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That would be fantastic. Then we could compare who got called first.

I thought we were playing with ourselves.

Heeey! Those aren't pillows!

You're doing it right. Every single person here who bitches about attendance, should get off their high horse about what an uber fan they are and get out there and SELL THE DAMN PROGRAM! WFAA isn't going to sell UNT. The Dallas Morning News would rather cease operations than sell UNT. The Sunbelt isn't going to sell UNT. The NCAA sure as hell isn't going to sell UNT. So that leaves it up to the present fan base to bring in organic growth. For those unfamiliar with the ole' sales funnel illustration, if you bring 50 people to a tailgate, and 3 or 4 of them become season ticket holders, you've succeeded. Keep that pipeline flowing. Get your face out of the mirror, stop admiring yourself, and hold yourself accountable to bring people to Denton. Wine them. Dine them. Get them inside the stadium. Always be Closing, and forget about the steak knives. You want the Cadillac! /alecbaldwinABCrant

The club is frickin' awesome, and you'll want to upgrade. If you're going to switch off with your wife, do it after the first quarter so both of you can experience the buffet. The food shuts down one minute before half, so you'll be missing out if you go up after that.

I'll cast my write-in vote for "I don't care either way," because when I decided to commit to going to every game this season, I cleared the ENTIRE day for each home game. So the real difference is that the ribs will go on at 8:30 instead of 10:30.

Once again I've missed out. Tomorrow morning will be too late to invest in popcorn stock.

Now that's just hitting below the belt.

I was going to lament my inability to give you a +1 for the geographic rivalry remark, but now feel it would be canceled out by the -1 I would give you for clearly missing out on the Best Lovitz being "The Critic." Anyhoo, I can't believe I wasted my evening going to class when I could have seen yet another episode of the never satisfied world of Mean Green fandom. I'm pretty sure that last week we were complaining that the game was up against the world series and clamoring for a time change. Now there's a time change, and we're posteriorally injured. I gotta tell ya' ("ya'" being the general, royal you, directed at the entirety of humanity), when I first came out to see college football in all its glorious splendor in Denton three years ago, I did it because I thought it would be a fun experience, not one that would increase my stress levels or turn every other weekend in the fall into a miserable self loathing fest of infighting, second guessing, and Sunday morning gnashing of teeth. I've been working really hard this season on learning to enjoy the game day experience independent of the wrinkled hundred dollar bill mentality. I'm almost there. Good lord, it's a game, on Saturday, with beer and BBQ among friends! Most people would see that as something to look forward to. We should not aspire to make it worse than getting a root canal in a third world country without anesthetic or electricity.

Someday North Texas will go 13-0 in football, and the fan base will be calling for the heads of the coaching staff on a silver platter because the stadium doesn't hold 50,000 people, the bowl game wasn't a BCS bid, and a wheelchair bound 70-year-old man dared sit during the fourth quarter at one of the home games.

If I were an opposing coach, I would use a 90% pass offense. The defensive line was playing lights out against the run. Secondary coverage has been almost as bad as 2008.

Nah, I rarely even look at usernames, so I wasn't referring to any one person. I just find it really, really odd that the same fan base who would defend that last coach to the very ends of the universe are so hair triggered with the new coach, in his first season, without a true quarterback. Hell, at 2-5, Mac's winning percentage is a 103% improvement! Some people see simple play calling. I actually see them opening up the book quite a bit, but the current roster doesn't have the skill set to execute, so we end up reverting back to run up the middle, run up the middle, incomplete pass, punt. What I don't see on this team is constant confusion and/or looking over to the sideline every 5 seconds like a bunch of dazed deer hopped up on morphine. The fourth quarter issue is, I believe, one of size, not determination. 60 minutes is a long, long time to play football, and the way our defense has been hanging out there 45 minutes per game (hyperbole intended), it's tough to stay at full strength against bigger players no matter how well conditioned you are. Roster-wise, I think UNT is a good FCS program right now. No amount of coaching is going to make the players grow six inches, put on 50 pounds, or gain a full second in the 40. On this coaching incarnation, I can wait for the dividends, and I'm going to enjoy the orders of magnitude better gameday experience in the new stadium in the mean time.

As long as we're cherry picking other coaches as examples of instant turnarounds, I'll remind you that June Jones went 3-9 his second year at Hawaii and 1-11 his first year at SMU.

I love tight ends. Especially in the spring semester when the hot pants come out.

After nearly four years of reading every excuse imaginable for the last regime, including something about bare cupboards and "his" players and "his" system, for years on end, I don't know if I'm pleased or pissed to see such vitriol cast toward this coaching staff.

Give up? Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

I don't know what to say. This team is light years beyond what it was under that other guy, but the talent just simply isn't there on offense.

And while UNT has made some really great strides in recent years (have you seen that new business building?), it still has quite a ways to go in the academic area. No conference is going to brag about a music school. Science and business, man. Science and business.

Baseball means nothing in all of this, but just to humor, CUSA is one of the big-6 baseball conferences, so they do care a little bit about that. The traditional CUSA powers are Rice, Tulane, Southern Miss and East Carolina. None of those teams are going anywhere. Honestly, if it's baseball you care about, I would stand pat in the Sunbelt. The Sunbelt is really, really up and coming in baseball. But this is football talk, and I digress.

Quiet you! Don't you have some M-3 reconciliations to go take care of or something?

Isn't that how the North Texas Exes works? Something like if you once set foot within 20 miles of Denton City Limits you're eligible for membership?

Anytime you try to walk from one end of a southern Louisiana tailgate to the other, you'll be 15 pounds heavier and blowing a .21 before you reach the end. I've not made it to Lafayette yet, but I have been to LSU for baseball. At least I think I've been to LSU for baseball. Good Lord.

While I was alluding to UNT in the post, my alma mater is not UNT...yet.

Net Present Value is the present value of all future cash flows, and we're currently negative, so it's tough to assign a positive valuation.

The World Series began 108 years ago. It has tradition. It gave me the heroes of my childhood both past and present. It was near mythical. As time went by, it gave me the players' strikes of '81 and '94, the steroids scandal of the late 90s, players thumbing their noses at the cities they played in, and $9.75 beers. My Alma Mater began less than 108 years ago. It was there I experienced my first love. It sat with me late at night when I lost that first love. It taught me to think. It provided me with the means to make a living. It gave me a home to come back to until the end of time. Its athletic program features players who share these common bonds. Who appreciate me for weathering through their struggles and sharing in their triumphs. In 1989, I had a front row, game 5 ticket to the World Series. That's as close as I ever got to actually seeing one. In 1989, I still had childhood visions of hero worship in my head. You give me that same ticket today, on Saturday, October 22nd, and it's not such an easy choice. The series claims to be a once in a lifetime experience. The other is comfort. It's home. It supports you in return for your supporting it. I can't and won't judge what decision other people make, but for me, I look at what reciprocity exists, and I reward loyalty with loyalty.