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Thanks. He and his wife wanted to be buried as close as possible to their football program. They are in Roselawn, just south of Apogee off Bonnie Brae. He literally loved this school to the grave.

I'll take that as a compliment. Although slightly homespun, Plumm is pretty observant and has been following this program for even longer than I have.

Not all exactly true. What RV didn't know was that Mattress Mac's people had made arrangements with one of RV's people to have a limo pick this very important donor up at the airport. RV's person failed in her responsibility. Mac was left standing waiting outside the airport and eventually took a cab from the airport to the reception hall downtown, getting there very late and very upset. RV never claimed to be a genius but he was one hard working son-of-a-gun. We are much better off for having had him at North Texas. We probably wouldn't have football today if we'd hired somebody like his three predecessors; Sloan, McDuffy, or Helwig.

I don't know his former high school, but Paul Kerestine lettered on Hayden Fry's 1978 team.

That's pretty cool. Jackie was an outstanding soccer goalie for North Texas (2012-2015) and now she's the head soccer coach at Plano West.

Burn those bad luck trash costumes! Our colors are GREEN and WHITE. Never wear purple, orange, yellow, black, brown, gray, red, or any other "off" color again. .

Funny Steeler stories I grew up in Houston and was a die-hard Luv Ya Blue Oilers fan, and like all rational people I HATED respectfully disliked anything about the damned Pittsburgh Steelers. In 1983 I was driving west on Eagle Drive towards Fouts Field where the school was staging the start of the Homecoming Parade. I stopped at the Avenue C stop sign, then started to proceed through the intersection. Suddenly, this small dark green Mercedes 450SLC which was bolting away from the freeway runs through the stop sign, cuts right in front of me and zips down the road towards the stadium. I utilized the car horn, some muttered vulgarity, and probably a little gesticulation as the sportscar sped away. I park at Fouts and my girlfriend says "here comes that car behind us, watch out, he may be looking for trouble" The car pulls up and parks directly next to me as I am getting out of my car. I try to look cool and tough (it doesn't work for me) and the driver of the car opens his door and starts getting out. It's not just any huge human, it's Mean Joe Greene and my life starts flashing before my eyes. Joe walks strait at me and says "I am so sorry I cut you off back there, I got stuck in traffic and am running late. I'm the MC today and I have some some speeches to make before the Parade starts. I just wanted to stop and apologize." He flashed that huge Mean Joe smile, extended his hand for a handshake and then gave me a big shoulder hug with his left arm. "You were going to beat up Mean Joe Greene" my girlfriend giggled. "No, he just became my favorite pro football player ever" I replied. And nearly 40 years later he still is. As you get to know him better you realize what a wonderful person he is. Part two, and this is summer 1998 My Bride and I bought tickets to see Jim Carey's new movie The Truman Show. We sit in our seats and the theater is pretty full. The lights go off as the previews start. Two loud guys enter in the dark and sit in the empty seats next to mine. The guy next to me keeps laughing aloud during the film, bumping my shoulder, nudging me with his elbow, and several times smacked the armrest. I avoid eye contact with the intruder. It goes on for a while. Finally, at one point where the theater is filled with raucous laughter, the guy smacks me on the knee and grabs my arm, I turn to face him and he says "now that's some funny shit!" My Bride quickly asks me "is that guy drunk?" I reply, "No, that guy is Terry Bradshaw". Bradshaw is not professional when he goes on television, he's himself. .

It was December 21, 1946 I stopped by Coach Mitchell's grave in Denton this week It was beyond comical how the 1946 football season started for North Texas. The football program had been cancelled at North Texas State during World War II. The was no equipment and there were no facilities. North Texas had hired a new coach to rebuild the program but he never reported to campus and he called to say that he had taken another job just two weeks before the fall semester started. Former Athletic Director Theron Fouts had been instrumental in the creation of the new Lone Star Conference and now his own school was not even going to be fielding a team. A call went out to Odus Mitchell, football coach at Marshall High School in the tiny east piney woods town of Marshall, Texas. Mitchell had studied the game and it's great innovators, and was having a very successful career coaching at Marshall. His 1944 team, with a side throwing kid at quarterback named Y.A. Tittle, had just made the Texas football quarterfinals. Coach Mitchell must have been crazy because he boldly jumped at the opportunity. He was then told "you have no team, you have no equipment or facilities, you have no time to recruit players so you'll have to draw from current students on campus, and, you play at Texas A&M in College Station in 11 days." Nothing daunted Coach Mitchell and he enthusiastically accepted the challenge. In a 1982 interview, Mitchell recalled the whirlwind start to the 1946 season. "It was nearly time for the season to start," he said. "I hadn't done any recruiting or anything, and I hadn't had an experience with recruiting. I got initiated like heck the first game." Texas A&M trounced North Texas in Mitchell's first game at the helm, 47-0. But things turned around quickly. Mitchell got his first collegiate victory the next game with a 14-0 win over Austin College. Two weeks later, the squad beat Fort Sam Houston. Three wins later, North Texas was geared up for a showdown for the Lone Star Conference Championship with rival East Texas State, now known as Texas A&M-Commerce. North Texas exploded for a 47-7 victory and was headed to its first bowl game in program history. Mitchell was set to square off with legendary coach Amos Alonzo Stagg's College of the Pacific Tigers in the 1946 Optimist Bowl. First year North Texas coach Odus Mitchell with Pacific coach Amos Alonzo Stagg the night preceding the bowl game 1946 Optimist Bowl Public School Stadium, site of the 1946 Optimist Bowl, later to be renamed Robertson Stadium The game was scoreless through the first quarter, but NT got on the board in the second when Ned McNeil intercepted a Pacific pass and ran it 58 yards back for a touchdown. Pacific tied the game in the third on a five-yard touchdown pass following a fumble recovery deep in North Texas territory. The Tiger broke the tie late in the fourth quarter on a 22-yard touchdown pass, but a key miss on the extra point gave North Texas some life. NT then drove down the field to give the school its first ever bowl victory. The drive began with a long kickoff return, a 20-yard gain through the air, a lengthy quarterback run and a couple Tigers penalties, making it first-and-goal from the Pacific nine-yard line. After three failed pass attempts, North Texas was down to its last chance. NT hall of fame running back Billy Dinkle, who frequently took snaps at quarterback for the 1946 squad, stayed back and threw a pass to wide receiver Louis Rienzi in the end zone to tie the game. Dinkle, also the kicker, then won the game himself by putting the extra point through the uprights with only seconds left, giving North Texas the 14-13 lead and victory. Legendary Coach Stagg prepares to shake hands with victorious North Texas Coach Odus Mitchell as he watches the final seconds tick on the game clock Mitchell went on to win an incredible 122 games at North Texas, took the team to 14 winning seasons and led the school's efforts in integrating the team in 1956, making it the first team in Texas to allow African-American students to play college football as he instituted a policy allowing "any African American students who showed interest in the football team to be given a fair chance" while he was the head coach at North Texas. He extended a scholarship offer to incoming African-American freshmen Abner Haynes and Leon King in 1956, promoting them to the varsity squad in 1957. Haynes and King both made their varsity debuts on September 21, 1957, becoming the first African-Americans to play major college football in Texas. In the summer of 1965, he also recruited future National Football League Hall of Famer Mean Joe Greene from Temple, Texas. The ferocious Greene-led defense allowed an average of less than two yards per carry in 1966, Mitchell's final season at North Texas, earning the team the nickname "Mean Green," which stuck and is now the official mascot of the university to this day. In that 1966 season, North Texas went 8–2, which helped earn him National Coach of the Year honors. In 1986, he was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Mitchell retired in 1966 and was selected for the North Texas Hall of Fame's inaugural class in 1981 and the Optimist Bowl-winning team boasted several other hall of famers as well including Dinkle, tackles Felton Whitlow and Dick Lindsay, defensive linemen Jim Cooper and Jim Eagle and starting quarterback Fred McCain. North Texas HOF Center Jim Eagle's varsity blanket. Mitchell, now a member of the Texas Hall of Fame, took North Texas to the Salad Bowl the very next season, but nothing could compare to the scrappy 1946 team that rallied around him and won the Optimist Bowl in his first season. We are now heading into our 13th Bowl Game this Thursday in the Frisco Classic *** and in an odd side note*** ... that high school quarterback that he started despite the sidearm-throwing-hitch went on to play at LSU. He got moved to running back because of his throwing style, but was then pulled back to QB due to personnel shortage. Tittle then played 17 years in the NFL, and still holds the NY Giants record for most touchdowns in a season, and only retired when he said "I think it's a hint to retire when your backup quarterback is dating your daughter." (That's a hint to Aune, keep playing) Almost all of the notes in this post are compiled from other people's notes and stories. If you feel like thanking somebody, please thank Randy Cummings, for he compiled all of Coach Odus Mitchell's recorded memoirs into a compilation for the Willis Library back in the 1980's. For those of you that don't know him, Randy is the tall white haired guy wearing a referee jersey at the sidecourt table at every North Texas men's basketball game. He's had a lifetime of selfless devotion to our sports programs, please stop by and tell him "thank you". .

We were the undercard of a two game event in OKC. The feature event, USC vs OSU was cancelled when USC announced they would not be able to travel due to California Covid. Then the whole event was cancelled so refunds could be issued. Tulsa didn't duck us, they just got lucky.

Frisco Bowl Classic seats getting scare To whomever is doing it, please stop scaring the seats.

Thursday Mostly Sunny High: 74 °F Mostly sunny, with a high near 74. South wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Get your GREEN GEAR ready! .

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Thanks for listing the itinerary. I'm also working on the kitchen pass for this trip.

Tom, I loved this line from the story: "WSU entered the game having lost just three non-conference home games in the last 10 years."

And we even looked great wearing our Green and White. We should never wear any other colors.

LSU scored an unbelievable 39-22 second half to come back and beat La Tech 66-57.

"We need to win in all three phases of the game" Is that just a coach-speak phrase?

UT, Sorta, Almost

We offered Rucker back in March 2017 as his first offer. Feeling the need to entertain the residents of West Lafayette, Indiana was more important for him, Rucker chose the allure of Purdue over staying in Denton where his family and friends could be there for all his games. Rucker signed and enrolled with Purdue but for whatever reason never developed his career there. He then transferred to where he should have been all along but it was too late to resurrect his career as too many younger players with compatible talent levels had already passed him on the depth charts. Now Rucker is again in the transfer portal trying to find some place to play. I hope for the best for him.

So close... so very close. What if Skytracker spotlight sets were placed ground level at each corner of the Super Pit? The dancing lighting would illuminate the sides of the Pit and create a show on the skys above Denton. There's not a student on campus or a resident of Denton that wouldn't know some type of major event was taking place. And the trailer mounted searchlights could also be moved to Apogee stadium for football games.

Actually we heard it nearly four hours earlier in the thread titled Blake Joseph No Longer Listed on MGS

Yes there is. Please compare the two listed photos: Super Pit at night when there is absolutely nothing going on... Super Pit on a night when a huge rivalry game is being played. There is absolutely no difference other than possibly the amount of cars that are parked across the street. It needs to appear from the outside that an exciting event is taking place inside for that event to draw people inside. .

So, is it Harrell, and is he bringing Slovis? That could address a couple of issues.

Spencer Rattler has now committed to South Carolina, the 'other' USC.

Yeah, pretty darn cool, eh? Thank you Austin for helping to guide this team to a bowl game. We certainly appreciate it. Now, please do your best to get the win!