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Yes, it is. Tech uses marksmen to periodically cull out the less attractive students on campus. It seems to work well for them. The same tactic was attempted at UTSA with disastrous results as enrollment quickly dropped by 97%.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Are you sure that "we" is an acceptable pronoun? It could be construed as causing mental anguish to some wee snowflakes. Maybe "non-species specific gender neutral entities formerly known as we" would be a better option.

Great Scott! Cool detail, the North Texas Battle Flag on the belt line.

November 2022

I would love to order hockey jerseys for fans, maybe in conjunction with their club team uniform order. Besides boosting their fan following, It could even put a little extra money to help cover team costs. . These look great, and would be even better with a larger eagle and laces.

My Bride bought it through the North Texas Hockey Club a few seasons ago when they ordered their uniforms. She always finds some kind of unusual North Texas item for my birthday every year.

If we are really moving up, then we are almost legally compelled to expand Apogee. Imagine if we hosted Texas Tech, Oklahoma St, or TCU, which is not totally out of the question. We have already charged an athletics fee from 42,000 students but are going to lock out all but a few thousand because there simply is not enough room for them at marquee events. That would be unethical. We've come darn close to that scenario while hosting SMU and La Tech which bring out far fewer fans.

That is what our east side stands should look like, or maybe the east stands at Virginia Tech' We've moved up. Apogee was built and very suitable for Sun Belt crowds when our closest rival was in Lafayette. Now we've ascended two conference levels, and we need to start preparing to compete against the SMU/Memphis/Tech/Baylor/OkSt/KSU/Houston level schools. SMU is making the effort and the necessary investment, we should be looking into doing the same. This horseshit spewed of "don't build the necessary infrastructure to be able to perform like a big program" is exactly what restricted us to being bush league at Fouts Field for so many decades. Build at least comparable to the schools you compete/recruit against, and then promote as necessary to fill those seats.

Well, they do want to be able to host regional Big XII schools and colleges from other P5 conferences. This is something that North Texas is not prepared to do. The tiny east side stands are horribly insufficient for major college football.

Meat Loaf's CRAZY Encounter after the JFK Assassination

By Alex Marshall and Derrick Bryson Taylor Jan. 21, 2022Updated 7:46 a.m. ET North Texas alum Meat Loaf, the larger-than-life rocker whose 1977 debut album, “Bat Out of Hell,” was one of the best-selling albums of all time, died on Thursday. He had given conflicting information about his age over the years, but was widely reported to have been 74. His death was confirmed by his manager, Michael Greene. A statement on the musician’s Facebook page said his wife was by his side and that his friends had been with him in his final 24 hours. A cause of death was not given. Meat Loaf, who was born Marvin Lee Aday and took his stage name from a childhood nickname, had a career that few could match. In six decades, he sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, the statement said, and appeared in several movies, including “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “Fight Club.” “We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man,” the statement said. “From his heart to your souls … don’t ever stop rocking!” Meat Loaf’s death came just a year after that of Jim Steinman, the songwriter who wrote “Bat Out of Hell,” a record that brought operatic rock to audiences at a time when, in the face of disco and punk, it couldn’t have been more unfashionable. The pair met when Mr. Steinman was commissioned to co-write a musical called “More Than You Deserve,” which ran at the Public Theater in New York in 1973 and 1974. Meat Loaf auditioned and later joined the cast. Later, Mr. Steinman was trying to write a post-apocalyptic musical based on “Peter Pan,” but, unable to secure the rights for the tale, he turned the work into “Bat Out of Hell,” bringing in Meat Loaf to give the songs the style and energy that made them hits. The title track alone is a mini-opera in itself, clocking in at nearly 10 minutes and featuring numerous musical breakdowns. The album’s seven tracks also included the songs “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” Meat Loaf and Mr. Steinman went on to have legal disagreements, but still worked together, writing a sequel to “Bat Out of Hell” in 1993 — “Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell” — which included “I’d Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That),” Meat Loaf’s only track to top the Billboard 100 singles chart. The song also won him the 1994 Grammy Award for best rock vocal solo performance. “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose,” released in 2006, also included some songs by Mr. Steinman, who created a musical based on “Bat Out of Hell” that premiered in England in 2017. Mr. Steinman died in April 2021 at age 73. Meat Loaf told Rolling Stone shortly afterward that Mr. Steinman had been the “centerpiece” of his life. Some critics could be sniffy about Meat Loaf’s music and spectacle. John Rockwell, reviewing a 1977 live show for The New York Times, started by remarking that “Meat Loaf is the rather graceless name that a large rock performer has chosen for both himself and for the band built around his singing.” Despite that, Mr. Rockwell was soon convinced that Meat Loaf was worthy of being the center of attention. “He has fine, fervent low rock tenor, and enough stage presence to do without spotlights altogether,” he wrote, adding that, “one had to admire the unabashed intensity with which he was willing to wallow in such soap‐opera silliness.” Meat Loaf ultimately released 12 studio albums, the last being “Braver Than We Are” in 2016. In addition to his music, Meat Loaf also appeared in dozens of television shows and movies, according to IMDb. His first major role came in 1975 in the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” where he played Eddie. He also appeared in “Wayne’s World” (1992), “Spice World” (1997) and “Fight Club” (1999). More recently, he had a role in several episodes of the TV series “Ghost Wars” from 2017-18. Marvin Lee Aday was born and grew up in Dallas, the son of Orvis Wesley Aday, a former policeman, and Wilma Artie Hukel, an English teacher. “I stayed at my grandmother’s house a lot,” Meat Loaf wrote in “To Hell and Back,” his 1999 autobiography, adding that he did not know if those stays were because his mother was busy working or because she did not want him to see his father “on a bender.” According to his autobiography, Meat Loaf was born on Sep. 27, 1947, but news reports of his age varied over the years. In 2003, he showed a reporter from The Guardian newspaper a passport featuring a birth date of 1951 and later said about the discrepancy, “I just continually lie.” As an adult, Meat Loaf said he changed his first name to Michael from Marvin because of childhood taunts about his weight and, he said, the emotional impact of a Levi’s jeans commercial that had the slogan, “Poor fat Marvin can’t wear Levi’s.” He later cited the commercial when petitioning to change his name, which the judge granted it within 30 seconds, Meat Loaf wrote in his autobiography. Meat Loaf also told numerous stories about how he got his stage name, including one about a high school stunt in which he let a Volkswagen run over his head. Afterward, a child shouted, “You’re as dumb as a hunk of meat loaf.” But Meat Loaf wrote in his autobiography that the name came from his father: “He called me Meat Loaf almost from the time my mother brought me home.” Meat Loaf had health problems throughout his career. He had heart surgery in 2003 after collapsing onstage at Wembley Arena in London and told an audience in Newcastle, England, in 2007 that the concert was “probably the last show I’ll ever do” after another health scare. In 2013, he told The Guardian that he was definitely retiring from music after another farewell tour. “I’ve had 18 concussions,” he said. “My balance is off. I’ve had a knee replacement. I’ve got to have the other one replaced.” He wanted to “concentrate more on acting,” he added, since “that’s where I started and that’s where I’ll finish.” A full list of survivors was not immediately available.

Well, it was typed in black, if that's any hint.

A quick Josten's story: Several years ago I found a smashed up mangled ring on the side of the road. It was gold, had dark red dust where the stone should sit, and Lew could barely be read on one side. It looked like a large gold nugget attached to a twisted tie clasp Goofing around with it, I pried it open and there was a girls name and graduation year marked. I brought the ring to a counselor at Lewisville High and she said they'd get the ring to the owner who was a senior at that time. About two weeks later I received a follow-up email from LISD. The young lady was thrilled. She had lost her beloved ring months earlier at nearby tennis courts and her parents had refused to buy her a replacement as a costly 'teaching moment'. Anyway, she contacted Jostens and they happily exchanged the mangled crumpled ring for for a brand new replacement ring, totally free of charge to the young lady and her family. Kudos to Jostens, good people. .

Congratulations Wren Baker for a job incredibly well done. Please buy a Green shirt for each and every person in the athletics department to celebrate this momentous achievement.

North Texas teams sure play well when they wear Green and White like they did this year against Wichita St and WKU. North Texas should never wear purple, tan, orange, grey, red, black, brown, yellow, or any other weird colored uniforms ever again. Go MEAN GREEN!

I am shocked that anyone in the NBA actually admitted it. Kudos to Mr. Palihapitiya.

https://meangreensports.com/news/2022/1/15/mens-basketball-mean-green-top-wku-65-60.aspx The Mean Green consistently play well when wearing our school colors, Green and White BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky — For just the third time in program history and the first time since 2010, the North Texas men's basketball team Saturday afternoon beat Western Kentucky on the road, 65-60.The win is the Mean Green's ninth in their last 10 games and improves them to 11-4 overall and 4-1 in conference. UNT was led Saturday by fifth-year senior Thomas Bell who scored 17 points. He also had six rebounds and four assists in the five-point win. "One thing I love about how we won today is we did it the way we need to play," said head coach Grant McCasland. "I'm super proud of all of the guys, especially the guys like Aaron Scott and JJ Murray who played fantastic and then Thomas Bell really settled us in late. This was a great win for us." In what was a rematch of the 2021 Conference USA Tournament title game that North Texas won 61-58, they once again did it on the defensive end to beat WKU for a third straight time. UNT entered Saturday as the nation's No. 1 3-point defensive team only giving up an average of 4.3 per game. On Saturday they didn't give up a WKU (10-7, 2-2 C-USA) 3-pointer for the first 37 minutes of the 40-minute game. The Hilltoppers finished the game 2-of-12 (16.7 percent) from deep. North Texas forced 15 WKU turnovers and scored 13 points off the turnovers. While UNT was preventing WKU from making 3-pointers on the defensive end, on the offensive side they began the game hot from 3-point range. North Texas opened the game four-of-six from deep and finished 10-of-23 (43.5 percent). Despite having a height disadvantage down low, the Mean Green still matched the Hilltoppers in scoring in the paint as each team scored 26 around the rim. "We got lucky a few times they didn't have some threes go in but I thought defending them on the arc was one of the best things we did tonight and just making sure we had the right guys we wanted shooting for them at the right time," McCasland said. "The senior leadership tonight was great and I'm so thankful for those guys in the locker room." UNT returns home next week and hosts Charlotte on Thursday at 6 p.m. CT. Following Thursday's game they'll host Old Dominion on Saturday at 5 p.m. CT at the Super Pit.

Well Mack lost the bet. Now, before he'll hand the $1 Million over to Las Vegas, he is requiring that they must first name a facility after some asshole. Yeah, I know half of y'all are thinking... .

We've all heard LeBron's lovefests for Communist China and it's leaders. Now, Golden State Warriors part owner Chamath Palihapitiya explains the NBA's unpublished position on human rights violations by China. Finally an honest answer.

Off to Iceland to play soccer with Sportacus! Congrats Brooke, and Thank You for your time at North Texas.

What? A little background here. Ousmane was a very well known player coming out of high school and committed early to Rhode Island. Rhode Island had to reevaluate it's signing class when Makhi and Makhel Mitchell, the twin four star freshman center/power forwards who left Maryland’s basketball team in December, committed to Rhode Island as a package deal. Ousmane then committed to Grant McCasland and North Texas. Many schools were also still pursuing Ousmane, mostly Rick Pitino at Iona right outside New York City. Can you imagine the pressure, sitting in his living room with his parents and Rick Pitino and declining because he has committed to play basketball a thousand miles away in Denton, Texas. Rhode Island couldn't keep a commitment but he could. Thankfully Ousmane honored that commitment to North Texas, signed, enrolled, has worked out like a son-of-a-gun, and has rapidly developed his game. Recently the defeated UMass coach has said there was "very little they could do against him" as he was so dominant inside. Many schools wanted him and we are very fortunate to have him. . .

I already did that in the first post.

There should be an opening since the President of hsc has been promoted to Chancellor of the North Texas System. None of this looks good.

Wow, the UNT Health Science Center (HSC?)sure has distanced itself from affiliation with the University of North Texas. It was at least formerly the North Texas Health Science Center. Now, if that logo doesn't get your Mean Green Pride flowing then I don't know what will. Yes, it sure appears that we've been bamboozled. https://mdschool.tcu.edu/

Team Statistics Team Statistics Game Stats UNT Marsh FG% .481 .453 3FG% .389 .235 FT% .571 .722 RB 41 26 TO 16 7 STL 5 9 A few stats clearly show where we were clearly dominant and also areas where there may be room for improvement. Overall it's a good victory over a very scrappy team desperately fighting for it's relevance in league play.