ragpicker

We need to be nice to Bruce. It is an authentic campus icon and really neat looking building in a 1940's kind of way. I also has a sun dial on the entrance side wall.

Thanks for posting, indeed. Lets get this party train on the road. I mean on track.

I agree. What about buses or even a train (Amtrak) trip. MAKE IT HAPPEN UNT has a nice ring. Whatever we do we need to do SOMETHING. Coach Mac has gone out of his way to create enthusiasm for game day but he can't do it all. You are right about the "Ho Hum" attitude, cogido, there just has to be a way to light a fire under our alums and students and I think creating a fun and safe way to get to Austin and other places may be the ticket. A creative marketing department should be working with transportation alternatives to the automobile.

How about "BRUCELING" with a rat on the bottle?

Old Spice is what our daddy's wore and what girls daddy's wore. The theory is that because it reminds them of their daddy they tend to feel safe and let their guards down on a date. Big mistake

I think those of us not tailgating should meet at Scholtz's Sat. afternoon. It is a short but pleasant walk from there to the game. Great atmosphere all around with local politicians, students etc.

I agree. This thing is so out of control that it is bound to implode some day. When that happens perhaps we can get back to real college athletics with real students with a real line of demarcation between the pros and college. The players may not be quite as big and fast but at least college athletics will not be a lie and Jerry Jones and others can form their own minor league farm teams and stop contaminating college athletics. I know, I know, not likely, but we can dream, can't we?

This is semi-pro farm team football, folks, and I say to hell with it.

For some reason the Fort Worth phone book used to list Joe T's as Joe T. Garcia Barbecue. It was good back then, but now it is just bland quantity over quality. Things change. I remember when we thought Ponder had great steaks. Ponder (Ranchman's}is still kind of fun, but those steaks are not great and I don't know if they still have homemade pies or not.

An assistant coach at Highland Park who has been to several of our practices, told me that he was very impressed and thinks we have a chance against Texas and should beat SMU. I thought that he might have been saying that knowing I am a UNT fan, but the more I talk to him the more I believe he is genuinely convinced we could win both games. His son, who is a senior, has been to some of our practices as well and his older son was a starter for Oklahoma. I didn't go to the '88 game thinking we had no chance at all, especially because their starting running back was allowed to play after he had been arrested the week before. I have always regretted it. Just think though, we can now challenge and review plays. I will be there following a few cold ones at Scholtz's.

When people think of us as as relevant to DFW as Sam Houston is to Houston, we have we done a lackluster job at marketing. Of course, we have known that for years,

That's true. I can still recall the crowds, cheerleaders, band, the incredible noise level and, of course, PoPO and his tambourine. Halcyon days.

It was so much fun to watch us play those great teams along with Drake, Bradley etc. in the old Pit back then. After I graduated and was traveling through the midwest in those days, I was surprised to discover how much basketball fans in that part of the country knew about our team and players. We got far more press in places like Des Moines and and St louis back then than we did in DFW.We didn't win that much on the road against some of those teams, but the home games in the Pit were often a different story. I have yet to see anything since then, in either football or basketball, to match the fan enthusiasm from those days in the Pit.

It was interesting that the Channel 8 investigation of this situation seemed to end so abruptly.

Bunch of Damn Yankees, anyway.

None that I know of, but there are plenty on the 1st.

Good points. I studied the constitution in college as well and, because I was able to understand compound sentences before ntering college, I have never considered the second amendment absolute. (...the right to keep and bear arms, A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, etc.)

Thank you, Kram1, I feel a bit more optimistic about the situation now.

Speaking of "Tier One" aspirations, how are our recent "accounting irregularities" going to affect our donor base? Our current endowment is quite modest at best for a university our size and age. I would suspect that large donors become somewhat skittish when they see a mishandling of university finances. Does anyone have any current information on this subject?

I fired sharpshooter on the range at old Camp Matthews in Marine Corps boot camp and expert each year of my enlistment after that, but I do not understand the current fascination with gun ownership and concealed licenses. What are those suburmanites in Frisco afraid of anyway; ferocious Bobcats and man eating coyotes? There are too many guns floating around in this country anyway, and too many half-wits to go along with them.

No coach should make more than the average salary of the rest of the faculty and certainly not as much as a Noble Prize physics professor, for example. For those who argue that the football team bring in a lot of revenue, that is true in some cases, but ignores the fact that accredited universities are not in the business to make a profit. The whole system has become an example of rank hypocrisy which is one of the things seats of higher learning are suppose to expose rather than practice.

I agree

Very good point. Personally, I don't care anything about pro sports (an oxymoron) for the reasons stated and for the fact that professional franchises provide no anchor with which to remain loyal. Pro teams are businesses that can, and do, relocate while hiring employees that go with the highest bidder. Business is business and sport is supposed to be a diversion from the mundane world of earning a living.Of course, college football has become big business itself and perhaps it has had its day and we should begin showing our old school spirit for men and women's non- revenue sports. Believe me, there is no entertainment as exciting to me as college football, but if it is going to become tainted beyond redemption by filthy lucre and bottom line profit then, perhaps, it is it is time for it to go.

We DO feel like a real program now and the people I talk to (high school coaches, fans from other schools etc.}have begun to see us as a real program as well. I join Harry in saying thank you.

I miss the Texas Pickup.