Football Hosts Troy Live on ESPN2

[MeanGreen61]

Football Hosts Troy Live On ESPN2

Courtesy: University of North Texas

Release: 09/27/2005

With losses in its last two games, North Texas (1-2, 1-0) returns home to face Troy (1-3, 0-0) for the first time as a Sun Belt Conference opponent on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 6:30 pm. The game will be televised on ESPN 2 with Dave Barnett on play-by-play and Craig James providing analysis.

Full story plus links to DD's press conference & Weekly game notes

http://www.meangreensports.com/ViewArticle...0&ATCLID=190829

[NT91]

Dave Barnett is a NT alum.

[Stan R]

Hmm. Craig James providing analysis, that will be interesting (former SMU guy)

[GreenBat]

Hmm. Craig James providing analysis,  that will be interesting (former SMU guy)

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It's NOT that he went to SMU that bothers me. It's that he's a pompous Know-it-all, that truly doesn't know anything that bothers me about Craig James.

[buff64]

Hmm. Craig James providing analysis,  that will be interesting (former SMU guy)

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Are we recruiting Craig James's son ?

Would you prefer Sammy Smith to announce the game ?

[GMoney]

My biggest problem with Craig James is he could care less about smaller programs. He's made this clear with every arguement he's made against a mid-major crashing the BCS Party. He did it last year with Utah and the year before with Boise St.. With that being said, I trust he'll be professional, do his homework and not run off on one of his "this is not a one of the big boys" rant.

[JayDub]

Craig James is a douchebag.

[emmitt01]

Craig James is a douchebag.

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So concise, yet so true.

[the green rokemi]

Craig James is a douchebag.

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be nice guys...that's offensive to a douchebag

[Green92]

I knew douchebag, and you sir, are no douchebag!

[PlummMeanGreen]

I knew douchebag, and you sir, are no douchebag!  

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Humor is medicine for the soul. We have plenty of it on GMG.com.

Craig James and his family now live in Celina (which is Mean Green Country by geography and since NT grad/TX HS football icon G.A. Moore coached there for a zillion years one time, too). Craig James was in the documentary movie Power, Passion and Glory and was even quite affable in that DVD flick.

I do hope a handful of our nestor's forecasts (& almost a gleeful forecast with some) of our attendance next Tuesday night is (somehow) way off the mark; what we don't need is SMU ex Craig James telling everyone in our living room and on national TV audience and telling anyone who has ever been connected to NORTH TEXAS in any capacity how bad our alums/fans are because of too many empty seats.

We (obviously) expect much from our football team so why shouldn't they expect much from us as fans in return? We all say we want to be like a Texas Tech (which at one time would have been attainable, probably still is down the road) but for the present we don't do the things that proves we want that next level that we as Mean Green fans do have control and that being attendance at Fouts Field in good or not so good times. We have about 250 (give or take) on both our men and women's varsity athletic teams at NORTH TEXAS, so there is no way they, their parents and all their relatives can fill Fouts Field.

Team North Texas is everyone of us from every constituency of UNT from the maintanance crew employed by NT all the way to the Chancellor's Office and what we all want to happen at NT will have to be a team effort from each one of our constituencies between those 2 aforementioned, too, which pretty well covers us all.

Showing up at Fouts Field is (in many ways) the easy part even for those who haven't invested in our school with a donation or two or three in the past to the academic dept. of their major or the MG Club. Yet we need everyone (donors and non-donors) to make all this work the way we all want this to work.

We are a most diversified Mean Green Nation where our football team's wins and losses affects each of us in different ways with various extremes of emotion and most of that probably having to do with the era one attended NT; also, probably having to do with what each of our short-term & long-term expectations for our alma mater's football program are.

Yet wouldn't most agree that things are gettting better, things are getting better all the time in Mean Green Country? For proof, one only has to take a tour of those 200 acres at our Eagle Point Campus and see dirt flying all over the place with steel beams and concrete being poured non-stop and with more of that to come. How many of us even as short a time as 5 years ago would have thought all there'd ever be on those 400 acres (total) but a "burnt' by the Texas sun" golf course (and some most scenic duck ponds)?

GMG!

Edited September 28, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen