UNTLifer

Let me reply to your thoughtful points: 1. Oh I guess you are right, your message board DOES have more people then ours, I guess that makes your MUCH COOLER! Answer: This was not to point out that our board had more members, but a comment to address your attendance figures. It appears, from YOUR radio team on KTCK, that your announced crowds greatly inflate your actual attendance figures. I would suggest you correct this. The NCAA will be counting actual fans in the seats, not tickets sold when the attendance requirements go in to effect. 2. BTW, why the hell would we schedule you for our out of conference games when we can schedule BIG 12 and CUSA teams? Answer: Because we would help each other's home attendance, which is an issue at both schools. Plus, since we are only about 30 miles apart, this is a natural rivalry. Also, CUSA teams, other than TCU, won't draw the attendance you need, and the Big 12's big boys, UT, TAMU, OU, won't come to Ford to play due to the size of your stadium. This is not a slam at your fine stadium, just the facts. 3. Don't be an idiot, just go back to your cruddy crappy Denton Community College. Answer: The education UNT provides rivals and surpasses in some fields, the education you receive at SMU. Face it, UNT has been a quality institution for years that doesn't require Daddy's Money to attend. 4. Also, we smack you us like we did in basketball last night. TAKE IT! Answer: "we smack you us?" Is this classic evidence of the quality English program SMU runs? Regarding the BBall game, yes, you did win, but I wouldn't qualify it as a "smacking." BTW, I am referring to football in this post, and must ask one question. "What/Where will your football team be tonight"?

He is listed on the two deep depth chart in the DMN this morning as the backup fullback. I think/hope this is a misprint.

What makes you ask this?

Nice talk from a Christian school student. I'm sure you make the fellow Methodist proud! I'm sure you are just still upset you don't get free meth. in study hall. Lose the superiority complex, at least our football team gets to go somewhere in the post season. If SMU wasn't afraid of taking a beating from UNT, you would put us on your football schedule. Until then, go back to your own website where the announced membership is 15,000, but actual membership is 200!

To get to this ball park, take Bonnie Brae north across University and turn right on Windsor. You will now be in the middle of the park. The ballfields will be on the left across from the recreation center.

My favorites: MLB: The St. Louis Cardinals have a classic uniform. Rangers: Hated the Dodger look, maybe because of my dislike of the Dodgers! I will have to go with the red uniforms of a few years ago as my favorite. Of course the baby/powder blue with the red, white and blue accents of the 70's takes me back to my childhood when I thought they were the greatest. NBA: Not much stands out to me. I do prefer the new Maverick's uniforms over the old ones though. NFL: The Cowboys' 70's era uniform was the best by far. JJ has messed up a good thing. The Bears have a classic timeless look. NHL: Montreal and Chicago with the chief head are classics. UNT: I know a lot of you all despised the Fry era Flying Worm uniforms, but they are my favorite. We still need to redo the current helmets with something other than the script North Texas on the side.

Well, actually it is my 11 year old neice, but I'm sure we will be coming to watch a few games. The best of luck starting our newest athletic program.

Maybe this should be a question for "Ask the AD". I am sure RV would listen, give an explanation for the early game times, or even consider a change if he thought it would help attendance.

Welcome to the Mean Green Nation Coach!! I look forward to the start of the softball program and will be bringing, hopefully, a future Lady Eagle ball player to a few games. The best of luck as you build a program we can all be proud of. Do you know where your home games will be played?

I would like to see Jones emphasize passing more. We are one deminsional relying on the ru..... Crap, wrong board. Seriously, great win for the men. Let's beat the Froggies.

Mav's choke big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anaheim won the World Series

Okay, Bore, I mean Gore

Thank goodness!!!!!!! Better than "Slick Willy w/ his "slick willy"". Back to the subject at hand, I would agree with pierow. Probably a couple of MUTS plants!!!!!!!

The Fort Worth zoo is great. I'm just glad I have a new son and a reason to go now. I don't know much about Tex-Mex in Denton anymore, but Joe T's in Fort Worth, while your at the zoo, is a traditional favorite. I would also recommend the Texican, because their owner, Wade Hampton, is a UNT alumni and a supporter of UNT athletics. You must also have a burger at Denton County Hamburger on the south side of the square. Welcome back to God's country.

Heck, who is "Coach"?

Homework? Or TOO MUCH TIME FEEDING YOUR ADDICTION TO GOMEANGREEN.COM?

I agree, but we could also change the borderline fans attitude with a solid win at home against TCU. Of course this won't happen without the proper board work.

Here's the article. Lady Eagles claim Century Tel title 12/01/2002 Staff report SAN MARCOS — The North Texas women’s basketball team captured the Southwest Texas Century Tel Classic with a convincing win over the Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos 65-41 at Strahan Coliseum Saturday. The Lady Eagles (3-0) used a stingy defense to hold the Kangaroos (1-3) to just 29 percent shooting from the floor and only seven second-half field goals. "I thought that we had them scouted well and we came out red hot shooting from the floor,’’ said North Texas head coach Tina Slinker. ‘’We were able to take their top players out of the game and just played great defense.’’ North Texas opened the game with a 9-2 run and extended their lead to 17-4 with 13:03 left in the first half. True freshman Jamie Armstrong came off the bench blazing as she poured in 13 first-half points on 6-of-7 shooting from the floor. UMKC (1-2) got as close as 27-16 in the first half with 4:09, but the Lady Eagles ended the half on an 8-2 run to take a 35-18 lead into the break. The North Texas lead ballooned to 52-28 midway through the second half sparked by junior forward Emily Britt’s career-high 11 points off the bench. Angel Lewis continued her sparkling defense as she held Kangaroo leading scorer Katie Houlehan to just three points on the afternoon and 0-11 shooting from the floor. "I really like the way that Angel has been playing. She has been playing great defense and she has taken a real leadership roll for us this year’’ said Slinker. Lewis turned in eight points and eight rebounds on the afternoon. Armstrong’s 13 points led North Texas while Kim Blanton turned in her third consecutive double-figure game with 11 points. North Texas has now won seven straight games at the SW Texas Century Tel Classic and won their third tournament championship. The Lady Eagles continue their five-game road trip and will go after their fourth straight win to start the season on Tuesday against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 5:30 p.m.

Congrats to the Lady Eagles and Coach Slinker.

I listened to the game with my four month old. Yes, I am trying to brainwash him in to the Mean Green Nation! I would agree with everyone's assessment of the game. One question, how many fans did we have there, and how many total fans were there? Okay, that was two questions, and come to think of it, I have one more. What is the capacity of Moody?

UNT’s Davis, SMU’s Ross set for reunion 11/29/2002 By Tim MacMahon / Staff Writer Chris Davis strongly considered SMU and a few other schools before deciding to play his college ball at North Texas. The 6-5 senior swingman still might deserve a smidgen of credit for the Mustangs’ winning seasons the last two years. According to Davis, he helped develop the game of Quinton Ross, his 6-6 SMU counterpart and former Kimball teammate. "Since I was a little bit older, I had to have him under my wing a little bit and teach him the ropes," said Davis, who will face his former understudy Friday night at Moody Coliseum when the Mustangs and Mean Green meet. "But he done grew up now." The pair played together for just one season at Kimball. Davis, who transferred from Irving, was a senior and the team’s star. He played the point forward-type position previously filled by his cousins, Jason and Jeryl Sasser, among others who went from Kimball to college stardom. Ross was a junior, a role player on a team that went to the Class 5A regionals. Ross, who had a two-inch growth spurt between his junior and senior years in high school, filled Davis’ shoes the following season, leading Kimball to the state championship game. "They are as similar as you can get," said Kimball coach Royce Johnson, who was an assistant under his father, Goree, before taking the helm prior to Ross’ senior season. Johnson moved Kimball’s game with Carter to a 1 p.m. tip Friday just so he could see the two all-around threats compete against each other. Both players hope to better their performances from SMU’s 74-66 win over UNT at the Super Pit last season. Davis, who was the nation’s ninth-leading scorer with an average of 22.5 points per game, shot a dismal 5-of-24 from the field and was held to 15 points. Ross, an All-WAC defensive selection whose primary concern was slowing Davis, scored just five points on 1-of-9 shooting. "I really didn’t relax during the game," said Ross, who has scored a career-high 28 points in both of SMU’s games this season. "But this year should be different because we’ve played against each other." Added Davis, who redshirted his first season at UNT: "I was just so into it and so energetic. I didn’t let the game come to me. But they came out with the victory, so he got the best of me. "This one is for the bragging rights. Q gave me a little heat this summer, talking about how they beat us." When he isn’t ribbing Davis about the Mustangs’ victory, Ross speaks reverently about the UNT star. "He can do it all," Ross said. "He can shoot, rebound. He’s big. He can defend, push the ball on the break. He was really the same player at Kimball, he just improved his skills and got a lot stronger." The spindly SMU senior could just as easily be describing himself.

Are we really supposed to believe that Tark the Shark was heartbroken? These types of activities follow him around. Think there is a connection?

Great post. My only addtion would be: 12. He has made an effort to connect with the alumni. Something HELLwig never did. RV came to one of my Fraternity's alumni meetings this summer and talked about the direction of the programs, what was planned for the future, and how important it was for us to get involved. He did this after spending the day in Austin selling our program to alumni down there. I don't recall ANY past AD's getting out selling the program in the past. I have grown up a Mean Green fan. My father taught at NTSU/UNT beginning in 1965, and I was born shortly thereafter. The same issues regarding attendance, community support, alumni support, and student/campus support that we face today have been there for the last 37 years. I had a discussion about this with my family this weekend. It amazes me that a town that relies on UNT and TWU as much as Denton does, that it doesn't support these universities more. I am a diehard UNT fan and will be through all my living days. The one area that I feel is lacking and could make a huge difference in the future of UNT athletics, is student support. I never saw any promotions regarding UNT's athletic events when I was in school. We never had on campus pep rallies like they did this year. We never had 2,000 attend the Bonfire like they did this year. How do we change this? We build school spirit beginning with freshman orientation, faculty and staff show pride and wear green one day of the week promoting the games, on campus advertising to the students, decorate the campus green, etc.... These would all build school spirit, as I am sure many more and better ideas would. UNT needs to connect with its students they way other universities do. We love to make fun of TAMU, but there students are some of the most loyal anywhere. Do we need to go to these lengths? No, but we should do what works for us. Create a connection to the students. Once you do this, they will be more apt to give back when they graduate. I can sit and look at what I have in this world today and thank UNT for providing my father with a job to support us, and I can thank UNT for providing me with an education to support my wife and child. Giving back is the least I can do? Sorry for the longwindedness. Go Mean Green

That is flat out awesome!!! Maybe the little green haired son is finally going to get some well deserved attention. Now, maybe the local media will follow this up with some nice stories during the season.