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Howe's Mangrum will sign with North Texas
By Herald Democrat
Howe senior Collin Mangrum will sign a letter of intent to play basketball for the University of North Texas on Nov. 9, joining former high school teammate Justin Howerton on the Mean Green roster.
The 6-5 guard/forward, who picked UNT over TCU, SMU, Baylor, Tulsa and Stephen F. Austin, averaged 15.6 points per game last season and helped lead Howe to the 2A state semifinals, where he was named to the all-tournament team.
Mangrum was also a Texas Association of Basketball Coaches all-state selection and an All-District 13-2A selection.
UNT went 14-14 last season and lost to Arkansas State in the first round of the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.
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I have been working out of town and don't know much about the game other than we lost. My question is:what, if anything, did NT do to honor Coach Fry at the game? Was there some sort of presentation at halftime? How many former players were there?
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Hopefully RV will let Coach Fry speak to the team before the game. Fry had those teams back in the '70's believe they could play with anybody!
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Return to old stomping grounds
Ex-UNT assistant is back in Denton as Tulsa's head coach.
Bill Spinks
Herald Democrat
DENTON — Darrell Dickey and Steve Kragthorpe never crossed paths while at North Texas, but for Kragthorpe and two of his Tulsa assistants, Saturday will be a homecoming of sorts.
Kragthorpe was an assistant coach at UNT for two seasons (1994-95) before leaving and eventually taking the head coach position at Tulsa in 2003.
Also on the current Golden Hurricane staff are a pair of former Mean Green assistants, wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator Bob Schultz and offensive line coach Spencer Leftwich.
Now in his third year at the school, Kragthorpe will lead the Hurricane into Saturday's non-conference contest at Fouts Field.
"That was a great experience," Kragthorpe said Monday from Tulsa of his time with the Mean Green. "Our youngest son, Nick, who turns 11 on Wednesday, was born while we lived in Denton. So we have a lot of fond memories there. Denton is one of my wife's favorite places that we have lived. There are a lot of great people there and I look back on those times as fun times in my coaching career."
The Mean Green won the Southland Conference championship in 1994, UNT's final season in Division I-AA. The team was 2-9 the following season against an independent I-A schedule, but did upset Oregon State at Fouts Field that year, 30-27.
Leftwich, who left UNT in 2003 to rejoin Kragthorpe, spent nine seasons in Denton and helped produce Ja'Quay Wilburn, who (for now) is UNT's all-time leading rusher. He also recruited Patrick Cobbs, the 2003 national rushing champion, who is threatening Wilburn's school mark.
Dickey, who arrived in Denton in 1998, has kept up with Kragthorpe's success.
"Steve's an excellent head coach," Dickey said. "They recruit heavily down here, and we run into them a lot. There's always some good-natured kidding. Some of our assistants are still close with Spencer. There are a lot of friendships, but for three and a half to four hours, we're going to try to whip each other. There is a football game, and this is a business."
For the first time in a while — in fact, since the Mean Green rejoined Division I-A in 1995 — North Texas has two relatively high-profile opponents on its home schedule.
The Mean Green will play their home opener against Tulsa, and then will entertain fellow Sun Belt Conference foe Troy in a Tuesday night special that will be televised live nationally by ESPN2.
"We want to start getting bigger crowds at Fouts Field, and attract more opponents that might be favorable to watch," Dickey said. "But it's also important to play well and try to get as many wins as you can."
Seven players from the state of Oklahoma are on UNT's roster, including Cobbs, a native of Tecumseh.
"Me being from Oklahoma, I'm looking forward for them coming here and playing," Cobbs said.
The good news for UNT is on the injury front. Most years, the Mean Green lineup has been decimated by a brutal money-game schedule. But, with the Louisiana State contest rescheduled for Oct. 29 and with the players emerging none the worse for wear after last week's 14-7 victory over Middle Tennessee, all hands will be available to take on Tulsa.
Junior defensive lineman Sky Pruitt, who has been battling a shoulder injury, played last week. Defensive back Gary Oubre, who did not travel to Murfreesboro last week, will play Saturday.
"We just didn't get anything major in Game 1," Dickey said. "That's more luck than anything. There were some serious collisions and obviously our guys are beat up and sore, but that's what happens in football. There's nothing serious I know of that will keep anyone out Saturday."
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"UNT signed a contract that guaranteed a $500,000 payout to play at LSU, a total that represents a significant amount of the athletic department’s budget. The department worked with a $12.2 million dollar budget during the 2005 fiscal year that ends today. "
After travel expenses, how much of that $500,000 is left over? It would seem to cost quite a bit of money to fly, feed, and house a football team plus all the coaches, trainers, equipment managers, etc.
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AFL2 Bowl, Andy is playing center and noseguard.
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Where is the Hooters in Denton?
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Gainesville beat Scott's Valley Ca last night 33-0. I know for sure NT is looking at our starting DT Clint Stoffles. In the first half last night he had 9 tackles and 5 were for losses, he missed most the second half with a rolled ankle but nothing serious.
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Was at that memorable game when I believe the Dawgs were on a drive for what would have probably been the winning TD. This is when Alvin HS ex and Mean Green star Nelson Barnes stepped up and slobber-knocked the La Tech RB so hard he caused a fumble (which the Mean Green recovered). This became one of our 5 wins over La Tech; they've had 4 over us.
That was the same game where J.T. Smith took an interception back 99 yards. Looking back, that was a helluva game!
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We were playing La Tech in Shreveport when Coach Fry called for an onside kick. The play was for Khoury to just dribble it straight off the tee for 10 yards and then to cover it himself. It worked perfectly but in the mad scramble for the ball, Khoury was knocked out cold. Luckily it didn't affect the outcome of the game and I don't remember Fry ever calling for that play again.
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Got mine this morning, great pics and articles.
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Bridgeport's Daugherty leaving Tech
By Troy Phillips
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Texas Tech third-string quarterback Phillip Daugherty, a sophomore from Bridgeport, has decided to transfer to an NCAA Division I program outside the state, Bridgeport High coach Danny Henson said.
Henson said Daugherty, who threw for a Class 3A-record 10,136 career yards in high school, has met with Tech coach Mike Leach and ironed out all the details of his transfer.
Leach was expected to address Daugherty’s departure after Tech’s workout ended Monday evening, a university media-relations official said.
Daugherty arrived at Tech as heralded true freshman in 2003 but redshirted that season. Because of that, he will lose a season of eligibility when he transfers but will have two seasons remaining.
Last spring, Daugherty battled Harrell and fifth-year senior Cody Hodges to get a leg up on Tech’s starting job. Leach isn’t expected to name a starter until later this week or next week.
So far, Harrell and Hodges have shared an equal number of plays in fall camp, and Leach has said both are running even right now. Daugherty has had no work with Tech’s first team. He had a chance to move up when Harrell suffered a non-football ankle injury in the spring, but Harrell has since caught up and passed him in the coaches’ eyes.
``Phillip just doesn’t have a place there,’’ Henson said. ``I think Tech would love for Hodges to have great year and let Graham be his understudy. Then they’ll have a quarterback who will be there a while and not just one year. Graham is the one they’ve got tagged to be their future.’’
Henson said he’s made calls to colleges outside Texas and outside the Big 12 on Daugherty’s behalf but wouldn’t say which ones. He said Leach is helping Daugherty all he can, but Tech won’t release him to transfer to a school in Texas, in the conference or to a school on the Raiders’ future schedules.
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Not sure what "Chairmen" means either?
I believe they are basically the selection committee.
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From TexasFootball.com:
Bobby Davis, who has been the head coach at Wolfforth Frenship for the last 23 years, will be the football coach for the North. Davis' teams have made the playoffs 12 times in the last 23 years, including a semi-final appearance in 2000 and a quarterfinal appearance in 2001.
San Antonio native Lee Bridges from Taft High School will be the coach for the South squad. Since arriving at Taft in 2000, his teams have made the playoffs four out of five seasons, with a trip to the 5A Division I Texas Bowl against Mesquite in 2001.
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We lost to TVJC, not sure about the other 2 games.
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as a junior he was listed at 6'2", 210 lbs. Can't find listings for him last year.
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May be a good chance to see Meager, Mills, Ieans, or whoever looks at QB.
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Heard from a pretty reliable source that UNT is hosting a 7 on 7 tournament this Saturday starting at 12:00 on the practice field. SMU, Baylor, and Trinity Valley are the other teams involved. Anybody else heard about this?
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I've got 2 strong teenage boys you could use but we're gonna be out of town that weekend.
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I've never heard of Stream, are they certified by the PUC?
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Didn't he end up at SMU? I believe his younger brother played at UNT a few years later.
How is this season not a failure?
in Mean Green Football
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