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One more video… GMG! Prediction: Some of us on GMG were at the UNT•SMU game when 10,500 butts in seats showed. (I believe the Dallas Morning News actually said “10,700” in their boxscore). Anyhow, the Super Pit was rockin’ that night & the ol’ Lady will again this coming season when the ‘Stangs play us this Fall. (I remember an SMU 🔻🔷🔻fraternity were sitting in the aisles where their tickets were located. I believe the Denton Fire Marshall (friend Bob Hagemon) also did them a favor by turning his head to allow it. GMG!

The Mean Green hosted the Red Raiders in this YouTube classic. GMG!

I would think any kind of transfer. A transfer situation tells one that particular recruit &/or school made a mistake in judgement. I would think it’s a bigger expense for the school since they gave a scholarship to one who was not going to stick with a commitment. •••The NCAA has made leaving & not honoring a commitment too easy. A recruit that didn’t get that ‘ship could have been a keeper & have turned out to be an All American. I have no more faith in this present NCAA Rules Committee than I do with the Marxists running Washington; that is, those who try to convince all that $7.00 per gallon of gas is actually a good thing & that a polar bear could end up at their front door any day. I guess if you clearly cannot run a government for all 50 states (at present count) that any kind of diversion is your ally.

I knew new UNT basketball coach Ross Hodge reminded me of somebody & finally it hit me & that is Hollywood (& Weatherford, Texas’) movie mogul Taylor Sheridan. Below is new UNT Coach & Defense guru Ross Hodge.

All in all, I think all will wish only the very best for the great Tylor Perry! Nothing but good memories.

Jelly Walker may have been the best visitors team guard I’ve seen in Denton since Maurice Cheeks future NBA’er played there toward the end of our Missouri Valley Conference era. Tylor Perry is the best guard in Mean Green basketball history. Wish he would have stayed & built onto that legacy (& maybe a statue) at the outdoor plaza of the Super Pit. GMG!

Didn’t Texas Tech lose 7 to the portal one season?

Are we surprised? I’m not. I know others who aren’t, either. I think TP was going even if Coach Mac had stayed. Who knows—maybe he’ll change his mind? 🤔 Hmmm? I know all Tech varsity athletes receive $36,000 NIL money. This is not the NCAA we all grew up with & most of us genuinely hate it. We still don’t have enough continued tradition & success at UNT for good talent to want to feel tied to UNT & stay in Denton. Every success story we’ve ever had who left Denton in the past it seems has mentioned lack of fan support. He didn’t say it, but Wren Baker had to wonder—“just what’s it going to take to put butts inside a fairly nice spectator’s venue? _______________ UNT in the late 50’s & 60’s—Where are these fans now (besides Greenwood & Laurel Land)? A 1970’s crowd in the Super Pit

At the Abner Haynes/Dr. Leon King Unity Plaza ceremony last Fall an Athletic official told our group before the ceremony began that he & SL were in Houston 3 times the previous 2 years visiting UNT letterman Mattress Mac McIngvale, but that’s where the conversation ended on that ceremonial day. Below pic taken of Abner Haynes & Leon King at old Fouts Field.

Some interesting End Zone Facilities pictured in this article link & to ADLER: Is the La Tech facility as seen below what you had in mind for fabulous Apogee Stadium? I think it’s very impressive & Tech officials said was built for only $15 million? (That’s even more impressive). •••Below photo taken during a 2021 televised game between La Tech & North Texas. I took this pic off my bedroom TV. Link: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2022/04/18/Portfolio/College-facilities.aspx

They definitely know how to close out a game with total confidence.

I told a fellow alum that Grant probably knew he was moving days ago. Hoping no key players join him.

Easy to see that Grants SWC/Big 12 coaching buddies are probably his main cheerleaders & encouragers for him to move to the 🎶 land of sky blue waters.🎶 (sarc’) (Wasn’t that in a Hamm’s 🍺 beer commercial)? GMG!

I have no idea, DG.

My bad. Impressive.

Haven’t read it yet, but was talking to a fellow alum the other day who said “sitting out a year after a transfer worked out OK before.”

(Mods please delete if this link should not be on GMG). From the Forbes article: “With the finishing touches being placed on a 12 team playoff, the financial future looks better for the newly expanded 2023 version of the AAC. New members are Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, North Texas, Rice, UAB and UTSA. https://www.forbes.com/sites/karenweaver/2023/03/11/aac-commissioner-is-right-its-time-to-drop-the-power-5-label/amp/

How funny—I sat by his mother at last years LaTech game (attended by crooner Randy Travis & Company) & before the largest Super Pit crowd since 1980. Mother Hodge was fun to talk to. I told her about some of the name players & schools we played in the 70’s & 80’s. She was duly impressed as I still am myself.

I fear Hodge could go to Lubbock except a head coach job would be hard to turn down. In spite of what ESPN broadcasters seems to think—UNT is not chopped liver. Any D1 school in the Lone Star state is not. Grant had been touting Hodge for a HBC job since last year (if not sooner).

Not if the PAC 12 loses P5 rating that doesn’t help SMU at all. Easy to see SMU powers cannot justify building a south end zone expansion using ex Dallas Mayor/SMU alum Garry Weber’s $50 million donation if they stay in a G5 conference. I agree with Gray Eagle that the P5 & G5 designations have to go. That would be a game-changer in so many ways. UNT needs to build our end zone venue because we flat out need it but mostly for all the other ancillary athletic facility square footage space that will come with it. SMU’s rendering…

I am selfish & I hope he stays. Bet his family does to. He’s got a lifetime job in Denton & can move UNT to the next level. I just thought he could do better than TT. They sure have gone through the coaches in Lubbock plus the RR’s have only gone to one more Final 4 than UNT.🙄 Sorry, but I’ve never seen Lubbock as a bastion for the “finer” black athlete (unless the Cotton Eyed Joe is part of their dance repertoire). Texas sportswriters from decades past have said the same thing. My family got to Texas in 1834 by way of Illinois, but best I know Lubbock was not on their check list of places to settle.

Gotta’ get all this out of our system if what seems to be the inevitable actually happens. (O Lord as if what’s happening in the daily polarization of America ain’t enough)? 😳 You are right—not one time did they mention the CUSA schools leaving for the American. Of course, on their list of “don’t forget to mention that you’re not going to see Grant McCasland in Denton much longer.” I count at least 3 times on that theme from the ESPN broadcast team during our Wisconsin win. After reviewing video, 1 or 2 times during the Oklahoma State game. It’s like they are telling TV viewers “now wait a gol’ darned minute—let’s not get too excited about whats happening in Denton, Texas, folks. It won’t be for much longer.”🤢 I think most will remember when the school located in the oasis of the Texas desert lost their head basketball coach to UT🔸Austin. Remember how pissed the “guns up” crowd were when that took place? It makes our response to our best ever Coach in UNT history look like a yawn. Just seems we sometimes like to think that we are the only school to experience a successful athletic employee leaving for another opportunity. To be honest, it probably hasn’t happened near enough if you think back the last half century plus years which many on this fan forum can tell you about firsthand. Cumulative Wins vs Losses records by coaches who were not renewed their contracts at UNT proves the point. Good people were losing their jobs up there, but like old time MLB manager Leo Durocher once said—“nice guys finish last.” Nevertheless, it’s been a fun run having Grant McCasland show us the Super Pit could really be much more than a superb wind break for the tennis courts adjacent to it and he showed us—what the possibilities were in Denton, especially now with this NIT experience; the invaluable national television exposure we had with it & even today having an upcoming American Athletic Conference mate show all how a NCAA Final 4 experience is more within our reach than ever before. We all just have to move on—we’ve done it before. Matter of fact, most NCAA schools have as well. .

Wasn’t there a basketball spirit band there vs Wisconsin last night? Y’all aren’t talking about this 450 member Green Brigade, right? Green Brigade, right?

If UNT is not being proactive with a multi-year contract extension with significant salary raise & bonus monies scenarios then that’s on us. THERE! I SAID IT! _______________________ Should we have a wager with how soon anyone on the ESPN broadcast team says: “Don’t look for Grant to be on the Mean Green sideline next year?” (Fran & the sideline reporter fought for that honor early last night). Last year it was a cinch with some posters on GMG that SMU would flash a few dollars at our Coach & he would be gone ASAP for University Park & in a Highland Park minute.He politely told SMU officials “thanks but no thanks” stayed in Denton yet no ESPN broadcasters in the 2023 NIT has yet to evention mention that story— have they? ._______________________ JUST ONE MORE THING! Amazing how a Texas school catches lightning in a bottle & then how everyone suddenly wants a piece of what you have or—a piece of you. Ask Elaine & Mr. Constanza how that works. GMG!

interim coach now Mark Adams 2021-23 43-25 0 1 0 Chris Beard 2016-21 112-55 1 3 0 Tubby Smith 2013-16 46-50 0 1 0 Chris Walker (int.) 2012-13 11-20 0 0 0 Billy Gillispie 2011-12 8-23 0 0 0 Pat Knight 2008-11 50-61 0 0 0 Bob Knight 2001-08 Texas Tech may hire him but I think he will not stay there but rather end up in the more prestigious SEC or BIG 10 (since they now know who he is).🤠 •••• A Final 4 berth for Coach McCasland & the Mean Green may now be an easier feat in the American Athletic Conference than a revised Big 12. *** FAU has become living proof of that Wherever you land, Coach McCasland, you know we’ll be pulling for you all—the—way! We just all hope (somehow) that will be in Denton-Texas-America!🇺🇸 GMG!