....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)!