Pernetti Interview

NT80 · July 27

2 hours ago, wardly said:

I forgot about UTA. It only seat about 9,000 or so and shortly thereafter they dropped football. I appreciate your suggestion as it gave an old man a trip down memory lane. Also, while you and I probably won't go camping together, I do respect your opinion as well as all those who post .The three hardest words I had to learn in life were "maybe you're right". However sometimes I do forget. My bad.

You traveled a lot of miles to NT away games. Did you go to the UTA/NT first game at that new Maverick Stadium? It was Sept 6, 1980. I was there, as were a lot of NT fans. Previously UTA and NT played their games at a neutral Texas Stadium.

Maverick Stadium was listed as a 12,000 seat capacity, but there was 18,033 in attendance opening night, a 31-14 NT win. It would be the largest attendance there ever for UTA, as all other best crowds were under 9500. UTA dropped football at the end of the 1985 season, a UTA loss to NT at Fouts Field 23-20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_Stadium

wardly · July 27

11 hours ago, NT80 said:

You traveled a lot of miles to NT away games. Did you go to the UTA/NT first game at that new Maverick Stadium? It was Sept 6, 1980. I was there, as were a lot of NT fans. Previously UTA and NT played their games at a neutral Texas Stadium.

Maverick Stadium was listed as a 12,000 seat capacity, but there was 18,033 in attendance opening night, a 31-14 NT win. It would be the largest attendance there ever for UTA, as all other best crowds were under 9500. UTA dropped football at the end of the 1985 season, a UTA loss to NT at Fouts Field 23-20.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_Stadium

Yes, I was there. We had about 3 to 4 couples in the 70's that used to travel to one or two road games a year. However life happens and we all moved away from Dallas, although I returned in 1974. I had two sons under 5 and was trying to start a new business so I missed the majority of Hayden's tenure. While in S.. Louis 68/70' my wife and I drove to Rolla, Missouri and rented a motel room to watch North Texas play Tulsa on a black and white t.v. Rolla was the closest town that carried the game and I think we lost. My wife was pissed as the road trip we much longer than anticipated. The best trip, bar none, was in 1988 when my then 13 year old son and I flew with the basketball team to the NCAA Sub Regionals in Salt Lake City. The day we arrived the Mavericks were in town so we saw them play that evening at the Salt Palace. The next day we were on Utah's campus and saw the Eagles pounded by J.R. Reed and the North Carolina Tar Heels. The second game was Wyoming vs Loyola Marymont [sic] where the teams scored a combined 250 points. I still have never see a college basketball game to match it.