PlummMeanGreen

We were in a draught last Summer, but for the Mean Green Village especially the peripheal areas of Apogee Stadium, UNT needs some award winning land-scaping with green grass all around provided by an under-ground sprinkler system. The 2 ponds near our stadium need trees around them and their shorelines surrounded by concrete picnic tables. GMG!

And overall better team speed is what CUSA opponents have had over us most every time except maybe Cincinatti in our NO's Bowl win over the Bearcats. I repeat: If I were Coach McCarney, I would red-shirt more of this Fall's team than he had planned. I repeat again: University of Houston's Bill Yeoman red-shirted a huge number of his 1975 football team the year before they entered the Southwest Conference, circa, 1976, and the Coogs went to the Cotton Bowl the first year in their new conference with many of those kids he red-shirted. CUSA will be a huge challenge for North Texas especially in our first few years plus our recruiting will have to go up to the next level, too. Just sayin' what I hope he'll be doin'. GMG!

Yea, that's right! That would be the real "North Texas" thing to do! Even a couple of girls streaking into the Mercer Room might make a couple of their own points stand out. Toga! Toga! Toga...............Food fight! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tASwgOWALs Sorry, I'll go take my evening meds now.

Sounds like TSU-SM wanted a few scoops of ice cream with that cake, too, Harry. If anyone has read the TSU-SM board over the years, it is more than blatantly obvious which Texas-based university located in the northern part of Texas that they perceive themselves catching up to and passing. For the moment, they do have a lead in endowment coffers, but a few of the right investments or Big Donors (like from our fellow alum in SE Asia) can change that part dramatically. We have no reason to diss the SBC. Saying we want to advance is not dissing the SBC. It met our needs at a time we needed it to meet our needs. And anyone tell me which Belt school wouldn't have jumped at the same opportunity FIU and UNT have received from CUSA? GMG! ADDENDUM: Just listened to the TSU-SM podcast with their AD and I ask this of NT Exes and MG fans: After you listen to that steaming pile of bobcat manure with some of his obviously condescending statements about "the bottom part of the SBC going to CUSA"; so some of you still want to hold hands, sing kum bah yah and make TSU-SM a regular on any of our varsity schedules? I did not like what I heard from this NCAA FCS level AD whose school has yet to play one NCAA FBS matchup as an FBS school at all. Up yours, Texas State! We have much bigger fish to fry than helping you try to become the next North Texas at our expense! I defer to the score listed below the green lettered sentence that shows TSU-SM has quite a long ways to go before they quite arrive. PS: Sorry to those who actually finished this rant, but the Irish part of me comes out from time to time. Yet I detest those who can be condescending without having any earthly reason or record of accomplishment to be so.

Joe, according to Wikopedia's info on the Metro Conference, Hayden Fry would have already been at Iowa U for 5 years before the Metro Conference opened for business. From Wikopedia: The Metropolitan Collegiate Athletic Conference, popularly known as the Metro Conference, was an NCAA Division I athletics conference, so named because all of its charter members were in urban metropolitan areas in, or at least on the fringes of, the Southern United States. The conference never sponsored football, although most of its members throughout its history had Division I-A football programs (from 1983-91................................. And here is the history of the Missouri Valley Conference which shows getting out of the Mo' Valley was not just a Hayden Fry or North Texas thang', either. Former members of the Missouri Valley Conference (quite interesting to me all the schools that have come and gone) Butler University – 1932–1934 University of Cincinnati – 1957–1969 University of Detroit – 1949–1956, currently University of Detroit Mercy Grinnell College – 1918–1939 University of Houston – 1951–1959 University of Iowa – 1907–1908 Iowa State College – 1907–1928, currently Iowa State University Kansas State College – 1913–1928, currently Kansas State University University of Louisville – 1963–1974 University of Kansas – 1907–1928 Memphis – 1968–1973 University of Missouri – 1907–1928 University of Nebraska – 1907–1919, 1921–1928 New Mexico State University – 1970–1983 North Texas – 1957–1974 University of Oklahoma – 1919–1928 Oklahoma A&M University – 1925–1956, currently Oklahoma State University Saint Louis University – 1937–1974 University of Tulsa – 1935–1996 Washburn University – 1935–1942 Washington University in St. Louis – 1907–1942 West Texas State University – 1972–1985, currently West Texas A&M University

I've mentioned this to a few via cell phone, but Hayden Fry in his 2'nd season at North Texas only had 2 wins. Like UH did before they entered the Southwest Conference, Coach Yeoman red-shirted record numbers saving them for their 1'st year of SWC competition (of which the Coogs' won in their 1'st year). Not so sure we should do the very same thing and take the hit this next Fall. Anyone agree? I'm hoping for much better for Coach McCarney than Fry had in his 2'nd season, but we will have a big bullseye target painted on us because we will be leaving the Belt and for some (if not all) of the SBC schools this will be their last shot at us for a long time.

You will find few who will disagree with you on that, findingbennyanders. GMG! PS: Any links on your new stadium and where it will be located?

Villarreal? He's Irish! Leave him be!

Schedule up. We owe nothing to anyone who would be considerred down. ' We are not a Top 25 school that can afford to schedule those who will not help us become Top 25. In CUSA, we will have like schools of which many years we will beat up on each other preventing one of our own from getting in the Top 25. Not saying we schedule LSU, Alabama and Texas every year, either, but schools ranked from #15 thru #25 or those football programs who annually get many top 25 votes would IMO be the best place for us to start with OOC scheduling. Just sayin'... GMG!

We have 7,000,000 North Texas citizens to get our 31,000 to fill Apogee Stadium. Not sure why that is a problem if we're pro-active enough to solve that shortfall. Who can Rick V hire to make this happen? What kind of promos? As some of you said: Start with filling Wing Zone section first for every home game for starters? Hire a full department with proven performers who have filled other NCAA D1 stadiums? ? GMG!

A week? I will say that the first ones used to appear in the Letters to the Sports Editors of the Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Times-Herald and the Fort Worth Star Telegram. I will say this now: UT will not remain in the Big 12 as long as some think, but as far as UNT is concerned I think we have found a long time home in CUSA.

And FWIW....it was the UNT students who really made this football stadium possible. Here! Here! To The UNT Students (and all the taxpayers, too). GMG!

Our 9'th name change announcement, perhaps? I'm happy for all of us...Look at our CUSA division. Only thing that would have been better was the old SWC as far as a regional conference is concerned (or the Big 12, of course). GMG!

Some interesting choices. New conference gives UNT an opportuntiy for new logos and brandings gear which means more purchases and revenue for North Texas athletics. GMG!

Looks like the Texas Higher Ed Coord/ Board is just handing out emerging reserach university statuses like candy of late. At one time, it was just the Big 3 of UH, Texas Tech and UNT. Whose next, Tarleton State? From all accounts, the last barrier for North Texas to reach Tier 1 is our endowment coffers of which there has to be at least $400 million in it for us to become Tier 1. Well, UNT fund-raisers have their work cut out for them to get to that $400 million level, but we seem to have passed all the other criteria.

Is UTEP in CUSA or the MWC? Do their alums even know or is just more message board chatter saying they are going to the MWC?

And CUSA would say the following? "Upon further review, we chose not to offer the school located in the area of which our conference office is located a membership; that is, a membership to the largest school with the largest number of alums in the south/central geographical footprint of CUSA that has the most years of NCAA D1 history than any of any of the others new schools and (in fact) more D1 years of existence than many of our present membership." I think somebody is having a little fun at North Texas expense. Here's one for you Fort Worth Star Telegram to put in a future sports page article that's probably closer to the truth: "Look for UT-Austin to leave the Big 12, buddy back up with TAMU by joining the SEC or going rogue a la TAMU by joining the PAC 12. " (Put that one in your paper FWST and see how much local purple tinted responses you'd get). GMG!

Put "North Texas" on upper part of jersey and SOW on the helmet....no letters on the helmet a la UT, SMU and others. GMG!

A congrats back to ya'. What did Joe order from your menu? You remember? GMG! PS: Also, spelled "Greene" by the way.

Interesting.... http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/brett-mcmurphy/18920451

And did I read somewhere that Karl Benson just placed a $5 million departure fee for future departees after this wave is gone?

Bump! Thanks to the many of you who have voted to help a fellow CUSA'er. GMG!

Finally and even in my lifetime....................local conference rivalries 3 of whom are from the Lone Star State! GMG!

Said this at least a month ago but..............if the MWC were to have received their AQ status (when that was relevant) with subsequent and additional revenues they would have told CUSA to...................take a hike. UTEP seems to like what they see with CUSA now that UTSA and North Texas are in it, but who knows what tomorrow holds with any of this. Even TCU will need to keep their fingers crossed that UT will not want to buddy back up with TAMU and join the SEC or even the PAC 12 to be the "ONLY" school from the Lone Star State in that league. Nothing ever stays the same should be the NCAA's new motto. GMG!

bump... Thanks to the many of you who I know have followed through with this to help a fellow CUSA'er. We of North Texas (if anyone) knows how important a new football stadium can be for the entire UNT community. GMG! Good luck, Green Wave!