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I like Denton pride day where the kid gets a free ticket and parents get 1/2 price or some family snacks. GMG

You need to pepper a culture from 1000 different directions all of the time. That is what changes a culture. It reaches all different types of receivers and ultimately keeps everyone attentive and alert and excited. I still hope for the day when we actually hire a culture creator within the athletic department that focused on spirit culture building On game day on campus in the community. Arm this person with culture ambassadors and unleash. Culture director 80k a year 4 ambassadors 40k -45k per year. Set up testing and feedback mechanisms for constant feedback. That's how MGM did it when I moved there 10 years ago. We moved mountains - 9k employees 5044 rooms 3200 in f and b division 1000 blackjack and game dealers. Laser focus my friends. GMG

Let's make a Big Deal of the first Raising. Pimp the date and time all over campus get some live band and homecoming type spirit endeavors out there. Make it like our raising of the banner in a championship house. Alumni and students will come to an Event. Protect this house. Fly proudly Mean Green!!!!! gmg

This is culture building. You only stay behind the privates if you convince yourself you are not worthy of a tcu or smu level opportunity. You have to believe in yourself to be our true self so why not aim high. Backseat to no one. Go Mean Green!!!!!

The Houston series is good for us and them. They probably get dallas every year and we get Houston every year. So smart. In the non p5 world you either want Boise Houston or byu. We got one of the big fish, now slay them. GMG

I think we Mean Green fans have the best seat in then house. Seth will continue to push like never before to be a must hire if ou stumbles a bit. We reap the benefits and imagine getting good ole UNT to a big six bowl. Smu plays in Frisco and the Mean Green in Jerryworld. Ou is right up the street. Work your magic here SL and the pot of gold is yours! GMG

As a not so closeted running rebel basketball fan I hope and know there is a UNLV connection. Bless you Rebels! In the middle of their fight song when playing that school up north you just yell Reno sux at Every pause possible. It's greatness. GMG

Fine has some of you right where he wants you. I'm down for the best qb to step up and move us to championship contention level. But dismiss at your risk. I love guys that feed off this only to smirk and hoist accolades later. Beat Fine if you can. We will all be excited for it, but In my opinion it is way too early to say this kid is done. GMG

Cheers I wasn't scolding our talon leader for not doing something. I'm just saying that as older alum we get a chance to see some cool sheet as our income rises and our jobs take us different places. This is not the forum but create one for cool spirit ideas. The alum are not consistently asked for ideas for enhancement and as a trainer of five star experiences worldwide I just want to constantly push the envelope on what can be done. Go talons and gmg!

This is an April fools question, right? North Texas all the way. My longhorn friends and metro peeps call it unt. But I call it North Texas because it says all that it needs to say - we are North Texas and not smu tcu uta or utd. We encompass all of this vibrant region which ranks as one of the most progressively successful engines in the world. I even got used to seeing No Texas which bugged for half a year then when we won it just looked better. If I were MTSU I wouldn't change a thing. They have carved out their directional school niche just fine. GMG

The banners I have seen that have a wow effect at staged points in the game look like this. I've seen the BYU flag unfurl at a late stage timeout in the Marriott Center. Last year at UTSA the student section unveiled a Come and Take It banner between the 3rd and 4th quarters. This has to be choreographed and what impressed me about UTSA was that all of a sudden the Roadrunner mascot ran onto the field and stood on his logo with the come and take it flag. He started waving it around as the music built and got stronger more powerful. You could tell something was coming but as a first time visitor didn't know what. It finally crescendoed and the students started unveiling and shaking the Come and Take It banner in the student section behind the goalposts. The student section was hopping up and down and it was impressive. Almost giving the team and crowd a final "bring it home" build up. I can't find anything on youtube or pics which is surprising because it is incredibly well done. BYU's simply built up and then all of a sudden the banner appears then disappears. You can find a snippet in the 48 second video on you tube titled: BYU ROC Student Section Highlight. Of course you would probably want to try to coordinate it with the Green Brigade first but they are stuck on Hey Baby (uggghhhhh) or with the sound man and get some jaws or start wars or game of thrones music building and crushing through the system. I would totally donate to a banner ritual. What would our banner read: 1. Go Mean Green 2. Go Mean Green and SOW 3. Just the SOW 4. or my favorite to quote our famous alum DO YOU BELIEVE and SOW I would contact the student spirit leaders at UTSA to get more details on how they execute this. I've been to many college games across the land and good ole San Antonio did something that impressed me in person. GMG

Yeah I would settle for moving in that direction in the coming years. UTA, TCU and SMU crushing it - time for us to step up. GMG

You all are the group to get the Big Banner unveil between 3rd and 4th quarters this fall. 1. Need to buy the banner 2. Need verbiage and graphic for the banner 3. Need to coordinate with band to transition away from their traditional 3rd quarter song - or perhaps make the unveiling between 1st and 2nd quarter or at some point. it needs the band to participate for effect - see utsa between 3rd and 4th quarter and their banner "Come and Take It." Sorry to hijack but while you all are gathering figure out how to become the spirit czar group with Wren backing and muscling up to the table to get even more awesome things going. Great job guys and gals keep up the outstanding work! GMG

Mine still in tact: Gonzaga; Baylor; Kansas; UCLA I have Baylor beating Gonzaga and UCLA beating Kansas. I have Baylor beating UCLA. This is getting interesting as I had Xavier taking out Arizona tonight. On a side note I think Sean Miller is a terrible coach. Arizona deserves better than that dude. The Cats have too much talent to play that stupid in the final minutes of the game. Gonzaga gonna smoke the X on Saturday. GMG

Very proud of that program. Good for UTA. Go Mavericks! GMG

I like how Pete Carroll chimed in with a Fight On salute....so says the coach who left a trail of death, destruction and dead bodies in the side of the road after he left. Hate that FGCU played FSU first round. The eagles are fun fun fun to watch and could have beaten many others. GMG

I'm excited to buy season tickets for the very first time and visit the Superpit for the first time in years! Welcome Coach and GMG

That snickers almost made me spit out my cocktail. Too funny. ootics are important and to Emmitts point small changes are a good sign. To me he has to hit a home run with the basketball coach. Today I watched Arizona and wAshington followed Baylor and Kansas - didn't even check if we played. I saw la tech was blowing out someone and middle appears to be good. So you have diehard checked out after December 26 for almost 8 months. Can't run a business like that especially when all the diehard wants to do is throw money at you. Go get a proven coach who can build the program back and help build the new arena. Does the SFA coach have any intrigue? They appear a bit down. Go get the uta coach so we can hopefully be as good as uta one day. Dang that is hard to say. Wren optics matter. GMG

UTEP will bring fans either way but I love the date. We owe the Miners a good ole Denton Beat Down. Fun weekend late in the season! GMG

I am so bummed about UNT right now. I get psyched up and huddle in front of the TV to watch BYU of the West Coast Conference and Long Beach State vs UC Irvine Big West Basketball and don't even follow my alma mater after football. So many emotions about this program right now: 1. I feel like Football is on the right track, but I see San Antonio making amazing waves. So is our football on track and if so will it even be enough to beat the likes of UTSA, La Tech and FAU in the future. 2. Is Wren Baker Rick Villareal? I don't want to believe so but I don't see the drain the swamp energy I was hoping for - How on earth does Benford still have a job. How can he touch my great University and be allowed to bludgeon my degree week by week on his way out. 3. My Running Rebels suck, everything North Texas stinks right now in February. I root on the Cougars of BYU while wondering what happened to my Great University and do they even have a plan. Rick didn't. Wren doesn't seem to. This upside down state of Mean Green Athletics has just taken its toll. Nevertheless. GMG P.S. - I don't want and am not asking for cheerleaders in Green and White. I am looking for fearless decision makers, expert communicators and highly visible actions makers. None of these people except maybe SL seem to be present in Denton right now. Example, I met a rep from the Texas Legends who has communicated with me often over the past 10 days, got me out to a Texas Legends games and has me signed up for 2 networking events to get involved. Has anything ever moved that fast in Denton without a 66-7 drubbing and worst loss in college football embarrassment drumming before? It should be happening every single day to our completely lost thousands of alumni. I even have trouble encouraging my niece to attend UNT because she wants a cool college experience, which as an athlete includes connection to and involvement of athletics even from a spectator perspective. That's crazy and definitely a first in my 31 years of being a brand ambassador for this University.

Army is going to feel like a pre-bowl game. Beat Army! Go Mean Green!!!!!

The marketing of your program is something we have always been behind the times in. I too hope he considers a dedicated position along with the Spirit Czar to research what other programs are doing in regard to gameday experience - students, fans, tailgaters, campers. GMG

Wren has mentioned a 2017 Strategy which gives me great hope. Yes the details have not been unveiled to the public, but the fact Baker thinks strategically with long range goals, mile-markers and measurable outcomes in mind is great. I am also encouraged by the feel that Wren does no look at this turn around as a quick fix. Culture change takes time, energy and a slew of practices and rituals to bring about excellence. That is what makes what SL did even more impressive. He started building culture in the spring and helped get us to a bowl within one year. I don't need to see the people on the side of the road with box in hand to feel that things are changing. I am eager to see and learn about the strategic plan and confident a solid one is being built. We have the right guy and I am excited about the changes to come in 2017. GMG

To me it is just sad that Wren allowed him to coach and wreck this season and fanbase another year. Don't you think an assistant could have gotten 6 wins? I used to travel into town when living in far away places to watch football and would catch basketball games over the Christmas break. Now I live 45 minutes from the Superpit and haven't been to a game in years. It is sad that we have one spectator friendly sport that spans 5 months of a very long year to get excited about. I see that Dave Rice is now on the Nevada coaching staff former player and head coach of UNLV. He wrecked the Running Rebels much like Benford has in Denton. The longer they stayed the more damage they enacted. Even the Vegas fanbase is numb and turned off. Imagine the work ahead for this AD and next regime. Go Mean Green!!!!!

I agree with Harry on many fronts and several in this message. He didn't say to stop looking, only to give credit where it is completely due. The Sun Belt and CUSA are both having stellar bowl seasons. They are outclassing the AAC and MWC by playing smash-mouthed finesse football, and its working. I don't like the makeup of the AAC. I like the makeup of the MWC but would only want us to jump there with other Texas teams. I actually think Houston and SMU are at a disadvantage having only each other as Texas teammates. We absolutely are in a more favorable position in CUSA West. We have 3 Texas Rivals to their 1. I also don't like all the tiny private schools in their league. They don't get attendance or get me fired up even though they put out some solid programs, like Tulsa. Is the AAC perceived to be better, yes. Do I like its configuration, no. I like CUSA's configuration and MWC's TEAMS much better. Build the Program. Feed the Rivalries. Pound the Chest. Beat Army. Go Mean Green!!!!!