PlummMeanGreen

I think she would have liked the movie, Graddean. _____________________________ Here is an an interesting article from the Houston Chronicle on the movie. https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/movies-tv/latest-texas-football-film-12-mighty-16225605/amp

...plus I honestly believe the Mean Green 2021 football team wins the CUSA “COMEBACK PROGRAM OF THE YEAR!” (& methinks more of you feel the same way than not). GMG!

With your Cuzzin’ Guido always hanging around looking pissed you think we’re about to get our Uzis out, brother Phil?😇

Quality of stadium has to do with attendance? 🤢 The ones who do these kind of polls you wonder about their bias or if they just clearly have a boner for North Texas. You wonder if they’ve ever been to tailgating & a Game Day at Apogee? (Doubt it). Seems most in CUSA & beyond think the Mean Green Village & all its venues are pretty A-OK. It is my understanding several from other FBS schools have toured the MG Village to get Ideas for their own future venues expansion. Really.... #31? ❇️🦅❇️

Just looking ahead because we know everyone else will be jockeying for re-alignment position—again, that’s “everybody” else. And tired of UNT getting left at the re/alignment train station or having to see how SMU is going to have some say in our conference future. ❇️🦅❇️

I wonder if any of the 3 “Orphans” who went to North Texas tried out for the Eagles football team? ADLER, 2 of my local married couple friends saw it last night & they loved it, but probably (like me) more for its historical value & the fact that all 3 of us enjoyed seeing the Pythian Home locale getting to introduce itself to America. ••• It’s a football movie & outside of made-for-TV “Brian’s Song” that stigma will hurt box office appeal with most any American female. We all know Paramount’s “Necessary Roughness” shot at Fouts & Denton was never on anyone’s favorite sports movie list, but some of us enjoyed the eye candy.👀 ⭐️Your assessment will probably be that of many, but I enjoyed seeing old actors (like Martin Sheen) doing commendable jobs in this flick. Luke Wilson who played the great Rusty Russell probably did his best ever acting job in this movie, albeit he was “quirky” funny in “Death At A Funeral.” Although in very few scenes, Treat Williams was good as Amon Carter. ••• The first referee shown in this movie was none other than Weatherford Congressman Roger Williams (who once showed me his scars from the D.C. baseball practice shooting). Williams once applied for the TCU AD job & as a student was a total asset to TCU baseball. Heck! I still may go see it again just to see who & what I missed in the first showing. I will confess I almost got all choked up during some of the scenes. My daddy (at 10 mos. old) & his 9 siblings were basically orphans when their mom & dad died 1 day apart of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in Limestone County. For certain “12” is not a summer blockbuster flick, but I was somewhat entertained; somewhat like Mean Green sports—it doesn’t take much for most of us to be entertained & to follow our favorite school’s sports teams but— if we get more no one is going to complain—except on GMG.com!🙄😆 🦅❇️🦅

Yes. Fletcher’s Corny Dogs are better than a Frito Pie.

Well, we had Hayden Fry for 6 years & if anybody left anyone high & dry it is the same group who in Seth Littrell’s best seasons in Denton left him high & dry as well or in other words—we still had too many empty seats at Apogee even during both his 9 & 2 seasons. It has gotten better as we’ve had record-breaking Freshmen enrollment for about 6 Falls in a row now. If anyone doesn’t think any NCAA FBS school’s Head Football Coach doesn’t notice attendance we’d all be very naive. UNT had an all time single game student record attendance couple years back & the next week we had a couple drops of rain & then it was—WHERE THE HELL ARE THE STUDENTS?😱 Even TCU went thru a spell where Coach Patterson was getting all over their fans for not showing up en mass & supporting a winning Big 12 football team & then it became about Frog fans tailgating way too long into the 1’st quarter at their Amon Carter Stadium matchups. Remember this photo of a TCU home game?

•••I give it 6.5 to 7 stars out of 10. It started out slow but ended fast. Weatherford’s Pythian Home off Bankhead Highway was featured as the FW Masonic School. Mineral Wells Baker Hotel was used in the shooting as was other recognizable venue in the North Texas area. ••• Martin Sheen did a more than commendable acting job as Doc. •••Luke Wilson was good as Coach Rusty Russell. •••Treat Williams played the part of FW’s Amon Carter. Comedian Ron White, Robert Duval & Matthew McConaughey’s brother were also in the movie. “Newman!” from Jerry Seinfeld played a villainous role. •••Featured in the credits were the original Orphans with bios on each. 3 of them attended 🦅 North Texas. ••• I saw Weatherford acquaintance Congressman Roger Williams in a bit part as a referee. (How ironic that Roger Williams Dodge dealership was right next door to the theater I saw “12 Mighty Orphans.” https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/12mightyorphans/

And all the G5’s said to the P5’s: ❇️ ❇️🦅❇️

DT #7 Greatness! ❇️🦅❇️

Not sure the NCAA bureaucrats up in Indianapolis really thought out the short & long term ramifications of creating this rule. ••• What the portal rule doesn’t create is a sense of loyalty to the schools who first believed in this portal crowd enough to offer an initial scholarship to them in the first place subsequently—it just looks like some other school gets to eat the best part of a 🍰 cake that someone else spent all night baking? ❇️🦅❇️

I think the smarter AD’s in the NCAA FBS prescribe to: “If you're not building, you're sinking in college football. Littrell family friend Don Lovelace gave the first donation for the Indoor Practice Facility & Denton’s McNatt Family followed suit. What a break that was for our favorite school. __________________ UNT now has the need to expand the Athletic Center to do everything Wren Baker is wanting to do; that is, to enhance all the student-athletes experience at North Texas with added facilities & services. It’s just the timetable (& money) of getting it all done that is the question. UNT football letterman Mattress Mac “Jim” McIngvale of Houston donated the first $1,000,000 toward the Athletic Center & what we have now In the Mean Green Village. Would it be a surprise if UNT AD Baker went back to that well to get more financing? ••• What Indiana U did for their end zone facility along with adding a giant video screen, luxury suites, a veranda & more fan seating would be quite unbelievable, but more important in today’s recruiting climate very marketable to prospective UNT student-athletes. ❇️🦅❇️

🤢Hey! I no longer use color fonts.🤫 I only do the epistles when I can’t 😴 sleep.

All this is fine & dandy, but what about TV monies compensation for the G5? Getting tossed chicken bones annually from the NCAA is getting old (& expensive).

The Mean Green Murphy Twins: 2 big pieces to the “D” puzzle that Phil Bennett has feverishly been working on solving since Seth Littrell hired him. ❇️🦅❇️

How this DFW booming population in the shadows of the UNT campus thread could turn into a Cougar King negative about UNT or a subliminal “Fire Littrell” thread beats the hell out of me.🤠😆🤣 Hey! I like Seth Littrell & those two 9-2 seasons in a row which showed many he could do this even in OldDenton/NewDenton plus I hope he’s here another 10 years coaching ranked Mean Green teams quite frankly & I know— don’t call you Frank; but I wIll add this—no more North Texas Metroplex booming population threads from me. 🙄😊 ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

No, those numbers are quite meaningful, Cougar King, & anyone who took a college marketing classes or 2 knows they are. By the way, were you OK with the crowd at fabulous Apogee Stadium vs UH couple years back? 🤔 CK, I do have to ask if you have a life other than being on GMG & acting sorta’ adolescent at times? Seems you spend much of your time on this forum looking thru UNT’s small rear view mirror while most of us here are looking ahead through a much larger (& yes, green-tinted) front window going forward. Fact still remains that UH, SMU, Tulsa, Memphis, Tulane & similar are still (just like UNT) all Group of 5 schools at the end of the day. Not one seems to have a map to get back in a P5 existence unless it would be as a Major Independent. So y’all can all just sit in a circle, hands in laps, call your league a P5 & even lie about being one in an AAC TV commercial but fact remains you still can’t take spots off a leopard with TV commercials trying to convince the world y’all are Lion Kings. ••• BACK TO GMG....Again, why does it seem every time anything good or what could be construed as positive sounding about UNT how “WALA!”—ol’ Coog’ King is suddenly on this forum like a human pop-up ad flexing that muscle between his ears as he reminds all how UH is light years ahead of everyone else, but (honestly).......if that were the case—why did a small private university in Fort Worth with less than 6,000 undergrad students get yalls spot in the Big 12? ❇️🦅❇️

Amazing numbers in this link plus many of our new North Texas Metroplex neighbors have California & New York accents. https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/economic-data/regions/2020/metroplex.php

🙏🏻✝️ Hang in there, Mitch & Family.

NTSU Nostalgia: This is what students looked like in the early-to-mid 70’s in Denton. There was this one girl I’d see walking to class on Welch Street on M-W-F class days who....(I’ll stop). 🤢

Many on this forum will attest that some of the best Mean Green talent we’ve seen in Denton thru the decades (that UNT coaches developed) were “walk-on’s” & some would make All Conference teams while wearing the Mean Green. That group came to the UNT campus hungry & left satisfied & with a degree. Across the NCAA I‘d wonder how many of that elite group of “walk on’s” made All Pro teams in the NFL? ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

“🎶Please, Please, Please 🎶 (sung by The Godfather of Soul—James Brown)

Jack, it was 25 years of recruiting in the tech college/school sector of education. When did you retire from “Big Bad John” Jimmy Dean Sausages, Jack? You actually worked for the Plainview native & country crooner’s brother, right? GMG’s Long Jim was in tech support at my last school of which I was so burned out of the business I resigned & started my own 🎶business. •••Long Jim: What was the lady’s name who was director of that school in Arlington? She was so very, very nice. ❇️🦅❇️