Tyler Maryak

I think GMG.com has a "Rule of 5." It seems that, by the fifth page of any topic everyone has evolved into such colossal dbags that the topic must be locked, lest the evil infiltrate other forums. So the Rule of 5 would simply state that any topic which reaches a fifth page will be locked shortly thereafter as a result of people veering astonishingly off-topic, making outlandish claims and (damn near slanderous) accusations, or developing a phallic growth on their head large enough to interfere with the brain's capacity for logic, reason, or general human kindness.

Second.

Reviving this thread like...

After reading Vito's 1-5, I'm dangerously close to being hopeful for a productive season.

Hahahaha! Golden... Now we just need a Michael Crabtree.

When should you go for it on forth and inches? A) At the end of the day B) At the beginning of the day C) At mid-day D) At the end of the day

Great podcast, guys! Also, where in God's name did that picture come from??

What was this thread about?

Replace "pirate" with "team."

You're too right, man. @KRAM1 I enjoyed reviewing the alumni association annual report and really liked the dedication to transparency. There is a clear improvement from previous years.

Nah, I spend too much time on this board and I can say without a doubt that there are definitely a handful of people who get downvoted every time they post no matter what they say. Ryan is definitely one of those people. I would be really interested to know who does this and what motivates them to do it.

I give you a +1 because of your string of mild yet artistic insults. I vividly remember the first game we played against UTSA. Mine was a hate born from righteous fury. In my opinion, this [currently pseudo-]rivalry was forged by destiny. It was meant to exist from day one. From the moment I walked through their unwashed, disease-riddled masses by Fouts Field, I knew they stood for everything I was against. As the kick-off came and the student section's sarcastic jokes and timid insults began, the backlash from the players on the field was swift and savage. Clearly, this Mad Chaparral disease was highly contagious and douchebaggery had spread throughout the land in Sand Asstones. By half-time, UTSA's players were flipping the flightless bird to our fans and by the end of the game, the insults going in either direction were brutal, cruel, and relentless. Make no mistake, even if your hatred is seemingly unfounded or troll-triggered, it is not misguided or misplaced. There is an evil at the Riverwalk the likes of which they make Mockumentaries about. The Alamo is under siege again.

This is somewhat of a tangent, but fairly relevant: I recently started posting an opening for an internship position I've created at work. I bleed green, so I wanted to make the opportunity open to UNT students. I created an account on the UNT Career Center website, as I did for UTA, TCU, TCCC, and DCCD. Several hours later, I was still unable to post the job description on the UNT website. For all the other career centers, I was able to post the position within the hour. I emailed the UNT Career Center about it and, to their credit, they got my account pushed through by the end of the day. Here is the frustrating part: When they told me I could finally post the job description, I told them that, as a UNT alumni, I would like to see us bench-marking our performance in all areas against those of our competitors. I told them that it took the other programs less than an hour to which the student employee said she would pass the concern on to someone higher up. When she responded later, it was clear that someone replied to her and gave her a BS bureaucratic cookie-cutter response to shove down my throat. I'm not mad at the student worker for doing what she was told, but I am frustrated that UNT is STILL a culture where the very concept of striving to provide a superior product (or even matching quality) is foreign. The higher ups see everything as a criticism and are convinced that things must be how they are and cannot be changed or improved upon. It wears down on their subordinates until they get out of Dodge or are beaten into submission and fall into line, at which time they promote and the cycle continues. (As a three year employee of the university, I've seen it first hand.) The point being - there are far too many areas of the university (not just athletics) which are content with mediocrity and it will require nothing short of a comprehensive overhaul of organizational culture in every department's administration for UNT to be competitive with other universities (and thus able to retain its alumni support). I write letters, go to events, email people, and donate money to try to affect change. As a recent alumni, it's tiring and I don't know what more I can do. I can see why people who are less die-hard about UNT than I are driven away.

@djohnnie is the hero we need but don't deserve right now.

I'm not sure how actively the coaches sell it, but as an Eagle Ambassador the diversity at UNT was a huge selling point and we frequently met with potential recruits.

A friend and I were talking about UNT traditions recently and it lead into a discussion about times that UNT athletics set records or made history, such as Abner Haynes being the first African American player in Texas college football (is that right?) and having RBs top the national rushing yards charts. It got me wondering: What are your favorite history-making events of UNT athletics? Especially with national or all-time significance.

If @NTAlum09 makes one more post about drinking, one of us needs to go check on him.

Can we have Abbe and Sarge McCoy back, please?

Most games I started watching with cautious optimism and the hope that we would at least play well. Starting off: Craft beer of some kind (or some other quality, enjoyable beer) Then as things would inevitably go downhill, I would wonder why I was spending more money to achieve the same effect. The next six or so: Bud Light (or equivalent swill). Away games were watched at East Side since I don't have cable. For the Portland State game, I was at a Beer Olympics. I left it early to get there half say through the first quarter. I left before the fourth quarter to get back just as they were cleaning up and I helped a couple guys kill the remaining beers and walked home. It feels good to let it all go...2016, here we come!

Oh! We're 1-0 against Florida!

Kind of a repeat of #4, but most of our tough games are at home, so we at least get to have a nice, big crowd at home.