Harry

I think the New Orleans Bowl should be moved to Fouts this year. The best looking stadium in the conference should be utilized for a national TV audience ;-)....

UNT-LSU football game delayed Contest had payout for Mean Green; teams trying to reschedule 07:33 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 By Brett Vito / Staff Writer The University of North Texas football team’s game Saturday against Louisiana State University was postponed on Tuesday because of the damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the area. “We have discussed this with the people at LSU and feel like we should cancel the game,” UNT Athletic Director Rick Villarreal said. “The damage is substantial and gets worse as time goes on. Baton Rouge is becoming a triage unit for much of the New Orleans area. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them and especially the student athletes on that campus who are unsure of where their families are at this time.” Officials from UNT and LSU were trying to reschedule the game on Tuesday night. The teams do not have a common open date during the season and were working to shuffle other games already on their schedules to find a date that would fit into both teams’ schedules. Villarreal said the teams hoped to reach an agreement within the next 24 hours to reschedule the game. UNT’s ability to reschedule the game could have a dramatic impact on the entire athletic department. UNT signed a contract that guaranteed a $500,000 payout to play at LSU, a total that represents a significant amount of the athletic department’s budget. The department worked with a $12.2 million dollar budget during the 2005 fiscal year that ends today. “It’s important to play this game because the guarantee is already a part of the athletic budget that we have turned in,” Villarreal said. “If we have to cancel the game, we would have to find a way to raise additional money or cut money from the budget as we go along in the year to meet the bottom line.” Villarreal said UNT would make every effort to reschedule the game. Canceling the game also left UNT without a contest heading into a key early-season game against Middle Tennessee State University to open Sun Belt Conference play. The Mean Green head into league play with a 25-game conference winning streak, which ranks second nationally to a 26-game winning streak by Boise State University in the Western Athletic Conference. Middle Tennessee is seen as one of UNT’s key rivals for the 2005 Sun Belt title. UNT is scheduled to begin the season with eight players in the starting lineup who started in the Mean Green’s loss to the University of Southern Mississippi in last season’s New Orleans Bowl. Those concerns took a backseat Tuesday while people in Louisiana were coping with a horrendous event. “Our thoughts and prayers are with all the people who are suffering from this disaster,” UNT coach Darrell Dickey said. “Out of respect for those involved, our team is making plans to assist in the relief effort.” The UNT-LSU game was one of several affected by the storm. The Tulane-Southern Mississippi game scheduled for Sunday in Hattiesburg, Miss., has been moved to the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Nicholls State’s game at Utah State on Saturday has been canceled. Nicholls State is located in Thibodaux, La. Also, Southern University’s game Saturday at McNeese State in Lake Charles, La., has been canceled. Southern is in Baton Rouge. Also, Jacksonville’s game Thursday night at Hammond — a city between New Orleans and Baton Rouge — has been postponed indefinitely. The Associated Press contributed to this report. BRETT VITO can be reached at 940-566-6870. His e-mail address is bvito@dentonrc.com.

August 30, 2005 Printable version UNT football season opener postponed due to Katrina DENTON (UNT), Texas -- The effects of Hurricane Katrina continue to be felt beyond the Gulf Coast. The North Texas football season opener against Louisiana State scheduled this Saturday in Baton Rouge has been postponed. However, the UNT football team is making plans to do what they can to help those who've been affected by the hurricane. "After discussions with the administration at LSU, they've communicated with us their desire to postpone the football game… considering the circumstances, we're in complete agreement with their decision," says UNT Athletic director Rick Villarreal. Villarreal says the scope of the hurricane's effects are becoming more evident with each passing hour and "postponing this game is the right thing to do. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this horrendous event and we will work with the LSU people to find an amicable solution when the time becomes more prudent." "Our thoughts and prayers are with all the people who are suffering from this disaster," says UNT head football coach Darrell Dickey. "Out of respect for those involved, our team is making plans to assist in the relief effort." The UNT football coaching staff is meeting tonight to discuss what they can to help and will talk with team members tomorrow. Although the stadium itself suffered only minor damage, several sites on the campus are being used as part of the recovery effort. Those locations include athletic facilities, including the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and the Bernie Moore Track Facility. A makeup date will be determined in the next few days. Meanwhile, the North Texas football team will practice as scheduled for the remainder of the week It will be up to the LSU ticket office to issue rain checks for the rescheduled date. The LSU web site announced the school will resume business operations Wednesday, but the beginning of classes will be postponed until Tuesday, Sept. 6. UNT News Service Phone Number: (940) 565-2108 Contact: Nancy Kolsti (940) 565-3509 Email: nkolsti@unt.edu

Plumm, congrats on your 7000th post!!!! Some may question your opinions/methods but none can question your Mean Green Spirit!!! GMG!

This is terrific news from the UNT football perspective - it gives us the extra week of prep for MTSU, we get to open with a game we can win (great for confidence) and we stay healthy. We should have never scheduled a game against LSU in the first place. Fellas we have a young team and playing LSU was not going to the best thing for them right now. I'm just sorry that it had to come due to the tragedy of the Hurrican aftermath. It truly never should have been scheduled in the first place. Nothing good comes from that LSU game except the check.

Good for them. This was the right decision.

That makes a whole lot of sense but they won't do that because of the $$$$$$$ The season ticket holders who are inconvenienced would ask for refunds and well let's just say BCS programs don't like writing checks for any reason - other than guaranteed wins. My guess is that they will try to reschedule the game next year or in the future because it will be tough looking at the calendar this year.

In my opinion this game shouldn't be played. 80% of New Orleans is underwater right now. It is a MAJOR Crisis. There are bodies and snakes floating throughout the city. They have instituted Marshall Law in the City meaning that if looters are caught they can be shot. Baton Rouge is having power outages and all of the police and fire are being diverted to the crisis in NO. I realize that life goes on but in this case they should allow for some time to get things stabilized. Part of the problem in NO is the fact that the levees were broken and the pumps malfunctioned. What I don't understand is if you knew that this could happen why was there no effort to ramp up the levees and replace/upgrade the pumps? Was there not any long term effort to prepare for this disaster? The Mayor and congressmen/Senators of that area should be held responsible. I would like to know how much focus was put on tourism and generating revenue compared to being proactive and protecting the city from this type of nightmare.... Sorry for the vent, but watching this on TV just makes me sick....

Steve here is what I could find about the station, which evidently does Christian Broadcasting. The good news is that they recently increased their broadcast power. The bad news is their signal apparently doesn't hit all of the Houston area just the Northern sector, ie Conroe, Woodlands etc. Perhaps some of our Houston bretheren can check the signal strength for us. Irregardless, this is good news for our fans in the Houston area. ************************************************************** KAXF 88.3 FM Conroe (Houston), Texas KAXF 88.3 FM in Conroe (Houston), Texas will complete a tower relocation and power upgrade on Monday, June 2, 2003 The station will have a new 443 foot tower. The broadcast power will increase from 28,000 watts to 100,000 watts, the strongest wattage allowed for a radio station. http://www.afr.net/newafr/newstations.asp Where is it heard? KAXF will have a 54 mile coverage radius that reaches the entire northern half of the Houston metropolitan area, including cities like Conroe, Huntsville and The Woodlands. How many will hear it? The new signal will reach nearly two million people, making it the largest population covered by any American Family Radio station. Facts About the Area: Houston is located in the southeastern corner of Texas, just off Galveston Bay. Nicknamed "Space City USA", it is home to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Not only is Houston the largest city in both Texas and the southern US, but it is also the fourth most populous city in the nation.

...according to channel 8 the power could be out in Baton Rouge for a week. They did not comment specifically on the game, however, if they don't have power how could they have a game at night. Perhaps they could move it to daytime?

http://media.unt.edu:8080/ramgen/cmp/Athle...?DB_OEM_ID=1800

GMG!

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Link to show online: http://www.kntu.fm

What a class act!

Ditto Campbell - also this thing hits so close to home with all the time we've spent in New Orleans the past 4 years. Prayers out to all in New Orleans and all of the area that are in the wake of this terrible storm.

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Is Gameplan the way to go or what about ESPNU? Any suggestions are appreciated!

Mean Green #6 http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=tb...=yhoo&type=lgns

Man I knew Weatherbie was confident but this borders on arrogant...

Bobelok that is awesome! Thanks for sharing that with us!

If I get anymore calls or email about this I will jump off my building soon. thanks in advance!

All of the above. I envision after a player has a big game we come back and give the poster kudos as well for their player doing well. There's still a lot of players left and I would like to see us get some more up here on the board... this has been fun! GMG!

Good post! I agree 100% about the 65-0 comment. Of course the pressure for Miles will be immense to beat us to death.... really interesting dynamic going into this game.