Mean Green Matt

I hope they have some more to do because that hardly looks like something that would have to be custom ordered. Looks almost identical to the rest of the field.

For all we know he could be a bust. And if he's not we only have to deal with him for one year. It's not like this is going to be an annual thing for western.

That doesn't make it ideal. I went by yesterday. The stands are up (not the press box yet). The stands are right on the track, which is good. We will see how the views are but long term I hope the athletic departments amends that master plan and builds a dedicated soccer venue like Texas Tech, TCU, Texas A&M, etc. That program deserves it and it wouldn't be expensive.

This shows the benefit of offering early. This also sounds like kind of an exceptional set of circumstances. I don't think WKU is going to be landing a top 5 recruit annually. It's good for the conference but shouldn't be worriesome as far as competitiveness of our team. This kid won't be at WKU for 4 years.

Use it on the best graduate transfer we can get.

I guess we will see what impact there is on the environment. The stands weren't necessarily right on the sideline of the current venue but definitely closer. Theres a soccer practice field directly to the east of this track facilIty in the master plan. That needs to be turned into a prime stand alone soccer venue. It's so close the exact same locker rooms could be used.

Big difference is the track. Doesn't ruin our facility, but that's a big difference between ours and the Tech stadium.

This does bother me quite a bit but there are plenty of college soccer facilities that share space with the track team. I do, however hope the AD eventually decides to build a standalone facility for soccer and give the track team the full space in this venue. For what it's worth I've seen a few soccer games at SMU and never really noticed the track being an issue.

I imagine that first game will have people standing around the track because the stands are full.

I know many if not most on here would scoff at the idea but if we wanted to add a new sport that would be nationally relevant overnight the answer is men's soccer.

The arena looks awesome. Few nice shots of the Jumbotron with "North Texas" very prominent.

Are they replacing that endzone with the kelly green endzone when it's completed or is that it?

Took 6 hours off of her round trip commute home.

There's some sentimental value to George's play by play for me, having grown up with it, but from a pure listening perspective I much prefer Dave Barnett.

This is a big misconception. Best I can tell UT Austin has less than 10,000 capacity for on-campus housing. Very few schools house all undergrads in campus housing. The difference between NT now and NT 20 years ago are the plethora of massive student apartment complexes surrounding campus and tied to the bus system. We simply are not a commuter school any longer. Unless NT changed its policy freshman are required to live on campus unless living at home. Most people I knew ( but it's been awhile... ) moved to student apartments after freshman year. I have to assume the vast majority of our annual undergrad freshmen are living on campus.

This is good. The old field was incredibly boring. Houston has the downtown skyline in their end zone. It's about time we at least spice it up a little bit.

Aspiring lawyers doing things aspiring lawyers do, if I had to guess. Not bad practice, honestly. The SGA election process suffers a bit though.

Congrats to the DJ Draper of football. Or is DJ the Michael Lawrence of basketball? Either way, congrats!

Swept for the series with another loss today...

Hopefully Jasmyn Robinson (freshman signee) will step in and essentially be what Holmes was for us last year.

These were games we needed to stay in the title race.

Not sure there was anything she could have done about it.

And in painfully North Texas fashion the first place softball team drops both games today against the worst team in the conference. No longer in first place.

I don't believe Dale mentioned the CBI at all. For a local reporter that's embarrassing.

Two more wins today (albeit against an absolutely terrible MVSU team).