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overall I feel SFA was much better run than UNT and I have less concern for the performance of Athletics at SFA because I feel there are other things SFA can put money to to build their reputation

So, SFA rules or what?

[quote name='CheckFacts' date='May 24 2008, 11:20 PM' post='35087 So you do see some plans.

That is it; teams played at home.

Agree

Then why do all of the athletes {football} live in the dorm. Wasn't part of the plan to build the tennis courts.

Thankyou

Wasn't part of the plan to build the Athletic Dorms.

Didn't RV try to go in on a football stadium with the local high school and that fell through? So the high schools play out there and their parents money go out there. So locally a lot of that money is spent on Friday Night instead of Saturday afternoon.

Wasn't part of the plan to acquire the land where Liberty Christian was located?

Agree

Thanks for the link. It is interesting to compare this years against last years. Since we are playing K St this year, I looked at Ron's numbers and he is beginning to slide.

Does Fouts really keep people away or does or schedule have a major role in not keeping people in the stands. We play zero homes games in Aug. ok thats fair, its hot. Sept we play one game. Oct we play one on the 4th and one on the 25th. Nov we play one on the 29th. Not much continuity in building attendance. LSU plays home games on Aug 30th App St, Sept 6th Troy, Sept 13 NT, Sept 27 Miss St, Oct 25th Georgia, Nov 1st Tulane, Nov 8th Ala, Nov 22 Ole Miss, Tulsa Plays home games Sep 20 Mew Mexico, Sept 27 Central Ark, Oct 4th Rice, Oct 18th Utep, Oct 26 UCF, Nov 22 Tulane. Kansas st plays home games Aug 30th NT, Sept 6th Montana St, Sept 27 Louisiana La, Oct4th Tex Tech, Oct 25 Oklahoma, Nov 15 Neb, Nov 22 Iowa St. Thats 8 home games, 6 home games and 7 home games. We really need to be playing more home games and not just 6 home games.

Thanks for the info, it is interesting to see how a campaign develops. It looks like they are very serious. I hope to see something like this being sent out to us from NT. I like the name they came up with, I hope ours looks as good or better.

When you are talking about beer and football, all beer coolers are real. But, yes it is a foam cooler.

Beer Piggly Wiggly has Smithwick's; commonly called Smitics. From the brewers of Guinness and yes it is ten dollars a six pack.

West University.

Yes, Albertson's has North Texas beer coolers on sale. I couldn't believe it.

Do you guys remember this kind of stuff? PerryGreen Future football stadium We might not be up to the standards of the other current new members of C-USA or even some of the other prospective candidates YET. But I tell you what, by the time any of this is seriously an issue again and realignment does occur...we'll be ready. Wow, it looks like UNT is going to have a really nice stadium up there in Denton.. now the real question is, will UNT fans be able to fill up that new 35,000 to 40,000 seat "state of the art" stadium regularly? We draw well when we play Big 12 or similar schools. We don't draw as well when we play SBC schools. UNT is a work in progress. Denton is a population explosion in progress. No, they all want come to Mean Green games, but many will give us new fans/new faces at Fouts Field. We spent 12 "LONG" years in D1-AA that cost us many fans many of whom threw up their hands when they perceived all the dream that Hayden Fry had begun back in the 70's was being flittered away to (basically) the minor league college football that 1-AA was to us (and it not being attractive to a school like NT who is located in a major league sports market to boot). I think those schools from the SWC who did not make the Big 12 cut can relate to some of this as I think they lost many of their own fans, too. To respond to an above poster about our attendance I would only agree that it is accurate. I will also say that NT athletic officials don't turn into the NCAA officials another 5-10,000 phantom fans to our home football game averages, either, and never have since USM alum Rick Villarreal has been our AD. Now we can all kid ourselves about the accuracy of attendance numbers among the non BCS because some of you would know that there are those in NCAA D1-A that turn into the NCAA officices figures that would probably not even come close to 15K per game averages (if truth be told) and I believe some of you will see that first hand as you visit a few CUSA football locales this Fall who seem to have that reputation of being quite creative with their attendance figures. NT has had some weeknight games on ESPN each of the last few years with those starting at 6 PM. Many of our NT alums who work in Dallas don't get off till 5pm or 6pm during the week. Such things as that have played a huge part in keeping our numbers low because (firstly) it keeps our state-wide alums from being able to come up to Denton and (secondly) it takes an NT alum who lives in Dallas over 2 hours to drive the 40 miles from Dallas to Denton on any weeknight due to horrendous "going home" traffic. I won't say NORTH TEXAS has ever had the attendance disaster such as the FW Bowl had last December, but week-night televised games at Fouts Field each Fall have hurt us and probably kept us from getting into the 20,000 plus real butts in seats range with our annual attendance. NT will add about 3-4 more dorms to its main campus in the next few years. We are already the largest residential campus this side of UT-Austin so we feel the more students we have living on campus that that translates to increased attendance. I am not unsatisfied with NT student support as it is now. NT will problaby have another record freshmen class this Fall and we've had this annual increase the last 5 years in a row according to another alum I spoke to. In closing NT has put a string of winning seasons together so our campus officials feel we will benefit from that the most is because many of those NT students who graduated in that span of time saw the Mean Green on TV more than ever and in several bowl games. From that group, we expect more alums coming back to campus and our attendance base to grow as a result. Many feel a state of the art football stadium with all the lates ammenities will also bring others out of the woodwork as well. Denton County (560,000 pop.) has many northern transplants and some feel the new football stadium will create an initial interest from that large constituency as well. As most of you, we are still a work in progress. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08-25-2005 12:02 PM

Belongs in a different forum.

Quite tired. The stadium will happen.

They know we are going to kick some butt and they do not want any part of it.

I too have been waiting for a long term contract with them. A rival that close in distance is a double plus.

So, are you saying you enjoyed the basketball enthusiasm Trilli employed to the public, but then failed as a coach. Or are you saying I told you so, you should have listened to me, I knew it would not workout. The new coach has a plan that the hiring committee thought was the best fit for the program. They are saying this is who we should have for the time being.

Along with the above, they could also promote the spring game.