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https://www.athleticbusiness.com/operations/article/15681810/summer-events-at-kyle-field-bring-more-than-6m-to-texas-am-athletics?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ATHLCD240814007&utm_term=&oly_enc_id=9130G4710801F3S I remember when we were told Apogee would host concerts and other events. Are we going to host George Strait or Brazil and Mexico? No, but we could offer a lot. U.S. Men's Soccer Team: Upcoming games, stadium and seating capacity: 9/7 vs. Canada at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City (capacity 18,467 for soccer) 9/10 vs, New Zealand at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati (capacity 26,000) 10/12 vs. Panama at Q2 Stadium in Austin (capacity 20,738) U.S. Women's Soccer Team: 10/24 vs. Iceland at Q2 Stadium in Austin 10/27 vs. Iceland at Geodis Park in Nashville (30,109) 10/30 vs. Argentina at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville (11,700 seated/ 15,304 SRO) Host a Texas Music Festival with up and coming Texas artists Host a Jazz Festival with the School of Music/One O'Clock Lab Band North Texas Music Festivals with UNT alums (Nora Jones, Don Henley, Sara Hickman, Brave Combo, Lecrae, Marin Morris, Tobe Nwigwe, Snarky Puppy, Eli Young Band, etc.) Haul in dirt and host motocross or Monster Trucks Professional Bull Riding event

Been wanting this. At least they're being proactive. https://sports.yahoo.com/the-new-college-football-playoff-is-here-are-more-changes-coming-in-the-near-future-120010322.html

I really don't care where they put us at the beginning of the season. Sounds about right, to be honest. But if we're clearly the 116th-best team at the end of the season . . .

UMASS is now ahead of UNT....oh good lord

Good home opponents (we will have 7 total home games next year). Definitely going to plan for Rice on the road, optimistic about either Charlotte or Birmingham.

I would love to see the G5s form an alliance and then hire Aresco to be the commissioner. Have a minimum amount that a P4 must pay to host a G5 if there is no guaranteed return game at the G5. The problem is that you will have many schools who will cower to the Power schools because they depend on their preseason games to cover their budgets (think MAC). You will also have other schools who continue to do anything the P4s want because they hope to move up (Memphis and USF come to mind).

We had Texas in 1980....and I think 1981 as well. (And also Vic Trilli got Tom Penders to give us a game in Denton.....in '97?) In 1980.....we were down 69-60 with 1:07 left....came back and tied the game in regulation (71-71) on a half court shot (by Pat Hicks). We won in overtime. (This was before the 3 point shot, btw). By the way....I think we got two games out of Texas, back when Abe Lemons was their coach. At least one. And here's how we got those game(s): We had a great player named Fred Mitchell....played for Coach Blakely '75-'78. Fred's brother was a stud out of Amarillo...named Victor. Victor was committed to us. He wanted to get out of his commitment to go to UT. Coach Blakely got with Abe....and we agreed to free Victor....if Texas would give us a home game. (Like I said....I think we got two...but am not sure). Anyway......long story short....Victor signed with Kansas.

Winter classic was played at Cotton Bowl in 2020 with a sold out capacity of 85,630

The turf and the contract FCD signed with Frisco keeps every match in Toyota Stadium, it's fairly ironclad. I used to ask why we couldn't do a special state fair match back in the Cotton Bowl and the wording of the contract basically spells it out.

I don't remember tagging you on a god damn thing. We're talking about the two football stadiums of teams playing one another in a couple of weeks, you're here for what reason?

Once again, I repeat the laziness of sports writers. They might be right, but they do precious little research....especially for the 'little boys' of the world.

We can go to 134 to be exact!

How can they rank a team that has added 70 new players? And all teams have gained/lost multiple players over last season. There is no logical way to do rankings until a few weeks into the season. There is little player carryover from the previous season, every team starts from scratch.

I’ll see y’all there!

A lot of us don't forget the SMU days of pre-June Jones. Getting a ticket for an SMU game was like going to the fireworks stand - buy 1 get 5 free.

That was my first NT game. I came in from Texas, as a mid-year transfer (non-athletes). I was hooked. Thought all NT games had big crowds. And wins. But I am still hooked. GMG

Add this doable league slate to our nonconference games: home against Lamar, Washington State, South Alabama, and at Western Michigan. If we don't make a bowl game next year Morris should be fired. And I currently have no ill feelings towards his job status.

Lifer the one thing those stadiums all share when it comes to soccer is grass. There's a few MLS teams that have no choice, or the climate benefits not using grass (Toronto), but when it comes to the national soccer teams they will not play on turf unless they have to. If it's a qualifier or friendly you're competing directly against a stadium 20 minutes down the road built specifically for soccer in a stadium they know fans will travel to. If they want a crowd bigger than 20k then the options become the Cotton Bowl or Jerryworld, especially for Mexico matches. I also wonder if some of the brick walls make it so that taking a corner kick would be problematic as well, but I'm not certain how the sizing translates. Probably not wrong that some concerts could be hosted here, for sure.

I don't see why we couldn't reach out to F.C. Dallas for a match at Apogee. Hell, bring in the Arlington Renegades from the UFL. These seem like some easy marketing wins for UNT and those teams too

I hope he recovers and that any long-term impact of the injury will be minimal.

The problem with that is other P4s won’t schedule an away-only game like G5s do. Thus, no more 7 home games like they all want.

Let's watch the language now buddy.

With few exceptions we have never been very good since my freshman year of 1961. However, again with few exceptions [Dodge comes to mind] ,we have never been this bad, and going forward the transfer portal and NIL certainly won't help. I can only hope for a better season than projected.

*looks at provided picture* Ahh very interesting. I can confirm that IS a football field, which UNT also happens to have one

What stands out to me is that here you are, on a fan board of a team/school you don’t care about, don’t play and don’t even share a conference with anymore. Says a lot, doesn’t it.

Get those four teams in to our stadium (DATCU?) and see what our attendance would be.

You don't need to bash a local restaurant that's owner is a big UNT supporter.

IMO this first game gets more important the closer it gets. New USA HFC Applewhite wants to show he's the real deal. Morris "needs" it to shut up those that doubt him. Then there is our former coach sitting at his favorite school in the job he has a proven record at....still counting all that Mean Green cash...lol

When you bring in Tech, TCU, A&M, and sometimes Baylor you're going to have good attendance.

I saw this free article and it encouraged me about the O-line this season.

You guys have had teams like Texas Tech, Texas A$M, Baylor, Okie State and heck TCU every other year. It's not a fair comparison. The best team we have ever had at home is Cal, Indiana and Houston? Attendance records Rank Attendance Date Game Result 1 36,742 December 30, 2010 SMU 14, Army 16 2 35,569 September 24, 2022 SMU 34, TCU 42 3 35,481 September 24, 2010 SMU 24, 4 TCU 41 4 34,820 September 20, 2014 SMU 6, 6 Texas A&M 58 5 34,790 August 30, 2013 SMU 23, Texas Tech 41 6 34,749 September 5, 2009 SMU 31, Stephen F. Austin 23 7 33,458 September 11, 2004 SMU 13, Texas Tech 27 8 32,267 September 2, 2000 SMU 31, Kansas 17 9 32,074 September 4, 2015 SMU 21, 4 Baylor 56 10 32,016 September 15, 2012 SMU 3, Texas A&M 48 11 32,000 October 22, 2016 SMU 38, 11 Houston 16 12 32,000 September 7, 2002 SMU 14, Texas Tech 24 13 30,987 September 23, 2016 SMU 3, TCU 33 14 30,923 September 20, 2008 SMU 7, TCU 48 15 29,538 September 3, 2005 SMU 23, Baylor 28 16 29,528 November 9, 2019 23 SMU 59, East Carolina 51 17 29,121 September 11, 2021 SMU 35, North Texas 12 18 28,436 September 29, 2012 SMU 16, 15 TCU 24 19 28,142 October 5, 2019 24 SMU 43, Tulsa 373OT 20 27,106 September 20, 2003 SMU 6, Oklahoma State 56

The empty seats does give it a resemblance

Metzler’s is the only place that has it

I was discussing the importance of this game for UNT and to my surprise my better half agreed to let me go if I can figure out a way to do it on the cheap. Is anybody interested in driving if I agree to split the gas? Also possibly sharing hotel rooms, preferably something like OYO with twin beds? We stay at those and they aren’t great but AC works and bed is decent.

FUBAR

Some of your "results" we don't ever want...

I count a 6-14 record for $mut in those great home games, lol.

UNT has 5x the undergrads and they can't be bothered to walk across campus to watch a football game at a really nice and still new stadium. Says a lot doesn't it.

Both this beer and the UNT whiskey is, and has been since last week, available at Applejacks on at Bell and Oak in Denton. Metzler's carries the beer only I believe. Now, I will go back in hibernation.

Metzlers is owned by Roy Metzler...big time UNT and Mean Green supporter. And, who by the way, supplies and mans most of the alcohol venues at UNT events including Apogee. They do a ton of volume out of that "small barbeque place".

It was me 110%

Top Ten DATCU Stadium Crowds Rank Game Date Attendance 1 UNT vs Houston September 28, 2019 30,123 2 UNT vs Louisiana Tech September 29, 2018 30,105 3 UNT vs SMU September 1, 2018 29,519 4 UNT vs Houston September 10, 2011 28,075 5 UNT vs Army November 18, 2017 26,392 6 UNT vs UTEP November 9, 2013 26,119 7 UNT vs UTEP November 11, 2017 26,108 8 UNT vs Rice October 27, 2018 25,379 9 UNT vs SMU September 3, 2022 25,306 10 UNT vs SMU September 3, 2016 24,718 Source: [57][58]

I just talked about this yesterday. In July Ross told me that 2023 was the last year of the series, and he wasn't sure if it would continue. The matchup didn't seem like a priority last year considering the date it was played. This close to the season, if the series were to be renewed I would have imagined we'd have heard something by now. Disappointing to me, I was looking forward to taking over College Park Center with green.

We've got 30 in our group coming from all over. Will it be just you or is your better half joining as well? I can add more people to our group for the same $13/ticket price. Where are y'all coming from? Feel free to PM me.

I guess it looks like DATCU in that they're both football stadiums...