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I only read the first 2 paragraphs, but that was far enough to realize that you didn't hear the interview or talk after. The Ticket is airing a one hour special devoted to the Mean Green, for cripes sake! Any other media outlet doing that for us? And you didn't hear Rhags say that every alumni that works at the ticket is walking around the station with their chest puffed up with Mean Green pride doing the Mean Green chest bump. Sometimes the inferiority complex of this fandom is utterly amazing.

Wrong. Our colors are green, white, and black. https://identityguide.unt.edu/create-our-look/color

Mean Green Santa, sporting a perfectly manicured mustache, wearing a sweater vest and piloting a sleigh that doubles as a Dominos Pizza delivery vehicle, climbed down your chimney and left you presents under your Christmas tree. Here is what he left you (Except you, FireFightn Rick, all you get is a lump of coal in your stocking and a donation being made in your name to the Aledo football booster club)… A BOWL GAME: It might not be the BCS, but it is probably the next best thing for North Texas. Playing in a local bowl game that won’t cost our school too much money to participate in and allows our fans to attend without having to make a large financial or time commitment on national television against an opponent (UNLV) we are favored to defeat is just a win all the way around. Also, the American college football contest between the University of Missouri and Oklahoma State University on Jan. 3 at Jerry World is not the Cotton Bowl. The Cotton Bowl is played on New Year’s Day at the Cotton Bowl. A GOOD OLD FASHIONED QUARTERBACK CONTROVERSY: Nothing makes for better message boarding than a quarterback controversy and we got a good one that is about to be stirred up. I don’t know if any of our returning quarterbacks are any good, but I do know there are A LOT of them. FIVE scholarship quarterbacks will fight it out in the spring and summer to win the honor of becoming the most scrutinized person on GoMeanGreen.com. The quarterback competition will have more characters and storylines than an episode of Game of Thrones as Andrew McNulty (don’t call him a career backup, he will only be a junior), Brock Berglund (has underachieved at three colleges now, can he finally get it together?), Dajon Williams (he allegedly almost won the job this fall), Josh Greer (JUCO transfer who has been led to believe he has a legit chance at the job) and Connor Means (one of two quarterbacks to be named 2nd team All-District 21-5A!) compete to take over the crown from Joffery, I mean Derek Thompson (I kid, I kid.). Everyone will choose their favorite. Opinions will be required. Enemies will be sworn. Good times ahead. A NFL DRAFT PICK: Now that the bowl drought has been broken, Zac Orr can be the rainmaker who ends the Mean Green’s other dry spell. North Texas hasn’t had a player drafted since Cody Spencer was taken in the 6th round of the 2004 draft by the Oakland Raiders. Orr is no lock to be chosen (NFLdraftscout.com currently ranks him as the No. 51 draft-eligible inside linebacker), but a good showing at a college all-star game, the UNT pro day or NFL Combine (really hope he gets an invite) could boost him into the late rounds. Orr does not have prototypical size at 6-0, 240 but his college production (114 tackles, including 11 tackles for loss this season) and pedigree (his dad played in the NFL for eight seasons) could intrigue NFL teams. Brelan Chancellor and Richard Abbe also have an outside chance of being drafted and will definitely be in a NFL mini-camp this spring. North Texas coach Dan McCarney knows how to develop players into NFL picks and getting players drafted should be the beginning of a trend as McCarney’s own recruits progress through the program. TALENTED REDSHIRTS: While several true freshmen are already contributing in minor roles (Sed Ellis, Fred Scott, Chad Davis, Darvin Kidsey), good programs redshirt good players, too. In recent years North Texas has not had the depth or discipline to redshirt a lot of kids. DL Sid Moore (Two-time All-State with a combined 72 tackles for loss as a junior and senior. And don’t say he is too small because he already weighs more than Ryan Boutwell) and DB Andrew Tucker (Rated three stars on Rivals and started both ways on a undefeated state champion) are two redshirts who could make an impact in 2014. GOOD RECRUITS: This Mean Green recruiting class reminds me of Mack Brown’s 2000 class at Texas when he signed receivers Roy Williams, B.J. Johnson and Sloan Thomas. McCarney has gone heavy at receiver with commitments from four. Touchdown Tee Goree is getting the most hype and he deserves it. But Fonzale Davis was DFW Class 4A’s leader in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. O'Keeron Rutherford is 6-5 and averaged a touchdown reception a game for Class 3A state champion Carthage. Jalen Adams had a down year statistically (maybe because his team was breaking in a freshman quarterback) but also held offers from Tulsa and San Diego State. North Texas is losing its top two receivers and leading rusher so it needs a couple of these guys to be playmakers immediately. Signing day cannot come fast enough. THE OFFENSIVE LINE WILL BE BACK: All of the starters will be returning next season from a unit that allowed the fewest sacks in the country over the last two years (16) and cleared the way for a 1,000-yard rusher in 2013. What else did Mean Green Santa leave under your tree?

The black look is popular, plain and simple. The players love it, recruits love it, and practically every person I've talked to loves it. Our players obviously get stoked on them so why should we care? We're not putting them on.

Homophobic? You really think he's scared of homosexuals? Like Crying Game scared? Last time I checked, yelling a gay slur doesn't mean you are scared of gay people. Stop the PC train, geesh

Read on recruiting site where he is planning on official visits to missouri, north Texas, and la tech. Ok state possible.

I'm guessing you didn't play much football. If coaches should be fired for yelling slurs then every coach I had in High School and at North Texas should have been fired. Football players and coaches are not politically correct people. Nor should they be. When I arrived at North Texas one of my coaches told us "if you wear your heart on your elbow it's going to be broken a lot here." He proceeded to say nothing said here is personal, it's just football. It was a good life lesson too. You're getting minus ones because it's an uniformed statement. I think most people are just tired of the PC police. (I won't minus you!)

The "30 year assessment" above is quite accurate regarding North Texas' football / Metroplex strategies. Very poor leadership. BUT, what Mac has done is the very thing it takes to start fixing it, MUST BE SUSTAINED over time by UNT leadership. The fan base CAN come alive if UNT leadership doesn't go comatose again. I'll be at the HOD game pulling for the Green

Agree about the tradition part. But I think having black as a lesser-used primary color keeps our options open for cool stuff like our blackout uniforms this year. We got two special uniforms in one year, how cool is that?

End table turned Mean Green Mosaic. (Lights haphazardly added by myself late last night)

If your going to change helmets then it needs to be unique. The stylized eagle feathers of Oregon is no longer unique. As mentioned, even high schools are doing that now. With that being said, go with the black SOW or the interlocking NT because they're unique and both look good.

This is all that matters here. I don't care what he said. The fact is he opened his mouth to shit talk a college kid. Just classless and immature.

Right,wrong, or indifferent, I think the HOD bowl will define his career.

In my book, coaches saying anything detrimental to the opponent players is over the line.

50 is perfect football weather! Can't see anyone staying home because it's 50 outside.

Just a little tip . . . complaining about getting -1's is guaranteed to get you more -1's.

Sorry, but "all green" just looks bad with our particular shade of green. It's too much. It reminds me of Oregon's all-yellow uniforms. I'm glad it's a look we never wore this season. Don't get me wrong, I like our shade of green. But It just "burns" too much when it's on the jerseys and the pants at the same time. Put that green jersey with some black pants though, and I think it'd look pretty sweet. I'm also a fan of our all-black unis. Those are pretty sweet -- especially in person.

I love ya' every one....even those I vehemently disagree from time to time which is hardly a game-changer for how I feel about my fellow alums and Mean Green fans. We in this all together, folks! * Peace On Earth Good Will Toward Men... GMG! PS: Celebrating Christmas from Weatherford, Texas....and what city will you be celebrating December 25'th?

We need UT to hire football Benford. We need that badly. Come on, UT, you can do it!!!

Time for someone to make rain ponchos available for purchase at the tailgating and/or other high traffic areas on the North Texas side.

Thats awesome.

I thought the same thing. DD was good at recruiting frames that could fillmoutnand play.

Please tell me you are speaking of flip-flops, Got5. GMG

Nice! Rick

Anyone whose calls themselves a grown up is really going to care? Some of you need to learn that your not always going to win "Mr. Popularity" awards at some point in your life. Amazing--but true. In fact, the One whose birthday we celebrate today sure didn't going around asking...............please, please, please give me a greenie on what I've said because you might just hurt my feelings if you give me a red'ie." Moral of Post: Don't take yourselves too serious on this message board and what does it prove if you do? We all have our .02 worth on any subject from A to Z. Heck, our school once gave me a spirit award back when I was even more opinionated than I am now (if you can believe that). If the late Al Hurley were around he'd tell you that, too. Always remember that as long as the U.S. Constitution is alive and kickin'...we will all have opinions, be able to state them publicly but as we all know on GMG.com-------- those opinions will vary from time to time from poster to poster. Don't punish someone because theirs is different than yours, though. Just merely agree to disagree with the total southern charm all our mothers and dad's taught us long ago. GMG!

Very cool!

that day came quite some time ago.

In my youth we would go up (from Longview) to visit my Grandparents in Texarkana. Have a safe trip, and a fun visit. Here's one of my favorite Christmas songs these days. Merry Christmas to the Mean Green Nation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUDCtuJjAXU

That's what I'm wondering if the mizzu offer is still good or what. Top 10 SEC team

I think they are catering to their audience.

Because it's a dumb thing to say.

The Weather Channel at 10:39pm Christmas Eve, has high of 58, with just a 10% chance of rain. Sa-weeet!

A&M is a mess. I think we will play them pretty well

Yeah, Dilonga and also forgot to mention Andy Flusche who could be a factor after winning scout team POTY at the banquet. One more name I would keep an eye on the d-line would be Lajaylin Smith. He played d-end in high school and is in a very similar situation to Chad Polk last spring when they moved Polk to defensive end. Similar body size as well. Just speculation on my part though.

Merry Christmas to the Mean Green Nation! The happiest of happy New Year as well...starting off with a Mean Green Jan. 1st victory over UNLV in the HOD Bowl!

Like I have said many times....as a fan base UNT must learn how to win as well as our teams needing to learn how to win. Right now our fan base is apathetic and we have not been able to sell out Apogee...much less have consistently decent crowds. The need "to learn how to win" includes our student population as well. Lots of growing needed in the fan base. It will come, it will come, but there is still a good bit of learning and growing to do. HOD bowl attendance would be a great place to take the next step forward in the process. See you there!

I always think it's funny that people will take one phrase someone says and judge their entire character by that phrase. If only there was a word for that...

I took it as a passionate grad preaching to alums that they need to step the F up, which they do.

We have six in our group and am dangerously close to signing up 8 more. I think the walk up and last minute buy by out of towners and curious folks is going to be good. I was thinking 32,000 but we may get 40,000. GMG

Us fans really need to represent at the Pep Rally at Fair Park and at Babbs Brothers. Throw in Kung Fu Saloon and Owners Box too. Please get out to these events and show the power of the Mean Green Nation. There will also be good shots of the pep rally during the HOD Bowl and it would be great to see a lot of GREEN supporting. I was shocked what little sliver of space Rally House gave us over by the Galleria. They did have shirts but jeez the size of TCU, Tech, Baylor, OU, Aggie and Horn was obscene. Our little sliver of space was in the center back. Hey I got my shirts but we need to earn a larger space. We need to make the Mean Green section expand by showing up loud and proud. GMG

You can console yourself in the fact that we now have football JJ. ;-)

Merry Christmas from where the west begins...Fort Worth, Texas Wishing all GMG'ers a Happy New Year! HOD here we come!!!!

Ever seen Shattered Glass? He was great in that.

they are going to walk over us is what i gather from the video.

Don't know about the parade, but it is rumored that Lee Jackson will be decked out in all green (cleverly disguised as a leprachaun) for the game.

As someone else posted, U of H is already up to 25 commitments. BTW, they do a great job of recruiting the HOUSTON area. We need to keep our local kids home (which includes East Texas).

So he hates the mere existence of Guyer? If Guyer did not exist then Ryan would be like Allen and would be dominating every year because they would be twice the size of other schools in the district? Hmmmm

It's amazing to me that this coaching staff still has not been able to recruit a better QB than Derek Thompson. Thompson played to his abilities but with a little more options, this team could be 11-1. With Hit 6 as the goal, the coaching staff is ecstatic with the performance of DT and the team. But now player and coach are disappointed 40,000 Mean Green fans haven't bought tickets to the HOD. You can't recruit to Hit 6 and expect a 11-1 crowd.

He was offered while on his visit