PlummMeanGreen

So very true. Look what SMU alums are spending to be relevant again, but to be relevant as a P5 school—not a G5 school. UNT’s Indoor Practice Facility is a priceless jewel inside the Mean Green Village, but the NCAA Rules Committee has so screwed things up since UNT opened the IPF it’s not even funny.

Watching Army beat UTSA last week in the AlamoDome would certainly change a few minds. Their new Offense Coordinator has revolutionized the Black Knights offense. One of the best Game Days ever in Denton since I’ve been a fan (starting in 1972) was when Army came to DATCU Stadium in 2018(?). Army brought a few thousand fans that day & the Mean Green won with a last second field goal.

AAC Commissioner Aresco probably knew once we were invited SMU probably already had one of their social-climbing queen’s leg out the AAC door & he for sure did not want the MWC grabbing UNT to have a Texas presence. I liked the NCAA better when it was not all about politics & amateur-killing NIL & the “too easy to transfer” portal. QUESTION: How are the 6 UNT lost to the portal faring thus far in 2023 (even though the season is still young)? GMG!

NO MORE TEXAS SCHOOLS IN THE AMERICAN, PLEASE. DON’T WE REMEMBER HOW THAT WAS A PROBLEM WITH SOME IN THE SWC? UT-AUSTIN DROPOUTS & FLUNK OUTS NEED THE SAN MARCOS SCHOOL—THE AAC DOES NOT. IF WE GET THE BLACK KNIGHTS, ARMY WILL BE MORE THAN ADEQUATE & YOU WHO WERE IN APOGEE (DATCU) ON A BEAUTIFUL NOVEMBER FALL DAY A FEW YRS AGO WILL PROBABLY AGREE. gmg!

It still amazes me how Pony fans from back in the day still gloat about winning with semi-pro football teams; especially listening to Eric D. & Craig J. Do their fans to this day know what earned them the Death Penalty?

🗣️ EVERYTHING’S NEGOTIABLE! Frances has his Pony Express Era blue coveralls on.

Some have asked about Chandler Rogers deep throw ability? Probably not as much since I posted (weeks ago) a YouTube video of his sophomore year at ULM vs the Texas Longhorns when he tossed a deep one on the money. ••• Here are some of our QB’s Sophomore numbers in 2022. https://ulmwarhawks.com/sports/football/roster/chandler-rogers/5421 Note: ULM made $1.9 million to play UT-Austin in 2022. GMG!

Some have asked about Chandler Rogers deep throw ability? Probably not as much since I posted (weeks ago) a YouTube video of his sophomore year at ULM vs the Texas Longhorns when he tossed a deep one on the money. ••• Here are some of our QB’s Sophomore numbers in 2022. https://ulmwarhawks.com/sports/football/roster/chandler-rogers/5421

Coach Eric Morris’ former employer, the Washington State Cougars are now a Top 25 ranked team as of this week. That all began on the recruiting trail for the Cougars. UNT never had recruiting ties to Dallas SOC high school, but we do now. •••If Eric Morris has to tweak his coaching staff he will, but even with a late start in recruiting I hear they still did fine with a few recruiting surprises. •••Watching our team vs UTSA last year with the size discrepancies between their offensive line vs our defensive line I figured we’d have trouble in 2023 against some schools with almost prototypical NFL sized offensive linemen. Tackling? The Myrtle Beach bowl game 3 years ago vs App State was the worst display of tackling I ever saw. Phil Bennett cleaned it up quite a bit the next 2 years. Very anxious to see what happens in Ruston this Saturday evening. GO MEAN GREEN!

👍👍🦅👍👍 GMG!

Fluff? I just find it stranger than hell that grown (supposed educated) men want to replace a UNT HFC after only 2 games. That’s all.

Tulane went from a terrible season in 2021 to a Cotton Bowl win over USC the next year. Even Coach Willie Fritz had a slow start. I think most know by now what many posters on GMG want is not what UNT Athletics wants, right? Willie Fritz (American Athletic Conference) (2016–present) 2016 Willie Fritz 4–8 1–7 6th (West) 2017 Willie Fritz 5–7 3–5 5th (West) 2018 Willie Fritz 7–6 5–3 T–1st (West) W Cure 2019 Willie Fritz 7–6 3–5 4th (West) W Armed Forces 2020 Willie Fritz 6–6 3–5 T–8th L Famous Idaho Potato 2021 Willie Fritz 2–10 1–7 T–9th 2022 Willie Fritz 12–2

Totally concur. You’ve hit the nail with the hard truth, wardly. In Hayden’s 3’rd year after a season-opening 61-7 loss to OSU I as a novice fan (which we still have an over-abundance of) was getting shaky about Fry & then—the Mean Green travel to Knoxville, Tennessee, & a scrappy bunch of Texas HS recruits come back to a crowded Love Field with still (arguably) our greatest win ever. The UT Vols were not chopped liver, either. They were 7 & 4 for that season. We probably cost Coach Bill Battle his job, then he would quit coaching & open up College Licensing with a small loan from Paul “Bear” Bryant. Talk about turning your lemons into lemonade! 😮 (We also beat UH Coogs 28-0 at Texas Stadium in 1975). GMG!

To me one of our problems was very visible last year in our 2 games in the AlamoDome when TV cameras panned our diminutive defensive line. It was our smallish defensive line versus UTSA’s “Land of the Giants” offensive line.😳 Granted, SL was fired a year or 2 too late as our rebuilding project (which 2023 now is) should have begun in that period of time. DID YOU HEAR THIS, ALL YE NEGATIVE NEDS WHO WOULD SOMEHOW FIND A WAY TO CRITICIZE THE 2’ND COMING OF CHRIST? Someone posted last week that UNT’s Morris recruited most of the Incarnate Word players that beat Baylor last week but beat them in TSU-San Marcos unis. After Incarnate Word, Morris took off for Washington State & Kinne became the beneficiary of those at Incarnate Word who were recruited in the Coach Morris regime. That’s something. “Oh, the humanity!” GMG!

Update for anyone interested & this with 7 minutes left in the first half. Rice U….28 UH 0…… ⭐️ The Rice QB J.T. Daniels looks like a combination of Owl legends King Hill, Frank Ryan & Tobin Rote. Funny thing is how Gray Eagle & I were talking about all 3 of those QB’s at our Cal-Berkeley game. •••Rice has a beautiful end zone athletic center in their south end zone. ••• Guess we’re never going to have 40,000 at DATCU, are we? GMG!

I'm purdy' sure I heard (or read) Wren Baker talk about a similar financial arrangement for UNT such as South Florida has for their Athletic Center. UNT needs to continue to build & add-on as if we are actually going to continue growing & start having a series of winning football seasons. Why wait? No one else in the NCAA is waiting; that is, those programs that have ambition. Like one college AD said: "He whose school stops participating in the NCAA facility arms race has already begun going backwards."

Was talking to a fellow alum at a pre-UC-Berkeley game tailgate last Saturday & suggested this to him: I've been going to most SMU/UNT games since the series re-opened in 1974 & I'm not sure there was even one game in the NCAA's modern era when the Pony's were not a $emi-pro college football team. I remember one Mustang/Mean Green game began with Craig James running 80 yards for a TD in Texas Stadium. Not sure we should continue as SMU's whipping post so when all else in their "paid for" undeserving NCAA world goes south they can pile-on us or.........that a fully amateur college football team should play a semi-pro outfit. Just seems a tad unbalanced to me.

Spent a week in those vintage San Francisco stack on stack apartments off Balboa Street when I was a teen. My sister & her husband were stationed at the Presidio army base & both worked at General Lettermen hospital during that Southeast Asian war. Sis’ was a nurse & brother-in-law a dental technician. The city by the Golden Gate Bridge & where someone left their heart was my favorite vacation of all to present day. Californians back then were kind & courteous then just as they were at UNT on Game Day last Saturday. I wish for them a winning season with a bowl reward (& win) at season’s end. 🔵GO GOLDEN BEARS!🟡 & 🟢⚪️⚫️ GMG!

The Dallas Cal Exes Club filled a bus & parked in the orange parking lot where Fouts used to be. The Cal fans I observed (& spoke to) were cordial & were all having a good time at “the Dat.” (Whoever started “the Dat” I like that. Was it you SUMG?😱🤗🤭

For a 3:00pm kick-off for a game too many on GMG were predicting heat strokes for fans, students & football players—here are 2 pics I took near the end of the first half. (I was surprised with the crowd we did have). A more convenient night game at “the DAT” would have added 6-7,000 more fans & maybe even closer to capacity. Lack of consecutive winning seasons & beating ex SWC schools plus annual bowl losses keeps UNT from building onto attendance from prior seasons it seems. 😱 •••The TV cameras when our games are televised rarely pan our press box side & that side is usually the fuller (& most impressive visually) of the 2 sides.

Plus SUMG pointed out the year of what is arguably UNT’s greatest win ever over a 7 & 4 Tennessee Vols team, Fry’s team opened the ‘75 season with a 61-7 loss to a mediocre Okla. St. Cowboys. Most of our group is pissed that the last 3 years we’ve sat by & watched Traylor & Company out-recruit our favorite school & then prove it on the scoreboard. (I still love to see Traylor nearly blow a gasket every time he gets mad like at the end of the UH game last night). We’ve all been here before, folks. GMG!

Many of you were at the Army game at DATCU Stadium few years ago & enjoyed it; especially after the last play field goal which made the Mean Green a winner. It was a great crowd for both teams & you just felt you were at a college football game & in the way it's supposed to me. Is Army interested? They'd get their annual Navy game as a conference game.

A Few Post Game Day thoughts: ••• Even with this msg, boards NegNeds spending 2 weeks telling the MG fan base that DATCU Stadium was going to be a towering inferno—WE STILL HAD A GOOD CROWD. Note: See some of it in above photos. ••• We already have some fine talent at UNT, but we do not have enough AAC-level talent. SL allowed Traylor & UTSA to dig in & pass us by the last 3 years while we were too busy building a P5 venue or 2 & being a “monster.” (Remember “this place could be a monster” comment SL said on many occasions)? ••• Unless we have some dramatic development in the next few weeks on the practice fields, UTSA (later this season) is going to score at will on our MG “D” this season. Did you see the UH/UTSA game yesterday? FWIW, Coach Traylor recruits “NFL prototypical” sized talent, but too many of our recruits are still under-sized & seem a step slow. ▶️ Still, some of our best D-line talent thru the years were under-sized. Remember JC Garrett, Walter Chapman, Booger Kennedy, etc., ••• SHOW TIME? IMO, the overall entertainment product was much better yesterday. Maybe a tad too much loud pre-recorded music between plays was a bit much & over-kill? ••• Finally! MG Radio Coverage Out West of Fort Worth—matter of fact even west of Weatherford (where the West really begins). Need proof where the West begins? Then ask Parker County’s own (& good neighbor) movie mogul one Taylor Sheridan out at his 25,000 acre Bosque Ranch. GMG!

As you’d remember, Phil, it was a great crowd! Army was well represented with fans & it was fun at all the tailgating talking to people & supporters who gave a damn about our country. _______________ I hope we drop the series with SMU. In the modern era of NCAA football I cannot remember any game we played $MU when they were not a semi-pro football team. Even before their famous Death Penalty everybody & their dogs in Texas knew they were cheating & buying players then. SMU has long been a pariah to intercollegiate athletics & it won’t take the AAC folks very long to see for themselves. I guess mega-wealthy supporters & donors just see no need to follow the letter of NCAA laws, either. GMG!

Now give me 2.5 minutes to find the video highlights of that Game Day experience at DATCU Stadium. ••• That day was what college football is all about & I know many of you who were in Denton that afternoon who would wholeheartedly agree. I found it! Here tis… AAC Commish “A”—its got to be the Black Knights of West Point who replaces SMU. ▶️ PLEASE—NO MORE TEXAS SCHOOLS. We already have enough here competing for Lone Star State recruits. GMG!