Mean Green 93-98

They were definitely one of the teams I was most excited to be in a conference with when we first joined C-USA. They have fallen far.

I was just watching today's press conference, and there was a lot of praise for our new kicker Noah Rauschenberg (Brett must be working up an article on him, thus all the questions about him). It just got me to thinking how we got him from Baylor and Jake Roberts went to Baylor, so it worked out almost like an NFL-style trade. Normally kickers aren't that high priority, but Coach Morris was talking about how valuable it is to have a kicker you can have confidence in from 55 yards. And I'm not sure how big of a role Jake Roberts would be playing in our new offense anyway. So what say you--good trade?

Are you sure that person wants his identity publicly revealed?

I don't think so. When Coach Morris picked Earle to start, he specifically said, "Chandler didn't do anything wrong." His very clear point was that Earle played so well during camp that he couldn't do anything but give him the starting nod.

During the broadcast, Dave said he hoped these uniforms ended up in the homecoming bonfire.

The dude is crazy like a fox. Here we are once again talking about him and a football team that everyone a year ago had forgotten existed.

The Sun Belt has become a solid G5 football conference, no question about it. But that's been the case for a few years now.

Question: Which of those listed candidates would be willing and able to cut the ACC the same kind of deal that SMU did?

Fouts parking has been paid parking for as long as Apogee has been open. Coliseum parking was free last I remember, but that's been a long time. That would probably be the closest, and you'd have to get there fairly early to get a spot. Otherwise, drive east from there and see what you can find.

Boy, you sure tore that straw man to pieces. During the 30 years I have been following the program, North Texas has never recruited only in its home market. But starting near home is a good place to start for most programs.

If you have any ideas how to do that, I'm all ears.

He was never on the team at A&M. AFAIK, he didn't play organized football again after he left NT.

Sam Dibrell! Sadly, he passed away just a few years after this game.

How is that remotely a bad thing?

I really don't know how you could give him better than a D+ at this point. Coming into this season, we were favored in the majority of games, and we were barely underdogs against Cal. QB play is very encouraging, as with some other units, but overall we have very clearly underperformed. At this point, most of us are saying "Hit 4" for the season, which is a far cry from where we were one month ago. I firmly believe the previous staff would have given us significantly better overall results to this point. There is time to turn things around this season, and plenty of time to turn things around for his coaching tenure here. But right now, I'll give him a D+ and feel generous doing so.

Daniels is injured.

Giving SMU credit for this series feels particularly disgusting.

Great post!

Who said "true visionary"? No argument here that the move to 1AA set us back, as did several dominoes leading up to that. I am only saying is that I don't think he was as ardently opposed to athletics as some make him out to be.

I think some of the "anti-athletics" stuff about Dr. Hurley gets overstated around here. If we want to blame him for presiding over the name change from Scrappy to Eppy, we also have to give him credit for presiding over the name change from Eppy back to Scrappy. I don't think it was that he was anti-athletics, per se. Just more that he was clueless about athletics. Academics was his forte, and he was content to focus in that direction while turning over athletics to others. And if you look at what he did for the university outside of athletics, he was one of the best chancellors/presidents we ever had.

How he adopted the names 'Joe' and 'Mean Joe' Greene was part of a dominant defense at North Texas State University (which is now the University of North Texas). During the 1966 season, members of the team's coaching staff started a chant in support of the defense that would later become the school's official nickname. "We were way behind and (his mother) started hollering, 'Come on green, get mean,' or 'Here we go, mean green,' or variants on that," recalled Mark Graham, the son of then North Texas State sports information director Fred Graham, via the school's website. "Then it became popular with some of the students and some of the other fans. So it caught on." The media began referring to the Eagles' defense as "Mean Green" in print in 1967. The nickname became used for the entire team in 1968. In 2000, each sports team at the school took on the Mean Green nickname. For Greene, the nickname followed him to Pittsburgh, who selected him with the fourth overall pick in the 1969 draft. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joe-greene-turns-77-six-amazing-facts-about-steelers-greatest-player-of-all-time/

Etc.

Huh. I just thought it meant "androgynous hippy male who is attracted to other hippy males."

The two below the top photo are both great, IMO.

Once again, the title says "ACC." People need to figure out a different abbreviation for our conference, or don't abbreviate it at all, because it is constantly confused. Then again, this writer may just be clueless, as he thinks this vote is "ahead of" UTSA's move to the American.