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Hey, Kram1, the Beautiful Wife and I certainly enjoyed meeting you and Susie (hope I got that right), meeting hickoryhouse, seeing others again and, hopefully, will enjoy a win with everyone next Saturday, and yes, GMG!

Those penalties will only get worse next year; time to start practicing whatever it takes not to get those. And to bring up an unpleasant detail, face it, we're struggling on kickoffs without that penalty.

To prove to ourselves we could?

+1; I agree on the part about being a lot better.

I also liked Dotson, and thought he might get to be on the travel squad. Maybe he needs to get Drew Miller to create a website for him.

I'm also lazy, so this is as good as I'll do, and all you really need to know: Rice at UNT: Sat, Sep 11 6:00 P.M.

From the ever quotable Unt_Playmaker: And idiotic, geez.... And, I couldn't reply directly to his post. Maybe it was hit by a hurricane; that can happen in Denton County in his world.

Ok, the "Mountain Goats", apparently one guy, John Darnielle, lived in Denton at one point in his life; it's here in his Wikipedia bio: Wikipedia: John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats

Dang, I kinda want to listen to that, some time when my wife isn't asleep in the next room. I have little doubt this would be about Denton; hey the Album was "All Hail West Texas" (Denton is in North, not West Texas, by the way). Anything, musical, why not? Probably no more weird than the part in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" where the sign at the edge of town announces "Denton, Home of Happiness".

+1 to you for a mention of Bones Malone, because I (big fan of the Jazz Studies Program) did not realize he was one of our alumni. Music Scool alums would be glad to visit with you, and few in Denton seem to care all that much about Dr. Phil. Blue Lou helped recruit the pianist at my church to North Texas.

I think it's predominantly (didn't graduate from that fabulous College of Music, but know that they're hell on spelling). And hey, I didn't know that Presbyterian had a football team until a couple of weeks ago, or that there was a Presbyterian College. So, since you correctly identified our chief claim to fame, which has played for Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Ella Fitzgerald (at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina, by the way), what is Clemson's, other than a football program that schedules those unknowns UNT and Presbyterian back to back?

Overall, I'd agree about the Research Park location, since I think the biggest benefit for the students and the community is in research. Most of the production is going on in West Texas, for obvious reasons of land and wind being in plentiful supply there. Make no mistake, wind is big now, with Texas producing about 3 times as much electric from wind as the next state, Iowa, and about 3 times as much as Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant. Just to see what was going on, I strolled into the big wind convention at the Dallas Convention Center a few months ago; one of the few events I've seen recently where I've seen people coming from all over the world and talking about expecting to make money. Anyone in my field, Geographic Information Systems, who is experiencing difficulty finding or keeping a job recently may want to look into some of the needs that the wind energy industry has for your talents (yes, including such topics as bird strike mitigation). Wikipedia: Wind power in Texas

If you watch those flags hanging off the uprights at Fouts, you'll see the results of some weird wind patterns. And yes, wind turbines can be turned on and off. Any questions, your UNT geography majors are there to help...and to save your little old world.

Mean Green Grove

Well, if "The Green" is too wimpy for some, maybe it should be the center of some new, whoopass tradition: "The Victory Grove", where folks can go and glory in some post game ritual preserved for WINNING games.

I think it's because Missouri wanted to go to the Big 10....oh, wait.

Huh?

Yeah, something about the BYU and LDS Logos on the link from the OP gave it that official look to me. And it's not just because I married into an LDS family that I'm telling y'all not to underestimate how media savvy BYU is.

Well, I see nothing good to come out of a "near hurricane" (in other words, a tropical depression) experience there at Clemson. We want to pass and run; they want to run, so I don't see where that makes us want rain. I'm not ready to wish our Ohio home opener last year on anyone yet, except maybe...Ohio.

Well, I have heard players parents talk about the importance of players getting noticed, and Thompson certainly did (and certainly will) get noticed.

I'm guessing that you mean that families of great atheletes "moved to Plano to play football". I agree that families do move for purposes of their sons playing for top high school football programs, in Texas and elsewhere. There's nothing necessarily illegal with that; violations of rules regarding player eligibility, including those for transfers, are the issue. It appears that the story being pursued by Channel 8 is whether the Athletic Director from Southlake performed due diligence in determining whether the subject player would be eligible to play, according to rules of the UIL and the corresponding State of Oklahoma agency. My understanding of Texas UIL rules is that a student athlete transferring from one high school to another must sit out a year before being eligible to play varsity sports. As someone mentioned, his family might have been better off having him transfer to a private school, where typically there is no such waiting period.

Well, I certainly hope that the apparent good news does get that official confirmation. We've all heard about how that kickers have the stress of playing with knowing that they can so often make the difference between winning and losing a game. It's lesser known how much stress, mental and physical, is involved in being a deep snapper. I wish I had finished a library book I started a couple of years ago, "The Deep Snapper"; just was reading several books at the time and didn't make it through that one, but it was about the deep snapper who was signed out of "retirement" by the Patriots during their first Superbowl run, and all he went through (maybe I just wasn't prepared to read about all that football related stress at the time). It gave a pretty good picture of the variety of challenges that deep snappers have to handle; it's interesting how physically difficult it is. I think that a good deep snapper is someone who should get their well deserved rewards.

So, does this mean that the fair shake that Kram1 called for in another thread is given to a certain deserving player? I hope so, but we'll have to wait for "the rest of the story". Here's the link to that other thread: Kram1 makes case for deserving player to be put on scholarship.

University Park?

I would have worded the last sentence differently. Like: player is told that due to injury in key position, his chances for pt are looking better, but player has talked himself into not giving it another chance here.