Coach Bill Lewis

I was gonna post this on the ECU board, but more posters are on this board regularly and it really applies to more than just ECU fans For my ECU and Military brethren, If you're Active Duty or a Veteran, first let me say Happy Belated Veterans Day to you. Second, if in fact ECU ends up in the Armed Forces Bowl against Air Force in Fort Worth and you are or have served in the military, the Armed Forces bowl is giving away up to 4 free tickets per military person to the game on 29 December. Just hit the following website ARMED FORCES BOWL website They are supposed to mail out the tickets sometime in early to mid December. Figure 4 tickets range anywhere from $200-$500 dollars depending on where you're sitting and the money saved could pay for a large chunk to catch a flight out to Fort Worth or at least most of the gas to drive. I plan on making the trip if we end up there. View the full article

With UNT Joining CUSA Would it be a good time to re brand ? I like this helmet look.. What due you CUSA Fans think ? View the full article

Every week before a home game, on Tuesday nights, June Jones has a dinner with any Mustang Club member that wants to show up. He has a session where he goes over the film of several key plays and then there is Q&A, both from a local media person (who is a June-friend) and from the audience. This week's dinner has been cancelled. They are saying that it is due to "feedback" and because of Election Day, but given that most people will have already voted by the time the dinner occurs, and given that if Election Day were really a concern they could have scheduled it for Monday or Wednesday night for this week instead, the Election Day excuse doesn't really hold water. SMU fans think that the "feedback" being alluded to is all of the backlash against June. Discuss. View the full article

Hot Seat: 9. Southern Miss - Ellis Johnson Edge of Hot Seat: 23. Florida International - Mario Cristobal 26. UTEP - Mike Price 35. UTSA - Larry Coker 37. Rice - David Bailiff 39. Tulane - Curtis Johnson 45. North Texas - Dan McCarney Safe: 60. Marshall - Doc Holliday 66. UAB - Garrick McGee 75. East Carolina - Ruffin McNeill 99. Tulsa - Bill Blankenship 113. Louisiana Tech - Sonny Dykes Coaches' Hotseat View the full article

Not that this is a big shock but if it's true then Miner fans can finally have some new hope for improvement. Our team has not been horrible but no where near enough winning. I don't know how reliable this site is but they claim that this is something they are hearing. All we've heard prior to this was that nothing would be decided until the end of the season. http://247sports.com/Board/59457/Coachin...13578549/1 View the full article

Ugly losses now taking their toll. I think UTSA doesn't has its full compliment of 85 scholarship players and is 15 short as reported in San Antonio nespaper. This is the result of doing a fast forward by CUSA...but, I like UTSA very much & very happy they are in CUSA but obviously there are going to be growing pains. View the full article

Why doesn't Conf. USA look at the following 16 team format? East Div. Carolina & Marshall FIU & FAU Ga. State & UAB Charlotte & Old Dominion West Div. Rice & N. Texas UTSA & UTEP Tulane & S. Miss. La. Tech. & Tulsa 12 good TV markets out of 16 and some excellent rivalries. Tks, Mr.P. View the full article

"@ChuckCarltonDMN: Heart of Dallas, a charitable group taking over TicketCity Bowl, confirms La. Tech will play Army at Cotton Bowl Stadium on Sept. 28, 2013." View the full article

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5-0 and scoring a ton of points. Not giving up many points Discuss.... View the full article

Greg Wesley, one of the top basketball prospects in the Dallas area, saw what Tony Benford is building at North Texas over the weekend. That was all that was necessary for the 6-foot-7 forward to decide he wanted to continue his career with the Mean Green. Wesley, who is ranked No. 17 on TexasHoops.com's list of the top players from the state in the class of 2013, committed to UNT on Tuesday, just days after taking a weekend visit to the school. "I enjoyed the coaches and the players," Wesley said. "I liked their talent and intensity. It's far enough away from home so that I can grow up, but close enough so that my mom can see me play." Wesley averaged 14 points and 6.2 rebounds for Seguin last season and was a first-team All-District 7-4A pick. Wesley said he chose UNT over offers from Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Arkansas, TCU, SMU, New Mexico State and Louisiana-Lafayette. UNT has already picked up commitments from three highly regarded forwards for its 2013 class in Kingwood's Josh Friar, Midland College's Anthony Norris and Oldsmar (Fla.) Christian's Tony Nunn. http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/...orward.ece View the full article

I noticed there wasnt a link to these articles over here so figured people might be interested. These are two articles from Tuesday that give alot of information about the new 7th BCS Bowl that will offer a guaranteed slot for the highest ranking non-AQ champ. One article is by Mandel, the other by Dodd. If finalized, a seventh playoff bowl worth approximately one-quarter that of the Rose Bowl will be added in 2014. Industry sources told CBSSports.com that the as-yet unsold, unnamed bowl would be worth approximately $20 million in the TV market, $60 million less than the top tier Rose and (pending deal with the) Champions bowl. But the money is less of a factor than the new bowl's creation itself, which will give access to the five current non-BCS conferences, including the Big East, beginning with the first playoff year in 2014. BCS commissioners said last week they would consider adding a seventh bowl to the current six-bowl rotation. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...20-million http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...z27VkkNHtf View the full article

North Texas may have lost to Kansas State this weekend, but the Mean Green's respectable showing vs. a top-25 team was enough to impress our voters. North Texas jumped three spots from its previous ranking and is the highest ranked non-Big 12/SEC team in our poll. This week's full poll can be found below. 1. Texas (10) 109 2. TCU (1) 95 3. Texas A&M 86 4. Baylor 78 5. Texas Tech 72 6. North Texas 40 7. SMU 38 8. Rice 34 9. UTEP 31 t-10. Houston 8 t-10. UTSA 8 (Also receiving votes: Texas State (6)) FULL ARTICLE http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/...op-3.html/ View the full article

Kansas State had averaged over 50 points a game vs Missouri State & Miami (Fla), given up 22 total points in their first two games with nearly 500 yards per game offense. Vs North Texas they had 373 yards of offense. The half time score was 14-7 K-State & 21-13 K-State at the end of the 3rd quarter. HIGHLIGHT VIDEO http://www.meangreensports.com/mediaPort...EM_ID=1800 GAME STORY MANHATTAN, Kansas - It was an impressive, resilient performance from North Texas Saturday night at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Playing the No. 14 team in the nation, a squad that steamrolled its first two opponents, North Texas competed from the opening kick. The Mean Green moved the ball, controlled the line of scrimmage, constructed long scoring drives, and answered every momentum shift. The only thing missing was the final score. The highly-favored Wildcats, who scored 103 points in the their first two games, escaped with a 35-21 win. It was K-State's big plays that overcame the Mean Green's tenacious ball-control attack. "This team has a lot of pride, and that's why this loss hurts," North Texas coach Dan McCarney said. "Losing is not acceptable, but we'll build on this." http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArtic...=205686150 View the full article

Kansas State, ranked No. 15 in the nation, isn't taking the Mean Green of North Texas lightly, even with a showdown with 5th-ranked Oklahoma on deck. How could they? Wildcats coach Bill Snyder has his fingerprints all over the program. He coached under Hayden Fry at North Texas from 1976-78, and got his first win with K-State (and his career) over the Mean Green in 1982. Then there's the last meeting between the teams in 2010. The Wildcats won a wild 49-41 decision in Denton, Texas. K-State (3-0) will host North Texas (2-1) at 6 p.m. CT Saturday and are 28.5 point favorites. While Louisiana-Monroe proved no team can be overlooked, it would be a massive upset for the Mean Green to walk out of Manhattan with a win. The game is on FSN locally. Read more: http://kansascity.sbnation.com/kansas-st-wildcats/2012/9/15/3329100/kansas-state-north-texas-2012-schedule-game-time-odds

I was having a discussion with a coworker about the various games coming up this weekend, and wondered aloud how much A&M/SMU tickets were going for on stubhub, craigslist, etc. He told me that the game hasn't yet sold out. I'm not big on criticizing attendance issues, because every school has unique circumstances that sometimes prevent them from having huge crowds every week. I just figured this would be one of the toughest tickets ever at Ford Stadium, given the fact that A&M (and all of their weirdo fans) are coming to town. View the full article

The Sun Belt is focused on catching Conference USA and the Mountain West in the race to be the best of the rest among major college football conferences. New Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson believes conference realignment and an evolving postseason format has widened the gap between the have and have-not conferences. The 10-year-old Sun Belt has usually been the have-least league, but has taken small steps forward while its "peer conferences"as Benson like to call them, have slid back. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/sun-belt-sets-sights-on-catching-conference-usa-and-mountain-west/2012/08/27/0e92a1ee-f023-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_story.html" target="_blank">WASHINGTON POST: Sun Belt trying to catch C-USA, MWC</a> View the full article

may be a mid-to-long term direction. So it's not really dead. "We're comfortable with where we're a with a 14-team conference,"&#157; General Hammond said. "The whole idea of (a Mountain West merger), right now, that's not the near-term direction. It could be a mid-to-long term direction. We're sailing with 14 teams. I think the conference is pleased with the future composition." http://blogs.hattiesburgamerican.com/sou...usm-notes/ View the full article

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Something in there is very weird. http://businessofcollegesports.com/2012/...lass-rank/ View the full article

http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ight-teams "Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson sees positives in the recently announced four-team college football playoff, but said Tuesday he believes it will expand to eight teams sooner rather than later. "I know we're saying four teams for 12 years," Thompson said. "But I don't see it as a four-team playoff for 12 years. I just don't see it. If there is success with four, I think we will go to what is most ideal, which is eight. That would double the access points." ... View the full article

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Mean Green have a lot of talent returning. https://admin.xosn.com/pdf8/849133.pdf?&...EM_ID=1800 View the full article