Mean Green Matt

It would be really cool to end our 10-year consecutive win drought and +/- 30 year drought of wins over ranked teams in the same game. Would be a massive win for the program, but I think we are going to have to play the game of our lives and catch Georgia sleeping for it to happen.

I have been critical of Coach Mac in the past, but these are the kinds of adjustments and coaching we have been wanting for a long time. The chronic poor starts are still concerning, but tonight was a great win gutted out by the players, and the coaches, that particularly in the second half, put the players in a position to go and get the win.

Why didn't they let him take the long one? I assume they didn't think he had the leg for it, but I'm not so sure he would not have given us the better chance to hit the one right before halftime.

. That's not really even an accurate description of our student body...at least not when I was a student within the past couple years

Game at noon on Sunday the 15th. Should be a pretty good game and will be televised on FSSW.

I'm surprised at how many people post on here during the game that are actually at the game.

No kidding. I loved that as soon as Ball State got the ball the noise started on third down and got progressively louder with their false starts...I am curious what that sounds like down on the field. When the stadium is full (and it will be against SMU next year if not before) it will be absolutely deafening.

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I'm incapable of picking against North Texas: Ball Taste - 28 North Texas - 31

I know I'm a few days late, but wanted to know if people thought the interception should have stood. I highly doubt it would have made any difference in the game, but I thought the rule was that possession had to be kept throughout the act of catching the ball, which would have included when he rolled over. The only thing I can think of is that they decided he completed his catch and was down before he actually rolled over and lost the ball.

So you're saying that you can only put the blame on the people you hire for so long?

The women's soccer team has never had a losing season. If you want to nitpick the single greatest accomplishment from each program, sure, the national titles in the 1950's for men's golf have the soccer team beat and every other program at NT. If you want to look at the entire body of work for each program, granted women's soccer has only been around since 1995, no other sport at NT comes close. The men's golf team has had extended periods of irrelevancy that just turned around recently.

Certainly beatable. We will need to execute well on the road though. Obviously a little farther to travel than TCU...with a noon start I wonder if the team is staying in Norman the night before rather than taking a 2+ hour bus ride the morning of the game. If I had to guess I'd probably say we are driving up the day of, which is a bit of a disadvantage.

McNeese State (5-1) North Texas (4-2) Friday 9/13 - 7pm - Mean Green Soccer Complex Just happened to look up McNeese State tonight, and this actually looks like it will be a tough game, possibly a bigger challenge than TCU. MSU is 5-1, and on a 5-game win streak after what appears to be a surprising loss to Jacksonville State. They beat Texas Southern 12-2 (we beat them 9-1), and they just took down Louisiana Tech 4-2. LaTech was one of the two teams picked to finish ahead of us in CUSA. If we can get a win against MSU on Friday and then beat OU on Sunday we may start creeping up the "others receiving votes" list. One game at a time though.

I actually agree with this. They are the most successful program we have ever had at this school and are actually developing a decent following. We have a thread for nearly every game and a growing group of fans on here following the team. I don't have the statistics on actual traffic with regard to soccer posts, but if the traffic warrants it, a dedicated forum would be well deserved.

The result against Ball State will have a huge impact on whether or not we get bowl eligible. Lets hope we don't get to 5 wins and look back on the Ohio game as the missed opportunity like the Troy and WKU games were last year.

Despite the venting, all we collectively want is for this program to be successful. Honestly, it is a positive that people still care. I'm not sure a lot of good can come out of the players reading this board, but I would hope that their takeaway is that a lot of people are invested, both financially and emotionally in their success. A lot of these people on here are the ones actually funding their scholarships. Don't get me wrong, this board enters full meltdown mode from time to time, but at the core of it is passion, not malicious intentions.

Great win on regional TV. Holden's goal was sweet. Haggerty's goal was a little lucky with the deflection, but most of the game, and particularly the second half was absolute domination by NT. Let's take care of business against Mcneese State on Friday and then get another win on TV against OU a week from today. Hope Karla Pineda is ok. She is the only NT player that went off injured that did not come back on. She seemed ok on the sideline though.

Nice job putting this together. It's going to be interesting the week of the Georgia game how far some people are off. I have a hard time picking against NT despite how absurd it is.

Eventually we have to get past using this as an excuse for our mediocrity.

34-21 NT. We get to 34 points with four touchdowns, four 2-pt conversions plus a safety. No field goals or PATs for NT.

It is astounding some of the ways we have managed to snatch defeat from the claws of victory over the last 10 years.

September 12, 2009 was a dreary day in North Texas, but it was game day. The week before North Texas had opened the year with a surprising 20-10 road victory over Ball State to sit at 1-0 for the first time since 2005. It was pouring all day. A late morning Mean Green soccer game on a flooded field, one of the most bizarre games I've ever witnessed ended with a 1-0 PV A&M victory over a far superior NT side, but at least there was a football game that night, and for the first time in several years, true excitement through campus. The game started off well. NT led after the 1st quarter. NT led at halftime. NT led after the third quarter. But in the fourth, a 69-yard interception return from Ohio turned the tables, and when NT was unable to punch in the winning touchdown inside the last minute and settled for a field goal, the game went to OT. After the teams traded field goals in the first OT, NT took a 7-point lead in the second, and had Ohio with something like a 4th and goal from the 16-yard line in the southern end of Fouts Field. After a completion for a touchdown and a roughing the passer penalty, Ohio went for two and won the game. That moment for Ohio, as I've seen mentioned on their fan board, many feel to be one of the defining moments of the turnaround of the Bobcat football program. That moment, when Todd Dodge was so close to starting the year 2-0 in front of an announced crowd of over 16,000, and the actual was darn close, swung abruptly and agonizingly in the other direction away from NT. NT has won 14 games since that day. Ohio has won 35. Much like the last time NT was 1-0, in 2005, when our beloved Green lost 54-2 to Tulsa, the Mean Green Nation was gutted again. This program has not won back to back football games since November 13th and 18th of 2004 with wins over Idaho and ASU, respectively. Let that sink in for a minute. NT has won 22 football games since beating ASU in 2004 (not including Idaho this year) and has lost by an average of 20.36 points the following game. Three times, all at home, NT has come within one point, FAU in 2005, ULL in 2010, and yes, Ohio in 2009. Yet here is Ohio again. NT is 1-0 again. Campus is excited again, as a fresh new group of students, most of which never knew anything before Apogee Stadium have no reason to think anything other than "Why not North Texas?". A victory means being 2-0 for the first time since 1994 (before many of this year's freshmen were born) when the Eagles started the year with wins over Abilene Christian and Missouri State. A victory over Ohio is a chance to take back, 3 years and 360 days later the momentum they took from us on that rainy night in Fouts. Idaho was also the first win the last time NT won two games in a row. For a program that has been through a seemingly endless college athletics version of a Shakespearean tragedy over nearly the past decade, I truly hope that such a poetic, and in some ways ironic story of redemption comes to pass on Saturday....and if it doesn't, I'll take wins over Ball State and Georgia. Go Mean Green! This post has been promoted to an article

At least from what I've seen Tim MacMahon has always been a great journalist in DFW for North Texas.