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Was that you in the recent issue of Modern Maternity sporting the Depends??

I agree, but Landry didn't pat players on the top of the head when they got a Unsportsmanlike Penalty either.

Here's what I see returning at WR based on the roster posted on MeanGreenSports.com Casey Fitzgerald JR. Brock Stickler JR. Isiah Smith JR. Brandon Jackson SR. Zach Muzzy SR. (granted redshirt year) Arthur Stubblefield So. Korey Washington So. Green needs to stay at DB, IMHO, based on his production. Cover corners are more difficult to find than WR's, and Green has the potential to be great.

D Trueblood, welcome aboard. Go to Harry's post in this thread and drag your cursor over to his name. A drop down box will appear. Click on send a message. Send Harry a message requesting access. He will probably ask you a few questions, and then get you set up.

Full Column Click Here I sure hope, if TD is as successful as we all expect, that he feels this way when others come calling:

The areas I highlighted sure seem similar. Chron.com Richard Justice: Columnist Dec. 28, 2006, 12:52AM Maggard ready to ask the $62 million question Richard Justice Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Dave Maggard didn't know whether to laugh or cry or run and hide after that first day on the University of Houston campus. I'll let him tell that portion of this story before we get to the part where he needs $62 million to finish what he started. That's when you'll be asked to participate. ''I came in and walked around the campus," he said. ''I talked to everyone I could find. It was unbelievable." UH had just gone 0-11 in football. There wasn't much interest in basketball, either. If UH dropped sports altogether, a lot of people might not have noticed. ''What do you think of the football team?" Maggard would ask random students and faculty remembers. He remembers three variations on the same answer. It stinks. It's terrible. No, I don't go to the games. ''I said, 'There is something really wrong with this place,' " he said. ''There's no reason this place should be at the bottom of the conference." He had a similar conversation with former UH president Arthur Smith. ''I told him, 'Everybody is passive; everybody is complacent,' " he said. '' 'No one cares if you win or lose. I don't know how long it's going to take, but it has to change.' Some of the old-timers who were running this place, five or six guys, they don't like that kind of talk." Forgotten Cougars UH hadn't been relevant in so long that it had perhaps forgotten that sports can raise a university's profile as well as its enrollment applications and donations. When people think of the University of Texas, the business school isn't the first thing that comes to mind. In the five years since that first day, Maggard has hired, fired, cajoled, browbeat and threatened UH to a better place. He has stepped on toes and hurt some feelings along the way. He also has been the best thing to happen to sports at UH since Bill Yeoman and Guy Lewis. He promised to change the expectations and the culture, and he has succeeded. Winning the Conference USA football championship in front of a packed house at Robertson Stadium four weeks ago stands as Maggard's crowning achievement. If he's ready for a new challenge — and it appears he is — this week's Liberty Bowl will be a victory lap, of sorts. ''The push sometimes becomes uncomfortable," he said. ''I said from the beginning that I want to walk away someday and feel the place is better. I want to be someplace reading the paper and seeing the Cougars up there all the time. We've got to get back to a national stature. I didn't come here with the idea of staying for the rest of my life. I came with the idea of really trying to change the thing." Wanted: ambition And to think big. Kevin Kolb for Heisman? If he was going to make mistakes, he was going to make them by reaching too far. ''There were things that had to be done immediately," he said. ''Like improving the graduation rate. It was pathetic. We had to get an internal fundraising program. We had to make people feel we were working toward a championship. This is why I was attracted to Tom Penders. I don't know what we're going to do in basketball, but I can tell you his expectations are high. I like that." Maggard's UH contract includes a golf-club membership he has never used. ''I was not going to be out (playing golf) at 2 o'clock in the afternoon," he said. ''With this program being in the financial straits it was in, there was no way I was going to be on a golf course." Before he goes, he has one last thing on his to-do list. If you've got money, especially if you've got money and a UH degree, you're going to be hearing from Dave Maggard again. And this time, it's the big one. That $500,000 weight room and the new baseball scoreboard were mere appetizers. His final vision is for a $15 million complex in the north end zone of Robertson Stadium. It would include suites, club seats, offices and an eating area. For Hofheinz, he'd like a complete makeover. Cost: around $47 million. In the last five years, he has heard the same excuse from dozens of prominent UH alums: ''If you guys start winning, I'll be back." ''OK," Maggard told one guy a few weeks ago, ''you're going to be hearing from me." When he pays his next visit to that guy, he might bring Art Briles, Kolb and the C-USA trophy. ''I don't have anyone who wants to do a really big donation," he said, ''but I'm trying to get positioned to see if we can piece it together." One last wish Throughout our conversation, he has dropped hints that his time at UH is almost up. As he begins to discuss the new facilities and their impact on the school, his face brightens and his voice gets excited. ''This," he said, ''is the thing that makes me want to stay here. I'm trying to get this place back where it belongs." He has already brought UH further than almost anyone imagined he could. What's another $62 million? I sure hope RV stays around for the long haul and sees his vision through to completion. Maggard is in his mid to late 60's and is close to retirement. I also would like to see the changes at NT occur in the near future. I would like NT to become a place hard to leave and not a quick stepping stone to the next level. Do I expect TD, if successful, to be here forever? No, but then again who really knows if this program reaches its potential he may never want to leave.

Does NTTV and the RTVF Dept realize they could sell copies of these games to many fans and make some money on this deal?

Our nickname and mascot were not the Eagles. Our mascot has always, since the beginning, been the Eagles. Our nickname came about in the late 60's due to our defense and our SID's wife making a comment about the Mean Green defense. North Texas has had the nickname Mean Green since then. The mascot did not change. RV came aboard and decided to emphasize Mean Green because of the plethora of Eagles used as mascots. The Mean Green nickname is unique, not any others out there except UNC Charlotte is trying to use it now. RV realized that the Mean Green was more marketable than Eagles and set North Texas apart from the flood of other Eagle teams out there. There's the nutshell.

OT, could you provide these names to Harry to add to the recruiting list? He only has about 5 or 6 listed now. Also, what has happened to the OL prospect out of Abilene that had verbaled earlier this year?

News I like to hear.

Again, where did you play ball with Howerton and Stewart?

And then puked running off the field. Most impressive!

Already have two. One in Mean Green and the other in black that I wore to DD's last game.

NT has a kicker on scholarship, Steven Woodward, out of Jenks, OK. I believe he red-shirted, but was a very highly rated PK coming out of high school.

I wasn't responding to "people on this board...bring down others" comments, just yours. Specifically: 1. Yes, we only have two bowl teams, but by record, actually qualified three. Not bad for a fledgling football conference originally composed of recent "move-ups" from D1AA that gets regularly belittled in the media. The SBC only has one guaranteed bowl spot. 2. The "conference mentioned earlier," CUSA and the MAC have more bowl tie-ins than the SBC, not sure of the exact numbers. The Sun Belt is only guaranteed 1 bowl game. I think FFR's point was that all we, SBC member fans, hear is how bad the SBC is, and how we should move out of the conference. Many beleive that the SBC will get stronger as it grows and as more people become aware of the programs in the conference. I know we all aspire to move up and this will happen one step at a time. Comparing NT of today to FSU of the 70's is apples to oranges based on the make-up of the conferences, the BcS and the number of bowl games available. And another thing, beating SMU was not an upset based on their recent lack of success.

With only one guaranteed bowl spot and a six year old football league, the SBC should be proud. Plus, thumping CUSA's #2 and having a winning record against their conference is something this young football conference can hang its hat on.

I think this will benefit us more than you know, especially Wilson, Phillips, Meager and Tune. Nothing was more bewildering to me than having past QB's as a head coach and offensive coordinator, Dickey and Flanigan, running the offense and to have such inconsistent QB play.

Any chance any of these move to DE, or add weight and move to the interior offensive line?

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Got to be careful who you stand beside on the sidelines.

Just put this on the side of the helmets, no matter the color, and be done with it.

An annual look at Dave Campbell's Texas Football would tell you how relevant the star rating system is. Look at NT for instance. Every year we have one of the lowest rated classes, yet five years later than perform much better than originally anticipated.

I was sitting in the upper section behind the Rice bench with my 4 year old running around the bleachers.

Plus SMUt just dropped Track and Field, one of their most successful programs, for Title IX reasons. Don't see them starting anything up.

Troy ECU SJSU Tulsa Hawaii You know if you spell Tulsa backwards it is Aslut.