PlummMeanGreen

Indiana U is the U of North Texas main competitor for largest College of Music in America. Last I read IU was still #1 and UNT follows at #2. Band Days happen annually at Indiana U. This will still most likely never happen at North Texas because......IT'S JUST NOT PART OF OUR CULTURE, RIGHT, SILVER EAGLE? * If we ever had one at Apogee way out there in the sweet by and by & probably when most of us are dead--where would they put all those HS bands for heaven's sake)? Hmmm? Let's think about that one. :) > (See picture below) ____________________________________________-- To quote a former AD in the Metroplex several years ago: "An empty seat cannot buy a hot dog, a coke or a T-shirt with the school logo or mascot on it."

My bad & you're right....it was the Army game that DT--7 broke his leg.

Interesting take with this. Philadelphia Eagle’s head coach Chip Kelly once wrote, “If the quarterback is not tall, look at his hands. That is the biggest coaching point to finding a quarterback. How big are his hands, and how well can he control the football? The height of the quarterback is not the important thing. No one playing quarterback throws over the line. They throw through lanes in the linemen. The important thing is the size of their hands.”

From a very reliable source, what cost them their jobs were that not all the coaches were even recruiting. In fact, one coordinator only accepted the job if he didn't have to go outside the Denton City Limits to recruit. Gray Eagle kept posting on this forum since Apogee opened that our recruiting was sub par. Guess we know why as more is divulged. Anyway, time to move forward with Coach Littrell & Company! The future looks bright the more I hear & read. GMG!

Agree, GrandGreen.?

Photo-Shop should be illegal! LOL! I have to chuckle, though. Quanah was a great chief who helped his people transition. No, not happy with the raw deal they got throughout history at all, especially at Wounded Knee (among other depridations). The last great Comanche chief & President Teddy Roosevelt became good friends. Quanah & braves rode in TR's first inauguration parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. The photo below is Chief Quanah & his braves who came down from Cache, Oklahoma for the Grand Opening of the Cowtown Coliseum (near Billy Bobs Texas). No, I wasn't there but I heard they had Gatorade at all the concession stands. * I KNOW, HISTORY IS BORING TO MOST.?

LIke-wise, Don. We've seen a lot up there, now haven't we buddy, or as our late, great Coach Bill Blakely used to say: "Up here I've seen everything except child birth." Been extremely busy with my business of which Fall Saturdays are a prime work day. Actually, I am going to try to come to the MT game on Oct. 1 because my event that week is a non-Saturday event. I've missed all of you--even the ones who I rarely agree with or they with me. (I learned long ago GMG.com can be a contact sport so if you're going to dish it out you better by golly be ready to get a few pies back in the face, too). GMG!

Heck, one of the Gators enlightened us with his list of North Texas Exes that included Comanche Chief Quanah Parker as one of our alums.........(uh, not). :) I grew up learning about the great Comanche Chief since he & his mother's (Cynthia Ann Parker) story is part of my family's doings back in 1800's Texas. ➡️ I know, History is boring to most.? When I went to 3 UNT/OU games in Norman, I did see many of his people sitting in the stands. Love our Native Americans! I have a nephew who is 25% Sioux and a North Texas alum, (Of course, I told him he had no choice as to where to go to college. }:>) Also told him he should have used his Sioux Indian heritage from his dad's side to get tuition assistance---but he didn't. ________________________________________________________ Gator-ade? Our HS football coach at my school SW of Houston was one of its first buyers. Never forgot during 2-a-days when he pulled out that bag of powdered green stuff, mixed it in in a cooler of ice waterr & then asked us to give it a shot. The most common thing we football players used to describe it back then was.....THIS STUFF TASTES LIKE......SHEE'IT! (Back then, we also popped salt tablets like they were candy not knowing at that time how dangerous they could have been to our health). GMG!

A shadow back in the backfield would help protect any Mean Green QB, if such can be worked into Littrell's offensive scheme. We can't be paranoid about injury (and I know you're not-Phil) but we just have to let em' go out and play the game. We do need to recruit good D1 sized linemen to protect our players, especially when we play the the Big Money games, though. Even big guys get hurt. Remember our Heart of Dallas Bowl MVP QB Derek Thompson at Clemson? Out for the year. :( Most college football players let it all hang out on the college football field of battle since most of them know only about 2% of them will play in the NFL. GMG!

Same pic in living color (of NBC peacock fame! :) Anyone remember when North Texas played UH in the Astrodome? (Like probably about 90% of you on this forum)? LOL!

It was a 1966 Band Day in the Houston Astrodome. There were 13,000 bandsmen from mostly the Greater Houston area. Doc Severinsen of the Tonight Show was the guest conductor. I believe the Coogs were hosting Lou Holtz's NC State Wolfpack that evening. My HS alma mater (Danbury HS) was among the 13,000 plus bandsmen. I travelled with the band as a student band gear handler since I played on our varsity football team & that got me inside for the football game--free gratis. I showed this pic to late Green Brigade Director Robert A.Winslow in 1982 as something UNT should consider doing albeit it on a lesser scale or number of bandsmen. Silver Eagle told me they used to have Band Days at North Texas under Maurice McAdo but when he retired it seems Band Day retired with him. A fellow alum on GMG.com who is a retired Texas public school administrator said it would be difficult to pull off one of these in this era, but I still wish we'd give it the good ol' college try. (Not holding my breath). The Wing Zone would sure nuff' look good filled with bandsmen from all over northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. To quote a former AD in the Metroplex several years ago: "An empty seat cannot buy a hot dog, a coke or a T-shirt with the school logo or mascot on it."

I remember as a HS kid in the Houston area being a huge Cougar fan & how excited we were when Bill Yeoman recruited RB Warren McVae from a San Antonio HS. He out-recruited the entire SWC including Hayden Fry at SMU. It was premature excitement since in his first game in the Astrodome Warren Mac fumbled the ball 6 times! It was demoralizing to UH fans. He went on to have a moderately successful college career as a UH running back. Granted, some of us have gotten excited about Mason Fine alright not so much for some pro-active leadership we saw in our Saturday win, but for what he could become with a couple more good recruiting classes under Coach Seth Littrell. As Coach said, he is "NOT" the savior, but it is a good start for better things to come in Denton.

My bad, Aztecskin, you are toward the top of our celeb crowd list & how I forgot you I'll never know.?? ?Just One More: Lewis Abernathy who played the part of Lewis Bodine in his Hollywood buddy James Cameron's movie mega-hit " Titanic" is also a UNT alum. He was the scruffy, foul mouthed hippy with long hair & glasses in the movie. He has mostly been a writer & director in Hollywood, but his drinking buddy James Cameron wanted him to play Bodine.

A few days ago another GMG poster said UT would not offer Johnny Manziel who might be an inch taller than Mason Fine-- I say, uh, might. I have yet to see a college QB in modern times do what Johnny Football did at TAMU. Hey! If you've got "IT".....you could be a Wizard of Oz munchkin & find a way to win. Jeez, we've got a QB with endless skins on the wall and obvious talent and all some want to talk about is his height? Both OU & OSU made last minute pitches to get Mason Fine on their respective campuses based on some pretty tall recommendations from someone I'd wager. NO's Saints fans are not complaining about their Super Bowl winning QB Drew Bees last I checked & if he's 6 foot tall then I'm an 8 footer. :( I'd like to see a shadow back in our backfield whose main job would be to give Mason additional block protection. This guy is our franchise QB the next 4 years. Now all we need is a superb supporting cast on both sides of the ball.

As we stand today? I think they'd be close, but with further development of our youth we could win all of them. (Add Army to that list, too). Our offense needs to become a juggernaut for us to win them, though and.....that could actually happen. GMG!

Kudos to Florida Gator fans and alums! They've compiled quite an anthology of our UNT pop culture. Other rich, famous (one in prison) North Texas Exes they might want to add photos of are: Pat Boone, Roy Orbison, the lovely, sensuous Norah Jones, Actor Thomas "Sideways" Church, NFL Female Broadcast Pioneer & Denton's own Phyllis George, Peter (Robocop) Weller, Joe Don "Walking Tall" Baker, Uh.....Tex Watson (of the Charlie Manson Gang), Ely Young Band (who all met & then formed their band at UNT's Clark Hall dorm), Michael Martin "Wildfire" Murphy, Bobby "I Fought the Law But The Law Won" Fuller, Larry McMurtry, Old Hollywood actresses Joan Blondell and Ann Sheridan, Actor James "Caretaker in the Longest Yard" Hampton & others I know I've left off this list. GMG! We're getting old, folks: Actor James Hampton turned 80 this year.

Enjoy praise every time you get it because in the next minute someone might kick you in the arse (and enjoy doing it).

! ! ! "...the lovers, the dreamers &.....me." (Kermit the Mean Green Tree Frog)

North Texas Beats UF Gators! Something like 20 to 12 in 1947.

LIke Mason Fine is about 100% Cherokee Indian, perhaps? Good idea, MeanGreenTexan! I have a nephew who is 25% Sioux, but he never used his Native American Indian waiver from what used to be called the Bureau of Indian Affairs. BTW, not sure how it happened but my nephew somehow ended up going to the University of North Texas as an Accountant Major .}:>) He has a successful construction business in the Mid Cities. GMG!

Most area Fuzzy's are very nice to work with as far as showing North Texas Mean Green TV games. I know the one here in Weatherford has always been cooperative. Unfortunately, I cannot watch this Saturday as I am DJ'ing a private party. GMG!

Be nice when Mason Fine gets the other half of his HS receiving tandem on the field whether it be this year or next. I read where Jason Pirtle runs a 4.7 forty, but 2 of his fellow Oklahomans who played years ago at Tulsa, namely Howard Twilley who was no speed-burner and former Tulsa U great and Seattle Seahawk Hall of Famer Steve Largent ran a 4.6 forty. Both ran excellent routes & could catch anything thrown their direction. Good to have good possession receivers on the squad to complement any speed burners on this team now or in the near future. GMG!

For whatever either of their reasons both OU & OSU made a last minute effort to get him on their respective campuses. Mason Fine told both of them: "Sorry, I'm going to North Texas." (He honored his commitment to our coaching staff).

In the spirit of transparency me'thinks that pic is photo-shopped because....where are all the UH fans in their red gear?

Mason Fine will I predict be a total non-flop. Too much pride & "want to succeed" from this young man and he also comes from a solid family which gives him a good life balance-- not that the other didn't have that. GMG!