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Very interesting. More than meets the eye?

I thought we had the wonderful Mandy to do the solicitation of Mean Green Club memberships, etc. What will she do now? Maybe stay away from the public where she belongs. Another poor hire, as we once again, slap our own alma mater in the face and go elsewhere for another employee who will spend time building resume so he can go on somewhere else. Add this to Lee Jackson and you have a hard time getting out the wallet. What ever happened to the former NT soccer player who was supposed to be doing this job? However, if you think this is bad, just wait until you see who Jackson will hire as President....I shudder.

This question has rolled around in my head for some time. Why is the football team always asked to schedule suicide games for money but the men's and women's basketball teams never are required to do so? Any thoughts?

Doug Ray was sports information director and asst. ad in the 80's and 90's. He is now an executive with Texas Special Olympics in Dallas.

Ah, the hospitality deck....a lovely adventure in donations. First, when there is any kind of crowd for a game, you wait in the September heat while the lady finds your name on a printout (hoping hope against hope that you were actually correctly added to the list), then you approach the suppulent folding chairs and seven tables. You go over to check out the cuisine that is furnished for this game and are excited to see greasy bbq with all the trimmings which you pay for by showing tickets you purchased at the front table when you came in ( which took you another 15 minutes to buy) and then you go over to purchase beer, wine or cokes. If you buy a coke at the concession stand at the stadium it is $1 less than what you are now paying for a coke inside the 'hospitality' deck. Of course, if you happened to buy a coke at the concession stand and wanted to just bring it into the hospitality deck you could not....they don't allow it. Then you stroll over onto the deck itself remembering from this post that had you been on the deck two years ago there was a real possibility that the deck would collapse due to rotten support beams. Anyway, have a lovely time at the deck and toss down a greasy rib and upcharged coke for me. Oh, and enjoy the air conditioning and deck umbrellas installed just for you to offset the ravages of hot and rainy weather.

Can you spell L-A-Z-I-N-E-S-S ? That is the bottom line when it comes to all the elements previously mentioned by other posts. This athletic administration is really rolling the dice, since a new president who takes note of the laziness of the department could really do some damage to them. If I was awaiting a new president I sure as hell would do everything to show the new person all the department is doing, not show their ass by letting so many areas go neglected.

If you look at any list of famous alums from any university or college, you can be sure that if they are famous they need not have graduated to be 'knighted' as an alum of that institution. Joe Blow might just be a former student, but a celebrity is an alum.

Sadly, he was only 61. I am not sure of the exact cause of death, but the obituary asked that donations be make to the Diabetes Assn.

Dan Christie, former President of the NTSU Trustees and former football player, passed away this Saturday. Dan was a longtime supporter of the Mean Green and was a longtime donor to the athletic department. He served as President of the Trustees ($1000 donor group) in the 90's. He was always interested in the progress of the program and put his money and his time where his mouth was. He also won two awards from the alumni association. He was instrumental in raising the money to name the old men's gym after Ken Bahnsen. He will be missed. I will miss his smile and enthusiasm for North Texas.

There will be no way to tell about season ticket sales...last year or this year...since ticket sales are a closely guarded state secret at the athletic department.

sedalia smith-cotton, home of the fighting tigers. never heard of it?...it's in missouri.

I have a little experience in selling out SMU at Fouts. If the athletic department doesn't work hard with advertising, etc. a sell out is not a guarantee. You just can't take anything for granted. Everyone pray for no rain that day. Should it sell out, yes. Will it sell out, yes, probably. One thing to note about this year's game vs. the game in '89 is the size of the SMU crowd to attend. I really don't think that they will bring very many people. Once again, it is up to NT to furnish the crowd, which it should since it is a home game.

As my feeble memory serves me, we had 100 Trustees at $1,000 in cash, 39 Trustees in gift in kind gifts and about $150,000 in Eagle Club donations in 1993. We had about 250 in the Eagle Club. Donor information is available using the freedom of information act, should anyone want to check the figures.

I emailed them the idea of 'Guzzlin' Cajuns', but apparently it did not make the cut.

Good idea but UIL only approves a small number of out of school activites for the bands. We probably would not be at the top their list to 'use up one of their out of school activities.' Also, if they came, we would have to feed them.

A law suit in the making...you cannot use the Longhorn without paying licensing fees and it must be approved by UT. If LaLa did a cap with our new 'son of worm' with a black X through it it would be in violation of the tm and licensing agreements. We would have to approve their design, which we would not do. Good idea, but in this world, complicated.

1966 at Fouts NT vs. Texas Western...we beat Billy Hughes' miners barely. Most memorable early game...NT vs. New Mexico State in 1967 ( I think)... there were signs all over the NMSU stadium that read 'Beat the Buffalos"...they thought they were playing West Texas State. It ended up a tie...long drive for a tie.

Having sponsored the cheerleaders for six years, I can attest to the dangerous nature of the 'sport.' I was always struck as to what great athletes we had. We had great kids who were dedicated, but I was always a bit disappointed in how they were preoccupied with the athletic nature of the cheerleading and not so preoccupied with yelling and drumming up enthusiasm at the games. My cheerleaders did show up for all football and basketball games, however. We had about 30 kids in the program and had moved to partial scholarships for them when I left. Unfortunately, the scholarship money 'dried up' when Helwig arrived. Good luck to Oregon State for refocusing cheerleaders to being CHEER LEADERS.

I was visiting with a friend this morning and asked if he had gotten caught up in the George Mason hoopla. He flatly said no and that he never pulls for a basketball team that does not have a football team. He thinks that basketball only gives a lot of small schools an edge against teams that have football. As you know, in order to have division one football you have to sponsor about 400 sports, while basketball only schools do not. Is it fair? Does it hurt mid majors who have division one football? Should it be changed? Curious at to what the green meanies think.

Nice stuff if you are heavy into orange and blue and have a wish for the return of Craig Helwig.

I like the tag line "Be a Maverick"...it draws the reader in....be a part of this thing, what ever this thing is. Much better than the NT tag line " Don't call us, we'll call you."

I was at the breakfast held for Eagle Club members back in '81 or so. Hurley came in and told the group that we would have the type of athletic program that the donors supported and asked for pledges right there. Obviously, everyone was caught by surprise and the committment from the breakfast was puny. The entire Eagle club was never asked about this question and before we knew it we were down to I-AA. The fix was in even before the breakfast. The major reasons given for the drop was lack of donor support and the advantages of being in a conference. As you may remember, at that time we were independent with no bowl affiliation or conference affiliation. I always thought that Hurley's approach was like a teacher going to the class room and telling the students that the curriculum for the class would depend on the wishes of the class....a complete surrender of leadership.

The majority of regents are North Texas grads....now if we could just get that ratio working in the athletic department.

Did you notice that South Alabama is seeded 14, while Northwestern State out of the Southland is also seeded 14. Is the SunBelt just a glorified Southland?

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