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A $1 million per semester education?

meangreener, are you a Fox contributor? You know.........Fair and balanced? Since I've been up here in DFW (1/1972) I have yet to meet anyone from the Houston area (such as myself) who wanted to move back down there. I know there are obviously exceptions, but I have yet to meet them.

Make that.............the great J.D. Martinez! What a Mean Green team he played on, too.

This post from CoogFans.com.....take it for what it's worth because so very few alums on message boards know what's really going on with all our school's respective coaches and the recruits they covet. All our (UH) defensive coaching staff tweeted yesterday "Say what you mean and mean what you say." I think this was a veiled message about Inoke. He may have not been completely forthright about his plans to visit North Texas and/or SMU. If he wasn't, we might have pulled our offer. Either way, I don't expect him to sign with Houston." GMG!

Where I'm from a so-called 'town' of 120,000 (Denton's population) would not be called small at all, but Rand McNally crowned Denton, Texas, America the "Most Small Fun Town In America" a year or so back. AND......I don't think our alma mater's town would become "un-fun" if it doesn't win again this year, would it? Personally? I always wanted to move back to Denton to buy and run a bed & breakfast but that would be an unfulfilled dream of which I've had a few, but most of us still get to go back to our college home town on Game Days along with other UNT-related events thru the year. Denton's prime location is so convenient for those of us who live a county or 2 away from UNT, too. Enjoy this YouTube video--I haven't seen this one before but maybe you have.

Well, if Northwestern U doesn't sign him chances are in a Mean Green uni' X could play against the Wildcats since the HOD Bowl game does have a contract for a CUSA school (seems their bowl officials love UNT now) to play a Big 10 opponent. Never say never.... Of course, we hope we sign him so he can play against NU (or any Big 10/Big 12 school) before a crowd with much, much more green than say..... purple? Jeez, wasn't New Years Day, 2014, in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium one "sea of green" blast? GMG!

Starting with Tx Tech, CW? 2 alternating frosh QB's last Fall early on?

My exact thoughts, E01, but since you've already posted them I can't really repeat them w/o being accused of cyber-plagarism? Yes! "All Green & All Good!"

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Wonder if all this will end up being a race by some of the 12'th hour guys to get the last UNT 'ships standing? GMG!

Pure speculation looking back but it seems some of our best ranked recruiting classes in past decades always had some surprise last minute commits. I hope we have several such commits on the first Wednesday in February (which by the way is now Wednesday week). Noticed one of our Southwest recruiting competitors is going to have a live webcast on signing day-will we? GMG!

He doesn't want to play in front of real college football fans?

This very delicate union issue (and dues?) could be a house-divider at Northwestern U since the subject of unions seems to do that in every other part of American life. Conference-USA presidents and AD's have already given a thumbs up for stipends if the NCAA allows it and they had that vote as far back as last August. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2013/08/20/conference-usa-supports-idea-on-stipends-for-ncaa-athletes/2678341/

We all really hope "X" will want to stay in our much warmer climate for sure. Quite a bit of politics happening at Northwestern U. Don't know how that would take away from the main focus of winning football games. And wow, 1963, EagleMBA? Then you were around during November 22, 1963. Bet you have some memories of that day. Everyone should find out about their family history. Much can be learned from one's ancestors. There is more out there than most would ever dream. Of course, Ancestors.com is a wise investment for those who want to know more.. Actually, I have been on a lifelong search for a letter that Sam Houston wrote my great-great grandfather of which the content of that letter was part of a chapter in Frank X. Tolbert's book titled "An Informal History of Texas." I have been to almost every Texas State museum (like in Huntsville, Washington-On-The-Brazos, San Jacinto, etc,ect, ect) talking to every curator who'd talk to me. I have been unsuccessful thus far in finding that letter. L.T.M. Plummer kept losing his wives to early death. Over his lifetime he had 3 wives and, uh.................21 kids. Me'thinks he was a "part time" farmer? (His 21'st kid I actually got to know since he was in his 90's back in the mid 50's and living his last years with a great uncle down in Brazoria County). Frank X. Tolbert was also a long time employee of the Dallas Morning News and had his very popular "Tolbert's Texas" column in that newspaper for years. He was also the originator of the Terlingua Chile Cook-Off as I recall. He died in January of 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_X._Tolbert

I'll be re-newing my MG Club membership plus 2 season tickets again this Spring; preferably closer to the mezzanine level since being Type 2 I have to take a whiz more than most. GMG!

Absolutely get him in here!

And EagleMBA, my great-great grandfather who married into the Parker Clan of Springfield, Illinois, also got to Texas as soon as he (and they) could, too; like in 1833--the rest for them became history and honest to goodness I guess I'm just lucky to be here.

X won't commit to anyone until most likely the Sunday before signing day. Just a gut feeling on that since he very carefully measures most all his decision-making (which is a good thing for him to do).

Time to back off, Mean Green Nation....Xavier knows who loves him most and we don't need to opinionate negatively any kind of disappointment of his not committing with us....now. In 40 years I've not seen us sign all we sought, but haven't we all seen some of these young men make last minute decisions to go with the Mean Green, too? Any Texas HS recruit should enjoy this time of their lives to the fullest even if it means taking as many official visits as offered. Still.....have a great "coooold" time in Illinois, Xavier. GMG!

Many of you would already know this, but Randy Roger's son (Jeff) is a former linebacker at North Texas and is a special teams coach for the Denver Broncos of Super Bowl This Sunday Evening fame.

...some great stuff on the North Texas football season culminating at the historic Cotton Bowl stadium on New Years Day. 6 North Texas players on various Dave Campbell's Texas Football Winter Edition's post season honors. HFC Dan McCarney said in DC'sTF Winter edition (and after the Mean Green's New Years Day bowl win): "We sent a message today. This is a program that is clearly on the rise." GMG! PS I got my copy of the magazine today at my local Walgreens.

Even more amazing with me is BillySee58's excellent research which even shows about 5 of our 2 star Mean Green recruits all within a gnat's whisker of having the numbers to attain 3 star status with Rivals. Honest to goodness, isn't that close enough? We will have a good class and it looks like some of these new incoming UNT freshmen will be key to our 2014 season, too. So Texas Friday Night Heros............you (really) wanna' play your true freshmen year? Then check out North Texas! UNT is graduating 22 seniors so opportunity is more than knocking the door down!

2 new video vignettes from Mean Green Access... Video 1: The Great Brandin Byrd ! Video 2: The Great Derek Thompson & HOD Bowl Game MVP ! "I love those guys," Thompson said of UNT's seniors. "I'd take a bullet for every single one of them."

And one reason, Gray Eagle, that I think recruiting services might miss more Texans who fall thru the cracks is that we have more who play HS football (approx 160,000) than any state in the USA plus.....consider that many of those recruits schools never in their 4 year HS careers make the Texas UIL state play-offs which means they don't get that very strategic focus from recruiting services. I think we might agree that a respectable number of our past 2 stars more than exceeded that HS talent ranking given to them but at the college level. The one who may have been our only 4 or 5 star recruit during the Fry era was (sadly) a total bust. 3 things In recruiting 2 star Texas HS products (some of whom are even on the cusp of being a 3 star recruit) (1) recruit speed (2) recruit size (preferably with quick feet and a frame which can develop in the weigh room) and then... (3) recruit kids from winning football programs no matter what UIL classification. Many of us think we have a coaching staff who knows how to evaluate talent with the best and then also know how to motivate them once their recruits are living in the Mean Green Village That is a good thing for us who bleed green (in difference shades of green, of course)..

True story: Late, great U of Texas and Lone Star State icon Darrell K. Royal was once in a recruits home and non-chalantley sat down in a living room chair. The "would be" recruit came up to Coach Royal and said: "That's my dads's chair." Doesn't seem too long after that took place that DKR had had enough and retired with what many thought would be a young age for him to retire. (North Texas played DKR's Longhorns in his last year (1976) as UT's HFC and the Mean Green almost beat the Horns, losing 17 to 14 in the last minutes). Would be safe to say that that one living room incident did not cause the UT coach to retire, but I think such things and even what the then "Slick Willie-like" OU coach Barry Switzer was doing in the area of recruiting and denial of wrong-doing at every turn made that decision to become a permanent golfer,fishermen and listener of Willie Nelson music an even easier one for DKR. Remember when DKR accused OU of spying on their practices and Switzer 100% denied that happening? Well, a few years later the Bootlegger's Boy would say that OU was (in deed) spying on those UT practices. Lying even back then seemed to be OK with some; that is, unless they got caught. GMG!