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The sound of constant jumping from the apartment directly above her had become a grim routine for sophomore Carley Carroll, long before the disastrous events of the University of North Texas homecoming game weekend. “Every weekend a different party,” the student told CBS-11. And during some of those parties, Carroll would watch her ceiling go up and down like a trampoline. Sometimes she would even call police in Denton, Tex., to complain — half-worried that it might collapse. And yet, Carroll said, “It’s one of those things you don’t think is actually going to happen.” Then, on Saturday, the North Texas Mean Green walloped the University of Texas at El Paso 45-10 in the big game, and Carroll’s upstairs neighbors threw a party to remember. Police estimated that 100 people crammed into the third-story apartment above her that night — which like every unit in the complex was occupied by college students. read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/11/13/a-college-party-was-so-massive-it-crashed-straight-through-the-apartment-floor/?utm_term=.1a94042d1f05 -
Quinn attained his lofty status with a simple tweet of his accidental misadventure in an Olympic Village bathroom — #Sochijailbreak. The tweet, a photo of a bathroom door he’d burst through, went viral. It was retweeted over 25,000 times and favorited over 13,000 times and, suddenly, Johnny Quinn was a household name. Quinn, a former practice squad player for the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills and Saskatchewan of the CFL, jumped into the shower — and, when he couldn’t get out of the bathroom, he tried to rouse his teammates. “My neighbors are my two other teammates on the bobsled, so I was banging on the wall, trying to get their attention and — nothing, nothing,” he told CNN’s Rachel Nichols. “Not so much panic because I had running water, but I was sitting there banging on random parts of the wall to see if I could, you know, catch somebody’s attention and, as I’m banging on random parts going around the bathroom, I kind of hit the door and it cracks. “So I go a little bit harder and my fist goes through the door. So I see light and I’m like, ‘Okay, time to get out of here now.’” Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/olympics/wp/2014/02/10/johnny-quinn-gets-stuck-in-an-elevator/
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The Mean Green made substantial progress in coach Dan McCarney's first season, advancing from bumbling to simply subpar. Credit some of that to McCarney knowing what he's doing. Of course, North Texas' stunning decline from Sun Belt contender to bottom feeder in the second half of the Aughts made a 5-7 season worth praising. Dig into those numbers, and the Mean Green wasn't terrible at much (defending the pass and any sort of return game), but above average nationally in only a smattering of categories (net punting, turnover margin, sacks and sacks allowed). There isn't much back on defense, and this was never going to be an immediate turnaround for McCarney (who suffered a stroke in February but nonetheless was back for spring practice). Nonetheless, North Texas could crack the top half of the Sun Belt if things break right. There's one minor problem: The Mean Green hopped on the wheel-o-realignment and landed in Conference USA starting in 2013. That won't make returning the postseason prohibitively difficult, but it probably pushes North Texas' chances of seriously contending for a league title again back a few years. Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/d1scourse/2012/jul/8/college-football-lookahead-nos-101-105/