UNT Prodigal Son Junior Miller (1310 The Ticket) Comes Home

greenit · November 12, 2013

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GoMeanGreen1999 · November 12, 2013

Welcome Back Junior. Good to have you aboard.

rcade · November 12, 2013

Glad to see the great Junior Miller return to Denton. I hope there are another 10,000 UNT grads like him who are figuring out that something special is happening under McCarney.

Green Mean · November 12, 2013

I'll also add that Jub Jub spent a minute or two on talking about Sarge, his military past and the award he received.

GrayEagle · November 12, 2013

I'm pretty much with Green92 although I can live with his "returning". But, he's not a prodigal son as I view it. The prodigal son didn't badmouth his roots. Junior continually trashed UNT on the air. The fact that we did have Dunham to offset some of his slurs did soften the blow but I hated to see George always on the defensive. He and Rhymer were the reasons that I quit listening to the Ticket.

drex · November 12, 2013

A great example of a guy who really wanted to attend one school, but settled for another. Then, post grad, talked up the school he could not attend and downgraded the one he did attend. I knew him when he was undergrad here...poor attitude then. Hope he comes around like most of you do. Also, I never let the facts get in my way, so some of what I said might be wrong.

PlummMeanGreen · November 12, 2013

I'm pretty much with Green92 although I can live with his "returning". But, he's not a prodigal son as I view it. The prodigal son didn't badmouth his roots. Junior continually trashed UNT on the air. The fact that we did have Dunham to offset some of his slurs did soften the blow but I hated to see George always on the defensive. He and Rhymer were the reasons that I quit listening to the Ticket.

Yes, GrayEagle, as I recall "THE" Prodigal Son was welcomed back to the family with open arms (and no matter what he had done and said). An unconditional welcoming home ceremony some might say?

And Corby Robinson (sp?), too; you know the guy with the high shrill monkey laugh and like Junior also a big OU fan, but Corby attended TCU. Corby does have his weak moments, though, when he lets occasional praises for North Texas slip by.

I first met Junior Miller at Bill Vogel's tailgate during the 1994 season when we met NCAA D1-A attendance criteria and he was quite pleasant and seemed excited to even be at the "See Ya' Later McNeese State" game. You know what folks? We have about 225,000 other DFW area alums we can work on. Let the Mean Green Bandwagon effect get all these other extremely cynical types back in the fold.

GMG!

PS: In recent weeks, we have seen an All Star cast of DFW Metroplex TV, Radio and Newspaper media types at Apogee with head phones on in the MGRN broadcast booth so......let's celebrate all of that would be my suggestion because almost every one of these media All Stars were broadcasting over the air waves how they could hardly believe what they were seeing and (HEARING) in Denton, Texas, America on Game Day.

Even more amazing was how we had to have a winning season at North Texas for these media All Stars to show up at Apogee--many for the first time. I think we'd all agree that even more winning will do many more greater things for us at UNT.

Edited November 13, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen

C Vo · November 13, 2013

For a guy in his late 40's he looks old. A face for Radio fur shure!

UNT90 · November 13, 2013

A great example of a guy who really wanted to attend one school, but settled for another. Then, post grad, talked up the school he could not attend and downgraded the one he did attend. I knew him when he was undergrad here...poor attitude then. Hope he comes around like most of you do. Also, I never let the facts get in my way, so some of what I said might be wrong.

Finally listened to the segment. Good pub, but...

What I took from Junior's comments is that this is pretty much a one time deal. Buddies came into town and went and saw his cute college team play a football game.

Just reinforces that there is either a connection made during the college years or there isn't, and if there isn't, there is little you can do to make one.

Thanks for the pub, Junior, see you next time you have nothing better to do on a Saturday.

Green Mean · November 13, 2013

Finally listened to the segment. Good pub, but...
What I took from Junior's comments is that this is pretty much a one time deal. Buddies came into town and went and saw his cute college team play a football game.
Just reinforces that there is either a connection made during the college years or there isn't, and if there isn't, there is little you can do to make one.
Thanks for the pub, Junior, see you next time you have nothing better to do on a Saturday.

Just continue to take care of business and win and we'll see Junior more often. Corby goes to some TCU games ever season and has been for a while now. Will both Snake and Junior ever become die hard fans of the schools they went to? No probably not, at least not with Corby. But the key is changing these people's perception of the school and the program. I think at this point that is all you can hope and ask for.

MeanGreenTexan · November 13, 2013

Just continue to take care of business and win and we'll see Junior more often. Corby goes to some TCU games ever season and has been for a while now. Will both Snake and Junior ever become die hard fans of the schools they went to? No probably not, at least not with Corby. But the key is changing these people's perception of the school and the program. I think at this point that is all you can hope and ask for.

We would need a perfect storm of UNT's results this year for 5 years with OU concurrently going through John-Blake-like years again.

This may bring Junior back around more often, and he may actually buy-in. I just don't see that happening as long as Stoops is around in Norman though.