tylermeangreen

Yep, Avery Saenz is the QB with the broken ankle - he is a heckuva QB. He had been on crutches, but was walking pretty well last night with a boot, and was throwing passes on the sidelines. He is projected out for the final three regular season games - but possibility of being back for the playoffs. If he makes it, I don't expect much of a drop-off in effectiveness - the kid has the tools and mental ability to jump right back in and be as good as before he was injured. Oh - the current QB is a backup with very little experience - was a DB before Saenz hurt. Last night he had 255 yards of total offense; 11 of 14 in passes for 208 yards and three TDs; and ran for 47 yards and another TD. Gonna be a sad year, I am afraid, at Bulldog Stadium next year - ALL mentioned are seniors. GMG

ALL seniors - gonna be a down year in 2012 at CH.

I have been around this old earth for 64 years and I have NEVER heard anyone around the water cooler verbally refer to Notre Dame as ND - and I have especially never heard that term used in the electronic media (print media - yes, on occasion). And even if that were true, Notre Dame and USC have earned their "notoriety" and we have not been so fortunate. Outside of our regional area, some still wonder who the hell we are (other than those who still think we are North Texas State). I really don't care how the university is branded - but for God's sake, administration - find something and stick with it through perpetuity! GMG

Chapel Hill Bulldogs defeated Bullard 50 - 6 Friday night. CH had 438 yards total offense in the FIRST HALF; scored TDs on all six first half possessions; and called off the "Dogs" after scoring about mid-way through the third quarter. CH/UNT commits: Andrew Tucker - suited up, but did not play. I have no idea if it was because of an injury (seemed fine; warmed up before game and at halftime) or if possibly he violated team rules. Rex Rollins - 107 yards rushing on 11 carries (9.7 yards per carry) and two rushing TDs. Sir Calvin Wallace - double-teamed as usual - was such a moose that he simply pushed one or both of the offensive linemen back toward the QB. He made several behind the line tackles; created several "hurries", and dropped his 300 + pounds on the QB more than once - but I did not notice him making any sacks. An interesting prospect (although I am sure that UNT will not take any more CH commits - too many other schools to mine) - Jay Reagan is the THIRD string RB and is a senior. Last night he ran for 126 yards on nine carries for a 14 yards per carry average - and he is averaging 7.42 yards per carry for the season (he was the feature back for CH for several games when both Rollins and Tucker were injured), and averaged 10 yards a carry last season. Next Week: Brownsboro

I know that a couple of you are interested in how UNT-East's (i.e., Chapel Hill High School) three commits did last week. Sorry for the late post - left after the game for my annual fall trip to Colorado to enjoy the aspen - highly recommend if you have not been there for the fall aspen colors. Last Friday CH played Center High School. Here is information about how our three commits performed: Sir Calvin Wallace - DT - was back from injury and performed pretty well. As usual, he was double-teamed most of the game but managed to make several tackles and disrupt the flow of the Center offense on numerous occasions. The guy is a moose - still waiting to see the fire explode in the guy. Something I had not seen before - he was being a leader on defense. He was whooping and encouraging his teammates. I saw some emotion that I had not seen before. Andrew Tucker - RB/LB - rushed for 124 yards on 12 carries - just over 10 yards a carry average. Played his normal game at LB. Rex Rollins - RB/LB - Rollins has picked up where he left off from last year - rushed for 57 yards vs. Center for a 9.5 yard average. If I remember right, he is averaging almost 12 yards per carry this year (that is on around 18 carries - he was out 2 - 3 games with injury). He also played his normal game at LB. It still amazes me - I am no scout for sure - that UNT has such a stable of running backs that Lairamie Lee (1,400 + yards rushing at CH last year) and Tucker/Rollins are all penciled in by the Mean Green staff as defensive players - and Lee made the team as a freshman defensive back. Brandon(?) Byrd and our two redshirt freshman running backs must really be future STUD RUNNING BACKS in our coaches' minds. This suggest great things for what can be historically termed Running Back U.

That is interesting - I teach there, and have since 1976 - and I did not know that......but TJC had some very good teams in the 80s, so it does not surprise me. When I started teaching there in '76 there was a real undercurrent to eliminate JC football - several teams did in fact drop their football programs over the years. I have to admit - I am very surprised to see JCs still playing football today and, in fact, in TJC's conference at least two JCs have started new football programs and joined the conference. We have pulled as many as 12,000 to a few games since I have been there - but I am afraid those days are gone. The massive availability of college football games on television from Thursday nights through Saturday nights has killed JC football attendance.

Given the size of Apogee Stadium, it would be vitually impossible for OU to have more fans in the stands than UNT fans! But they won't be coming to a 30,000 seat stadium, so all of this is irrelevant, anyway.

I know North Texas can't offer every quality player on the CH football team (to do so, if nothing else, would have some folks complaining that we are becoming CH@Denton - and the UNT coaches really have pushed the envelope getting commits from four players over the past two years from the same class 3-A high school), but this team is loaded. The starting QB goes down (and his 2010 stats are awesome, and his 2011 stats were headed that way until the broken ankle), both starting RBs miss some games, the 300 pound + DT is lost through at least the first four games, and this team still continues to win big games - and remain as #1 in the state rankings.

Somewhere I picked up in all of the official stadium information that tailgaters were not going to be allowed to tailgate during the game - did that directive get lost, changed, or is it just being ignored?

Tell you what - I will have my wife find out tomorrow about Sir Calvin. One of the middle school coaches, who as is normal doubles as a booth coach for the high school games, will know about Sir Calvin, and this coach's classroom is next to hers. I don't want to say too much about Sir Calvin other than last year he could really plug the hole against running backs - and could get a decent pass rush going. But I was surprised that McCarney recruited him, but don't read anything into that - I have never claimed to be a great evaluator of talent unless it was just so obvious that talent existed.......and that was the case last year with Lairamie Lee, the Mean Green's true freshman #27. I have had a coach quite familiar with Sir Calvin tell me that he was looking forward to seeing Dan McCarney begin to develop Sir Calvin......and light a fire under his butt. Let me tell you there are some STUDS on this Chapel Hill team that are going to help a lot of college teams over the next 2 - 3 years. The running back that filled in for Rollins and Tucker is equal to them in ability - he rushed for between 100 and 200 yards in the games he has backed up the injured running backs; and it is not just his offensive line's blocks that gets him those yards - it is his raw talent. The senior quarterback (now out with a broken ankle and not expected back until the playoffs) will be a steal for some college that likes the option QB - a good runner and an awesome passer. His name is Avery Saenz, a smart QB, and I am told he is ranked in the top 10 of his senior class. He is also a helluva good kid that comes from some difficult circumstances. I will let you know about Sir Calvin's status as soon as I know something.

Just a quick rundown on UNT’s Chapel Hill Bulldog commits (Chapel Hill number one 3-A team in the state) from last Friday’s game against Lindale: Sir Calvin Wallace – I am unaware if he played – he has had an ankle injury since a preseason scrimmage and had missed the first four games of the season. Rex Rollins – the running back played in his first game since Week 0 (suffered a knee injury). He ran for 127 yards on 9 attempts, including TD runs of 66 and 50 yards. Andrew Tucker – he did not play a week ago after being injured in the Carthage game (hamstring injury). This past Friday night he rushed for 101 yards and two TDs. He also, playing linebacker, had 13 tackles; one pass break-up; and caused a fumble. GMG

Texas/OU gametime - 11am. This should minimize the problem related to our attendance.

I believe I remember being told that he is golfer Don January's grandson - in fact, I remember seeing Don January and his son (the UNT player's father) at the practice field during spring practice.

I am really missing the pregame march around the field, as at Fouts, playing the fight song and "Fly Like An Eagle' (which I understand that some of you do not like). That was a good way to get the crowd excited prior to pre-game and the game itself.

I have no problem with the band taking up the "good seats" - they are students, too - and for too many years, they were a large part of the student section since many of the non-band students had other things to do rather than attend the games. Enjoy the good seats - enjoy the game, Green Brigade!

I appreciate your point, but I am a little ole faculty member at a community college in East Texas - and believe me, my contract salary is considerably less than a faculty member at UNT. Yet I manage to scrape together the funds for season tickets to the football games. If people want to attend North Texas games, they will attend - if the don't, they won't. Financially, $10 vs. $24 tickets IS NOT playing a role in those faculty member's decision to turn down your invitation. They may be giving you the song-and-dance that $24 tickets are keeping them from attending - but come on, do you honestly believe that to be true? I can understand this more if you were speaking of blue-collar, hourly-salaried workers - but UNT faculty members? Could it be that your faculty friends see attending North Texas games for the $10 price as an "entitlement" related to their employment at North Texas? I have encountered such sentiment among the faculty at my place of employment.

Showing a projected high of 81 over here behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas......and we usually (but not this summer) run a few degrees cooler than the land-of-concrete Metroplex area. But I will take any 80-something degree high after this God-awful summer.

I hate to see the injuries for Tulsa but...... It is about time North Texas gets a few breaks!

Thank you, sir, for the response.......and for making my point for me. Now, what company did you say you represent? As for the following quote, might I suggest that you did not listen to the good advice of mom and dad back when: "EVERYBODY cheats or bends the rules greatly in some capacity....." EVERYBODY? Your statement reminds me so much of my logic as my high school prom date approached - told Mom and Dad that I wanted to get a hotel room in Downtown Dallas with my girlfriend and another couple. They said "absolutely not." My response: "Why not, everybody else is doing it." Lessons learned: 1. "Everyone" else WAS NOT staying in hotel rooms; not by a long-shot! and 2. Four girls in the senior class got pregnant that night......and for them and their impregnators, attending college either occurred years later, or did not occur at all - they paid a helluva price. Might I emphasize again - Everyone else WAS NOT doing it, and I do believe there are clean athletic programs that are successful. But to each his own..........

I have spent the last several hours thinking about your posting and I have come to a conclusion: Sir, that is about the dumbest posting I have ever seen on the GoMeanGreen board in my three + years of reading it and I have seen some lulus. Most people would accept that one’s ethical makeup is displayed on a daily basis in all situations. Therefore, I can only conclude that the lack of ethics displayed by you on a sports fan board reflects the lack of ethical behavior that you also display in the business world. You have essentially said that the objective/goal for North Texas is to win even if it requires cheating – and that cheating will bring in more fans (might we call them “customers”) and greater contributions (might we call them “profits”?). Given that your ethical compass has lost its way, please tell us what business you own, or what company you work for, so that I for one can avoid ever purchasing a good or service from your company. All of us that support the University of North Texas athletic program, especially football, want to win and I want to win as much as anyone associated with this program – guaranteed! But it is loose cannons like you, with questionable ethical values, that create huge problems for college and university athletic departments and scare athletic directors to death.

I think your posting says it all - God help us!

Saw this kid play all through high school - was a big time game changer at 3-A Van. Don't know how the injury has affected him, playing-wise, but he is certainly worth a look by the UNT coaches.

Let me be just straight-out honest here - and I hope the University of North Texas Athletic Department officials, coaches, AND the President of our university read this - and I hope they care: If the athletic department at this university should choose to operate a program that is based on cheating in order to be successful........I, along with my contributions to this program, am out of here! Pure and simple - no ifs, ands, or buts! We win with ethical behavior, pride, and class or this athletic program can follow your suggestion without me. GMG

And the beer is in ample supply!!!