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A new scoreboard is being installed into North Texas' new Volleyball facility. When complete, the arena will probably be one of the nicest pure volleyball venues around. (Do other colleges even have facilities strictly dedicated to volleyball?) New Athletic Facilities Being Built On Campus Follow the above link. There are construction photos of the new volleyball arena and locker rooms, tennis facility, soccer stadium, and pictures of the new Field Turf being installed at Fouts Field. Thank you to the Athletic Department for providing the Wednesday construction updates.

Is there anything at the UNT bookstore with the new logos? How about Voertman's?

None of the above. School pride.

Sound Man, please put me down for a $100 contribution. These smokers are flagships of our tailgating efforts, and pre-game activities are one of the barometers of a school's fan support. Anything that we can do to enhance the game-day activities is beneficial. The more that we do to make people feel as though they are included in those activities will help build a stable fan base.

It doesn't look great. But.... It is the first phase of what will eventually be North Texas' baseball stadium. It is approximately the most desirable 2500 to 3000 seats with the costs being covered by the Denton Outlaws. When the stadium is also used for NCAA baseball, the long-term completed design will be able to seat over 8000. The Athletic department will probably wait until the venue is used for Mean Green Baseball before adding a brick and stone facade to make it coordinate with all the other athletic facilities. Trust me on this. This thing, if built on the Frazer addition is going to have an extremely prominent position. It will clearly be a part of the university that will be on display to both I-35E and I-35W. Bobby Ray, Rick Villarreal, and Norval Pohl aren't going to position something there that looks unpresentable. It will look presentable, if not downright fantastic. If you can, go see the Outlaws game this Tuesday, 7/19/05, procedes from that night's game go towards Children's Cancer Research.

I'm assuming that you're referring to this video: New North Texas Stadium and Mean Green Athletic Village and to these illustrations: Facilities Under Construction and Planned Facilities Follow the Wedesday updates on the Mean Green Athletics Site to keep up with construction updates on all the new facilities. Wednesday Facility Construction Updates This site has additional links to planned facilities: Mean Green Athletics Facilities and I had to throw in these drawings of the North Texas Ballpark slated for completion this upcoming spring.

We were in the the Big West 5 years ago, and helping start Sun Belt Football was clearly a better alternative for us. What was the old WAC has largely become the Mountain West Conference, and what was the old Big West has largely become the Wester Athletic Conference. The WAC has some good programs, but the cost effective Sun Belt has enabled North Texas to build new facilities as well as regional rivalries. The former SWC schools that were not invited to join the Big 12, with the exception of TCU, are in Conference USA and would provide even closer regional rivals along with Tulsa. If another CUSA spot were to become available, North Texas would be a likely candidate to be invited to join. And if a CUSA invitation does not become available, North Texas has done just fine in the Sun Belt and will continue to build it's programs.

Thanks ipEAGLE. That makes a great background for my desktop.

This is really nice that the athletic department is now doing this weekly update and providing all the photographs. We renewed our Mean Green Club membership this week and I was able to show my wife a few of the outstanding improvements that are being made at the university. The new soccer facility is going to be incredible compared to where most colleges play. I can't think of any college that has built so many facilities in such a short period of time. Kudos to Dr Pohl, Rick V and our whole North Texas Athletic Department.

Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky went hunting? Brasky decides he's going to hunt down all four of the Banana Splits. He stalks and kills every one of them with a machette. They all begged for their lives...except Fleagle.

SUMG, I thought you graduated across town at North Texas.

The $1000 a year donation level not only gets you all the priveleges and gifts associated with the Mean Green Club, but it also gets you into North Texas' President's Council. The President's Council is pretty cool because it includes additional benefits that include Homecoming activities, concerts and performances, a Holiday formal, and other dinners throughout the year (including an athletics dinner). The more "athletically minded" people that we have join the President's Council, the better.

I still remeber that BEAUTIFUL photo of Bo Harrison diving through the air to catch the winning touchdown at Jones Stadium in Lubbock. You could clearly see the Green Brigade members in the background starting to raise their hands anticipating the score. If anyone has that picture, please post it.

Watch your mouth kid, or you'll find yourself floating home. On a more serious note, Bishop was the leading receiver for his high school team San Angelo. When they weren't handing him the ball, they were throwing it to him.

"If we could go 9-3 this year with the three losses to K-State, LSU and the MUTS with Middle Tennessee going undefeated in conference and taking the NO Bowl bid would you take that? We'd have wins over Tulsa and La Tech and a 9 win season. Would you sign off on this today in the hopes that maybe we get a bid in another bowl game?" Absolutely I'd take it. And it would be even better if MTSU were to lose one conference game, so North Texas could still claim to be SBC Champions and have rings made. Hopefully the Independance Bowl or the Fort Worth Bowl would have an opening and Rick V would be very aggressive in pursuing landing North Texas in one of them.

At $14.88 each, I bought a couple extra for when we bring guests with us to the games.

The shirts look very similar to the Nike shirts the coaching staff wore last season, except they are a lighter, brighter green and a slightly different cut.

I think many people had stars in their eyes when we were potentially going to get matched against Southern Miss in the New Orleans Bowl. North Texas should have been campaigning hard for the Independance and Fort Worth Bowls, and let the Sun Belt place Troy in New Orleans.

We need to make our program worthy of moving to a more prominent conference. We are getting there on an accelerated pace, but we're not there yet. Until then, we're an unwanted commodity, and these conference comparison polls are useless as nothing other than bad publicity when linked to other boards.

SAM'S CLUB has two styles of North Texas polos at the Lewisville store. Both are manufactured by PRO PLAYER, the sportswear apparel company that has the naming rights to the Miami Dolphins stadium and has an exclusive merchandising agreement with the Dolphins similar to what the Cowboys had negotiated with Nike. The Two styles offered are all green with checkered white on the coller and sleeve ends, OR all green with a large white band that starts on the underside of the sleeves and runs down the sides. Both styles are made of COOLPLUS material which is constructed for warm weather use. Unfortunately, the UNT logo is the the slanted UNT, not the latest logo design. Well, at least I can pick up some great polo shirts in our new color. Too bad our new branding department dropped the ball on releasing the new logos to the right people in time for the 2005 season.

Yes, he's going to play for 2AA public school Prosper. And in a related note, on October 31st, the Great Pumkin is going to rise out of the pumkin patch and deliver toys and candy to all the good little boys and girls of the world.

El Guapo's for Mexican and Texas Roadhouse for Steaks. Both restaurants provide great meals and cold beer at a reasonable price, and they both are proud to flaunt their association with the Mean Green.

Robstown Cottonpickers, .....now there's a politically correct sounding name.

I also saw this on their board: Starting DT Desmond Jones will not play this season because of violations of team rules. Apparently he violated university regulations when he was caught down in the marketplace taking ob-la-di-bla-da.

Unfortunately, I see the main focus of the university and it's components not being to get the product in public view, as much as each trying to get their cut.