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They can use tax payers money to fly a helicopter over Navy, invade air space and waste the time of the guys flying the helicopter, and we cannot even print a stinkin t shirt with sink Navy on it...what a great country.

Right on, SUMG. Also, in my opinion no team in the Sunbelt should have to play another Sunbelt team if it is not a home and home. We go to Western Kentucky and they don't even have to come to Denton. No very fair.

This gets a little murky. Do you want to include the student service fee that the student pays for each game? If not, I would say that on a good day we have 10,000 paid at $15 a pop. That comes to $150,000 plus a percentage of the concessions. Of course, when you factor in the game guarantee for visiting teams, we probably just break even. Just a guess.

Plus, they have a great selection.

Probably not 2800, but a good crowd for Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I was proud of the dancers, cheerleaders, pep band and Scrappy for all being there.

I said I would donate, I just want a few more specifics. I will donate 'blindly' in 2008, which is more than a lot of people will do.

Since the wheels are off one wheel of the Mean Green express ( football ), let's do everything in our power to support the two basketball teams. Success in those endeavors will at least lend more credibility to our overall sports programs at NT. While football is king in Texas, there is still a lot of exposure for basketball. Let's show the metroplex that we can generate crowds for basketball and help us be more of a viable sports program overall. I know a lot of you are more football oriented, but basketball is the only game in town at the moment...please suck it up and go to some games...the teams need all the home court advantage they can muster. Plus, it's fun.

I got a fund raising letter from Bataille today. In it she addressed four areas of contributions that the university was asking for. Perched number one on the list was donations for the new stadium. This is a nice first step, but I was disappointed in the 'abstract' approach for donations for the staduim. There were no particulars listed, such as anticipated time of completion, a way to pledge x amount of money for x number of years. Also missing was any reference as to what a $1000 donor to the stadium gets as opposed to a $10,000, etc. Maybe that information is coming under separate cover. At least they have started. I will not commit to a certain amount until I see a few more specifics. I will send them a 'start up' gift for this tax year, but cannont commit to long term blindly.

Huff is probably right. One thing I know is that if I was still out there at athletics and the students voted half the cost of the stadium I would be spitting out donation brochures and would have a phone bank calling for donations. They just don't seem to be in any hurry to get this thing really rolling ( as in creating excitement and momentum ). In defense of the athletic department, it may be that the higher ups have dictated that the effort for outside donations must be in tandem with other university fund raising thrusts. If that is the case, the stadium will appear the twelfth of never.

Happy Birthday, big guy, and thanks for all you did for me in the promotions office when I was swirling through the 'puzzle palace' that is North Texas athletics.

OK, let me see if I get this right....the BOR sends the student vote directly to the legislature for their approval ( with no apparent approval vote from the BOR), then Batille says there will be no dirt moved until the alums do their share. Then, as I check my mailbox daily there is no fund raising brochure about the stadium coming from the athletic department. Only at North Texas.

Sadly, North Texas was to the Missouri Valley Conference in basketball what Baylor is to Big XII football. Lots of years just 'hanging out' with the big boys, but few wins. That really hurt our overall win/loss record.

Dudrop, cause he drops 'em in.

Professional football teams should win most of the time.

How about high school yearbooks.

Big win...who was the sound engineer for KNTU, the three stooges?

Any more of a pipe dream than our stadium?

Good for him, if it is true...I honestly cannot remember ever seeing him in anything green. His wardrobe is not a big deal, but it would be nice to see a green tie every once in awhile.

Props to Coach Stephens for wearing green...now if Johnny would follow suit.

Apparently they did not get the memo on the OSU campus that there was a game Monday night...lots of empty seats. Finally, OSU shows it is human....coming off a sub par 2007 campaign they will need time to get the interest back. In fact, if it had not been North Texas last night, I just wonder if the attendance would have been even worse...I imagine a lot of the crowd came to watch 'payback' from our win last season. I'm not making excuses for NT, but OSU showed it loses interest in mediocre basketball just like our fans do when we are mediocre. We always envy the 'mighty' Big XII, but they showed that they are human last night. By the way, if that little 'squat and shoot' guard of theirs had not caught fire with threes early it might have been a lot different game.

Be nice to the old pit...it had its claws removed when they took out the side court bleachers.. Put those bleachers back, add 3200 people and you have a hell of a venue for 'homer basketball.' The old pit has hosted a lot more nationally ranked teams than the super pit...and we beat some of them, which is more than you can say for the super pit. The old girl just wasn't the same tonight. Sorry you newbies did not get the full 'treatment' from the old pit.

Never compare us to the pro teams in the big xii.

I think it holds about 3,200. Will it be packed? This is North Texas. Maybe by halftime.

I tried to make this happen back in the late 80's. Tina said she had too much to lose by playing them and TWU said they did not want to play a game they had no chance of winning. I was trying to get a game each year in the old pit....oh well, maybe now.

Donors are like heat seeking missles, they gravitate toward perceived excellence. UNT offers non of that ...we are merely a school treading water. No sizzle, no donations. We have no master plan for excellence and a pitiful handful of fund raisers. Other than that, there is no reason we should not succeed.