Graduation or New Orleans Bowl?

TheNewEra · November 30, 2017

I begin this by saying that I realize I am part of just a couple 100-1000 possible students this applies to BUT

Not getting started on the selection of NO Bowl, because I hate that we won’t be playing a non P5 team & probably playing a team from our former conference. And playing in one of the first bowls of the season at noon.

NO/NM bowls fall on December 16th, the COB & Arts/Sciences colleges graduate that day, probably more. I know the team/athletic department have to do what’s best financially/prestige wise but this really sucks for students that are graduating or attending one.

I began during the epic 2013 football campaign & got to enjoy that amazing season. It will go down as my favorite football season ever and being apart of that game against rice(goaline stop). I have experienced the ebbs and flows of this team for 4 years. Gone to many road games (Ruston, Boca, Austin... just to name a few) scrapping whatever money I had being a broke student could get in gas money to get there.

So ending my whiney kind of soap box it just sucks this great season I won’t be able to attend the crescendo of the season. I considered skipping grad but I have many family members already booked flights to be there and I can’t make it from my 8am grad to Nola by noon. I’ll be back with season tickets next year as an Alum but this sucks.

Sincerely,

An angry graduating senior

#gmg #newdenton

James · November 30, 2017

The struggle is real.

Felozano · November 30, 2017

Congrats on graduating, man. Nothing is set in stone concerning the bowls. Worst case scenario? Graduation party watching the game as an alum! GMG!

oldguystudent · November 30, 2017

While UNT history dictates that it might be another decade before you see the Mean Green return to a bowl game, you only graduate once.

I didn't march for my bachelor's, and I still kinda regret it 23 years later.

UNTFan23 · November 30, 2017

As awful as the timings are for the North Texas ... no ... the New Orleans Booooooooowl and New Mexico Bowl, you will only graduate college (with a bachelor's degree) once in your life.

shaft · November 30, 2017

If someone else helped pay for school and they want to see you walk, then walk.

It they didn’t or don’t care go to New Orleans. Graduations are boring. Just take a few cap and gown photos on campus and get out of town.

Eastwood Eagle · November 30, 2017

Are you going to grad school, med school, law school or any other post undergraduate program? If so, SKIP. If not, probably SKIP.

TheNewEra · November 30, 2017

Appreciate the congratulations & the guidance.

TheNewEra · November 30, 2017

1 minute ago, Eastwood Eagle said:

Are you going to grad school, med school, law school or any other post undergraduate program? If so, SKIP. If not, probably SKIP.

Considering getting my MBA, gonna think on it for year.

Eastwood Eagle · November 30, 2017

28 minutes ago, TheNewEra said:

Considering getting my MBA, gonna think on it for year.

Hard SKIP

dmaxel · November 30, 2017

(Your own) Graduations are much more rare in life than bowl games. Go to your graduation is what I'd say.

meaniegreenie · November 30, 2017

1 hour ago, oldguystudent said:

While UNT history dictates that it might be another decade before you see the Mean Green return to a bowl game, you only graduate once.

I didn't march for my bachelor's, and I still kinda regret it 23 years later.

I didn't attend either of my UNT graduations. Hasn't bothered me a bit in the past 25+ years. Never would have crossed my mind as a factor regarding going to a MG FB game.

#individualPersonalPriorities

Cerebus · November 30, 2017

1 hour ago, UNTFan23 said:

As awful as the timings are for the North Texas ... no ... the New Orleans Booooooooowl and New Mexico Bowl, you will only graduate college (with a bachelor's degree) once in your life.

Actually you can get two, or however many you want. Just have to be in different disciplines.

MeanGreenTexan · November 30, 2017

Graduation ceremonies are a beatdown for everyone involved. You're a jerk if you leave early... you're bored out of your mind if you stay. But momma/grandma love it. They'd gladly sit through 2-3 hours of it just to hear your name.
I went skiing instead of walking.
I agree w/ @meaniegreenie regarding priorities. Everyone's are different.

meangreenthirteen · November 30, 2017

My UNT graduation was disappointing. It was entirely too long, they mispronounced my last name even after I made an effort to spell it phonetically for them, and they lost the picture of me holding my degree. In retrospect, I wish I had the option of attending a bowl game instead.

Caw Caw · November 30, 2017

Don't worry, they'll still send you the Diploma in the mail when you don't walk.

Cerebus · November 30, 2017

Never gone to any of mine, never regretted it. It was very important for my wife to walk when she got he MBA, but not when she got her BS before that...

So really it's a personal call.

strikes · November 30, 2017

Look at it this way. You will only (probably) graduate once but the mean green will be in the championship game again next year! GMG!

PS:

When I graduated, I only went because my family wanted me to.

Edited November 30, 2017 by strikes

Monkeypox · November 30, 2017

Hire a stand-in. Just get someone of your approximate height, skin tone, and hair color to sit through that dreadful thing.

If they find out, your family will forgive you, because they have to. It's their thing. I can't say the same for the Mean Green Family.

I mean, who would you rather disappoint?

1) Your parents - You've very well likely already disappointed them numerous times, and will probably continue to do so throughout your life. Despite that, they seem perfectly fine keeping you.

2) The Mean Green Faithful - You've seen what happens when these people get disappointed, and it's not pretty. They don't forgive anything. Wearing black, making an anatomically incorrect eagle sign with your clumsy human hands, sitting or standing when they want you to stand or sit.... nothing is forgiven... ever. Without a familial obligation to forgive you, I shudder to think of the potential consequences. I mean, remember Eppy? No... no, you don't. No one remembers Eppy. You don't want to end up like Eppy.

TreeFiddy · November 30, 2017

1 hour ago, Cerebus said:

Actually you can get two, or however many you want. Just have to be in different disciplines.

Exactly. What's another 5 or 6 years?

MeanGreenTexan · November 30, 2017

9 minutes ago, Prettylittleeagle said:

From someone who graduated in May let me give you this advice, walk the M'fn stage. It's one of the best feelings in the world, it's that final sense of accomplishment. I know history doesn't have us doing much as a football program, but I can tell you that we will make a bowl game next year, go to that one. GMG and congrats bud.

As a 1st gen college graduate, I got this feeling when I gave my mom my framed diploma.
Meanwhile, I was having a blast on a mountain in NM while 1000's of others were stuck waiting around for several hours in the Super Pit.

Cerebus · November 30, 2017

1 hour ago, Monkeypox said:

I mean, remember Eppy? No... no, you don't. No one remembers Eppy. You don't want to end up like Eppy.

southsideguy · November 30, 2017

i thought they stopped the December graduations? I hope they didnt because it happen to me (12/1980) and did not go back in the spring to attend the graduation ceremony. I was robbed!

Monkeypox · November 30, 2017

57 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

greeneagle1 · November 30, 2017

Bring your cap and gown to the bowl game? Ask the Athletic Department to hold an offsite graduation ceremony with Wren Baker (VP of Athletics) as the acting President to officiate :D