❇️Twas‘ A Mean Green Dream Come True: A New Yrs Day Bowl In the Cotton Bowl & A Record-Breaking No. of MG Fans!

[PlummMeanGreen]

January 1, 2014<*>11:00 AM at the    
Cotton Bowl Stadium

The Mountain West Conference UNLV Rebels vs the Mean Green of UNT.

It was a full sunshiny day.  Many fans on both sides would get sunburned faces. The North Texas Mean Green were  ready for their bowl game—TEXAS STYLE! 
 

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Edited September 26, 2021 by PlummMeanGreen

[untjim1995]

10 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

January 1, 2014<*>11:00 AM at the    
Cotton Bowl Stadium

The Mountain West Conference UNLV Rebels vs the Mean Green of UNT.

It was a full sunshiny day.  Many fans on both sides would get sunburned faces. The North Texas Mean Green were  ready for their bowl game—TEXAS STYLE! 
 

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That game is probably the highest point that the program has ever reached, at least since Fry left…

[meangreenbob]

Too bad we couldn’t sustain it or even build on it. But that’s just not who we are, is it? 

[UNT 90 Grad]

Full Game

 

[DeepGreen]

2 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

That game is probably the highest point that the program has ever reached, at least since Fry left…

I think the New Orleans Bowl victory against Cincinnati was pretty special too.

[PlummMeanGreen]

3 hours ago, untjim1995 said:

That game is probably the highest point that the program has ever reached, at least since Fry left…

The UNT crowd that New Years Day in the Cotton Bowl was the largest gathering of Mean Green fans many of us had seen in all the years prior to that bowl game up to present day.
Sure I drink too much green koolade, but now (today) we have the largest contingency of MG fans (& potential MG fans) I swear are ready to bust out to duplicate such Apogee crowds as we drew in very recent years vs SMU, LaTech & Houston.  We just have to.......W-I-N !

I listen to WBAP (DFW) most early weekday mornings & TCU football broadcaster Brian Estridge who saw that 1-1-2014 bowl game said he was very impressed with the Mean Green following on that day. 
 

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Edited September 22, 2021 by PlummMeanGreen

[untjim1995]

38 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

I think the New Orleans Bowl victory against Cincinnati was pretty special too.

I agree, but the 2013 team was better than that 2002 team. 2013 vs 2003 would’ve been a serious battle…

[Big Z]

27 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

The UNT crowd that New Years Day in the Cotton Bowl was the largest gathering of Mean Green fans many of us had seen in all the years prior to that bowl game up to present day.
Sure I drink too much green koolade, but now (today) we have the largest contingency of MG fans (& potential MG fans) I swear are ready to bust out to duplicate such Apogee crowds as we drew in very recent years vs SMU, LaTech & Houston.  We just have to.......W-I-N !

I listen to WBAP (DFW) most early weekday mornings & TCU football broadcaster Brian Estridge who saw that 1-1-2014 bowl game said he was very impressed with the Mean Green following on that day. 
 

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I was there that day but UNLV was a crap opponent. One side almost 40,000 to the other side with about 200. 

[untjim1995]

5 hours ago, Big Z said:

I was there that day but UNLV was a crap opponent. One side almost 40,000 to the other side with about 200. 

Yet again, in true North Texas fashion, normally the opponent in the HoD bowl for CUSA was the B1G opponent. But I’m 2013, Penn State was on probation. Therefore, the B1G only had 9 bowl eligible teams, instead of 10. Because of this, we got UNLV, who was really not that great. As a matter of fact, every opponent we have ever had In a bowl since 2001 has been better than them by a lot. And that’s too bad, because that 2013 team would just bludgeon you to death at the LOS. Basically, we looked a lot like what the current version of UAB or LT do at OL and DL. And we had Brelan, who could break off a huge play at any time. If good Derek Thompson showed up, we usually won. 

[PlummMeanGreen]

Wishing this was 2013 instead of,uh, well—you know. 😢
 

 

[BigWillie]

I love to re hash the good Ole days, but it is sad we are back to that....

[ChiefTenBeers2015]

9 hours ago, BigWillie said:

I love to re hash the good Ole days, but it is sad we are back to that....

And look at UNLV now…

[PlummMeanGreen]

1 hour ago, ChiefTenBeers2015 said:

And look at UNLV now…

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I don’t think many would be on this forum the day after another loss if they thought our winning cycle would never return because (ultimately)—we know it will.