Confession from a Young Alumni

greeneagle1 · October 2, 2018

In 2011, when I was a freshman at UNT, in the NEW Apogee Stadium, I remember thinking that the first win of the season against Indiana was the greatest thing to happen. My first UNT win I experienced as a student was against a Big Ten team. It felt so good. I went to a High School that had a joke of a football team and we went 0-10 my senior year. So to experience a win was amazing

Going on to see Lance Dunbar break several records against MTSU on a cold December game was just as fun and I thought 5 wins was great. Dan was the man!

2013 was just as fun. I mean we won a bowl game, but were in every game we lost. A few things go our way against Ohio, Tulane, and UTSA and we really could have seen a 11-1 season, 12-1 with a bowl win. However, it was just great to be at a bowl game.

2014 was a letdown and then 2015 was well 1-11. It was a low seeing us lose to Portland State and being there for my last undergrad game against UTEP in front of an almost empty Apogee Stadium was sad to say the least.

Here we are in 2018 with two amazing years with Seth Littrell that we’ve built on. 4-0 to start the year and riding high. Losing to La Tech really hurt. I don’t know where I felt so entitled to win every game this year and if we didn’t, why it would be the end of the world? When did I all of a sudden change to not appreciate the ride we were on? Being 4-1 is amazing. We were a bad football team just 3 years ago. We got blasted by UTEP in 2016 and were given a handout bowl to the Heart of Dallas Bowl. I was more than lucky to be there too. Happy to be going to a bowl in New Orleans last year.

Taking a look in the mirror really woke me up to appreciate all that’s going on in North Texas right now. Our athletics department is killing it in ALL sports right now. We are growing and taking on a wealth of new challenges. We have one of the best recruiting classes in the country right now and all our stars on offense should be returning next year. Now is the best we have ever been. I love North Texas and being a member of the Mean Green Alumni!

GMG!

tmjerm · October 2, 2018

I know this doesn’t equate all that well because we had aspirations of NY6 and some really lofty ideas...but a conference title and a strong bowl win are achievable still. So...

In 1992 the Temple Wildcats we’re rolling everyone and then they ran into the Killeen Kangaroos and laid a turd. That was their attitude check. They learned a valuable lesson that night that it takes focus week in and week out and went on to be 15-1 state champions. This team has a TON to accomplish this yr. Shouldn’t have had to happen but this loss just might make this yr wind up better than if it hadn’t happened this early in the season.

meangreen2016 · October 2, 2018

Yes to this. I remember getting score updates on the Portland st. game (that was my senior year) and feeling so disappointed. I got to experience the HOD bowl, but it felt like 2 steps forward 6 steps after losing to an FCS team so badly. 3 years later we're disappointed for not going undefeated.

Edited October 2, 2018 by meangreen2016