(11-04-2013 09:15 PM)MeanGreenGem Wrote:  ....and it is still just Monday.

Last Thursday night at the Rice/North Texas game there was hardly 2 full sections available (on the east student side and visitors side) due to probably our largest UNT student turnout in history.

UTEP must have a strong DFW alumnus base. And UTEP's early tickets purchases info from the Coach Dan McCarney DFW area radio show off the air just minutes ago.

Coach Mac very complimentary toward the UTEP Miners with a sincere (not phony coach talk) respect for their football program and team.

This Saturday is Homecoming at North Texas and some now predicting more Mean Green (and Miner) fans than the 28,000 that showed for Apogee's debut against the Houston Cougars....we'll see.

Friday night the Talons (UNT students spirit group) will have stacked 5,000 pallets for one helluva big bonfire and pep rally which the entire Mean Green FB team will attend.

The bonfire and pep rally have been a tradition at North Texas since 1935. The Talons took over building the bonfire in 1960 and have it to this day along with Boomer the "COME AND TAKE IT" cannon with has also been part of UNT tradition for many decades. UT-Austin students once stole Boomer from our campus before one of our 70's games against the Horns but it was later safely returned.

Winning cures cancer (and will wake up much of our 200K DFW area alums, too, and that because of wins and (hopefully) 3 or 4 winning seasons in a row, too)!

UTEP needs a consistent winner in football. Last time we had a winner, UTEP averaged 48,000 fans at 6 home games. Why cant we have a consistent winner?!?

I miss those days Sal! Having to arrive 3-4 hrs early just to stand in line, tailgaters everywhere... now it's a ghost town :/

...total props to this thread....kudos and

(11-06-2013 09:28 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  ...total props to this thread....kudos and

Just spreading my awesomeness.

(11-06-2013 08:12 PM)shyminer Wrote:  I miss those days Sal! Having to arrive 3-4 hrs early just to stand in line, tailgaters everywhere... now it's a ghost town :/

Well, we have seen a few lean years of our own, I feel UTEP will be back sooner than later.

And some in CUSA or leaving CUSA who are (as Old Blue Eyes himself sang in "That's Life") can be 'riding high in April' but then your football program can all but overnight be 'shot down in May' before you can say.........Oh, Caca! What the hell happened to our football program?

Pride cometh before destruction or 'boast not lest ye fall' should be adopted by any college football fan who simply cannot see it happening to their team.

(11-06-2013 08:12 PM)shyminer Wrote:  I miss those days Sal! Having to arrive 3-4 hrs early just to stand in line, tailgaters everywhere... now it's a ghost town :/

would be nice to have those days back

So UNT fans, where's the best place to park going to be? Fouts? I'll have a three-year-old with me, so I want to keep the trek to a minimum...

10 bucks at fouts...easy walk over the bridge...that's the closest, non permit parking

Awesome, thanks. Plus it's close to the UTEP Alumni Association tailgate, so that's perfect...

exactly...your tailgate spot should be just north of the bridge entrance...gonna be a nice army of orange crossing the bridge tomorrow! glad ya'll have a good group coming up

(11-08-2013 12:16 PM)NTTHOR Wrote:  10 bucks at fouts...easy walk over the bridge...that's the closest, non permit parking

Depending on where you park at old Fouts Field, but I'm not so sure that that is about as close to Apogee as my Blue Parking permit that season ticket purchasers all receive.

That I-35E Pedestrian Bridge is a godsend for those parking at Fouts or on that side of campus.