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Great idea to use the old pit. Could you imagine coming into the pit pregame with the old pit dimmly lighted and game films from the old days playing on one wall of the pit with music and snacks and drinks. It would be fun...could be like a pre game pep rally atmosphere. As you remember, it doesn't take much noise to get the old pit rocking. It is my understanding that the old pit will get less and less usage in the years ahead, as intramurals and others will be using other venues. The availability of the old pit should be excellent for such events.

They need to realize that they are in the entertainment business. Halftime performances need to be beefed up. Remember when we had the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Bud Light Daredevils and the Kilgore Rangerettes? Go more show biz with player introductions like the Detroit Pistons do (this would require dumping the current P.A. guy). The idea of an ongoing student raffle is an excellent one. Remember introducing the 'starting crowd' for tonight's game when all student groups were introduced? All this would require work on the part of the athletic department..............

Does anyone really believe that this guy is going to pay any attention to the survey? This is the guy who ran off the current President. The survey is a public relations gimmick. Remember how we were treated during the logo madness.

With the upcoming retirement of Bruce Bell, there will be one North Texas grad in the athletic department. While I do not advocate too much 'in breeding', it would be productive to have some people in the department who are NT Exes and who really live and die with the fortunes of the department. I suspicion that NT's 2 (soon to be 1) grad in the department is lowest in the U.S. You really need a person or two who remember the history of the school and can relate to the donors and fans.

SMU alumni, thanks for the classy posts and I feel your pain. The thing that you might note is that most college athletic departments are run by vandals and interlopers. The vast majority of them are not from the university they work for and are just a phone call away from jumping to another job. Seems to me like maybe SMU might want to look very close to home for new athletic leadership. Can you say alumni of SMU? Those are the people who can get you on down the pike...people who eat and sleep blue and red. SMU alumni at the key positions would make the work ethhic much better. They would hate to fail for their own careers, plus they would hate to let their alma mater down. Just a thought.

I guess you knew that before kickoff they were confiscating seat cushions. That's right, little old ladies had to go back to their car and leave their seat cushions. Some were literally confiscated until an announcement that it was OK to have seat cushions. No umbrellas with few ponchos at the souvenir stand, no seat cushions, no bringing tortillas, no taking cokes into the Ben E. Keith pavilion....man isn't this fun?

If my memory serves me correctly, Cedric had seven sacks at Fouts vs. Tulsa in 1970. The qb for Tulsa was Dobbs, the coach's son. Those seven sacks sent Cedric into the NFL as the number one draft pick of the '49ers. As many of you know, we had three consecutive first round draft picks from '69 to '71.... Greene in '69, Cedric in '70 and Leonard Dunlap to the Colts in '71.

Classy post...thanks for the comments. We will be competitive, I think.

Hey, let's put this Bottom 10 thing in perspective. The reason we are not there is that we have won one game and lost one. We are not 0-3, or0-4, etc. We also are currently atop our conference standings.

I think that Saturday's game showed us that there is a gap in the talent level between C-USA and SunBelt. The real key to the future of Mean Green football is the success men's and women's basketball. We must have those key components in place before we can move up to C-USA. Even with Fouts as an impediment, we might have made it to C-USA had our basketball programs been stronger. If you want to see football advance, please give the basketball programs so tender loving care and attend the games.

North Texas can easily make up the $500,000 deficit...just invoice Louisiana-Monroe for $500,000. Also, make sure that LSU drops the Indians from its 2006 schedule. Northeast Louisiana was low life and apparently so is its successor. In all seriousness, the commissioner of the SunBelt needs to step in and tell ULM to move the damn game and shut up.

You guys are brutal...I tried to give you an objective report on the new turf and you have turned on me. Did I mention that I also wind sprinted to the beer barn just after the sprints on the turf?

I went over to Fouts on Sunday and ran a few sprints on the new turf...sweet. It is a great new rug. Lots of spring in it and it is soft.

Apparently UTA's decision to construct a real basketball facility is having an effect on their recruiting...they have about four listed already...maybe UTA as a non-conference game might not be a good idea...we have only one guy listed.

Can you say 'save my job?'

Lee Jackson has no academic backgroung, in fact he has no background at all. Incidentially, I thought the Board of Regents hired a President, not a free lance chancellor. God help us if the regents let this guy run amuck. Oh, by the way faculty, be careful what you wish for...it just might happen. Pohl was wonderful and all segments of the university better pray to the god of their choice when this Jackson train starts rolling. By the way, those of you who suspicion that Jackson ran Pohl off are not far off track....remember, however, that our dear faculty put a stake through Pohl's heart, too.

Just for the record, Joe Greene played defensive tackle, not defensive end.

I noticed recently that Voertman's now carry Exes merchandise.

We have had that problem for years and years. I was concerned about it in the 80's but was told by the 'computer types' that the cost of doing the cross checking far outweighed the actual cost of the duplications. In other words, the computer people would charge us more to fix the problem than it cost us for the duplication. Frustrating then and now.

I know that a lot of you are frustrated by the impotence of the CLC licensing program at UNT, but here is a good story. I was in Cracker Barrel in Denton yesterday and noticed a lot of North Texas t-shirts and caps. The shirts all had the new logo and aren't bad. The caps were the outdated artwork type, but at least they were available. Anyway, the only other college shirts that were displayed were Texas. No TCU, no SMU, no Texas Tech, etc. All the buying by Cracker Barrel is done from their corporate office in Tennessee. If we were not nationally licensed we would never have been chosen for a purchase by Cracker Barrel. I talked to the buyer for the Denton store and she was happy to have North Texas stuff, but emphasized that the buy was done out of the Tennessee HQ.

OK, here is the history lesson on UNCC and the Mean Green, etc. When the school started competing in intercollegiate athletics they had no nickname, no fight song, etc. The Texas influence at the school was instrumental in picking a version of 'Texas Fight' as their fight song. The mean green was 'adopted' while they were in transition. Finally, they picked the name 49ers because they are located on Interstate 49 in North Carolina. We have tons of documentation about the use of Mean Green back in the 60's, so we have a good leg to stand on should push come to shove. Actually, I doubt that we can have an exclusive on the name Mean Green. However, I have always wanted us to wordmark the phrase "Home of the Original Mean Green-circa 1968."

Ironically, the kid in the North Texan picture was wearing a Hayden Fry era flying worm shirt.

Just for the record, this is not a university sponsored event. It is being put together by Deon Hunter and Wendell Williams, both of whom were on the 1988 men's basketball team that went to the NCAA Tournament. Bill has graciously lent his name to the event in an attempt to help the guys raise money for Building Believers, Inc. It seems a nice way to honor Mercer and raise some money for the non-profit Building Believes, who teach character, etc. through basketball for kids.

The site is a joke...why the old typeface for Mean Green and why all the blue. I thought we ditched all that stuff in April.

There are two guys who played for Hayden, who together, make a great combination. I was watching us play Texas in Austin in the 70's and Earl Campbell was tackled by Champagne/Bottles.