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UNT football coach, AD get contract extensions 05:36 PM CDT on Friday, August 19, 2005 By BRETT VITO / Denton Record-Chronicle The UNT Board of Regents approved one-year contract extensions for head football coach Darrell Dickey and athletic director Rick Villarreal on Friday. Dickey’s deal was extended to Dec. 31, 2009 and a provision added that would result in a $100,000 payment if he serves the entire length of the deal. Villarreal’s contract was extended to May 31, 2010. His new deal includes raises of $15,000 on Sept. 1 and June 1, 2007. Villarreal’s buyout provision was also modified under the new deal to include a retention payment of $50,000 if he remains at UNT for the duration of the contract.

It's in far North Denton, you'll see it along Loop 288. thread with map to stadium

Gladly! I wish I knew how to do that photoshop/graphic stuff.

No contest out of the choices. I wish an interlocked NT was one of them.

I was driving north on I-35E in Lewisville just before Hwy 121 when I noticed a large sign (with NT logo) on the west access road to a tool company...note the "NT" logo in the upper left of their main page... NT = Northern Tool ?

OK, I guess now I'll read it. I've decided to wait on the MGR responses before I see the news myself. ........................................................... Agree, much better report; the season is back on again! One Question: Why no news until nearly game day?

hummm....can we help?

Freshman making climb on QB chart 11:41 PM CDT on Thursday, August 18, 2005 By BRETT VITO / Denton Record-Chronicle DENTON – Freshman quarterback Matt Phillips has moved to second on the depth chart after an impressive performance in practice. Phillips is one of several young players competing for the starting job. He gradually has earned more playing time and worked with the first-team offense Thursday. Redshirt freshman Daniel Meager entered fall practice atop the depth chart but has been limited by a series of injuries, including a pulled hamstring. Phillips has received additional practice time with the first team in place of Meager. .......................................................................................................... "...impressive performance in practice..." Is this based on factual performance or because he's a freshman playing with veterans or just editorial slang for snowjob to LSU?

Well, I can see both sides to this NT/SBC issue. Most realtors say you don't want to be the biggest on the block; and that location, location, location is the key. We are the biggest in the SBC but a lower spot in CUSA or Big12 would be far better overall for us. Just my 2cents.

**cough**

About the only bright spot for North Texas, if we don't get our QB situation solved this season, is that it might attract more transfers and recruits who could play quicker here.

"I fear no evil; but I fear reading the MGR lately!"

This BOR has generally been kind to Athletics, but they also hired Chancellor Lee Jackson.

I was in Denton just for a minute and stopped by at 4pm today to see if there was an afternoon practice...was not...but I did see J.Mo and Patrick dressed out for a photo op on the practice field with Vito of the DRC. They wore the new jersey with green pants, no logo on the helmets yet; the new jersey numbers are bright white and show up great from a distance. Don't know about Thurs. morning practice yet.

Break up CUSA!!

Agree. If a DB goes out with a hamstring you say get well, who's next up? If the main QB goes out, especially with our lack of backup experience, you say Oh NO the season's over. It is a major concern but not so much to cancel the season.

Wonder how many we did take compared to Az St. ?

Good, the more tension, the better the chances more openings will happen for some SBC teams. UNT SMUt Tulsa La Tech Rice Houston UTEP ULL ASU Tulane

11 ATLANTIC 10 ..... 13 BIG SKY 14 SUN BELT Now that is sad.

hummm, interesting....

Ticket effort nets 322 for Colorado From Staff Reports, Colorado Daily August 17, 2005 (U-WIRE) BOULDER, Colo. -- Colorado's "Your Team" ticket campaign sold 322 new football season tickets in the last month, raising the total of new season tickets to 1,071 since May 31. The ticket campaign, which ran from July 11 to Aug. 10, involved groups of Buffaloes supporters who helped to "spread the word" and sell football season tickets. "We are fortunate to have these enthusiastic supporters help us during the 'Your Team' campaign," CU Director of Licensing Bruce Fletcher said. "They did a great job to ensure that this program would be successful, and we're excited about the results." Teams of four hit the pavement for CU over the last month, selling tickets while vying for various prizes. The top team of Jerry Johnson, Tom Gleason, Howard Jaidinger and Susan Nalbone sold 152 season tickets. They won a suite and four club seats to the Texas A&M game on Oct. 8, plus on-field passes and breakfast at the team hotel. Johnson was the top individual, selling 77 season tickets and winning a trip for two to an away football game. Gleason was third on the individual list with 35 and won a football signed by the 2005 CU football team. The quartet of Kim Moss, Mark Helton, Larry Gray and Andrew Unkefer took second place with 56 season tickets sold. They won four club seats to the Texas A&M game, along with on-field passes and breakfast at the team hotel. Moss also was No. 2 on the individual list, selling 41 tickets and taking home four club seats to the homecoming game against the Aggies. Finishing third in the team competition were Nelson Minter, Fenton Bain, Pat Grimes and Charlie Whitaker, who sold 36 season tickets and won a breakfast at the team hotel. Jaidinger wound up fourth on the individual list with 34 tickets sold, and Brian May was fifth with 28.

Ducks fans to get decked out By Gabe Bradley, Oregon Daily Emerald August 17, 2005 (U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore. -- "Get inDUCKted." This will be the slogan emblazoned on the chests of thousands of fans at Autzen Stadium for the season's first home football game Sept. 10. The slogan for this year's Spirit T-Shirt, which was unveiled July 22, is about teamwork, being part of a larger group and showing support, according to Nita Nickell who works for the University of Oregon's trademark and licensing department. "Every year for the last three years we've tried to build fan support in the stadium," Nickell said. From this effort came the idea of the Spirit T-Shirt, which hit the shelves two seasons ago with the slogan "Lighting Strikes!" For the past two years, university staff members have come up with the slogans. This year, however, the trademark and licensing department wanted to involve the community in the process by holding a contest to write the slogan for the shirt. "This year was the first time it was open to the community," University Bookstore Marketing Coordinator Alma Hesus said. A committee judged more than 2,000 entries and selected the winning slogan, which was written by Springfield resident Todd Crump. "We wanted something that would show action and excitement," Nickell said. Entries came in mostly from the local community, although there were entries from across the country and even Canada. "I'm just really glad that everybody -- the community -- was able to come and participate in that," Hesus said. "I think there are so many great ideas out there." Crump won a $200 Duck Shop gift certificate and a pair of football season tickets. First runner-up Dave Hoff of Vancouver, Wash., won two tickets to a Pac-10 football game as well as a $100 Duck Shop gift certificate. Second runner-up Becky Stringfield of Eugene won a $50 Duck Shop gift certificate. "I think that made the community get really excited about it," Nickell said. "We hope next year will be even more fun." The shirts are bright yellow to create a more visible and imposing presence when fans wear them in the stadium. "For one thing, it's very visible when it's a televised event," Nickell said. Hesus said it's "a way to intimidate the other team." Nickell said stands full of fans wearing yellow goes right along with the slogan, which emphasizes teamwork. "We want our school to look like we have a great support system in our stadium," Nickell said. "The Michigan game was an excellent example of that." Hesus said stands full of fans wearing yellow highlights how few fans are in the stands to support the visiting team. "It's really bright, and it's really fun," Hesus said. "It's so exciting. It really stands out." The T-shirts costs $7. Making them affordable is a crucial part of the strategy of getting as many fans as possible to wear the shirts. "It's a nice quality T-shirt and we use a local screenprinter so that stays in the community," Nickell said. In addition, $1 from every shirt goes directly to the University's cheerleaders and bands. "So it's a fundraiser as well," Nickell said. In years past, the fundraising aspect of the T-shirt sales has been very effective. "It's enabled our cheerleaders to be in a competition they couldn't have been in because they didn't have the funds," Nickell said. In the two and a half weeks since they've been on sale, this year's shirts are selling well also. "They've been doing pretty good," Hesus said. "I've seen them all over Eugene."

I feel depressed, and we haven't even kicked off yet to LSU.

NCAA purchases NIT for $56.5 million to end legal fight By JIM O'CONNELL, Associated Press Writer August 17, 2005 NEW YORK (AP) -- The NCAA purchased the rights to the preseason and postseason National Invitation Tournaments as part of a settlement that ends a four-year legal fight between the two parties. In the deal announced Wednesday, the NCAA will pay $56.5 million to the five New York City colleges that operate the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, the organization that has run the NIT since 1940. Fordham University, Manhattan College, St. John's University, Wagner College and New York University will receive $40.5 million for the rights to tournaments and $16 million in litigation fees over a 10-year period. NCAA president Myles Brand said the tournaments will continue to be played in Madison Garden for at least the next five years and ESPN will continue to televise both tournaments. A civil trial in which the NIT had claimed that the NCAA was trying to put it out of business began two weeks ago in federal court. On Tuesday, a jury that had been listening to NIT witnesses and evidence in Manhattan was sent home for the day by U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum after lawyers said a deal had been struck to end the dispute. NIT lawyer Jeffrey Kessler has argued that the NCAA ``deliberately set out to get a monopoly, to eliminate competition, to make it impossible to compete.'' He argued that a long-standing NCAA rule requiring schools to accept invitations to its tournament over invitations to all others had severely damaged the NIT, which began its postseason tournament in 1938 -- one year before the NCAA tournament started. NCAA lawyer Gregory L. Curtner told the jury that the NCAA was made up of 1,024 schools, including the schools that sponsor the NIT tournament. He said the rule requiring member schools to accept an NCAA tournament invitation over all others ``has never had any impact in fact in the real world up to the present time. Zero, none.'' Curtner said the rule was left in place to prevent teams from abandoning tournament play and joining made-for-television specials for more money.