DMNews Hits and Misses: UNT joins the big boys

[Harry]

HITS: Texas Tech, Houston and Oklahoma State are now joined by the University of North Texas in the growing list of winners of the Heart of Dallas Bowl at the Cotton Bowl stadium at Fair Park. Thats quite a list, and UNT fits right in after its 36-14 demolition of Nevada-Las Vegas on New Years Day. The Mean Green celebrated the 100th year in program history with a 9-4 finish, only five years after going 1-11 in 2008. Congratulations to coach Dan McCarney, his staff and his players. The only imperfect note was the bowl games attendance, a four-year low of 38,380. Dallas, we can do better than this, and please remember that proceeds go to worthy charities. See you next year.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/article1370124.ece

[JKvsHimself]

About time.

[ADLER]

I too believe we are finally seeing North Texas joining the 'big boy' ranks. With a little creative scheduling, increased promotions, and some stadium expansion, I believe that North Texas can become a program that's competitive with many of the P5 schools.

[Rudy]

1. You're damn right we joined the big boys

2. Had to get a dig in. This time at the attendance. Well, if you picked a better travelling oppoenent, you wouldn't have had that problem. We proveded basically all of the attendance. Does UNT have to do EVERYTHING? Geez!

[TheWestie]

... I believe that North Texas can become a program that's competitive with many of the P5 school.

FIFY

[Side Show Joe]

They should be glad North Texas was the C-USA team in this bowl. Any other C-USA team, and the HOD attendance would have been around 18,000. The other HOD bowls had a BIG 10 opponent. UNLV brought maybe 4,000 fan to the game. If we would have played a Big 10 team on New Years day, we would have set a new attendance record for this bowl. I'm sure the people at the HOD know it too.

[Green Lantern]

They should be glad North Texas was the C-USA team in this bowl. Any other C-USA team, and the HOD attendance would have been around 18,000. The other HOD bowls had a BIG 10 opponent. UNLV brought maybe 4,000 fan to the game. If we would have played a Big 10 team on New Years day, we would have set a new attendance record for this bowl. I'm sure the people at the HOD know it too.

Agree with everything you said, except you are giving UNLV waaaay too much credit. They didn't bring anywhere near 4,000 people.

HOD officials have to be thrilled with UNT. The onus was all on UNT to bring a crowd and atmosphere to Dallas. We delivered.

[the green rokemi]

I honestly think they brought about 200. There were just as many people wearing green on their side as red

Edited January 4, 2014 by the green rokemi

[Graddean]

I don't think the attendance comment was a dig at UNT. I took it as a call out to the residents of Dallas. They didn't provide proper support for a local bowl and charities.

[eulessismore]

I don't think the attendance comment was a dig at UNT. I took it as a call out to the residents of Dallas. They didn't provide proper support for a local bowl and charities.

Exactly.

[Harry]

I don't think the writer was informed in terms of how few UNLV brought in comparison to other schools he cited in the attendance numbers. All he had to do was say something like, "despite UNLV only traveling 300 fans, ..."

Still the Dallas media has been extremely positive and generous with their coverage.

[NT91]

Should have asked U of H

[Mean Green Eagle]

UNLV brought maybe 4,000 fan to the game.

You are being 2,500-3,000 Rebel fans too generous.