F A U Gets Two Sun Belt Games On National Tv

MeanGreen61 · March 14, 2008

A30 at Texas, 1 p.m.

S6 vs. UAB, 4 p.m.

S13 at Michigan State, Noon

S20 at Minnesota, Noon

S30 (Tue) at Middle Tennessee 7:30 p.m.(ESPN2)

O7 (Tue.) vs. Troy, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

O18 at Western Kentucky, 5 p.m.

O25 UL-Monre

N8 vs. North Texas, 4 p.m.

N15 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, 4 p.m.

N22 at Arkansas State, 7 p.m.

N 29 vs FIU (at Dolphin Stadium) 7 p.m.

Palm Beach Post

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content...otball_sch.html

NT80 · March 14, 2008

game at 1pm in Austin on August 30...could be a little warm for that one, welcome to Texas!

jdennis82 · March 14, 2008

game at 1pm in Austin on August 30...could be a little warm for that one, welcome to Texas!

good point. i'll take the horns due to the weather advantage

DallasGreen · March 14, 2008

good point. i'll take the horns due to the weather advantage

You can bet it will be a lot closer than the last 3 times we played in Austin!!! Remember in 2007 'Horns had some problems with UCF. I was impressed with FAU and especially their coaching in NOB and at Fouts. Ahhh ----remember light years ago when we thought a trip to NO in Dec. was expected? Now we talk four year programs to just become competitive. It will happen if admins do the RIGHT thing and kick up student fee to be competitive with the FAUs and FIUs that we compete against. If Lamar, UTSA, TX St @ SM can do it why can't UNT?

March 14, 2008

You can bet it will be a lot closer than the last 3 times we played in Austin!!! Remember in 2007 'Horns had some problems with UCF. I was impressed with FAU and especially their coaching in NOB and at Fouts. Ahhh ----remember light years ago when we thought a trip to NO in Dec. was expected? Now we talk four year programs to just become competitive. It will happen if admins do the RIGHT thing and kick up student fee to be competitive with the FAUs and FIUs that we compete against. If Lamar, UTSA, TX St @ SM can do it why can't UNT?

Yes because money solves everything. See "Notre Dame 2007" or "SMU."

UNT will almost certainly increase student fees and get this stadium built. Just don't think that solves all our problems.

Quoner · March 14, 2008

Does this mean we have to reward UCF the 1988 Memorial "Almost Beat Texas" trophy? I have kind of grown attached...even though we had to start sharing it with Arkansas State last year.

CMJ · March 14, 2008

It's pretty freaking hot and humid in Florida. Not sure UT will have a "weather" advantage in that game(though I expect them to win big).

UNTflyer · March 14, 2008

It's pretty freaking hot and humid in Florida. Not sure UT will have a "weather" advantage in that game(though I expect them to win big).

I am a Florida native and have lived in Texas for 10 years. Still unsure which hot is worse: 95 and 70% humidity, or 110, dry, and windy.

Mo Green · March 15, 2008

If the UT game stays at in the afternoon, it will be on TV as well locally.

NT03 · March 15, 2008

If TeXas comes up flat like they did last year on opening day against ARKANSAS STATE , there will be a upset in Austin.

I'll take the Owls and the points

March 15, 2008

It's not all about money. In the reporting period ending 6/30/07, we had a 4 million dollar larger budget than FAU....they won 5 games; we won 2. FIU had 3 more million to work with than we did and didn't win a game.

That's not to say that we don't need the student fee in order to bond and build the new stadium; we do. But just to kick up the athletic budget won't buy us wins. Mississippi State has about the lowest athletic budget of the old BCS schools and we'd have to double ours to match them. They made it to a bowl last year with their relatively small budget.

DallasGreen · March 16, 2008

It's not all about money. In the reporting period ending 6/30/07, we had a 4 million dollar larger budget than FAU....they won 5 games; we won 2. FIU had 3 more million to work with than we did and didn't win a game.
That's not to say that we don't need the student fee in order to bond and build the new stadium; we do. But just to kick up the athletic budget won't buy us wins. Mississippi State has about the lowest athletic budget of the old BCS schools and we'd have to double ours to match them. They made it to a bowl last year with their relatively small budget.

You won't keep good coaches with a "relatively small budget" Until this administration decides to step up to D-1 salaries and funding we'll keep slipping further behind. You are fixing to see how fast money buys wins with June Jones @ SMU. If we keep on keeping on as is, we will rue the day we extend that contract, but my money is on them never agreeing to it now. BTW FIUs student fee $13 mill sure kicked our arse last game!!!

UNTFan23 · March 16, 2008

I honestly don't understand how enforcing an athletic fee on the students will make them have more pride in their school and make them give back financially and go to games. I also don't understand how, in essence, writing a larger blank check to administration for athletics when people have complained about how "small-time" our administration has been for years will suddenly make us a top tier school.

I'm just sayin' ............

DallasGreen · March 16, 2008

I honestly don't understand how enforcing an athletic fee on the students will make them have more pride in their school and make them give back financially and go to games. I also don't understand how, in essence, writing a larger blank check to administration for athletics when people have complained about how "small-time" our administration has been for years will suddenly make us a top tier school.
I'm just sayin' ............

As said previously $$ gets the right people who think big not as a small time, faculty dominated, "poor boy" non-traditional student ( commuters and old folks) oriented institution. $$ is the ONLY denominator that talks today in the NCAA. We have no Boone Pickens. Our ONLY strength is numbers--students and alumni --the time has come for someone to come forward and tap both of these rather than being gutless. You may step on a few toes, but it is the ONLY way to produce a product in which both alumni and students can take pride. Without that committment we won't even be SLC material in five years. If you don't think the demand is there now waiting to have something to believe and take pride in you should have been at the Dallas BlackFinn alumni event. People want to be proud of UNT, but our admins lack the guts to take the action that will fund a program to make them proud!!!

FirefightnRick · March 16, 2008

I honestly don't understand how enforcing an athletic fee on the students will make them have more pride in their school and make them give back financially and go to games. I also don't understand how, in essence, writing a larger blank check to administration for athletics when people have complained about how "small-time" our administration has been for years will suddenly make us a top tier school.
I'm just sayin' ............

Have you been ignoring ADLER's posts all this time? You truly don't understand the bleeding that is currently going on by selling ourselves as a cheap, affordable, accessable degree to locals, who because of a collegiate setting that does not promote school pride of any kind campus wide, will never build any ounce of a bond to the university their entire time here then earn their degree and leave FOREVER, never to return or donate another dime back? Just one of the main reasons why our endowment is so rediculously low among other levels of alumni donations. Don't think of it as "immediate" because it won't be. Think of it as an investment, which is exactly what it will be for the future.

Rick

Edited March 16, 2008 by FirefightnRick

DallasGreen · March 16, 2008

Have you been ignoring ADLER's posts all this time? You truly don't understand the bleeding that is currently going on by selling ourselves as a cheap, affordable, accessable degree to locals, who because of a collegiate setting that does not promote school pride of any kind campus wide, will never build any ounce of a bond to the university their entire time here then earn their degree and leave FOREVER, never to return or donate another dime back? Just one of the main reasons why our endowment is so rediculously low among other levels of alumni donations. Don't think of it as "immediate" because it won't be. Think of it as an investment, which is exactly what it will be for the future.
Rick

Student Fee= investment for the future

MGC donation= investment for the future

EXES membership= get on board now

Student apathy= OLD line thinking as well as stupidity

ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!

FirefightnRick · March 17, 2008

Student Fee= investment for the future
MGC donation= investment for the future
EXES membership= get on board now
Student apathy= OLD line thinking as well as stupidity
ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't even go so far as making any attempt in trying to cultivate past alumni. Of those what?, 84,000 DFW alumni I doubt 10,000 give a rats? I'm thinking it's more like the 8,000 or so who we see at the more heavily attended football games, and that's it. The other 76,000 are gone as far as I'm concerned other than those the GreenBloods are personally in contact with and try dragging them out on saturday's. The rest are gone and shouldn't have money wasted on trying to bring them in. If anyone doesn't believe me then work a phone-a-thon some time and you'll understand. They only remember how it was and not how it is and they'll never return or donate back. The best way to bring them back is to invest to win and promote winning and teach the current students how to have pride in their school through athletic success. They will be more likely to come back in the future moreso than the old group.

Rick