DRC: HOD coverage

Brett Vito · January 2, 2014

Game story: 'They will be remembered forever'/50 photo slideshow

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20140101-football-remembered-forever.ece

Thompson shines on wounded knee

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20140102-football-on-wounded-knee-thompson-shines.ece

Chancellor makes key plays in drives that sparked UNT rally

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20140101-football-chancellor-makes-plays-to-get-mean-green-going.ece

UNT's defense shines again to cap standout season

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20140102-football-defense-again-key.ece

Notebook: Orr shines on field where father finished his career

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20140102-notebook-orr-furthers-family-legacy.ece

Wild scene caps great day in program history for UNT

http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/sports-headlines/20140102-football-fans-program-cherish-victory.ece

Fans make short trip to Dallas to witness UNT's big day

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20140101-mean-green-wins.ece

Edited January 2, 2014 by Brett Vito

GTWT · January 2, 2014

Brett, Thanks for the great coverage of UNT in the HOD Bowl & throughout the season. A special thanks for ignorring the idiots.

untcampbell · January 2, 2014

My gosh, Brett!

Helluva job!

GMG

BillySee58 · January 2, 2014

Thank you Brett! Great job this season. Looking forward to your coverage of recruiting this last month.

KRAM1 · January 2, 2014

Appreciate the great write-ups on the bowl game! Nice job, Brett! Many thanks.

edcollopy · January 2, 2014

way to go Brett...excellent work.

Harry · January 2, 2014

Great coverage Brett!

ChristopherRyanWilkes · January 2, 2014

I saw Brett on the field yesterday after we rushed and he had a big smile on his face, you could tell he was enjoying this just as much as we were.

H-towngreen · January 2, 2014

Thanks for everything Brett, you're a big part of the MG community.

Now get to work on some recruiting updates for us!!!!!

SilverEagle · January 2, 2014

“It was a heck of a game. … Keep playing like that and we might become season ticket holders,” Dan Coza said as they faded into the parking lot along with other members of the Mean Green Nation.

Our football team's culture has changed thanks to Coach Mac. But this is an example of the larger culture change that needs to take place.

AND, as I have said on many occasions.....IT'S NOT COACH MAC'S JOB TO BRING ABOUT THE LARGER CULTURE CHANGE.

Edited January 2, 2014 by SilverEagle

SilverEagle · January 2, 2014

BTW, great job Britt!

tylermeangreen · January 2, 2014

AND, as I have said on many occasions.....IT'S NOT COACH MAC'S JOB TO BRING ABOUT THE LARGER CULTURE CHANGE.

Between that and your "as I have said on many occasions" comments about the Green Brigade (who I think do a helluva job in technique, sound, and "showmanship"!!!), I think most of us have this SilverEagle song and verse down.

It takes time to change culture and quality - I have been around our beloved university since July of 1970. If you are not seeing the tremendous strides that have been made in terms of "culture and quality change" over the past 15 or so years - both athletic AND academic - then you have not been looking at the same university I am seeing.

If you have not seen EVEN GREATER strides having been made over the past six-to-eight years then you need to step up and take a closer look.

YES - that does include tremendous changes in the so-called "culture" of our university.

I Appreciate your continuing support and concern for the university - I have been reading your postings for a long time and I wish more people were equally concerned and provided significant support. But this university HAS changed. It is constantly evolving in a positive direction, and it is just as important that you/all of us acknowledge the positive nature of those changes as it is to continually suggest that such changes have not occurred.

GMG

Edited January 2, 2014 by tylermeangreen

untjim1995 · January 2, 2014

Can you imagine how much Brett Vito has enjoyed the ride up the roller coaster this year? The man had to endure Darrell Dickey's last two seasons, then got the Todd Dodge disaster years, followed by two years of McCarney trying desperately to rebuild this thing from the ashes. Its no wonder he told me earlier this year that if UNT cannot make it up the mountain with McCarney, they need to seriously look in the mirror and ask themselves if this is the right level of football for the future. He must feel like he has climbed Mount Everest with the last decade of covering this beat for the DRC.

SilverEagle · January 2, 2014

Between that and your "as I have said on many occasions" comments about the Green Brigade (who I think do a helluva job in technique, sound, and "showmanship"!!!), I think most of us have this SilverEagle song and verse down.

It takes time to change culture and quality - I have been around our beloved university since July of 1970. If you are not seeing the tremendous strides that have been made in terms of "culture and quality change" over the past 15 or so years - both athletic AND academic - then you have not been looking at the same university I am seeing.

If you have not seen EVEN GREATER strides having been made over the past six-to-eight years then you need to step up and take a closer look.

YES - that does include tremendous changes in the so-called "culture" of our university.

I Appreciate your continuing support and concern for the university - I have been reading your postings for a long time and I wish more people were equally concerned and provided significant support. But this university HAS changed. It is constantly evolving in a positive direction, and it is just as important that you/all of us acknowledge the positive nature of those changes as it is to continually suggest that such changes have not occurred.

GMG

It hasn't changed enough and just because changes are going on, doesn't mean that they will continue on their own momentum. Since you have been part of the NT "culture" since 1970, you should have observed this yourself. Hayden Fry came along and not only changed the culture of our football program, but because he was also the AD, he sought to change the culture of the alumni and students regarding athletics. If YOU were looking closely at that time, you would have noticed the change taking place, AND you would have also noticed how quickly it (to use a Baptist term) back-slid after Fry left to go to Iowa. All the "old nesters" quickly took back over and North Texas, as a program, headed back to mediocrity and apathy within just a few years.

We cannot depend on one person, one season, or one great football team, to change our culture. And if you were as observant as you claim to be, you would know that from the Hayden Fry years.

And to be clear (for the umpteenth time) when the North Texas GB gets into it's main half-time show they are without peer. It's the rest of what they do (or don't do) that sucks. Please don't tell me that you felt that their entrance to the field for their official show yesterday approached anything even close to "showmanship" .....by even High School standards.

Great Bands make great entrances. Our band enters the field like (as my dear departed mother-in-law used to say) like dead lice were falling off of them.

Edited January 2, 2014 by SilverEagle

MeanGreenTexan · January 2, 2014

Our football team's culture has changed thanks to Coach Mac. But this is an example of the larger culture change that needs to take place.

AND, as I have said on many occasions.....IT'S NOT COACH MAC'S JOB TO BRING ABOUT THE LARGER CULTURE CHANGE.

He's trying his hardest though.

PlummMeanGreen · January 2, 2014

Our football team's culture has changed thanks to Coach Mac. But this is an example of the larger culture change that needs to take place.

AND, as I have said on many occasions.....IT'S NOT COACH MAC'S JOB TO BRING ABOUT THE LARGER CULTURE CHANGE.

If our staff high 5's yesterday's greatness the next 5 years, we would be in danger of going back to our former culture.

Moral of that?

Build on top of the greatness that happened yesterday at the historic Cotton Bowl stadium--don't just sit on it and celebrate it forever.

We celebrated the Super Pit with visions of Final 4 (or at least Sweet 16) talent "on the way" for way too long after its grand opening and just look what that got us the last 40 years?

GMG!

Edited January 2, 2014 by PlummMeanGreen