oldguystudent

When I lived in Frisco, there was a really serious five-year-old team wearing tiny little licensed Longhorn uniforms. I think they could use a "football plan." And hey, it's never too early to start raising good fathers and husbands.

If MDH is correct on the timeline of busy season, which I suspect he is, then I made that statement in error. But nice effort in being a snarky little...ah nevermind.

I've been curious about that. I know I've got a bunch of training to get through right now too. I am certainly open to more recreational pursuits should the opportunity present itself.

Well, geez. If you think I've been eating too much, you could just tell me!

Most of you here know that I'm not much of a fan of the sport of basketball. This is in no way, shape, or form related to UNT or any other entity. The sport itself just carries no interest for me. But I got a free ticket to Saturday's game, so I went. And I had a blast. Still don't like the sport of basketball, but listening to Tasty's remarks on male grooming kept me in stitches the whole time. UNT does have its own special brand of trash talking, and it's as witty as I've ever heard. The band members present were a special breed of zany that the much more serious Mean Green Brigade is not. The tuba players were chasing each other through the stands mid song. Johnny Jones can make a ref listen to him without throwing chairs, and it's really, really funny to watch the expressions on the refs' faces when Johnny calls them out on something. Tony Mitchell is not human and I think his wing span must be approaching nine feet. The UNT dancers are at a much, um, closer view than at Apogee. So tomorrow begins four months of 9 bajillion hour weeks in a windowless basement for tax season, so no more fun for me, but I sure did enjoy the one game I made this year. My name is absolutely not oldguystudent, and I endorse your attendance at UNT basketball. Edit: I posted this in the football forum, didn't I? Crap. Mods please move this.

As someone who grew up in various Big West facilities, the first time I set foot in the Super Pit, I thought I had mistakenly entered an NBA arena. 10,000 cushioned chairbacks? Are you kidding me? The only real amenity I see in newer, much more expensive venues, are accommodations for separating the monocle crowd from the plebes. That said, if there were a club level for basketball, I would admit intrigue, cuz I'm all legit monocle and whatnot.

As someone who just graduated two weeks ago, I can tell you that I direly understand and empathize with your plight, but you will hold absolutely no water with certain entities around these here parts. There are some self perceived very large goldfish in this tiny little pond.

Yeah. We caught two foul balls and a wayward player. Sadly, the officials didn't let us keep any of them.

We were watching him on the bench. He was clutching his head and looked completely glazed over confused. In other notes on this game, once they pretty much abandoned the stand around and try for outside shot offense after the half, they were moving the ball around like a Jersey Shore shell game. It was hard to follow the ball, and it was beautiful. Looks like Johnny's got something up his sleeve that he's just starting to reveal. Lots and lots of individual raw talent on this team. They need a little more practice playing with each other to know where everybody is, but when it works, it's awfully pretty.

NCAA Moratorium on new bowls aside. 1) Bowl games sell beer. Lots of beer. I don't see Lane Rawlins pushing through even a temporary license for such a thing. 2) Bowl cities welcome tourists. You cannot convince me that El Paso or pre-casino Shreveport had more interesting attractions than Denton. The difference? Denton city council and residents have a virtual "Outsiders stay away!" sign posted at every street crossing into Denton city limits. 3) There are ample mid-shelf hotel rooms in Denton on 35 just north of 380 and on 35 at 288. There are zero four-star hotel rooms. Tough to sell it on, "Welcome to Denton! Here's your room at the Comfort Inn!" Need to accelerate that whole Denton convention center thing. 4) Elect me mayor of Denton, and I will push for all of these issues to be remedied, and I'll even help the situation by lobbying the Denton Blues Festival to move its date up into January, or to create an auxiliary event in which Denton gets to showcase its live music throughout the Industrial/Square district the weekend of the game with city sponsored shuttles to/from the square, Apogee, and the two previously mentioned hotel areas. I will fund it with $10 residential parking permits for Denia residents to park their own vehicles in their own driveways. 5) Like the Hawaii Bowl and its host school, make UNT an auto-bid if it qualifies for a bowl and gets shunned by the illustrious Beef O' Brady bowl. 6) Name the bowl "The Get Laid with Mattress Mac Bowl." 7) PROFIT!

Knowing all too well where you sit, there is one thing I will absolutely grant you, and that's that it appears you're getting 5/6 the product for 100% of the price next year. I haven't gotten a definitive answer on that, but, well. Yeah.

So I'm confused. Is the whole idea of attending and supporting UNT athletics to, and I know this is thinking outside the box, you know, enjoy it? Or is the whole idea of attending and supporting UNT athletics to spend every waking hour relentlessly searching for even the smallest speculation, facts be damned, to bitch and whine and moan about? I'm choosing option A, but seriously, too many of this fan base seem to live, eat, and breathe option B.

So the Big (number) and the Pac (number) are going to start bodybagging each other on national television? I sure do hope this happens after 10pm!

An immediate 198.7% increase in winning percentage, and still the hundred dollar bill is wrinkled. College football -- what the NFL would be if the fans owned and managed the teams. Know what I see? After a single season, Dan McCarney could lose his next 24 games, and he'd be equal to his predecessor. That's what I see. Know what else? After the 3 opening games, the team played .500 ball for the rest of the season. Know what else I see? Hope. First the first time since I've known of this program. Genuine, legitimate, bona fide hope. For all I care, McCarney could put his half-wit transgendered step-niece under center (assuming adequate academic performance, of course). As long as the wins keep increasing, I'm all good.

San Jose is the only remaining CSU school not named San Diego or Fresno that still has a football team. They don't (in reality) maintain 15,000 in attendance, nobody follows them (they share geographic market with Cal and Stanford), and the overall school is suffering devastating budget cuts from an already bankrupt state government. Five years, there will be no San Jose St. Football. They are a non-entity.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

That's absolutely true. The Student Union was about the only redeeming quality of being on campus when I was in college, and it was righteous. The UNT union as it currently exists, is just not comfortable. There's nowhere to sit, it's dark, the food offerings are questionable. They sent out several surveys to us when developing the plans, and I think they are really taking it seriously. Of course they're taking it seriously. Apogee is amazing. The business building is amazing. Both far, far exceeded my expectations, and I was really glad to get to play in the business building for a semester.

I just got this a couple days ago about the history of Jews and Chinese restaurants in New York. It's a pretty long read, but I found it immensely fascinating. Sure was nice to read something that had nothing to do with adjusted basis! Link So I just have one question. Are the eight nights really all that Crazy, or was Adam Sandler just hamming it up?

I went to the Poinsettia Bowl two years ago for Cal vs. Utah. It was a completely different experience than watching football in TX. We tailgated, but were pretty much alone in doing so. I took a picture of a completely empty parking lot 90 minutes before kickoff. A couple hundred Utah fans did end up congregating in a white tent thing about an hour prior to the game. Inside the game, the place was packed to the gills on both sides and it was a great time save the $9 beers. So, two schools with big followings, less than a thousand miles from home = pretty good bowl experience Two schools with relatively small followings (TCU growing, LA Tech, who?) 1,500 miles from home = 28,000 people from San Diego just casually checking out college football.

Getting this in before the impending move to the Eagle's Nest and thread lock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ6vat1DIRI

I'm all for separation of church and endzone. It's just too darn difficult to nail the pews into the turf!

And those teams had winning or losing records?

Holy crap that would be a HUGE waste of money on the facade and turf at Apogee!

When I sat through four years of watching but a single home victory at my alma mater, and I looked at the margin of loss in each game, over 90% of the losses were by fewer points than free throws missed. Teams give up a LOT of points in the modern game in the name of style and refusal to practice the most fundamental of skills.

This is what the letter says: I'm sure he'll go on and on about the business building, the stadium, the expansion to the student union, and progress toward tier 1 status along with recognition of large donations recently made. So the interesting one is the "Fresh new look for our university image," which is a bit redundant, which doesn't bode well for the English department, now does it? My completely uninformed prediction is dropping the UNT logo in favor of North Texas, a(nother) new shade of green, thus bringing millions of new dollars in revenue in people replacing (again) their old shade/logo attire. And for this, some marketing consulting firm dude probably raked in six figures and a hearty laugh.