2025 Homecoming Date & Opponent

Big Z · March 19

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Tommy Gadberry · March 19

49 minutes ago, Big Z said:

Risky move in my opinion.

Matt from A700 · March 19

46 minutes ago, Tommy Gadberry said:

Risky move in my opinion.

It will definitely be a bad look/embarrassing if we lose. UTSA fans will take it personal we scheduled them for Homecoming without looking at the other options:

Sat, 9/27 vs South Alabama - "too early"
Fri, 10/10 vs South Florida - Friday
Sat, 11/1 vs Navy - harder opponent

UNTLifer · March 19

52 minutes ago, Tommy Gadberry said:

Risky move in my opinion.

Nah, just beat their ass and send them home.

97and03 · March 20

15 hours ago, Tommy Gadberry said:

Risky move in my opinion.

Yes we should be afraid to play our conference opponents… 🙄

greenjoe · March 20

What time is the parade ?

DallasGreen · March 20

6 hours ago, greenjoe said:

What time is the parade ?

Is there a parade. Don’t recall one last year

UNTLifer · March 20

1 hour ago, DallasGreen said:

Is there a parade. Don’t recall one last year

Or the year before, or the.....

UNTFan23 · March 20

On 3/19/2025 at 2:16 PM, Matt from A700 said:

It will definitely be a bad look/embarrassing if we lose. UTSA fans will take it personal we scheduled them for Homecoming without looking at the other options:

Sat, 9/27 vs South Alabama - "too early"
Fri, 10/10 vs South Florida - Friday
Sat, 11/1 vs Navy - harder opponent

Schools don't get to set their conference schedule. I believe schools can offer suggestions on who they would like to play when but conferences (with media partners) set the schedules.

Matt from A700 · March 21

6 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

Is there a parade. Don’t recall one last year

Parade hasn't happened as the athletic department has cited "environmental risk" (apparently a lot of trash not picked up) and lack of student interest.

UNTLifer · March 21

1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

Parade hasn't happened as the athletic department has cited "environmental risk" (apparently a lot of trash not picked up) and lack of student interest.

Actually Student Activities. I wrote them a letter asking why it was stopped and I got a form letter response. The one event that really connects the university to the community and they stop it for BS reasons.

greenjoe · March 21

I read a list of 15 things “people” don’t do anymore. Among not writing thank you notes and other things, the article said people don’t participate in college homecoming activities. Maybe we’re actually ahead of the curve. This is likely part of the drop in game attendance.

TripleGrad · March 21

No parade, of course (because screw community involvement) but does anyone know anything about the bonfire? From the highway it looks like the traditional location has become a construction zone.

Glory to the Green · March 23

Great idea! Well attended and it should be a good game. GMG!

UNTLifer · March 24

On 3/21/2025 at 4:48 PM, TripleGrad said:

No parade, of course (because screw community involvement) but does anyone know anything about the bonfire? From the highway it looks like the traditional location has become a construction zone.

Idea. Have the parade the Friday afternoon prior to the game and drive those floats to the bonfire site. Two birds, one stone.

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NT80 · March 25

On 3/21/2025 at 11:37 AM, greenjoe said:

I read a list of 15 things “people” don’t do anymore. Among not writing thank you notes and other things, the article said people don’t participate in college homecoming activities. Maybe we’re actually ahead of the curve. This is likely part of the drop in game attendance.

It's another wedge between fans and school support.

Schools are looking more like misers trying to get every cent out of it's fans without giving anything back.

NO parade

NO NIT home game with OSU

Players want paid and don't stay longer than one season

AD and Prez are aloof, asleep, and out of touch

Rah!

DallasGreen · April 15

On 12/9/2024 at 12:18 PM, rcade said:

Funding NIL to a competitive level isn't about ordinary fans. It's about convincing rich alumni to fork over the bucks.

I don't think we lack fans who care. We lack loaded fans who care.

Recent article on two SMU people ( mother & daughter) giving $ 2.5 million for turf makeover shows the tremendously deep pockets of private programs. We may have donors who could do that, but they never will.

JT Hammons · April 15

1 minute ago, DallasGreen said:

Recent article on two SMU people ( mother & daughter) giving $ 2.5 million for turf makeover shows the tremendously deep pockets of private programs. We may have donors who could do that, but they never will.

our alums don't tend to have much money.

DallasGreen · April 15

Emphasis on teachers, musicians, and liberals guarantee no loyalty as alums as well as poor paying jobs.

rcade · April 15

2 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

Emphasis on teachers, musicians, and liberals guarantee no loyalty as alums as well as poor paying jobs.

UNT is a big school with no shortage of graduates who make money. Our schools of business and engineering have over 12,000 undergraduates combined, higher than the entire enrollment of SMU. You don't major in those disciplines without an eye towards getting paid.

What we lack is that old boy's club of rich donors getting rich people perks that make them want to stay associated with their alma mater and open up their checkbooks on a consistent basis.

untjim1995 · April 15

5 minutes ago, rcade said:

UNT is a big school with no shortage of graduates who make money. Our schools of business and engineering have over 12,000 undergraduates combined, higher than the entire enrollment of SMU. You don't major in those disciplines without an eye towards getting paid.

What we lack is that old boy's club of rich donors getting rich people perks that make them want to stay associated with their alma mater and open up their checkbooks on a consistent basis.

Because we nuked that group in 1982 with the 1-AA fiasco. You basically killed off alums who still did care about the school's athletics that had graduated any time before 1995. And even then, it wasn't until the 00's that we ever showed a hint of being able to actually win as a FBS squad, albeit against the dregs of the CFB world. The BMDs we need are ones who graduated during the nuking of the program. I mean, seriously, there's a reason there was the UNT 17, when we need about a UNT 1700.

So, now, when we will see what almost everyone else has in place, probably won't be until 2045 or later. if then. Having your administration show everyone that you'd rather host a faculty fajita lunch at the Super Pit than host a NIT game here against Oklahoma State is not exactly helping to cultivate BMDs for athletics.

Businesspeople with UNT degrees are mostly pro sports fans or t-shirt fans of the Power Teams. There's a reason that 2% of the UNT alumni base cares enough to donate to athletics, and that was before NIL and the Portal began killing the college sports world. Today, I'd be shocked if its 1%.

rcade · April 15

28 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

Because we nuked that group in 1982 with the 1-AA fiasco. You basically killed off alums who still did care about the school's athletics that had graduated any time before 1995.

That decision was a disaster but can we really still be blaming it in 2025? USF didn't even have a football team in 1995. UCF was an FCS independent that year. Both rose up, UCF all the way to the P5/4/3/2. Our excuse is older than their time in FBS.

I think the biggest reason we lack deep-pocketed alumni support is our consistent lack of success. We have to win games and keep winning them to make a difference. Otherwise this will continue to be just us weirdos who bleed green and the current crop of commuter students.

Edited to add: I should also blame the lack of leadership at UNT that enables success.

Edited April 15 by rcade

untjim1995 · April 15

20 minutes ago, rcade said:

That decision was a disaster but can we really still be blaming it in 2025? USF didn't even have a football team in 1995. UCF was an FCS independent that year. Both rose up, UCF all the way to the P5/4/3/2. Our excuse is older than their time in FBS.

I think the biggest reason we lack deep-pocketed alumni support is our consistent lack of success. We have to win games and keep winning them to make a difference. Otherwise this will continue to be just us weirdos who bleed green and the current crop of commuter students.

Edited to add: I should also blame the lack of leadership at UNT that enables success.

UCF, USF, UTSA, and Texas State never killed off a program and intentionally kept it down for 12 years until it became a way to make more money to whore out the football team for funding.

One school did this. And its haunted us for 40+ years, in some form or fashion. Alums walked away. Students wouldn't even dream of following the program. Media laughed at us or ignored us, which is why North Texas State has been a thing for so long, even though the name change was in 1988.

Now, your point about leadership being terrible STILL is spot-on.

NT80 · April 16

5 hours ago, rcade said:

That decision was a disaster but can we really still be blaming it in 2025? USF didn't even have a football team in 1995. UCF was an FCS independent that year. Both rose up, UCF all the way to the P5/4/3/2. Our excuse is older than their time in FBS.

I think the biggest reason we lack deep-pocketed alumni support is our consistent lack of success. We have to win games and keep winning them to make a difference. Otherwise this will continue to be just us weirdos who bleed green and the current crop of commuter students.

Edited to add: I should also blame the lack of leadership at UNT that enables success.

Still, we have come a long way, from not that long ago.

We seemed more like a high school program back then in 1-AA.

But Corky could win games!

Worst helmets ever! Thank god it was only for one year...

NT80 · April 16

43 minutes ago, NT80 said:

Still, we have come a long way, from not that long ago.

We seemed more like a high school program back then in 1-AA.

But Corky could win games!

Worst helmets ever! Thank god it was only for one year...

And Matt Simon was coach then...1994-97.

I see Matt Simon (now 71), as of last year, is the OC/QB coach now at Ohio Northern.

I didn't know there was an Ohio Northern, lol. Enrollment is about 3000; the Polar Bears are DIII.