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The UNT brain trust needs to get creative and actually push for a way to get UNT students to the game in Austin. We seem to have a "Ho HUM that's the way we've always done it here" mentality about turning fans into fanatics who will ultimately make financial, economic and PR synergy. Get on your phones and MAKE IT HAPPEN UNT.

As much as I hate to say it, whats good for CUSA is good for UNT. The conference prestige holds a lot of water.

Sorry but students will not pay $100, even for UT. They were moaning about 20 dollars or whatever it was for a bowl game..

I have had just about enough of your fact based opinions with supporting documentation. Do you know where you are?

I really hate seeing our mascot these days.

Just thought it might be a good idea to get a thread going for recruiting updates and info relayed from the twitterverse. This way you don't have to make a new thread everytime you see a tweet you want to post on here. If it's specific to a certain recruit, obviously the best place to post it would be their thread, but here's another option for that as well.

Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones

Consider this. North Texas has what, 6 or 7, D1 transfers for the 2014 season. Coach Mac and his staff awarded scholarships to 2 to 4 walk on's after the spring game. North Texas already has 8 to 10, D1 players "committed" to North Texas. As far as High School and JUCO prospects, I would say there are solid commitments right now for North Texas (I would not call this stealth recruiting prospects). Committed players make their own announcements on their school of choice. The announcements will become public at the proper time for these players. I do not worry about which school has the early commitments or the star power rankings. My view of star power is the star ranking is just a popularity contest. The college football rag mags will start showing up soon. We will have many new topics to discuss from the sports talking heads experts. I believe Coach Mac and his staff can evaluate players they want to recruit, regardless of "star" rankings. I do trust in Coach Mac! GMG!

Pluck the Ducks tonight Boys!

There's 12 Divison 1 football programs in the state and other D1 programs in close proximity to the State of Texas that pose a threat. Counting Louisiana and Oklahoma schools. It's about 20 close schools UNT is in competition with. Comparing UNT to other CUSA schools may not be a fair comparison. With that being said, Rice and UTSA still have some commits... Seems like we are being real selective this year. It started somewhat last year. There's a few guys we could have had at the end that we passed on. Especially D Line and LB. JUCO and High School. We did not panic, so that leads me to believe we like the depth and ones that we need to develop. Now they are looking for upgrades and impact recruits. In this state, we have to play the waiting game. Even the early commits can get a recuit stolen if a Big 12 schools comes. In Texas, we have about 5 Tiers of schools that recruits want to see. This is how I would most likely rate them for recruits in Texas. Of Course thing vary like distance, position, Conference, etc so save the few examples of x recruit, choosing x school. This is just a summary. Tier One: Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, LSU Tier Two: Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, TCU Tier Three: Houston, SMU, Tulsa, Tulane Tier Four: Rice, UTSA, La Tech, UNT, Tier Five: ULL, ULM, UTEP, Texas State Without recent success and conference affiliation, UTSA and UNT are probably in Tier 5.

I am sometimes critical of our recruiting but not yet this year. So far, most of our offerings have been to those who have multiple offers. Even with the offer upgrade we have only lost four or five thus far. Many of the open offers we don't stand a snowball's chance of getting but there are some really good athletes that are giving us strong consideration even while holding P5 offerings. I'll admit that I am amazed that FAU was able to get early commitments from two highly-rated players. Even if they're not able to hold them they still send a message. It would be great if we had such a prospect but at least our first commitment is not some guy named Joe that no one's heard of. I truly believe that this recruiting season will be better than the last which wasn't bad, especially for receivers.

I hope the bus was okay. That guy was welding a sword.

That's awesome! Go FAU (until we meet)

Deerhunter - Helicopter

Detailed earlier. Of course you would need our allies in Europe cooperation. Do you honestly think Putin stops there? Don't you think this will embolden him further? Do you really think HE wants the Cold War status quo? Or does he want more? Embolden him now, and the world could pay a steep price in the future. I don't think the answer is to throw our hands up and say "Oh well."

Last two trips to Austin I got put in the end zone. Not too bad of seats. It's better than getting put up in the upper deck IMO

What? Some took over someone else's good program and made it better? That's a thing?

Man, I am so totally sorry about that. I do sometimes forget myself. I will work harder on not being that way.

They may also be allowing (forcing) things to escalate to the point where they feel they have a stronger case to intervene.

I think the delay is only because Russia is taking this time to evaluate what penalties they will face (if any) from the international community and to gauge how far they can go (Eastern Ukraine only? All of Ukraine?) with the invasion.

Mickey - Toni Basil

You know what, screw this, I am not going to let someone else ruin this thread. CWT:TR-MAD LIVES!!!!! Fair warning, I tried, I really tried to reason with you people about keeping partisan bullshit out of it and that failed. So no more "Mr Nice Guy Lets All Hold Hands and Think About Our Feelings." If you post any partisan crap, I will flame you as hard as a can. I will doubt your intelligence, I will call into question your lineage and genetic diversity, I will even drop the "F-Word" just to make KRAM swoon and get the vapors. Sometimes you have to hoist the black flag and slit throats. So here's the deal, look at this line carefully: Any partisan garbage posted ↑↑↑ABOVE↑↑↑this line never happened. It was all an illusion. Enjoy your new lease on life. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anything posted ↓↓↓BELOW↓↓↓ this line will be treated like a Russian oligarch questioning Putin. I am nothing if not merciful. Right?

#hedidn't

Sir Calvin is officially a bust. Would not be surprised to see him transfer. Scott is not going to do anything if the DT's can't keep the OL's off of him.

Bahahahahahhahahaha. If you only knew, my liberal little buddy. Emotion > thought, eh?

Back In Black.....AC/DC Rick

I think most of you need to quit being worried about Wallace and start getting excited about my boy Fred Scott.

Just think, two more years and this can be some other president's problem.

Any soundtrack to a high school football highlight video.

I'm so confused by this.

So,60 percent of the time it works every time?

All athletic departments want good spirited cheerleaders at the games and ones who do well at nationals...unfortunately, a lot of schools don't want to pay for them...sadly, North Texas falls into the latter catagory.

Who said that? If you are talking about my post...I indicated they had an all time best score for UNT....at least that's what I thought I said. Didn't mention anything about a national winning score. Hope everyone realizes that the UNT squad was competing against schools who provide full scholarships to their competitive Cheer Squads. Folks realize, I hope, that some universities have competitive squads and the squads who perform at the games, etc. that is...two completely different squads or teams. UNT's squad does both and without the benefit of scholarship support. Very proud of UNT's Cheer Squad. A bunch of talented students and dedicated team members.

I voted for Obama because he's black, and I'm white.

That's good stuff!

I guess RV seeing Fran get abused on the pick-and-roll by a kid with one hand and a piece of waiting room furniture sold him on Benford. #ihopeheknowswhathe'sdoing

Damn . I hope rv knows what he is doing.

I was skimming through the ESPN300 top recruits and FAU has landed 2 ESPN300 recruits?!?!? There are several P5 schools that have 0, FAU has 2 in April? And we haven't even landed a guy yet! North Texas better step it's recruiting game up. This should have went on recruiting forum, but already typed all this on my phone.

So everyone that doesn't have full ships, works evening hours. I doubt very seriously that anyone is going to turn a good evening job down if it is needed, to play on an average of twice a week for three months. I doubt NT pays that much especially if practice time is included. It's just become customary to pay bb pep bands and that hasn't happened for cheerleaders or marching bands.

CBS reports this morning that "unnamed US government source" reports that the US Intelligence community does not believe the Russians are preparing for an Invasion. Lol! Seriously?? Obviously a dishonest leak from a political official to try and keep American minds off this issue.

Come on...you wrote the book on pseudoscience, you're an expert in international diplomacy, you love Mexican food in FW, and you know how to run an athletic department. Just believe in yourself and there's no doubt in my mind you can learn apps, too.

Because basketball games happen at times that would otherwise fall during prime evening work hours for those not on full-ride scholarships - which is the majority of music students.

No, it's to eliminate competition. It's to ensure that no one outside the P5 gets inside the P5. It's to make sure they have a ANOTHER built in advantage in recruiting. It's so they can pay us 1 million and know for certain they will beat our ass. It's about collusion in the marketplace to eliminate any competition.

If you are really this upset about being called a jack wagon, maybe you shouldn't have acted like a jack wagon? Saying "just having some fun" does not absolve you of the jack wagon behavior.

MGE posted. Holy moly

Why is Buyers still listed? I thought he had dropped football.

What happened to Shanbour? Not that I expected him to be a factor, but is he gone?

FAU is making some noise. Anyone else concerned that just about everyone else in CUSA has landed recruits while we still sit at 0 commits? After a bowl winning season?