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.. That is also a risk that colleges take when red-shirting someone... If they graduate after 4 years.... they can be gone to anywhere if they chose...with no penalty and no permission needed... The other is that may lose them to the NFL a year earlier if they are that good.

.. Like your bit with the girl ..... when a person in my class gets the hick-ups... I walk over stare at them (maybe smiling) they get nervous and react much like that girl (especially girls do) and usually they are cured... hahaha

---Rarely do I see guys in the front row... I teach college classes.... I have "ran off" students from the back of class and had them move up ..but that is it... I think your statement is true in public school but have not really observed that in college classes other than perhaps the extreme back... I personally always like near middle to left of prof. if in traditional desks.... can sit somewhat sideways and can see what is going on in classroom and front better. If in lecture type seats... didn't matter .... just not first two rows or the back. Guess I :suffer" from "Hickok syndrome" if you know what that is. Still think it is a ridiculous requirement.. They are adults not bitsy kids plus in mega sized classes they may not have a choice of where to sit. ...assigned seating for roll taking purposes.. .. .

Changes are likely needed but to require a student to sit on first two rows... that is nuts... I hated first two rows .... I wanted to see most of the class and their reactions..... I understand maybe not the back one or two... but on the first two...?? .. crazy.

Don't know who is responsible ... but someone needs to read the rules and follow them.... even if you don't agree with them.. ( who schedules... AD or coaches?, both should know, that is their profession ... we expect the same from everyone else we deal with that is in charge ...doctors, lawyers, insurance agents, teachers, mechanics etc.) It would be more understandable to a school switching classifications with schedule commitments..... but not to one that has been in Division I for a long time.

--- There are no easy answers here.. for some those games become extremely additive, others , not so. Some will get up in the middle of the night and play.. then sleep through classes the next day. Parents need to pay attention and remove from bedrooms if use becomes excessive. Even their attitudes toward the violence in many of them is different, pay attention to that. --- To me anyone 14 and above that "commits a violent crime" without being abused should be tried as an adult... They are not little kids and know right from wrong. I have taught 8th and 9th grade so I have some experience in that matter. There is no chance that kid will change that much..... he is what is is. [ might be e a few exceptions if high on some drug and had no idea what he had done but even then I doubt it ] --- Disturbing to me has always been parents when out with their little kids think misbehavior is funny [ example: throwing food at each other at an eating place ] They are creating a monster and good luck with them once they get older .. especially 10 or older.. They will make their parents and teachers life absolute hell if they have no control over them by then. Be a parent and not always a buddy. --- JesseMartin (above) is very accurate.. kids should have tasks to do and not have everything just given to them... some things should be "earned". I still remember what one of my sons told me.... One of the best things I ever did for them was encourage them to get a part-time job in HS... (exact quote) .." I learned what it took to earn $5." ... He and his brother have no debt except a mortgage... He played video games but was not obsessed with them even though he is now a computer engineer.

--- Somewhere in a person's college education , students need a course that teaches finance or something close to it .. I teach mathematics of finance and often find that students who even work for financial institutions really don't understand how things really work that well.. The problem with education is that students don't really take things that seriously when they are young and not making time payments or have serious savings accounts.... I can almost assign the grades on that part of the course based on their age... Those making house and car payments and that have saving accounts listen and do well while most of the others just think it is a necessary evil to graduate. The older ones understand it applies to them and many have refinanced or starting making payments different because of what they saw in my class. My best story is a married couple (both in my class) with 26 yrs left to pay on their house that realized what they were seeing and refinanced for 15 yrs and was paying only about $15 more per month... seeing the numbers, amortization tables, and everything else made them $1000's because they walked into my classroom.. Many also learned that paying a little extra in the beginning months of a home loan can be shortening the loan time by 2-3 months instead of the one obvious one. Very little of early payments go to principal and was even more extreme when interest rates were higher. --- I was luckier than most kids because our family raised cattle, owned some rentals, and family and friends in the small business world, and I was exposed to business and also picked up a lot on law in general. I also insisted my kids get a degree in something that would made them a decent or good living ..( not Bulgarian literature ) .. The sons became engineers, one with a MBA and law degree, and a daughter with a business degree. They listened. They also understand that saving $1000 in expensives is like earning $1500 .. considering taxes etc. --- Don't underestimate knowing history especially economic history if you learn it right... You learn what has happened what can happen, and are harder to lie to (less gullible). One important fact I learned from UNT history classes** is that all people write/say things from their point of view.. [ this is why I dislike one network... it doesn't even attempt to tell it like it is ( 60's phrase )... only if it favors what they want you to hear ] There is another thing I have learned from traveling abroad is that what we hear here maybe a bit different that what they hear and believe. ... That explains why few Europeans (includes French and Germans which some here trashed) aided us in Iraq.. they did not believe any WMD (nukes) existed there... they were right. Having some foreign students in my classroom at times is interesting as well to hear what they hear or believe.. ** public school history classes present a very one-sided sanitized version of history .. I have no problem with that... but colleges should be a bit different and present "events" from other views. Example: Canadians claim the burning of Washington D.C. by the British in 1813 was retaliation for the US burning several Canadian towns earlier after we crossed into Canada.

. OK .... but have yet to meet SMU alum I like... only Texas univ. I can say that about...

Dumb rule if true... who cares... getting into NCAA tournament is based mostly on winning your conference or doing extremely well there.. ignore wins against lower divisions for that purpose. ... Football is a bit different... no large NCAA tournament.

. Sounds like you think we should take a white flag with us... strange things sometimes happen even when you are a severe underdawg.... Ask OU how their Alabama game turned out. Plus some teams just run the score when they can... some just win and don't care by how much and give their bench time to play which works well for the future.

Baylor: 8/31 Wofford W 69 - 3 ........... Sat 9/7 Buffalo W 70 - 13 ......... Sat 9/21 LA Monroe W 70 - 7 209 -23

Found this on Midland TV news site: ____________ LAS VEGAS - Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is making good on a bet with the mayor of Denton, Texas, after UNLV lost a bowl game last week. Goodman will sport a University of North Texas T-shirt at a Wednesday morning City Council meeting. She's already paid $100 to the UNT athletic department. Goodman had made a bet with Denton Mayor Mark Burroughs when their respective teams squared off in the Heart of Dallas Bowl on New Year's Day. The loser would wear the winning team's shirt to a council meeting. The Mean Green beat the Rebels 36-14.

----This past week I have worn a UNT "hoodie" several times (cold) also a green UNT light weight jacket several places and have received a lot of comments from people in various places... [ stores, bank. pharmacy, wife's school ] from them and claiming they watched and enjoyed our bowl game.... I think it gave us a lot of needed attention and I live in West Texas. Having our bowl game on New Years Day I think helped us a lot as well since historically that has been a big bowl watching day.. Never in the past have I had that many comments on what UNT clothing I was wearing. I was on a Christmas Cruise this year in the Caribbean ( a first) and also had several comments on ship when I was wearing a UNT T-shirt.. most were asking if I I lived in Denton.... several were from non-Texans. ---The game was very good for us.. Hope others have seen the same...

--Why so negative [ not in Dallas area, don't see the games ] ? We are 9-5 and have recently defeated A&M. I'm not so impressed with So. Miss record, lots of pussy-cat teams on their schedule and I am sure they would like to ignore their Louisville game ( big blowout ).. --- In the good old MVC days when we played in the Men's gym... you could not get a seat unless you showed up very early at least during the week. We often weren't that good but the crowd was wild and games were fun.

They were not betting on getting caught...... End of their basketball career.

---When my daughter graduated at UNT in 2003?, I think she was supposed to take some type of "cultural arts" class.... however she had been in the Midland College Choir for three semesters plus took a photography class at MC and they counted for something. (Business major). I don't remember my son doing anything like that.. (maybe he did, graphics maybe) ... he was a computer science major (2000).

---I agreed with about everything you said ... just not that encouraging community college development is an attempt to dumb down things... There are a few tiny ones that I am not impressed with but the large ones I know of do a very good job and students come out well prepared to the university level. My personal kids-- two went a university first and took summer community college classes in order to avoid some mega-sized classses.. My daughter stayed one year at a community college (her choice) then to UNT . Wife went to TxTech (lived in Lubbock) and I started my college career at a small hometown 4-year college and had some extremely good profs and oddly all of them had graduated at UNT which influenced my choice of where to transfer. A lot of my students (some very good) can not afford four years at a university or are a bit immature at 18 and stay to grow up and learn be a student We also get some students that went off and played way too much elsewhere and did poorly, were kicked out, or parents brought them home ... "some" may not be bad students really just too immature to meet expectations away from home. ---Absolutely the state (Perry and group) would rather partially fund a community college over a four year one that they have complete responsibility for..... because that takes so much of the funding responsibility away from them and onto local taxpayers in a community college district . It is not about dumbing down as you stated. Many of my ex-students are engineers, geologists, lawyers, successful business people, and even a few doctors and college profs teaching the subject I teach, mathematics.. .. ---Personally I have very little respect for most on-line courses... even less than dual credit ones.... and we even have a few. .

The problem with pit bulls is consistency... nice today but tomorrow they may decide to take a hunk out of you for no reason .... Don't see that with German shepherds and most others. Those are far more predictable.

.. I disagree with your community college comments a bit but not entirely ..... I teach at one, and our transfer students do better at UNT and others that ones than actually start there... [ we get excellent feedback from UNT and some feedback from others but not as good ] So many kids can not afford to go off for four years and it gives them a chance to better their education. ...... You are right about the State of Texas wanting to create more community colleges...but not for the reason you stated. .. The state, due to the now extremely conservative legislature wants to have them because they are cheaper to operate for the state. Community colleges are largely funded by LOCAL TAXES and universities aren't.... so they are much cheaper for the state... That is the real reason... Since Perry and the GOP legislature has been in control, state funding has dropped EVERY session which causes your local taxes to increase if you live in a place that has a community college. At a staff meeting a few years ago our College President said he had good news and bad news .. "the good news our enrollment had increased by 10% ... the bad news is the governor of the great state of Texas had dropped our funding by 10% ... and note I did not say the great governor of the state of Texas." Perry and the legislature the past 12 years has been awful for education... that wasn't even the year of the $25 Billion dollar budget problem despite the fact he was bragging how good the Texas economy was.... How did that make any sense....?? 1000's in education lost their jobs and class size increased especially in public schools... he and many like him need to go.... and soon. I do agree with you on concurrent classes.... the education they get in those classes rarely equals what we and major universities provide. Too many students are placed in them that should not be and the same quality usually really isn't there. -- Oddly I honestly believe we do a better job at the freshman level than universities.. who teaches those at a university ??.. a TA ( I was one) who may have never taught before ( I had) and just has a BA and would not be qualified to teach at a community college. ( or by a real prof. in a class too large to ask questions) I get to teach university students in the summer that constantly complain about how bad so many are.. --Have you ever taken a community college credit course at a good large community college..??.. you might be surprised at the quality and standards if not. Who in heck requires molecular biology for history majors... it might be an option for a science credit ... but required... I doubt it. ... I think someone lied to you. If you honestly believe Perry has lowered you taxes.... name which one... not sales, gasoline, alcohol or any taxes you likely pay.. but to various businesses (and contributors) ... Your local taxes (mostly property) has climbed as a result of his actions. --- Pay attention to what is really happening and not what they claim at times. Driving people out of public schools with poor funding and into private school is also cheaper for the state but not for the parents of those kids. .

---An extensive bit on Midland TV news last night about problems with some pit bulls in Monahans... Several people and animals have been chewed up by them ( I think some small dogs killed ). Some here think I am anti-gun, .. I'm not.. I likely would shoot them and get arrested if they harmed me or mine. ( no assault gun needed ). -- From my experience in education ... neither of the two subjects above should be the responsibility of schools... they have far too much else to teach and too little time (one hour per class per day in HS) ... That should be left to parents.... schools are not parents and should not take on their responsibilities and as for religion there are far too many opinions and differences to do that I have had had Baptist, Methodist, Church of Christ, Jewish, Mormon, Catholic, Islamic, Buddhist, Seven-Day Adventist, Mennonites, and many more... both very conservative and very liberal groups ... no way schools should touch that one to teach. It is a fable to say schools in general don't allow religion in schools [ there are few crazy exceptions] .... seen a lot of Bibles in kid's hands and no one says anything until they decide to preach to the "sinners" in class that believe differently. (seen that too.. that is where most crazy rumors of anti-Christian come from ... I have had students tell me I was unchristian when I told them to put up their "book" and get busy on their assignment... most were near failing ) ---It is rather unconstitutional to force people into religion classes also.. public schools is a government agency and there is supposed to be separation of church and state. Odd that extreme conservatives are the ones that want it taught in schools.... they are the ones always pointing at the Constitution. [ very selective of them... and how is Cruz an American born person and qualified to be President? he was born in Canada with a Cuban father and the American government did not assign his parents there as they do military etc. ]

. Now I don't know anything... That is insulting. Your posts approve of an administration that doubled the debt was and think it was conservative.... [ that means one administration equaled the total of all 42 previous ones. ] Your posts think that was ok that an administration that invaded another country hunting phantom weapons [French, Germans and Europeans said otherwise and refused to assist ].. . you use Army in your name but don't seem concerned that 1000's died and/or were permanent injured as a result. ] You think our governor was conservative when his administration and the legislature ran up a $25 billion budget deficit by continuously deferring payments to the next budget... 1000's of educators and state officials lost their jobs because their actions contributing to unemployment and increasing unemployment payouts You support everyone having assault weapons, while I and rural types that own guns don't.... can you name a few situations that a regular citizen actually needed one for self defense?? NAME them since you are more informed that I am. Apparently I am uninformed because I disagree with you. I suggest conservative means don't spend money you don't have and run up debt ... no previous governor had this problem.. ... conservative is not just giving tax cuts ..... [ name any tax cut you or I received which Perry is always claiming he has created ... wasn't sales, gasoline, or alcohol .. in fact property taxes have climbed because of less state funding..... NAME them.... since you are so well informed compared to me.. Oil and petroleum related buinesses (even retail that happens as the result of money cash available) is mostly responsible for the good economy of Texas... not Perry or the legislature... Still wondering how he claimed Texas had the best economy in the USA but had a $25 billion budget problem.... maybe that makes sense to you .... not me. EXPLAIN... since you are more informed.... Looking forward for your answers to those questions. ...

--- At least he didn't find some strange black uniforms to end his tenure with... ---He just didn't understand that his teams had to play some defense and that he couldn't win with a staff made of HS coaches. --- He was a decent man that didn't seem to realize he needed to find good defensive players and have someone to coach them at a college level. .

--- Just pointing out that you seem to have nothing better to do than criticize others.... as I said I am not in Dallas area and was wondering what people were saying about the game and just glanced at the Eagles Nest before closing the site. ... Ridiculious comment.... Earlier you were criticizing me for starting paragraphs with --- ... Get a life and quit criticizing everyone for ridiculous things. .

. YES .. so.?? I wasn't hung over as you seemed to have been and had no idea what you were doing. Why the comment.? I had just finished watching UNT win and wondered if there any comments on GMG. I don't live anywhere close to Dallas. Why was it a problem to you or are you a person that just tries to find fault with everyone ..even on trivial matters ??? [ I am sorry that I posted offended you ]

--Being the ONLY metroplex team in a bowl helped get us more attention. (my opinion) .. Here is hoping more will think of UNT as THE metroplex or Dallas area team.... smu has turned so many people off that should not be too difficult if we can have a reasonable amount of success and play teams that they actually recognize and win or hold our own. I regularly mention to people when they mention someone that is a UNT alum that they are a UNT alum. [ Dr. Phil, Norah Jones, Pat Boone, Robocob, Roy Orbison, etc. ] We need to convince the Dallas area to be fans of UNT and even having a player or two on the Cowboy roster mentioned helps there as well. I think TCU may have shot themselves in the foot by becoming a Big-12 member .. and maybe becoming the league doormat. Most people out here (West Texas) have no idea that UNT is as large as it is... larger that TxTech and also about the same or larger than Baylor, smu and TCU combined.