ADLER

Here's the skinny on Adrian from a Giants board. Adrian Awasom was a three-year starter at North Texas. Very productive. Accrued 41 tackles, 8 tackles for a loss, and 8 sacks in 2002; 44 tackles, 7 tackles for a loss, and 4 sacks in 2003; and 52 tackles, 13 tackles for a loss and 6 sacks in 2004. Also finished with 5 pass breakups, 3 forced fumbles, and 2 fumble recoveries in 2004. Two-time All-Sun Belt selection. Has nice combination of size and athleticism. Has long arms and is quick and agile. Can be stout at the point of attack when he uses proper technique. Can play with leverage but tends to play too high. Awasom sheds well but needs to do so more consistently amd use his hands better. Works hard to push the pocket and get to the quarterback. Tips a lot of passes at the line of scrimmage. Not an explosive rusher - lacks first-step quickness - but he closes quickly. Still learning the game. Needs to become a more dedicated worker.

The turf at Fouts should be completed on Thursday. Right now, the only work left is spreading the little rubber bits.

So, let me get this straight. After 2015, North Texas should be able to schedule football games, basketball games, and events like quarterly meetings on weekdays before 7:30 PM. Until then, let's just hope that everybody schedules accordingly.

I think Patterson has proven to be a pretty good football coach. Maybe he's not going to be the next Urban Meyer, but then again, if his teams have the same type success in the the Mountain West that they had in CUSA for several seasons.....

Washington was listed as #18, but played wearing the #10 jersey.

True, but our conference mates do.

Thank you. Thank you to everyone that had a part in making the 2005 GOMEANGREEN.COM Kickoff Barbeque such a successful event. Thank you to everyone that donated money, everyone that contributed food and drinks, and to everyone that volunteered to help set-up and serve. Special thanks have to go to Firefight'nRick for his outstanding effort in making the event happen as well as smoking 260 pounds of brisket, and to Coach Mike Barela for all the assistance coordinating the event from the Athletic Department's side.

I think that it was up, but has been taken down temporarily to perform some routine seam reenforcement.

Please stop before someone decides to include them in one another 'involuntary attendants' ideas to boost attendance.

"Hall said the site next to Clark Hall could be a good housing site, but some extensive parking studies need to be done first." Can't they just save the money and concede that every parking spot close to campus is going to be taken on school days?

So you're now taking it for granted that every poster on the board knows you live in Hawaii? Just kidding, and I'll see ya in Baton Rouge.

Cerebus, there appears to still be a few people that aren't familiar with the 'closed' forum. Have they been kept in the dark for a reason?

Are you suggesting that there was a second sipper?

Thanks. I was concerned that we could have several hundred additional guests and not enough barbeque to serve them all.

So, is everybody going to be able to sit inside the new cafeteria to eat? We have 250 pounds of brisket (actually 259.5 pounds) which should be a sufficient quantity for serving the coaching staff, football team, their families, and the fans that show. What happens if the 'there's FREE barbeque at the cafeteria' word gets around to all the Victory Hall residents? We may be setting up the picnic right in the shadow of the ant bed. I have nothing against feeding the kids, actually I'm all for it, but we need to insure that we've already taken care of the team and coaches.

This is very good news. North Texas was placed in a very precarious position with having a president that stronly supports athletics announce his resignation. The new president might not be so supportive of athletics, and may even want to bring in his own people. These contract adjustments help insure that the progress of the past several years should continue through the end of the decade.

Well then, I could provide a link. Painting Fouts Field Turf But even that may not be much help.

OK people, you can stop the speculation now. There will be a painted logo on the center of the field for our games. It will be painted with a water soluble paint which can be sprayed off this turf, and changed whenever it's needed. It's no different than what other schools with natural grass are doing. There are reasons.

If they are released from their scholarship, they can accept another offer immediately and be on scholarship for the transfer year that they have to sit out of play. If they are not released, they could still go anywhere they wanted. That first year they would either have to pay for college themselves or find a coach like Sutton or Bliss that may or may not have a slush fund that will cover all expenses for them. If they take the slush fund route, they need to watch out for the guy who's going to get eliminated from the team to open up their roster spot.

The kid sounds like an outstanding athlete, having played professionally in one sport and started in Division 1 in another. It sounds like he has an excellent attitude about the injury situation and is handling it quite well.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I do think there should be a large green space on the southern side of the athletics campus. Unfortunately for the Denia residents, that green space would consist of a huge green topped parking lot with a North Texas logo reniniscent of the Nazca Lines in Peru. There would not be an aircraft arriving or departing from D/FW's North side that wouldn't have a clear view of our logo.

Middle Tennessee no longer uses the Raider image for their mascot, and the MTSU fans have conveniently forgotten on whom that image was based. Instead, MTSU has decided upon Pegasis as their mascot. It is both a smbol from Greek mythology symbolizing hope and strength, and the name of a popular rural Tennessee activity which produced many of the MTSU fans.

Please, I hope there is nobody on this board oblivious enough to think that this is somehow my battle. Steve and Barry's has got to have customer responses from many of us or this type of campaign just doesn't work. Look, for decades we've beaten our heads against walls because merchants wouldn't carry North Texas merchandise. It's either A) we're a national chain and our buyers only carry national schools, we're a mom-and-pop store and we'd have to buy the stuff in such small quantities that it would be outrageously expensive, or C) that collegiate licensing for an unknown school wasn't worth our time and effort. We've wound up being limited to two bookstores in Denton as the only stores on the planet that sell North Texas merchandise. What they offer has historically been horrendously overpriced and of suspect quality or design. Result, other than the die-hard fans, few people own North Texas gear. Now WE have an opportunity to help change that situation. A national retailer that specializes in manufacturing and selling collegiate sportswear has moved into our region. Everything they sell, whether it's shirts, jerseys, sweatshirts, or jackets is guaranteed $9.98 or less. They have already displayed that they will be willing to work through licensing issues and will certainly expand the North Texas product line if they confirm that the demand is there for those North Texas products. WE have got to let them know that WE ARE HERE and that THERE IS DEMAND FOR NORTH TEXAS PRODUCTS. WE have got to make some noise, and there are enough of us on these message boards to catch a corporation's attention. Please people, and yes, I do feel like I'm beating my head against the wall on this, CONTACT STEVE AND BARRY'S AND LET THEM KNOW THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN NORTH TEXAS MERCHANDISE. admin@steveandbarrys.com Please keep sending them notes fairly regularly until we get the results we're looking for. Thanks and Go Mean Green, Adler

Excuse my lack of information on this subject, but why aren't these commercials available in e-mail form? Beer and car commercials have been done like this for years, and most North Texas fans know a few potential fans that they would forward these football clips to. I'm certainly in the target audience for season ticket promotions, but I will never see one on the Denton stations.