tylermeangreen

A very nice article about two war-horses who care about one-another - and both can flat-out coach. Who would ever have expected the 2013 Mean Green defense to play as well as they are playing? I keep waiting for the bubble to burst and it never does. Great job, Coach Skladany! GMG

McCarney said the seniors have chosen white pants and green jerseys for Saturday's game.

We went to the Sulphur Springs/Denison playoff game Friday night. This kid lit up the stadium. Very quick - great vision - elusive - and does not just find holes to run through but creates holes to run through - is a very powerful runner - think a 5'9" Earl Campbell with great quickness and elusiveness. I don't know if UNT has a chance at the kid or not but, jeez, what a catch if we do. GMG

Skip Bayless is the ultimate sleazebag going back to his Dallas Morning News sports column (and then as a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald - As I am a former employee of DTH, may its Banner rest in peace, in spite of hiring Bayless!) - and he is still a sleazebag. You are right jdennis, every Bayless opinion then, and it continues today, had/has to be projected with boldness and, might I add, vitriolic words designed to provoke/agitate/piss-off. Bayless has made a career of character assassination via innuendo (reference the Tony Dorsett Dallas Morning News column in the late '70s as just one of thousands of examples) - And he has continued this path throughout his career. I would venture a guess that he is the most hated of the sports journalists, then and now. I hate to see Tim Cowlishaw follow the path of Skip Bayless. It may well earn him a vault full of money while failing to command respect. But many people sell their soul at the crossroads....... GMG

Sorry I missed your b'd yesterday, Mark. Age tends to make one forgetful. O sends his best wishes! GMG

Love the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy - It has so many uses, from the discussion herein all the way to politics - ESPECIALLY politics. How many times do we read/hear that "A happened before B; A, therefore, must be the cause of B?" Such a wonderful vehicle for dispensing ignorance and misinformation! As a guy who teaches economics, your use of the term caused a smile on my face! GMG

Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about.........I am watching it right now on MTV+ using the DirecTV sports package that I get - beyond that, no extra charge. I also noticed that it is being shown on several other DirecTV sports channels as well. 20 - 15 OU............but sorry to have wasted your time by telling you it was on DirecTV.........Just thought I was helping out.

Please excuse the redundancy if already posted: I just noticed that the MSG+ channel is showing the game tonight. For those of us with DirecTV that is channel 635. GMG

Give 'em a break, Rocket. Negativy is increasingly hard to conjur up these days........winning football team, AD (person and department) doing a good job, increasing show of enthusiasm/excitement coming from the stands on both sides of the stadium during games, pride bustin' the buttons of those on the field and in the stands............Hell, negativity is just a harder thing to create right now. Even the board's number one negative poster has reduced his 99% negativity to about 75% - but even then he still manages to languish in his own sea of self-created negativity while avoiding falling prey to "puppy's breath and sunshine up skirts" (always wondered about that sunshine saying - i have believed there was always sunshine......uh,well, I will leave the rest to your imagination). But even negativity is a positive to such folks. Hey Rocket, always enjoy and respect your postings. GMG

Now THATS' funny!!!

TCU is finding out what a lot of other mid-major level teams have learned before..........it is possible to win the one BIG GAME played in a season and, therefore, look like a very strong team/program. But it is very hard to win CONSISTENTLY when every game you play is against a strong rival and each week = THE BIG GAME. Winning MWC games on a consistent basis (and winning the occasional out-of-conference BIG GAME) thus was a whole lot easier for TCU than winning consistently against the Oklahomas (U and State), Texas, TT, and and and and........Baylor (uh oh - I hope I did not just destroy my premise given Baylor's remarkable season so far). Perhaps that is why Arkansas Head Coach Frank Broyles gave SMU (NTSU) Head Coach Hayden Fry a what may have been a back-handed compliment saying that "Hayden is the best one-game coach in America". GMG

Hey Mitzi - I told Marsha that Mason is kinda like ole Phil Gramm - Don't get between Mason and a camera - He has never seen a camera that he did not like! In case you don't know, we are moving to Sulphur Springs and Marsha is already back in Sulphur Springs at the middle school. Her students know she is a Mean Green fan and she has a cousin of Marcus Trice in her class. She is very proud of Mason and all he has accomplished - as a player and as a person - while at UNT. GMG

I received my two today also - very pleased - great deal - highly recommended.

Thanks for the reply - my apologies to YOU. Having read your postings for several years I should have known better! My only excuse for jumping on your post is that I am so programmed to the constant negativity of one person on this board - in particular - and a very few others. I love my university and I personally think the AD (that is both position and department, along with our football team) is doing a helluva job - a HELLUVA job. To get where we all want to be usually takes baby-steps, and that often means many years of gradual progress..........and God knows I appreciate the impatience of some but also understand the reality that has faced this AD since the "reformation" began. I was at UNT when we sucked with Rod Rust, flew to great heights (for us) with Hayden Fry, and fell back to earth again with our dropping to a lower division. I have watched adminstrative indifference, and I have watch us begin revival through the vision of several university presidents, and RV. This crusty old alumnus knows where we have been over the past 40+ years, where we are now, and where we have a legitimate opportunity to go........and hopefully within my lifetime. From where we were to where we are now, I have nothing but pride and will often defend those who got us here - and where one, in particular, smells puppy-farts as the basis for posting I will choose to smell puppy-breath. One has to go far, far back from just 1990 to understand where we have been and how fortunate we are to have advanced as far as we have over the past 10 - 12 years. Thanks again for the response - again, my apologies for misinterpreting your comments. GMG

No, UNT passed them by - Our team kicked their ass! Forget about such silly things as how the C-USA logo looks on Apogee's field. Instead, just take a look at Apogee itself and enjoy. Jeez!

Thanks for the info - ordered mine.

For what it is worth,I noted for a long time what I thought might be a fact - the teams most penalized in games tend to win more games than the least penalized teams. One year, back when I had more time for such things and actually gave a damn, I kept a record from the the Saturday, Sunday and Monday game stories/stats in the Dallas Morning News and Tyler Morning Telegraph newspapers. For an entire football season I recorded how the teams that were most penalized in a game did in terms of won/lost. For that entire year, from August until the Super Bowl - high schools, colleges and the NFL - the teams with the most penalities in games won their games by an overwhelming majority (have forgotten the exact % - but higher than 60% as I remember). There are many possible explanations. But I thought it was an interesting, non-scientific, non-comprehensive study into the role of penalities in terms of won/lost. This was certainly not the case for UNT at Tulane - but then that idiot referee (the Umpire, who loved pulling his flag) at the Tulane game was not part of my study.

It was shown quite a few times over the course of the evening - and shown on the televisions in the club as well.

We will be arriving about midnight Friday so our best bet was to stay near downtown since downtown hotel prices have been outrageous for weekend of the 4th - 6th. I just bid on Priceline.com and got: 3 1/2 Star Sheraton Metairie New Orleans Located 5 miles from downtown just off I-10 $60 bid on 3-star and above landed this 3 1/2 star hotel - and parking is free. Priceline has some short-term, no-bid "specials" as well. I saw a 4-star hotel in the uptown area (bounded by the river, Poydras, Super Dome, Canal Street area) for $121. Of course, that does not include parking in the $30 - $40 per night range. Add in taxes and Priceline fees + parking and the $121 hotel just became close to a $200 per night hotel. The last time we stayed at the John W. Marriott on Canal parking was $35 a night so I am guessing $40 a night now. Where to park on Saturday coming in from Metairie? Consider driving from downtown out St. Charles Avenue and parking along the street (out in the Garden District) and then riding the street car in to Canal Street. Street cars run frequently during the day and every 30-minutes after about 10 or so at night. Perfectly safe - I have been parking on St. Charles and riding the street car for years because I am cheap! GMG

I saw this morning that Vito quoted Potts as saying UNT need to add a GIRLS sport to offset.............. Interesting terminology for female college athletes. I guess we have BOYS football and basketball teams? Yes, my good friend Kram, I know you are often on your high horse about the evils of "political correctness" but in this case, and assuming Vito did not blow the quote, I think the "image" of the Chair of the Board of Regents and the university overrides concerns about any preoccupation with unwarranted "political correctness". "Womens" or "young women's" would certainly have been preferable to "girls" - The athletes that play football and basketball at the college level are usually referred to as "men" or "young men". When I go to a football game Big Country Abbe does not conjure up the term "boy" in my vocabulary. When I attend volleyball games the female athletes certainly don't look like "girls" to me! GMG

Don't know where "Sulph-Er Springs" is located - Don't think Y'Barbo does either, or Macek. However, they will both proudly call "Sulph-Ur Springs" home.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

There are four of us that are going to enjoy New Orleans and the Mean Green!

This site still shows the game to be on ESPN3 Saturday at 6. http://lsufootball.net/tvschedule.htm