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Good point. North Texas now has 14 votes, though one is mine in St. Augustine, so it looks like another 10-15 fans will have to show up for UNT to start showing up on the Texas map.

Have you looked at a map of the U.S. recently? The Sun Belt is an southeastern conference. All of its expansion in football has been in the Eastern time zone, and the last two Mountain time zone football schools just left. Perhaps it should be called the SEC -- SunEast Conference. :-).

Several thousand fans have voted so far.

An Internet web site has mapped pro and college sports allegiances based on the "who is your favorite?" survey of thousands of people. The college football map shows no presence of North Texas, even though it's one of the teams you can choose: College Football Census For links to the other maps, see this weblog post: SportsFilter If you have 5-10 minutes take the survey on the site and tell them your favorite teams. Some of the breakdowns are pretty cool. I had no idea that Indiana was Boston Celtics country.

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No kidding. The guy's larger than life. He said during the third quarter on TV that three SouthWest Conference teams told him they'd support the entrance of North Texas during his tenure. Anyone know which schools he was referring to?

That interview with Hayden Fry was the reason I couldn't hang on to my bad mood after this loss. The value of what he said about the facilities, and about the overall prospects of the school, are huge.

I don't think there's any way Jamario breaks that for a touchdown. Troy had too many fast players close to his heels, and Jamario's a little short on zoom these days.

I'm impressed with the way the defense played, especially after the third quarter when they should have had nothing left. And the 3-D graphics of the new facilities were incredible. Sucks to have lost a game, but 26 straight conference wins brought us to the point where ESPN2 came to Denton and those facilities got the greenlight. I still am optimistic about the future of North Texas.

Amen, brother. Is there a way you could add something to each post's member info section that shows a user's level of membership in the Mean Green Club? I think putting dollars into that club would be considerably more productive than starting private fundraising efforts and demanding Dickey's head. I've been too cheap to support it myself, but as a 15-year fan and alumnus, I need to put up or shut up.

True, but we had a realistic chance of beating them -- hence the level of fan disappointment when we got stomped.

I'd rather see that money be spent on world-class athletic facilities and a world-class stadium. Those would make a bigger long-term impact on UNT football than replacing a coach with the current record for consecutive conference wins in the NCAA.

Schedule more out of conference games against teams we have a realistic chance of beating, like Tulsa, Baylor, and the University of South Florida, and less paycheck games like Kansas State, Texas, and Alabama. A team that's good enough to run the Belt for four straight years is good enough to beat some bottom-25 I-A teams.

I'm not happy with the lack of out of conference success, but the most we could have realistically hoped for playing Kansas State was to be respectable through the first half. If we run the Belt again, it should be considered a huge success for a team this inexperienced. I'm eager to see if Dickey can pull that off with this bunch. If he does, it will bode well for next year.

Thanks. I agree with you about fans who sit on their hands. That used to kill me at Cowboys games when I was a season ticket holder early in the Jimmy Johnson years.

What does an obnoxious fan being gay have to do with anything? Would you mention an obnoxious fan's race?

Even if we win the Belt, which I'm not feeling confident about after the first two games with the new quarterback, I feel like this is the year the Mean Green faithful start to ho-hum winning the conference. Perhaps it is fitting that we're playing for the right to go to the Lafayette Bowl this year. I'm not ready to bail on Dickey, but this 52-point loss to Tulsa just puts an exclamation point on UNT's inability to win out of conference.

Don't be so quick to dog the Mean Green. North Texas would have been in this game if not for that 54-point run by Tulsa.

On TV, it looked like Chris Henry's leg was broken because of how the tackler landed on it, not because his ankle became stuck in the turf. I don't think turf played a factor, unless it prevented him from swinging his legs away from the tackler.

Turnovers are a phase of the game too. The North Texas defense played incredibly well at forcing mistakes, taking fumbles, pressuring the quarterback, and getting picks. I don't think their performance was crappy at all.

If I were a Blue Raider fan, I think the sympathetic reaction from Mean Green fans would send me over the top. When the fans of your biggest rival feel pity for you, things are not right with your program. The biggest reason MTSU lost is the coach kept going for high-risk plays in the red zone. If he had called more conservatively and set the kicker up better on third downs, MTSU could have put enough of a lead on North Texas to make us go to a passing game.

You can't ask for a better start to Sun Belt conference play than to go to Las Cruces and end a 31-year losing streak there. The Aggies have to be counting the days until they don't have to play North Texas in conference any more. It's hard to follow the team over the radio, but I have been impressed with how resilient they are in these games. They're going to be tough to beat all year long, and I feel like we're going to be competing strong for the conference championship up to the end.

People on these boards endlessly ponder what it would take to bring alumni and other fans to UNT games more often. This guy takes time out of a trip to DFW to attend a game, and tells people exactly what it would take to make him want to come more often. What's the response? People rip him to shreds, starting with this post: I'm sure that will make him want to come back. Maybe you folks should consider what he's saying instead of acting like the AD's your oversensitive kid brother. We gotta stop acting like you have to be a pollyanna kiss-ass to be a true UNT fan.

Good win for the Green. I'm hoping it's a sign of things to come. The game story from the Wilmington Star in North Carolina focuses on the disappointment of their player from DFW: North Texas tops Seahawks

Forget the goal posts. That's kid stuff. If UNT wins I'm going to flip over my own car and set my trash cans on fire.