Stan R

The tennis money was donated by by Mr. Waranch. Real estate developer in California and NT grad many moons ago. RV also you could say - admittedly it is a bit of a stretch - that he brought in an extra 2-3 million in student athletic fees by getting the fees paid by students raised. RV also likes to claim that he saved "millions" by purchasing the liberty christian school site and renovating the shacks and calling them "world class facilities" instead of building new buildings from scratch. If you attended his informational session, he is right up there with enron accountants in taking the LCS deal and making it out to be the deal of the century. Now with that being said - I do think he's done a lot for the university in the form of fund raising. Past ADs either didn't care or wouldn't put in the time to do things like finding donors to build facilities. It is a question of relative success to the past. Could RV do more - of course. But for what he has done here in his relatively short stay has been quite good. Just my opinion.

Nice "grassy knoll" theory. Randy Galloway would be proud.

MGI DD with some "positive" comments. "Ready to get back out there so y'all can start yelling at me again. "

fans wont have to worry about "people standing up and cheering- blocking my view".

Sales of diet coke at UNT will see an immediate increase.

Based on what I've seen it will be MUTS.

You forgot gold turd laying. style_emoticons/

Yep, absolutely right in my opinion. RV is going to have to get very creative to get out of this contract.

Some very good points Dwight. Now please resume your responsibilities as "Assistant to the regional manager".

If we have 350 yards passing, 250 yards rushing and score 72 points... It won't be enough.

On the tune idea not a bad idea - doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of happening. As for the Muzzy mistake. Definately a WTF!?!?! moment.

I put no changes. Boy do I hope I'm wrong. I'm way to cynical at this point.

Please don't do that. If you let UNT demolish the place and rebuild it then you will have a law school building that looks like the gateway center. NO THANKS.

uhhh..... what?? So it could be named The University of North Texas at Denton Downtown Dallas Extension School of Law? UNTDDDESL? AWESOME!

I'll tell you what. I've said this before and I'll say it again. I don't have a problem with $5,000 over a 5 year period IF - and this is a BIG IF.... If I have a contract signed by the board of regents or the university president that guarantees that this money will be used SOELY for the purpose of the FOOTBALL STADIUM. And I don't think I'm alone in that opinion. I don't want see my monies diverted for a baseball team (not that I don't want one) or the basketball salaries (not that isn't necessary either). I also want a signed certificate from RV and my name on a brick . Is that too much to ask? There it is. There is the plan laid out. I'd be willing to bet money that a large portion of people would sign up with those stipulations. Thoughts??

Not a done deal - but closer: See NT daily link

Hopefully we will win by 1 point or more.

UNT LAW Shows a timeline - completion and start of classes - 2009. What a coincidence? We will have a new stadium the same year!! OH JOY!!! As an aside- that is a beautiful historical building they picked. Just sort of looks like a law school building. Although I would have preferred it to be in Denton.

Good question. I hope they don't wait until Friday at 5pm to let us know.

HAH! probably pretty accurate.

disgusting. announcer's comments are just unbelievable.

hilarious!

Were you at that game? I was and I'd say the UNT turnout was very good. Yes, the UH fans were louder because (you guessed it!) they have more cheers that everyone knows and says in unison. What a novel concept. But when UNT was in that game and had a good play or two the NT crowd was LOUD. And there were a lot of us. Unfortunately they all were wearing red and we were all wearing something other than green. But the atmosphere that night was electric and just as exciting in my mind as any Sun Belt football game.