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Woah. Is it just us, or does it feel like the Drummond kids are growing up a little faster these days?! With Paige graduating college back in May, Todd committing to play football at USD, and Alex getting married last year—there's so much worth celebrating! 🥰 Now, there's another update in the Drummond household! Bryce just shared new college football photos, wearing his new jersey! read more: https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ree-drummond-life/a40738240/bryce-drummond-college-football-photos/

Commits to Tulsa over NT https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2022/07/27/allen-ol-kasen-carpenter-announces-commitment-to-tulsa/

NORTH TEXAS In seven seasons at North Texas, coach Seth Littrell has been to five bowl games. The 2020 season deserves an asterisk because the Mean Green were only 4-5 in the regular season, but the dudes from Denton have been pretty consistent on Littrell’s watch. Last season was every bit of a .500 campaign before the loss to Appalachian State in the Frisco Classic, as UNT scored and allowed 27.5 points per game and finished even in turnover margin. Which way will the pendulum swing in 2022? Offense The team seemed more comfortable with Austin Aune as the starting quarterback than with Jace Ruder, but now Arizona transfer Grant Gunnell also has his hat in the ring. Aune led the five-game winning streak late in the year that took the Mean Green from 1-6 to 6-6 after knocking off No. 15 UTSA in the finale. The Roadrunners rested a bunch of players in advance of the Conference USA title game. Even though Littrell cut his teeth at Texas Tech in the mid-2000s under Mike Leach, this is a run-first (and run-second and run-third) offense. North Texas ran the eighth-most plays last season with 1,033 and ran 639 times. Only the three triple-option teams, Northern Illinois and Kent State ran more often. Star running back DeAndre Torrey ran for 1,215 yards and 13 touchdowns before exhausting his eligibility. Sophomore Oscar Adaway was supposed to be the starting back but tore his ACL right before the season. He’ll be the feature back now. The Mean Green rushed for 4.7 yards per carry, even though opposing defenses knew what was coming. Four starters are back on the line and the QBs are always mobile. Defense This was a slightly below-average defense by yards per play, even though they allowed fewer than 400 yards per game. It was a massive upgrade under defensive coordinator Phil Bennett, as the Mean Green allowed 522 yards and 6.9 yards per play in 2020. North Texas gave up almost 43 points per game during that weird COVID season, which is a big outlier, but the statistical improvements under Bennett are notable. He only has five starters back on this year’s defense, which allowed 5.7 yards per play and 4.0 yards per carry. The back seven only managed six picks, but North Texas recovered 12 of 23 opponent fumbles. Only six teams forced more fumbles. The fumble recoveries offset 14 fumbles lost by the offense, which is another example of why this was almost a perfectly symmetrical .500 team. Outlook More of the same seems likely for the Mean Green. They do get two bye weeks by playing in Week 0 against UTEP before facing SMU, Texas Southern, UNLV and Memphis in nonconference play. UNT draws the four best teams in this conference (UTEP, UTSA, WKU, UAB), so that puts a damper on its chances of contending in C-USA. The win total of 6.5 makes sense, as this could be a perfectly mediocre team again. However, with that schedule, my projection is actually for 5.79 wins, so I’d look more toward the Under. Pick: Under 6.5 (-120) Read more: https://www.vsin.com/college-football-betting-preview-conference-usa/

American Athletic Conference (AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco didn't shy away from voicing his concerns about the state of college football and its future during his annual media day press conference. It's not news that numerous issues have raised flags in the realm of college football and college athletics since the end of the 2021-22 seasons. In fact, Aresco listed a heavy handful, including but not limited to conference realignment; name, image and likeness (NIL) deals; the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) potentially breaking away from the NCAA; and college sports becoming too professionalized. He called it a new and challenging era in college sports, something unprecedented and unsettling, having been years in the making. Now, Aresco sees collegiate athletics at a pivotal point. Conference realignment in the FBS "It's been in the news. It's sent shockwaves through the college sports landscape, boiled the water of college sports and continues to do so. It affected the AAC last year and may again, we don't know. Three of our members – UCF, Cincinnati and Houston – will depart the conference in July 2023. We appreciate their important contributions to our conference's legacy over the last decade and we'll enjoy having them compete in the American this season." read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/university-of-cincinnati/2022/07/28/aac-commissioner-mike-aresco-speaks-numerous-issues-college-football-realignment-nil-fbs-ncaa/10173044002/

With the beginning of the season in sight, football faced the media at Conference USA media day. Head coach Seth Littrell and two players — senior linebacker KD Davis and sophomore tight end Jake Roberts — represented North Texas at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. The 2022 season will be the Mean Green’s last competing in Conference USA. “Really excited about this group — the things they’ve done in the offseason to prepare and continue to build our culture [and] our leadership, the way they’ve worked has been awesome to watch,” Littrell said. “This is always a fun time of the year getting back and around the guys.” At the end of June, it appeared that Davis would not return to North Texas as he entered the transfer portal. After visiting other universities, the senior linebacker decided to remain with the Mean Green. 2022 will be his fourth and final year in the program. Since Davis’ debut year in 2018, his performance has steadily increased in value, culminating in the senior’s first appearance on the All-C-USA First Team. Had Davis not returned, two of the three starting linebackers would have been missing from North Texas’ 2022 roster. “Since I came back throughout the spring, I was worried I wasn’t 100 percent here,” Davis said. “Going out and seeing things and coming back, I’m 100 percent in and my whole mindset has changed — my leadership has elevated.” North Texas and five other C-USA schools are moving to the American Athletic Conference next July. North Texas has not won a C-USA football title and its highest finish came in 2017 when the team lost to the Lane Kiffin-led Florida Atlantic University in the championship. With its days numbered in C-USA, Littrell said that the team is remaining focused on competing in the conference. “Conference USA is a really good conference and has a lot of great teams — a lot of great teams [and] a lot of great players,” Littrell said. “I know it’s going to be a battle throughout the season […] I got to focus on the task at hand.” Three teams have already departed C-USA en route to the Sun Belt Conference, downsizing the conference’s field to 11 teams in 2022. As a result of the departures, C-USA rescheduled its games accordingly, resulting in the Mean Green opening their season on Aug. 27 against the University of Texas-El Paso rather than a home contest against rival and future conference-mate Southern Methodist University previously scheduled for Sept. 3. With the unconventional schedule due to extenuating circumstances, North Texas will not play another conference game until Oct. 1 after the Texas-El Paso opener. “A sense of urgency has to be there,” Roberts said. “Starting week zero is already a jump that’s a different swing of things and being a conference game just puts the stakes up even more, so we got to be ready to roll.” read more: https://www.ntdaily.com/i-like-where-the-mean-green-are-football-takes-on-c-usa-media-day/#share

DENTON — The 16-time conference champion North Texas soccer team has added transfer forward Alexis Truitt to its roster on Tuesday. A rising junior, Truitt comes to UNT from Sam Houston State where she played one season and started 17 matches for the Bearkats last year. She scored two goals and had three assists in the 18 matches she played in last season. Prior to her time at Sam Houston, the Boerne, Texas, native played her freshman season at Seminole State College in 2020 where she had a monster season and was voted NJCAA DI All-American. In just 15 matches for Seminole State College, Truitt scored 15 goals and had 10 assists for 40 points to lead her team to a 14-1-1 overall record and a national top three ranking. Seminole State reached the NJCAA National Tournament but was eliminated in pool play in penalty kicks to the eventual national runner-up. "I'm excited to have Alexis a part of the Mean Green family," said UNT head soccer coach John Hedlund. "Her athleticism, speed and ability to go to goal fits perfectly into our style play." Truitt played her prep soccer at Boerne High School in the San Antonio suburbs where she scored over 100 career goals. As a senior she was voted San Antonio Express-News All-Area Team after she tied the Area record for goals with 55 to go along with 26 assists. She was named TASCO All-State and was also voted District 28-4A MVP as a senior in 2020. The Mean Green soccer team opens the 2022 season on Aug. 18 with a home match versus Abilene Christian. First kick against ACU is set for 7 p.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+. UNT will play two exhibition matches in California before the season-opener. Contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or by emailing ticketoffice@unt.edu for more information on UNT Soccer tickets.

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Brings more than 15 years’ experience in resource development For more information contact: Taylor Bryan, 254-709-4411, Taylor.Bryan@unt.edu DENTON, Texas – Matt Carson has been named UNT’s new Senior Associate AD for Revenue Generation & Ticket Strategy, Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker announced Tuesday. Carson comes to North Texas following a four-year stint as Assistant AD for Ticket Sales and Operations at Colorado State. While in Fort Collins, Carson had oversight of a unit that generated more that 11 million dollars annually in football ticket and premium sales. Since his arrival in 2017, his team also increased men’s basketball season ticket revenues by 167 percent. Additionally, Colorado State posted three of the four highest football ticket revenue years in program history. In 2021-22, the Rams set a school record with five basketball sellouts and set single-game and student attendance records in football, volleyball, and men’s basketball including a record year for men’s basketball season and single-game revenues. His team managed service and sales for premium seating with the Ram Club including new sales, upgrades, single-game sales, and service of customer needs. Under his leadership, CSU introduced new initiatives including Kickoff Time Guarantee, flexible ticket and season options along with extended in-season payment plans. Carson was also a member of the Colorado State senior leadership team and secondary sport administrator for track and field, women’s basketball and volleyball. Prior to his time at CSU, Carson served as Assistant AD of Ticketing Sales and Operations at Texas State from 2014-18. During that time, he was the project manager for their ticketing system conversion, plus he supervised and trained a staff of more than 50 full-time or student workers all while helping the department gross $2.1 million in revenues in the 2017-18 calendar year. From 2012-14, he worked in a similar capacity at Sam Houston State. While in Huntsville, he oversaw a department which generated nearly $1 million in revenue for its six ticketed sports. A native of Alma, Arkansas, Carson is married to the former Trevlyn Trevino. He graduated from Arkansas State in 2007 and earned a master’s from Texas in 2009. After graduation, he completed internships with Texas and Wisconsin. He was elected to the National Association of Athletic Ticket Sales & Operations (NAATSO) board in 2018 and currently serves as president for the 2022-23 year.

On a summer day in 1964 George Brown drove Charles “Chuck” Beatty to North Texas State University in Denton. It was an important ride for two reasons. For one, it was out of necessity. “I was recruited, but I didn’t have a way to get to Denton,” Beatty said. “So George stopped what he was doing, picked me up and took me to college.” But that ride was important for another reason. It was then that Beatty told Brown, a former mayor and longtime councilman in Waxahachie, that he would one day return to Waxahachie and give back, much like Brown did. “He was one of my heroes,” Beatty said, adding that Brown was a World War II hero at the Battle of the Bulge and then returned to serve Waxahachie. “So I wanted to follow in his footsteps. I said when I come back I’m going to give back like he did.” Beatty lived up to his promise, and Monday the city of Waxahachie recognized him for his service to the city. The Waxahachie City Council approved a resolution to name the new City Hall Annex Building the Charles Beatty Municipal Services Building. The building is being constructed across from City Hall and will house several of the city’s departments. But just as important to many, it will also bear his name. “To me this is gratifying that the people of Waxahachie would consider me to have my name on the building,” Beatty said after the meeting. “Everything that I did was a labor of love and not for an honor.” Beatty graduated from Waxahachie High School in 1964 and then attended North Texas State University – now the University of North Texas. He was then drafted to play in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and later played for the St. Louis Cardinals, and he also served in the U.S. Army National Guard. read more: https://www.waxahachietx.com/2022/07/19/waxahachies-city-hall-annex-to-be-named-after-chuck-beatty/

North Texas Athletic Director Wren Baker rejoins Harry to discuss the state of the North Texas Union and answer key questions pertaining to coaching hires, realignment, NIL, budgets, the new AAC conference, baseball, recruiting, fan questions and more. https://traffic.libsyn.com/gomeangreen/ringr_180320_182584.mono1.mp3

SAN ANTONIO — UT-San Antonio football coach Jeff Traylor shared an extraordinary statistic during his press conference Monday at the Texas High School Coaches Association’s Convention and Coaching School. “We signed 29 kids. They were all Texas high school football players,” Traylor said. “I believe that we’re the only school that is 100%.” At a time when college coaches are using the transfer portal to fill more and more holes in their rosters, Traylor and new Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire have a unique advantage when it comes to recruiting. They were high school football coaches in talent-rich Texas before they got their current college jobs, with McGuire winning three state championships at Cedar Hill and Traylor winning the same number of state titles at Gilmer. “It’s huge, just from the standpoint of guys my age, they know me,” McGuire said. “We opened our doors at Cedar Hill. I was there 20 years, 14 as the head coach. People would come watch our offseason, people would come watch spring football. We treated everybody the exact same. I think because we did that, whenever we came [to Texas Tech], people know this is how they are going to treat our players, this is how Coach McGuire is going to be every day.” read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2022/07/18/texas-techs-joey-mcguire-utsas-jeff-traylor-have-recruiting-edge-with-txhsfb-roots/