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I would love to do it but $40K won't pay the bills... plus Is it just me, it sounds like a lot of responsibility for only $40K. Why does it appear all the "University" jobs pay so low? I hate sounding like it's all about the $ but it is a factor.

NORTH TEXAS EXES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SEEKS DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND MEMBERSHIP POSITION TITLE: Director of Marketing and Membership REPORTS TO: Executive Director of North Texas Exes PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Membership Growth 2. Membership Tracking 3. Membership Retention 4. Marketing and Visibility of the Organization DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Membership Growth § Work with the Executive Director, Membership & Marketing Committee, and Board of Directors to review, adapt if necessary, and implement the current strategic plan to increase membership. This includes, but is not limited to, two large direct solicitation pieces per year plus other targeted direct mailers. § Also, membership growth includes working with the current students and specifically seniors at graduation times to make them familiar with the organization and Exes programs for new graduates. § Work with the Director of Chapter Development and implement a plan to increase membership through chapters. 2. Membership Tracking § Maintain a tracking system for solicitation pieces that will allow for follow up and supervision of retention rates. 3. Membership Retention § Develop the Exes Benefit package to offer real benefits to the members. § Coordinate membership renewals through email, direct mail, and phone campaigns. 4. Marketing and Visibility § Responsible for the marketing and increased visibility of the organization both on and off campus. § Serve as an Exes representative on certain University Committees. § Coordinate with the Executive Director regarding the publication of electronic newsletters. § Develop and design marketing communications including direct mail, brochures and all other promotional pieces. § Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships both on and off campus, with emphasis on the DallasFort WorthDenton region. § Interface with UNT students, parents, alumni and friends to maintain and strengthen the alumni membership program. 5. Website § Oversee and maintain NT Exes website and Online Community. 6. Affinity Programs § Work with current affinity programs (i.e., Bank of America) and research prospective affinity programs to increase advertising opportunities. EDUCATION § A bachelor’s degree from an institution of higher education is required (Marketing or Business preferred). A bachelor’s degree from the University of North Texas is preferred. QUALIFICATIONS § Should have 35 years of direct marketing, membership development or fundraising experience. Should have three years in public relations or nonprofit organization working with volunteers in a position of accountability. § Must have excellent organizational, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. § Must have demonstrated ability to initiate and follow through on programs. § Must possess exceptional leadership abilities and have experience with membership, direct marketing, or annual giving programs. § Must have a proven ability to interact positively and effectively with multiple constituencies. § Must be fluent with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point,) and familiar with Photoshop and Illustrator. § Must be able to work within departmental budget and have forecasting experience. § Must be able to work on multiple tasks simultaneously. § Works independently with little supervision. § Adapts to change easily. § Must be willing to travel. § Must be able to work evenings and weekends as necessary. SALARY RANGE $39,000 $ 40,000 START DATE Immediately TO APPLY UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Resumes should be emailed to joestewart@unt.edu or mailed to North Texas Exes, Attn: Joe Stewart, P.O. Box 311250, Denton, TX 76203. BENEFITS Health and dental insurance; ER/EE retirement contribution; vacation and sick leave; offices closed for all UNT holidays. This is not a university position and is not eligible for university benefits. The North Texas Exes Alumni Association is an independent 501 © (3) nonprofit corporation. The North Texas EXES Alumni Association is dedicated to PROMOTING the University of North Texas by CONNECTING with alumni, friends and current students through programs, scholarships and activities that create awareness and loyalty, and SUPPORTING the ideals of the University. Please go to www.NTExes.org to learn more about North Texas Exes. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action It is the policy of the North Texas Exes not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability (where reasonable accommodations can be made), disabled veteran status or Vietnam era status.

''Tic Price will no longer be with the university effective Monday, July 31. Athletic director Sonny Watkins said that McNeese thanks Coach Price for his contributions to the men's basketball program and the community and wishes him well,'' the school said in a brief statement. Sports information director Louis Bonette said that would be the only comment from the school. Price went 74-68 in his five seasons in Lake Charles. His best season was his first one, a 21-9 Southland Conference championship season in 2001 that produced the Cowboys' second appearance in the NCAA tournament. The Cowboys never finished higher than fifth place in his remaining four years. ''I am very disappointed to learn that McNeese State University has chosen not to renew my appointment as head men's basketball coach,'' Price said in a written statement. ''My family and I want to thank our friends and supporters in the community. We are very grateful for the support you have given us. I would also like to thank the players, coaches and staff for all of their hard work and dedication to the program,'' The 50-year-old Price also coached New Orleans from 1994-97 and at Memphis from 1997-99. Price resigned from Memphis a week before the 2000 season after an affair with a student. He returned to coaching as an assistant at McNeese under Ron Everhart in 2000-01. He became head coach the next season after Everhart left for Northeastern University.

anything for the kids?

Joseph Fulce made it official Wednesday morning; he is headed to New Orleans, one of North Texas top rivals in the Sun Belt Conference. The 6-7 forward from Plano signed his national letter of intent and will play for Buzz Williams. Williams recruited Fulce when he was an assistant coach at Texas A&M. Fulce signed with A&M, but ended up spending a year in prep school. Fulce told Texashoops.com that his relationship with Williams was the key factor in his decision. Losing Fulce was a tough blow for the Mean Green, which also offered him a scholarship. Fulce was rated among the top 20 players in the state after he graduated from Plano and would have filled an immediate need for the Mean Green, which is looking for wing players in its recruiting class. While UNT missed out on Fulce, it did land Midland College point guard Ryan McCoy. For more on UNT's recruiting class, see tomorrow's edition of the Denton Record-Chronicle.

In lieu of President Gretchen Bataille's inaugural ball this Friday, the Daily sat down with the president and discussed the current state of NT. You took office about eight months ago, why hold off the ball so late? Oh, that's just standard. Usually just anytime during the first year because number one, you want to be sure that the person is going to stay and be integrated into the life of the campus. There are cases where somebody comes and it doesn't work out and they are gone. So this is really the official ceremonial thing: "Yes, you're part of us and you're our president," and also because it gives the president time to think about what message you're going to give when you first arrive. It's pretty normal to wait. You set out with the tour to visit different cities and talk with alumni, what was the leading purpose of doing so? Well first of all, it is a little misleading to call it a tour. It sounds like I'm traveling on a bus with a rock band wearing a T-shirt with cities on my back. What we did was pick a number of cities that we believe could be pivotal in our relationship with alumni. And they were all separate events that were clustered close together; it was not a "tour" so to speak. We had a lot of opportunities for people to ask questions and a lot of people got very engaged in asking questions about our campus. It was about making friends and they would also be donors. "Donors" is the key word when it comes to your tour. How would you rate your performance in that aspect? Fundraising is a long-term effort, it doesn't happen overnight. There were some people that gave us checks when we were there - one lady sent me a check saying, "I'm so sorry I cant show up to your event, but here's a check because I know you need the money." I think what we are seeing is that it paid off in that we are probably going to raise a net of at least $250,000 for different things like the Emerald Eagle Scholarships. Was there a numerical fundraising goal for the tour? No. We really didn't know what we were going to raise There is no way to know. You could have one person say, "Oh, I'm so impressed, I'm going to going to give you a million dollars." Or you could have 100 people send $100. You just never know. And in some ways 100 people sending $100 is better since you have connected with 100 people. The goal was to connect with a lot of people with different levels of interest in giving and keep people connected to the university. How important do you think athletics is to national recognition? Athletics is a window in which people see us. This last year, we had more positive press than we've had in a long time. Papers from other states mention us. We won the Sun Belt, we went to the NCAA tournament. I have friends calling saying "I saw this on TV, it's your school!" But the reality of this is that not all these people who know about us even care about athletics. They care about knowing that their school is in the news in a positive way. How proactive is the president's office when it comes to the athletic department? NCAA requires that the president is responsible. At the end of the day, I am responsible to make sure we don't have any violations and playing by the rules. Even though I don't do any of that personally, they [the athletics department] all know that if they do something wrong I will pay, that's why the athletics director reports directly to me. And [Rick Villarreal, the athletics director] knows that I hold him accountable, so if something is wrong, the person that reports to me will be in trouble. As it stands NT is ranked as a tier three university, on a practical level, how soon do you think that will change? Well, we don't change. Other people do. Part of that is getting people to know us. There are a lot of factors there and there are a lot of things that make a difference when it comes to rankings like that. Entering freshman SAT score when up this fall, the amount of research we bring in, graduation rate, retention rate are part of those measures. So what we have to do is constantly make sure that everything we do is getting better every year. Its no single thing, it would be easier if it were. Plans to cut pay for the faculty during the summer have been in place for a while. Do you think that has alienated your faculty? No, because I think the faculty really recognizes that we are a student-centered university and the goal was not to cut pay. [The goal] was to provide courses the students' need in the summer. And the reality was that we're offering courses the faculty wanted to teach at a very high cost. If there are enough students that need a certain class, that class will be taught in the summer. Some of the faculty say that the official press release announcing the new plans for summer school read as if the motivations behind to cut pay for faculty in the summer was bottom-line minded and high-handed. One member of the biology department went on record as saying that you did it "just 'cause you could." How would you respond to that? Well, again. The goal was to offer the courses the students needed. And when you are doing that and you're doing it right, you have to think about the full academic year- not just the summer. We were putting $5 million in the summer that could go into the fall and spring. You've got to look at the full picture. I mean, we can do things because we can but historically the faculty has done things because they can. Teachers can say "I only want to teach a small amount of courses during the fall and spring," then teach a six-week course and get a high salary. That is not a wise use of our resources. Will the administration get a pay cut during the summer? We are 12-month employees. They are nine-month employees. So this- their pay has not been cut. If they are telling you they're pay has been cut… there are circum- … they can still teach during the summer. Or they can teach during a full load during the academic year. It's very complicated. Summer school is a bonus. It is not part of their contracts. A lot of them want to teach the courses they want to teach, not the ones that need to be taught. We are doing the right thing by students and we are being fiscally responsible. Back in August at new student convocation, one of the strong points of your speech was that you wanted to turn NT from a music school to a research school. I think that is an interesting interpretation … I have never said that I will turn NT from a music school to a research school. Obviously that was a paraphrase, but what have you done to enhance the "research" aspect of your plan? You think that arts doesn't do research? You think music doesn't do research? The point is that our mission is to be a student-centered research university, the problem with that is that as soon as I say "research," people automatically think chemistry labs. Whereas, if we could have said we are a "student-centered public research and creative activity university," that is what research is. It's about scholarship, it's about creative activity, it's about our musicians performing in Vienna. That too is part of that research area. So the research part of it that we are concerned about, are the research dollars coming in. We got folks doing research in the sciences but they are not bringing in money. So where we can bring in money to do research is to our advantage because we get indirect costs money and it buys equipment that a student can use in a lab. We need faculty to not just do research but apply for grants. All of this benefits the university. Stephen Hawking taught a class, Maya Angelou is at Wake Forest. Will a name like that come to NT? Those kinds of appointments are very expensive and they are what you do if you've become famous already as an institution and have that money to spend. What we need to do, and we are doing, is hiring successful assistant professors and full professors who come here with grants already and raise our profile. It's nice to bring someone famous in, but it's a one shot deal. It doesn't make a difference in the long run to the quality of education our students get. Are there any educational policies you brought with you from Chapel Hill? You can't pick up a set of expectations from one institution and dump them on another. We have a strategic plan, and we are carrying it out. We are using technology to enhance our classrooms. Currently, we are looking at large classes and using technology to better them. But it's more a mindset that I bring with me to explore every possibility of what we are doing for our students. The redevelopment of Fry Street is something the students have been passionate and involved in. What is your stance on it? Fry Street has always changed. Places always change, and this is just another change. The developers are working in a historical framework. Our concern is that there is a heritage there and we want them to respect the history of NT. But these are independent companies working with private citizens. We have no right to tell them how to run their business but we hope that there is preservation of the history. The reality is that every generation of students has a different attachment to the campus. In the fall, everyone was talking about the Albino squirrel getting killed. Next fall will the freshman even know about the Albino squirrel? This university will never change for you. Twenty years from now you will remember how it was when you were here- times just change. What has the administration done or will do to address the parking issue? We do not have a parking problem, we have a transposition problem and we have a perception problem. This university was not built for 33,500 students. Frankly, if this university is going to maintain an attractive campus we have to get rid of more parking lots. We can't build more parking lots. We have this mindset where students, faculty and staff all believe they should be able to park close to where they work or teach or have class and be able to drive to the next place they work, etc. That's just not how modern universities work. I can't imagine that any student, if you stop to think about it, would want to spend more money on parking than chemistry labs or to enhance the Rec Center, or add to the Union or more books to the library. We have to think about our priorities and our priority is education. It really is a mindset, just park at Fouts Field if you don't want to go around and around wasting gas and looking for parking. It's OK to walk a little. Under the "change of mindset" you just mentioned, are remote parking garages and shuttling to campus a definite part of NT's future? Absolutely. As we grow, every freshman class will get closer to that as we build better facilities and enhance the services our campus gives its students. It just doesn't make sense to me to build more parking lots unless they are remote. We are certainly not going to make it any easier for people to park right next to their classrooms. We are doing what we can to make sure that we keep the main part of campus the academic heart of the university. It's not going to get worse. It's just going to change.

I'm not posting the entire thing but ya can read... http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/30...oach-black-mood Pretty interesting if true.. Here is a couple of things that got me: Coach Dickey snuck new black uniforms Ramon Flanagan allegedly started a physical fight with wide receivers Coach Chip Garber offense received no instruction before going back out to start the third quarter

what channel will the game be on?

Campus to welcome team home at 3 p.m. today With an 83-75 win over Arkansas State University last night (March 6), the Mean Green men's basketball team clinched the Sun Belt Conference Title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship Tournament. Join the campus community as we welcome our champions home at 3 p.m. today outside the North Tunnel entrance to the Super Pit. President Gretchen M. Bataille, the UNT cheerleaders, the UNT Basketball Band and other fans will greet the team as they arrive. The UNT Police will escort the team’s bus along Interstate 35E through Denton County and onto campus. “We’re honored to bring this championship back to North Texas," says Johnny Jones, head basketball coach. "We appreciate all the support that we have received throughout the season, and look forward to heading into the NCAA tournament.” Match selection for the men's tournament will be televised at 5 p.m. March 11 on CBS. The completed brackets will be available at NCAAsports.com immediately after the selections are announced. Game times will be announced shortly thereafter. The tournament begins with an opening round March 13 prior to the March 15 first round games. The title win was the team's 23rd, the most ever by a UNT team, and UNT's appearance in the NCAA tournament will be the first since the 1987-88 season. The team finished with a record of 23-10 and Calvin Watson, senior, was selected as the most valuable player of the tournament. Read more about how the Mean Green earned their ticket to the big-time basketball dance. unt.edu

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now this: Davis' status uncertain North Texas senior guard Kendrick Davis was still trying to recover from a stomach virus that forced him to miss the Mean Green's win over Middle Tennessee in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament on Monday. His status for tonight's championship game is uncertain. UNT managed to get past MTSU without Davis, but it certainly would help to have him on the floor tonight with an NCAA Tournament bid on the line. Davis had a tough game against Louisiana-Monroe in the quarterfinals, going 1-for-18 from the field, but has the ability to break out at any time. He had 24 points in a first-round win over Louisiana-Lafayette and has hit more big shots late in games this season than anyone on the team. UNT is a much more dangerous team with Davis on the floor because of his ability to shoot the ball from deep and go to the basket. The Mean Green scored an uncharacteristic 59 points in its win over MTSU and will have to improve on that total dramatically against Arkansas State. The Indians beat the Mean Green 84-60 and 74-71 earlier this season. UNT might need 75-80 points to get past ASU. It would be a whole lot easier to get that total with Davis on the floor. http://meangreen.beloblog.com/

Scott Frew posted 3/06/07 @ 10:55 AM EST Davis able to go tonight? Post a reply to this comment mary young posted 3/06/07 @ 1:26 PM EST Originally posted by Scott Frew Davis able to go tonight? Kendrick is good to go tonight. I spoke with my son Rich last night and he says Kendrick will play. http://www.ntdaily.com/home/index.cfm?even...7b-807c2eb994a3

with all the passion for UNT athletics shown on here, why can't one of us go work for the athletic department? Not trying to be smart, just wondering why the current employees don't think of this stuff? Are there roadblocks we don't know about. It should be on the main website 1 hr after the game and posters/flyers all over the campus first thing in the morning. I want that job!

Thx - after rushing home to watch the game last night only to find out it was not on TV, I want to make sure I get the correct time... If we win tonight will every game after that be televised?

also, on the ESPN website it shows it will be in HD on ESPN2 it shows the game @ 8pm EST

just received word that North Texas' game against Middle Tennessee in the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament will be shown on Ch. 52 in the Dallas/Denton area. The game was already scheduled to be shown on ESPN+Plus. The Mean Green (21-10) is in the midst of its best season since Bill Blakeley roamed UNT’s sideline in the 1970s. A win against MTSU would give the Mean Green a shot at an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament in the Sun Belt tournament finals. http://meangreen.beloblog.com/

New North Texas football coach Todd Dodge won't have much time to ease the Mean Green into the 2007 season. That was readily apparent after UNT released its 2007 schedule that is full of tough games on Thursday. UNT opens at Oklahoma, visits an SMU team with revenge on its mind after losing to the Mean Green last year in the second week of the season and also travels to Arkansas in the fourth week of the year. The Mean Green also plays at Troy, Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette in league play. The jewel of the schedule is UNT's home game against Navy on Nov. 10. UNT should draw a big crowd when it hosts the service academy, but even that game won't be easy considering Navy has played in four straight bowl games. By the way, look for the UNT-ASU game on Thursday, Nov. 15, to be televised. While the schedule will be a tough one for UNT, it also offers several opportunities for a big win or two. A win over SMU or Navy would be huge for the Mean Green in Dodge's first season. Feel free to post your expectations for UNT next season or your thoughts on UNT's schedule on this blog. For a full story on UNT's schedule, see the Denton Record-Chronicle's Web site. The following is a link to the story:

SOUTHLAKE -- Carroll school district's indoor workout building has a new name: the Performance Course Stalcup Training Center. The school board voted 6-1 Monday to rename the $1.2 million building after Performance Course, an athletic-training company, and the late Carroll football defensive coordinator Charlie Stalcup. Under the contract, the Allen company will pay the school district $30,000 per year for 10 years. The contract will make Performance Course the exclusive athletic trainer on district property. Performance Course will also have rights to place ads in folders students take home and inside the Stalcup workout center. Stalcup is best known for inspiring players, teachers and the community during a five-year fight against skin cancer. He died in July 2004 at age 50. But Murphy Webster, who owns Velocity Sports Performance, a Southlake sports training company, said that he would have paid more for the naming rights, although he didn't mention a figure. He said that he thinks that a 10-year contract is too long. He told trustees that he would have liked the chance to negotiate a contract. He said he did not know that the naming rights were on the table. After Webster spoke, the board met behind closed doors for about three hours before emerging for a vote. The indoor workout center, at Carroll Senior High School, opened in August 2000. Area school districts, such as Grapevine-Colleyville and Mansfield, have been marketing advertising agreements for years as a way to raise money. The money is not subject to Robin Hood, the state program that shifts money from wealthy school districts to poorer school districts. In Carroll, officials said, Stalcup's name will remind people of his strength and character. "He was just such an example of a role model for our kids, through his illness. He was taking treatments, and he would take a golf cart and come out to practices and motivate kids," said Julie Thannum, a district spokeswoman. "He had Dragon spirit, and he epitomized what we want our employees and our students to be." The district's dragon mascot character, Charlie, is also named for Stalcup; the name received the most entries in a contest in 2004.

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As Todd Dodge signed his first recruiting class last week, Dallas Morning News staff writer and NT alumus Tim MacMahon called the Mean Green "the next Boise State." Don't be surprised if MacMahon wasn't joking on the newspaper's blog. He could be right, even if NT won't play in the Fiesta Bowl and upset Oklahoma anytime soon. Dodge is viewed as the savior of the football program. The 100 fans that attended his introductory press conference in December wouldn't have doubted that he floated on a cloud north to Denton from Southlake. The former Southlake Carroll High School coach welcomes and deserves the newfound expectations. Compare NT and the Dragons the last two seasons. It isn't fair. The Mean Green won five games. Dodge's team didn't lose one and earned its second and third mythical national championships. In five years at Texas' highest classification, Carroll missed an 80-0 record by a single point in the 2003 state championship. If there is one high school coach who is prepared to make the leap straight to Division I, it's Dodge. The year before he arrived at Carroll, the Dragons missed the playoffs. Six years, 98 wins and four state championships later, Dodge is wearing a new shade of green and NT season tickets are actually hot items. Nobody questions if Dodge can re-establish NT as a Sun Belt contender or something greater. The only unknowns are when and how. Signing day offered answers. The initial class wasn't perfect. Dodge reaped only one member from the DMN area top 100. He signed only two offensive linemen, a maligned unit recently at NT. Then again, finding 20 players who had a hand in 47 playoff wins last season is remarkable. To do that in three weeks is astounding. More than half of the class at least appeared in a state final during their careers, and they combined for 14 state titles. This group didn't embrace moral victories, only real ones. "These players are unselfish, they have character, and they have been in situations that we want to be in," Dodge said. "When they get here, they will be more seasoned than you might expect." While at Carroll, Dodge coached against seven of the players in the playoffs. Who needs video when you have a first-hand account of how he reacts with his season at stake? The coach also signed defensive end Kyle Russo and linebacker Justin Padron, who he saw every day at Carroll the last four years. With the help of Dodge's voluminous statewide contact list, NT picked a class that met almost every need, especially receiver. Six players had at least 27 receptions for Carroll in 2006, and seven caught touchdown passes from Todd's son Riley. The six receivers NT signed collected 81 touchdown grabs last season. Dodge's offense relies not on one main weapon, but rather several. Depth, balance, and what Dodge calls "a numbers advantage" are vital. Understandably, so is a quarterback, and Dodge uncovered one from the city in which he ended his run with Carroll - Giovanni Vizza from San Antonio 's Alamo Heights High School. Vizza, who piled up 491 total yards and four touchdowns in a state championship win over Copperas Cove High School, is the dual threat Dodge craves. From wins to statistics, the numbers from Dodge's first class are eye-opening. Now, just imagine how the coach's 16th annual quarterback-receiver camp will look. It already attracts some of the best out-of-state players, but now Dodge can do more than improve spirals. He can improve an athlete's college outlook by inviting him to join 20 young men and others in building the next Boise State.

Oh & I don't think they have to have a phone call... When he graduates college and interviews for a job - Do they call when you don't get hired? NOPE Why is it TD's responsibility to call? TD is busy recruiting, I bet his wife could hardly get him on the phone much less this kid... Why can't the MAN (DD) who offered the ship call the kid to let him know "Hey, ahh I just got fired and your ship may not still be offered but ahh I'm going to Utah State, want one here?"

Get over it...WELCOME to the real world I have been practically hired during an interview process and then new management came in - and you guessed it - I was not given the opportunity I thought I had. 1 & 1/2 yrs later I was given the same opportunity under yet another management regime, my current employer. I know this is an 18 yr old kid but - when management/coaching changes, NO ONE can expect prior decisions/philosophies to remain in place!

http://dfwvarsity.star-telegram.com/FootBa.../Recruiting.asp I thought we were on this list?

Dave Campbell's All-Texas Team Posted: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 DAVE CAMPBELL’S TEXAS FOOTBALL POST SEASON ALL-TEXAS TEAM For the first time in its history, Dave Campbell’s Texas Football has selected an All-Texas High School Football team. This elite group of players was selected by the staff of Texas Football and is intended to represent the 30 players, position-by-position, that had the greatest performances in 2006. As opposed to a list of players that are the best recruiting prospects, this All-Texas team focuses on the best individual effort regardless of the size of their school. MVP — William Cole, Cedar Hill Offensive Player of the Year — Giovanni Vizza, SA Alamo Heights Defensive Player of the Year — Clayton Scott, Alto ALL-TEXAS OFFENSE Quarterback — Lee McClendon, Mart Running back — Bradley Stephens, McAllen Memorial; Antowaine Smith, Paris North Lamar; Foswhitt Whitaker, Pearland; Wide receiver — Evan Walker, Colleyville Heritage; Dez Bryant, Lufkin; Jessey Hodge, Springtown; Tight end — Andre Thomas, Gilmer Union Hill; Linemen — Tray Allen, South Grand Prairie; Kyle Ness, Decatur; Eli Crawford, Groveton; Brady Fletcher, Perryton; Jamie Blatnick, Celina; Utility — Luke Roberts, Comfort; Kicker — Justin Putnam, Round Rock Westwood. ALL-TEXAS DEFENSE Linemen — Russell Carter, Houston Westbury; Antonio Johnson, Waco; Dustin McClure, Bangs; Joey Nunez, San Benito; Linebacker —Youri Yenga, Trinity; Tracy Morgan, Clarksville; Alan Dock, Giddings; Defensive backs — Cody Davis, Stephenville; Travis Slaughter, Crawford; Sherman Rosborough, Longview; Chris West, Devine; Punter — Will Middlebrooks, Texarkana Liberty-Eylau.

http://dfwvarsity.star-telegram.com/FootBall2006/ Last season, the Carroll library turned into a circus, as players and families clogged into celebrate Signing Day. That didn't change this morning, as six football players signed: Defensive end Kyle Russo (UNT), linebacker Justin Padron (UNT), offensive lineman Robert Hill (Utah State) and defensive end Bryce Saldi (UNLV). Brothers Arius and Anthony Ford both signed with Georgetown. "It's not just football that's good here," Russo said. "We had soccer, lacrosse. We have a lot of good athletes." Hill remembered the experience from last year. "I remember watching from outside the library," he said. "I never thought I'd be in here signing a year later." Other news from Carroll - *New coach Hal Wasson said he is still working on completing his staff. *Junior quarterback Riley Dodge said he and running back Tre' Newton were at OU last weekend, and plan to go to Junior Day at Texas next. Dodge said he also plans to graduate early. — Trae Thompson