Meangreen Fight

I don’t think they were ever that valid except for top 15 teams. The New Years 6 Bowls were the only bowls that had history you average player at that time relished playing in. The bowl tie-ins are convoluted now. It used to be that if you won your conference or got second place you knew what bowl that level of accomplishment would send you. Now you don’t have a clue. Look at Army and Navy from our conference. Army should have gotten a more prestigious bowl and opponent than Navy. (Remember Bowls were assigned before the Army vs Navy game and Army is our conference champion).

Definitely a HUGE part of it but lots of other programs that don’t win consistently have better game day participation by their students for on campus football games. It just a lack of vision by our university when it comes to athletics in general. The new stadium should have been more centrally located than Fouts or just built on top of it. I pushed back and others calling our students “weirdos in another thread. General it seems like the Adminstration doesn’t understand the harder you make it to get to games that we don’t win the fewer the amount of people/students will show up. If DATCU was across the street from the SuperPit or in the footprint of the old Fry Street area, I think you would see an average of 10% more students actually inside the stadiums. The Fry Street area would have been harder to acquire and building within the Fouts (and adjacent parking lot) footprint may have required borrowing another stadium for a year or two. But it would have been worth it in the long term and significant because it would be a symbol that athletics are an essential part of the experience they want to provide traditional on campus students. Winning helps but fixing the culture takes more than just that. And fixing the culture is the only way you can have a down season or two that doesn’t turn into 5 or 10 bad season.

Sounds like most homecoming games… hell it appears that is the SOP for most of the current students who care to be within a mile of our stadium on game day.

In fairness that was a Big 12 vs Big 12 affair.

Kind of pathetic. A program that looks down on us they refuse to play us and have a guaranteed good attendance turnout for an early season out of conference home game, dominates our board in mentions. I am not for blanket cencorship of all things SMU. But when a topic is exclusively about what SMU has or hasn't done that doesn't directly involved a former Mean Green Coach, Athletic Department Employee or Player it should be removed.

That is crazy unless they want playing time on a weaker program in a weaker conference. I wouldn't be excited about us getting a Rutgers transfer if we got one. They would just another body. I wonder how manybod those guys find what they want by leaving.

Unfortunately they are mimicking the behavior of businesses that can behave that way. Nobody gets pensions anymore and few get favorable stock options as front line employees. Loyalty is seldom rewarded in the business world. In college sports I wish it were different. They had the power to do that but leadership, schools, coaches and conferences didn't want to make sacrifices to make that work. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Yes if exhaustion of their play makers is your strategy. 😂

I think that has nothing to do with the struggles of our athletic program. If you loathe the students whose fees pay for athletics do you see how the current students might be uncomfortable around alumni who support athletics? Lots of those “ weirdo” students and alumni are outside the stadium partying not because they don’t like football it because they don’t enjoy watching us lose or beating a school they wouldn’t take a scholarship from. Denton natives are far more hostile or dismissive of UNT athletics than your average student. As a Denton native and UNT alumni I find the disconnect between the local community and athletics confusing. Also the Dallas Cowboys seem to consume so much of the sports atmosphere there is very little for everyone else. Cowboys are the ONLY sports franchise in the area that can consistently underachieve and not lose a second of media coverage.

To many this is the offseason. This game win or lose will be forgettable in UNT football history unless a future All-American, or NFL Starter makes a splashy debut in this game. There isn’t that much to discuss with the modified roster not representing what the 2024 team was nor probably the best starters for the 2025 Mean Green roster. Leading passer, receiver, rusher, tackler, and best graded coverage player are equally likely to enter the transfer portal or end up as 2nd string next season.

Can we get a picture posted with the Schutt helmet and the correctly colored flying worm helmet?

This guy is wasting his time and everyone else’s time. Dude should have found a FCS program with an academic program he was actually interested in. He is going to be 25 soon with nothing to show for it except maybe a “general studies” degree that nobody respects. And may have some student loans if he is extra stupid.

Excellent point right there. I grew up in Denton and the disdain for UNT Athletes was very apparent. I didn’t know they played Div I sports when I was growing up. But when I asked about their sports, the adults suggested they were on par with TWU, sucked in all sports all the time or they had no knowledge about their programs.

Why they won’t use this simple design and color scheme on a helmet, I will never understand.

If Caponi was the least bit self aware and considerate of his friend, he wouldn’t have done that. If you put in 2 years of historically bad performance on your job it isn’t cool to beg your friend to keep your job and putting his career in jeopardy if he saves you. If I were looking for a defensive assistant verification of this story would be imperative before I hire him. Even if I like the 3-3-5 and Caponi’s version of it (when he has the right athletes) I would NOT hire a dude that put upon his friend like this. He might end up being successful here but firing a second year DC who had one of the worst (if not the absolute worst) FBS defenses has nothing to do with it. So yes, it is just you. 😂