PlummMeanGreen

So am I, but at my age just happy to remember anything since Alzheimer’s runs in the family. Some of you younger alums need to know many of us were also young at one time but that doesn’t last forever. Be respectful instead of rude because one day you may also be fighting to be relevant.

Tulsa U years ago had a non-speed burner named Howard Twilley with similar characteristics as Pirtle. GMG!

2 Green Brigaders told me at NY Sub Hub hours before the game that the UH Band would combine with the GB for both the pregame & half time show albeit they didn't. They were both superb for the half time show. Wish our favorite football team could have done as well. Oh well...😩

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ MAGNIFICANT! You have to be in your Apogee seats early to hear this gig THEIR GIG WILL GET ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️‘s THE GIG: Just heard combined UH & UNT marching bands 3 hours before kick-off as they practiced “America the Beautiful” & you “honest to goodness” cannot believe how great they sounded. They will do that song for the Pre-Game. Be early! 👍👍

Bump... GMG!

SilverEagle, it is kind of unclear as its stated, but it sounds to me like they’ll be 2 combined Marching Bands at some point. Maybe someone from UH connected to their band program can explain. GMG!

🔴⚪️ The Spirit of Houston Marching Band used to coordinate Astrodome UH Band Days which first began at Rice Stadium in the 50’s & then “the Dome” in the 60’s. They were pretty cool events. This was a UH Band Day in about 1966 with the Tonight Shows (then maestro) Skitch Henderson as the celebrity guest conductor. The next year the new Tonight Show’s maestro Doc Severinson was guest celeb conductor. As I recall the Coogs played Lou Holtz’ NC State Wolfpack the evening this B & W photo was taken.

Apogee Stadium fills up half way into the 2’nd quarter & we beat last year’s La Tech attendance of a bit over (was it) an “announced” gnat’s whisker over 30,000? (I stand to be corrected). ❇️ Most of that crowd were wearing green as I recall. 🌞 (Weather is perfect for a Cougars vs Mean Green matchup) GMG!

More fun to be at the stadium, of course, & after all—you can’t get a Fletchers Corny Dog on Facebook!🙄 GMG!

🔴⚪ (from the CoogFans forum this blurb & pic) “For the first time ever the Spirit of Houston and @UNTGreenBrigade will play together during the game tomorrow! See you guys in Denton and as always #GoCoogs❗️ Ain’t college football the greatest? ❇️ GMG!

What are we missing out on here? If North Texas were located in Possum Holler might we receive just as much TV coverage as other CUSA schools who are (as you look at this CUSA TV package)? Why don’t someone sketch our games (a la a courtroom artist) & just put those in the Sunday Comics?😳 More fans would see that than what they are getting the opportunity to see now from CUSA’s TV game schedulers who are equally distributing TV coverage no matter how large or small a school’s home base & it’s population. The NFL network in 2019 does little for North Texas. What does the MWC TV package look like? It can’t be worse than what we have now. With a population of almost 1 million in Denton County; 120K in Denton; a gnat’s whisker shy of 40K UNT students; 175K UNT alums in northern Texas might some call that a large TV market? Well, it is a large TV market that is not being allowed to spread its wings. GMG.

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It ain’t right at all, Harry. To quote Chester Riley on that old 50’s TV sitcom: “IT’S A REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT!” GMG!

As a Joe College FB Fan I still go into the UH game thinking we’re the underdog. We are not considered an established juggernaut yet. Once again...UH recruits at an AAC level & as a former member of the SWC which means something to some out there. Seems we don’t recruit at that level—yet. Signs indicate we may be getting closer to it. After reading UH’s fan forum it appears that next year they will have a whole host of impressive transfers who will be elgible which may cause some to wonder why UH (like another AAC school) didn’t go the “immediately eligible” transfer rout? Is the AAC the only G5 conference whose discovered the joy of having an almost entire recruiting class of portal transfers ready to play without delay? This can’t possibly be a practice that will ever be popular with Texas HS football coaches but moreso—their Friday Night Hero products or....does it really matter? GMG.

Even if UH & North Texas both had 1 loss it was always going to be day of walk up ticket sales that determine the attendance this Saturday. Almost 50 yrs of all this teaches one a few things about attendance matters, among many other things..........28,550 ✅ A record UNT Fall Freshmen class of almost 6,000 will help us have a great student turnout. Alumni side? Always a crap shoot on our side. GMG!

Watch for UAB with an upcoming 45,000 seat stadium & a large city campus location try to put CUSA in its rear view mirror & start courting the AAC. They seem to be using UCF & USF as their model, & meanwhile........🤢

Contain King. GMG.

Classy Mustang. 👍 I have worked with & hired several SMU alums in the tech school recruiting business I was in for 25 years. Full disclosure, all—I was pulling for the ‘Stangs to kick TCU yesterday just as many of you were & just as many of us would have had we beat them 2 yrs in a row (which we did not).🙄 Unless there is a recent update, methinks TCU has dropped SMU from their future Froggy schedule after yesterday. GMG!

I’m pretty sure you have nothing to worry about; albeit I’m still trying to figure out how we played the Cal Bears with a “3 pm” (CST) kickoff. And to replace FIU, FAU, Old Dominion, (hush, hush, sweet) Charlotte with schools who’ve all been Top 25 programs in the past like Boise St., Air Force, •San Diego St (the last top ranked school we beat); along with Colorado St., Fresno State, etc. would be so un-North Texas of us to think that progressively so soon. • The year we beat the #19 ranked SDS Aztecs most of the present CUSA football schools were not playing NCAA D1 FBS football or were not playing football at all. Hellsbells! We still have another 50 years to celebrate Apogee & the fact that were finally able to flee Fouts Field as our main football digs & not really have to worry about improving our future conference home with more high profile opponents. That’s the kind of thing Houston & SMU would do. We’ll just let another UNT administration deal with that kind of timetable some time in the sweet by & by.🙄 This: I agree with a handful of you who have said the only way we’d ever want to “ go mWESTc, young man” is if about 3 other CUSA schools went with us. You know which schools they would be but meanwhile......I’m still trying to figure out how we played the PAC 12 Cal Bears with a “3 pm” (CST) kickoff (& then came within a gnat’s whisker of beating that #23 ranked PAC12 school). Beat UTSA! GMG!

KPRCradio (http://bit.ly/2kerh5Y ) Good Memories of listening to Astros broadcasters Gene Elston & Lowell “he breezed him one more time” Passé on KPRC radio. 950AM was it? 🤔 Those 3 years of mosquito-filled & way too high humidity nights at old Colt Stadium (pre-Astrodome) one could never forget.

If this is old news please remove, Harry. (The rendering of the interior of a new BB venue inside the Mean Green Village is new to me). http://dhawthorne.com/2017/11/25/unt-mp/

Ask Baylor how when they had a stadium 3 or so miles from campus how that worked out compared to what they have now on campus.

Congrats! 👍👍

PAC 12 member Washington State’s stadium has a capacity of 35,000. I haven’t read the links, but Is UAB’s an on-campus stadium with a prime location between 2 interstates with an IPF near the FB stadium & other major varsity sports venues located in an Olympic style village all within walking distance? Just askin’.🙄 💚 GMG! GMG!

Chasin’ Green Geckos: Glad as Hell our football team doesn’t give up as quickly as some of our fans did even after the first 2 quarters at a PAC12 school for heaven’s sake. (We won that damn football game truth be told & Cal fans were even saying it to some of you leaving their Memorial Stadium). Oh, Lord—here we go with ancient history time: Fry inherited an NT football program that had 1 win the season prior to his hiring. Littrell had nearly the same situation with the Portland State disaster the season prior to his hiring. In Year 3 in Denton, Fry had an SWC job offer, but he stayed at North Texas. In Year 3 Littrell had a Big 12 job offer, but he stayed at North Texas. ❓Can we enjoy the journey we’re now on even in spite of our last 50 years of mostly underperforming on the gridiron? When you are at the bottom at North Texas that in the past has been way, way down at the bottom. Yes, we’re impatient in this microwave society & the need for instant success, but at NT we just been in a slow-cook oven way too long so maybe that’s part of what we’re having to overcome in Denton? The Mean Green Village & all its new venues could really help us warp speed ahead, but what’s out there still needs just a little more time to marinate for Texas, Oklahoma & Louisiana HS football talent to fully absorb before we see the full success most of us feel is now on the way. Just my .02. GMG!