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That was the quote Coach Darrell Dickey made concerning another NT QB soon after future NT Athletic Hall of Famer Scott Hall was injured, lost for the season and when a particular RS frosh QB took over for that 2002 season. I think our head football coach might even today say the same posted in the topic title line concerning Dan Meager and Matt Phillips, too. I'm watching the 2002 Mean Green "CHAMPIONS" DVD as I post and what great memories this DVD is bringing back to me; memories of that most unforgettable year with the great #12 taking us all the way to the Big Easy and a bowl win over the CUSA football champion. Just watched a young running back named Cobbs run thru the New Mexcio State "D" with reckless abandon in this 2002 highlight DVD of that unforgettable game that anyone who was there on that November afternoon at Fouts Field will "NEVER" forget. "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?!?!? GMG!

Now this article gets this 1976 NT grad fired up! This is what its all about IMHO. We all need to do our part, too. GMG!

Next year when they don't have to open with the Mean Green?

You know, when my old Texas HS football team was playing a home game against the much more talented Van Vleck HS Leopards, a Gulf Coast 2-day rain hit my home area leaving lakes of water on Panther Stadium. It created such havoc with the quality of play (fumbleitus) that the heavily-favored Leopards just barely beat my team and we felt pretty good about what we thought would be a blood-letting of a Texas HS football game. Water and lots of it on a football field can sometimes be somewhat an equalizer, but having lived thru a few hurricanes I would not wish that kind of havoc on Louisiana or anyone on the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico in order to create an equalizer for a college football game.

Of course, in the spirit of the NCAA (and regulations) no care package$ can be sent to these players unless you are a parent, that is. What are the functions of the ones who do adopt, though?

So very right on and true, Dallas Green. The part that all but shames me and makes me feel pretty darn bad as an NT alum is how I feel Dr. Norval Pohl was the sacrificial lamb because he stood up for NT Athletics not with just lip-service (as we are all used to in Denton) but with actions to do what he said he would do. I can't help but feel that that was the main reason our NT academic community turned on him with their low approval rating of him as president. Lee Jackson will probably let that be the first thing our new president hears about on that new presidents first day on the job at our main campus, too. Dallas Green is right on inasmuch that we "ALL" must write or email NT Board Chairman Bobby Ray with "cc's" to each NT regent and head off at the pass what is NORTH TEXAS' usual tendency to back-step in the area of athletics after we've made substantial strides forward. That is, head off at that pass the tendency for our powers that be from past decades to take us back to the era of lip-service when it comes to NT Athletics as in, uh, tell those NT alums what they want to hear and then (basically) do something pretty well close to the opposite. <>*<> The NT branding officials and the elitist attitude that came from (especially) one of their committee members who in that now infamous mis-directed email to one of our alums said: "We don't have to answer to that group" should give us all a hint of a whole new attitude of elitism at our alma mater. If that person is reading this: That group you don't have to answer to just happens to be some of the most loyal and visible (in pretty decent numbers, too) that the University of North Texas has ever had. Yet that one mis-directed email should serve as a pretty big red flag for all of us and the entire NT community as a not-so-subtle hint of things to come. We cannot let this ship hit an ice-berg because it appears that our captain may very well have the capacity to steer us into dangerous waters. Our ship has already hit a few ice cubes and even a few blocks of ice, so aren't those red flags that a major ice-berg could soon be on the horizon at NT? Just my .02 from the western Far Side.

Agree, drex... Too many of the academic community at NT (not all) just cannot see the trees for the forest when it comes to athletics or athletics-related construction. Many of that group feel they are the losers (instead of the gainers) in such construction endeavors like the ones happening now at Eagle Point Campus. Many Denia-ites are NT employees and were probably the ones raising the most hell in the last 2 years concerning Eagle Point Campus' short-term and long range future. LONG PARAGRAPHS AND LONGER SENTENCES: If any of our fine academians NT's teaching facilities were as old, beat up, adjacent to an interstate and cosmetically not pleasing to the eyes to 50,000 daily commuters off I35-E who would see their teaching venues and just in the same general shape as Fouts Field is today (even with recent cosmetic changes that are basically putting minor touch-ups on major problems with age at the top of that list); anyway, this group at NT would raise all kinds of holy hell, ask to have their buildings checked out as to have them condemned, imploded and ultimately replaced. Yet they most likely have no problems in thinking we could live with Fouts Field for another 50 years. (This group should have to work in DFW like many of us as to understand how one facility off the interstate gives many Metroplexers their "first impression-last impression" perception of NORTH TEXAS). Some of those academians might just ask Lee Jackson, when do we start the new stadium?!?!?! Also, too many of this select group of NT acadamians do not have the foresight to understand what a new stadium can do for each of their respective academic departments in the area of stimulating alumnus interest, ie, alums from each of their departments they see graduate that would rarely show up at NT with their check books as to say "hello" or visit their major's academic building, touch base with their former professors and all this if not.............for Game Day at NT. Too many of our NT academians just simply don't have the ability to conjure up a vision past their own personal pet projects as to see how a first class football facility (sorry folks, its Texas--not Indiana to you basketball junkies); like many of this group now teach in could make a new generation of NT alums (and its older nestor alums) feel proud of their school and want to $upport it when he or she graduates. Venerable Fouts Field has served its purpose for probably a generation too long, but the sooner its gone--the better for the entire NT community, both those who receive their paychecks from NT and those who would give to the overall endowment of our alma mater AND to each of the academic departments that were our alum's majors/minors academically. Just my .02 from the, uh, Far Side.

By all means, mgf, do hurry and post #667! I know, way too many "The Omen" type movies for me, too!

Come on now, mgf, should we just go ahead and tell this forum that you are one of those nephews?!?!?!? GMG! PS: As far as my posts? I like to think of them many times as from the uh, well, how about "The Far Side?" Yet even ol' Harry himself will call me on occasion to tell me I'm right on on a particular subject and that every once in a blue moon. I do try to not post about posters, though, as I think are the rules of this board.

The NT president used to be of a higher authority on the main campus until Lee Jackson set up his offices on the, uh, main campus. The chancellor of a system with schools in Denton, Dallas and Fort Worth should really have his office set up in the middle of DFW Airport IMHO. I think it would be a safe wager that (still relatively) newcomer NT Chancellor Lee Jackson would prefer to take any significant funds coming our way to build a campus in south Dallas County rather than a (very long over-due) new football stadium in Denton, Texas. I guess we can all say thank heavens for designated gifts, eh? I only hope NT BOR's chairman Bobby Ray and the rest of our Board of Regents will make sure that such funds are not cleverly or subtlely diverted to what I really believe is LJ's #1 pet project, ie, the UNT-Dallas project. I mean, where has the man been living and working for the last few decades? Denton would not be the correct answer to that question. And FWIW, I feel most assured that L. Jackson is hardly the anti-Christ that we sometimes make him out to be, but the (seemedly) sudden and early resignation of Norval Pohl just reeks with a Lee Jackson influence.

My nieces and nephews are all monitoring this and will throw me a special "Uncle PMG" party when I hit 7,000. I am working on a speech for the special occasion and most memorable milestone in my life except I don't know what in hades to talk about.

It was that way trying to get on Denton's I35-E back in the 1970's...You had to really gun it (and as you said) just hope for the best. I still think back with amazement with how short those ramps onto the freeway were back then.

I think it should be stressed that we had numerous players substituting for some of our designated starters last year so its not like we have only 3 coming back with playing experience and no one else doesn't.

That's right, because as I recall listening to that play on the MGRN, if one of our defensive guys does not touch the football it goes wide (and we win).

Never quite understood a state-assisted university system such as NORTH TEXAS hiring a graduate (w/o a PhD) of 2 private universitie, ie, Duke and SMU. BUILD IT AND BUILD IT SOON! GMG!

One national ranking of the 3 teams: NT............................#61 La Tech....................#91 Tulsa........................#93 If we don't beat La Tech and Tulsa something is drastically wrong somewhere and we are in for one helluva' long season. I think it is possible this young team starts 0 & 2, but I think toward the middle of October they would have found themselves and be running on all cylinders. Even "IF" we lost in the "Boro, I think we still win the SBC and go to our bowl because the MUTS will lose 1 or 2 they are supposed to win--but won't.

He said UNT would continue developing its strategic plan around the university’s academic plan, studying a new budgeting system and building a quality competitive athletic program balanced with a commitment to academics — all ideas that Pohl has directed. .......................................................................... Only time will tell if he's being real about the athletic part. Still think Norval Pohl resigned because of Lee Jackson, but guess we'll really never know. GMG!

Actually, that "Super Bridge" was part of NT's Master Plan at one time. Don't know if that has changed in the Master Plan, but I hope it hasn't.

Have no idea if this was heat-related, but the heat usually affects most medications. There is a reason mean old crotchity and grumpy Bill Parcels of the Cowboys approved Oxnard as the Cowboys training camp, folks, and IMHO it has everything to do with not having to train in the Texas heat of August and part of September. I know football teams have to practice in some heat, but the dangerous kind we should be avoiding. We need many things and we need much money to get those many things at Eagle Point Campus but I'm not so sure an indoor practice facility should not be one of those things toward the top of our wishlist at NT. Heck, watching the DVD documentary on Celina's football program even they have an indoor practice facility albeit a very simple costructed one. One of the UT message boards said they built their "Bubble" for $4 million, so I guess even at NT that is not a completely insurmountable amount (or out of the question)? The global warming trends should concern us all for our own health, but for darn sure it should really concern us for our football players who have to practice many times in the sultry Texas heat. Just my .02... ................................................................................... ADDENDUM: If NT College of Music officials knew the marching band would have some use of an indoor facility (as UT's Longhorn Band does theirs), might they want to put some of their budget monies along with NT athletics for such a project? Some scheduling would have to be done for both groups to use it, but that part should be do-able. AND....if you let the NT general student body use it for some morning & early afternoon P.E. classes then you have other possible state-assisted funding for such an indoor practice facility at the Mean Green Athletic Village.

Gol' darn, stebo, what you are describing is, uh, Chia-Field! Are you sure it won't go crazy with growth when you throw some water on it?!?!?!? GMG!

Finally have a Saturday off, see some of you @ (hopefully) Fouts at ?:00 AM or PM. Can't wait to see all the new stuff in Mean Green Country. GMG!

In 2004 they again won the WAC and their best win was over Oregon State in their first regular season win over a BCS school (and only their second since moving to I-A). ←

Thanks for that info Arkstfan because with what you have posted is why I don't get that excited about what a win over a Texas or an LSU would do for our program in the long run. One simply has to look at what 2 wins over the Crimson Tide has done for La Tech? How about jack squat? Check La Tech's board and see if they have any significant construction plans on the drawing boards. I see SBC football championships (sure the Belt is not on a par with the Big 12 but big "freakin" deal) and I see 4 trips to the New Orleans Bowl BUT I ALSO SEE................200 acres at the new Mean Green Village with construction already completed, construction in progress and with even more construction projects on the way that will be topped off with a brand spankin' new 35-40,000 seat football stadium. Heck yes we'd "ALL" like to knock off a Top 10 school, but lets be realistic with how that would really impact our program long-term, too; once again, I defer to La Tech's example. (Just curious about this, but how high were the Crimson Tide ranked when La Tech got their 2 wins)? GMG!