What UNT Fans should be Thankful for

[Harry]

Our friends over at the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro hand out their sports "Turkey of the Year" awards every year at this time.

But since we estimate that the Mean Green Nation at the moment has the emotional stability of a 13-year old girl following the football team's loss -- at home no less -- to Western Kentucky and the men's basketball team's blowout loss to UTA, we decided to count down UNT's blessings.

Here goes ...

1. Apogee Stadium -- UNT somehow managed to get a beautiful $79 million football stadium built in the middle of a national economic meltdown. UNT's future is exponentially brighter because of the stadium being in place. Now, if people would only show up to watch games there.

2. Dan McCarney -- He knows what he is doing, is a terrific representative of the university and agreed to clean up the fiasco that unfolded over the four years before he showed up. It's hard to imagine UNT landing a better football coach for where it is right now. I don't know of anyone who doesn't like Dan McCarney.

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[SilverEagle]

Our friends over at the Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro hand out their sports "Turkey of the Year" awards every year at this time.

But since we estimate that the Mean Green Nation at the moment has the emotional stability of a 13-year old girl following the football team's loss -- at home no less -- to Western Kentucky and the men's basketball team's blowout loss to UTA, we decided to count down UNT's blessings.

Here goes ...

1. Apogee Stadium -- UNT somehow managed to get a beautiful $79 million football stadium built in the middle of a national economic meltdown. UNT's future is exponentially brighter because of the stadium being in place. Now, if people would only show up to watch games there.

2. Dan McCarney -- He knows what he is doing, is a terrific representative of the university and agreed to clean up the fiasco that unfolded over the four years before he showed up. It's hard to imagine UNT landing a better football coach for where it is right now. I don't know of anyone who doesn't like Dan McCarney.

READ MORE: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2011/11/what-unt-fans-should-be-thankf.html

Here's an excellent point that I totally agree with.

5. A student fee -- A couple of student senators got a grass roots campaign going and convinced UNT's students to vote in favor of a student fee that is going to cost each of them 300 bucks a year. UNT has its stadium because of that vote. And those students got that fee through while UNT was in the midst of arguably its worst stretch of football ever under inarguably the worst coach in UNT football history, UNT history and maybe college football history.

It doesn't get said enough. Thank you Flyer!!....and colleague.

[SilverEagle]

I'm also thankful that we continue to have our band enter the field with it's usual saunter (AKA the 100 yard mosey), and that we don't have this kind of pageantry inflicted on us during pre-game.....

[Texas Stranger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qSION3MWDM

[rcade]

5. A student fee -- A couple of student senators got a grass roots campaign going and convinced UNT's students to vote in favor of a student fee that is going to cost each of them 300 bucks a year. UNT has its stadium because of that vote. And those students got that fee through while UNT was in the midst of arguably its worst stretch of football ever under inarguably the worst coach in UNT football history, UNT history and maybe college football history.

That was a great accomplishment. It's worth noting that GoMeanGreen members contributed money and effort to that campaign as well.

[DeepGreen]

I'm also thankful that we continue to have our band enter the field with it's usual saunter (AKA the 100 yard mosey), and that we don't have this kind of pageantry inflicted on us during pre-game.....

Reminds me of one those North Korean Military Reviews.