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[PlummMeanGreen]

FWIW, most any marketing and promotion plans for this Fall that you could expect to be truly effective would have been put to bed weeks ago.

Now I know that won't stop any of us from speculating on what we should be doing, but for promotins that will get large groups of fans out to Fouts Field well............for next Fall NT officials need to start planning around March/April, 2006.

I sorta' wish we would have employed the same marketing firm that helped us put the (then) largest crowd ever at Fouts Field for our first Baylor game a few years ago. A good opening day crowd can set the pace for the rest of the football season IMO.

[SilverEagle]

I sorta' wish we would have employed the same marketing firm that helped us put the (then) largest crowd ever at Fouts Field for our first Baylor game a few years ago.  A good opening day crowd can set the pace for the rest of the football season IMO.

I sorta wish we had the same promotional people that we did back in 1988 when they helped sell out Fouts field for the first time in it's history........as a 1-AA school.

[FirefightnRick]

North Texas has had a long tradition of crapping on it's alumni and it's time for a change. But without a doubt this need for change should reach much further than just the Talons. MUCH FURTHER!

Funny, but had it not been for Talon alumni, the current talons would be down to bonfire for existence. Talon alumni paid for, and restored the Model A back into existence two years ago(mostly by hand by the way), paid for and built the 1500lb Victory Bell(also mostly by hand), a tradition that had been missing for more than 22 years since the last one was retired, and paid for and re-rebuilt Boomer the Cannon(completely by hand). Needless to say, I was thrown back to hear that the Talon Alumni were written out from participating in how Talons chooses it's leadership for the future. But this seems to be how our entire school works when it comes to it's alumni so it shouldn't be such a shock to anyone. I'm getting used to the "Just leave your check, then go away" mentality.

No one around here should ever question why we are so short on season ticket holders, active NT Exes members, donors for finishing tennis complexes, baseball stadiums, football stadiums etc....All you need to do is work a phone-a-thon to hear the stories, or better yet live them yourself by attending and trying to volunteer your time to help in some way to understand why so many people have turned their backs on NT over the years.

As one alumnus jokingly yelled out during the Spring game in '03: "I'd be worried to give anyone around here a check for $1,000 for fear they'd wash it"

Rick