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I love the team but horrid crap happens when ...
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Currently outscoring them 26-11. What could possibly curse us by the end of this game? Calling Boise ... .
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FIFY. I tend to side with Truth, Justice, and the American Way and against people that oppose those values.
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Is Rice in the Witness Protection Program or something? Even the most informed college basketball fans would have no idea who those nasty uniforms represent. No Rice colors, a very small generic looking bird head logo, and the school name not even on the uniforms; only a tiny R above the names on the back. And Rice, a usually reliable shooting bunch ... only shooting 25% in this game.
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They lost to Texas State, won only 3 games the entire season, and one of those three was against the powerhouse University of Long Island. There will be changes at Baylor and nobody's starting job is assured.
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You decide to criticize the messenger although he has offered no opinion whatsoever? Did you really watch (and comprehend) the whole video? Did you watch the analysis discussion by what I would evaluate as two fairly neutral men? Please list where you disagree with their conclusions. I'm awaiting your reply.
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No, it doesn't, nor was there any explanations offered by the possibly biased posters that originally created this potentially racially based thread. The only factual explanation mentioned was that this was not Derek Chauvin's "first killing" and here's a few details of that: I guess some groups will always concoct misinformation and disinformation to benefit their narrative.
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Is there some school that you'd like our teams to represent other than our own? Is that how it works Green Otaku?
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Newsflash for everyone. NONE of the players, coaches, or athletic department employees care about North Texas if a better option comes along. Please don't question their loyalty because they have none. Bank on that. And I am not saying anything bad about that. They are all going to do what they perceive as being best for their finances, their football careers, and their families, and there is nothing wrong with that. I too hate to lose players but I want every one of them to always do what they believe is best for their personal situation. But, and there's always a big but, I expect that while they are here that they are 100% committed to this program, this university, and respect this university's traditions. I still cant fathom how we let a player that absolutely avoided contact be a defensive captain, how we let a new coach dedicate his first year to playing pirate in honor of a Tech coach, and we let mercenary student athletes select what uniforms they'd like to wear because they'd prefer to disregard our traditions.
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I can only think of one time that North Texas beat a team that had a player go on to win the Heisman.
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No. I only hear "North Texas". I think elements in the school tried to push UNT for a while but it never really caught on except in social media because we're all basically lazy and typing UNT is easier on our poor overworked thumbs. Properly, it's THE University of North Texas, much like people pronounce THE Ohio State University.
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Traylor: UTSA Needs 'Checks and Big Checks' To Compete in AAC
ADLER replied to rcade's topic in Mean Green Football
College athletics are evolving. Some sports will be purely pro, some entirely amateur, and most somewhere in between. My opinion, and please take this for what it's worth (nothing), is take advantage of our assets (large student enrollment and low enrollment costs) and let the free market determine player payroll. A simple fact is that we never will be able to outspend the 30 or so giants of college football. They have 100K seat stadiums with fans paying thousands just to be on the waiting lists, they have enormous media contracts, and they have booster networks which can donate $billions in a heartbeat. Their ability to spend easily exceeds that of the NFL. We can't compete against that, nor should we try. Nor should we want to be one of those little lapdog schools that strive to live parasitically off those giants (no offense Smoodles). Here's what I was suggesting as far as "utilizing the free market." Student fees, donations, and media revenue are still in the athletics budget for each sport. Non-spectator sports would offer scholarships, and nothing else. The revenue sports should equally divide every penny from ticket sales, parking revenue, away game payouts, and postseason events to each scholarship athlete in their individual sports once the costs of their scholarships have been covered. Essentially, 100% of the spoils from each sport are equally distributed to it's participants. It's a fair way to allocate money to the athletes that earn it and it promotes their teams to excel and sell tickets. And if any player feels he or she has a higher market value than what's being given, then please pursue that elsewhere with our blessings. Opinions? -
What happens to us and the rest of the schools in NIL?
ADLER replied to JT Hammons's topic in Mean Green Football
Here's a couple of interesting discussions on the proposed new football sub-classification. An explanation of possible repercussions for collegiate sports is in the second video. This may be the eventuality that we need to start preparing for long term. Not bad, not good, but possibly inevitable. -
I love how the actors/writers/production crew (all the same few people) describe the mad dash to create the storylines, sets, and costumes the next day immediately after the games. They all have day jobs. Even though it parodies the SEC schools the themes are familiar to fans of every school. Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you, and some days you just get laughed at.
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ACC coaches wary of more realignment: 'Guessing it's not over'
ADLER replied to NT80's topic in Conference ReAlignment
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SEC Shorts Well, at least the committee got it right on the selection of Liberty in the NY6.
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8 games in: what do we now know of the Hodge era?
ADLER replied to greenminer's topic in Mean Green Basketball
Wow, very well written, reminiscent of the old days when Tasty Greek and Quoner would pontificate on here, but missing all the dark humor. I've been reading these boards so often that I am slowly beginning to accept good as an adverb, alot as a real word, and that assure, ensure, and insure all mean the same thing. Then again, I was one that loved the sarcasm and satire even when I was the target. Please post more often. -
8 games in: what do we now know of the Hodge era?
ADLER replied to greenminer's topic in Mean Green Basketball
Hodge is doing an outstanding job. Period. No question about it. He has fielded a team that has been very competitive with every team we've played this season despite several of those schools having resources that dwarf our own. This is incredible for a first year coach in what could only be described as a rebuilding year. It shows the impressive leadership that Rubin and Aaron have assumed and the dedication the newcomers have exhibited. The only, ONLY fault that I could find with this year's basketball team is that they allow poor leadership in our athletics department to select uniforms that negatively impact their performance. It's not just cosmetic, it has led to some humiliating defeats because the "tough and trashy look" inspires officiating calls to be made against our team. I'm not saying that the right thing to do, but it's obvious it happens. And one more thing, these deviant color uniforms do an extremely poor job of representing our school. There's absolutely no doubt we would have beaten Boise State last night if we had worn our Green uniforms. And we would have looked good doing it. -
Happy 70th Birthday to Coach Matt Simon who was the Head Football Coach at North Texas for 4 seasons, 1994-1997. During his time here he guided the program through the transition from 1AA back to FBS football. He won one conference championship (1994) and beat Oregon State, Boise State, and Texas Tech in the following seasons all on an extremely small budget and no facilities newer than 1952. 1997 was also the season that North Texas hosted Texas A&M as a home game in Texas Stadium. A&M was undefeated and had outscored it's previous two opponents by a combined 125-6. I believe the 45,000 attendance that day may have been the largest attended home game in North Texas history. The Mean Green fought valiantly and the score was tied at 10 during halftime. North Texas held the Aggies on their first possession of the second half forcing a three and out punt. North Texas should have been in excellent position to start a midfield drive but our usually excellent punt returner Tubby Coleman muffed the punt. A&M scored quickly and suddenly all momentum was on their side as they scored 16 points late in the game to cruise to a 36-10 victory. This same 1997 A&M team subsequently beat Texas 27-16 and Oklahoma 51-7 before playing in the Big12 championship and the Cotton Bowl. Simon is also credited with coining the "Safeway Bowl" challenge with SMU by stating "I'd like to play because I think we could beat them, and my players feel the same way. If they'd like to play on a Safeway parking lot... just give us a date and time." SMU was avoiding scheduling North Texas after the Mean Green had beaten them in 1991. SMU continuously cited a 27-3-1 record in the series, but that record included SMU going 20-1-1 in the years predating WWII when SMU had athletic scholarships and North Texas didn't. Realistically those antiquated early games between a scholarship program and a non-scholarship program are totally irrelevant and meaningless to all sports fans other than SMU homers, and an indelible impression that was somehow made on sportswriter Brett Vito who continuously blurts the record uncontrollably. Matt Simon was terminated after the 1997 season and North Texas Athletic Director Craig Helwig filled the position with Darrell Dickey.
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This speedster that we offered in 2021 has now left Texas Tech and entered the Transfer Portal. https://247sports.com/Player/tyler-king-46113805/high-school-262185/ https://texastech.com/sports/football/roster/tyler-king/12500