oldguystudent

Like I said, I was unaware it even existed, so I just caught it out of the corner of my eye. I thought maybe I was in Allen or something.

Because of who they are, what they teach, and what they stand for, I would rather daily don burnt orange and blue and go marching on the steps of the NCAA for the full inclusion of UTSA in the SEC and official recognition of a 1982 national championship for SMU than I would acknowledge Liberty as a legitimate football program. I found it interesting that there are some on this board who feel the exact opposite about the school, but that's a topic for the Eagle's Nest of yore when things used to get really ugly and personal. I also disagree with some who think that no matter what the AD does, it is an act of defecating floral scented nuggets of pure gold for the embetterment of us all and the glory of UNT. I don't like the Liberty series. At all. However, when I've watched how the last three games with Army have gone down, and I see the benefits of future schedules in years to come as a result of getting out of the Army series, I realize that sometimes a department has to take its lumps and accept sacrifice for the overall benefit and long-term growth of the program. I believe the team will take a step back in record in 2018, and will be out of divisional contention at least by late October. I believe the defense will still suck. I believe Mason Fine and his corps of receivers will put up video game numbers. I believe the selection of beer flavors in Apogee will be mediocre at best. I believe that my tickets will get inappropriately scanned by overzealous yellow jackets at every game, leaving me to have humorous conversations about it with the gray jackets at the club entrance. I believe that no matter what, people will bitch about the bands, their uniforms, and the choice of team uniforms. I believe in the small of a woman's back...the hangin' curveball, high fiber, good scotch...that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent crap...I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe that there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. And none of that -- not one iota of it, is going to cause my blood pressure to rise or make me indulge the constant, never give up, Sisyphean efforts of those who believe that they must constantly verbally lambast the department, the coaches, the players, other fans, and most of all, the students because gosh darn it, they want it THEIR way -- they want UNT to be Alabama...today...without having to make any particular contribution or effort of their own except behind the wizard's curtain of a semi-anonymous keyboard on a message board that a select few who ain't goin' anywhere nohow read.

I drove past the new McKinney ISD stadium yesterday. It's not, but at freeway speeds, it looks as big and as nice as Apogee.

Once again, I am bested by your sage wisdom and rapier wit.

Not excited about it, but it doesn't cause enough of a significant detriment to my life for me to expend energy going out every day looking for things to bitch about with the AD. It just isn't life or death important to me.

FTFY and probably never.

In all honesty, I struggle to really see the east as being in the same conference as us since we only see one of them at Apogee each year and for some hellish reason, that one team seems to always be an F_U school. (I know it's not, but it feels like it)

So long as billions of people continue to watch March Madness, probably not.

There it is. Whoa. I'm still fascinated that the FBI even cares about this, but those are some pretty rough sounding charges.

I would say that there were definitely some inflated numbers in 2015, but it was like there were 3,000 people at a game and the box score said 10,000. It wasn't like, say, some other metroplex institution that has 6,000 show up in a normal year and reports 45,000 in a stadium that holds 30,000.

I mean, I could probably argue minutiae with you on this, but I can foresee it would be fruitless. Yes. You are absolutely correct.

That would be civil, not criminal though.

I like it. That would work.

Explain to me what laws were broken. I don't understand a lot about how skirting NCAA rules translates to federal investigations. I'm not trying to oppose you. I truly don't understand how these things work.

Why on God's green earth would those accountants have such blatant receivables on their books?

Assuming my calendar had been clear in December, I most decidedly would have preferred Shreveport over NOLA. I was capable of going to the NOLA bowl, but short notice, cost, and distance tipped the scales ever so slightly against my going. I was already taking two other trips that month and incurring cost, so I couldn't justify it. Shreveport, I could've done a one night stay and been in and out.

That seems to be inconsistent from year to year. I definitely used to be able to walk through there so long as it was before the team was ready to come out. Then they shut it off. Then sometimes, I see people who don't look like they're exactly all access badge holders walking through there and the yellow jackets don't say anything.

Yes please. I could probably sell my seats for enough money to pay for three more seasons of tickets.

Depends. Is there Schlitz involved?

Consider me like Wren's previous employer, Missouri, cuz when it comes to baseball, I'm in a total show me state.

Saw that. Unlikely I make that date either. March is tough for me. It is more feasible than the Friday night date though.

Wow.

I bow to your sage wisdom.

I paid for a parking pass the first semester then figured out that if I got there at seven in the morning or after five in the evening, I could park for free on residential streets, and the walk wasn't gonna hurt me, tubby. Edit: Just a general thought -- students are 18-22 year old kids trying to make their way in life. They're young, struggling to figure it all out, facing debt and uncertain employment when they get out. We were once them. Hindsight is 20/20 and it's easy for us to look at them and call their views and concerns foolish because they don't fit our adulthood narrative. Maybe we could as a board be 10% less constantly disdainful toward them every once in a while.

Using the nifty distance measuring tool on google maps: It's 124 feet from the deck to the back of the end zone. My seats are 173 feet from the sideline and the view is great. So I would imagine it depends on how high the deck is. I can't quite remember if it would be the equivalent of 2nd or 3rd story.