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Next time I’m there, greenjoe, I will do just that!😆 I may also ask about Slippery Rock, too. Yall remember when UT stadium announcer (Cactus Pryor?) used to announce Slippery Rock’s scores at all Horn’s home games? He did that at UNT’s first 2 games at DKR Memorial, too, as I recall. Crowd got a kick out of that.

🤠FACT••• The approx. 7 million citizens in the DFW/North Texas Metroplex is larger than the population of “34” states in the USA. _________________________________________ While watching the 1963 season documentary of DKR’s UT National Championship team on the LHN a commercial popped up. The photo still from that commercial is below. ••• Now if we can just get ❤️Loves to carry Mean Green baseball cap at all their interstate truck stops. ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

dentonStang, this may not support your narrative, but don’t you think Coach Bennett did a pretty good job at Baylor U as Defensive Coordinator?

Maybe because of this class being (arguably) the best recruiting class (with transfers) in our history? Darrell Dickey had a class with about 8 DCTF Top 100’s in it & Fry’s best class had Kenny Washington, Burks Washington & others of similar talent in it. I think we know Seth Littrell will have a productively good offense this Fall, but adding Phil Bennett as Defense Coordinator gives all hope for our 2021 MG defense. (I think it could take a few games this Fall for it to jell, though, so patience will be required). ••• Remember how those 4 New Orleans Bowl teams of the early 2000’s would be 0 & 5 or 1 & 4 before they’d start a 5 or 6 game winning streak? That might be our 2021 team repeating that scenario once again. I also think it will be fun to watch this Fall’s team develop, too. I also believe this season will be the beginning of consecutive winning seasons in a row, too. (Fry was the last coach at UNT to have 4 consecutive above .500 seasons in a row). ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

Whoops! Wrong guy then! (Sorry ‘bout that). Didn’t Bill Clinton once call GWH Bush (who was also an) Episcopalian, part of the—“the frozen chosen?”🙄😆 I guess that made Clinton—“an extreme backslid Baptist?” 🥶 🗣I forgot, Harry, no religion & politics. 🙄😊

An interesting NORTH TEXAN feature about Dr. Phil McGraw & his wife Robin’s years in Denton & as a UNT Psychology student. Dr. Phil talks about his love for the Texas Pickup’s famous Red’neck Mutha’ hamburger, too.😆 (We all miss the Texas Pickup & that burger, too, Phil).☹️ https://northtexan.unt.edu/archives/f03/phil.htm ❇️🦅❇️

I think I also remember you from First Baptist Church, Denton, where I had a part time job as custodian to pay the bills. Were you & wife in Bill Shadle’s “Living Christmas Tree?”

letsgiveacheer, you have made my day with that photo!👍👍 Is that from the YUCCA yearbook or your personal collection? (KUDOS TO YA’)! •••That NT Band Day was just weeks before Kennedy came to Dallas. ••• Didn’t you once work with Maurice McAdow as an assistant? Seems SUMG told me that one time. •••Thanks for the correction on Winslow’s school before he got the UNT job. ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

Living the Dream, drex.😊 Actually, Don Hufstedler, a school administrator who we sadly lost last week, had convinced me back in the 80’s it had become difficult for public schools to do weekend bus trips & he was right (as he was so many times). Not sure about the present climate for such. Don’t know how many HS bands the College of Music has in mind for this 2021 Band Day, but at least this is a good start. Hope it turns into an annual event. •••North Texas had hired Dr. Robert A. Winslow away from USC (correction: UCLA) & he probably had a budget to do anything he wanted at the LA school. For the “1’st (& last) Annual Bands Over Texas” Winslow had wanted to feed a hot dog & coke to each visiting HS band member back in 1982, but that did not happen. I think that became a big reason for him not to plan a “2’nd Annual Bands Over Texas” the next Fall. Oh well—nothing ventured, nothing gained. ❇️🦅❇️

Yes It has (& good Lord—how many Texas HS band directors have a degree (or 2) from the UNT College of Music? Even SilverEagle attended a few NT Band Days in the 60’s as a Decatur Eagles HS band member. Green Brigade MB Director Maurice McAdow knew what he was doing; just look at the 1963 NT Band Day picture from letsgiveacheer’s comment below). That was before my time at North Texas & I think he retired in 1972 or 1973. He was old school, but he was good. Dreiboldt at SMU was also a local legend. Back in high school, I saw his Mustang Band at the 1968 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl game (plus a few NT-SMU games). At that 1968 bowl game in Houston Smooo was coached by some feller named Hayden Fry. In 1982 the Highland Park HS Marching Band won the marching competition at Fouts Field the morning preceding the afternoon game. Many were said to have enjoyed that event so named “Bands Over Texas.” (I picked that name at an early planning meeting & Winslow/Fisher concurred). Some wondered why the event was not repeated the next year & the reason was Green Brigade MB Director Dr. Robert A.Winslow didn’t want to do it again. I attended UH’s Band Days annually in the 60s & here is one pic from 1966. The Tonight Shows Doc Severensen was the celebrity guest conductor as he led 13,000 bandsmen in a most impressive half time show, but the 50,000 seat Astrodome could work with those kind of numbers easily. •••I should back track & say I was on the “Bands Over Texas” planning committee with Bob Winslow & his GB assistant Dennis Fisher. It was an interesting (yet overall) pleasant experience to say the least.

🐇 🐇 🐇 Chasing Rabbits (again) Seems our basketball program social standing is, uh, climbing? Almost like the guy who thought Fred’s Cafe off FW’s W. 7’th street was “the place” until one day one of the Bass brother’s nieces invited him to start partying with her at the Petroleum Club. 🎩🍷 Riches To Rags To Riches? It’s amazing what winning can do for a program & is why I guess some schools who used to be at the P5 level are so frustrated at being G5 now. 😱 Many of us hated the day the SWC imploded. I had acquaintances from schools who did not get to stay in the P5 who I thought might have to be put on suicide watch.😳 (Well, maybe not quite that bad); but nevertheless it was a bad day for many of us the day the SWC died. (It was just a major kick in the jewels for a huge Texas tradition). So “he who has money rules” the roost. Actually, many used-to-be P5’s would get a taste of how it was for many other schools who were relegated to NCAA D1-AA in the late 1970’s. How that move made those schools feel like 2’nd class citizens with no viable trail to ever move back up. Then how many good & previously faithful fans from all those newly classified 1-AA schools jumped off the bandwagons & never came back. All this happening in the NCAA because of—-M-O-N-E-Y. Look what’ that’s done to America’s politicians (both sides) & how they’ll sacrifice millions of well-being U.S. citizens futures to get what they want & crave?

Can’t wait until Fall, 2021. I believe this MG team is going to be fun watching them mesh & then watching them win. ❇️🦅❇️

Ouch! At least her no hit/all K’s NCAA record will have North Texas beside her name. I wish her well. Still not a fan of the NCAA bureaucrats-created transfer portal. Wonder what will comes next from their creative minds?

Thanks for the info, CAM... Glad he saved his money. I like his Steve Austin Show—Unleashed. He’s a very capable, personable & affable Interviewer. Wonder what Bill Mercer would say about Stone Cold?

SMU attendance is anemic even with they have ranked teams. Ours needs to consistently get better & that’s no matter who we play.

This offense? It’s a...J-u-g-g-e-r-n-a-u-t if our QB situation is settled early or by the 3’rd game. Truly wish this particular group all had 1 year experience together under their belt. Some good coaching & no serious injuries & I think the MG win a minimum of 6 games. Seems that our recruiting against P-5’s is in the midst of a whole new (& welcome) era. Much has been spent on venues so it had to happen. ❇️🦅❇️

Now don’t be a Neg-Ned, greenjoe.🙄😆 Just kiddin’. Your messages are always important & timely. ••• Other than UT-Austin, TAMU & B12 Texas schools,I wonder what letterman participation would be at all other TEXAS D-1 schools? ••• Don’t our Letterman have a suite at fabulous Apogee Stadium? ❇️🦅❇️

(as always, too long, but to some—it may be informative)? 100% agree, DG, especially if there was no private funding involved. What is it? Less than 1% who will play professional football! But a good academic program will help many get jobs. •Our UNT true Frosh’ Bryce Drummond (the television Pioneer Woman Ree’s son) played at Pawhuska (OK) HS. That school’s size is the equivalent of a Texas UIL A (or AA) school. Pawhuska even has an artificial turf football field surrounded by a superb track, too. Wonder how many similar sized Texas high schools could say the same? Hey, we don’t want these kids to play in dumps, but (come on, man🤪) IPF’s for a small high school that probably can’t fund a full academic curriculum? _________________ On Another Front.... A question: Were you invited to the wedding, Phil? 🎩 Well!😳 I-was-not!..............😊 🍷 👰🏼 🤵 Social Event of the Year in the Great State of Oklahoma. (Congrats to UNT frosh QB Bryce’s sister Alex & new brother-in-law who just got married) https://etcanada.com/news/775776/ree-drummonds-daughter-alex-drummond-gets-married-pics/ Pawhuska’s Huskies Stadium

Just finished watching the very professionally done A&E Network bio of UNT alum Stone Cold Steve Austin. I learned more about pro wrestling in general & many of its antics. ••• Didn’t realize how important a role our fellow alum played in the wrestling entertainment industry. It was on its last legs before Stone Cold Steve came along. He’s given credit for saving it. One later match of his was before 70,000 fans. ••• Never knew Duane “the Rock” Johnson and Steve were such admirers of each other. His last match was vs Johnson matter a fact. Very “touching” words from “the Rock” about Stone Cold after his career swan song match. •••The A&E network had a few vignettes of Stone Cold while he was at North Texas. They showed a video clip of Steve tackling a Horned Frog over at TCU’s Amon Carter Stadium. Also, a photo of Steve in his UNT uniform at old Fouts Field, too. ••• The below YouTube is interesting with a few comments Steve makes about his time at North Texas. He also mentioned his Coach—Corky Nelson. He told interviewer Rich Eisen we were D2 back then, but I’m sure he really mean’t to say—NCAA Division 1-AA. ❇️🦅❇️

Welcome to the Mean Green Nation, Sean! Proud to have you! ❇️🦅❇️ GMG!

I’ve never seen this bio of Steve “SCSA” Williams of Edna, Texas. I do remember him playing linebacker during the Corky Nelson era. I love that “Stone Cold Steve” hasn’t forgotten his alma mater as this recent photo indicates. ❇️🦅❇️GMG!

Shaping up in Mean Green Country alright. Think I’ll just go fishing now at Lake Mean Green.🙄 •Photo taken by my Apple IPhone. ❇️🦅❇️

Great pic of you & your Dad, Terri. 👍👍

DVR time! GMG❇️🦅❇️

Interesting... Thanks for sharing, ADLER.