gsufanatic

I'll agree with everything you said there. Georgia State is planning to play their games in the Georgia Dome to start out (will be mostly empty) and they just purchased a large chunk of land to build a practice facility. There isn't a whole lot of room to grow downtown but Georgia State is building more dorms and trying to become more of a destination campus rather than being the mostly "commuter" school they've been in the past. I look forward to them starting up football as it's always good to have more geographic rivals.

I'm not 100% sure what the current rules are but I believe there is a 3 year process set up to be considered for a move up. We launched a feasability study just under a year ago and I know that's the first step mandated by the NCAA. I don't think they will recommend a move up for us.

After watching that game I have no doubt the Mean Green will have my support next year. I think they have a bright future. On another note, there is a thread on my team's message board that is talking about recruiting in Texas and the pro/cons for moving up to FBS...North Texas has a couple mentions on the second page. If anyone is interested in chiming in, here's a link to the thread. I'm sure they would love your input! http://www.gsufans.com/tsc/showthread.php?t=1169 And Miller Lite would be great!

While flipping between the Georgia Tech/FSU and Georgia/Florida games, I stumbled upon the UNT game Saturday on CSS here in Atlanta. Through strategic use of DVR I was able to watch most of the 1st quarter and 2nd half of your game and by the end, I wasn't even flipping back to the others! Congratulations on a great win. I believe you can't really measure a team's heart until you see them at the end of a close game and the Mean Green have plenty of heart to spare. Good luck the rest of the season and I look forward to watching this team in Denton next Fall.

Thanks again for the welcome from everyone...seems like a great group. I think Keith would be an excellent hire to help out with special teams. However, he is the cousin of head coach Chris Hatcher and I think he's going to stick around to see the program's turnaround which will hopefully be complete next season. We're hoping our head coach sticks around a while but he already had an interview with Georgia Tech last year and his name has been mentioned for the South Carolina job if Spurrier bolts. Maybe Keith would be available if that happened but I think Chris will stick around for a while. From what I've heard Keith is an excellent recruiter as well. Is the entire Mean Green coaching staff fairly green or are there some that have been around for a while?

Good memory! It's been 8 years since our last I-AA (FCS) championship but we had 6 of them from '85-2000. We used to run the triple option when Paul Johnson (current Georgia Tech, former Navy coach) was at the helm and we did have problems getting I-A programs to play us at that time...teams didn't want to spend a week preparing for an offense unlike any they would see the rest of the year. We have gotten Georgia to play us a couple times this decade and opened the season with them in Athens this year...only 'Bama and LSU have put up more points than the 21 we hung on them...too bad they managed 45! Thanks for the welcome and I'll definitly see you in Denton next year.

Thanks and I would love to but I won't be pulling out of town here until mid-January. I guess I'll have to settle for a basketball game until next fall.

My fault...I guess that was too much of a reach. Mean Green sounds better anyway. What's the story with the eagle mascot?

Nothing better than beer and BBQ....I hear BBQ beef is bigger out there wheras pork is our specialty here in Georgia. I'll have to learn some new tricks. It sounds like you guys definitly have it figured out. I'm looking forward to opening kickoff for next year. Has the '09 schedule leaked at all? I found the date for the Army game but couldn't find anything else. Thanks for the replies and Go Eagles (that will be easy to say since my high school and college mascots have both been Eagles!).

I'll start off by saying I'm impressed with your messageboard and your fan enthusiasm in a down year! It looks like the program is fairly forward thinking with the new developments with your stadium, etc. I'll be relocating to the North Dallas/McKinney area in January and I'm a diehard football fan. I've been an extremely loyal Georgia Southern fan since my years at the school earlier in the decade when we won 2 I-AA championships. Moving to a new area I'm looking to "adopt" a program to root for and support and after hanging around your board for a few weeks I'm thinking I might have found a winner (SMU appears to be in last place). What can you guys tell me about the gameday experience, etc...you know, anything a newcomer would want to know. At my school we generally have about 18,000 fans for a game and a good 6-8 hours of tailgating beforehand. It's more of a party atmosphere and makes for a great way to spend a fall Saturday. I saw that tailgating just started about 7 years ago in Denton. Has it really taken off? Thanks for any info you can give me...I look forward to catching a few games soon!