Ft Worth Bowl

Rudy · December 22, 2005

Last year, myself, Emmitt, FFR, Pierow and one or two others went to the Ft Worth Bowl, is there a group going this year?

UNTFan23 · December 22, 2005

I don't get off work till 7.30 Friday.

mrsgreengoblin · December 22, 2005

We are going. It will be me, my husband and my dad.

We haven't gotten tickets yet though. We plan on just trying to buy some at the game.

Cowtown · December 22, 2005

I will be there, in the lot at least.

Not sure if I am going into the game.

GMG

BazMom · December 22, 2005

For those of you going to the Ft. Worth Bowl or watching the game on TV, pay attention to WR Mark Simmons (#83). He is a terrific athlete who has blossomed into a NFL prospect. He played in high school with Nick and for whatever reason UNT never showed any interest in him. However, Okl. St. and Kansas both offered him scholarships. Needless to say, we let some very good players leave the area without even trying to recruit them.

medpilot21 · December 23, 2005

For those of you going to the Ft. Worth Bowl or watching the game on TV, pay attention to WR Mark Simmons (#83). He is a terrific athlete who has blossomed into a NFL prospect. He played in high school with Nick and for whatever reason UNT never showed any interest in him. However, Okl. St. and Kansas both offered him scholarships. Needless to say, we let some very good players leave the area without even trying to recruit them.
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Bingo....enough said on that one.

GMG!!!

Coffee and TV · December 23, 2005

I plan on sending my "set aside NO Bowl money" for the Independence Bowl instead.

UNTLifer · December 23, 2005

for whatever reason UNT never showed any interest in him.
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So, a player's parent will be critical.

I do understand why they, the player's parents, aren't critical of the program while their son is playing, but it is nice to see this. This has been discussed many times on this board, but NT seems to overlook many players in their own backyard. The Metroplex is a breeding ground for good D1 players, yet we seem to rarely recruit it heavily.

NT91 · December 24, 2005

I will be there, in the lot at least.
Not sure if I am going into the game.
GMG
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Did you have on any NT items?

Edited December 24, 2005 by NT91

Cowtown · December 24, 2005

I was decked out in Green. Lime Green shirt and Hunter green down vest.

I have to say the KU fans were great.

They showed up in mass and were very vocal.

And they had a really cool fight song, sounded like a soccer crowd.

Strangly UH had 3 big flags. A UH flag, a State flag and...a red and white Freebirds flag, the circle F...?????

NT80 · December 24, 2005

I was decked out in Green. Lime Green shirt and Hunter green down vest.
I have to say the KU fans were great.
They showed up in mass and were very vocal.
And they had a really cool fight song, sounded like a soccer crowd.
Strangly UH had 3 big flags. A UH flag, a State flag and...a red and white Freebirds flag, the circle F...?????
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What would you estimate the school's crowds were? On TV in the far stands it looked like KU = 5000, UH = 3000, general = 2000. I was surprised Houston got rocked so badly. Their pumped fans after leaving the SuperPit were probably a little tamer after the football game (ha!).

mrsgreengoblin · December 27, 2005

What would you estimate the school's crowds were? On TV in the far stands it looked like KU = 5000, UH = 3000, general = 2000. I was surprised Houston got rocked so badly. Their pumped fans after leaving the SuperPit were probably a little tamer after the football game (ha!).
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I believe the announced attendance was 33,305.

Cowtown · December 27, 2005

I would guess KU had around 15k and UH had around 7K

Just about the whole student side was full and alumni side was about 1/3.

Upper Deck was sparse.

Eagle1855 · December 28, 2005

from the way it looked on tv, I would say there was about 16,342 or 16,343 KU fans and about 6,924 U of H fans. Just a guess though. Like I said, I only caught a couple glimpses of the crowd on TV.