SilverEagle

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I was sitting right next to the band. In fact I was sitting so close that I couldn't see what all of the band was doing. Had I seen the above described behavior, I would have gone over and said something to them, as well as the director of the band. That is unacceptable behavior. I was pleased to see that the Band was wearing shorts, but I was somewhat dismayed to see that they obviously had to fend for themselves and provide their own. Naturally that resulted in a less than consistent look amongst the band members. I too would have preferred that they had worn green t-shirts. Also, if I had known that they were going to wear shorts and t-shirts, I would have proposed a gomeangreen fund raising event to buy them baseball caps to wear. This is just another sad example of the funding differences between UT and UNT. Our band deserves much better than this.

I certainly hope that you're wrong about that. The $15.00 is for general admission tickets. My tickets show $25.00 for the SMU game. Personally, I think they should have charged more. I certainly hope that there are no more alumni who's expectations about ticket prices are still stuck back in the days of $8.00 and $6.00 for reserved seats. Otherwise, we're going to end up like the Israelites who wandered the desert for 40 years until their disobedient/disbelieving generation had died off.

I can't believe what I'm reading. He thinks that running non-stop against 8 and 9 man defensive fronts is going to be the answer to their running game problems? Let me be the first to comment on this NEUROTIC NOTION..*. NO AMOUNT OF TECHNIQUE AND/OR REPITITION IS GOING TO OVERCOME 8 OR 9 (OR POSSIBLY MORE) MEN IN THE BOX. IT'S BEEN TRIED OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND IT DOESN'T WORK *(from the Wikipedia web-site) Neurotic tendencies are common and may manifest themselves as depression, acute or chronic anxiety, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, phobias, and even personality disorders, such as borderline personality disorder or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. It has perhaps been most simply defined as a "poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to change one's life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more complex, more satisfying personality."

Survive another year? Is that the kind of life that DD wants for himself? Surely not.

Here's another question along the same lines..."If we barely beat SMU this week, will we consider that enough of an improvement to want to stay with the same coaching staff/philosophy?". When DD talked to the alumni at the Friday night gathering (and all things considered, he did a pretty good job) he made a comment to our new president. He said "when you're about half way through watching the game tomorrow, keep in mind that we're getting 1/2 million for it". Ok, then my question is this "How much (donor-wise and alumni interest/support-wise and media-lack-of-respect-wise) does a humiliating ass-whipping cost us?". I'm no expert number cruncher, but I'd be willing to guess that the negative publicity that we got (and continue to get) from being UT, OU, and LSU's BIMBO has cost us much more than 1/2 million.

First of all, Eagle Man, welcome to the board. Second of all, are you a student or alumni?

I voted "sea of green". I've gone to UT and OU games and the thing that I envy them the most for is how their fans ALL show up wearing the colors.....the same colors! North Texas fans, even the ones who make trips to out of town games, still don't consistently wear green. And when they do, it's just a patchwork of various shades of green. One day I hope to walk into Fouts (or the new stadium) and see a sea of green, the same way that I see all crimson (OU) or all burnt orange(UT).

Best, a lengthy drive for a TD. J. Chapman (#90) did great in the first half too many tackles by the DB's I didn't get a sunstroke I didn't get into an altercation with either a UT fan or.........anyone else. Worst TACKLING, why did our defense think that just hitting J Charles and S. Young hard would knock them down? Those guys get hit by B-12 defenses all the time and don't go down easily. DOESN'T ANYONE AT NT PRACTICE THAT OLD FASHIONED TECHNIQUE CALLED WRAPPING UP, ANY MORE?

I think you're talking about the anti-concussion helmet. Riddell makes it. Here's the link. http://www.riddell.com/RevFacts.htm

And just in case anyone is curious, the final score was North Texas Teacher's College 11, the Sammy Baugh-led Hornfrogs 28. Jack Sisco was our coach then, and he obviously wasn't in awe of the mighty TCU.

Here is my favorite comment from a UT fan about that game. The other thing I recall about the game - NT had a 3rd and veeeery long, deep in their own end, and as they came out of the huddle, the QB stopped to tie his shoe, a good 10 yards or more behind the line. They snapped it long to him, and he quick-kicked. Completely unexpected, got a great roll, and put Texas way back. There was a flag on the play though, and it came back, so 3rd and even longer. They huddled up deep again, and the QB stopped to tie his shoe again, and the whole crowd groaned, thinking how stupid it was to try to catch us by surprise again... except this time, it was snapped, the safeties ran deep to cover the punt, and the QB threw it, for a first down. Got a huge roar of approval from the crowd. We (Texas) did win 17-14, not exactly impressive. And THAT folks was what it was like watching a Hayden Fry coached team.

I agree with that assessment of Mr. Mitchell. I'm also surprised at Devin Cox. I was just sure that he would continue to develop this fall.

I saw him get "lit up" in the last NO bowl. I'm hoping that Toby can duplicate his Ja-Mo hit on Charles or Young.

Hmmm, I wonder if Marshall and Boise St. changed their helmet logos when they moved up to D-1. I would love to see "son of worm" on our helmets this year. For the Texas game, white shirts, green pants.....and a look of "I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE" in their eyes.

Don't we have an outstanding program to help students with "learning difficulties"? Isn't that one of the main reasons that Jamario came here? The original Scrappy is not pleased....instead of posting a smilie, please refer to my avatar.

Section 13, row 13, seat 2. BTW, does anyone know which section the band will be in?

My favorite quote from the article. "I remember her chuckling about it saying, 'I can't imagine they think I would do that,' " Cryer said. "But you know how football fans are. They see want they want to see." ....and so do chauvanist who don't like strong intelligent women.

I couldn't say it better.

I was thinking more in terms of Little Richard in those car insurance commercials HELP ME!.. SOMEBODY HELP ME!!

Maybe it felt like 20 years to some people, but it was only 12. And lest you forget, we had more noticable OCC wins as a 1-AA school than we've had since "returning" to D-1.

You know Jim, no one could ever accuse you of not being focused.

To me, any concussion is very serious. Especially if the effects linger for over a week. Because he is so competitive, this young man is going to want to return to action ASAP. I know that his parents are very concerned about him.

I'll be there with FFR, my son, and his girlfriend......a TCU graduate. I don't know why I keep going to games like this, other than I know that the team needs to have as many people wearing green in the stands as possible. My wife continues to offer me what she considers to be the viable alternative of beating me with barbed wire. From her point of view, it couldn't be anymore painful, and it would be over with quicker. Plus, it's much cheaper!

In the past, they sent their un-sold allotment of tickets back on Thursday. All of the sold tickets they took with them.