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The three players are also included on the combined Tyler Morning Telegraph and Longview News-Journal's "Preseason Football Dream Team", just announced this morning. http://www.news-journal.com/etvarsity/high_school/hard-to-stop-score-on-dream-team/article_b5806cda-cef0-5250-b9d8-39315232a5ac.html

Actually, SI reports that Ernie Stautner was the first to have his number retired.

Amen! Bless You!

I will take Rex Rollins. He may surprise before this season is over!

.........leaving the "haves" to have to play one-another in out-of-conference games. Wonder how many "undefeateds" we would see then among the so-called "haves" given they would have to play only one-another for every game every season? One? None? The more interesting thing is Jones admitting that SMU will be a "have-not" when they originally, in fact, thought that their leaving CUSA to join the Big East was going to make them a "have". Alas, now no Big East as they envisioned and now SMU is still not a "have". SMU has seen athletic reality give it a big ole kick in the cojones! I couldn't be happier!

I was thinking more of an A$M alumnus!

..........and got to see two exciting running backs that have ended up at UNT - Rex Rollins and Andrew Tucker, both of whom may turn out to be very good running backs for us. For now we will have to wait and see re: the third Chapel Hill Bulldog from that 2011 Championship team to sign with UNT, while hoping for the best - one Sir Calvin Wallace. Also, Lairamie Lee was in the 3-A big-school State Championship game the year before, losing to Henderson by seven.

DFW Sports News@SportsDayDFWFollow @BByrd24 Howdy, UNT has a full-time reporter @brettvito; he provides all of the content for us and more than we have for many schools. 4:38 PM - 19 Jul 2014 Uh Oh, that "Howdy" crap may tell us a lot!

Do you think that, in the DMN's staff's mind, they have us covered with a designated beat reporter via the Denton Record-Chronicle - which is a Belo publication? That is the only conclusion I can come to.

Bus to substitute for portion of ‘Texas Eagle’ route for two months Published: June 26, 2014 FORT WORTH, Texas – Due to track improvements being performed by Union Pacific and BNSF Railway, Amtrak’s Texas Eagle will not operate between Fort Worth and San Antonio for two months between July 4 and Sept. 3. Buses will substitute for the train at the Cleburne, McGregor, Temple, Taylor, Austin, and San Marcos stops. http://trn.trains.com/Railroad%20News/News%20Wire/2014/06/Bus%20to%20substitute%20for%20portion%20of%20Texas%20Eagle%20route%20for%20two%20months.aspx

mirror, mirror on the wall..........

Well, did you chuckle while attempting to understand the so-called dissertation on supply and demand? Being a 27-year old taking classes/working toward a degree from our fine university, are you really suggesting that the concept of supply and demand/the free market is not relative to a sports forum topic on coaching salaries? Let me tell you something, Ben - Grayeagle has a helluva lot of credibility on this board - He is not going to get "hit" by anything from me - I have been reading his postings for years - and his postings are reasoned and loaded with critical thinking and wisdom. Yours? Not so much. Grow up, Ben!

Hey Ben, I teach economics and have done so for 38 years. The basic principle of the free market system is supply and demand. It goes like this, Ben - If the demand is low, and/or the supply is high, price will tend to be low. If the demand is high, and/or the supply is low, price will tend to be high. Personally, I believe in an unfettered free market EXCEPT in cases of safety concerns and when the product under consideration is a necessity (where government regulation can, sometimes, achieve a common good for all of society). Now, Ben, it seems that college football coaches achieve neither of those limiting characteristics........there is not a "safety" issue nor is the good/service they sell a necessity, thereby necessitating price controls. Is Dan McCarney worth $650,000 a year? The market (and the ability to pay) says "yes"! Is Nick Saban worth many millions of dollars per year? The market (and the ability to pay) says "yes"! Would I rather see those millions of dollars spent on other societal issues/projects? Yes. But Ben, you either believe in the overall good of a free market system or you don't. With the two exceptions noted above (safety concerns and necessity), the competitive free market DOES work. Sorry Ben, but your generalized "paid too much" argument shows you to be in opposition to our free market system while favoring allowing the "Bens" in the nation to determine for all of us what is and what is not "over-priced" based on your personal choice. After reading your many postings on this board, I just don't feel comfortable believing you to be omnipotent.

From watching the sun at prior games, the sun will be behind the pressbox - and provide shade for club seating - about the time the game ends. The club seating area gets shade first, so I would expect that absent cloud cover, the vast majority of the alumni side will be in bright sunshine throughout the game.

Super job of reporting Harry - Thanks!

Go ahead!

Football’s risks sink in, even in heart of Texas Posted: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:00 am | Updated: 6:36 am, Tue May 13, 2014. By Ken Belson, New York Times Longview News-Journal MARSHALL — In many ways, this East Texas town stands as a vibrant example of the state’s storied relationship with football. Not long ago, caravans of cars drove to Houston and Dallas to watch the Marshall Mavericks battle for the high school state football championship, and signs hanging from bridges along the interstate read, “Playoff bound.” The local sporting-goods shops would sell out of red-and-white merchandise — anything in the school’s colors — on game days. But now Marshall represents something quite different — a shift in perceptions about football that would have been hard to imagine when the school made a cameo in the book “Friday Night Lights” nearly 25 years ago. Amid widespread and growing concerns about the physical dangers of the sport, the school board has approved plans in February to shut down the district’s entry-level, tackle-football program for seventh graders in favor of flag football. There was little objection...................... http://www.news-journal.com/news/local/football-s-risks-sink-in-even-in-heart-of-texas/article_2c36058f-40f0-509e-bbb7-7241a5bdf7ad.html

Coach Gooding - You, sir, are a trip (and don't take that as a compliment, because it isn't)!

ULL is definitely our equal - in both programs and fan support, and maybe more-so in the latter!

Silver, I might point out that the following sentence from your copy-and-paste from the Amtrak website mirrors exactly the main point I have been making all along: "We can accommodate groups of hundreds depending on the train and time of year of travel." For what it is worth, my first posting and the subsequent postings, were just an attempt to help out the folks on the GMG board who were talking about getting a large group together to go to Austin via Amtrak. I gathered that such talk was suggesting several hundred people rather than 20 or so and given my little bit of expertise re: Amtrak, I just wanted the fans on here to know there are obstacles to getting this done on Amtrak. Silver - go for it - take the reins and set us up to take what would probably be several hundred fans to Austin via Amtrak - I am looking forward to the fun - I will guarantee that my four folks will sign up to go - and I can probably come up with several more. I have spoken to several others on this board who are wanting to go if you can make the arrangements. Again, a good place for you to start is the Revenue Manager for Amtrak's Texas Eagle, name and location mentioned in the prior postings...........I can assure you that if it can be done, he is the guy to talk to..............but your Ft. Worth contact from 2005 may be able to help you as well.

I was just passing along what bit of expertise I have acquired, and no, it did not come from my "friend" in Longview - I have not spoken to Mr. Hubbard in years; but regardless, take the information or leave it. Suggestion: Why don't you or ragpicker or someone else on the board - those with strong feelings that UNT fans can be accommodated via special equipment - follow up with the individual that I mentioned (as I said, he is the Revenue Manager for the Texas Eagle train) and see what you can work out - or the local person in Ft. Worth that you contacted before? I would love to see it happen; as i said, great fun on the Mean Green Amtrak trip in '79. BTW, one passenger coach holds about 80 passengers, so if the folks on this board are suggesting a large group going via Amtrak to Austin and back, one car is not going to help much. Oh Silvereagle, you are right - there is often a passenger car, or sometimes two, sitting in Ft. Worth. It/they are used to "protect" the Texas Eagle and the Heartland Flyer (OKC to FTW) when there are service/mechanical problems with a car traveling on those trains.

I wish i could say yes, but I don't think that is the case. The UTSA game is on the 29th - Thanksgiving is the 27th. The whole week of Thanksgiving is Amtrak's busiest time (at least for a concentrated period of time). Amtrak operates a lot of extra trains to carry Thanksgiving travelers and that always requires the use of any excess equipment capacity. Honestly, I think having success in getting a deal with Amtrak would be far greater for the Texas game (what, Aug 30th) than for the UTSA game - And the Texas game would be difficult for the reasons I suggested in the earlier posting. However, if there are those of you who are sufficiently interested in having dedicated Amtrak cars to either game, I again suggest that you contact Griff Hubbard at the Longview, Texas station. If it is at all possible, Griff can start the process to make it happen. GMG

It will take a lot of coordination, and luck, to pull this off. Amtrak's Texas Eagle is packed during the summer months. On a normal train there would be little, if any, excess capacity to handle Mean Green fans for the trip to Austin and return. For this to work Amtrak would have to allocate passenger coaches to deadhead from Chicago to Dallas/Ft. Worth to pick up Mean Green fans. Since the trip would require fans to leave on Friday and return on Sunday, it would be necessary for Amtrak to disconnect the extra cars in San Antonio and put them in siding from Friday night until Sunday morning (since the Friday train would be returning to Chicago on Saturday morning), and then add the cars to Sunday morning's train north. After our fans departed the train at Ft. Worth and Dallas, the cars would then have to be deadheaded back to Chicago. An additional problem is Amtrak has a shortage of excess equipment, especially in the summer months when most of the extra equipment is added to its various trains to handle the summer crowds. Amtrak might possibly be willing, but it would take a lot of coordination among a lot of entities for it to occur. The Amtrak employee to contact to get this started is Griff Hubbard at the Longview, Texas station. Griff is the Revenue Manager for the Texas Eagle train (Chicago to Los Angeles) and would be able to help begin the process to pull this off - if it is possible to do so. BTW, the last Mean Green Amtrak fan trip that I am aware of was in late September, 1979, when Mean Green fans, cheerleaders, and Scrappy boarded the Lone Star train at the old Sanger depot. Amtrak had agreed to stop the train (Houston to Kansas City) in Sanger (Sanger was not a normal stop, but for Amtrak, and us, it was a simpler time) and load us for the trip to Lawrence, Kansas where the Mean Green played the Kansas Jayhawks. Jerry Moore was the NTSU coach and we lost rather badly - and the Kansas fans were real asses to their visitors. While it was not a pretty sight, the fans had a great time on the trip north and then roaming downtown Lawrence that Saturday night following the game while waiting for the 2 am arrival of what was the LAST Lone Star train going south. The train was eliminated from Amtrak's schedule the following day because of budget issues. My group spent our evening at Paul Gray's Jazz Place. Great Jazz and it was the first place I had ever encountered INTELLECTUAL graffiti on the walls in the men's room - only Plato's and Aristotle's phone numbers found their way to the walls of that men's room. GMG

Thank you, Houston Eagle - VERY well said!

I was told by Assoc AD that HC is Nov 8, Florida Atlantic.