MGB: Bowl update

Brett Vito · December 4, 2016

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/12/bowl-update-announcement-in-15-it-will-be-unt-to-hod.html/

emmitt01 · December 4, 2016

Sweet! This is the exact game I wanted.

A bowl game in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium

A game in Dallas

A beatable opponent

Direct DART rail access for fans...and Denton people (students) can get there by simply connecting to the Denton train

A service academy on the other side of the stadium

A bowl that specifically supports police and fire

Pretty excited

meangreen15 · December 4, 2016

I'm glad we have a beatable opponent, but I was really hoping for the Armed Forces Bowl. It's a way better stadium and atmosphere than Fair Park. You don't have to worry about people stealing your tailgate stuff when you leave to go into the game. Also, by this time next year we will have played Army 3 times in the past 13 months...

SSP · December 4, 2016

3 minutes ago, meangreen15 said:

I'm glad we have a beatable opponent, but I was really hoping for the Armed Forces Bowl. It's a way better stadium and atmosphere than Fair Park. You don't have to worry about people stealing your tailgate stuff when you leave to go into the game. Also, by this time next year we will have played Army 3 times in the past 13 months...

BUT....

we will win this one.

COULDNT HAVE WORKED OUT BETTER FOR US!

outoftown · December 4, 2016

2 minutes ago, meangreen15 said:

I'm glad we have a beatable opponent, but I was really hoping for the Armed Forces Bowl. It's a way better stadium and atmosphere than Fair Park. You don't have to worry about people stealing your tailgate stuff when you leave to go into the game. Also, by this time next year we will have played Army 3 times in the past 13 months...

How to quickly develop a rivalry with a team that is far away and has next to nothing in common with one self. Play often and when it means something. Then again, army will want to get out of the series quick, being 0-3 in it and all ;)

PlummMeanGreen · December 4, 2016

15 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

Sweet! This is the exact game I wanted.

A bowl game in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium

A game in Dallas

A beatable opponent

Direct DART rail access for fans...and Denton people (students) can get there by simply connecting to the Denton train

A service academy on the other side of the stadium

A bowl that specifically supports police and fire

Pretty excited

A good deal for North Texas all around. A beatable team (for TV purposes) and we'll have most all our hurt players who beat Army the first time around back.

Will Army have their starting QB back? HOD officials know we can bring more fans than any one school they've had in their 7 year history so I'm sure they are pleased.

GMG!

Edited December 4, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

GMG_Dallas · December 4, 2016

6 minutes ago, meangreen15 said:

Also, by this time next year we will have played Army 3 times in the past 13 months...

I'll be the debbie downer and say it: I'm not excited. I'll watch it on tv if I can but I'm not figuring out how to get to a game against a team we'll be playing every year through 2021. Not with 4 kids including a 6 month old. Proud of our guys for making it to a bowl game but could care less about the opponent.

UNTLifer · December 4, 2016

Yes to HOD Bowl, no to Army again.

techdawg88 · December 4, 2016

Tech is playing Navy in the Armed Forces

MeanMag · December 4, 2016

14 minutes ago, SSP said:

BUT....

we will win this one.

COULDNT HAVE WORKED OUT BETTER FOR US!

That's the second time you've said that phrase. It actually could have worked out better if we had beaten UTEP and UTSA.

GreenMachine · December 4, 2016

12 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

I'll be the debbie downer and say it: I'm not excited. I'll watch it on tv if I can but I'm not figuring out how to get to a game against a team we'll be playing every year through 2021. Not with 4 kids including a 6 month old. Proud of our guys for making it to a bowl game but could care less about the opponent.

It's that attitude of the typical North Texas fan why we average under 20k per home game. I would be going even if we were playing Denton High.

Cerebus · December 4, 2016

5 minutes ago, GreenMachine said:

It's that attitude of the typical North Texas fan why we average under 20k per home game. I would be going even if we were playing Denton High.

I just had to upvote @GreenMachine, it felt weird.

GreenMachine · December 4, 2016

1 minute ago, Cerebus said:

I just had to upvote @GreenMachine, it felt weird.

Wanna hold hands?

Cerebus · December 4, 2016

2 minutes ago, GreenMachine said:

Wanna hold hands?

If we win the bowl game, yes.

MeanGreenDan · December 4, 2016

22 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

I'll be the debbie downer and say it: I'm not excited. I'll watch it on tv if I can but I'm not figuring out how to get to a game against a team we'll be playing every year through 2021. Not with 4 kids including a 6 month old. Proud of our guys for making it to a bowl game but could care less about the opponent.

wardly · December 4, 2016

Proof that some of us would bitch if hung with a new rope. We are a 2 win pre season projection who some how won 5 games. Are we very good? No. At 5&7 are we lucky to be in any bowl? Yes.Yet some of us bitch because of the opponent, or the time, or the location. Give me a break. I froze my butt of at West Point 10/22, will see us play Army again 12/27, and again next season. If deserves has any thing to do with football, our fickle fans deserve the horseshit program we have had the last decade.

MeanGreen_MBA · December 4, 2016

5 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

I just had to upvote @GreenMachine, it felt weird.

Right!!

GMG_Dallas · December 4, 2016

6 minutes ago, GreenMachine said:

It's that attitude of the typical North Texas fan why we average under 20k per home game. I would be going even if we were playing Denton High.

And for several years I was one of those "under 20k" barring a big event such as my brother's wedding but I'm not going to take a day off work and spend several hundred dollars to go to a game and watch us play against a team we'll play in less than a year. I'd watch us play against Denton high too if we did not play them every year for 6 seasons straight.

Harry · December 4, 2016

37 minutes ago, meangreen15 said:

I'm glad we have a beatable opponent, but I was really hoping for the Armed Forces Bowl. It's a way better stadium and atmosphere than Fair Park. You don't have to worry about people stealing your tailgate stuff when you leave to go into the game. Also, by this time next year we will have played Army 3 times in the past 13 months...

Did you go to the last HOD game and participate in any of the pre game events? Everyone I know who did had a blast.

SSP · December 4, 2016

22 minutes ago, MeanMag said:

That's the second time you've said that phrase. It actually could have worked out better if we had beaten UTEP and UTSA.

I tend to live in the present.

Mickey · December 4, 2016

39 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

A good deal for North Texas all around. A beatable team (for TV purposes) and we'll have most all our hurt players who beat Army the first time around back.

Will Army have their starting QB back? HOD officials know we can bring more fans than any one school they've had in their 7 year history so I'm sure they are pleased.

GMG!

I think we should tone down the "beatable opponent". If we can't force a bunch of turnovers again - not a given at all - then this could be a game we easily lose. I hope we win, we can win, but this is far from a forgone conclusion just because we won the first game.

PlummMeanGreen · December 4, 2016

Awe shucks come on now......don't want to sound preachy', but we get a bowl and now some fans are getting picky?

For what its worth, schools that are moving up the totem pole in the NCAA G-5 toward eventual P-5 don't have such picky fans. Just sayin'...

The group I was with at the last HOD Bowl game had a total blast with all the pre-game hoopla! The HOD officials made it a 1'st class bowl for both UNLV and UNT football teams along with the approx. 36,000 Mean Green fans who attended plus.......much of the proceeds of this game go to charities.

HOD & UNT officials were having "UNT" put in huge letters on some of their most visible "Big D" downtown buildings which were seen by many travelers on Stemmons Freeway.

The HOD Bowl was made to be an event and this game will be treated as such. For me I'm making this game the unoffical 1'st game of the 2017 season because it will feature many of our future stars. I can't wait to see their further development at this bowl game. ➡️ We should all be there to greet them.

And as a few of you have pointed out because of this bowl invite, our recruiting class with this young, aggressive UNT coaching staff will pull in more quality recruits. I'm sure many of those potential recruits will be at this bowl game.

GO MEAN GREEN.........BEAT ARMY!

Edited December 5, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

brooks91 · December 4, 2016

19 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

I just had to upvote @GreenMachine, it felt weird.

17 minutes ago, GreenMachine said:

Wanna hold hands?

17 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

If we win the bowl game, yes.

+1 for this affectionate display of unity among a normally divided and bickering fanbase.

And to think, there are people who don't want us to go bowling when we are already seeing the positive effects of this team's success.

Wag Tag · December 4, 2016

51 minutes ago, Brett Vito said:

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/12/bowl-update-announcement-in-15-it-will-be-unt-to-hod.html/

OKKKKK! Great publicity in the metroplex... Dallas lit green the night before the game....We are now the Ivy school of the metroplex...Playing a historic opponent with Army and the cadets....We get to practice for 3 more weeks.... On national TV.....oh WAIT the stadium seats hurt my butt! Had a blast in 2013 can't wait for a repeat! 45,000 at the game! Proud of the kids! GMG