SCREAMING EAGLE-66

The hurricane will be over but because of the clean up and destruction, it will be a complete mess.... including electric power... If it is not cancelled. It would think, Denton, Texas Stadium, Cotton Bowl or A&M... in that order. I would think a large amount of their fans will have too many personal prolems to go to a football game so moving it out of the area would not be to big of a problem. There are no common open dates until in December... which is too late.. I would think but Cal and So Miss played late last year.

The list: Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Carolina State.and until lately Louisville (several final 4's). Houston and Phi Slamma Jamma was fairly well known for a while, a Astrodome basketball game from the 60's was the game with the highest attendence until lately and still may be for a regular season game... Most are BCS schools but rarely have football teams of note---they get most of their attention from basketball. Proof: .. I can name several basketball coaches from those schools (past and present)... I struggle to name any of their football coaches besides Bear Bryant from the early '50s ( he went from Ken. to A&M ).

---He partly was a victum of timing... Texas had Erxleban, OU had Van Schaman, and Aggies had Tony Franklin (played for Philly, tragic end in an auto accident) plus I think Arkansas had a good one as well. There was an insane number of unbelievable kickers those years especially in the southwest. The odd thing was most of that group had their longest kick on the same day. There was a awful norther moving through Texas. Permian's Russell Wheatley set the Texas HS record with a 62 yard FG in Abilene that day with a 40+ mph tail wind.

----Cajuns could be considered an Indian related word...... it is a combo word of French Acadians and Indian (Injuns). The mixing of the groups appeared as a result of the French and Indian War when Acadians moved to the swamps of Lousiana and group came out Cajuns. More social correctness....geeez. The acticle is about La.Monroe however. -----------From Wilpedia---- The Cajuns who settled in south Louisiana originally did so in the area just west of what is now New Orleans, mainly along the Mississippi River. Later, they were moved by the colonial government to areas west and southwest of New Orleans, into the swamps and prairies shared with the Attakapa and Chitimacha Native American tribes. There they remained somewhat secluded until the early 1900's "Cajuns" is definitely a "racial" word.

---Jimmy Johnson did a similar thing with Dallas Cowboys... he played a lot of lineman to keep them rested somewhat. But that only works if the bench is not a lot worse than what is on the field. He tried to keep a lot of good lineman on the roster.

---Donations to Baylor are no different than to us.... Both provide tax deductions... and neither BU or NT pays taxes on it. I suppose some people will consider Baylor donations the same as church donations so that increases their revenue as well. ---Basketball can be big money especially with TV revenue and tournament money. Most of those names don't have a football program or at least a money making one.

---Geez... Can we even afford the gas once we own a Jag. Gas was only about $1.15 during 2000 ..... now it is $2.50+. Glad I no longer own a 40-gallon suburban. ---Basketball is rather inexpensive compared to football as well, fewer scholarships, less equiptment, and travel is more often but with less people and stuff. We should be able to do better. --- Basketball is one sport that great athletes can be found in junior colleges. Most of those players fall into three groups.... could not get into 4-yr schools originally because of SAT scores, good and sometimes overlooked, and last some just aren't as good. Here in Midland/Odessa area, Spud Webb (overlooked), Mookie Blaylock and Larry Johnson (both Sat problems) went on to bigger and better things at 4-year schools and into the NBA.. During the late 80's when OU and Kansas played for the National championship... three MC alums were playing in that game.. one for Kansas and 2 for OU. The other two starters from that MCteam had gone to Tech and Arizona which also had good seasons. Three of ours last year advanced to NCAA teams... Houston, Gonzaga, and another I can't remember, maybe Texas. They have played for two years and not just sat the bench as is the case had they gone to a 4 year NCAA school in the beginning. Most juco transfers are older, more experienced, more mature, and stay out of trouble.

Every intelligent person should be able to spell a word more than one way... Paraphrased from Mark Twain, Ben Franklin and a couple of other respectable sourses.

Which demonstates:::: If we had high-profile teams coming into Denton... selling tickets would not be a problem....There are a lot more people in this area than in Tulsa. Viva the New Larger Stadium..!!!!!....SOON.... while we are winning and have momentum going.... and before SMU recovers... if they actually can.

Moore and Tyler hurt the program that Fry had built up. (We should have hired one of Fry's assistants who wanted the job). The item that hurt us the worse was we not doing well when I-AA was created and we no longer a member of a conference* so we really took a hit that has taken 15+ years to recover from. One good thing we have to say about us is that UT-Arlington, Lamar Univ, and West Texas State were also put into I-AA.....and our football program has survived and made it back while the other three have disappeared or declined to an even lower level. *thanks SMU, for voting against our SWC admission and getting two more to vote with you.

UNT-Lifer........ it is obvious you have been around a while and understand the situation very well. Nothing is all that simple.

----I agree with lot of what is said and disagree with a lot of it.... Without a new stadium we will not be on a extremely competitive level with the Big-12 schools in 3-4 years, we would be winning some but still would have recruiting problems . Personally I think a lot of recruits want to go where they can play and can win and get some attention......especially those who have NFL visions. ---Baylor may not be a state school but they have a rather large pot of money and represent an extremely large religious group.... Notre Dame, SoCal. and Boston College are also private schools and they get by. Baylor has been horrible in football and basketball program has been extremely corrupt (they deserve it for hiring that old SMU coach, Bliss, from the SMU death penalty days) Their other programs , baseball and womens programs are doing well. Baylor also has a slight image problem and some players do not want to go to a "Southern Baptist" school even though we know it is not that more religious than a most other places. [The recent basketball mess demonstrates that if nothing else] ---In basketball we did rather well at times when a member of the Missouri Valley when it contained Cinncinati, Lousiville, Memphis and then a national power Wichita. Most of you can not remember that era. Those games were fun to go to. After that period, Blakely found we were in a catch-22 situation as an independent.... be weak, everyone would play you.... but get better and no one wanted to play a team without a big reputation. It was a no-win situation. We could do well quickly in basketball as a member of a well-known conference. If you have a good coach and can recruit only 2-3 outstanding athletes in basketball you are a problem to deal with... not so in football which needs many more good players. ---We would not regularly finish last in a BCS conference, but we would have trouble doing well. Some seems to think the MAC and WAC are BCS, they aren't and we could be extremely competive however recruiting becomes a problem again with those conferences because are not high profile conferences in Texas. No one in Texas cares or reads about those conferences. CUSA will be better shortly with SMU, Rice, UTEP, Houston, together along with Tulsa and Tulane nearby. That is definitely the place to go if we move. --- I am not as "blue" as some are on this board.. We are being successful, we just just need to start winning some non-conference games to get attention and respect from people in the state of Texas and beyond. If our conference mates win that will help some as well. ---For what is is worth the sports that grab attenion in Texas is FOOTBALL and men's basketball... not the rest very much..

----Sometimes it is better to be the big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond. We lost to Baylor who was the worse team in the Big-12 and the SEC might even be more difficult (except Vandy). We would be very competive in CUSA, Mac, and, WAC... the rest we would likely struggle with a 2-3 conference wins at most. ---We are getting there but not there yet in my opinion. Enjoy our success and be careful what we ask for... we might actually get it and wish we hadn't. With the Belt we have a pretty good situation... conference sucess and the ability to play good out of conference opponents if we wish (unfortunately on the road mostly). We have some control on our stronger opponents. Baylor on the other hand is forced to play top-10 teams as conference games and are seeking weaker non-conf. teams in order to hope for wins. They have very little fan excitment and no bowl games.

The last sentence says a lot about that "university" today. It was not that way when they were a MVC member. Oscar Robertson was from there.

----Right now we are all drinking Green Kool-Aid but after the game we may all be "loaded" and I am not refering to RBs. The question is --why?..... in depression or celebrating. --- If we win all the LSU fans may need a visit with Dr. Phil.....a two time North Texas alum..... who may be laughing his head off...

----Texas Tech is in "scenic" West -Texas and everyone wants to come out here and visit the natural beauty of the area. That is especially true of the area surrounding Lubbock with its flat cotton fields. That is the reason they were able to obtain seven home games. --On the flip side UT was only able to have 5 home games, because---who would ever want to visit that area?

The word "Rainbow" must have sounded too violent..... so they just left the name "Warriors".

Only one sign: The scoreboard: ...With the number beside North Texas larger than the number beside LSU.

And which came first... the stadium or the Denia homes....end of argument.

He is helping the image of Troy and Sunbelt some... This is first time in years (1990?) that a defense rookie has that big of an impact in a preseason game (Madden quote).

This article appears on yahoo about the Sunbelt. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=ap...ov=ap&type=lgns

My eyes just crossed.!

Another find example of Nebraska football alums...Remember Johnny Rodgers (Heisman winner) who was bailed out of jail at least once before a game.

All schools have played some really crazy games before 1925. It appears that we have never played any HS. We have played several military groups. http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/su...s/opponents.php _________________________________________________________ Take a look at UT ---1896. Note the date of the Missouri games...and with virtually no pads. ---ouch! 1896: 4-5-2 Coach: Harry O. Robinson W/L Date PF Opponent PA Location W 10-17-1896 42 Galveston Ball HS (TX) 0 Austin, TX T 10-24-1896 0 Dallas AC (TX) 0 Dallas, TX W 11-07-1896 12 San Antonio Town Team (TX) 4 Austin, TX W 11-14-1896 12 Tulane (LA) 4 New Orleans, LA L 11-16-1896 0 Louisiana St. 14 Baton Rouge, LA W 11-26-1896 22 Dallas AC (TX) 4 Austin, TX L 12-14-1896 0 Missouri 10 Austin, TX L 12-25-1896 4 Missouri 18 Monterrey, Mexico --Exhibition Game L 12-27-1896 6 Missouri 12 Mexico City, Mexico Exhibition Game T 12-29-1896 0 Missouri 0 Mexico City, Mexico-- Exhibition Game L 01-02-1897 6 Missouri 18 Larado, TX --Exhibition Game 104 Season Totals 84

Everyone is undefeated this week and most of next.... It is "hurrah for our side" time!!!!