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"UNT will have a practice open to fans on March 6 at Fouts Field. The Mean Green will practice at both Fouts and the Darrell R. Dickey Practice Facility, the fields adjacent to the Mean Green Athletic Center, during spring drills. Dodge said fans who want to watch practices at the athletic center can stand outside the fence that surrounds the field. UNT’s scrimmages will take place on March 10 and March 27. The spring game will take place on April 4 at Fouts Field." Fans have always been able to watch practice at the athletic center "outside the fence". Just bring your Fouts-Field-game-watching-binoculars.

Star-Telegram story. Randy Galloway is quoted. http://startelegramsports.typepad.com/coll...ector-dies.html

??? Link please.

Every time I come across the "America, Love it or Leave it" mentality. The greatness of the Beatles. Sung, with their tongues firmly in their cheeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2LQGigK-0

The Credit Card companies are already bailing themselves out. read here.. http://www.star-telegram.com/ed_wallace/story/1216334.html my favorite part..... "The debate on who was to blame for this problem is still the most inane discussion in American history. In a problem that Wall Street’s financial innovation created, those same financial hotshots have turned the national discussion into a blame game based on their ideology: "The American automobile industry’s problems are solely based on the high cost of labor." Others claim that our downfall was the outrageous and selfish behavior of poor people buying homes they never could have paid for. Imagine that: Individuals without much education or financial capability were the villains who engineered the world’s financial downfall, not the MBAs and mathematicians who devised the mortgages and forcefully offered them to those poor and less educated individuals – and then turned around and sold those pathetic loans as Triple A investments. To frame the debate in an analogy that anyone can understand, the convenience store owner is the real criminal behind any robbery because he made it so easy for the crook to hold him up. Certainly that’s what Wall Street wants you to believe. If You’re Not Outraged … Last week Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup, testified in front of Congress, taking minor lumps. And, exhibiting some contrition for the failure of his firm, he said he would accept only $1 in compensation until he "fixed" his broken company. Nice, huh? Even noble – until one considers that taxpayers have already given his firm $45 billion to help him fix things. In the days before he testified on Citi’s errant ways, the bank’s cardholders received a letter saying that Citicards’ interest rates would be reset to 10.99% over the prime interest rate, or 16.99% minimum interest on their credit card balances. (That works out to 13.99% over today’s prime rate.) On reading my letter my first thought was, "My god, Citigroup is turning all American consumers into subprime borrowers!" Apparently if Citi can no longer charge the poor and indebted, they will charge everyone else a rate that once was considered usurious. At about the same time, Ford, GM and Chrysler again offered Zero Percent Financing on many of their most popular models, hoping to kick-start their sales – thereby improving not only their companies’ fortunes but also the nation’s. Ironic, isn’t it? The media can’t write enough stories lambasting Detroit for their failures, even as automakers are offering exceptional deals to a public that depends on personal automobiles to exist in our mobile society. Yet not a peep of outrage is heard over Citigroup’s jumping the interest their cardholders pay to rates that only Gary Coleman would call great. Detroit’s gift to help our national economy is Zero Percent Financing. Citigroup offers to fix its internal problems for 16.99 percent interest."

.. and hopefully we'll try and ignore the implications that has about our program.

Turns out (IMHO) that it wasn't all that interesting.

Will North Texas fans be allowed to watch?

Please tell me that you are not talking about that poor widow in California that was featured on 60 minutes Sunday. If you're including her in your "no sympathy" list............

You know, back when the original Snake Pit became unusable the administration of that time got creative in coming up with enough money to build the Super Pit. I don't know the original cost, but I think it was in the neighborhood of 20million....and that was back in the late 60's/early 70's. I think they built some classrooms into the facility so that some state money could be used. It's time for the current administration to get equally "creative" in their thinking to help out the football program.

I clearly heard this in his speech yesterday.... But, he said, it will do nothing to help "the unscrupulous or irresponsible." He cited so-called speculators who took out risky loans on multiple properties to make money by selling them during the housing boom, lenders who took advantage of naive buyers by glossing over the fine print, and people who willingly bought homes that were way beyond their means. "This plan will not save every home," Obama said. So what is the purpose of posting the story about this idiot who took out a housing loan that he had (even under ideal circumstances) no hope of paying off?

If gay couples were allowed to marry, then that would certainly open up that legal issue again. I wouldn't have a problem with it if the polygamist marriage was between consenting adults. My view of Polygamy today (and probably originally) is that it's just an excuse for older men to gain sexual access to underage girls.

Give in to what? "Those people" have been forming long term relationships long before either of us were born. Let them have the same legal relationship that all of us have. Every gay person in America can get married tomorrow and it will not change (morally) one thing that I do, that my wife does, or my son and daughter-in-law does on a daily basis.

I hate to be the one that breaks this news to you, but America already is. And it isn't the gay community that encourages it. America is in it's current financial pickle because fewer and fewer people can make good financial decisions. It obviously "felt good" to buy something, even though all common sense should have told them that there was no way in hell that they could afford the payments. This story is about people who love one another and are devoted to one another, but are considered less than second class citizens because of it.

..not as much as gay couples in the D/FW area view it. Yeah, every time Amercia's ignorance and intolerance (ironic since we are supposed to be the richest and smartest nation in the world) is highlighted, it's some sort of shakedown......mostly liberal of course.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opin...ina15pitts.html Their only crime is that they are two people who are in love and are devoted to one another. And as always, I'm reminded of one of my favorite speeches from one of my favorite movies...Inherit the Wind. Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy): Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!

That must mean that we are not going to play OU during the time that this young man is eligible to play for us. OR, if we are going to play OU during this time, Stoops has already determined that there is no way that this young man could be a difference maker in the game.

Just out of curiosity, what sort of offense does Snelly run? You know, the guy that has owned us.....and both of our coaches. How about FIU?

Interesting. I heard from a former NT Band member from the early 50's who said that they didn't wear spats with their uni's. The NT Uni also had a short cape, that had an N & T on it. It went flying every time a band member made an exaggerated turn....Ohio State style. The only shows that I saw during the mid-sixties were homecoming shows. They were very impressive. I remember one where the show featured the fight song. They took you on a world tour and played the fight song as if it had been written in different counties. I remember they did a Spanish version, an Oriental version, and a version that sounded like European classical music. I was very impressed with the origionality of the show....and the high energy of the band members. Did you ever get that record that has made by the North Texas Band during the McAdow era transferred to a CD?

Since it's going to be a green project (LEED certified), and since we're calling it a multi-use facility, we ought to apply for some stimulus money.

Bitch-slapping will do just fine.

Not anyone who's ever been to an OU game. I don't like OU, but they know how to do college pagentry. I guess the GB is doing the best that they can with basically a track stadium. It's kind of hard to come pouring out on the field when you're coming from a different zip code. Although during the Maurice McAdow days, they would line up (company front style) at the north end zone and play a very impressive fanfare before entering the field. It was better pagentry than what we have now. Of course the GB of those days was about 125 members and they were very up-tempo (marching 8 to 5). Their uni's were very similar to the Ohio State Band's uni's. And like Ohio State, they wore spats. One of Mr. McAdow's favorite words and/or commands to the band was "FLOURISH, FLOURISH". I would like to see the fanfare that they used to play during those days brought back. I think it must have been written by a North Texas graduate for the Band, because in all the years I've gone to HS and College football games, I've never heard a fanfare like it.

..........AND the Green Brigade pouring out onto the field (OU style) to make a grand entrance and (like the OU band) getting the fans pumped and really into the game just before the teams arrive. I think that's called the pagentry of college football.

I totally agree. Fouts is currently 30,500. But 10,000 of those seats are absurdly crappy in just about every way that you can imagine. I look forward to us having 30K real football seats, in a real football venue. THEN we will find out what our real potential is (fan wise) as a football school.

Just remember my little health tip.