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We are number 3 in Texas behind UT and A$M.

And if you throw a newspaper through the rim from half court you should win $100.

Painting the Albino Squirrel green would be an act of compassion in that it would blend with the environment and thus not be spotted as easily by predators.

The Albino Squirrel Preservation Society is seeking a name for the new one on campus. Perhaps Hawk Bait would be a good moniker.

A statement that compares travel budgets from two different schools is irrelevant and does not rebut the assertion. However, having located the budget amounts, you are correct. The majority of expenses are Salaries and Student Aid. The amount you list is the team travel expense. Their recruiting expenses are more than twice as high as ours and I again believe that a large amount of that budget is travel. I do find it interesting that our contributions were 2.6 million and theirs were 2.9 million given that they are the only Division 1 school in the State of Hawaii. http://www2.indystar.com/NCAA_financial_reports/

I am sure that the lions share of their budget is travel.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2859065

The commissioner that preceded Wright Waters got Denver voted in. He had a plan to move toward a Metro type conference with teams in large cities. The Sun Belt (not Sunbelt) Conference was still primarily a basketball conference at the time. Clearly the Sun Belt has moved in a differnt direction since their admission (i.e. the addition of football).

Michigan was 5500. I wonder what CMU did to promote their game.

http://bigrednetwork.com/archives/2007/04/...g_game_att.html

We should try to get Royce to help us sew up a Cotton Bowl series during the State Fair with another school. Perhaps he could work with Sen. Rodney Ellis from Houston to try to get a series with UH and find a sponser for the game.

This is primarily Royce West's work. We should be thankful that he is working for us to get the school since he graduated with two degrees from UTA and played football there. The UNT name on the school is what is most important.

If you hit the left arrow on top you will ultimately get to Hawaii. If you look at the MWC you can see that the schools are much closer to us than the WAC.

http://www.mapgameday.com/conference/9/

The announced crowd was 5194.

Casey Fitzgerald had a great touchdown catch of, I believe, 87 yards from Meager. He and Fentriss both looked good at receiver.

With all due respect UNT lifer, don't question my posts like Daddy Dumpsalot. I don't post crap. http://floridastate.rivals.com/content.asp...1&CID=99984

I think the WAC opportunity has been sufficiently explained by others . I would like to address the claim that "we would have taken it in a heartbeat". When TCU joined the MWC I asked RV what he thought about it. He made it very clear at that time that he believed they were making a mistake. He cited later starts for sporting events and thus reduced local coverage due to late results, the extended travel times for athletes and the resulting academic hardship, and the cost of travel especially for non revenue sports. Consider that the MWC schools are a lot closer than the WAC schools and you have your answer for why we would not have joined "in a heartbeat". Looking at distance, consider that TCU is closer than La Tech; UNM is closer than NMSU; CSU, AFA, Wyoming and UNLV are closer than all other WAC schools; SDSU, BYU, and Utah are about the same distance as USU; and all other WAC schools are hundreds of miles farther away. In addition the MWC schools are all as close to or closer to major airports. I would prefer the MWC over the SBC, but we have already been in the Big West with a lot of the WAC schools and I don't want to go back.

The reason Fla. State went a different direction from us was a lack of willingness on part of our administration to make a commitment to athletics in the early 1980's. The Denton Record Chronicle has a column every Sunday that highlights what happened 25 years ago that week. Last Sunday, one of the highlighted news events from this week in 1982 was that the NT administration had cut the athletic budget by 30% for 1982-1983. That is how you fall behind. I have heard that Fla. State took a piece of the Fouts Field turf home with them when they upset us in the mid 1970's and it was placed in an area that commemorates special victories. Of course, you should probably check this out with your "Board of Athletic Advisors" member (whatever that is).

Final result. http://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/3541.PDF?DB_OEM_ID=4100

Women- http://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/3526.PDF?DB_OEM_ID=4100

Here are the links. hhttp://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/3526.PDF?DB_OEM_ID=4100 http://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/3524.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=4100

http://admin.xosn.com/attachments1/3517.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=4100

I did not claim travel would be better, only that it is a better conference. That being said, Boise, Idaho, Nevada, Fresno, Hawaii, and San Jose are all farther away than the farthest MWC school. Utah State is in a remote rural area not as easily accessible as Utah or BYU. TCU is closer than La Tech and UNM is not much farther than NMSU and is in Albuerque near the airport.