DMN: SMUt on verge of getting Big East invite with 4 others

TheTastyGreek · October 19, 2011

Haha wow, I was totally agreeing with you until you brought up politics. You must be very conservative, your name is DodgeFan. He's not coming back man, times have changed, its okay to make PROGRESS sometimes.

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GreenGuy123 · October 19, 2011

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Comet7745 · October 19, 2011

Many of us supported the hiring of Coach Dodge. Todd Dodge showed us us all how to leave a job with class and even as he had nice things to say about UNT on his way out. His son Riley who laid it all on the field for North Texas was and still is a friend of many in this program and we wish only the best for both, but it was TD's 5 years at UNT tagged onto Darrell Dickey's last 2 losing seasons in Denton that set this program back and has us only drawing 20K per home game this season--"only 20,000?" Heck.............Big East school Cincy' Bearkats are only drawing 25K per home game now so just wait and see what Mean Green wins do to inflate our reall butts in seats. With Apogee I feel it will be more than dramatic.

DFW--a major sports market is a winners town and we will have our attendance once we get over this multi-season losing streak behind us, but as far as SMU is concerned they couldn' draw flies if they were a horse sh&t factory. That is why they feel they have to lie about their attendance, too, since a bowl team in its 2'nd winning season should be "lights out" at the turnstiles at present--but are not.

GMG!

25 years of losing isn't going to be remedied by one winning season. Especially in a small private university with less than 10k undergrads. We do sellout or fill up the majority of our stadium when we play someone who people actually gives a damn (UCF? no one but the die-hard cares about them). It sucks but that's just how it goes. The UTEP game and even Northwestern State game were full and looked great. Last year's game against Army and TCU where absolutely filled to the brink, including the lawn area. But not sure what more to say, our attendance does suffer, most SMU fans will tell you that. We got our problems, and clearly so does UNT - I'd be more preoccupied with trying to fix yours than getting off on "SMUt" comments lol.

UNTcrazy727 · October 19, 2011

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People bring up stupid stuff here all the time that has nothing to do with UNT football. Why is politics so much worse?

PlummMeanGreen · October 19, 2011

25 years of losing isn't going to be remedied by one winning season. Especially in a small private university with less than 10k undergrads. We do sellout or fill up the majority of our stadium when we play someone who people actually gives a damn (UCF? no one but the die-hard cares about them). It sucks but that's just how it goes. The UTEP game and even Northwestern State game were full and looked great. Last year's game against Army and TCU where absolutely filled to the brink, including the lawn area. But not sure what more to say, our attendance does suffer, most SMU fans will tell you that. We got our problems, and clearly so does UNT - I'd be more preoccupied with trying to fix yours than getting off on "SMUt" comments lol.

Comet7745, have you visited PonyFans.com the last decade to see all the bouquets they toss toward North Texas? I knew a new (Apogee) stadium would have just about a 1 game effect (which it did) for our losing program but winning King Football in Texas is still where its at.. The DFW sports fan is about as fickle as they come and I have no idea why.

When Fry left UNT for Iowa and when introduced to Hawkeye fans at a baskeball game all he said was 2 words with his west Texas drawl. "We'll win!" And those 2 words brought their sold out BB arena down in what was said to be a new decibal record of deafening applause.

SMU's Worry Now Is..........We lost Fry because there were not 100 bowl games back then for his winning teams to be a participant of which he said he would have stayed had those teams been rewarded with a bowl and quite frankly I think we also lost him because like most aspiring coaches: Hayden Fry wanted to coach before much larger audiences than he was getting in a much smaller populated Denton and a UNT enrollment at about 17,000 back then Large Audiences: That is the thing that SMU will have to concern themselves now with June Jones because if you don't think he is not noticing all those empty seats at Gerald J. Ford Stadium for his winning program then your not being very astute about this (and quite frankly you seem to be a very astute student of the great college football game).

Losing begats emotions from high to low on boards like GoMeanGreen.com. You have people on this forum threatening to leave this program if they don't get their way on anything. If someone finds out your a conservative yet they a liberal, they take on a new and different attitude toward you, too. I've noticed that Big Time. Yet this board is America! It's a hodge-podge of just about every kind of race, creed and religion you will find from coast to coast but still......."cant' we all just get along" (to quote the great Rodney King who said that from his heart and not for a vote for public office, either).

I digress but what's new about that? :rolleyes:

GMG!

Edited October 19, 2011 by PlummMeanGreen

GTWT · October 19, 2011

People bring up stupid stuff here all the time that has nothing to do with UNT football. Why is politics so much worse?

Because politics is totally irrelevant to whether a poster supports The University of North Texas or not. Making cracks about liberals or conservatives, Obama or Palin alienates part of our fan base. A base that is not robust enough to afford losing even a single fan.

As for the other "stupid stuff" feel free to disparage my religion - we Druids are very thick skinned.

God bless Texas

BigPonyFan · October 19, 2011

BigPonyFan, one of the UH alums alledges that yall only had 500 to1,000 at your Homecoming game (that he attended) last Fall? Was it the weather? Well, we can relate but we got cruicified for having 13'x's the number of fans yall had for your 2010 Homecoming game at Ford in our own Apogee just 2 weeks ago in a weather game--got 6 inches of rain myself. Yet whether rain, snow, sleet, hail, Divine curse of frogs and locusts, the Trinity River turning blood red or anything............ but hellsbells.....still only 500 to 1,000 fans? I think North Texas has what seems 500 Apogee Stadium Game Day employees and attendants at any one home game alone.

And many Coog's on the same UH message board are poking fun at "SMU's exxagerated and inflated attendance numbers" even asking why has SMU been asked in the first place by the Big East officials and..................... * who sold the BE on your school w/o that league apparently not doing their homework other than look at your football media guide on your annual attendance numbers (which certainly ours need to improve & will with wins) but while SMU's has not improved with a bowl game and in the midst of your 2'nd winning season in a row.

Care to elaborate on any of this and especially the alleged attendance numbers for your Homecoming game last year? Was it those 500 to 1,000 fans that convinced the Big East that yall could deliver the #4 ranked TV market in the USA?

* My guess is that ESPN and former SMU football player Craig James was SMU's front man on every bit of this; that is, James used his position in the market he works (New York) and made this BE project a challenge and then he became a relentless pittbull as he fictionalized, juked, jived and said whatever it took to get SMU into the Big East (while there are probably more deserving schools who do not have to constantly lie about their attendance on a regular basis). Again, just a theory but all this just shows how some college presidents in some of these Big 6 conferences need to butt out of the college football business. Just askin' &.........sayin'...

GMG!

A lot here to respond to. As far as Houston, those numbers are just flat wrong. I was at the game. Regardless of the actual numbers, it was very cold, raining, and tornado warnings were issued. My wife called me when the warnings were issue and I grabbed the kids and hit the road. It was a miserable day. SMU has fan issues for sure (20 years of irrelevance will do that), but the Houston game last year was no accurate gauge.

TheTastyGreek · October 19, 2011

Because politics is totally irrelevant to whether a poster supports The University of North Texas or not. Making cracks about liberals or conservatives, Obama or Palin alienates part of our fan base. A base that is not robust enough to afford losing even a single fan.

As for the other "stupid stuff" feel free to disparage my religion - we Druids are very thick skinned.

God bless Texas

A good summary. Also, we've had some politics talk issues in recent months... Unpleasantness all around. Anyone who missed it- the less said, the better.

Historically, we have issues with inflammatory political content, trolling, and abrasive "conversations" under 3 circumstances:

1) Teams (particularly football) not playing well

2) Off-season

3) Elections

Check your standings and your calendar... Part of the aggressive tightening down is in anticipation of the weeks and months ahead.

There have been periods in board history when political content and discussion was completely off limits. At the moment, it's still welcome and allowed (within the other rules on trolling and civility) on the Eagles Nest.

Anyone who takes issue with the rules, take it up with the boss. It's his site and if he decides to change where and how people can talk politics on GMG, that's when things will change. Until then, politics in the Eagles Nest only. And keep it friendly there, too.

H-towngreen · October 19, 2011

A good summary. Also, we've had some politics talk issues in recent months... Unpleasantness all around. Anyone who missed it- the less said, the better.

Historically, we have issues with inflammatory political content, trolling, and abrasive "conversations" under 3 circumstances:

1) Teams (particularly football) not playing well
2) Off-season
3) Elections

Check your standings and your calendar... Part of the aggressive tightening down is in anticipation of the weeks and months ahead.

There have been periods in board history when political content and discussion was completely off limits. At the moment, it's still welcome and allowed (within the other rules on trolling and civility) on the Eagles Nest.

Anyone who takes issue with the rules, take it up with the boss. It's his site and if he decides to change where and how people can talk politics on GMG, that's when things will change. Until then, politics in the Eagles Nest only. And keep it friendly there, too.

I'm tired of you guys running this site as if you're the National Socialist German Workers Party....wait does that count as political content? Apologies.

mean green d · October 20, 2011

I just emailed Conference USA on their site telling them of the merits of the Mean Green. We should all assist our university and flood their site with comments. It'll give them something to think about come the next realignment.

GMG