SilverEagle

There was a cartoonist/illustrator that worked with the NT Daily during the mid/late 80's that used to do sports cartoons (like McClanahan of the old Dallas Morning News) for the Daily. This cartoon looks like his work. I wonder where that guy is now?

[ BTW, can't remember, but did you ever receive any semblance or hint of an apology from your debate opponent? There wasn't a debate. Did you get my PM?

I prefer the term..."stress management professionals". .....

I hope that all is well........or reasonably well.

Thank you for that clarification officer nit-pick. Have a nice day.

Jim. (and I say this as a friend) Honest to God, I'm going to take up a collection so that you can get better drugs.........and get laid while you're at it.

Now you think that subtleties escape me? I'm just sure you didn't mean that. "no one but me seems to care about the future of this program" I have never been that "Joan of Arc" in any of my postings. What would be more accurate would be "I reserve the right to say that "the King has no clothes". Simple enough for you?

First of all, I'm not lobbying for our head coach to be fired. I'm am real sorry that he got such a long contract extension, but I don't want him fired. What I DO want, is for him to stop being so cautious, and come out with guns blazing at every game. We will never move up and have any *real progress until that happens. I'm sorry, but if you want me to stop referring to our past success as being "king of the dip-$hits", then we had better start adding some OCC wins to our future conference championships. We went to four bowl games and won only one! Our last one was an embarrassing ass-whipping. Where in our four bowl trips, where we had three losses, do you find any sort of progress? Since you want people to stop using certain terms and phrases, then let me suggest one for you. I want you, to stop referring to our OCC losses as "disappointing". Our OCC losses to Florida-who? at home, and Tulsa were humiliating....not disappointing. I've watched North Texas football games for longer than you've been alive, and I've never been more embarrassed by our performance at home.....and away for that matter, than I have these last two years. Sorry for the rant. I will continue to support my University no matter what. I just don't like people telling me that I can't use as a valid argument if I choose to engage in a debate. Especially when I know what I'm talking about. *real is any win that the general public in the North Texas area recognizes as a valid win against a valid opponent.

If any of the players who sign-up don't bother to even show-up to fall practice (like some have done in the past) then you will certainly hear some early criticism from me.

When everyone on your list is signed, then Deep and I will say "kudos".....about signing up some "potential". Like Deep, I'll reserve the rest of the "Kudos" for when the group produces.

If it didn't set off alarm bells with the opposing coaches in his school's district, then I don't see why it should with us.

Looks like the QB position is getting pretty crowded.

You consider "wannabe" name calling? My, but aren't you the hot-house orchid. Texas can affort to ignore people wearing "other" gear, because just about everyone else in the state of Texas buys and wears their gear......and many have never set foot on their campus. Texas has established themselves as the school that everyone loves to be associated with. In case you haven't noticed, North Texas can't even find many places that will sell their gear, much less have their students/alumni (god forbid) buy any of it. Texas regards loyalty to the Longhorns as some sort of entitlement. North Texas continues to struggle for even a fraction of that loyalty from it's students/alumni. Even though North Texas gave these same people (who wear UT gear on the North Texas campus) a fine education for a very reasonable price. Jealousy? Maybe, but frustration would be more the case.

Oooooooh, you compared a player to Nick Zuniga.......now we're talk'in.

Well, if Brent believed that North Texas was going to offer him a ship, then it must have been based on something other than wishful thinking. Has the coaching staff said things to Brent and/or his parents that... A. they are now taking back? B. denying that they said? I believe that Brent is not the only one that thought that an offer was going to be made.

Santiago played on both the offensive and defensive lines at Coronado. He earned honorable mention Class 5A All-State honors from The Associated Press as an offensive lineman. Did they actually use the words "All-state" in the same sentence with one of our recruits.

For Monroe, they could always be the fight'n Nutrias. http://images.google.com/images?q=nutria&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=ii&oi=imagest Or they could borrow the Sherveport minor league team's name......the Mudbugs. Some of the fans of Arkst. are trying to get the administration interested in the Red Wolf. If their administration doesn't go for it thenm, we could suggest something obvious like the "Fight'n Ridge Runners".

You need to PM FFRick. I can tell you that there is not any North Texas Flag trailer hitches out there, but Rick can tell you where to call for someone local who makes trailer hitch covers. Right now, your best bet is to find a regular Texas flag hitch cover and paint over the blue and red colors with dark green and lime green.

During the last big drought in late 70's-early 80's Lake Bridgeport was down over 20 feet. At one point you could see the old railroad track/road bed that ran parallel to the bridge leading over to Runaway Bay. No one thought that the Lake would ever come back.....but it did.

Tex-cess Everything's bigger in our state, especially the fan fakery By Richie Whitt Article Published Jan 19, 2006 Details Who / What: UT Longhorns Rose Bowl victory How 'bout them Dallas Longhorns! What a great story. Vince Young, raised on the tough streets of Oak Cliff, survives to star at Carter High School and eventually matures into the leader of the nation's No. 1 college football team. Wow! And it all happened here in our own backyard. Right? It must've. Why else would The Dallas Morning News produce a special section on the Longhorns' Rose Bowl victory and a full-page color poster of Young? Why else would the racks of Longhorns Rose Bowl T-shirts at the Kroger near The Village be empty the day after the game when the day before they were almost full? Why else would shameless family restaurants like Beef O' Brady's in McKinney institute a cover charge during the national championship game? Why else would a local Ford dealership run radio ads congratulating "our national champs"? And why else would Dallas' No. 1 sports radio station, 1310 AM The Ticket, carry Young's press conferences live? Because the Longhorns are our team? Uh, nope. Because in Dallas, we lead the nation in bandwagoning. As former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said back in 1991, "This isn't a football town, it's a winners town." Never has that been more apparent than in 2006, when Dallas' fake frenzy over the University of Texas' national championship almost made us forget that Austin is a good 200 miles south, that our city is home to a competitive Division I school called SMU and that our skyline's most unique building is bathed in argon green not burnt orange. Unless UT's Dallas-based enrollment/alumni has suddenly spiked to around, oh, say 1.2 million, I'm guessing a lot of you have enjoyed a happy new year hijacking a successful athletic team for the purpose of selfish emotional fulfillment. "It's not right at all, but it's easy to explain," said Ticket co-host Greg Williams. "UT is the face of college football in this state. I don't care if you're from Texas A&M or Sul Ross or are just a marginal fan with no affiliation, it's easy to get your arms around Texas winning the championship." At 24 Hour Fitness there are more Texas T-shirts than resolutions and beads of sweat combined. In the express aisle at Tom Thumb there are MILFs checkin' out more magazine covers featuring Mack Brown and his trophy than Angelina Jolie and her belly. And at Bob Thomas Ford, they're awfully proud of their latest commercial: "The Longhorns' championship makes you proud to be a Texan, no matter where you went to school." It does? I don't want to piss on our parade but, pssst, it's not our parade! I'm not sure whether I need to be embarrassed or I want to be evicted. Talk about pride all you want, but know this: When the University of Southern California won the title last season, the folks up the coast in San Francisco were way too proud to go dancin' in the streets or go slappin' full-page posters of Matt Leinart in their major-market newspaper. San Francisco: "Damn, I can't wait for the day when our team wins." Dallas: "Yee-haw! At least they're from Texas!" And your local paper served as choreographer to the whole coattail caravan, all but screaming "We Win!" On Monday, a full 13 days after Texas' 41-38 victory over USC, the DMN was still running photos of Young on page 1A. On its Web site, the paper continues to offer a special section dedicated to the Longhorns, including Texas-themed desktop wallpaper. Indeed, all my excess lives in Texas. This from a paper that lives down the street from SMU, 30 miles from a TCU team that finished 11-1 and in a city that is home to neither Texas nor any member of the Big 12 Conference. Makes you wonder who runs the rag these days, Belo or Bevo? "There's a lot of UT alumni here, sure, but there are a lot from OU, too, and they didn't get the same treatment when they won the title," Williams said. "And I don't think I recall any Pony Express posters when SMU flirted with the championship back in the '80s. How they covered UT like it was Dallas' team was more than a little strange." Here's betting that 35 years from now, when SMU wins its next championship, the Austin American-Statesman doesn't borrow the DMN's headline: "No. 1, Y'all!"

Kinky Friedman for "Gov"...."How hard can it be?"

Some thoughts from one of my favorite columnist...Leonard Pitts. The threat of 'Brokeback' By Leonard Pitts, The Miami Herald I went to see Brokeback Mountain recently, mainly to prove to myself that I could. This was after reading a New York Times piece by Larry David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame in which he wrote that, though he loves gay people and supports both gay marriage and gay divorce, he does not plan to see this critically praised movie about gay cowboys. David said he's discomfitted by the idea of watching two men fall in love and fears that it might make him gay by osmosis. "Not," he said, "that there's anything wrong with that." It strikes me that David's essay amounted to the smiley-face liberal version of what is being said more bluntly in conservative circles. "Gay love story carries a high 'ick' factor" reads the headline of a story on the American Family Association Web site. It quotes a prediction that people will leave the theater vomiting. How asinine, I think. Yeah, says a little voice in my head, but if that's how you feel, why haven't YOU been to Brokeback Mountain? Well, I protest, right now I'm teaching in this tiny college town in the middle of nowhere. I'd have to drive 90 miles. Good point, says the voice. But didn't you drive that far to see Good Night, and Good Luck? Now look, I say, some of my best friends are gay. Heck, my own brother's gay. But you know, we are talking about a love story between two guys, and they might be kissing and, you know, touching and ... stuff. The little voice falls silent. It is a put-your-money-where-your-mouth-is silence. So I went to see Brokeback. And I can report that it was as shattering and powerful as advertised. People were moved. Nobody threw up. Which brings me back to that ick factor. I find myself wondering if this primeval revulsion doesn't speak less to our antipathy toward homosexuality than to our fears about masculinity. I mean, while a movie about two women in love would surely be controversial, I doubt it would present the visceral threat that Brokeback Mountain does for some of us. Indeed, the idea of women who can't keep their hands off each other is a staple of so-called men's entertainment. Visit a magazine stand if you don't believe me. In the '80s, it seemed as if every Prince video had band members Lisa and Wendy groping each other. Point being, when it's women, we -- meaning straight men -- tend to find it titillating, exotic, arousing in its very forbiddance. When it's men, we -- meaning straight men and women -- tend to react as if somebody dropped a snake in the bed. Small wonder that the FBI reports that while 902 men were reported victims of sexual orientation hate crimes in 2004, only 212 women were. We seem prone to find male homosexuality the more clear and present danger, the more urgent betrayal of some fundamental ... something. Some will say it's -- and I will finesse this for a general audience -- the nature of man-to-man sex that some of us find off-putting. I think it's more basic than that. I think gay men threaten our very conception of masculinity. The amazing thing about Brokeback Mountain is its willingness to make that threat, directly and overtly. These are not cute gays, funny gays, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy gays. These are "cowboys," and there is no figure in American lore more iconically male. Think Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, the Marlboro Man. The cowboy is our very embodiment of male virtues. In offering us cowboys who are gay, then, Brokeback Mountain commits heresy, but it is knowing heresy, matter-of-fact heresy. Nor is it the sex (what little there is) that makes it heretical. Rather, it's the emotion, the fact that the movie dares you to deny these men their humanity. Or their love. Ultimately, I think, that's what the Larry Davids among us sense. And why for them, Brokeback Mountain might be the most frightening movie ever made. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leonard Pitts writes for The Miami Herald. lpitts@herald.com

.....but that is absolutely where you have to start.

Holy Crap! This is worse than I thought. In this age of cyber-communication there is even less excuse to not maintain contacts with coaches, especially ex-North Texas graduates, then ever before. Good God, sending e-mails out to various coaches in the state is something than an intern could do. geeezzzz.