U N T Has Some Of The Best Facilities In The Country !

MeanGreen61 · May 30, 2007

Excluding Fouts, UNT seems to get excellent marks on facilities. The new AC and Mean Green Village sure can't do anything but help recruiting. Facilities get some discussion in this thread from the TexasFootball board.

"UNT has some of the best facilities in the country. I have toured them and many other college's facilities and they were one of the best that I had seen."

"Never seen their facilities. I was just assuming by the way Fouts Field looks. It looks like a prison play yard, than a football stadium."

THREAD - DODGE FOOTBALL CAMP

http://www.5atexasfootball.com/forum/vB/sh...ead.php?t=17598

greenminer · May 30, 2007

funny read

PlummMeanGreen · May 31, 2007

funny read

Very funny read...

And lest we forget, remember when one present All Pro NFL'er said UNT had nicer training facilities, ie, the Athletic Center than some NFL teams?

FWIW and as most of you already know, we do have some very nice facilities at the University of North Texas over at the Mean Green Village and when we put the icing on the cake with our eventual new football stadium there will even be (IMHO) a few BCS schools (from the big 6 conferences) that may not have any better than UNT. (Throw in the fabulous "ageless" Super Pit and we do start getting major points for our overall facilities as compared to most in NCAA D1-A). :clapping:

Yet at UNT, we cannot allow ourselves to get back in this "10 years behind the rest of D1-A" modus operendi (such as we did when we finally added artificial turf at Fouts--about 10 yrs. behind the rest of the pack), because during this particular era of NCAA football we find ourselves in staying behind 10 years now will probably put you even further behind the rest of our competitors than say if it were the 70's, 80's or even the 90's.

FWIW...........we now have Sun Belt schools adding indoor practice facilities and from what a thread (and photo link) on GMG.com says yet another SBC school that will soon turn ground for a new football stadium. Wouldn't it have been nice if all that kind of SBC news had come from the SBC's largest university ie, the one located in the SBC's largest population center?

We seem to be on a steady track at UNT, though, and (yes, I know) we have had to start from scratch with everything we have already built at our Eagle Point Campus aka MG Village &.......................we really should count our blessings with what we do have out there--but we just need our own UNT version of a T. Boone Pickens to step forward soon because I think a growing number of you know by now that it will be that kind of mega-donation by such a person (or corporation) that will get this thing jump-started in Denton.

Edited May 31, 2007 by PlummMeanGreen