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Beef o' Bradys is a sports bar franchise. I've been to two of them in Florida, and the food was absolutely terrible.

So the PAC-12 has filled its quota with USC? I don't think there's any stigma associated with being a directional school. It certainly didn't stop USF and UCF from getting into the Big East

True, but I didn't say we should invite them. If LA Tech comes hat in hand to the Sun Belt after the WAC implodes further, the conference ought to take them back. It would benefit UNT and the Louisiana schools in the conference especially.

UTSA is another USF in the making. In five years, the Sun Belt will be kicking itself for not inviting them.

The Belt would be crazy not to take back Louisiana Tech.

For a bowl, playing less than two hours' drive within your own state is definitely a home game.

Amen, brother. UNT fans need to embrace the Sun Belt while we're in the conference, because there's no guarantee we'll ever get an invite to a bigger one. Though the Belt is currently the lowest or second lowest conference in the FBS (depending on what you think of the WAC), it has steadily improved over the past five years and could catch the MAC, CUSA and MWC in the future. The southeast is the most fertile ground for college football in the U.S.

Me too. I'm just going to watch every game and enjoy it. That first dunk reminded me of how exciting it was to watch Booger Kennedy sack the quarterback after leaving a smoldering pile of dirt where an opposing lineman used to be. Welcome to Denton, Tony!

One glorious season.

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Agreed. The purpose of the letter is to position UNT with TCU and SMU as the three big sports schools in DFW, rather than see us lumped in with UTA, UT-Dallas and the other four-year schools in the area.

Do you think any recruit didn't know this fact until Rawlins told them?

I think you're right. Vizza never played for Texas A&M, so it looks like he'd had enough of football. Considering the beating quarterbacks took in the Dodge years, I can't say I fault him for deciding there might be other things to do with his life.

The fact there are no other Mean Green message boards makes this one more important. An athlete or athlete's family looking for information on UNT football online is likely to end up here. I think selling the program is more important than running an inside joke into the ground that makes UNT fans look like we love to rip on athletes.

You think Vito should have slammed McCarney's over his first half third down play calling in his first game coaching UNT, a game whose 41-16 result would suggest that a lot more went wrong than a couple third down calls?

It relates to the many discussions that took place here about how UNT should pursue Mike Leach before Dan McCarney was hired. If you don't like that this post is here, how about taking it up with the moderators privately instead of pooping on the discussion?

I don't believe that at all. Vito has written plenty of stories that reflect poorly on UNT over the years when the situation warranted it. Remember when he used FOIA to get the drug test results for the team? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3669259

Yup. Leach is a talented coach, but this partnership makes you wonder what kind of people he'd allow around his football program.

Mike Leach's business partner on a new all-star game he created is the publisher of guides to Houston strip clubs: http://blogs.seattle..._gray_the_p.php Leach launched the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game with John Gray, a sports marketer who also publishes AdultQuest, Wild Scene and Risque Business. Gray also hosted Lone Star Pornutopia, an annual gathering of porn stars, for three years. Some of the strip club guides can be read here (NSFW): http://issuu.com/adu...howFlipBtn=true P.s. The headline should say "Porn-Affiliated Publisher," but I can't fix it.

Over the years, I've heard from several players and their parents who read GoMeanGreen.Com. This site ranks highly for search terms related to Mean Green football, so it's not as unlikely as you think that a potential recruit might find it. Calling them quitters is a stupid joke based on some member's insult of Riley Dodge when he transferred out.

This "quitter" joke needs to be taken out back and shot. What would Darius White, or any other potential transfer to UNT, think if he found this board while picking schools and saw himself called a quitter? The athlete's not going to understand that it's an inside joke.

If LSU doesn't want to open their season with a 40-point loss, they shouldn't schedule North Texas.

George is a UNT legend in the making. We're fortunate to have such a great broadcaster calling our games. Hank is good and a nice pairing with George, but he's too reluctant to criticize the athletic department for obvious reasons. Followill would be an upgrade to Hank, though I presume he'd have no time to call UNT football in a normal NBA season. He's great on the Mavs games. Living in Florida, I've heard Chuck Cooperstein a few times on college games. Seems national to me.

The name's more than that. It's the regional cohesion and well-established reputation of a 32-year old conference that got AQ status because of the caliber of the football it was playing. Making a joke out of their name by adding far-west teams just serves as a constant reminder that the Big East isn't what it used to be. When these new schools join, every school but one in the Big East joined in 1995 or later.

59 points without Boomer around. Maybe our offense was afraid to score at home because they fear cannons.