Baby Arm!

Shoot, that stuff happens in the FAMILY section at LSU!

Im not sure about Virgina, I cant find anything on the web regarding if that game was ever scheduled other than some old posts by NT80, However the Air Force game is scheduled for 2009, Some other games of note that I found on some independant college schedule sites: @Miami 9/20/2008 @ Clemson 2010

Snoozer?....... Doesn't that description apply to EVERY soccer game?

We've done it before...This was a rule in the Southland back in the D1-AA days and I believe during the Big West time as well. The visitor's benches were on the Alumni/Press box side of Fouts. Home team benches were on the student side.

Billy Tubbs??? I'm surprised they left out the rest of his quote. "I have blood in my pants and a tricycle made of pickles Chuck"

Funny, after all of that and PMG still manages NOT to answer the question

The training room at the new AC already has Presbertiean Hospital's name on it. I'm sure there was some cash paid for that naming right.

Interest in George Mason jumps University in Virginia celebrates improbable run to the Final Four 02:31 AM CST on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 By BRAD TOWNSEND / The Dallas Morning News FAIRFAX, Va. – Bleary-eyed students with hoarse voices returned to George Mason University on Monday, but campus life clearly will never be the same. The 34-year-old former commuter school, the one most people had never heard of two weeks ago, has been thrust into the national spotlight by its basketball team. Fittingly, the sun shone the morning after George Mason's unheralded Patriots toppled mighty Connecticut. Students donned bright yellow "We Believe" T-shirts and basked in the school's overnight-celebrity status. George Mason: NCAA Final Four team. "We're getting calls from friends, and people we didn't know were friends, who want tickets or help with hotels," school President Alan Merten said, laughing. Dr. Merten emerged from a meeting in which school administrators "looked a little shabby" less than 18 hours after Sunday's 86-84 overtime victory. This is unfamiliar territory for the Colonial Athletic Association school. George Mason is not like Final Four brethren Florida, LSU and UCLA. Those are long-established schools in major conferences. George Mason wasn't founded until 1957, didn't attain university status until 1972 and didn't start playing Division I basketball until 1978. With an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of 29,600, George Mason is the largest university in Virginia, yet it is overshadowed by University of Virginia, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson in the early 1800s. George Mason, too, is named for a colonial American figure, but until 1972 it was George Mason College and a suburban branch of UVA. Mason's modern red-brick buildings are not as striking as the colonial architecture at UVA and other Southern universities, but in the past decade or so, George Mason has fast outgrown its commuter-school status, if not the image. Its faculty includes two Nobel Prize winners and one of the country's leading cancer biologists. The school's focal points – including information technology, law, economics, performing arts and biological sciences – make it an ideal fit in a booming technology region, a short drive from Washington, D.C. But in the past two weeks, basketball has put George Mason on the map. To say the Patriots have energized the George Mason campus is an understatement. By Monday afternoon, the line to buy Final Four T-shirts snaked outside the bookstore. In the food court at the Johnson Center and Student Union, students watched the George Mason-Connecticut game replay on a large screen and got to cheer all over again. Boost in esteem This out-of-nowhere esteem boost for students and alumni, Dr. Merten said, is more invaluable than he can express. The national and world visibility garnered by the basketball team, he added, can't be quantified. "From a qualitative point of view, what it does is add the sizzle, and some steak, to the successes of the university," Dr. Merten said. The celebration at George Mason University covered all corners of the campus. Said coach Jim Larranaga: "I'll bet in the last 10 days, our school's Web site has had more hits than it had in the last five years." While national TV analysts hailed the No. 11 seed Patriots' toppling of Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut as the greatest NCAA Tournament feat ever by a school outside the six major conferences, the university got busy celebrating. After coaches and players finished media interviews at Washington's Verizon Center, a police motorcade led the team on the 20-mile route to George Mason's Fairfax campus in Northern Virginia. When police blocked roads three miles from campus, fans and students pulled their cars to the side of the road and honked as the team bus rolled past. Fireworks exploded as the players stepped off the bus, and when they entered their home arena, the Patriot Center, 8,000 screaming fans greeted them. "This not only gives exposure to them," Mr. Larranaga said of his players. "It also gives them confidence." Mr. Larranaga, 56, looked drained, and his voice was all but gone as he and the players held yet another news conference Monday afternoon. Judging by the crush of media, George Mason will tow a suddenly immense bandwagon to Indianapolis. Not that the Patriots are complaining. Their average home attendance this season was 4,531. "My cheeks are still hurting from smiling all day," senior guard Tony Skinn said. Dr. Merten gives most of the credit to Mr. Larranaga. When Dr. Merten came to George Mason from Cornell in 1996 (ironically, he was dean of the business school at Florida, Saturday's opponent, before that), he filled 10 key openings that year. One of them, 10 months into Dr. Merten's tenure, was the position of basketball coach. Former NBA and Loyola-Marymount coach Paul Westhead was the Patriots' coach from 1993 to 1997 but was fired after a 10-17 finish. The school's search committee settled on Mr. Larranaga, a former Virginia assistant who at the time was with Bowling Green. "We did a good job on all 10" hires, Dr. Merten said. "We did a really good job on the basketball coach." Dr. Merten described Mr. Larranaga's wife, Liz, as the program's secret weapon because of the active role she takes in recruiting and the way she treats the players like family. Jim and Liz's sons, Jay and Jon, played at George Mason during the late 1990s and early 2000s. At Mr. Larranaga's request, Dr. Merten meets as many recruits as his schedule allows. Another difference between the George Masons of college basketball and major conference schools is money. A different approach According to the Department of Education, Connecticut's annual basketball operating expenses break down to about $100,000 per player. George Mason's are about $20,000 per player. "Now, I'm not picking on them for doing it," Dr. Merten said. "But they do it one way, we do it another way." One Patriots player, Mr. Skinn, has had an eventful postseason. During George Mason's Colonial Athletic Association tournament semifinal loss to Hofstra, Mr. Skinn punched an opponent in the groin with 55 seconds left. Mr. Larranaga suspended Mr. Skinn for one game, even though it jeopardized the Patriots' chances of receiving an NCAA at-large bid. The tournament selection committee strongly considers injuries and suspensions when considering whether a team is bid worthy. As it turned out, George Mason received the bid and Mr. Skinn sat out the Patriots' first-round upset of Michigan State. "I think Tony knew he made a mistake and that it was going to be dealt with swiftly and appropriately," Mr. Larranaga said. Lesson learned, Mr. Skinn returned to help the Patriots on this improbable joyride that has lifted the spirits and profile of a previously little-known Virginia school. "It's like going to Disneyland," Mr. Skinn said. "I can't wait to get up there." To the Final Four, that is. As if there ever was a doubt. E-mail btownsend@dallasnews.com ABOUT GEORGE MASON Founded: 1957, as George Mason College. It was the University of Virginia's Northern branch until it became an independent university in 1972. Enrollment: 29,600 (about 16,000 undergraduate). Three campuses: George Mason has three Northern Virginia campuses – in Fairfax, Arlington and Prince Williams Counties. Notable: George Mason has competed in Division I basketball since the 1978-79 season . . . It competes in NCAA Division I-AAA in other sports, winning the 1985 national women's soccer title and the 1996 men's Indoor Track and Field title. . . . George Mason does not have a football team. ... Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes' first college head coaching position was at George Mason. The Patriots were 20-10 in 1987-88, Barnes' only season. NCAA Men's Final Four, Saturday, RCA Dome, Indianapolis (Ch. 11): George Mason vs. Florida, 5:07 p.m.; LSU vs. UCLA, 7:47 p.m.

Well it would be a stupid bet as we'd never know since the schools aren't on each others schedules. HOWEVER, attendance stats don't back up your theory. Texas State, a team that was in contention for the I-AA national championship, only averaged a home attendance of 12,875 for 2005. And thats with 10 home games including playoffs to boost the average. Whereas, a bad 2-9 North Texas team, not playing for anything, and playing against that Sunbelt Conference managed to average 16,446 per game. So if the Bobcats were on the schedule....yeah I'd take that bet. They wouldn't add appreciable amount of buts in seats. But they're not on the schedule, so its a moot point. But it goes back to my original point-- Just because they are an in-state school doesn't make them in instant rival that the average fan is clamouring to see. Hell, Division II West Texas A&M managed to average more fans than Texas St. (13,089). Anybody want to start scheduling the Buffaloes thinking it will create the in-state rivalry?

Im all for playing in-state rivals, but I think we can see from past attendance how much the average joe thinks about a North Texas vs SW Texas/Texas St. game. We've never excactly packed em in whenever we played the Bobcats. Like it or not but when you are talking about garnering attendance numbers for "in-state rivals", the average sports fan/UNT student/alumni only gets excited and shows up when we play an ex-Southwest Conference schools. Just look at the attendance for Baylor and SMU the last times they played in Denton. Granted you'll never get Texas or A&M to Denton but we need to schedule TCU, SMU, Baylor etc. You want to pack Fouts when playing in-state schools? You're not going to do it with the Texas State's and SFA's of this world (even if they make the jumpt to 1-A )

Governor appoints two UNT regents, reappoints another 07:16 AM CST on Thursday, March 23, 2006 Gov. Rick Perry has appointed two new members to the Uni­versity of North Texas Board of Regents and reappointed one. All three terms expire in 2011. C. Dan Smith of Plano, who has served a partial term on the board since 2002, will re­main on the board. He is the pres­ident of Smith Ex­plor­ation, an oil, gas and real estate investment company. Al Silva of San Antonio has served for 25 years as chief operating officer of Labatt Food Service. He is the current chairman of the Alamo Heights school board, and he serves on several civic boards, too. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas Lutheran College. Charles D. Mitchell of Dallas is an orthopedic surgeon and serves on the board of the Texas Orthopedic Association. Mitchell grew up in Denton and holds degrees from the Uni­versity of North Texas and Ho­ward University. Silva and Mitchell are replacing Tom Lazo and Chuck Beatty, whose terms expired last year, though they both continued to serve on the board until the new appointments were made. Lazo had served on the board since 1999, and Beatty had served on the board since 2002. The two new regents will begin their terms immediately, though all three of the appointments are still subject to Senate confirmation.

This sounds like a great idea

Not anymore.... not exacty sure when that rule was dropped, but it was sometime after we added 10k bad seats to Fouts to make the jump back to 1A