greenminer

Is a stadium by 2010 even realistic? We're talking about building a huge venue from the ground up. If we break dirt even this August (not likely unless there is something going on we don't know about), that's 2 years to put up a 30K structure....I just don't see it. Not a good comparison, but it just took UTEP about 3 years to complete a freakin parking garage. Seriously... A stadium by 2010 is a lot of green koolaid for me, and I'm having to mix more and more vodka in it with each passing month.

No guns!!? Have you seen what's out there? I take it you haven't read Emmitt's police thread...

DUH. I got this next one.

Not to sound so "mod-ish", but can we stick to topic? An argument about a 2005 Longhorn performance. Good God where am I? This is a great chance for an off-season non-stadium-oil-politics-Radisson-Buick-Mendoza-Flannigan-RV theme, and you're ruining it!

what about coffee? or TV? Are those fossil fuels?

I don't see any pit bulls or motorcycles in that photo.

a zoo

blatherin' blatherskite!

Awesome. So the cost spikes will be transferred over to the agricultural level where people can expect to pay 6 bucks for some Veggie oil or a Big Mac.

Title IX?

less than a thou/year is incredible. I count as many as 5 board members who exceed that pace. FIVE I TELL YOU.

I am not so sure about her having millions to spare.

They need us as an excuse to lose one of their other winnable games?

Don't like to get too off topic, but I just think you're trying to piss on a road some of us have already been seeing the past 3 - 5 years (welcome to the board, btw). Why are we building this thing? To increase academic prestige? To put ourselves in a position to be the state's best academic institution, or to just plain WIN WIN WIN!!! WHOOP BCS BUTT ROFLWWFSMD L33t<<!!!! I digress: A wise man has said... You're absolutely right: we can't prove it. But your point does not disprove of anything, either. The reality we face is that the administration for years used your exact logic/strategy - this "it can't be proven so why?" - to delay our development and thus ENHANCE alumni apathy. This isn't really about academics or even specifically athletics, think on a higher level. The consistency is this: athletics is one of the few windows, bridges rather between being a student and being alumn. No one walks by my Mean Green cubicle crap with their eyes lit up and asks "Say how's the Engineering doing?" or "Didn't their percussion department just win PASIC for the 20 billionth year in a row?"...if they have, I'd like to meet them (because our percussion department rules). Building on our athletics is enhancing the student-campus experience and giving them something to cling to when they are gone. We have hundreds of thousands of alumn within 50 miles of this incredible institution which, like robots, went through our fine academic programs and have forgotten about us. I'm kinda tired of seeing that. And you mean to sit around here and post as if building an athletic program is NOT going to help...at all? We need alumni involvement desperately, and having them sit at a Saturday football game - with other students - to see a product they can be proud of is a heck of a lot more than them sitting at home waiting to catch a glimpse of Simpson/Romo the next day. **another edit/possible hijack Did anyone else catch the end of the Stars game and drop their jaw at the crowd's ovation? This metroplex is desperate for an overachiever. It was hard not to like the Stars in the playoffs and appreciate what they did.

poor catfish. talk about hanging with the wrong crowd at the wrong time.

Good God, man, that's quite a list. Are we going to pretend we can be a private school, or realize that we have a public perception that needs to be rejuvinated? There is quite a difference between riding the curtails of 200 years of Ivy League tradition and a 34.9 billion dollar endowment (Harvard) - not to mention a pretty good lineup of Men's bball teams above - versus decades of alumnus-relation apathy, administrative ineptness, and barely 60 million dollars endowed. **edit don't bother: Even UC-Davis has 10 times our endowment. Yeah.

I can't imagine any kid driving up 35, seeing a sparkling uranium stadium and going "OMG the business school there must be amazing." But seeing that, and a UNT-Army game in Denton on TV in our sparkling new facility just might make a kid go "What is UNT like?". We're not arguing about academic standards. We're arguing for academic windows.

dude

As frustrating as it was, it's hard to be so disappointed. Do people (not necessarily you, filmerj) realize how good this Detroit team is?...dominating? maybe not, but this team might beat Pitt in 5 or less games. They were incredible at cutting off our lanes, eliminating our PP (hell, even getting at least 2 SH goals during the series), and just being better at getting it done. I watched a lot of West games this post season before I saw game 4 of the East Finals. Pitt and Phili looked like they were in slow motion to the puck, weak on the checks, and just plain sloppy. The winner of the West was going to win the whole thing anyways. It was nice for me to see a Dallas team overachieve for once.

Wonder where the Texas to Pac10 rumor mill started. Certainly not in Austin, where Longhorns would clean up 6th Street before they succumb to west coast game times and media cemetery.

Awesome how this old cliche has become a new Leach reference - though vague. It would be absolute hysteria (in a greenminer circle of 10 friends way) if they won tonight. "Look for me on TV. I'll be the one being arrested."

Is this DRC blog dynamically linked to Vito's beloblog? Looks like it, except I can read this one @ work... Never knew about it.

$80M?

You give him too little credit. He very well could have setup his Outlook with an autoreply rule to emails with "UNT" and "Simon" in the body of the message.