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Along with North Texas football prospects who struggle with the all important SAT and ACT tests? About a North Texas signing Lonnie was bashing.

Yeah, you're shocked, SHOCKED!

I was wondering the exact same thing after seeing the Dave Brubeck Quartet perform at the MPAC for the second of their two concerts last week, and hearing Brubeck say how it had been "one of the most wonderful weeks". I immediately started thinking, "and sleeping where?". You don't just ask some world famous 80 (nearly 90 for Brubeck himself) year olds to roll out a sleeping bag on the President's floor, or to stay in Dallas northern suburbs and make that wonderful Dallas to Denton commute on Thursday and Friday nights.

Maybe it means UNT will take the time to figure out the terms of the contract, and not sign itself into a corner, like the City of Dallas did with the American Airlines Center deal.

The manager in our office has a kid who's played high school ball and is now looking to sign with a DIII or NAIA school in the near future; some combination of academic and need based financial aid being the key. Our manager has been on rodeo scholarships and played football in college, so knows something about athletics, scholarships, etc. (his son is also a friend of Tevinn Cantly, so there's sort of a UNT connection). He said, around the time that NLI's were being signed, that UNT should engage in such what I call "farming out" of recruits. The big guys have been doing it a long time, Nebraska comes to mind. It's no big deal; sounds like we're just hedging our bets. I'm glad we're involved in players who may not be that great at standardized testing. In college, you have to learn to work, whether you've learned how to scam the SAT and ACT or not. If those tests were such a great determinant of future success, I'd be a rich 'un.

Troll on, dude!

Yeah, I was just looking at their site; agree with your assessment!

All this talk of divorce; that's good, for divorce lawyers! The parallel split thread.

That's good. Some kind of line would be crossed there, maybe the one showing the Laffer Curve.

Hey, I know times are tough Lonnie. I'm just looking for the link to that web site you mentioned creating; you know, back when you were going to quit posting here?

Then, make your case!

Dude, we've got a GREAT jazz program that may be best in the country...or world as we know it! I guess you didn't go to either of the Dave Brubeck concerts last week, or you could have said something good about your alma mater. Here's a link; be enlightened: DMN lavish praise for Brubeck, UNT musicians. And notice this truth: James N. Scott, dean of the University of North Texas College of Music, introduced the concert as one that "couldn't have been done anywhere else on the planet."

I'd have to agree with you. However, as a liberal Democrat in Texas, I feel much more more conservative than my liberal Democrat sister in San Francisco. Is that because she's my sister?

This shows that if colleges can oversign recruits, recruits can oversign colleges!

Good things are happening for long-term unemployed college football coaches!

Vito does not hate us...because we do not hate him! The poll numbers, so far, show that; we are at worst, "nuetral". Vito may be disappointed about the previous QB leaving town, and dashing his hopes for a pizza parlor partner and a world-class pizza parlor name-Vito Vizza Pizza!

You're no whiner, and smarter than a raccoon! Probably don't have hands as good as them.

Second raccoon reference in a GMG.com forum in a week: More raccoon chat

I think the poll results so far show this: the Mean Green Nation DOES NOT HATE!

Interesting. I had wondered about the loss of Brandon Jackson as a possible factor in the regression of the offense last year. It just didn't look like we had the deep threats to "spread" the opposing defenses without him. My hope is we'll find them in our JUCO recruits.

Hey, I was wondering where you got that from. And don't get me wrong; Flyer, you're a good man; I just have policy differences with you at this time (I started out as a Republican in the Goldwater days).

So, I guess I'm still trying to figure out where (and yes I consider myself liberal, voted for FOX as more right) how that NPR comes in on this discussion as anywhere right of center. And I do consider the possibility that their policy of at least attempting to bring in someone to present each side as somehow putting them near the center, but right? I don't get that. I did notice that when the Republicans took over congress with their "Contract With America" that the part about doing away with support for PBS got dropped right away. I was wondering if that had something to do with my favorite conservative, William F. Buckley, not be considered as likely to be invited on to the CBS (especially at the time), or other broadcast networks' shows featuring political commentary, whereas he and other conservatives, like Milton Friedman, were seen on PBS at times.

Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine?

That's a good point. Whoever starts; the no. 2 will probably get more playing time than if Vizza was here. I don't remember ever reading a quote where a college QB says, "Man, I just love sending in signals", or "Running the scout team offense is where I want to be". I'm sure that many of them are willing to do either...for a while.

It keeps the pot boiling!