texas?

I hope Mike Napoli is there. I'd like his autograph.

I don't care who Benny recruits to whatever school he's at in 2016.

UNLV fan/alum here. From reading all of the stories on our upcoming bowl matchup it seems that neither of our schools are getting much respect. I know the Mean Green have struggled over the past few years and like us are enjoying their best season in years. Although UNLV fans don't know much about the North Texas Mean Green don't think that we don't respect you. At this point we are happy that our team was able to win 7 games this year and become bowl eligible for the first time since 2000. I really hope this turns out to be a thrilling game that draws the attention of the nation. Maybe something like a UNLV win 132 to 131 in 8 OT. I know we will be outnumbered fan wise but we may be bringing more fans than people expect. I have my flight, hotel, and car rental booked as do a lot of my friends. Here's to a good game and a fun atmosphere as we both continue to build our programs. UNLV football gets ignored often but since our basketball team is struggling we are going to have to try to enjoy football a little more this season.

Sure they will. Oh. And if your milk is spoiled, put it back in the refrigerator, maybe it will be better the next time you try it.

Better yet, they can get the jail time he deserved.

Fouts Field - 1990 UNT 14 SMU 7 It seems funny thinking about that game now that we officially average over 20k per home game, but that 1990 game drew a little over 20k into Fouts Field (which had a capacity of 20k at the time), so the game felt "big time". Drawing 20k into Fouts was a huge deal. The Great Scott Davis lead the Eagles to a victory. Really enjoyed walking out of Fouts that evening and seeing all of the "WTF just happened" looks on the poor SMU student faces

The quest for the Southland title continues.

A dramatic part of any movie...........................No-ooooooooooo! Ordered mine today! Good luck! Sorry you can't make it.

Why is everyone leaving off the best of all pie? Are we keeping it clean for the kids?

"I find your lack of Pie disturbing."

Metta world Pie?

I can't speak for anyone, but I seriously have not given UTSA a thought since about 12 hours after yall won. I could care less. We're going Bowling. It's like Alabama last year...I really doubt most of their fan base gave a flying F that they lost to A&M...they won a national title. I doubt Rice cares much they lost to us...they won CUSA. We're going bowling...you aren't If you beat us the next five seasons but never go to a bowl game, while we go every year --- I'll take it. It doesn't burn me that you beat us, we had a better year overall than you. End of story.

We're in a bowl.

I hope Larry Johnson makes it to the game. I'm pretty sure he still lives in DeSoto

Protip: If you're from Vegas, don't even think about falling for the billboards advertising "casinos" in Oklahoma. Just...no...Just don't do it. Oh: and from a displaced Best Coaster, welcome to DFW. Dallas has some decent places to entertain. (And...pssst...for the love of all things, can I stow away in your carryon on your return flight? It's been six years since I've been to Vegas, and the itch is insatiable!)