My SMU Friend Gene picked our scores:

[Green Grenade II]

Well, he points out our inability to win Out of Conference games, plus he says we're in the SunBelt, and that doesn't count for much, so here's his picks:

LSU 70, North Texas 14

North Texas 38, Middle Tennessee 21

Tulsa 33, North Texas 31

Kansas State 42, North Texas 7

North Texas 27, Troy 21

North Texas 51, Fla. International 3

Louisiana Tech 34, North Texas 28

North Texas 49, Louisiana-Monroe 24

North Texas 45, Louisiana-Lafayette 20

North Texas 27, Fla. Atlantic 21

North Texas 63, Arkansas State 3

New Orleans Bowl:

Memphis 35, North Texas 34

"What the hell does he know. He thinks SMU will go 5-6."

[greenminer]

Finally! A non-UNT'n that agrees (with us) that we can still take care of business against MTSU...even that early in the season.

Addtionally, I think he's overestimating K St. I also noticed his Ark St. prediction...we'll see about that one.

-gm

[PlummMeanGreen]

Rick, what Gene is really saying between the lines is that he "hopes" NORTH TEXAS doesn't build a new football stadium, but I think he is going to be as disappointed with what he eventually sees at our Eagle Point Campus as he has been with his 'Stangs for the last 20 plus years.

To quote Darrell Dickey (and I do so liberally): "The University of North Texas has never failed in anything it has set out to accomplish." To Gene's dismay, the locomotive is already in motion for NT to build a new football stadium. Tell Gene ol' boy (who I had the, uh, "priviledge" of meeting) that The University of North Texas" has to attach something to our present south end zone facility (which already has a veranda for about 1,000 MG football fans) and it just might as well be a new 40,000 seat football stadium.

These poor ol' longtime Dallasites who just cannot turn loose of the past and their perceptions of what NT was at the time their great-grandfathers were young men still thinking its that same school (from that era) today. In many ways, its really kind of, uh, sad to see those who seem to be having a difficult time joining this new millineum. Unfortunately, we even have a handful in MG Country having a little difficulty doing the same thing. (Denia for starters?)

GMG!

Edited August 7, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen