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From various posts I sense a feeling on the majority of the fan base that the athletic department will not deliver on attendance at the bowl. If I were AD at UNT with a new president coming in I'd be trying anything at my disposal to get out the troops. Hey Jackson, deliver us your Dallas connections, hey Congressman Burgess make a bet with your Nevada counterpart (media) hey Burroughs,make a bet with your mayoral counterpart (media), hey how about the new president giving one bowl ticket to each UNT employee as a thank you for their service, hey Denton Chamber of Commerce how about buying a section of tickets and doing a two for one with your membership, hey UNT media alums how about talking up this game (we are always told that our media alums are just waiting for a chance to be proud of UNT) and the list of possibilities goes on...just need to think outside the box.

UNLV will bring 900...you heard it here first. Ever see one of their home game crowds?

Good for Newy!!!!!!!!!!

I emailed the Vegas sports writer earlier and told him how wrong he was about North Texas...now let's show him on Jan.1st.

Nice upgrade for us compared to New Orleans Bowl payouts in the past.

Will anyone in Dallas/Fort Worth even know we are in the Heart of Dallas Bowl? Will local media dis us, as usual? Opinions.

Northern Illinois is in the MAC and going bowling, I assume.

it should be a competitive game with us winning..maybe big at the end.

I'm counting on Al Jazerra to bring us the news.

Why am I here? I'm here representing the university in its efforts to sucure a second stadium in the metroplex.

Apparently snow flakes were counted into the attendance figure.

First, Marshall is state supported. Secondly, it not Denton's total responsibility to fill seats. Thirdly, Denton is inhabited by human beings who will respond to proper marketing of the team. Fourthly, it is time for someone's head to roll in the athletic department who cannot get a sell out at Apogee. If you work for North Texas athletics, you better eat it, sleep it and dream it or you are not doing your job.

I really feel sorry for Villareal...while North Texas is soaring with the football team, we are losing all credibility in basketball. How long will this go on?

A win is a win...Kram was right as to the tone of this board.

George Riba has always been a friend of UNT.

Attendance in Houston will be grim...bad weather, coupled with the small Rice following, coupled with the distance that Marshall fans have to go for the game. Marshall would have turned out a good crowd for national television.

I will never believe that Fry turned down any bowl offer...he desperately needed a bowl game to get NT to the next level.

As I have believed before, and still believe, it is SMU who is trying their best to rain on our parade.

NCAA probably doesn't allow practices until the team has been invited somewhere.

My congratulations to Benford and the team for holding them to under 100 points.

Politics, my dear friends, politics. We don't have it and some of the other also rans do. I mentioned earlier that SMU will do all they can to keep us out of their local bowl...believe it or not. I would not be surprised if we are left out, although I cannot imagine Rice being much of a player. Anyway, brace for disappointment or be delighted if we get into a bowl. Hayden Fry could not get us in a bowl in the 70's and we stayed home, although there were a lot less bowl games.

I don't think that the Green Brigade needs to take any guff from Michigan's band....the GB is as good or better.

It seems that unless you are one of the super rich colleges, you struggle to maintain both football and basketball. Even Duke has not been much in football until lately. In Texas, if you cannot do both well, let's do football....many more people notice football success. In a perfect world we could do both.

Don't forget that we, too, are a transitional team....transitioning from JJ to Benford.

From the home crowd I saw on TV when Tulsa played Marshall, you can go into the stadium, sit in your assigned seat and at the start of the second quarter have a section to yourself anywhere in the stadium.