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The last five games last year for this no-talent team was like watching an entirely different program. The kids clearly want to win and just need some direction to get over that hump. Better game plans, actual college schemes, and much, much better snap decision making will get those 2-4 points that the program has been missing.

I was looking through the fraternity section of that yearbook. Were they all local back then? I didn't recognize any of the names, and the ones I read all began with "Started by NT student in 19xx." Also, it looks like Greek Row ran around Fry St. and maybe part of Oak St.? It was interesting that one fraternity house it what is now Big Mike's Coffee with apartments on the second story.

Because maybe they're brand new to the whole North Texas thing and are coming by to check it out, you know, potentially thereby increasing the fan base. Please, for the love of all things, refrain from posting photos of people in the stadium wearing the wrong color. It doesn't make people want to return. Unless there are 30,000 people on GMG.com that can fill the new stadium every game whilst wearing the perfect shade of green as measured by some secret laboratory, let people wear what they want to wear. They'll get the green shirts soon enough once they become repeat customers.

I hear there are some fancy cupboards in the new stadium, but they sit bare.

Is it just me or do college students in old yearsbooks look like they're about 40?

Apparently, it's when the Gauchos join.

Having no connection whatsoever to the Gauchos, I would have no idea. But thanks for asking and pouring salt in old wounds.

To steal a phrase from much earlier posts, "Good things are happening in Denton!" The program here is improving and building. It's a free market economy out there, and other programs and conferences are free to do as they will. Stop worrying about what they're doing and look what's happening here. I checked with the descendants of Copernicus. It's still true. The universe does not revolve around Denton, and the moves these other entities are making are not a conspiracy. It's just other schools trying to make good. I've seen the inside of the new stadium. I've seen this new coach. I've seen the players pushing themselves on their own time in the athletic center gym. This ain't Fouts and it ain't a modified high school program. Things are good, and they're going to get better. Be well Mean Green Nation.

Yeah, but my knees get a little more gentrified and a little more creaky each and every year. Unless the Lotto/unexpected employment gods see fit to rain down upon me in the next twelve months, thus allowing me to buy club seats, these chairbacks will be a god send. Those metal benches in Fouts. Well, yeah. They sucked.

I tried the Beam Rye at Lou's and found it without character. I've got some Wild Turkey Rye at home and find it really nice with ginger ale.

Booze doesn't age in the bottle. It's no longer taking on the characteristics of the barrel, and it's not evaporating (the angel's share). On the plus side, it should be every bit as good as it was the day your husband graduated high school. Won't go bad in an unopened bottle. Once opened, it might start evaporating a little bit, but would still be drinkable for a couple years or more.

I'm gonna go with these as my top reasons for California's failures: 1) Prop 13 -- Nobody in their right mind has paid property tax of any value since 1978. 2) The state's inability to recognize that it hasn't taken in revenue of any value since 1978. 3) Voter referendums that allow anybody to put anything on the ballot to be passed as law upon successful voting. 4) State employee unions that don't realize the state hasn't taken in revenue of any value since 1978. 5) California state legislature leveraging itself to the hilt on the promise of annuitized tobacco settlement money in 2003. To be honest with you, the entitlements I assume you speak of (food stamps, medical, etc.) are not much greater than in Texas. There are just innumerable interest groups who have weaseled and embedded themselves into the state coffers come hell or high water.

I like Bourbon, Rye, Irish, Scotch and Japanese, although my hierarchy might be in a slightly different order than Laurie's (Have you TRIED Yamazaki 18-year-old?). Regardless, I can't believe this thread is swinging Nixons around over who drinks the best whiskey. The road may be different, the handling of the vehicle a little tighter, but the destination is still the same, fellas. Nobody cares what you're drinking at the tailgate. They just care that you're there.

Whiskey Richard.

Lots of mention of coaching winning games here, and UNT being close the past year or two. From what I've observed, I saw coaching LOSE games that were otherwise in hand. Even a small upgrade there, finding a way not to piss away the victory handed to you on a platter, and the 5-win mark is achieved. I just can't envision the 1-11, 2-12 debacles of past seasons. I'm not seeing 9-3 either, but progress. Definite progress.

Seems to me like it's going to take a season to figure out. Seems a little odd to me to have the entirety of the tailgate scene divided by an interstate highway.

Joe DiMaggio took the prime years of his playing career off to go be a war hero. Mickey Mantle drank himself into an untimely retirement. Lou Gehrig got 2700 hits in 2130 games. He was cut just short by his eponymous disease. Babe Ruth, at 2,873, probably would have pulled it off if they'd played 162 game seasons, and he didn't start out as a pitcher. Otherwise, it's a pretty short list.

That stat has to mean either first player to reach 3,000 hits while wearing a Yankee uniform or first player to spend his entire career with the Yankees to reach 3,000 hits. Dave Winfield and Rickey Henderson immediately come to mind as former Yankees who reached the 3,000 hit mark in other uniforms.

A bowl victory AND the national men's basketball championship in his first year, or he's OUT!

A super regional appearance in baseball gets you #78. Just sayin'.

They serve Anchor Steam in either Lucky Lou's or RipRocks. Whichever one of the two is the one that doesn't serve food.

That made me laugh out loud at work. I had to field some questions of curiosity. I think it absolutely must be included. When does this article get published? Kinda tough to recommend tailgating spots when we're not sure how it's going to work yet. As for food and drink, I'll give it a shot: Coming from the East (Frisco/Plano/McKinney) -- Come into Denton on University. Eat at Sub Hub, get a drive-thru daiquiri at Eskimo Hut. Coming from the South (Dallas/Lewisville/35E) -- Eat and drink at Metzler's on Londonderry. All you can eat ribs on Saturdays (at least last I checked) and a wide selection of freaky beers you can drink on premise (Some would recommend the Dogfish Head 120-minute IPA, but that's only if you don't actually want to see the game). Coming from the North (Oklahoma) -- You have my deepest sympathy. Here. Have some wings at the Central Grill and enjoy the 89 cent Miller Lites. I'm sure you'll also love the Waffle House across the street. Bars to celebrate a victory -- If under 25, The Public House on Fry Street. If over 25, The Pour House. If over the hill, Sweet Water on the square. If in an RV, right in the glorious safety of the parking lot. On tailgating -- bring a 10 X 10 tent. It gets hot out there! Beer, OK. Charcoal, OK. Jell-o shots, OK. Scanty attire, encouraged for some, forbidden for most of us here at GMG.com. Do not feed the Beer Man! If actually staying in Denton -- Loveshack. That's all I'm sayin'.

In my lifetime, I have acquired a taste for cheese, pickles, kimchee, sushi, oysters, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, avocados, pate, snap peas, caviar, kale, arugula, carpaccio, venison, duck, various hot sauces and pecan pie. Unless all of these are an abomination unto the Lord, then I would hypothesize that the phrase "acquired taste" is not a euphemism for "accept my filthy habit!" If you dislike the topic of conversation, or you feel it is bad/unhealthy, then by all means, don't participate. But please refrain from using semantics to inject your own personal philosophies on vices upon others. It's just...wait for it...distasteful.

I've got no beef with people who don't like IPAs. If someone is interested in getting to know them, I'd recommend starting off with the Sierra Nevada line. Those introduce you to the hops without overwhelming like some of the crazy 120 minute stuff that's out there.

It's pretty pointless for me to buy tickets right now since I've still got one more semester of studenthood, but I am all over those optional seat backs when my day comes. Those things are sweet.