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One of the things near the top of my list is STOP THE MAJOR ASS-WHIPPINGS!! Play COMPETITIVE football and win some games would be a reachable goal for this season, IMO. Do that and attendance/revenues will pick up too.

No. Here is a little refresher for you. Just have your honey close by for some slow dancin' before you play this: OR this one: I wonder if there is a way to compile conception statistics.

Wow... as a fan of another school who only follows UNT a little, I know some but not all of the RV stuff. I just read his bio on the UNT sports website. Based on that, I don't know why you complain. "Rick Villarreal has established his place as one of the most progressive and successful athletics administrators in the nation." "He is also responsible for creating the organizational foundation for a department that has seen unprecedented academic and competitive success during his tenure." "an administrator who can raise money, build facilities, direct championship teams with quality coaches " "Villarreal led the Mean Green to a premiere position in the Sun Belt Conference" "The ultimate recognition of Villarreal's success was realized when Conference USA announced that North Texas would be joining the flourishing league beginning in the fall of 2013. The undeniable achievement that Villarreal led North Texas to in the Sun Belt Conference was a critical factor in making the department and the university as a whole attractive to other leagues. " That's quite an enhanced bio.

I DEFINITELY know it is mine...just never quite got a shot.

Right! Stable! And stable has byproducts!

Whoa!! Pass the pipe! For THIS season with so many changes and adaptations, 3 -5 wins would be a great performance by this team and this coaching staff. I'm looking for more competitive games...that alone would be a big improvement THIS year. My expectations don't rise to your level until the following season. JMO.

I personally like the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival and try to go every year. The topography in the park is pretty flat and it is easier to walk while drunk than at Apogee. I have seen bigtime talent there over the years. I would hate to see us cannibalize the Denton effort. There could be something equal at Apogee but I would want it to be spaced a few months away, like in the Fall.

Agree with the part I bolded, but...I would add the word "quality" in there. The talent of those teams on the margin is so diluted that I would rather watch two dogs go at it.

Coach Canales did a good job under the circumstances he found himself. Positive, loyal to UNT and classy to the end. I wish him the very best going forward in his career.

That would be cool promotion. With our luck and record, we would receive a bid to The Slit-Trench Bowl in Browned Cobb, Kentucky.

Part of me, the free enterprise part, says knock yourself out if you have a model that will allow you to run a bowl game at a profit and meet all your commitments. The majority of me is repulsed at the thought of any more bowl games. Participation in bowl games has now been rendered almost meaningless with 40 of them, IMO. Truly disgusting that this would be considered; they should cut back the number of bowls by at least 10%, with the least-attended, least profitable getting the ax. Again, JMHO.

The jury is still out. Verdict will be handed down after the spring game.

Pray that Butt Cookman doesn't spring a little surprise on us!

Your email from the MGC today trumpets how men's basketball has won its 10th home game of the season. The letter must have been composed by some of the posters I read on here. Success is not the "S-word" I shouted when I read that story.

So, expound on how much better things have gotten since October.

Just a review. Review is good! That material will be covered on the test.

No, I think you got it on your shoe. :) But, SMU is also crap. I wondered about Brown too. My quick guess was he is probably networking the UT System to pick up a few gigs for beer money in the broadcasting offseason. JMO.

I remember Abe well. My favorite was him talking about changing the game by recruiting midgets and scoring by dropping the ball through a hole at each end of the floor. Sam Williams was the coach when I was in school and he was superb. We used to hang out at the Lion's Den in Reynosa, where they had a music group called George Garza and the Lion's Den Trio. George played piano and sang ala Ray Charles...dead on. We hired him to play for some of our fraternity parties.

Well, I didn't think we would beat the F_U s...congratulations to our young men for two great efforts this week. To man-up and do the right thing I offer the following...F_Me!

Sixty miles, mas o menos, as I recall, by freeway. Brownsville is right up on the coast with the border right there (Matamoros). Of course, that makes it just that much closer to South Padre Island. Edinburg is inland, just north of McAllen and not far from Mission. My car was usually on autopilot but I think it was about 17 miles or so to Reynosa. It has been too many years since I've been back and now you have me thinking about it. I will say that it is definitely different than life in other parts of the country and he would either like the "feel" or not, PDQ.

You must have Edinburg and Brownsville confused. Brownsville is a pit...to put it nicely. Edinburg is good old ranch country with lots of citrus groves and vegetable fields in the area. Edinburg is where the big dog is; Brownsville was a satellite campus started on the grounds of Texas Southmost College (JC). In the day, it was referred to as "Texas Almost". If he passed on Pan American-Brownsville he made a wise choice. UTPA at Edinburg is where the administrators were.

I have lived in Edinburg, Harlingen and McAllen in the past. I came across the country to enroll in the noted "Astroscience" program they had in the 60s. That rigorous math department and too many trips to Reynosa made me see that I was better suited to business administration. Pan American went 10 - 2 over three years in the NAIA basketball tournament, winning one national championship and making another championship game while I was there. Being from Indiana, I appreciated good basketball. I lived in the dorm with the jocks, including Lucious Jackson; we called him "Big Jack". I once saw him absolutely destroy Jim "Bad News" Barnes in a head-to-head matchup when nationally-ranked Texas Western (now UTEP) came to Edinburg and lost. He was an Olympic gold medal winner in '64 at Tokyo and the fourth overall pick in the NBA draft by Philadelphia. We were the Broncs!! Don't get me started...too many memories of what good basketball looks like. P.S. UNT has won 4 and lost 7 all-time against the Broncs; they kicked our ass with regularity in the 70s and 80s, at least two years I saw were home and away losses, and they mysteriously disappeared from UNT's schedule. Hmmmm.