untcampbell

See you there, SA. GMG

It was Ellington's. Really good food, but the peach or raspberry flavored tea was best in class. And a great place to talk while dining. But not iconic. GMG

I am in if you still have a ticket. Probably best for me to go less rowdy. Thanks Matt. GMG

The pattern is that a certain percentage of our recruits, for whatever reason, are smaller and slower than the teams we play. Big ask for the S/C coach to fix that. Wonder if there are stats about how much a P5 coach gets above baseline on his 4/5 stars vs what more a G5 coach gets from his 2/3star guys. Less upside from the 4/5s, but S/Cs also teach heart and getting to your max, from whatever level you started. Equality vs equity, if you will. GMG

Help me out fellas: Before there was the Loophole, there was a great restaurant in that space. Great for dates, for celebrations and parents coming in to see how their money was being spent. Great bar, long, shotgun style building that had this second level of dining space atop a wide staircase. The flavored ice tea was awesome too. Other than that, The Tomato (I was still living in Denton in its heyday but it wasn't yet here while I was a student}, Texas Pickup with W Prairie Street Pub for post-meal American Shuffleboard and Jims Diner. Clarifications: Was Zeke's a fish place like the Fort Worth shop? Denton Co Independent Hamburger: I thought Mike Barnett is Dave's brother. Mike also owns a good BBQ place in Justin and is opening another restaurant in Argyle soon. GMG

Agree. I tailgate at the South end of the Blue Lot. Whether a big crowd or small, the parking lot looks empty to relatively empty at my end of the lot. Guessing I saw between 50 and 100 empty spots on Saturday. But they "sellout" for low attended games also. That is, they quit selling online passes on Friday, inferring sellout whether they say it or not. Then people sit in long lines to pay more on game day for the "few" spots available that never fill up. I get they don't want to oversell. The only solution I can figure out is that they sell passes assigned with large numbers to a particular parking spot, require passes to be visible for inspection and tow any car parked in a space that someone else paid to park in. MGSF season ticket holders get to select a particular spot, reserved to them for the entire season. GMG

That is brilliant, MFA7! I will recommend that to our FW crew. GMG

I missed the creation of the Brown lot. Is this the first year of it's existence? One of our crew went early enough to be first to park in that lot Saturday. He was just carrying a plastic grocery bag of snacks so it worked well for him, priced $15. GMG

ESPN2 isn't showing NT/ARMY this week. Any other way to watch? Thanks. GMG

I won't lean either way on this one. Agree the defense played a hell of a game. I don't think EM would have tried the onside kick after the FG if he knew the defense would play as it did. If I was told we would give up 14 points to ARMY, I would have metaphorically bet the house we win. But had we shortened a drive or two more giving us the ball one or two more times, maybe we have enough to win. Offense had few penalties this game it seemed. I guess that happens when you only have the ball 15 minutes. You could argue not scoring 7 points on the opening drive, plus an apparent bad call on the goal line in the 2Q, lost the game. That the offense got as close as it did against the 28th ranked pass defense, the 3rd ranked run defense, the 1st ranked scoring defense that’s only giving up 11.25 ppg, and the 5th ranked defense overall is a tribute to both the offense and the defense. We had our shots and blew most of them. GMG

From my view of the second INT in the North end zone, it appeared there were two receivers running towards the left sideline. Morris threw to the trailing receiver. The receiver closer to the sideline was (wide?) open. GMG

One average fan's story: On Thursday, I talked my cousin and her husband into coming to the ARMY game. They came to games regularly for a couple of years when their daughter was accepted to NT and she was planning to attend, but with daughter deciding not to go to college (not a bad decision these days), they now come to our annual BBQ game only. They are fantastic cooks and always bring excellent food for our tailgate when they attend. I recommended they order their parking pass online ASAP when they made their Thursday commitment to attend. I got a call from them at 1:00 pm. They had been trying to park for about an hour. While not handicapped, they do have some struggles walking. They got to the Blue lot and were turned away because the lot was sold out. As for every game the Blue lot is "sold out," there were at least 100 spots unused for this game. Interesting that the Blue lot attendants were not even able to take cash or card for this game because they were not going to sell a single space after the sell out was declared. They got to the Orange lot, paid to get in and then realized they had no way to get the food and ice chest to our tailgate, which was close to a mile away from where we tailgate at the south end of the blue lot. We discussed options, including driving back to the blue lot using the Bonnie Brae entrance so the we could all come over to get their food and then go back to the orange lot but agreed the game would be started by the time they got back to the tailgate. They gave up, drove back to McKinney and had a good dinner with the food they had prepared for our tailgate. By they way, they acknowledged it was their fault for not ordering the Blue lot ticket Thursday. But most importantly at least in theory, NT policy lost at least $3000 in parking lot revenue and all the money some fans might have spent had they come to the game. GMG

SSJ, I won't disagree much with your points here, but I will take as many ARMY "two-star" men as I can get. Assuming their talent is objectively deemed "two-star," I'll take 11 guys that play as a team with conviction, pride, focus on mission, intensity, pride and heart. Their fans are used to seeing it. Their fans prepared for and/or fought much more critical battles. And they vehemently support it when they see it. GMG

Section 109 and 110 Army fans were great. Other than them, I am the loudest guy in that area. Mostly just loud, sometimes obnoxious. North Texas fans, every game, are less tolerant of my shenanigans on the whole, but I got props from both groups yesterday. ARMY fan was louder than our fan. I don't know if that is a reflection of them outnumbering us or that they had more to cheer about and/or are louder than when our fans have reason to celebrate. Lots of North Texas fans wear/wore black. And lots of NT fans were also served in the Army. I find it very difficult to cheer against ARMY, and I suspect other NT fans feel the same way. The Mean Green on the field wore more black than the black knights, but looked good anyway. We had West Point family and friends at our tailgate and served fantastic food (thanks to the lasses). Overall, its about as much fun as I have had at any North Texas game we lost. And it was a great joy to cheer on @FirefightnRick as he was feted yesterday. Well done, FFR! GMG

Not sure about how many cadets, but there is usually quite a few Fort Hood active military coming up. GMG