The Dfw Connection

NT03 · July 26, 2009

SUMG · July 26, 2009

I don't think I had ever seen that picture of the stadium that they have on the front. Looks good.

The article is pretty fair.

I didn't think the D-RC was very fair with that crowd shot picture of the ULL game (and the caption that the stands are mostly empty). That had to be toward the end of the game. I guess they're trying to imply there, that no one attends games. As I recall, we had a decent crowd at that game. If the D-RC takes photos thirty minutes before a game.....or toward the end of a game that is already "decided"....I guess they can make their point that no one goes to our games.

Edit: Our attendance for the ULL game was 17,106. We lost that game 59-30.

Edited July 26, 2009 by SUMG

NT91 · July 26, 2009

The endzone wings need to go.. I do like the SOW on the 50 yd.line

TheTastyGreek · July 26, 2009

I didn't think the D-RC was very fair with that crowd shot picture of the ULL game (and the caption that the stands are mostly empty). That had to be toward the end of the game. I guess they're trying to imply there, that no one attends games. As I recall, we had a decent crowd at that game. If the D-RC takes photos thirty minutes before a game.....or toward the end of a game that is already "decided"....I guess they can make their point that no one goes to our games.

That was very, very late in that game.

I know, because I remember that picture being taken... Because that's me and some family and friends in the middle, near the bottom. Not the guys in the white caps or wearing a lime shirt, but in front of them.

The silhouette guy standing up right in line with the 50 yard line is my dad. The leaned over, beaten down, defeated guy in front of him is me. The slouching guy in the UNT Orientation 2003 t-shirt two to the right of me is my brother. Between us, standing up next to my dad, is either LAZER or MeanMag, I can't remember or tell which. I think it's MeanMag, and LAZER is sitting in front of him.

I know this picture was taken late in the game because I noticed the photographer walking around at the top of the student section. On his way down, I asked him if he got a good picture.

He was easy to spot, because the student section emptied out to the point you see there early in the 4th quarter. A LOT of people got fed up and left on the drive when Dodge decided to kick a 24 yard field goal rather than go for six on 4th and 4 on the ULL 6 yard line. At the time, we were down by 18 points with 12 minutes left in the game. I remember THAT distinctly because I was so shocked and angry that I made a comment about it to my dad. A student nearby said that Dodge was going for a field goal "because we need 3 scores anyway", and I laughed. 8 plays, 80 yards, and 7 points later for ULL, that student also got up and left the stadium. If I weren't such a masochist, I'd have been gone, too.

Based on what I remember and the field position in the game (North Texas on it's own 31 or 32)... This picture was taken with about 4 minutes left in the game, right after North Texas gave up a TD to go down 59-30. Micah Mosley either just ran for six yards to get us there, or Nathan Tune is about to run for eight yards to get a first down.

So it's late in the game, but that's pretty much what the view from up there was for 1/4th of the game.

NT80 · July 26, 2009

I don't think I had ever seen that picture of the stadium that they have on the front. Looks good.

Yes, that is a new view of the new stadium. In fact the concession areas behind the endzone and student side in this rendering have changed from the original drawings. The lighting is also different from what is depicted in the scale drawings, so not sure which is more current. Looks better in this rendering than the previous ones. I'm still no fan of the bracework seen behind the endzone stands, cheapens the whole product IMO.