ADLER

I am standing besides myself! My tickets to the Knuckles State game arrived in the mail today.

North Texas Men’s Basketball Tilt Against Houston Moved To The Super Pit Courtesy: University of North Texas DENTON (12/5/05) -- The North Texas men’s basketball game against Houston on December 23, originally scheduled to be played in Houston at 7 p.m., has been moved to Denton and the tip time changed from 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. to accommodate the Cougars kick-off time of 7 p.m. in the Fort Worth Bowl on the same day. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased through the North Texas ticket office at 940-565-2527 or 1-800-UNT-2366. The game can still be heard live on the Mean Green Radio Network as well (KWRD 100.3 FM, KNTU 88.1 FM, KPXI (100.3 FM), KAFR (88.3 FM)), starting with the pregame at 12:30 p.m. North Texas is currently 2-2 overall and 2-0 at home, while Houston is 3-1 after coming off a victory over No. 15 Arizona last Saturday. The Cougars are 1-0 in road games this year. NORTH TEXAS ATHLETICS

North Texas Men’s Basketball Tilt Against Houston Moved To The Super Pit Courtesy: University of North Texas DENTON (12/5/05) -- The North Texas men’s basketball game against Houston on December 23, originally scheduled to be played in Houston at 7 p.m., has been moved to Denton and the tip time changed from 7 p.m. to 1 p.m. to accommodate the Cougars kick-off time of 7 p.m. in the Fort Worth Bowl on the same day. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased through the North Texas ticket office at 940-565-2527 or 1-800-UNT-2366. The game can still be heard live on the Mean Green Radio Network as well (KWRD 100.3 FM, KNTU 88.1 FM, KPXI (100.3 FM), KAFR (88.3 FM)), starting with the pregame at 12:30 p.m. North Texas is currently 2-2 overall and 2-0 at home, while Houston is 3-1 after coming off a victory over No. 15 Arizona last Saturday. The Cougars are 1-0 in road games this year. NORTH TEXAS ATHLETICS

Since the game was moved to Denton from Thibideaux after our season tickets had been sold and mailed, season ticket holders do not have tickets to this game. Is it going to be all general admission? Has anyone heard/read anything definitive?

I hope La Tech gets a bowl this year. They certainly deserve it a lot more than some of the BCS conference teams that went 2 and 5 in their leagues but scheduled 4 pushovers to open the season.

Major Applewhite - Syracuse quarterbacks coach Todd Dodge - Southlake Carroll HS head coach Les Koenning Jr. - Texas A&M offensive coordinator Wow, that's odd, three former UT quarterbacks up for the same job. Les Koenning Sr. was an assistant coach at Rice while his son was playing at Texas. Of course this was after he had coached his son at Houston Memorial.

I've already got one. Now go away before I taunt you a second time.

I don't think that there were over 19,000 in the stadium at any one time, but there were thousands that entered late because of festivities outside in the parking lot, and thousands more that returned to the parking lot early. I had to run out to my car 10 minutes into the first quarter and the parking lot was a sea of people partying. I can't say say I blame the revelers. If I was 21 or 22 I might have found the temptation of beer and coeds to have been greater than sitting through the whole game. I don't think it would be a reach to state that the surge in attendance over the last several years is as much a result to the game-day atmosphere as the product on the field. Maybe, just maybe, we can get someone to start woking on making the same magic happen for Saturday night basketball games.

"Um, they're dangerous. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw some kid hideously disfigured by a thrown tortilla pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess that's pretty dangerous. "

He did, and he said several nasty things about our players in the days after their loss. Personally, I hope we give them the treatment that's usually reserved for ASU and NMSU. Grenade Therapy

RAGIN' CAJUNS They will represent the conference well, and they will keep the bowl alive.

I'm willing to wager that the Ragin' Cajuns will be the Sun Belt representatives in this year's New Orleans Bowl. I predict that ULM will get eliminated in Denton, and then destroyed by Louisiana at Lafayette.

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I would do one step further. I would actually send free GOOD tickets to the first home basketball game of the season to every football season ticket holder.

Is it better than a female extraterrestrial?

I want the team to earn rings. I want the program to be able to say that we were 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Sun Belt Champions entering next season. There was a 5 or 6 way tie for first place in the final year of the defunct Southwest Conference. Texas Tech may have gotten the Cotton Bowl invite, but everyone else still got rings and bragging rights.

The Sun Belt Conference Championship certainly is within our grasp. North Texas may have been eliminated from the New Orleans Bowl, but if we win the next three games, we are guaranteed to be conference co-champions.

I too am disappointed that THE bonfire has been cancelled. I am not surprised though, we all had an idea that THE bonfire could be endangered this year by a county wide burn ban. Well, there are still other options. There is a home basketball game the night before the Homecoming football game. Why not have the Talons use the finances intended for THE bonfire on renting Sky-Trackers for outside the Super Pit, and get the whole Green Brigade to play at the basketball game. (Isn't there a mens-womens double header that night?) 4 Sky Tracker trailers with 1 placed at each corner of The Pit would make the campus, as well as the entire city of Denton know that something was going on. Put a Budweiser/Coors/Miller $1 Beer Hospitality Zone right outside The Pit and the event will start getting talked about. Promote the party atmosphere and the event will be a success.

Like I said, there is realistically no chance that the contract would/could/should be extended past this current season. Essentially then, he's history. What does North Texas benefit by publicizing that someone made a rash decision which destroyed his career? I don't think anyone is silly enough to start a wrongful termination suit after that many witnesses and coworkers saw the actions and heard the alleged threat, but why even chance it. Even if the suit is comically outlandish, it's still expensive to defend and would leave a negative mark on all parties involved. There is no whitewash, I just think that cooler heads should prevail. This is a classic situation where it's just best for both parties to shake hands, thank each other for the opportunities and the services rendered, and go off in separate directions.

I don't want to see anyone's career adversely affected by something which could have been a misunderstanding. Sure, we had a coach make a horrific blunder and rush into the stands to confront a fan. Whether he heard the fan correctly the first time we don't know, there was a lot of ruckus and booing happening because of the nearby CSC fiasco. Should the coach be forgiven and given a second chance? My opinion is no. Should the coach be terminated immediately? My opinion to that is also no. The coach in question works in a pressure filled position and simply vented at someone in a threatening manner. I'm sure that he knows he was wrong and regrets this whole mess more than anybody, and has no prior history of any altercations during his previous 7 years here. He is a marketable commodity who as offensive coordinator has directed the last 2 national rushing champions, has won the last four conference championships, and if UNT wins the next three games can finish no worse than co-champions this year. He really has a bright future without having this mess on his record. I think he deserves the right to 'resign to explore other opportunities' after the conclusion of this season. Until then, I think he should be isolated as best possible from any other potential situations. Nobody was hurt. Let's let this situation pass and everyone get to go on with their separate lives.

That's quite a line-up, especially considering that the fifth starter, a young hotshot named Michael Jordan, was not even considered good enough to be included in the photo.

I'm glad that all of you enjoyed it. I would love to take the credit for this year's Greenbackers tailgating, but that honor is all Sound Man's. I've collected the money and done a little bit of the cooking, but Sound Man (Eric) has done the overwhelming amount of work to make these events happen. Adler

I hope we fire CSC immediately. Their employees and their absurd policies detract from the game being a fan friendly experience. I don't know, maybe we discovered that the athletic department had too much extra cash so we contracted with this army of clowns to come in and screw things up. Here's another observation of CSC STUPIDITY from last night. When fans were walking up to the stadium, the Miller Girls were handing out the Thunder Stix. There was a group of kids in line in front of me all wearing their little league football jerseys. Although the line wasn't particularly long, it was moving quite slowly because of the usual CSC incompetance with using the ticket scanners. The kids all inflated their Stix while waiting in the line, and then were told that they could not be admitted into the stadium with the Stix because they were already inflated. When their coach asked for clarification, he was told that inflated Thunder Stix create a litter problem inside the stadium and that any that were inflated outside the stadium could not be admitted. He asked if the kids could just deflate the ones they had and take them in, and was told 'No'. The kids all felt dejected as they were forced to throw away their new toys for no reason whatsoever.

If the Cajuns win out they'll be the Sun Belt representative in the New Orleans Bowl which is being played in their home stadium this year. I think they will do an outstanding job of representing the conference and will have a huge crowd. Geaux Cajuns! Best of luck the rest of this season, and congratulations on your victory.

I saw him at the end of the game when he came over to the rail to talk to some of his family members. He was already in street clothes and was walking with a slight limp. The kid is incredibly tough and probably would have played if asked, but he needs to get that hamstring healed. GO! GO! JAMARIO!