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I am thrilled at the news. I think the best hire for North Texas was Gretchen. Her national tour in combination with a lot of the initiatives she has already put in motion set a tone that North Texas means business. I live in DC and can't wait to meet her in January and hear about all the great things going on in Denton. And yes I am taking my checkbook with me because I know these things aren't magic. With this hire on the athletics side it looks like we are finally on track to really becoming world-class. Not going to happen overnight but in about five years all corners of the country and many parts of the world will have heard of the Mean Green. Go Gretchen! Go Dodge! Go Mean Green Nation!

I think it interesting the notable absent college from this list is the largest (Arts and Sciences).

BA '03 Journalism

Seriously, I don’t think any of us would be sad. I have no doubt that Gretchen would bring someone top-notch in for that position.

FAMU presidential search down to six Originally published December 6, 2006 By Diane Hirth DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER Six candidates for the presidency of Florida A&M University are in the mix. After a long, frank discussion this afternoon by the FAMU presidential search committee, the field - narrowed first from 36 formal applicants to 12 candidates by a private search firm - focused on the six semi-finalists. Five have more traditional academic credentials and one would bring ambassadorial experience. They are: * James Ammons, North Carolina Central University president and former FAMU provost. * Lawrence Davenport, Florida Atlantic University executive vice president for university advancement and FAU Foundation executive director. * Howard Johnson, University of North Texas provost and vice president for academic affairs. * Larry Palmer, The Inter-American Foundation president and CEO, and former U.S. ambassador to Honduras. * Patricia Pierce Ramsey, Bowie State University provost and vice president for academic affairs. * Thelma Thompson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president The search committee, headed by the Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr. and Laura Branker, both FAMU trustees, made the decision on possible presidents with input from board of trustees Chairwoman Challis Lowe. The six candidates will be interviewed in person next week by the search committee, which then will shrink the prospective presidents list to three people. For more on this story, please read tomorrow's Tallahassee Democrat

UNT swimming coach's contract not renewed 09:57 PM CDT on Monday, April 17, 2006 By BRETT VITO / Denton Record-Chronicle DENTON – The contract of swimming and diving coach Mona Nyheim-Canales was not renewed after the 2005-06 season, athletic director Rick Villarreal confirmed. Nyheim-Canales spent four years at UNT and led the Mean Green to a fifth-place finish in a field of seven in the Sun Belt Conference championship in February. Villarreal said assistant coach Maya Nikolova will work with the team in the off-season and continue recruiting. Villarreal hopes to have a new coach in place in the next two weeks.

I hear and feel ya. It hurt when football sank this past season but I had hope when BB was on role and drove to Denton to see the USA game and it all came to a screaching halt. Now, we are suppose to wait another year for DD and JJ to prove to us they really really suck...can't wait

And people still want to fire Slinker....good job women's!!!!!

Regarding Slinker, we need to keep in mind that she does have a 17-8 season in a really good conference. Sagarin has the Sun Belt women's BB conference ranked 11th above the likes of Conf. USA, MAC and WAC.... I don't think we can compare her situation to JJ. DD has us ranked really low in the worst football conference and JJ's has us in the middle of an average men's BB conference (18th of 32 per sagarin)...

Finally made it to a game this year! Unfortunatley we lost Great crowd though!

So there with a buddy!

Ok, this is my first BB game. Only go to football but i want to see what all the fuss is about. How much are tickets and is it open seating?

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This is what makes North Texas, North Texas. Thank you Rick for taking time to communicate with us. I love that North Texas fosters an enviroment and culture where administrators are approachable, responsive, caring and honest. This is why I went to UNT and why I will forever bleed green. GMG!!!

As much as a lot of us hate it, I think it's working. Our new image is hitting home with a lot of high school kids. This kids quote is what we all have been trying to establish for a long time. Also, I don't know how many of you keep up with the news but someone is doing a lot of work in Denton. I have seen a lot of positive news stories about UNT in the past few weeks (minus the whole football thing). Go Mean Green!!!! Marketing a brand-new U. By PATRICK McGEE STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER Allan Saxe is a local philanthropist with conservative leanings. Camesha Ethley is a 17-year-old senior at the top of her class at Seguin High School. She likes basketball and hip-hop rapper Jay-Z. Universities are scrambling to get the attention of both. Donors such as Saxe have deep pockets to pump up a university's endowment. Students like Ethley have the credentials to boost a university's academic profile. University officials have long hammered away at talking points that highlight their strengths and success stories. They've poured millions of dollars into sprucing up the appearance of their campuses and they've mastered the art of doting on donors and students with strong academic records. To attract more folks like Saxe and Ethley, higher education officials are doing more to polish their brand name. "Institutions are gradually realizing that as the market becomes more sophisticated, they need to become more sophisticated in how they relate to it," said Larry Lauer, Texas Christian University's vice chancellor of marketing and communication. Ethley and her classmates have mixed opinions about brands' influence on their impressions. Ethley said she has positive images of the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of North Texas, family members' alma maters, but those images can't eclipse her hopes for admission to a more selective school farther from home. Her top choice is Rice University in Houston. One of her classmates, Cindy Nguyen, 17, doesn't think branding matters much. "We're high school students. We don't think about that," she said. With a Top 25 football team, and offering one of the few private-school educations in the county, TCU has a lot to market to prospective students and donors. TCU advertises on local radio and in regional magazines. Branding an image is just as important to the universities of Arlington and North Texas. UNT has one of the top music programs in the country. It recently spent nearly $150,000 developing its new brand. UT-Arlington, known for its strong engineering and business programs, is conducting secret meetings with a high-profile advertising agency to put the finishing touches on a new brand. A lot is at stake, and the amount of thought that goes into every detail -- the shape of letters, the shades of color -- is mind-numbing, officials said. UNT assistant design professor Eric Ligon said the space between the letters in "North Texas" in the logo he helped design portrays the university's openness. He said the tips on the ends of the letters give the UNT brand a more academic feel. They went through about 3,000 variations until UNT's top administrators felt they had the right look. "It gives it a sense of energy," Ligon said. Can fretting so much over the color and shape of letters make a difference? Saxe said a university's image probably affects his giving. "I'm not a psychologist, but I really believe there is a subliminal effect. It's advertising," Saxe said. He has donated to UNT, TCU and UT-Arlington, where he is an associate professor of political science. Shawn Ballard, 17, a senior at Seguin High School, said he was impressed by literature he received about UNT in the mail. "I like UNT's logo. It's real clean, and it stands out," he said. Seguin senior Shawn Zark said he went to a football game at UNT and saw the logo and school colors everywhere. It was unmistakable to him that this was a school with strong traditions. "The first thing that comes to mind about UNT is the tradition," he said. "Big Green and all that." UNT essentially came up with two brands -- an academic brand for the formal letterhead that faculty use for grant applications, and a "spirit" brand that Zark saw at the football game and Ballard saw in the UNT mailing. Some of the high school seniors said they see UT-Arlington as a commuter school, something that makes officials there cringe. But UT-Arlington and UNT have the same portion of their student body living on campus, 17 percent. Saxe said UNT has escaped the commuter-school image at least partially because of the spirit-building football games, where the stadium seats are a sea of that green UNT brand. "UNT is as much a commuter school as we are," Saxe said. "The funny thing is a school gets an image, and it's hard to break out of that image."

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I am sorry that for a minute you had to defend our school. His comments were extremly rude and uniformed. Last night I read my North Texan and was reinjected with Green juice. I have my copy of USA Today and my North Texans on the corner of my desk and my Mean Green screensaver for all to see! Be Proud of the Mean Green. Not just our team but our school!

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Unfortunately i could not attend the game on Saturday, though we got our a#% kicked, i was wondering if anyone had pics of the game. Fouts, Turf, crowd, Green Brigade, Scrappy??? Would be greatly appreciated!

I just received a reply email from the Assoc. Ath. Dir. Dallas Morning News got a new logo cd on Monday. One down, one to go. Any ideas on how to kill the parrot?

Ok, so far so good. The two last things they need to do is...... Take the Parrot off the Scoreboard at Fouts and... Update our logos with the Dallas Morning News. GO MEAN GREEN!!!!!!!!

I agree MeanGreenFreak.