jredallas

Somewhat serious not-serious question, but in this age of nothing seems to matter anymore, does anything stop a school from selling naming rights to their team nickname / mascot? Like, could UNT be the Mean Green Chevrolets with a Green Silverado as the mascot?

I personally think that the playing music over the PA at times when the band would typically be playing has negatively impacted the cadence for when and how the band plays during the games. I don't want to be all old man about it, but if I want to listen to the stuff that is played on the PA system (majority of which I actually do like), I have about 10 different devices I can play that on myself. When I go to a college football game, I want to hear the friggin' band play during timeouts and between plays, when appropriate. It's college football, not an NBA game. When I look back at attending games at Fouts as a student in the 90s', I absolutely remember the band playing, and I enjoyed it then just as I do now. If they were playing other music, maybe they were, but I would have no memory of that whatsoever. Additionally, I know there has been some other negative thoughts about the band overall, and not that I have been in band since I played trumpet as a sophomore in high school so I am no expert, but I was absolutely blown away by the halftime performance this week. I know majority of it was a rehash of other bits and pieces that had already been done this year, but damn that was a strong close.

Exactly. I am traveling with my family to the game, and this makes it easier to start planning the rest of the day now at least.

The coach Dodge is replacing at Lovejoy will have his debut as OC for SFA at North Texas.

With good weather: 9,000-10,000 With rain or very cold: sub-6,000 Has the game time been announced yet? I thought I had seen noon somewhere but still see TBD on UNT and AAC sites.

I have always parked on the street in the neighborhood south of Mockingbird without issue going back to years of hanging out with SMU friends on Blvd before games. I hope that is still a good option tonight.

I will be there, but I feel like this is going to be the sparsest UNT crowd at an SMU game in Dallas since this most recent home and home series started with them.

Same usually. Yesterday I was using the Varsity app with Bluetooth to my sound system and was able to only pause a couple seconds on the ESPN+ broadcast to let the app audio catch up. I had a friend that got me started with listening to all Cowboys games on radio while watching on TV in the 90s. I generally do that with all teams I care about to hear the home broadcast audio rather than "neutral" announcers. It's so much easier now to get all synced up with DVRs and so much through apps rather than broadcast tv and radio.

I always just turn that off and listen to Hank and Dave instead.

I was there last night too. One of my biggest regrets is getting greedy for profit and selling my front row tickets to see Pearl Jam at The Super Pit in 1993.

More than this: (yes, I know, I took that one before the game started :))

"Zip the gate."

No promissory estoppel argument to be made?

I know UNT will probably never go the HS coach route again (lessons harshly learned), but Chris Ross at Lovejoy would fit that bill too. Marcus Trice was one of his assistants last year before he left for his current gig at SFA.

As the late, great Ernie Zampese said, "One thing I'm finally figured out. If the play doesn't work, it's a bad call. If the play works, it's a good call."