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Where are the restaurants and bars in Denton that have UNT sports memorabilia on the walls and show out of town games?

We got there at 3:05 p.m. The place closed at 3 and is apparently lunch only.

I brought my kids to Denton this June on a visit home. We couldn't find a decent local place to eat that was around when I attended school there in the '80s other than El Matador. We were going to try the hamburger company restaurant on the county square but it was closed. Every college town needs an eatery with decades of school memorabilia on the walls. What place fills that need in Denton?

Florida and Georgia don't want to be involved in the SEC? Thanks for the laugh. I live in Florida. Florida and Georgia alumni love the SEC more than their spouses.

It didn't take getting older. Plenty of college students spoke up for KNTU when I wrote a NT Daily column making fun of it. In hindsight, they were right and I was wrong. UNT has a world-renowned music program. KNTU is part of that. It would've been stupid to turn the station into another college alt-rock station.

Exactly. When I went to UNT I wanted KNTU to be college rock too. But over time I've come to appreciate the fact that the school and the radio station are known for jazz.

KNTU has a great track record for producing professional broadcasters. Instead of being yet another college rock station, they've become well-established for jazz at a university that's known for its College of Music. UNT fans often complain about the lack of traditions. Jazz is a UNT tradition and you're crapping on it.

If Ohio State was in normal condition, of course a coach would prefer it to building UNT. But the coach that replaces Tressel is going to suffer the consequences of Tressel's actions while fans expect him to get the same results Tressel did. Being the first coach to replace a giant can be a bad idea. Ron Zook learned that at Florida.

I lived in Denia on McCormick Street when attending college from 1988-1991. Google Maps shows a car up on blocks in the yard of the dumpy duplex I lived in. My part of the duplex was a converted porch. An exterior wall was my interior living room wall and there were metal storm shutters *inside* my house. It did not strike me as a neighborhood that had such special character it deserves special treatment. It was just another faded neighborhood with lots of transitory residents going to UNT who needed cheap housing.

Me neither. It's completely forgettable. Every time I see it again, I have to remember all over again why it's so bad.

Saw this link today: http://www.ohiostatealumni.org/events/EventPhotos/Pages/2011TresselwithAttendees.aspx When Ohio State alumni had a chance to get their picture taken with Jim Tressel, do you think they were told that he might not actually look up?

Now that we're losing the lame SouthLake Carroll look, we just need to make sure the Mean Green are wearing more actual green on their uniforms. I never understood how we could do otherwise.

Someone on GMG who lives in Denton should write a letter to the <i>DRC</i> supporting the stadium and countering the claims of the Denia group. Although they can't stop the stadium at this point, there's probably ways the city of Denton could still screw things up. People who like the idea of the stadium and believe the city benefits from it should speak out.

I did a Google search yesterday for Kim Kardashian thong bikini.

Read this piece from Sports Illustrated: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/michael_rosenberg/01/06/oregon.knight/index.html?eref=sihp# Knight has so much control at Oregon that the university is leasing land to him where he'll build a 130,000 square foot football operations center exactly like he wants it and then donate it back to Oregon.

Love the sarcasm. Other people have already answered for me. The amount of access Knight has at Oregon is legendary. Pick up a newspaper once in a while.

I agree. Vito's been a pretty good beat reporter.

Phil Knight's donations to Oregon also have strings attached.

This is huge!

I think it's an invite to the SEC. McCarney better be good.

No. We could've had a booster group for 60 years? That would have been horrible. Much better to be apathetic about our football success and watch the other Texas schools grow up around us.

He is according to the story I read: http://www.nbcconnec...-114560449.html "... he wants back millions of dollars he gave the University of Connecticut football program -- $3 million of the more than $7 million he donated." Here's his letter: http://media.nbcbaya.../Burton+Ltr.pdf He's UConn's largest athletic donor. The letter shows that he thinks a lot of himself and likes to wave his dick around at that school, but it was a major mistake for the AD to not keep him in the loop during the new coach hire.

Million-dollar donations are almost never given to athletic programs with no strings attached. If this AD couldn't figure out a way to hire the right head coach *and* keep a $7 million donor happy, he's in the wrong line of work.

I would agree with you if I hadn't seen what USF has done in Tampa. Give a big city its first credible college football team and people will support it. USF drew 231,000 fans in 1997 and more than 315,000 in 2007 and 2009.

Sorry to intrude with some facts about state budgets. People who think California's budget crisis will hurt its universities should be paying attention to what's going on in Austin. Those folks are also pretty good at accumulating debt.