SilverEagle

Part of the solution. Renewing my season tickets and MGC membership. I can't understand why someone thinks that not renewing their season tickets will make a statement to the administration. All you're doing is continuing the old tradition that we're most (in)famous for.......apathy. Do like me. If you don't like what's going on, then show up and make the people that you're unhappy with miserable. We may have terrible sight lines at Fouts, but people can still hear you when you yell.....

It is 6/6/06. Do you know where your inner demon is? (Boogah! boogah!)

You know, Dr. Pohl is a "class act", but I wouldn't hire him to coach football here at North Texas.

I was having a conversation last Friday about college football with a young man in my unit. "Jason" is a SMU graduate and he was discussing SMU's prospects for this year.....which he feels are pretty grim. He commented that Phil Bennett needed to have a good year in order to keep his job, and then he commented that "at least Bennett is better than Tom Rossley and the offense that he ran". Jason went on to say "his offense consisted of up-the-middle, up-the-middle, up-the-middle, punt". I just smiled and said "well, obviously the officials at North Texas were much more impressed by that offensive scheme than you were. Otherwise they wouldn't have hired Tom Rossley's offense coordinator away from SMU.....to be our head coach"

Teachers have said for years "dealing with the parents is more difficult than dealing with the kids."

I found my copy of the 1990 UNT/SMU game. I sat down and watched it and I was shocked. Between the time that Scott Davis surgically picked apart the 1988 Texas team with his passing and the 1990 SMU game, something terrible went wrong. Scott's passes in the SMU game were mostly lame ducks, and the best pass he could throw was a "dump" to a receiver over the middle. Can someone fill me in as to what happened to his arm? Also, I noticed a young WR/Punt returner playing in the game. I believe his name was G Matthews and he was wearing #41. BTW, what ever happened to the running back named Blowers #20, who was sharing the backfield with Pegram that night?

....or why not just call them "North Texas Fans"

If the Russian Winters were not so strong.

Thanks! What a relief! Thanks! What a relief!

One of the advanced history courses that I took in College was "Europe between the World Wars". It was actually the history of the rise of Nazi Germany. There were strong indications in the course material that indicated that had France not humiliated Germany in the Paris Peace Accords, there wouldn't have been the ideal conditions for the Nazi's to come to power. In other words, some historians feel that France created that monster.

One of the advanced history courses that I took in College was "Europe between the World Wars". It was actually the history of the rise of Nazi Germany. There were strong indications in the course material that indicated that had France not humiliated Germany in the Paris Peace Accords, there wouldn't have been the ideal conditions for the Nazi's to come to power. In other words, some historians feel that France created that monster.

Sick..... but very funny!

My guess is that it's a typo and he's going to Tyler Junior College (which BTW is in Smith County). The other possibility is Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC) in Athens. Most of these schools are getting away from the word "Junior" in their names.

Ahhh, good ol' Texas Football. The former shill-rag for the old SWC.

........my opinion as well. I also love this quote. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism - Thomas Jefferson .....so according to Thomas Jefferson, one of the most patriotic generations in American History would be the 60's-early 70's generation.

.....and your son is very right to have that attitude. I wish him all the luck and success in the world. Keep us posted on what I know will be a very successful career at N.Colorado.

Naturally this doesn't give UT any sort of unfair advantage, funding-wise, with our law makers.

6'3"X 370!?!?

Nope.

I saw the movie "Three Days of the Condor" for the first time a month or so back. The main premise of it was that there was a secret CIA/Shadow government going around pulling strings, causing revolutions, and just generally manipulating world events. Cliff Robertson was one of the agents for this "shadow" organization and John Houseman was one of the "decision makers" within the organization. During one of his conversations with Cliff Robertson, Houseman started reviewing his career as a spy, which went all the way back to WWI and WWII. Cliff Roberston asked him if he missed those times. Houseman responded "No!, but I do miss the clarity of those times." I certainly didn't live during those times, but like the John Houseman character, I too miss the clarity of them. Now back to Football......which (for North Texas alumni/fans) isn't any more "clear" than our political situation.

You might want to PM PMG on that.

I think that PMG and Hank Dickinson had a "discussion" about that issue at the tailgating event at the last TCU game. I can't remember if PMG got a satisfactory answer/explaination about it.

Philosophically speaking, I agree with Big Dawg and FFR, and I'll use my own old High School as an example. Back in the early 60's (61 and 62) Jacksboro HS (coached by the legendary Chuck Curtis) was an absolute terror, and won the State title (in what is now 3-A) for the first time (they won it again in the early 70's) in 62. In 1961 my old HS (Decatur) played them in a non-conference game. Jacksboro won 81-0. We went our separate ways and won our respective districts, and met again in bi-district. Everyone in Decatur thought that the first game must have been some sort of abberation and felt that the bi-district game would be much more competitive. It was, Jacksboro won 61-0. So, in a district champion season, Decatur lost to Jacksboro by a total of 142-0. Now, did the good people (well, most of them are good) of Decatur bitch and gripe to the UIL and demand some sort of rule change about running up the score? No! they made Jacksboro their sworn enemy. They then resolved to work as hard as they could to make their program better, and beat those arrogant SOB's who loved to run the score up on people. The next year (62) Decatur (in a stroke of genius) scheduled Jacksboro for our homecoming game. We scored first on Jacksboro (the first team to do so that year) and ended up losing the game 70-6. Jacksboro went on to win state. So, at this point we're up to 212-6 vs Jacksboro. Again, did the people of Decatur bitch and gripe to the "powers that be?"......hell no! They just set their collective jaws even tighter, and strengthened their resolve. The next season's game was much more competitive, Jacksboro won 36-19. After that season (63), the school board didn't renew the coaches contract and went out and hired the coach that beat Jacksboro in it's play-off run of 1961....Bill Davis. The 1964 game was a squeaker. Jacksboro won 8-6. "Beat Jacksboro" continued to be the "mantra" of the Decatur High School football program. Meanwhile we used Jacksboro's propensity for running up the score on other teams as a motivation. The next three seasons 65 to 67, Jacksboro was consisitently ranked either #1 or in the top 5 of the 2-A (which is now 3-A) rankings. Going into their games with Decatur, they were almost always ranked #1 or #2. They continued to try and intimidate their opponents by running up the score on some hapless school the week before. It worked with most of their opponents, but they never figured out that it had the opposite effect on Decatur. In the three seasons of 65 thru 67 Jacksboro's record was 27-3. All three losses were to Decatur. And two of those losses were on the Jacksboro home field.........Revenge was very sweet. So the lesson here is this....... you can whine and cry about getting beat up on, or you can adopt the attitude of I DIDN'T COME HERE TO LOSE!

Yeah, I could see the ex-employees doing a reinactment of the French Revolution in this case...... and who would blame them?