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Evan and Harry welcome back Ashton Campbell creator of Beyond the Green to recap the very disappointing UNT loss at El Paso as well as saying goodbye to our seniors in the final home game this Saturday at Apogee versus FIU. We also say goodbye to the great John Skladany and look at other odds and ends as the team closes out the season. http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/podcast/gmgpod141.mp3 Click here for the direct audio link This post has been promoted to an article

We recap the tough loss against Indiana last week as well as the big road game coming up at UAB. Ashton Campbell, creator of Fox Sport Southwest series covering "Beyond the Green" UNT Football will be joining us in the studio to share his unique insight of the program. Our studio audience joins us live in the chatroom and gives us some great questions and opinions. As always you can upload this entire show here or on itunes... http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/podcast/gmgpod136.mp3 Click here for direct link to audio GMG! This post has been promoted to an article

The creator of the award winning Beyond the Green series Ashton Campbell will be joining us to give his unique insight as one of the few who is able to see things inside the fence. Evan and I will talk more Texas game and address other various topics.. As usual - this is interactive - you can join us in the Mean Green Chatroom at 9:05pm and participate in the show or download it later here on the site or via iTunes..

Sometimes the best stories are the most obvious ones. 2013 was a memorable year for the University of North Texas football team. A 9-4 campaign took the program to its first bowl game in nine years and first bowl win in 11 years. There, with the golden opportunity to chronicle it all, was freelance videographer and producer Ashton Campbell. Hired by his alma mater to shoot and produce an intimate, behind-the-scenes television series titled Beyond the Green, Campbell was tasked with telling the stories of the captivating players and coaches who made up the 2013 Mean Green. One of the team’s leaders was Brandon McCoy. A unique personality in college sports, McCoy was a 28-year-old Army veteran, whom his teammates affectionately nicknamed “Sarge.” “You really can’t write that kind of stuff,” says Campbell. “It’s right in front of your face. To not do a story on McCoy would have been stupid. It would have been criminal.” Campbell did that story, and the final product, “From War Vet to Defensive End,” turned into an inspiring look at a likable man who helped lead the Mean Green to one of its best seasons ever. It also claimed the College Sports Media Award for Outstanding Special Feature in Collegiate Athletics. Luck of the Freelancer “I love that show!” Campbell had unexpectedly struck gold while sitting down for a lunch with a member of the North Texas athletic department. Meeting purely as a season-ticket holder and a regular donor to the department, he happened to mention that he worked in video production and, earlier in his career, had helped produce the Big Ten Network series Big Ten Icons. Two weeks later, Campbell received a call from the university asking him to come down for a meeting to discuss a potential documentary series on North Texas football. He was thrilled to jump on board. “I got very lucky on this one,” laughs Campbell, who worked at post houses for about five years after graduating from UNT before going out on his own as a freelance videographer. “Normally, you’re not going to get recruited. You have to go out and get it.” Over the previous half decade, Campbell had produced behind-the-scenes features for college football programs across the country, including Southern Methodist, Tulsa, Texas Tech, Southern Miss, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Coastal Carolina, Mississippi State, and Baylor. Now he would be bringing his talents home to North Texas. He worked collaboratively with members of the athletic department to outline a production schedule and a list of individual stories both sides knew they wanted to tell. Naturally, McCoy was high on the list. “The school did give me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted,” says Campbell. “They didn’t force any issues on me. I developed an early trust and relationship with them, and, if they trust in what you’re doing, then they are going to tell you what to do and what stories are unique. Nobody knows these players like the coaches and the department. You could be the biggest fan in the world, and you don’t really know who these guys are. You need to have a back and forth with the department to get information like that.” - See more at: http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2014/08/csma-master-class-freelance-alum-turns-lens-on-north-texas-football/#sthash.46u75HWR.dpuf

Big congrats to UNT Alumnus Ashton Campbell for landing TWO nominations for the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) media awards!!! The winners will be selected by a panel of judges and announced at the College Sports Media Awards ceremony on May 29 at the SVG College Sports Summit in Atlanta. The event will be hosted by ESPN’s Rece Davis. “I want to congratulate this year’s nominees in the 2014 College Sports Media Awards presented by SVG and NACDA,” says Tom Buffolano, Chairman of the College Sports Media Awards. “Each year we see an increase in the quality of production, across all Divisions and Categories. The growth in the number of submissions, especially in both Collegiate Divisions, bodes well not only in the short term for those institutions, but long term for the industry as a whole. - See more at: http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2014/05/svg-nacda-announce-nominees-for-2014-college-sports-media-awards/#sthash.NAdEmR5G.dpuf Link to UNT Beyond the Green Series: