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Contact the Houston chapter of the Parent's Association and invite all of them to attend with their sons & daughters. As for Mattress Mac, I'm not sure if he will be open to it or not, but no harm in trying! I'm not in the market for furniture, but maybe it would be worth a window-shopping trip to Gallery furniture while wearing Mean Green gear.

Unfortunately, the turnout for the "Green Light to Greatness" event was nowhere as good as the Bataille event. But yes, I would love the a Coaches Caravan stop in Houston.

Since I have GL2whatever set to ignore, I have no idea how Stony Brook factors in this thread, but I still have to put my 2 cents in... [rambling] I'm originally from Long Island. My family moved to Stony Brook when I was 12. I went to Stony Brook U. for one year until I came (sight unseen) to North Texas to test myself in the NT Jazz program, and stayed in Texas after graduating. My parents and sister still live there, so I go back 3 - 4 times a year, and always hear what's going on. A short history of Stony Brook U.: It was created in the 1960s as a small college. The local benefactor in the community, Ward Melville (heir to the Thom McAnn shoe fortune, and who my high school is named after) was trying to rejuvenate the village of Stony Brook, in the mold of Williamsburg, VA. He wanted a small college like William & Mary, with colonial style buildings, so he donated land to the state of NY. Nelson Rockefeller fixed him - good. Rockefeller decided that the campus would be one of four major universities in the state, and Stony Brook U.'s mission was to become the "Berkeley of the East", focusing on the sciences. The first couple of decades, it grew exponentially, with new buildings of every possible style of architecture, and the community hated it. The only thing that came close to it being like Berkeley was the radical nature of the student body. The lowlight was a big drug raid in the late 60s or early 70s that was covered on the national news by Walter Cronkite. I went to a couple of basketball games when I was a student that one year. The school was Div III. The team name was the Patriots - the same as my high school (it's no surprise that no one from my high school wanted to go there). The basketball team played Four Corners, and so did their competition, leading to scores like 32-30. I don't think there was a football team. Since I left in 1980, the university has slowly matured, and actually now has the reputation in the sciences and health sciences that was desired so long ago. As for sports, at some point the students, desiring their own identity, voted to change the team name to the Sea Wolves. I think they made the jump to I-AA in the mid-90s. They built a football stadium - I think it seats 5,000 - with money from the State Legislature (things are different up there), helped by the local legislator, Kenneth P. LaValle, so they named it for him. If they want to make it to the FBS, they're going to need a lot more money. I don't have any idea what the school's endowment is, but I doubt that they have any big athletics donors. They've been helped in expanding their football program by Hofstra canceling their program. You might remember Hofstra making it to the I-AA playoffs several times. The school always has been a commuter school, since it is in the middle of suburbia, and adjacent to a Long Island Rail Road station. Dorm residents would head home for the weekend - there was no town, no nightlife, except for parties in the bars in the dorm basements that were permitted up through the early 80s. While the student population is much different now than it was in the 60s & 70s, I doubt the commuter nature has changed. Who attends their football games? Good question. Probably as many local high school students (like my nephew) looking for something to do on a Saturday as there are students of Stony Brook. Oh yes, about lacrosse - no surprise. Ward Melville High School is the perennial state champs in lacrosse, beginning with my senior year. It's big in all of the Long Island high schools, much bigger than football in most. So obviously Stony Brook will be good in lacrosse - although the players would probably rather be playing for Johns Hopkins. Edit: the official name of all four of the universities in NY is: State University of New York at __________, or... SUNY __________. Obviously people are just going to call it Stony Brook (or Buffalo, or Albany, or Binghamton). [/rambling]

Agree - +1 to Plumm.

Curry Hall? https://dentonwiki.org/Curry_Hall OK, it's a bit far away from Mean Green Village...

1) Baseball 2) Basketball practice facility 3) Super Pit Upgrades 4) New Track facility - until one is built, Fouts can't be demolished 5) More Cowbell!

anyone catch this? not that I care for the record, but... I love seeing it called the "Safeway Bowl"!

wait... what? Trent Internationale School? Sugar Land? I've driven by there when going to buy paint at the Pittsburgh Paints store, and thought it was some small private school for foreigners living in Houston to send their kids to. It has a Basketball academy? I've never seen the name mentioned in the Houston Chronicle. Weird. So now I've watched the video, and see that it was taken at the Texas Southern basketball arena...

FIU has a stadium club? Is it a tent? I know, I shouldn't demean our fellow conference mates.

Because no one would go to TSU-Huntsville! Seriously - someone who's son went to SHSU once told me he never said he's going up to Huntsville to visit his son - he always said he's going up to Sam Houston State. Why would Sam Houston & SFA want to change their names?

Hadn't thought about that - that could be one source of the discontent!

You obviously were sent to summer camp during your childhood. It's amazing how universal those little ditties are.

Did RV decline, since he would only say "no comment"? Will you be able to get him on next week?

gotta find the duct tape before my head explodes... too late! This does not seem credible, but I guess anything is possible once you accept UTSA...

For me, this and the stadium groundbreaking are the two biggest moments ever for Mean Green football!

LIke this? http://www.foxnews.c...esearchers-say/

Harry, I can live without the windmills , but the new skin needs a lot more green. The bright white is almost blinding! But overall it's fine on a PC.

The beginning of the story focuses on Rice scheduling to play at A&M in 2013, but reading down a few paragraphs: This stood out to me when I heard it on the news last night. Just substitute SMU / TCU for UH, and stop scheduling the "guarantee game" against top 25 schools (or at least, not top 10), and this might be our ideal schedule as well. Rice to Play Aggies in Football in 2013 in College Station

I don't have headphones with me at work, so I couldn't listen, just watch. I'll have to listen to it tonight. What I can say is, now that they've panned back, I've never seen that many people at an NT Athletics press conference before. Can't wait until next week...

Oh Stewardess, I speak Jive.

Wow - I remember Pops. God bless him. I played in a band called "The Dixie Rats" (obviously playing New Orleans "Dixieland" music) when I was a student (82-83), and when we would play at the "STAR" on Hickory, he would come in, and he'd want to sing some blues, and of course we did our best to play behind him. Just like they talk about in that video.

Harry, since this is going to take a while longer, perhaps you will want to make an interim modification to the Basketball forum description, and then again once we have a new coach.

More evidence that the Mayan calendar is right, that the world will end on Dec 21st?