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Good one, Hunter Green! 😆

TV’s 30/30 documentary entitled “Pony Excess” would show many that the arrogant attitude on the Hilltop which landed SMU on Death Penalty row has not changed at all. What has changed is what a school has to do to earn its way to the top a school along with its wealthiest supporters can purchase now. As has been said before: “He who has the gold rules” or the subtitle to even that is: “NCAA—GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WAY—WE’RE DOING THIS OUR WAY.” All the NCAA rules changes with NIL & the Transfer Portal which has led to the elimination of amateurism no longer being a part of the NCAA seems was ready-made for a school like SMU. To be called a P5 school today definitely has a price tag attached to it. I just hope UNT doesn’t go back to its “3 giant steps forward—5 giant steps backwards” modus operandi of the last half century because we can’t buy athletic success fast enough. GMG!

This latest projection is from “The Weather Channel.” Mavawous’ (Billy Crystal) GMG!

Not Approved For Entry The following are not approved for entry into DATCU Stadium: Purses, bags, containers larger than a small clutch bag. Backpacks. Binocular cases. Briefcases. Camera bags. Cinch bags. Computer bags. Coolers. Fanny packs. Luggage of any kind.

Yep. True. Game should still be moved to PM because it’s not too late to do so. Nevertheless, I’ll be there for the 3pm kick to show visual & vocal support. GMG!

Welcome Bear Insider!🤠 Hope we get to meet many from California this Saturday .••• Once spent a week (by way of Houston) & a 2 day tourist drive near Cal Bear Territory (that is, staying in San Francisco off Balboa St near the Pacific) & with my sister & her husband who worked at General Letterman at the Presidio. It was still the vacation of a lifetime. I lived in Honolulu one time & that Hawaiian city is no match for the late Tony Bennett’s favorite city. We look forward to a well played football matchup with no idea what we or what y’all will bring to DATCU Stadium. That makes it even the more exciting. Travel safe.

Is this truly Jack the GrayEagle.? LOL! I've never in 52 years being around you heard you say anything that would even hint of being disparaging about S M U. Nothing--(as in nothing--EVER! See you this Saturday afternoon at fabulous DATCU Stadium! Go Mean Green! Beat the CAL Bears ! GMG!

Fast will take a QB a long ways quicker. Remember the Rice Owls game at DATCU during covid & Jason Bean's long run for a TD? It was a thing of beauty. Once Bean turned the corner no one was going to catch him. Here it is at 0:15 on the time line

Were not 2 of our UNT team captains walk-ons?

The Logo is a ledger book?

Mike Craven may have a legit nervous breakdown after Traynor becomes Jimbo’s heir apparent at TAMU. As it is, I’m not sure the AlamoDome is large enough (as Kyle Field will be) for Traynor’s ego. Just watch & listen to that guy. Would love to play poker with that RR’s face (& the egomaniac attached to it). (Hope to see all these guys & more on September 2’nd) ***That day was a “white out” game hence the white T-shirts.

Seems UNT’s DATCU Stadium is not the only football venue with a wing zone end zone. Notice how Seattle has a Jumbotron at the top of theirs. . GMG! BEAT THE CAL BEARS! See y’all at DATCU (is it dat’sue)?

Surfing the web minutes ago I read where an NC State coach told Stanford & Cal to—DROP DEAD! This photo came from ponyfans.com

Well, Buffalo Bill, my lips are sealed. You did have quite an Interesting job back in the days of your youth. In my Gulf Coast home town of Danbury in Brazoria County (near Alvin, Texas) we had rice farms & I spent a few summers of my youth walking in flooded rice paddies while running from blunt tail water moccasins among other things. I had a shovel on my shoulder & digging a hole in a levy to move water from one paddy to the adjacent one. The heat, humidity & snakes would keep one alert. After about 3-4 months of dealing with that we’d be cutting rice near the 4’th of July. I drove a Case 10:30 tractor while pulling an auger wagon so I’d pull up beside a Case combine who’d empty its load of rice into my auger wagon & then…..I’d take my load to a rice truck (up from the Texas valley) & then auger out my rice into those trucks. They would take the rice to huge dryers. UNT alum Chuck Mills & (back then) the Decatur coach as I recall I read in this thread that Chuck had passed. He was really one of the good guys & I was sorry to hear he was no longer with us. See ya’ on the 2’nd of September, Bill, at DATCU Stadium.

Discussing this weather with another UNT alum yesterday and......he did remind me that UT-Austin will have 100,000 fans show up at DKR Memorial for a 2:30 pm kick-off on Sept. 2'nd -- the same day we kick-off at 3:00 pm. Their game will be televised so......are Tea-sipper fans tougher than Green'bloods?

More UNT Gear••• Driving around Weatherford (Parker County) & Fort Worth I’ve been amazed at all the Texas Tech stuff on autos. It amazed me a school 4 hours from DFW has so much support & so—while in SW Fort Worth I go by Rally & get these for my car. LET’S FILL IT, FOLKS! GMG!

Greenjoe—a good one! 😆 See you & a whole host of other green’bloods soon! GMG!

And utsa is giving most their monies to their head football coach along with his 10 year contract, their AD & their school president. Doesn’t take long for a school to empty its coffers. Still it’s like Cush’ told Jerry Maguire: “I just want to play some football!” Sept. 2••3:00pm••DATCU••Stadium

Absolutely at the top of the list of one of our greatest supporters of all things UNT & Mean Green I’ve ever known. I have known you & your lovely late wife, Jessica, Jack, since the days you were an executive with Jimmy Dean Foods, Inc. over in Dallas. (I believe you worked with Jimmy’s brother). SUMG & I laugh about the time we all sat in a monsoon covered by a clear plastic sheet to watch us play the Southern Miss Golden Eagles at old Fouts Field. Then there was the snow game in Denton vs. Bobby Bowden’s Fla. State Seminoles. We were there! We’ve all had some laughs & a few disappointments along the way following the school who bestowed to us our degrees (& many good memories) but whatever the score, we still show up to sing “Glory To The Green” accompanied by the Green Brigade, don’t we Jack? Nevertheless•••HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YA’, JACK! GMG!

North Texas had so embarrassed SMU in this matchup as seen below in the video that SMU began using some of their techniques which reminded many of their Death Penalty years; that is, of buying success instead of doing it the old fashioned way—-earning it without buying it. Who knew that MBU (Moneybags U) would soon play a big part in a new “Playing For Dollars” NCAA. Post their huge loss to UNT, SMU powers would soon meet & had to be thinking: “These guys come to University Park next Fall & we cannot afford to have a repeat “non-performance” of the disaster which took place up in Denton.” They had a plan to insure that would not happen again. So…..•••SMU started proselyting other schools football players. TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech & UH got protective of their own star players once SMU’s methods became known to all. And SMU wonders why there is no interest for their style in the Big 12? “Hell, we let SMU in the Big 12 & they’ll start stealing our players, too, & telling recruits that only country bumpkins go to schools like the ones in Fort Worth, Waco, Lubbock & off Cullen Blvd., Houston.” •••Henceforth, SMU from now on (or until the NCAA rules committee regains their ever-loving sanity) the Mighty Mustangs would spend “whatever it took” to all but replace the team that embarrassed all of University Park at UNT’’s Apogee Stadium that particular September evening in 2018. Later, SMU football letterman Garry Webber suggested to the SMU kingpins probably saying something like: “Hey! There are zero NCAA FBS schools with 30,000’ish sized stadiums garnering any expansion interest at any P5 conferences so here’s $50M toward getting that end zone expansion started.” _________________________ 🦅•••••••••••••••••••••🐻 See some of y’all at the Cal Bears/Mean Green game at DATCU Stadium. *This will be ‘Grandpa’s’ 53’rd Mean Green home season opener vs the PAC12’s CAL Bears. GMG!

I have a hard time having a P5 conference in Texas & Southwest that does not include UT & OU. Plus Cincinnati & Central Florida being in any conference along with other Texas universities just seems an odd & total misfit. UNT was not in it, but I still miss the Southwest Conference. Pardon the nostalgic moment, but it’s what old men do, right?

Like TCU, Baylor & UH are blackballing SMU?

Honestly, I thought all this was mostly pipe dreams banter until I read ESPN could be in on the assisting of forming a new AAC; that is, ESPN along with AAC Commissioner Aresca). That makes it at least an outside chance. If any of this doesn’t happen now, who’s to say it can’t ever happen? •••Realignment seems to be here to stay. BEAT THOSE CAL BEARS🐻

(If this has been posted, I will remove this link). I think many are prone to not believe anything they read in America today, especially on the internet & when you have pathological liars permeating Washington D.C.--both sides of the aisle, but this one (to say the least) is very interesting to most of us. I take it with the grain of salt. We know to do that, don't we? Yet AAC Commissioner Arresca must have a game plan to get this far & with him all things are possible. Still, to be part of this discussion is huge step forward. Who would have ever thought any of this this is (in fact) real--if it is real? At least something to talk about for another 100 plus degree day. Pac 4 AAC merger becomes imminent as George Kliavkoff prepares relocation from Power 5 to Group of 5: Reports (sportskeeda.com) Nevertheless...Bloom Where Planted, North Texas!

👨‍🦳OK! I’m Old & I Do Ramble! (I’m not alone, though). UNT did not play anyone with near the talent of UT-Austin last Fall plus I’m not sure this thread was meant to pick the 2023 starting UNT QB, was it? Some will tell us that in NCAA FBS level football you can never have enough talented QB’s on hand. (Who is UTSA’s 2’nd string QB)? I only have to look at some of our critical fan base to understand why start-up programs can catch up to or pass a 100+ year football program. We are not always the best judge or most astute experts of things relating to NCAA D1 athletics. (God Almighty, please don’t let UT-Arlington start their football program back up again). We have 2 or 3 college football geniuses on GMG who are still mad that A.D. Fry took us out of the Missouri Valley to go Independent. He did have a plan with that, but so few followers in Denton. (See the below 1973 photo of which I think there is a former Denton mayor or city councilman in it). The Mighty Mo’! I sometimes wonder if some of the critics ever bothered to check UNT’s cumulative record (especially in basketball) during those MVC “glory” years (sarc’). It was truly nothing special to get all that worked up about.