"We're All In" Mean Green Pride Campaign

UNTP1 · September 25, 2012

Didn't see this posted yet so I figured I'd share.

Sept. 24, 2012

Dear UNT community,

Mean Green pride runs strong and deep at UNT. And we have launched a new campaign, Mean Green Pride We're All In, to reinforce the power of UNT pride on campus and in our communities.

When you see the pride campaign logo, it stands as a reminder that we are the home team for Denton and the North Texas region.

I'm proud to see that the Denton community is embracing the Mean Green Pride We're All In campaign. The city of Denton, the Denton Chamber of Commerce and local businesses have pledged their support for the new pride campaign. A portion of the sales of products with the pride campaign logo will support The Big Event, our annual and largest service project where thousands of student, staff, faculty and alumni volunteers do community service. The money raised from the pride campaign products will support projects in Denton. You can see which local stores are carrying the new campaign product and offering discounts for wearing green on Fridays.

You also will see UNT gear in more places around Denton so there are plenty of opportunities and ways to show your green pride.

Go Mean Green!

Sincerely,

V. Lane Rawlins

UNT President

Mean Green Pride - We're All In: http://meangreenpride.unt.edu/

The Big Event: http://leadandserve.unt.edu/service/index.html

Local stores carrying new campaign products: http://meangreenpride.unt.edu/support-denton

Stores offering discounts for wearing green on Fridays: http://meangreenpride.unt.edu/discounts

meaniegreenie · September 25, 2012

This is great news if Denton really is getting behind this and not just lip service to the idea.

BTW, it looks like the last couple of links are using some sort of outlook/email in the URL and sends us to a login page.

Here's the corrected links:

http://leadandserve.unt.edu/service/index.html

http://meangreenpride.unt.edu/support-denton

http://meangreenpride.unt.edu/discounts

Edited September 25, 2012 by meaniegreenie

PlummMeanGreen · September 25, 2012

A good start for Rawlins...

UNT needs to hire the marketeers away from the TSU-SM athletic dept. that (according to their fan board) sold 6,500 football season tickets for this Fall, though. For you who have been asleep, TSU-SM has also surpassed UNT's endowment coffers while we were not looking. UTSA has passed us by in other areas in only 2 years. The trend and modus operendi at North Texas needs an overhaul as well as a major upswing or we will see ourselves in a 8 year football season losing streak in CUSA before we begin Year 9 as a member of that league, too.

Anyone remember when we last sold 6,500 football season tickets? Most of you fellow Old Gun Alums who've seen more than just a few Mean Green rodeos know the answer to that question.

If we're going to be in CUSA and hopefully be in the upper echelon of that league, we cannot continue to operate like we are still in Fouts Field or NCAA D1-AA or even the Sun Belt any longer. We also cannot continue to let Apogee Stadium be the apex of our programs reason to exist for the next 10 years, either. We need wins and we need a better defined marketing program designed to put many more new fans and faces in Apogee's 31,000 seats. For what its worth, its not like we are in some remote rural collegiate outpost where there is no population from which to draw. TCU has their 45,000 fans pretty will locked in for their games at the Amon Carter Stadium make-over. That only leaves about 6 million more in the North Texas Metroplex for out marketeers to located our 31,000 fans for Apogee.

Look at what ULM drew last week and then ask the question....How long will it actually take us to draw over 30,000 for a home game (as ULM with their $8 million athletic budget did) in one of the most fan friendly as well as modern NCAA football stadium in the entire USA,ie, Apogee Stadium? Yet how soon will it be tiime for another Apogee Stadium victory lap and pay raise you say? Will we be doing that 5 years from now, too, with similar lack of success we've had in the SBC in Wins/Losses and at the turnstiles?

The long term stakes and opportunity for more national success are much higher than we've ever had in the 'Belt even with 'Belt school's spurt of success over CUSA teams in recent weeks. That, too, will pass in due time. Give pay raises to those who can sell--not maintain the status quo and brag about venues that still have way too many empty seats for a school our size. Just repeatin' what I've heard many of you sayin'.

GMG!

PS: I would never make a very good goverment employee or goverment teat' sucker, now would I? :growl:

Edited September 25, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen

KRAM1 · September 25, 2012

A good start for Rawlins...

UNT needs to hire the marketeers away from the TSU-SM athletic dept. that (according to their fan board) sold 6,500 football season tickets for this Fall, though. For you who have been asleep, TSU-SM has also surpassed UNT's endowment coffers while we were not looking. UTSA has passed us by in other areas in only 2 years. The trend and modus operendi at North Texas needs an overhaul as well as a major upswing or we will see ourselves in a 8 year football season losing streak in CUSA before we begin Year 9 as a member of that league, too.

Anyone remember when we last sold 6,500 football season tickets? Most of you fellow Old Gun Alums who've seen more than just a few Mean Green rodeos know the answer to that question.

If we're going to be in CUSA and hopefully be in the upper echelon of that league, we cannot continue to operate like we are still in Fouts Field or NCAA D1-AA or even the Sun Belt any longer. We also cannot continue to let Apogee Stadium be the apex of our programs reason to exist for the next 10 years, either. We need wins and we need a better defined marketing program designed to put many more new fans and faces in Apogee's 31,000 seats. For what its worth, its not like we are in some remote rural collegiate outpost where there is no population from which to draw. TCU has their 45,000 fans pretty will locked in for their games at the Amon Carter Stadium make-over. That only leaves about 6 million more in the North Texas Metroplex for out marketeers to located our 31,000 fans for Apogee.

Look at what ULM drew last week and then ask the question....How long will it actually take us to draw over 30,000 for a home game (as ULM with their $8 million athletic budget did) in one of the most fan friendly as well as modern NCAA football stadium in the entire USA,ie, Apogee Stadium? Yet how soon will it be tiime for another Apogee Stadium victory lap and pay raise you say? Will we be doing that 5 years from now, too, with similar lack of success we've had in the SBC in Wins/Losses and at the turnstiles?

The long term stakes and opportunity for more national success are much higher than we've ever had in the 'Belt even with 'Belt school's spurt of success over CUSA teams in recent weeks. That, too, will pass in due time. Give pay raises to those who can sell--not maintain the status quo and brag about venues that still have way too many empty seats for a school our size. Just repeatin' what I've heard many of you sayin'.

GMG!

PS: I would never make a very good goverment employee or goverment teat' sucker, now would I?

Plumm...your glass just always seems "half-full". Let me reassure you...the sky is not falling...don't believe all the "Chicken Little's" that like to tell you it is falling. Yahoo U is passing us by screams Chicken Little...the sky is falling...the sky is falling...NOT! Hang in there big guy.....you might want to get some real facts as to what's going on at YOUR university these days...sky looks really a lot bluer when you do. Really...it does,. Want to help or want to just sound the false alarm? Sit back...take a breath and ask yourself this...what can I do to be a positive influence for UNT today and tomorrow and each and every day going forward?

Dream about Tomorrow

Live for Today

Learn From Yesterday.

PlummMeanGreen · September 25, 2012

Forward? Maybe a better slogan than "THAT!" LOL!

KRAM1, some of the older ones on and beyond this board will tell you that I once played the same role you play as UNT's version of Norman Vincent Peale, but jeez-louise, pal, after you see what is not getting done over a more than fair amount of time for it to get done you just start asking yourself as a UNT alum....why isn't it getting done and why in hades is mediocrity getting rewarded with extended contracts and pay raises to boot? Do our powers (Rawlins and his BOR's) really actually think no one else in the NCAA can do the job which is needed to get done at North Texas?

We are grossly under-achieving at North Texas with many on payroll who have proven time and time again--year after year that they cannot produce at an NCAA FBS level. When they never want to announce what their season tickets sales are that is a not so subtle hint as to what is not getting done in that area of athletics. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see it, either. If I didn't work weekends as a DJ, you and I could most amiably discuss this and other subjects of mutual concern, but Fall is my busiest time of year for DJ'ing Weddings and other events.

Nevertheless....stay positive, KRAM1, until you, too, can't condone all this any longer.

GMG!

Edited September 25, 2012 by PlummMeanGreen