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December 05, 2015
North Texas Hires North Carolina OC Seth Littrell as Head Coach: The North Texas Mean Green have hired North Carolina offensive coordinator Seth Littrell as head football coach, ESPN reports. Littrell, 37, has produced top offenses at Indiana and UNC and played at Oklahoma. There are reports he'll earn $1 million, $280,000 more than his predecessor Dan McCarney. This Stassen report of FBS wins shows the tough job ahead of Littrell. UNT has been a bottom 10 team for a decade and has a Sagarin ranking of 182, lower than 55 FCS teams.
Don't you mean North Texas State University? When they changed the name of the school, they became dead to me.
posted by NoMich at 05:12 PM on December 05, 2015
North Texas Normal College, or if you prefer, Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute.
I enrolled at NTSU and graduated from UNT. The change made this magic possible:
posted by rcade at 07:06 PM on December 05, 2015
You can still go to Denton and hear music that will enhance your life for short money, even if they did change the name of the university. This is entirely thanks to the world class talent that the Music Department at UNT continually cranks out.
Austin gets all the press about it's live music scene, but most of it involves following well worn paths (albeit at a high level).
Denton is where the forward push happens. It is a music scene that routinely has major moments. And it isn't inhibited by an overbearing music police presence as Nashville and New York are.
People's Exhibit A: Two consecutive nights in Denton in early 2014.
That's a midwinter Wednesday night and Thursday night at two local joints. Fuck Carnegie Hall, and fuck the Sochi Olympics. Week in, week out, the fun never stops in Denton.
posted by beaverboard at 07:13 PM on December 05, 2015
Denton is close enough to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex that I don't wonder that decent music groups would wander through. It is also close enough that Denton's arts and entertainment scene would be overshadowed by the nearby big cities. The name change from Texas Normal College and Teacher Training Institute has probably avoided some unfortunate anagrams. The mythical Sam Houston Institute of Technology and the Saint Thomas University of Physical and Intellectual Development would fall into this category.
Please tell me that you photo-shopped the image of your coffee mug.
posted by Howard_T at 08:47 PM on December 05, 2015
Tangentially related, there's a school in my wife's home town (Thousand Oaks, CA) called California Lutheran University. Their team name is the "Kingsmen" or something similarly bland and innocuous. I've desperately wanted their mascot to be a train, but no luck.
posted by LionIndex at 09:40 PM on December 05, 2015
This "North Texas" is the same one that got obliterated in October by Portland State (66-7), an FCS school, right?
They probably can't get any worse, so taking that job would probably make him a hero if they have a .500 season.
posted by grum@work at 12:11 AM on December 06, 2015
You can still go to Denton and hear music that will enhance your life for short money, even if they did change the name of the university. This is entirely thanks to the world class talent that the Music Department at UNT continually cranks out.
A good buddy of mine here in NC is a music grad from UNT. He's a Perl developer now.
posted by NoMich at 12:34 AM on December 06, 2015
It was even worse than that, Grum. It was our homecoming game. We paid Portland State $425,000 to hand us the worst beating ever by an FCS team of an FBS team.
When I moved to Denton to attend UNT (after Stephen F. Austin, Richland Junior College and UT-Arlington), the house behind mine in the shadow of campus had a jazz musician practicing most nights. It was a perfect music school vibe. After a semester he was gone and some white supremacists moved in. They'd steal my mail, got me into a Sci Fi Book Club, took all the books and kept having romantic spats about who was sleeping with who.
Please tell me that you photo-shopped the image of your coffee mug.
Nope. That's a product someone made in honor of my alma mater. UNT has a radio station too. Sadly, it's called KNTU.
posted by rcade at 09:18 AM on December 06, 2015
I'm beginning to suspect that the national interest in UNT isn't as high as I'd like it to be.