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Opposite the press box side.?

Don't you know all these players, coaches and staffs from both North Texas & Army will be having (perhaps) the time of their life in Big D? The HOD Bowl officials apparently make for a fun time for both schools. Remember seeing video of our last appearance at the HOD Bowl and all the fun at various sights in & around Dallas both UNLV and North Texas players & coaches were having. I hope Mean Green fans will show up en mass again to be our team's "12'th Man" (so to speak & sorry Aggies) because playing before a large base of your fans does have an effect. I think this is going to be a tough game since we've lost a key player and have some (apparently) still healing from injuries. GMG!

If all these tickets have been sold and we have good Game Day walk up ticket sales they'll have to open up the upper deck; at least on the North Texas side. Army will have many more fans than UNLV, so it might be easy to say 40K to 45K for this game? That would be a sellout at the Armed Forces Bowl game in Fort Worth (which by the way is today). Anyone out there have a real handle on what is actually left in the lower bowl section of the CB stadium? Has Army sold out most of their sideline seats? Anyone in the know...know? GMG!

Yes much better. I missed seeing this video or I would have posted it over the other.

It will be our being in the (soon to pass Philly') 4'th ranked USA TV market that will be our biggest selling point. Again, a sizeable TV market for a G5 conference is no small thing. GMG!

Looks like the pod people & zombies have infiltrated both Army, North Texas football players & their respective coaching staffs. What a poor facsimile of Seth Littrell. He should get a lawyer!

My tickets just arrived by Fed Ex! Section 25! Didn't know re-upping for the Mean Green Club would give me such good tickets. BTW, I just spoke to one of these ticket masters or ticket city type operations and the one I spoke to told me there were only 42 tickets left on the entire lower bowl? I asked him twice if that was true and he said (twice) that it was. Jeez, Emmitt, how many tickets you been buying & spreading around in Dallas ?!? }:>) Still......was that ticket agent just having a bad meth' day or could that possibly be true? Any of you heard anything similar? If so.......DAMN!

You know it! That is why at some point in our athletic history maybe we should avoid being.....a day late--dollar short? If there's gold in dem' dere' hills....BE THE FIRST ONE THERE WITH PIC IN HAND! GMG!

We have been mentioned as part of the Tex-4 in some of their MWC area newspaper coverage. Of course, the Tex-4 are the 4 Texas-based schools in CUSA. I think most schools who sense a conference is talking about adding schools would already be on their doorsteps. In fact, that kind of interest might draw admiration from a conference commissioner. The MWC message boards have had larger TV markets as some of their past topics. For a G5 conference, that seems to be a no-brainer. Like I said....not holding my breath on any of this knowing our history of delaying, but the MWC schools of which 4 were in the Top 25 this last Fall would be more marketable for those who have season ticket sales and "day of game" sales as a top priority; you know, like....Wren Baker? GMG!

That seems to be the wave of the future for most all the NCAA as they battle the NFL for fans and attention. One of the best games I saw as a UNT alum was that weeknight Halloween night game versus Rice U! 'THE STAND!' Probably would not benefit UNT going west unless we took 1 or 2 CUSA or Texas-based travelling partners with us. Going solo would make it more difficult but compared to traveling the CUSA east coast---still do-able. I don't expect anything happening with this in my lifetime to be truthful. We don't exactly move like Speedy Gonzales at UNT in some things. I do hope Wren Baker will surprise us with things like this, though. GMG!

Yes, I do. A totally different era and when the Big West folded Boise State moved up the NCAA ladder with warp speed & would become a perrenial Top 25 program. We did not, although I think we can--sooner than later. We pay people good money up there to be visionaries & decide what kind of conference would best fit a school our size, location and academic scope. It seems this group of leaders we have now will think hard about our future, but being in a conference with a bunch of recent upstarts or schools that only recently added football is not what I call a very marketable football conference for those of us who grew up in Texas. Just my .02. GMG!

Way to go, Emmitt, and..............do be careful out there. GMG!

Some of you have known for years where myself & others stand with re-alignment conference talk but look at it this way......just put yourselves in UNT AD Wren Baker's shoes. So as the UNT AD, which games below would you have an easier time in marketing for season ticket sales as well as "day of game" ticket sales at Apogee Stadium? UNT vs. Air Force.....................or....................UNT vs. Old Dominion UNT vs Boise State..................or....................UNT vs. FAU or FIU UNT vs. San Diego State.........or.....................UNT vs. W. Kentucky * We beat a 19'th or #20 ranked SDS Atzec team at Fouts in 1974. UNT vs. Colorado St................or......................UNT vs Charlotte? San Diego State is as close to Denton as West Point, New York, and don't we have a series with Army the next few years? Did you know most of the MWC eastern schools are as equidistant to Denton as the CUSA eastern bloc? 4 of the MWC schools were ranked in the Top 25 this last Fall while I'm trying to recall if even one CUSA got close to the Top 25 this year or last. If we play Top 25 conference matchups won't it be easier for North Texas to rise with the MWC tide & become a Top 25 program? Yes, there would need to be an opening and then an invite, but I guarantee you if the AAC falls apart that SMU & UH will make a mad dash to the Mountain West Conference. They already have fans wishing they were there now. Is anyone ready to say that we don't have as much potential as UH or SMU to be a MWC MEMBER even with those 2 school's glorious SWC past? I hope not. TV markets & schools who can deliver in that *market will always be important to any G5 conference. ✳️➡️✳️CUSA didn't hook up wth North Texas based on our W/L records the last 25 or so years, now did they? Can you say, uh, TV market? And North Texas would bring with us the (soon to be) #4 ranked U.S. TV market with us to any new conference & we also have a propensity of having good fan support at the only bowl game in Dallas, Texas, too, now. ➡️ I'd wager that as goes North Texas goes the HOD Bowl game, too. Yes, just projecting on a fan forum but we'd bring our TV market plus a potential big city bowl game to the MWC? Who would turn that down so we could stay in a league with many upstarts of which many of that CUDA group are 800-1,000 miles from Denton? ➡️ If our powers that be don't already have their feelers onto this with the MWC, then we've probably already missed the boat to better ourselves once more & will be stuck in a league that most of us never heard of most of its schools 25 years ago. Just my .02 as a college football observer since 1962. GMG! * UNT Market & Demographics Projected Future Enrollment.................45, 000 students Present UNT Alumnus #'s in DFW........234,000 alums Denton County Population in 2025......approx. 1,000,000 pop.

Great Pics, JK! AND.... Am I reading some of the HOD Bowl ticket outlets correctly which shows only end zone sections 32 and 35 as the only seats left in the entire lower bowl? Someone? Anyone? GMG! BEAT ARMY!

Yes, the DRC will have a very nice tabloid on North Texas & the HOD Bowl game 2 days before the bowl game. Actually.....good timing ! The FW Star Telegram with their on again/off again coverage of North Texas has been slim with their coverage, but (of course) their sports staff is so much slimmer than it used to be due to the internet I suppose. GMG! PS: We are getting good coverage on GMG.com, though, and its membership is world-wide. {:>) REMEMBER?

We don't have door bells in Parker County! I'm screwed!

Mine not here yet, but do you have to be home to sign for them from a Fed Ex agent or do they just put them in a rural mail box? If not here today, may just drive up to Denton to get them. Signed: Not Worried PS: ESPN and HOD Bowl officials I'm sure eager to see what kind of support we'll have this time to see if our last "off the charts" support was not a one hit wonder (or fluke).

I remember reading David Moore when he was Sports Editor for the North Texas Daily campus newspaper.

I am a fan of the penguin & nuns & Groucho's "You Bet Your Life" (all episodes in black & white). Hard for me to do color letters on my smartphone, too. I really wish we had other Mean Green memories on video & one I'd love to see is that pass SWC refs said Ron Shanklin dropped against Arkansas that would have won that game. As you'd know, that was the Razorback team that would play for an NCAA National Championship against DKR's Texas Longhorns the next Fall. Never understood, Phil, why we kept going backwards instead of forward after some pretty good UNT teams in the 60's & 70's. ✳️ I think all the pieces are in place now for this program to really catapult, though, especially due to the Mean Green Village (& Apogee), our enrollment expected to sky-rocket to 45,000 & (still) our prime location. ➡️Remember how Kansas State had their numerous decades in the NCAA wilderness, but turned it around with (at the time) none of our above listed positive benefits?

Well, Phil, even a blind hog finds an acorn? I actually thought I had already posted this years ago on GMG.com, but since turning age 39 for the 27'th year in a row on Thanksgiving Day the memory seems to be fading (some). How's your cousin Guido in Sicily these days? I might have a job for him. (just kiddin') See ya' at the HOD Bowl game Tuesday week! GMG!

Hey Brett, what's his size? Other recruiting video accolades? GMG!

Any Texas HS talent in any of these 4 east Texas towns as sung about by Tex Ritter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qru3jFuvs8

A 3 star recruit is a good start for a skill position. Good job, coaches! GMG!

??✳️ he was here--where'd he go?