SilverEagle

Didn't he start the SMU game as well?

I seem to recall that they spray painted "SMU" on the columns at the entrance of the Administration building. I never heard that they painted to doors.

Beat Texas and our FIRST home game will be a sell-out......SRO as a matter of fact.

I wouldn't care if Tulsa had the #1 offense in the nation. Getting blown out at home (or anywhere else for that matter) is unacceptable.

You know, I'm getting kind of tired of us hoping for some "trickle-down" benefit from some conference shake-up. To me, it's like getting nothing but the left-overs at a meal. I like Got5onIts' attitude. It's the same mind set that Hayden Fry used to have. (Yes! I've mentioned Hayden Fry again. If all you young board members don't like it, you can kiss my lime-green back-side.) Hayden Fry never talked about trying to get into the WAC, he talked about getting into the SWC. I say we go to the B-12 and make an assertive presentation. I'd tell them that the Texas/OU game is only once a year. If we were in the B-12 conference, they would have more like 5 or 6 additional metroplex games to enhance their recruiting. I would point out that TCU's membership in the Mountain West has given that conference a multi-game presence in the Metroplex, and has the potential to erode one of the B-12's more fertile recruitment areas. I would also point out that SMU's CUSA membership has re-established CUSA presence. I would then tell them that we were going to make the same presentation to the B-East and the SEC....and any other conference that was forward thinking enough to listen.

Frito Pie and Chili Cheese Dogs? Sounds great (especially the Frito Pie), but I'm sure that whoever cleans up the stadium is less than excited about those items being added to the menu.

I sure hope so, because the fans have been "stealth attending" for quite some time.

During the spring, I didn't notice that Davenport was particulary fast. I'm a bit surprised that they're trying him at FB, since they didn't run him there during the spring. I noticed that James Thokey 6' X 215 (Dallas First Baptist Academy/Southern Nazarene College) is still on the roster. He told me that he transferred with the anticipation of playing safety, but that the coaching staff moved him to FB. That's where he played during the spring. I noticed that they assigned jersey #9 to Adam Burnett, DB Everman. I also noticed that Tim Patton was assigned jersey #52 and that Esteban Santiago was assigned jersey #77. Both are listed as DT's I also found it rather interesting that fresham recruit Chris Neal from Kaufman was assigned jersey #34 and listed as PLAYER. Is that a new position, or is it the coachs' pre-camp assessment. Hmmm, Joshua Maldonado made the team. Imagine that.

A big bag of nothing? You have got to be kidding. I wouldn't call James Mitchell, Devin Cox, and Evan Robertson a big bag of nothing.

Then don't lecture me about endowments. There's all sorts of endowments.....as SMU demonstrated.

Well duh! All endowments are private funds or gifts. Whether or not the endowment is at a private or public University....they're gifts. Private schools just have more sugar daddies to give to these endowments. I forget, what did SMU call the endowment fund that they used to pay athletes?

Well, all I can say is let's not disappoint this guy.

I've read that amongst the rich it's considered bad manners (or not cool if you will) to talk about money. So, just because they don't talk about it, doesn't mean that they aren't rolling in it.......and know that they're rolling in it. Whenever I think about the perceived (at least my perception anyway) social differences between North Texas students and SMU (and even TCU) students I think of the old Billie Holliday song "God Bless the Child".* Them thats got shall get Them thats not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have, papa may have But God bless the child thats got his own Thats got his own Everything that famous and/or high profile North Texas alumni have accomplished they did on their own. For that matter, everything that the University has accomplished, it accomplished on it's own. No special legislative funding (ie UT & A$M) or large private endowments (SMU, TCU, Rice etc) helped North Texas accomplish it's reputation as an outstanding institution of higher learning. We did it on our own.....God Bless us. * BTW, as much as I admire Billie Holliday as an artist, my favorite version of this song is by Blood Sweat and Tears.

Because it might make the whole experience more.....interesting.

No, that isn't necessary. Just having your wife/girlfriend stand up and ask "isn't thowing on first down, a good technique for keeping a defense honest? My (husband/boyfriend) says that that concept just never occurs to you" would be embarrassing enough. Or! have your wife/girlfriend stand up and ask "Coach, why does my (husband/boyfriend) always say that the whole damn stadium knows what play your going to run on 3rd and long?"

Send your wife/girlfriend and write out some embarrassing questions for them to ask him.

....well, for that matter just about all of the local HS coaches have a more complicated playbook.

There is precedent for letting impaired officials call a game......UT vs North Texas 1988.

I tend to agree with this.

What a schedule for the whorns! They have seven games at home. When they travel, they only leave the state twice. And the first time that they leave the state isn't until Oct 21st (Nebraska). Let's see. If they sell-out every one of their home games, the ticket sales alone with be a minimum of $4mil per game. So, with seven home games, their gross ticket receipts will be a minimum of $28mil.

I just looked on the UT athletic site. It's still 11:00 am. Here is the link. http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball.com/

Well, Mr. Anderson certainly make it work. By incorporating the flute into rock (and very well I might add) he provided a semblance of music to the genre'.

I looked at other conferences and universities on this site. I was shocked to see that Southern Miss has only a 33K seat stadium. Is this accurate? Meanwhile Tulsa has a 40+K stadium. BTW, are we going to be forced to sit in those crappy looking endzone seats at Skelly Stadium?

Where in hell did this come from?

Jim, it's going to cost you more than a $1 to mail one of those shirts.