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The stands are in the same area code as the field. Debate over.

But sad. Kinda like the 200 pound 6th grader calling the 150 pound 6th grader fat.

Like this? Rick Villarreal tours Fouts Field after being named UNT athletic director.

Somewhere in a dusty corner of the board is a post I had made about what I thought was a pretty good smack vs. what passes for smack today.

Anyone know why the name North Texas selected for the non-women's university in Denton? Because the fans favorite name IHFHLASMUNBSWWHVJTSWCABATTRBTBT* wouldn't fit on a shirt. * If Hayden Frey Hadn't Left And SMU Not Been Scared We Would Have Joined The SWC And Been Another Texas Team Rejected By The Big Twelve.

Not I don't have any admin powers here.

Now, now, social etiqutte requires slams be directed at large groups of people rather than one specific person. Both are pretty bad in my book though.

Maybe being tops in smack talk will convince some of the 7.8 million people who drive by your stadium every day without stopping to come in and check it out.

Only about 100 miles, I can only assume that committment to accuracy is reflected in UNT's amazing passing offense stats.

How'd you like the one last year?

OMG! UNT fans talking stadium smack!?!?!?

It's a green bias. Not Mean Green, dollar green. The Southland takes a portion of their revenue from the NCAA tournament and underwrites the cost of TV appearances. The presidents and chancellors of the Sun Belt have taken the position that they will not pay for exposure. The good news is that our contract expires after the 07 football season and 08 basketball season, at a time when Fox, CBS/CSTV, and Comcast are all looking to add inventory. I think there will be at least three or four bids submitted for Sun Belt coverage starting in 08.

As of a couple hours ago it wasn't on the dish program guide.

The game is listed as ESPN Regional, that being the case I suspect that ASU won't be allowed to stream the game because ESPN will likely offer it as part of GamePlan Online.

When the Sun Belt adds Ultimate Fighting as a sport I'll expect FIU to dominate.

For anyone interested. Local tv highlights of the game

Not nearly as impressive as the Cajun win last week but I wouldn't swap wins for nothing. We led this series until Memphis went on 10 game win streak and we owed them BIG TIME for the 2004 game, just needed first down to ice it and Noce got blindsided on a blitz fumbled and they took it the distance.

Maybe to the national media. Locally it was well known that Nutt did not want to hire Gus, and once the Springdale players started backing off their committments he was willing to hire him as QB coach but the AD forced him to hire him as offensive coordinator. Nothing cooler than looking like a genius when what you fought against turns out to be golden.

And neither Miami in I-A football is located in Miami.

FIU is one of the most penalized teams in the country (had four or five 15 yarders against ASU), they are close to the bottom in turnovers. They missed a PAT in a one point loss at MTSU. They missed a PAT in a one point loss at South Florida and could have won that game any way but fumbled to set up USF's winning score with just over 2 minutes left. Against Maryland they had a 13 yard punt and nearly survived that but got called for a personal foul on a play when they sacked Maryland's QB on 3rd and 11, two plays later Maryland scored a TD. Then threw a pick in the end zone on their final play while trailing by 4. FIU has issues that cannot be attributed to the AD.

Fresno wanted binding standards a few years ago. Bottom line is that anyone wanting to be in the WAC better be prepared to spend money because apparently the top programs are tired of people hanging on. One poster is wrong about the chances the WAC would add a I-AA program. Nevada's AD said about a year ago that UC Davis was the kind of program they would be looking for if they expanded again.

FIU had the talent to be more succesful this year in football and basketball has been simply dreadful. The football schedule killed any chance football had to do well this year. With football AND basketball struggling the finger gets pointed at the AD.

There are three sorts of games for us in the Sun Belt. MUST WIN, NEED TO WIN, GRAVY Any I-AA game is a must win. No one cares UNLESS you lose. Any I-A game against someone outside the six BCS leagues in a need to win, really need a .500 record in those game or better to show we are at their level. Games against the BCS schools are gravy. Nice to have but not essential. Right now the Sun Belt is 4-0 in must win games. That's good because as long as the number on the right is a zero we are doing what we need to do. We are 0-18 in gravy games. We've had some close calls but just haven't pulled it off. In the need to win games the Belt is 4-5. Not where we want to be but getting there. We have one must win game left and two need to win games left.

Storming the field after seven OT's is warranted if for nothing other than the relief that it is over. Nothing. NOTHING about that makes UNT a laughingstock. And while I've mocked UNT's offense nearly weekly in my around the league writings this year for Beltboard, I promise you that there were some 18-22 year-old students in the stands who will be tailgating outside your 15 or so year old stadium in 20 years passing the friendship bottle and laughing and joking about how they were there the night UNT played 7 OT's. Their memories may not yet have converted into a stellar game but I promise you they will remember it fondly.

Sorry but I loved it because it made me look brilliant. We heard it was going into OT while getting ready for the ASU-ULM post-game press conference and I said that it would probably go multiple OT's without ever triggering the 2 point conversion rule.