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Entertainment sells tickets, and what has already gone around needs to go back and bite someone. As so eloquently stated by Mr Roark "Revenge is a dish best served cold". Hell, I'd have the team throw "the grenade" on Feb 22 when Arkansas State visits. It will draw a technical, but the fans will love it.

It's time to go back to BEFORE THE BEGINNING! It was prehistoric times soon after Gore had invented the internet. It was the early days before registration and password were invented. It was the times when rival fans could trash your board and our fans would do the same to theirs. It was the days when Pottie threatened to 'POAT" continuously on the TCU board. Speaking of Pottie, is he still stuck in some obscure UNLV message board room. Here are the remnants of the original old MEAN GREEN MESSAGE BOARD. It's where the legendary names like Harry, Stebo, NT80, FFRick, StandUp, Brad, George, Scottie, MoGreen, MeanRob, NM Green, and many others first got involved. MEAN GREEN MESSAGE BOARD It's where we all got adicted to this message board thing, and was in many ways the start of our current fan base. Several years went by wondering who the hell many of these people were, and then the first Mean Green Summer Party on August 24, 1999 was officially the start of an actual fan club, the Mean Green Club. Thanks again Rob and Harry.

It would be wonderful to have something similar to that at North Texas. Eliminate the upper seats in the end zones and have the sideline seats be a single huge ramp on each side. The really nice thing is that it has HUGE club room and luxury box capacity and those suites and clubrooms are up there exactly where they are supposed to be. Those clubrooms can be used for events like wedding receptions and coctail parties on days when a game isn't played, and they won't interfere with the collegiate atmosphere or sightlines on those days when there is a game.

I originally made a comment about our new board trolls, but I felt compelled to apply Thumper's Mother's rule and edit the post.

A new stadium is going to be built, that much is almost certain. People don't contribute personal donations exceeding a million dollars to something that might happen. The only questions that remain concern construction timeframe and stadium design. These factors may be impacted by the fundraising campaign.

Didn't Theron J Fouts also have a grand idea of putting the track and the field events between the football field and the fan seating? Well, doing the same with the coctail party rooms and the banquet halls should work almost as well. I wonder why no other schools do this. HELLO MCNEESE STATE! Whippee Shine! It's a whipped topping AND a floor wax! (but probably not very good at either)

There appears to be some good ideas in that design. It's seems designed with future expansion in mind, but I hope we go higher on the sides from the onset. 40,000 seats should be sufficient for the first phase, and with the right product on the field and the right game-day atmosphere, North Texas should have little trouble filling those seats.

from this past summer after she was crowned Miss Texas: Shilah Phillips is the 2006 winner of the Miss Texas title. Notable achievements Phillips won the 2006 Miss Frisco title on 30 October 2005.[1] Phillips was the first African-American to hold the Miss Texas title when on 8 July 2006, at 24, she won the pageant on her first attempt. She is only the second woman in the history of the program to win the title on her first try. She competed as Miss Frisco. Phillips began studying jazz music at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and, while there, received the Most Outstanding Vocalist award. She was recently accepted into the renowned jazz studies program at the University of North Texas. Shilah attended the prestigious Denver School of the Arts from seventh grade until graduating from high school. She graduated tenth in her class, and was voted most likely to succeed by her senior class. Oh, she not only won the talent portion, she also scored highest in the Miss Texas swimsuit competition.

I would think that a facility fee of $25 per semester and $12.50 for each sumer term would work. It would generate $2 mil per year and should easily enable the university to sell bonds to cover the costs of construction. Rick is great at this type of thing, and with the recent resurgence of support for football, there probably will not be much opposition. All the pieces are now in place to make great things happen.

Grapevine quarterback Steven Headley has thrown for 982 yards in three games. 2005 Article from Dallas Morning News Grapevine quarterback Headley gets former run-based offense off ground 12:40 AM CDT on Thursday, September 22, 2005 By DAMON L. SAYLES / The Dallas Morning News GRAPEVINE – Steven Headley's arm strength and accuracy intrigue college scouts. They tend to look past last season's passing numbers, which weren't as glamorous as those of other area quarterbacks. Headley, in his third year as a starter for Grapevine, passed for 1,729 yards and 10 touchdowns last season. That was when the motor of the offense was a ground game that featured 6-3, 270-pounder Henry Melton, now a freshman running back at Texas, and Cody Culpepper, who shared time with Melton. "With Henry and Culpepper both," Headley said, "everybody gave them respect because they gave us yards." Now teams are learning to respect Headley. Instead of handing off the ball – something he did nearly 300 times in 2004 – he's moving the team via the pass. Only three games into the season, Headley has accounted for more than half of last season's passing totals. He has thrown for 982 yards and five touchdowns while completing 56 percent of his passes. Headley (6-1, 205) was leading all area Class 5A quarterbacks before last weekend, when Grapevine (1-2) was idle. It opens District 5-5A play Friday against unbeaten Haltom. His best performance was during Grapevine's opener, when he threw for 378 yards and three touchdowns in an overtime victory against Arlington. "His confidence level is up right now," Grapevine coach Gary Mullins said. "He has a good arm to go with that. He can flat rifle it. He's certainly the type of kid we can get on his shoulders and ride." Headley is benefiting from Mullins' switch to a passing attack after relying on the run last season. Headley said working with his receivers during summer 7-on-7 competition has helped tremendously with timing and accuracy. Headley's results show most with receivers Taylor Wardlow and Cody Conover, who have combined for 40 catches. Headley keeps all of his receivers alert. Nine have caught passes, and five of the nine have at least seven catches. Wardlow leads the team with 24 catches, including 12 for 200 yards and two touchdowns against Flower Mound on Sept. 2. "Steven's knowledge of their system is excellent, and he's shown to be a very good fit for them the last three years," Flower Mound coach Cody Vanderford said. "The majority of times against us, he was right in his decision-making. He'll make somebody a great college quarterback." Headley has yet to commit to a university. He visited Texas A&M over the weekend and also is looking at Oklahoma State and Texas Tech. Headley feels if he were a couple of inches taller, selecting a college wouldn't be an issue. "[Height] may come into play, but it'll be a shame if it did," Vanderford said. "Whether you're 6-0 or 6-4, if you can play, you can play. And he can play." Added Headley: "If there's a 6-3 quarterback who can kind of throw and a 6-1 quarterback who throws well, sometimes [scouts] will look at him first. But I can understand that. I just want to have a shot." Headley is focused on helping Grapevine get back in the playoffs for the first time since 2003. To make the playoffs, Grapevine will have to shine in 5-5A, which includes reigning mythical national champion Southlake Carroll. To do that, Grapevine's defense will have to step up. While Headley and the offense are averaging 35.3 points, the defense is allowing 40.7. "There were years in the past when 35 points would mean a win for us," Headley said. "It's frustrating, but I know the defense is getting better each game. They're young, but I know that they'll be fine in district. "I just take it as a challenge to help the offense keep on scoring." Steven Headley File (September 2005) School, class: Grapevine, Sr. Height, weight: 6-1, 205 Notable: Headley is No. 7 among area quarterbacks in all classifications in passing. He's third among area 5A quarterbacks behind Keller's Calvin Farley (1,128 yards) and Sachse's Josh Phillips (1,049). ... The playoffs are Headley's goal, but a 3,000-yard passing season lingers in the back of his mind. He is on pace to throw for more than 3,200 yards. Quotable: "I think if he was 6-2 or better, everybody in the country would be after him. He's that good." – Grapevine coach Gary Mullins _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this month: Grapevine Former quarterback Steven Headley said last week he has been granted his release from Wyoming. Headley signed with Wyoming last February and redshirted this fall. However, he said the Cowboys’ offense was not the style that suited him. “They run the ball 60-70 percent of the time,” Headley said. “I want to be in a situation where the spread offense is being run. I have nothing against Wyoming. They treated me really well. They respected my decision.” Headley said he is attempting to speak with North Texas coach Todd Dodge and wants to contact Oklahoma. The Sooners offered him a preferred walk-on opportunity last year before he signed with Wyoming. Headley will also seek Tulsa, which will operate from the spread with new head coach Todd Graham. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adler's opinion: If this player actually is available as a transfer, then Coach Dodge surely knows more about him than anything that we can learn from newspaper articles. I'm am prepared to to be happy whichever way the situation developes.

Thank you Al. I hadn't bought tickets because I was originally scheduled to be in Denmark this weekend. I was hating the fact that I would miss the banquet.

I would like to believe yor side of the story,.....but........upon inspection by doctors, Terry has been diagnosed to be clinically brain dead.

Is it too late to bring back Kenny?

This is good news. Dr Pohl really enjoys working at North Texas and his wife has a job that she loves at TWU. They re very active and involved in the community, and they hopefully will make this their home until they retire.

I don't know if that's Deon's kid, but I do know that 3. J'Mison "Bobo" Morgan Dallas South Oak Cliff 6'10" 5 is the son of our own Ronnie Morgan. I sure wish that Johnny had signed Ronnie Jr this past year instead of one of those Mineral Area kids.

Like many other stadiums, UConn's Rentschler Field has a walkway bisecting the lower from the upper seats, but the luxury suites are where they are supposed to be, atop the stadium behind the fans, just like at every successful stadium. And some of those luxury suites are quite elaborate.

Sure, I'll concede that the UCF stadium is prefabricated and may have to be replaced in 25 years by a bigger more substantial stadium. Conversely, the Sparks POC design proposed for North Texas will seldom if ever draw large crowds. The catastrophic mistake of putting the cocktail party rooms between the fans and the field will destroy the fan base. It will be several generations before that perpetually half-empty 30,000 seat stadium can be replaced. It's Deja vu' all over again in Mean Green Country. Fouts was doomed for failure before the first shovel of dirt was turned. Does anybody really want to recreate that nightmare?

Are you interested in making any bets on which stadium will better fill it's function for higher attendance and revenue. UCF has virtually no football history, similar student numbers and demographics to North Texas, and comperable competition for entertainment dollars. If North Texas procedes with the POC desogn, let's bet a set dollar figure for each of the first 10 years after the stadiums are built. If North Texas has higher attendance for the year, I pay you that figure . If the University of Central Florida has the higher attendance, you pay me the same. If you are confident in your convictions, then it shouldn't take you very long to reply.

The logical choices for the Pac 10 expansion if it were to expand would be Utah and Nevada. They'd both deliver statewide followings, and wouldn't come with the BYU baggage. The roadblock to expansion would be the the Pac 12 splitting into 2 divisions. The northern 4 and Arizona schools want to retain the games against the California schools. Nobody is ready to budge.

That is a beautiful stadium. It holds enough fans to show the world that Central Florida is making a BCS level commitment to their athletic programs. The sight lines in the stadium condusive to the 'collegiate atmosphere' and provide an excellent view of the field. They have seats where fans desire to sit. That stadium may or may not get UCF a Big East invite, but it positively insures their existance in 1A football.

The guy clearly deserves to be hazed on the fan boards. He signs a multiyear contract extension with Rice on Tuesday. On Thursday there's a feature running in the paper in which he's talking about how important character is, and his strong loyalty to his team. That same day he signs a contract to leave for Tulsa because they've offered more money. He may or may not be a nice guy, but this whole ordeal was sleazy.

As far as I'm aware, the location for the baseball stadium has not changed.

Those luxury boxes placed in the middle ARE the whole problem. If the seats from the higher area were moved forward and angled all the way to the field, and the luxury boxes were placed at the top with the media boxes (ya know, where boxes are supposed to be) it would be a functional stadium design. The Club Room could be incorporated behind the end zone seats quite well. There is a lot of competition for the entertainment dollars in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. North Texas fans are just as cheap as any other fans. They want value for their investment. If they perceive that they are being force-fed a lower quality product (third class seating), then they simply won't buy it. Low attendance jeoperdizes continued membership in Division 1. That's a huge risk to appease a few people that, quite frankly, don't have a history of existance. The stadium needs to be built for the FANS, not for some imaginary corporation that we are supposed to pretend is comprised of North Texas fanatics.

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He is a very nice person, and from everything I've heard, an outstanding coach. He never adopted the paranoid bunker mentality that plagued our previous staff. He was acting head coach when DD was out with health concerns. and he should have acted as interim coach to replace a disgruntled employee. Many here were disappointed that we lost him in the transfer of power, and I am confident that he will do very well for Tech.