TheFranchise

God bless you sir for your service!!! Thank you. And God bless Texas!!

Man, I'm unbelievably excited about this game!! I'm wishing I could make it to Austin but work schedules and budgetary concerns just made it an impossibility. However, I'm planning to have family over (that grew up UT fans, mind you) with me cheering on my school (because they love me more than a neutered cow, haha) to stream it and cheer on the Mean Green!!! That and my kids will be all decked out in green, too. On a side note, my wife grew up Aggie so she's naturally all over this and is going crazy-mad-UNT-happy about it.

Holy crap, that's beautiful! I have that Mean Green travel mug, too and am very pleased with it.

As a former marching band person in high school, I can tell you that this would drastically change the halftime show because there would be gaps in the formations. However, if you don't care about the halftime show and just want a "presence" in the stands, then sending a smaller group makes absolute sense. But then you have to decide who can make it or not. Personally, as a department I'd try and split the cost with the students interested in traveling or just make them foot their own bill to go. "You wanna travel to Austin with the band? Ok, for your ticket and room & board it's going to cost about $250. We'll pay $125 if you can come up with the other half." Now of course, in that scenario you run the risk of having like 20 saxes (it's a known fact that all male sax players are sports fans, so every dude that plays the sax will want to go) 14 trombones, eight trumpets, six tubas and about four clarinets making it to the game. So if a band of about 52 excites you, then cool. EDIT -- forgot the drum line. You can guarantee almost all of them would want to go because all drum-liners like to party so Austin is a no-brainer for them. So let's say a band of about 75 or so.

Actually, these two do not surprise me that much at all. I run into a TON of Aggies around here. I meet far more Aggie grads than I do UT t-shirt fans. And as for OU, there are far more OU t-shirt fans hanging around here than there are actual grads of the school. (again, just based on the number of people I run in to) In fact, I'd venture to say I've run into more OU t-shirt fans than Texas t-shirt fans.

I'm pretty sure "it" just moved a little bit . . .

It's pretty easy for me. Greer, just by his last name alone should be the choice of any self-respecting Texan . . . He'd wear the number 29 if he knows what's good for him, too.

Next Saturday, the team will take the field at DKR Memorial Stadium and RV will look through his binoculars at our new (and improved, mind you) helmets, confused. He'll look over at Hank Dickenson, Mike Ashbaugh, Eric Capper and the other crapload of associate/assitant/deputy ADs we have and ask them who the Longhorns are playing and why they're not at the North Texas game.

Well, I'm a 5' 10" white dude and have about a 7" vertical . . . but I'm deadly from outside. Seriously, I can hit some long distance shots. But my inside game is tuh-ruble.

I'm on board with it. It certainly makes a better helmet logo than words in Times New Roman or Calligraphy.

Let's say an optimistic 8-5 after a bowl victory. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.

"Fo' Rizzle . . ." -- Winston Churchill

According to the great Brett Vito, this is potentially a preview of this season's #UNTHelmet pic.twitter.com/gMUDWPJQul — Stephen Francis (@MrSteveFrancis) August 14, 2014 EDIT -- Dang, Texas Stranger was a hair quicker than me.

Serious question guys . . . who is "Fran Tarkington?"

Well, he's listed as being from Denton, and Jaskulske a pretty uncommon last name. Based on that and the bit of resemblance I see, I'm pretty sure he's her son.

Dude, is that Prof. Jaskulske's kid (RTVF Senior Lecturer/Advisor)? That's awesome.

You're correct.

All the more reason to issue a butt-whoopin' in Austin on 8/30. I've never wanted to see us win so badly. Well, I did want us to win the Heart of Dallas Bowl pretty badly but still. This is different.

I know, but saying "Yes sir, I agree" wouldn't have been as funny.

Then why does a beer that's been in my fridge for a couple of weeks start to taste like the can? Wait, I may have answered my own question -- Drink ALL the beer within a couple of weeks so that this doesn't happen. I'd better get to work, fellas!

Here's the dirty little secret, or at least my theory: The "BIG" P5 schools (the ones that are almost always on top of the P5 standings) don't care one bit about this. In fact, they kind of like it because they're going to turn those same "little" P5 schools into their annual whipping boys. All they really care about is that they have the numbers going with them in favor of separating so that it will happen. The Texas and Alabamas of the world want the Texas Techs and the Vanderbilts to blindly follow them so that they can turn them into the schedule-fillers that they have now. The schools that are tagging along are simply being used.

I wasn't really directing that at you, per se. It was more about the ruling out of other schools that already have a rivalry. I think Tech is a good comparison. Although Texas REALLY started hating them there for a while during the Leach years.