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True, but you get to shoot them.

You posted your message six months too late. North Texas cheerleader applications are in the spring.

The link I provided shows that UNT breaks even. Surely you recognize that a lot of schools are making a lot of money from sports. Why should athletes be the only ones not sharing in that revenue? A college athlete in a top sport has no time in his or her schedule to work an outside job. It's ridiculous to not pay them a little money to compensate them when many other students who works on campus are paid,

I got paid for the work I did at UNT while I attended school. It wasn't a lot of money, but it was enough for me to live near campus and focus on my studies when I wasn't working. Why shouldn't student athletes get paid for their jobs? College sports generate billions in revenue: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/schools/finances/ Paying athletes a small amount so they can focus on school and their sport seems like a fair deal to me a long time in coming.

The former Alabama player who made one of the most infamous tackles in college football history has died. At the 1954 Cotton Bowl, Rice halfback Dicky Maegle had broken free on a run likely to end in a 95-yard touchdown when Tommy Lewis left the sideline and tackled him near midfield. The officials awarded Maegle the touchdown. Lewis, who would be invited with Maegle to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show two days later, explained, "I was just so full of Alabama, and I couldn't stand to see him make another touchdown. I lost my composure and tackled him." Lewis said in a 2004 interview he'd suffered lifelong grief and embarrassment over the tackle. But the preceding September he was honored in a pregame ceremony before an Alabama game. "I took off out on the field and the place erupted," he said. "They brought the house down. It was one of the biggest, happiest moments of my life, being asked to do that." YouTube video of tackle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCf3WqVyx4 DMN stories: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20141013-tommy-lewis-tackler-in-infamous-1954-cotton-bowl-off-bench-play-dies.ece http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/college-sports/headlines/20141013-flashback-a-talk-with-tommy-lewis-50-years-after-off-the-bench-cotton-bowl-tackle.ece

Pantone 356 or hexadecimal #00853E of course.

Has there ever been a greenout? That would get people to drag out the green shirts or buy them.

A fan-led effort at the University of Tennessee organized fans into an orange-and-white checkerboard by section on Saturday: http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/90102/tennessee-fans-pull-off-checkerboard-neyland-lil-jon-makes-appearance-sort-of http://www.wbir.com/story/sports/college/vols/football/2014/10/04/fans-achieve-checkerboard-neyland-goal/16737015/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=wbir/sports-news The effort was only a week in the making and required people swapping sections based on whether they wore orange or white. Pretty cool, and it shows what a creative fanbase can achieve.

I voted 12 wins to balance out UNT90 voting for the Mean Green to go winless.

Not cool.

Why do you want low income families and businesses that serveexploit them in an extremely visible area right next to your alma mater's campus? Personally, I care more about UNT's success than about a dingy neighborhood staying as dingy as it was when I lived there from 1987-91. Denton has a cost of living 3.9% less than the Texas average. Losing the Sack 'n Save area to progress isn't going to leave less affluent residents with a lack of options they can afford.

No. Sack 'n Save made a lot of money by virtue of being so close to the highway and the UNT campus. Now they're losing their location because they're so close to the highway and the UNT campus. They were around when I arrived in 1987, so that's at least 27 years of having a nice business advantage. And from the looks of the place, they never put a dollar back into making their store look good. It was always a dingy place.

You imagine correctly. The perfect slice of pizza was a New York-style thin crust at Dino's in Richardson Square Mall.

I was living with my future wife by then. She wouldn't let me hit on girls. I went to Flying Tomato to eat slightly overrated pizza and play Cyberball 2072.

You were rutting at the Flying Tomato? I'm glad I wasn't there on those nights. That's something I could never unsee.

I live in Florida so this issue is far removed from me. But I was in DFW a few weeks ago and drove from East Dallas to Denton on a weeknight. I-35E was a nightmare both ways -- I spent an hour between Carrollton and Lewisville in stop-and-go traffic going up and an hour around Lewisville Lake going back home. There was all kinds of construction going on. A bartender at Oak Street Drafthouse even warned me that I better get out of Denton before 9 p.m. because after that lanes are closed for construction. Maybe that had something to do with the sad alumni showing.

I didn't see anyone in that video in Tech gear, but there's plenty in UTEP colors. Fights are dumb. People who rush to the fight to make things worse are dumber. I was at an NFL game a few years back with my kids and a fight between home and visiting fans broke out in front of us. I told my boys, "If you ever in your life get into a fight over something as silly as a football game, I will be sorely disappointed."

How is that any different than the status quo when they threw $2.1 million a year at June Jones? They'll find someone whose name is big enough to justify that kind of salary, but who is small enough to be willing to coach there. I don't think that McCarney fills that bill. He won't be impressive enough to them because they're not impressed with anything achieved at UNT.

Beating SMU so bad their coach resigned gives us a bragging point for decades. I haven't been this happy since Eppy became Scrappy.

This is the only time right after a UNT/SMU game that both fan bases will be happy.

We supported the vote-yes student campaign with money and helped in other ways. I think we deserve some of the credit.

I would be surprised if he didn't hedge his bets with insurance or some other tactic. I wonder if he could have bet $4 million in Vegas on the Astros to win more than 63 games. $4 million in furniture only costs him 50 percent of that, according to a story I read on his Super Bowl promotion. So it's really a $2 million cost and he's getting lots of free promotion for his business. It's a shame his love for UNT athletics was about his love for Darrel Dickey. We could use a stinkin' rich alum who likes to write seven-figure checks.

Amen, brother. Since their football program was resurrected, SMU has been in the same boat we're in. We're both mid-majors (do people still use that term?) who are on the outside looking in at the big-money conferences. They have been in slightly better conferences than UNT, but how much is that distinction worth? Neither program is content with our fate.

I've always enjoyed resenting SMU as a proletariat, but the reality is that it's an excellent school on a beautiful campus and the people I know who went there are all cool. One of the reasons to go to a school like SMU is the contacts you make. I'm not going to knock people who go there except in the week before our teams are playing. And for those seven days they're a bunch of elite snobs who look down on us "cutters," just like on Breaking Away.

I think UNT is past the point where beating SMU in a laugher is program defining. But it's definitely one of the biggest wins in recent years and one that all of us alumni who are SMU haters will hold closely to our moobs forever.