Baby Arm!

Saw this on the Texas board. (added some more editorial comment of my own) (1.) Instant replay -Coaches will be given the right to challenge one call per game, and request that it be reviewed by instant replay. If the play is overturned, they will not be charged a timeout. (College football trying to be more like the NFL..) (2.) Players will be allowed to wear clear eye shields but only without any tinting. Opponents must be able to see everybody's eyes. (Didn't the NFL pass this rule about 10 years ago? See above comment) (3.) Halftime intermissions will be shortened from 30 minutes to 20 minutes, unless both sides desire the 30 minutes. (This is to try and speed up the game. Has this really been a problem? How long do you think this rule will last once ESPN realizes they just lost 10 minutes of airtime to sell commericals. ) (4.) When the ball is free kicked (eg., kickoffs) the clock will start when the ball is kicked and not when a player touches it. ( I think this just gave teams that score late and taking a lead a bigger advantage. They can now take a few extra seconds off the clock and away from any comeback bids) (5.) The kickers' tee is shortened from two inches to one inch, to reduce the number of touchbacks. (Glad we just inked a good kicker, what I saw in spring drills from the kicking game wasn't pretty. Tackling on special teams just got much more important.) Your thoughts, on these changes?

I really appreciate the time and effort that Eric put into these and they do look great as a window decal, However I was really hoping we could get the 3D plastic auto emblems. Any chance anybody has a suplier that can make those????

During my time on the team in the late 80's, they didn't offer Letter sweaters for debate. Other than golf, Debate is the only thing NT was won a national championship in.

5A title games to be at predetermined sites By MATT WIXON / The Dallas Morning News Class 5A state football championship games will be played at predetermined sites for the 2006 and 2007 seasons after gaining approval from the University Interscholastic League legislative council Monday. The ruling will change the practice of the participating teams' coaches determining the site and time of Division I and II championship games. In the past, coaches would meet after the state semifinals and agree on a neutral site or decide by coin flip. The legislative council stipulated Monday that the sites for the championship games be determined by the UIL. A committee appointed by the legislative council chairman will determine specifics such as game time, ticket prices and reimbursement for travel expenses. The committee will be chosen in the next few weeks, UIL spokesperson Kim Rogers said. She said the goal is to determine the sites of the championship games before the start of football season. With four teams making it to the playoffs from each district this season, the Division I and II championship games will be played on the same day. The UIL needed to ensure those games would be played at the same site, Rogers said, so it could seek a television contract for both games. The UIL's contract with Fox Sports Southwest ended after the 2005 season. In the past, the Texas High School Coaches Association opposed anyone determining a game's site and time other than the coaches involved. THSCA executive director D.W. Rutledge could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Hebron coach Brian Brazil said he knows some coaches will be concerned. For example, Brazil said, a North Texas team could be forced to play a team from South Texas at the Alamodome or Reliant Stadium. But Brazil, whose team won the 4A Division II title last season and is moving up to 5A this season, said he likes the new rule. "If you know before the season where the championship game is going to be, I think it's fine," he said. "It's kind of like in college last year, when everybody was trying to get to the Rose Bowl as the national championship game." Coaches will still select sites and times for Class A through 4A championship games. But the legislative council approved a rule Monday stating that a school cannot be forced to flip a coin for a playoff venue that cannot accommodate its fans. Last season, Highland Park wanted to play its championship game at Texas Stadium, but lost a coin flip to Marshall, which wanted to play at the 12,000-seat Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium in Tyler.

When and where? Details please? Is this still played in Witchita Falls @ Memorial Stadium?.

Thank you for proving my point....again. Keep posting, the more you do the more you reinforce my original statement.

Isn't ball bustin' a time honored and treasured tradition of this board??? I mean how the hell can we make it through the off season without it? Where's the fun in that? So to keep that tradition alive.... Evidently SOMEBODY doesn't know what they are talking about when the refer to MINI CAMP as TRAINING CAMP. The former lasts 3-4 days and teams may have more than one each off season, the latter lasts a month and preceedes the regular season. So don't try and bust my balls and accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about when someone doesn't utilize the correct nomenclature. If you want to talk football on a football board, at least get the vocabulary right. .... OK, I'm done ....And Bo you're correct, Football season does need to get here!!!! ASAFP!

Maybe someone will AFTER training camp actually opens. NFL teams don't open Training Camp until late July.

All it takes is for a couple of Talons to get their panties in a wad over a little criticism, Be it real or perceived.

From ESPN.com Bruce Feldman's Blog I'm blogging this morning from an Uptown Coffee that, as luck would have it, has wireless access, which has made my day a lot easier. Today's list is Best Football States. The topic was suggested by blog contributor Dave, who seems to be full of good ideas for the dead of summer. Anyhow, my criteria for this week focused on production at the NFL, college and high school levels. I also considered how passionate the fan bases are. 1. Texas: The state has it all, starting with tradition. Everywhere in football history you turn, Texas' fingerprints are all over the place with the Sammy Baughs, Doak Walkers and Earl Campbells. Not to mention institutions like the 12th man and a bunch of the best nicknames around. The state Is crazed about its college teams. Hook 'em. Gig 'em. Guns up. Virtually every Division I-A Texas team has a persona. Even North Texas had its hands in a big football movie ("Necessary Roughness"). The pro teams, especially America's Team, are almost as big. Most of the good football movies that have even been made have been rooted in the Lone Star State ("North Dallas Forty" comes to mind first). Better still, the state's ridiculously rich recruiting soil not only feeds all the state programs' two-deep, but also that for a lot of the Big 12 too. 2. Florida: Considered "the speed state," Florida's recruiting status has boomed in the past 15 years with the rise of the University of Miami and FSU. These days, almost every college tries to make inroads into Florida. Heck, Rutgers has practically installed itself as University of Florida-Rutgers. There are five different high schools (Fort Lauderdale's St. Thomas Aquinas, Tallahassee-Lincoln, Palm Beach's Glades Central, and Miami's Killian and Northwestern) that have each produced at least 19 I-A players since 2001. The state has added four I-A programs in that time and two of them already are making a lot of noise (UCF and USF). The state's strongest point is that the Big Three schools have combined to win an astounding eight (UM 5; FSU 2; UF 1) of the past 23 national titles. That alone should enable Florida to make a run at Texas for the top spot. The Dolphins, thanks to Shula and Marino, have become part of the NFL's fabric and spawned the Bucs and the Jags. There is one big knock though: both the Canes and the Dolphins struggle to fill their stadiums. 3. California: Like Florida and Texas, the state is loaded with college programs that have rich histories. California is also stocked with talented, polished QB prospects annually. Credit that to both the style of offense that long has thrived in the Pac-10 and to the influx of personal QB groomers who often begin tutoring prospects when they're still in junior high school. The city of San Diego, home of Marcus Allen, Terrell Davis, Ricky Williams and Reggie Bush, among others, rivals the city of Miami in breeding talent. Boasting two of the NFL's glory franchises (the Raiders and the 49ers), California trumps Texas and its America's Team. But that leads to the big knock here: there is no NFL in the L.A. area and there hasn't been for a long time, and it doesn't seem like many of the folks here miss it all that much. Also, sellouts on the college level, even for the winning, big-time programs, are far from a slam dunk. 4. Ohio: I'd rank Buckeyes fans as passionate as any college support system around. Drawing 64,000 for a spring game is quite a statement. (Full Disclosure: I did grow up an OSU fan.) The Browns are also one of the NFL's storied franchises. The fact that the Pro Football Hall of Fame is in Canton also made me bump Ohio ahead of Pennsylvania. I also like the strong MAC presence and Miami of Ohio's role as the cradle of coaches and that there have been some superb small-college programs (Youngstown and Mount Union). 5. Pennsylvania: I feel like this is a pro-driven spot that takes its cue from the Pittsburgh Steelers' fan base. The pluses are there are two college programs with strong histories (Pitt and Penn State), the famed QB cradle that yielded Unitas, Montana, Marino and Co., and the state does produce a lot of linemen. Overall, the state simply doesn't produce the volume of Texas, Florida and Cali, which certainly have numbers and climate on their side. 6. Louisiana: This is very similar to Georgia, and even though the Saints are so awful historically, I leaned to Louisiana over Georgia. Why? Per capita it develops more NFL talent than any place else (only Mississippi is close). Like Texas, the state is also big on legendary characters (not including the Grey Ghost from "Everybody's All-American"). Louisiana also could give Pennsylvania a run for breeding star QBs (Terry Bradshaw, Joe Ferguson, Bert Jones, the Manning brothers and Jake Delhomme). Another big edge that propelled Louisiana over Georgia is the link to Grambling and Eddie Robinson and all the talent that was developed there for generations on the SWAC level. 7. Georgia: This is college football country and Athens is one of the nation's most charming college spots. The state has housed a few Heisman winners and helps fill the rosters in the ACC and the SEC. The Falcons, Mike Vick notwithstanding, also are a bit lacking historically. I toyed with the idea of dropping Georgia down to No. 8, but didn't because the Atlanta area produces so many great players and because Valdosta State and Georgia Southern have such strong histories. 8. Michigan: The home of arguably the most recognizable helmet in football. The state also houses one of the top six or seven cities that breeds NFL talent (Detroit). The top two in-state colleges are a big-time 1-2 punch in terms of Big Ten history. In 2005, the Wolverines averaged almost 111,000 fans per home game, besting No. 2 Tennessee by more than 3,000. How about this item: The last time Michigan did not have 100,000 in attendance was 31 years ago vs. Indiana, when a crowd of 95,857 saw the Wolverines beat IU, 55-7. The Lions, however, aren't holding up their end and rarely have. 9. Indiana: This may be basketball country, but when Notre Dame is within your borders, you deserve the tag "football state." Purdue's gridiron history isn't too shabby, either. The pro side has taken off since Peyton Manning showed up. The snag? The state simply doesn't produce that many I-A football players annually, and the state school, IU, has rarely been very good. 10. Wisconsin: This is big NFL country thanks to the connection to the Packers that has been shaped by Lombardi and Co., and to some extent, reshaped by Brett Favre. It's also been spruced up on the college level because of former Badgers coach Barry Alvarez, who turned a mediocre program into a perennial Big Ten title contender thriving off a charming, refurbished stadium that has as good a game-day atmosphere as you'll find anywhere. The state's talent pool also is pretty underrated, and this year shapes up to be one of the best in years. This last spot was close with Illinois and Maryland also in the running, but I felt that neither of those state's college programs were as strong as what the Badgers have. Tennessee does, and the state has a deeper recruiting base, but doesn't match up well when it comes to the Titans vs. Cheeseheads.

I think he's using cut & paste.

C'mon, It's a LITTLE funny style_emoticons/

This project is becoming as easy as hearding cats! Personally I like Style A the best. (Chrome with the black background) I think the size of the eagle and the type is best in that one as well as how it's layed out. Something I still remember from my journalism classes about layout and page composition was you never have the subject of a picture "looking off the page" The human eye tends to look in the same direction the subject of a picture is looking towards. Since the eagle is facing right, any script or lettering should be on the right. My $.02, Whatever the final design is, I'm still in for 2.

That might be a more convincing argument if Peale had actually written that book. "How to win friends and influence people" was written by Dale Carnegie.

I agree. 9.5 x 5.5 would work on my truck, but it is way too big for the back of a car. Can we down size it a bit? Most of the emblems on this site are approx 3 1/2" x 3" at most. Autoemblem For this reason I thought the design with the stacked words on the right of the Eagle might work best for a car. Would it be possible to get a second design? If we could I'll take one of each

I seem to remember something similar happening in Dallas and it ended up costing the city millions. As I remember it Cinemark wanted to build a new theater at the site of an old Kmart building at Forest and Inwood. Cinemark expected a the city to rubber stamp it since the planned development was completely in accordance with the current zoning. However the neighborhood opposed it and the P&Z bowed to the neighborhood pressure and denied approval, the city council backed the P&Z on appeal (Despite the city attorney advising them they didn't have a legal leg to stand on). Cinemark decides to build at Webb Chapel& LBJ but takes the city to court over the P&Z denial and of course wins a multi-million judgement against the city. Somehow I don't think Denton has the deep pockets to foot the bill to keep a group of crummy old buildings around.

To decide you have to ask yourself one simple question... "Is she hot?" in this case yes, so she passes the litmus test.

I'll volunteer my services as an unbiased judge for this rib challenge

My Bad, I stand corrected.

My vote is for A or B, either is fine, In either case I'll take two.

The rumored rift may be a cause but it's more likely the rift between Pohl and the faculty over the tenure issue. Although I'm a fan of Pohl and am sorry to see him leave, It's no secret that he lost the confidence of the faculty last year over the tenure issue ( He actually narrowly lost a no-confidence vote). There are also the scandals over the new academic plan, logo-gate, and the financial scandals in various departments. None of which were Pohl's fault....but they did happen under his watch. With all of that I think Pohl had enough of the headaches of leadership and decided to step down. Hence his eagerness to stay on at UNT in another capacity other than president.

I'd buy a couple of those

It's slow in the same way that natural grass is slower than astro turf. The new field turf plays much more like natural grass, Its softer and has more give...just like a natural playing surface.

My mistake or confustion for some reason I though it was the Allen/Willlams combo.. but I knew it was a SoCall high school.