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Navy just missed the PAT, so it's 21-20 ND over Navy in the 3rd. Navy has only punted 11 times all season long. Looks like the D is going to have to play tough for 4 downs next week.

NFM

George defended NT and Dodge very well. He stated what he saw and what the coaches told him happened. I'm not going to say it's fact. But it's as close as we've heard. Go Georgio Go!!!

Where is the money come from. The Ath. Dept. is not crying poor. They are poor! Open up that big wallet and back up that big talk!

What type of marketing did you want to see? TV? Radio? Newspaper ads? All of those cost money.

Pull Your Pants Up Man Green needs to follow Dooney da Priest!!

Starting threads to end the talk about racism is just puring fuel on the fire. If you're tired of reading about it. Then don't read it. If you're tired of discussing it then don't discuss it. If you want to post about something else, then post about something else. Folks, this is news. Albeit, bad news. But this is something that people are talking about, even non-NT football fans.

Like Stadium or uniform talk or the status of the QB position.

Opening night in the NBA

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Call 1-800-unt-2366 and they can help you.

And complaining about it helps how? Fans don't turn colors. They support their team, no matter what. Are you a FAN?

I watched the report by NT ex Debbie Denmon and thought it was a fair story. But Dominque showed what he did, and he flexed his muscles and said "We Hood," not 'We are from the hood.' Coach George might have just taken offense at Green's butchering of the English Language. If the NAACP looks into this, really looks, into this and finds that Coach Dodge and Coach George acted out of racism, then some action needs to be taken. Do I think that there is anything to this? I hope not, but I've been wrong before.

Not rude. I have never played basketball at the college level. But I have covered HS, college and pro basketball as a sportswriter for the previous 20+ years. I know of at least three former college players who shot 1,000 FT a day during the off season. They were all at least 90 percent FT shooters during their college career. I have been to more basketball practices, not Johnny Jones basketball practices, than most players who have attended college for 4 years. I hope that answers the question to your satisfaction. Brett Tulloss

Edwards a hero in more ways than one By TODD PORTER, GateHouse Media ST. LOUIS — Sometimes in the middle of life and football, between touchdown passes and heart-breaking losses, our heroes really do become our heroes. Braylon Edwards looked like a guy who jumps over tall NFL cornerback backs in a single bound, toe sidelines like he was some kind of high-wire act, catch passes like he had eyes in the back of his head, and for a few hours, made a grieving mother smile. “Every time Braylon Edwards caught the ball, I yelled and screamed,” Tara Douglas said Sunday, the first time she’s smiled since her 15-year-old baby boy, Denzel, died. “I knew he was doing it for my baby.” Braylon Edwards isn’t a hero today because he caught two — more — touchdown passes Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome. He’s isn’t a hero today because he caught eight passes, each one of them better than the next, against the St. Louis Rams. He isn’t even a hero today because he made play after superb play to lead the Browns back from a 14-0 first-quarter deficit and to a 27-20 win, the first time Cleveland fans can say winning and streak in the same sentence since 2003. He is a hero today because for the first time since Friday morning, Tara, a woman you’ve probably never heard of, yelled and screamed in joy even though her heart still felt like it had been trampled by a Ted Washington cleat. Tara talked to Denzel for the last time Friday morning. The Lakewood High underclassman died after his body rejected a heart transplant that was 18 months old. But he died with a piece of Braylon Edwards with him, and him, probably for a long time, with Edwards. Denzel died with his No. 17 autographed Braylon Edwards’ jersey and one of the game balls from the star receiver’s three-touchdown game against Miami. On his day off, during his week off from the NFL, Edwards went to the hospital to meet a young man he didn’t know. All that he knew was Denzel Douglas was in pain. He could tell by the tubes in his mouth, but not by the twinkle in his eye. “Denzel couldn’t believe Braylon was standing in front of him in his hospital bed,” Tara said Sunday. “That made his day.” As it turned out, it was one of his last. Denzel Douglas had a profound affect on Edwards. The wide receiver told a Browns’ employee who helped arrange the meeting, “You didn’t say it would be like this,” even though Edwards was briefed on Douglas’ dire health. It was a meeting that Edwards won’t soon — if ever — forget. He dedicated his eight-catch, 117-yard, two-touchdown performance Sunday in St. Louis to the 15-year-old he barely knew. So Friday, Tara will bury her son. And she’ll bury him in the No. 17 jersey Edwards brought and signed. The football he autographed will be placed in the casket as well. “This was definitely an emotional game after meeting him and meeting his family,” Edwards said. “I was hoping he was able to make it through and get to one of these (games). Regardless, I dedicated my performance to him today. I’m glad we got a win, and my prayers go out to his family.” Here in the cradle of football, we kid ourselves about football, life and death. They have no business going hand-in-hand. Or maybe, truly, they do. The three felt so right together Sunday. So when Browns’ head coach Romeo Crennel tells his football team about fighting, about character and will, Edwards will look at those words with a different perspective. “Last Sunday, we were sitting on the couch, and (Denzel) said, ‘I’m gonna play football again,’ ” Tara recalled. “He wanted to make something for heart transplant patients to be able to play football. That was his No. 1 sport. He was so competitive.” And this is where football has something, however small it may be, to do with the Browns on Sunday. A year ago, Denzel Douglas may not have changed a young, brash and cocky Braylon Edwards. A year ago, the Browns wouldn’t have come back from a 14-point deficit to beat a winless St. Louis team. They weren’t mature enough. They weren’t smart enough to know what they don’t know. Now they’re smart enough to ignore what they don’t know and just find a way to win football games. Even before answering a single question after the game, Edwards essentially gave a mea culpa for taking off his helmet during a play. It was Dwayne Rudd all over again, except this time, Cleveland was good enough to overcome a bonehead mistake. “I assumed the quarter was over,” Edwards said. “... It will never happen again.” Edwards is so much more mature than he was a year ago. He isn’t whining on the sidelines. He isn’t yelling at teammates. Generally, Cleveland’s young receiver has a light-hearted disposition. Fans are seeing it for the first time this season. “In maturing they believe in me now,” Edwards said of his teammates. “They believe in the things I do, and things I say. They believe in the player I am. Believing in guys like myself and Kellen (Winslow Jr.) they play that much harder. It makes them give an extra chip on a play they might not have chipped on and that extra chip allows Derek Anderson an extra second to release the ball. “This team believes in itself now.” No one had to convince Denzel Douglas to believe in Braylon Edwards. He did last week. His mother will attest, too, that when her son died, he died believing in Braylon Edwards. That’s a hero. (Todd Porter is a columnist for GateHouse Media.)

“You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.” Brett Favre quote

Just called the Ticket office and they have plenty of tickets available. Navy's allotment is sold out, but not the game..

Agreed! And I think most of the players on the team will agree.

What does this have to do wth North Texas Football?

DENTON (10/29/07) - The Todd Dodge weekly radio show will not be aired tonight from Sweetwater as North Texas has its bye week. The shows will resume next Monday night, November 5 starting at 6:30 p.m. on 88.1 FM KNTU. Also, please be reminded that Dodge will not hold his press conference Tuesday, Oct. 30 during the bye week. The next press conference to be aired live on KNTU will be Tuesday, Nov. 6 leading up to the Navy game.

To who??? They might beat Georgia, who still will have Florida victory hangover.

Dasher injury shelves two-QB system By DAVID BOCLAIR boclair@dnj.com — David Boclair, 615-278-5151 DENTON, Texas — For a time Saturday, it looked as if MTSU planned to employ a healthy dose of the two-quarterback package it unveiled a week earlier against Arkansas State. By halftime, the Blue Raiders were down to one healthy quarterback, Joe Craddock who had lost his job as the starter six weeks ago when he sustained a back injury. The redshirt-junior stepped in for starter Dwight Dasher after Dasher left in the final minute of the first half with what initially has been diagnosed as a sprained left knee. Craddock completed only three of 13 pass attempts from that point but did enough to keep the Blue Raiders a step ahead of the Mean Green in a 48-28 victory at Fouts Field. More

Don't know about blowing out, but I'm confident in a victory over them.

The reason we lost is THE PUNTING TEAMS!!!!!! The punt team allowed a kick to be blocked and it resulted in a score. Then THREE times the punt return team let the ball go dead inside the 1-yard line. If it happens once, chalk it up to luck. Twice, it might be something to be concerned about. Three times is inexcusable. Coach Drake needs to pull his head out of his butt and tell Evyn Roman, or whoever is back to receive punts. DO NOT LET THE BALL BOUNCE INSIDE the 5-yard line. I'll let the one pass, but when the same thing happens three times, it's coaching. Two of those safeties resulted in 11 points. Then throw in the score on the blocked punt and it's up to 18 points. The special teams were special ed teams against MTSU. So Coach Drake and everyone else can put a face with the post.

Football: Trinity wins on miracle play Web Posted: 10/27/2007 11:11 PM CDT Jerry Briggs Express-News Staff Writer The Trinity Tigers executed a 15-lateral, "Mississippi Miracle” on the last play Saturday afternoon to score the winning touchdown, stunning the Millsaps Majors 28-24 on the road to stay alive in the chase for the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title. The play that covered 60 yards was recorded in official statistics as a 44-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Blake Barmore to wide receiver Riley Curry. But the Tigers, battling the defending conference champions in Jackson, Miss., will always remember it as more than that. "It was the most remarkable play I've ever seen in college football," Trinity coach Steve Mohr said in a telephone interview. An hour after the game, the Tigers were still trying to figure out how Millsaps failed to make a tackle that began out of desperation at the Trinity 40, with the Majors leading 24-22, and two seconds remaining. Junior receiver Shawn Thompson caught a pass over the middle from Barmore at the Millsaps 44 and started a series of laterals. It ended with Curry picking up the final lateral off the turf and running for the score, denying what would have been a conference-title clinching victory for the Majors. "As soon as I saw (Curry) in the end zone, I fell down and started crying," Barmore said. "I'm kind of a big baby." Mohr said fireworks went off prematurely to celebrate the Millsaps victory. "Our tackle, Wade Lytal, got a block near the goal line and Riley dove into the end zone," said Mohr, who estimated that there were 14 laterals and that eight Trinity players touched the ball. "I've never seen anything like it." On the last play, Trinity coaches wanted four receivers to go deep and for Barmore to throw it short over the middle to Thompson, a junior from New Braunfels Canyon. Thompson told Trinity players in the huddle to be ready for a pitch. Pitch it, they did, back and forth, across the field. On the final lateral, a wobbly over-hand throw from Brandon Maddox to the near hash mark, Curry fielded it on one hop and ran through the Millsaps defense to score. "There were five or six (Millsaps) guys right there," Curry said. "They thought when the ball hit the ground that it was over, and they stopped. They just kind of watched me run past them." Barmore, who passed for 339 yards and two touchdowns, was in a state of disbelief. "This is such a surreal feeling right now," Barmore said. "It's just pure joy. I can't even describe it." Trinity sophomore Jonathan Wiener, who made the Internet radio call, said he told his audience before the last play that it would take something "crazy” to happen on the last play for the Tigers to win. "It took a miracle, and that's about what it was," Wiener said. "We figured something crazy had to happen. It did." What made the victory so sweet for Trinity players was that it unfolded at Harper Davis Field, where they lost 34-12 last year and were forced to watch the Majors celebrate an SCAC title. This time, Trinity (7-1, 4-1) did the celebrating, with players piling on Curry in the end zone. The victory gave the Tigers an opportunity to control their own destiny for the SCAC championship. Millsaps (6-2, 5-1) can only hope that Trinity loses one of its final two games. If both win out, the Tigers would hold the tiebreaker for the SCAC's automatic bid to the Division III playoffs. Trinity plays at home next week against Centre, Ky. The Tigers finish on the road on Nov. 10 at Austin College.