4,227

[emmitt01]

Not a bad number of fans for this game (and I believe that number is real, there was a significant number of lower bowl seats and even some upper bowl seats filled).

Unlike in football, we didn’t crap the bed when we got a good crowd to come out

[Hunter Green]

We need to build on this.

[UNTLifer]

Everybody that was there today needs to bring a friend on Monday. 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

10,000 FOR LA TECH!!!

 

Oh wait this is North Texas, 6-7K seems reasonable.

[greenjoe]

Was there something else going on tonight ?  There seemed a lot of cars parked for the number of fans inside the Coliseum.

Great win.  See everyone Monday night.  

[meangreen11]

The atmosphere was fantastic tonight!  

[Green Otaku]

Do you guys guess it will be more or less on Monday? More people are off on the weekend, but more students will be around for a weekday game. 

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

46 minutes ago, Green Otaku said:

Do you guys guess it will be more or less on Monday? More people are off on the weekend, but more students will be around for a weekday game. 

It’ll be probably the same, in my opinion. Monday is weird, but students would be more on campus. Hit or miss overall wise, should be a nice turnout student wise.

And I know this isn’t related, but if I hear one more complaint about the maniacs name or whatever, I’m gonna lose my shit.

Anyway, hopefully the next home stand, and maybe Rice in Houston, we bring good crowds!!

[UNTLifer]

Still trying to get used to the name Mean Green Maniacs.  Like the Pit Crew better.

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

1 minute ago, UNTLifer said:

Still trying to get used to the name Mean Green Maniacs.  Like the Pit Crew better.

 

All jokes, I do too but as long as there are butts in the seats making noise, I don’t care.

Edited February 6, 2022 by NorthTexasSportsNetwork

[UNTLifer]

I just wanted to see you "lose your shit".

[Matt from A700]

If I just spent however much money on arena renovations, I would be losing my shit too if the student section, who I went out of my way to create special concourse tunnel signage for, decided to change their name a couple of years later.

True story. The Maniacs had to hang a banner over the tunnel that says Pit Crew. You can still see the Crew.

Edited February 6, 2022 by Matt from A700

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

12 hours ago, UNTLifer said:

I just wanted to see you "lose your shit".

I always do

[Mean Green Matt]

14 hours ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

 

And I know this isn’t related, but if I hear one more complaint about the maniacs name or whatever, I’m gonna lose my shit.

Just because it’s completely asinine that the Pit Crew name wasn’t kept does not mean we don’t want the maniacs to succeed. 

[northtexassigep]

13 hours ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

 

All jokes, I do too but as long as there are butts in the seats making noise, I don’t care.

Pit crew>>

[El Paso Eagle]

37 minutes ago, Mean Green Matt said:

Just because it’s completely asinine that the Pit Crew name wasn’t kept does not mean we don’t want the maniacs to succeed. 

Agree, but forbid UNT try to keep any traditions going

[RiseUNT]

How about us oldheads just revive the Pit Crew as an alumni group of fans stuck in the past.

[greenminer]

13 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Agree, but forbid UNT try to keep any traditions going

The Maniacs are trying to revive a tradition and I don't really care what they're called.  I think you're putting too much weight on the name in this case.

[El Paso Eagle]

3 hours ago, greenminer said:

The Maniacs are trying to revive a tradition and I don't really care what they're called.  I think you're putting too much weight on the name in this case.

With all due respect - typical UNT fan justifying why we have so few traditions at UNT. Constantly changing seems to be accepted here more than most places.  

[emmitt01]

26 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

With all due respect - typical UNT fan justifying why we have so few traditions at UNT. Constantly changing seems to be accepted here more than most places.  

With an equal amount of due respect, was the Pit Crew really a “tradition”?  Sure it was a thing for a few years, but a tradition?
 

It’s not exactly the spirit bell, bonfire, or the eagle claw hand sign.   I was a Talon for 4 years and never once taught incoming members about the tradition of the pit crew.  
 

Let’s not become Aggies and say anything we’ve done twice is now part of school lore.  

Edited February 6, 2022 by emmitt01

[Mean Green Matt]

3 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

With an equal amount of due respect, was the Pit Crew really a “tradition”?  Sure it was a thing for a few years, but a tradition?
 

It’s not exactly the spirit bell, bonfire, or the eagle claw hand sign.   I was a Talon for 4 years and never once taught incoming members about the tradition of the pit crew.  
 

Let’s not become Aggies and say anything we’ve done twice is now part of school lore.  

This is a revisionist minimization of what the pit crew was and did. No, it wasn’t the Spirit Bell, but it was the most significant organized student support for the basketball team since probably the Men’s Gym era. It had a lifespan of around a decade. And despite less basketball success, and a smaller student body, it blows away what the maniacs are currently doing. Will the maniacs surpass it? I sure hope so. But saying “let’s not get carried away, that really successful thing wasn’t as old as the Spirit Bell” is unnecessarily dismissive. We don’t have traditions because we do stuff like this. 

[bstnsportsfan3]

I thought this number was the amount of times @Andrew tried to get @emmitt01to acknowledge him. 

[greenminer]

5 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Agree, but forbid UNT try to keep any traditions going

 

1 hour ago, El Paso Eagle said:

With all due respect - typical UNT fan justifying why we have so few traditions at UNT. Constantly changing seems to be accepted here more than most places.  

God forbid we sit down with them and ask.  Maybe the Maniac leaders are open to change.

I can be grumpy about traditions and also fluid about change.  I like the upside of this current group.  I'm okay with Maniacs or Pit Crew.

I'll stick to Uni changes, multiple shades of green, and North Texas State lol.

[Andrew]

26 minutes ago, bstnsportsfan3 said:

I thought this number was the amount of times @Andrew tried to get @emmitt01to acknowledge him. 

You heard! Everyone on my side heard…. I figured he was hard of hearing now in his old age…

 

will have to bring a poster next time. 

[Eagle71]

1968 The Men's Gym aka The Snake Pit.  At any game, among the 4,500 - 5,000 packed into "The Pit" you probably would see Joe Greene, Phyllis George, Bill Schmidt, Meatloaf, Tom "Bone Malone, Steve Ramsey, Don Henley, Ron Shanklin, Peter Weller, Cedric Hardman, Glenn Holloway,,,,

Edited February 7, 2022 by Eagle71