McKinneyMiner

The attendance is listed at 13,027 but I think it might have been more... The Delaware fans were extremely loud and active... Great atmosphere...

I should be easy to spot tonight as I will be wearing my green North Texas hoodie and my green eagle cap... My son, however, insists on representing the Miners by wearing his orange UTEP cap and orange UTEP hoodie... If you happen to see us wandering around say howdy...

My son and I have our tickets... We'll be there early doing the "Tailgate Town" thing... My only complaint is that our tickets are on the Eastern Washington side... The Delaware side was almost completely sold out on Monday... The only seats left were sideline seats in the endzone... Go Blue Hens...!!

Santiago will probably get a free agent look somewhere... Didn't have a great season, but he's got good size and people thought highly of him going into the year...

To be fair, Auburn is a nobody... They are terrible this year... They have home losses to UNC-Ashville, Samford, Campbell and Presbyterian... MTSU was their first win of the season...

In 2008 UT also played UTEP at the Sun Bowl in El Paso... It was a 2-1 deal where UTEP returned to Austin in 2009 and will do so again in the future... While it's true that the Sun Bowl holds over 50,000, there aren't many other reasons for UT to agree to play in El Paso... Quite often UT will play these games as a reward to large alumni bases that live in the area... Say what you want about the Longhorns, they will play road games against lesser opponents...

According to their website "The Burrow" seats 5,000... So 2200 wouldn't be 81%... Am I missing something...??

I am going to jump up on my bowl game soapbox... Clear a path people...!! I used to feel (a few years ago) that the number of bowl games was silly and, frankly, ridiculous... But then a funny thing happened... In 2004 the only two teams I really care about in college football, UTEP and UNT, BOTH got invited to bowl games... UNT was ending a three year run of New Orleans Bowl appearances and UTEP was going to a bowl for the first time since 2000... And it was then that I realized that the ONLY thing these teams have to play for are conference championships and bowl games... PERIOD... As it is currently structured, neither UNT nor UTEP will ever sniff anything resembling a National Championship, or even a CHANCE to compete for one... No matter what they do in the regular season... If the NCAA wants to have a 16 team playoff where EVERY conference champion is an automatic invite then I am all for it... That means the champions of the WAC, Sun Belt, Conference USA and MAC as well as the AQ's... And if the NCAA decides that those conferences shouldn't get automatic bids, then they should just simply revoke the FBS status of the schools in those conferences because they are royally screwing them anyway and wasting their time and their fans' time... At no level of competition for anything that I can think of is there a system that tells a participant that they will pay as much, work as hard and abide by all the same regulations and standards as all the other participants but at the end of the season they have no chance to compete for an overall championship while some of the other participants (hand chosen) will... It's asinine... My dream (far-fetched I know) is that the non-AQ's will pull out of the FBS and make a division of their own where they play each other and play for a championship at the end... Make the AQ's play nothing but each other and see how well they like it... No soft OOC schedules for them... Nothing but monsters and well funded programs... It would be a fan's dream, but a university's nightmare... Imagine that September 5 loss meaning your season was basically over... And every September 5 and all dates after that you were going to have to play a team of reasoble quality... A pipe dream, I know... At any rate, in the system in which we currently live the bowls are the only reward we have for the student athletes at the smaller schools... To them being "bowl eligible" actually means something... So let them begin... I plan on watching every last single one of them as much as I can... And attending 2 in person...

I have half a mind to take my chances with GA in the Wing... I think it would be kind of fun to sit there... If it were reserved seating I would definitely do it...

This year it is being played at Ford Stadium at SMU...

I am going to 3 bowl games this year and already have the tickets for all three... I paid $35 a seat for 2 tickets to the New Mexico Bowl to see UTEP and BYU... I paid $60 a seat for 4 tickets to the Sun Bowl to see Notre Dame and Miami... and finally I just bought tickets to the FBS Championship game in Frisco... 2 seats at $40 a seat... The Armed Forces Bowl organizers had better hope the alumns show up in full force at the prices previously mentioned... And I have lived in the Dallas area for nearly 12 years and have never been able to afford a Cotton Bowl ticket...

Weird to hear Brad Sham doing the play-by-play...

Or Leavitt... Or Fran... Or Mangino... Did they do due diligence or did they just hire the first guy who came to mind...?? I call for a full investigation...!! Do be done by someone who gives a crap...

And Applewhite's name is lobbed around a lot as a HC prospect... We have a HC and an OC... What exactly would he do here that he can't be paid more to do somewhere else...??

Don Haskins at UTEP hung onto his timeouts as well... In fact, if his team needed a breather or a shake-up he would sometimes argue with the refs for a while and try and get a technical so he could gather his team together during the hub bub... I have seen his star pupil, Tim Floyd, do it to a much lesser degree this season... You don't see that much anymore...

It probably does, but it also brings in pretty much zero revenue...

I wasn't sure about the scholarships, but the team needs to be equipped for a full roster... Most D1 baseball programs carry between 20-35 players on the team... And what about insurance...?? What would the university's liability be for the players that are not on scholarship...?? I'm not being snide, I really don't know the answer...

Bob Stull told me that the experience EPCC had with starting the baseball program, and Title IX, is why UTEP will never add baseball back... I remember the first year of EPCC baseball where the players were doing some construction and maintenance on the field... For 99% of all colleges and universities, baseball is a financial anchor...

My bad... The highlighted section of the previous post referenced the DC opening and Skladany...

In terms of student athletes it would be more like adding 2+ basketball teams... Rice has 35 players on their baseball roster...

An offensive INTERN is going to be our Defensive Coordinator...?? Surely not...

You're only allowed to kiss your spouse (and embarrass your kids) if, as a family, you are willing to pay full boat for the Fouts Field Finale... I read that somewhere... Probably on a web page...

Perhaps not, but they do boast 2 different winners on Survivor... How weird is that...?? And DeMarcus Ware and Osi Umenyiora... Not exactly Meatloaf true, but...

To achieve the types of numbers we would like to see for both football and basketball UNT Athletics needs to be seen in the city of Denton not as A thing to do, but as THE thing to do... Somewhere along the line Mean Green Athletics has to be perceived as an understood "must see/must do" event... Sustained competitive success will help with that... We want to use Boise St. as model for athletic success, but they are barely averaging 2000 for a basketball team that is 6-0... Football is THE thing to do in Boise and the university is working hard to make basketball the same thing... Right now they are fighting the fact that the basketball team has no history of success... We are in the same boat... A run of NCAA tournament bids and a first round win would change all that... Fast...

Why does Lance Dunbar have such a sour expression on his face in that picture...??