meangreener

I know I told y'all on Facebook about it but I may very well be out there! Saturday is...uh...a busy day for me.

Yup! Feel like a real program now.

It's like people haven't noticed our home record is 12-4. The joke used to be that you never got to see UNT win at home...especially considering we won like 1 home game at Fouts for like 3 years. A half full Apogee is still more of an advantage than a 1/4th full Cotton Bowl. Plain and simple!

Nope.

Very good bowl lineup, IMO.

No way is a half full Cotton Bowl more impressive than a full Apogee. The UNLV side was the butt of every joke at ESPN. You're delusional.

We've already lost the battle in DFW. Our alumni will come, as seen, I think we can get them interested. T-shirt fans are already sold. That's why we look elsewhere and quit trying to shoehorn ourselves into DFW. People refuse to learn this fact, but in 2014, a combination of laziness and traffic will stop people from driving to us when they can go to TCU or get free tickets to see Smut lose. We can get our alumni because they need to re-experience campus, thus my UGA example. We're like Windows Phone. Newcomer, actually really capable and a good platform. Most people have used a Windows phone or used Windows before, but are already pot deep in iOS. Problem is, that the market is already oversaturated so it's a losing battle. So, instead, you focus on enterprise or overseas. Students never came out in the mid 2000s because nobody cares if you beat Monroe. Now, if you beat Rice, UTEP, LATech, those are schools students want bragging rights over. No coincidence that attendance was iffy vs MTSU and Ball State (even though it was a scorcher.) ESPN putting Georgia in #UpsetAlert (they did) and beating teams people can brag against gets students involved.

Unfortunately, yup. We won't ever get an invite to the AAC...grind it out in a great regional conference, hope for the MWC or call to the big leagues Big 12.

Why the hell would you pull people OUT of Denton? The HoD crowd was because of success. The UGA game got us attention. People came to the UTEP game and I'd bet a LOT of money had the weather not been unseasonably cold, we would've outdid the UTEP attendance vs UTSA. People aren't coming to games because historically we've sucked not because they can't drive 45 minutes to Denton. We need people IN Denton, experiencing the new campus, the new stadium, the top notch tailgating, and the best small town in America & the best college town in Texas. We need people to come early, grab lunch at RG Burgers, Crooked Crust or LSA, grab beer at Midway Mart, check out the Square, pop in some shops, walk around campus and head over to the game. We need to be working up the "college" aspect. We have a small, intimate and loud stadium on a beautiful campus in an incredible city. Re-experience UNT, not fighting off muggers at Fair Park or buying $50 parking and $10 beers at Jerry World. I'd bet a lot of the new fans that showed up at the HoD Bowl haven't been back to campus in forever. No offense to alumni as I'm starting to want to move on from the student section myself, the students are what make college games and our student turnout rivaled SEC teams vs Rice and UTEP. Go to Dallas, and it becomes UTSA. Big crowd, dead atmosphere. Giving up home games for Dallas games would be idiotic and would kill student attendance. I realize it's SEC, but Atlanta people all drive into Athens for Georgia. That's 45 minutes away from Atlanta. College Station with A&M. They come to experience the town and the college. We have a town and college equalled to those two (way superior to CStat) and we need to be taking advantage. Stop with this silly Dallas talk. We don't even need to be Dallas's team. We need to be NORTH Texas's team. Sanger, Krum, Denton, Gainesville, Justin, Prosper, McKinney, Aubrey...those are the places we need to mooch off of. Way too much competition in DFW with the Dallas Brandon Weedens and Big 12 TCU. If I was in the marketing office, I'd be putting up billboards, signs all over the little towns to the North and sides of us, get the coaches doing caravans over there, getting local business interested, tons of advertising, etc. Instead of traveling 2 hours to OU, come 20 minutes to Apogee. Instead of traveling an hour and a half to TCU, come 20 minutes to Apogee. Nobody wants to admit defeat, but the alumni from DFW will come if we win. The T-shirts will come if they care. Make them care. Keep a minimum of advertising inside the metroplex and expand to real NORTH Texas. Tired of hearing DFW DFW DFW when there are way more than enough people ripe for the picking surrounding us that would fill a 50,000 seat Apogee.

...that's because that's the performance logo...see the weights...the logo in itself is not licensed...

Two pathetic championships...Rice hosting it was an embarrassment to the league and El Paso hosting it was awful if UTEP lost. Which obviously, they did. Pathetic. Game should be hosted in Dallas at the AAC or some other city towards the middle of the conference with destination status.

LMFAO. Excellent. Both sitting at home. After all that buzz they're not dancing either. Can't wait to kick SMU's teeth in come September.

Georgia was better when we played them. NC contenders. Alabama and LSU were way better when we played them. Texas is a 7-5/8-4 team, compared to the usual NC teams we play.

Indiana isn't a body bag, it is a home and home. The Texas game is a body bag. Easier than usual.

The 3rd period was played terribly, couldn't clear the puck, and Seguin's shootout goal attempt was pathetic. Was impressed with the crowd, was a sellout!

I've been trying to do this for months! Unfortunately, it's very difficult to do stuff in the offseason. I'm going to ramp up my campaign before and after the Spring Game. Best advice, make your own, get involved, talk to people on campus. I started with something simple--a twitter account--and it evolved into a campus and area wide marketing campaign. I really have only focused on the students and alumni, there's a whole Dallas area ripe for the picking! If you want to help, send me a PM or make your own and feel free to ask if you need to bounce ideas. I am not in DFW enough to really make a mark outside of Denton, unfortunately. Look at what SMU did for basketball. They bombarded the metroplex with publicity and the Moody became the hottest ticket in Dallas. Their football, however, is dying a slow, bleeding death and we should capitalize. We need more T-shirt fans.

Going to the game tonight. First Stars game in a long while, really excited. Must win. I used to go to tons, but they don't have the College Rush $10 tickets anymore. Well, and graduate school takes up all my time. Excited to go to a game this season.

I JUST bought a new pair of boots. ARGH!

There ain't much to do in San Antonio.

Benford'd

Surprised. Pleasantly. So far, at least.

He left Wake after a 20 win season.

If we lose, Benford gets fired directly afterward. I can dream, right?

No idea why Petersen is struggling so much here, he was gold at Wake Forest...they were upset they were losing him.

Wow, just wow.