oldguystudent

What you really want to do is follow me to a Vegas sports books. You have me fill a series of $10 bets, and you go the other way with $1,000 bets. You will be a millionaire before the current football season is over.

I guess I'm not a student. I didn't get the voting button on a campus computer. Could've fooled me since I'm paying the exact same fees as everyone else.

In my district, in beautiful Frisco, TX, I don't think I've ever voted for a winning candidate, referendum, ordinance, proposition, idea, community picnic date, homecoming queen, best in show, or favorite flavor of ice cream. All this, and I still keep going to vote. I'm a glutton for punishment I tells ya'!

I tried Firefox, IE, and Chrome and still no button. I'll try an on-campus computer tomorrow, but I suspect my weird status may render me ineligible to vote (even though I'm paying all the same fees as everybody else). My status should be that of a regular student sometime this week, so hopefully, if that's what's making me unable to vote, it'll be fixed by week's end.

Screw the wrecking ball! I wanna' push the plunger!

I'll buy all the bricks used to make the men's room. Then I can say that I personally saw to it that the new stadium, and the team it houses, are built like a brick s**thouse.

I was in a fraternity in college. Mixed feelings on the whole thing. Definitely plenty of douchebaggery to go around. Also learned a lot from it in terms of operational experience, marketing, and networking. Most of my animosity towards it is aimed at the national office and it's attitudes towards west coast chapters rather than the polo shirt wearing crowd on campus (actually, in my day, the style was to have the sweatshirt with the embroidered letters wrapped around your waist with the letters adorning your ass). The other half of my college life was as a history major hanging out with all the super anti-greek artsy people. Just as much douchebaggery in that circle, just on different terms. You're just as likely to find a drunken cavorting asshat stoically smoking a clove cigarette in the Humanities coffee bar as you are in a fraternity house. To give a local example, who here would rather hang out in the social circle of journalism majors than with the greek community? You think those guys would hesitate to steal your beer and your girlfriend any more than fraternity members would? It all really boils down to individual chapters and the personalities they take on. I watch the various fraternities and their activities on campus, and there are some I wouldn't join in a million years. Others seem fairly innocuous. Even within my own fraternity, it was a chapter by chapter case. We got along great with the guys at UCSD, but couldn't get out fast enough when visiting the chapter at UC Davis. It's as unfair to lump all greek members into a single category it is to do so with all college students.

I'm feeling disenfranchised. Is there a physical location I can go tomorrow to cast my vote? This online thing ain't working for me.

This is what I'm getting

Nope. Just tried several times and nothin'. Might my purgatoryesque status as non-degree seeking post baccalaureate student have something to do with it? My status will change to degree seeking this week, so if that's the case, maybe I can still get in there by Friday.

Ummm... It welcomes me then tells me to press the button to vote, but there is no button.

We were laughing last night that I have a student vote. I'll log on tomorrow and throw in a yes. So with a data sampling of...me...the stadium is ahead 1-0!

I think I've got the remedy for that one.

1) Once again, the tailgating was kickass. Special recognition that Tasty's dad is one righteous dude. 2) There were a LOT more people than I expected in attendance 3) We lost pretty bad...again, but we were still in it in the third quarter 3a) I saw more than 15 minutes of UNT football effort 4) I saw plenty of butts in seats through the entirety of the game 5) I got to meet coach Jones 6) Did I mention the tailgating was kickass?

How to make a flag

I don't need it personally tomorrow, but I've got my grill and some charcoal in the car. You're free to fire it up. Meanwhile, the stock's a boilin' and the jello's a settin'. mmmmmm.....cooooookieeeesssss.........

On a brighter note than has been the content of most threads this week, I'm ready for another round of tailgating. The weather's supposed to be a bit cold, and we're playing the ragin' cajuns. Therefore I'm thinking Chicken and Sausage Gumbo to warm the cockles, and green jello shots to help get through the game. On a good note for me, I've procured part-time employment, so this will be my last hurrah for parking lot cooking this season. Any requests?

That alone makes him ok in my book. Making a good tailgating environment alone should and has increased the fan base. I'd be pretty pissed off if I showed up and the tailgating scene was akin to sitting in the parking lot eating jello at a BYU game. As far as I can tell from the athletics site, he hired Johnny Jones. My judgment of Ricky V is going to be heavily based on how he reacts to this impending 0-12 season and what repercussions are handed down as a result. If it's all unicorns and puppy dogs coming from the AD office in December, then we've got a serious issue. Again, call me crazy, but coming from the corporate world, if you don't produce two years in a row, there's not much sympathy from the higher ups, contract or no.

I've been trying to look that up myself, and haven't found the answer yet. I'm really curious too!

If that's directed at me personally, don't you worry. I'll be at the game. I have a choice on Saturdays of taking the kid to the library to watch some old lady with sock puppets or going to watch UNT get pummeled. So far, as painful as it is, watching the pummels aren't as bad as the old lady with the sock puppets.

Right. I'm pretty sure that with 1st down and and goal on the one inch line we would still line up in the shotgun formation. Hell, I'm surprised we don't do a shotgun and a pitch back on field goals and punts. Couldn't really hurt!

If they said over 16K for this past weekend, I'm guessing about 6-7K sold but not in attendance. So Maybe 7,000 in attendance plus season tickets... I'm going 13,500. Score? LaLa's averaging just over 32 ppg. UNT's averaging 13. Plug in the Sunbelt Conference variable...Whirr, buzz, ding! Score at halftime -- ULL 42, UNT 3 Final Score -- ULL 56, UNT 12 Oh hell, let's throw a safety in there for good measure.. ULL 58, UNT 12

If attendance is down, then the lovely restrooms will see less use, and we will save fewer gallons of water per urinal per year! This is indeed bad for the environment! My fellow Mean Green patrons! In the spirit of saving the environment I implore you to consume more bladder busting beverages in the parking lot and keep coming to those games so that we may indeed save all 40,000 gallons per urinal per year! On the bright side, while needing to use the porta potties outside the stadium has proven to be a trial at times, not once have I had to wait in line inside the stadium! ETA -- Oh, and Brett. The question bears repeating. Why do you hate UNT so much? You're either with us or against us! Stay the course! Shock and Awe! Mission Accomplished!

It just so happens that I caught it on video. That right there is worth the price of orange lot admission.