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Fouts Field: I think it was FFR who once told me that from the lower section 50 yard line Fouts seating to the 50 yard mark on the football field was a distance of between 45-50 yards. The track made Mean Green fans so doggone far from the action of a football game. Crowd noise accoustics were terrible. I never-ever liked Fouts Field & we waited too long to build Apogee. Timing can be everything with such things—I defer to UAB. Saw the Oak Ridge Boys, Lorie Morgan, etc there one evening & it was OK for that. 🦅

I think they already have.

I still think our 2 chief administrators for the school & athletic department should go visit Aresco. Worse he could say is no. 🦅

To put it bluntly: The last 3 unproductive years in MG football may have cost us a much better conference home. While UAB, Coastal Carolina, Louisiana & App. State were winning & getting ranked, all we were doing in Denton was being Puff the Magic (paper mache) Dragon & a Stepping Stone. Could our timing for all this to happen now have been worse? The amazing phenomena of AAC getting shutout with a “no” by all 4 MWC schools will affect several schools in (maybe) a good way; sadly, 1 or 2 schools will have to keep looking to the future (again). Some of us been saying we might have to wait for the next round barring a last minute miracle. GMG!

This kind of enrollment helped UNT students set an all time student attendance record at Apogee Stadium not that long ago. New MG fans & faces at Apogee Stadium have to come from somewhere, right? ❇️

Uh, don’t give them any ideas.🙃 We seem to all function like po’ wayfarin’ strangers on this board at times. We really do need something good happening for all of the Mean Green Nation & that to happen real soon.

The writer of this article is affiliated with UTSA. Has he ever written anything positive about CUSA even when it’s schools were winning bowls & the Sun Belt wasn’t? A large TV market is no market at all unless you have a Commissioner like the AAC’s Aresta leading the way. His apparent ESPN connection & background has not hurt the AAC, either. A wise hire on the AAC’s part. They were thinking conference TV revenue from the start. Apparently, CUSA had that theme on the back-burner. CUSA’s Judy, Judy, Judy could be sitting on a solid mountain of gold but wouldn’t know when & where to initially plant a pick. Seems she has apparently been poorly managed as a CUSA Commissioner, too. 🦅

Seems that AFA’s financiers may pressure the Falcons to stay where they are.

“Loosing” had already begun? Plus in that era UT had started putting MG fans in the end zone. • That DKR vs Fry game in 1976 we had good sideline seating for thousands of Mean Green fans. AD Royal was very nice to North Texas from the git-go. SUMG once called & told me Darrell Royal was going to be in Denton for a personal appearance at James Woods Auto Mall, so I dropped what I was doing & headed up there. We were early & met DKR spending almost 30 “solid gold” minutes with him. He treated us like we were old friends. We told Coach Royal how much we appreciated his total congeniality to UNT back then. He smiled. Coach would also send a “get well” card to my dad who’d been ill. I offered money for him to get a card but grinning, he said—“keep your money.” (He sent Dad the card). 🦅

If some of you would have been part of the almost 20,000 MG traveling fans that the Austin-American Statesman said were at UT-Austin’s (then called) Memorial Stadium to see the DKR-led Longhorns vs Fry’s Mean Green—some of you would probably post different than you are now (which for some is almost always negative). I have my negative moments, too, but if they were always negative I probably would not be here now, but would have found another hobby. (Isn’t this all really a hobby of sorts as it is)? 🦅

Again, why would they have to be in the same conference to keep playing each other?

Maybe so. 😌 (BTW, I did not put the downvote). •••There are many non-UNT affiliated posters on this forum—very many. Some could be put in the “anti UNT” department matter a fact. 🟢 Consider that this thread may have had another objective, though. 🦅

If I see they are MIP (missing in print) I will correct it!🙃😊 Another School of Thought....One LaTech BB&B dude did have this thought which amused me😊 “This stuff is all temporary. If you jump conferences every time yours has had a couple of down years, you'll pay a fortune in exit fees and end up right where you started every time. Southern Miss will eventually get back to where they were, as will Western Ky and some others and CUSA (or wherever we end up) will be fine.”

Repeating this again but SMU had 10 consecutive under .500 football seasons when they were invited to CUSA. 2005 was their first season in that league, but this thread is not about SMU—it’s about UNT. ❇️

UNT is now only behind UT, TAMU & UH as the 4’th largest university in the Lone Star State. ••• A 50,000 student enrollment for North Texas is hardly out of the question. In fact, I think that’s already been projected. ••• Seems a 60,000 enrollment U of Central Florida was a big plus when it came to their Big 12 invite. UCF’s enrollment has been mentioned at other NCAA outposts. SMU is not going to stop looking over their shoulders as far as seeking membership to the Big 12 so if that happens, Commish’ Aresca & company should not wait, but rather top load North Texas into his fine conference now. The UNT athletic budget (which would easily be increased for AAC membership) along with our top shelf venues that I think Commissioner Aresca would agree are AAC-ready & quality even now.

So it’s just Air Force & CSU for the moment? 😆 I’m getting dizzy. And this big hit during my Senior year at Danbury High School. GO 🐆PANTHERS!

The key injuries helped to start the 2021 season in a hole. We were competitive up until the 4’th quarter vs a “no injuries” SMU football team. 🦅

UAB’s “co-owned” Stadium I understand is almost 2 miles from their campus. Not sure how wise that was. Ask UH how even the Astrodome location miles from Cullen Blvd. & their campus worked out for Coog football, especially when the losing seasons started happening. UAB’s dropping of football for 2 years to pile on some “NCAA sanctioned” transfers (among other things) seems to have worked out for them. That most definitely an NCAA road never travelled. ❇️

That’s why this poll is ridiculous. Such polls you first find out the schools where the originators of said polls attended, right?🙄

No spring chicken here, either, wardly. I do like your words—good words. (By the way, Jerry Lee Lewis turned 86 years old just the other day).😆 ❇️

My first UNT basketball game was the night the Super Pit had its grand opening. Gene Robbins was the Mean Green basketball coach. Many in the Southwest TV & radio media called it the best campus venue in 4 states. Baylor Bears radio broadcaster Frank Fallon praised UNT SID Fred Graham for what he perceived was FG’s influence in creating the press row section. Then UNT had 3 or 4 NCAA Midwest Regionals scheduled at the Super Pit which was quite the prestigious thing of that era. Those have since moved to much larger venues. Being at the 1977(?) SMU vs UNT game before a SRO crowd of 10,700 was very exciting. It has never been that crowded since & that night ended with a Mean Green win over the Mustangs. ••• UNT guard Pat Hicks mid-court swisher vs Abe Lemon’s Texas Longhorns was an all time crowd pleaser, too. UNT would win that game.

Besides Temple, never heard of a school getting kicked out of a FBS conference.

3 hours ago, Coach Andy Mac said: AAC West: Air Force, CSU, Tulsa, Navy, SMU, Memphis East: UAB, Charlotte, ECU, USF, Temple, Tulane MWC West: SDSU, Boise State, SJSU, Fresno State, UNLV, Nevada, Hawaii Mountain: USU, Wyoming, UNM, Rice, UTEP, UTSA, North Texas _______________________________ Charlotte makes no sense & no cents. SMU’ers will freak with a school in AAC with a (is it) 15,000 seat stadium? Of course, they’ll all say they will expand. Agree, TCC, I’ll take that too.👍👍 Besides with Keyboard Sports Warriors, is Boise that sure a thing with the Big 12 Light? I’m not sure how SMU could ever begin to call the above version of AAC as a win since they want in the Big 12 Light as it is. •••. See North Texas, all we have to do is take a 2 year sabbatical from football; start top-loading with NCAA -sanctioned recruits who’ll be 30 by the time they graduate, add 15,000 more seats to Apogee, win in a weak football conference 3-4 years in a row & WALA! TAKE US! WE’RE YOURS—BIG 12 LIGHT! 🙄 😎••• The P-Fivers are probably getting a big kick out of all this.😌

You can only wish that (while SMU continues to be shunned by Big 12 Light). • Someone needs to tell you the B12 boys don’t believe SMU brings anything to their party (except a legacy of probations). Of course, we all knew you’d respond to anything that might put UNT in a good light. It’s just what you rich, spoiled brat 💩’rds do. Still.....Why isn’t SMU being talked up more for Big 12 Light? What do you & Gerald T. have to say about that? We’d all like to know. BTW, which Texas HS assistant coach will your Chief Recruitinator have come up to UNT next? Go back to your SMU forum with the other half dozen who are on it. 🐎...🦅 ••• We’re gettin’ closer so y’all just keep on looking over your shoulders as it seems you’re still doing now.😆 ❇️

That sounds pretty close to what “might” happen. It still amazes me what a school with a couple of recent winning seasons & venues that a Texas 6A high school could all but equal is even part of this re-alignment discussion. Oh well, just so UNT gets awarded a league future of which some TV revenue will probably (still) be the best we’ve had. Travel? CUSA-East is not exactly next door neighbors to any of us in the Wild, Wild West. If it’s to be the MWC, who says we’d even play California schools every other year? Look at CUSA-East schools who are not exactly frequenting the UNT schedule even now? I would think our ace in the hole in all this is our budget, our non-stop venues building which will continue to keep us in the FBS venues arms race & being a large 42,000+ (still growing) public university in a Texas population center of over 8,000,000 citizens. This was going to eventually pay off for UNT whether this re-alignment go-around or the next one. If it’s the MWC, that will be a dream come true for many on GMG & if the MWC, it would be an acquired taste of acceptance for others that I think time would take care of that, too. Granted, it was a different time, but the MWC sure did pay off for TCU. Photo: UNT vs UNLV, Heart of Dallas Bowl, Cotton Bowl Stadium, before almost 40,000 Mean Green fans