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North Texas is expected to announce a BIGGGG donation tonight at a home BB game. $1 million for its new athletic facility which is already under construction and will be completed next fall. This facility, in addition to housing weight rooms, meeting rooms, dressing rooms and storage areason, and offices for athletics will be one end of our new football stadium.

For those of you who do not know...NT has taken over 168 acres of land across I-35 by pass from our current FB field to be used for our new athletic facilities. In addition to the new athletic facility three new FB practice fields, a 600 bed dorm, cafeteria (for NT athletics as well as other students) are already under construction and this phase one will be complete by the start of school next fall. A huge electronic expensive scoreboard was installed last football season in a manner to be moved to the new stadium when it is completed.

Future phases will be to complete the football stadium, build a tennis complex for our tennis program and eventually a baseball field field and stadium for a baseball program.

In addition to the 168 acre athletic complex, NT has purchased a private schools land and buildings adjacent to this acreage along I-35 W. Money has already been funded to convert that private schools baseball field into a new womans softball field and stadium, restrooms and concession stand. Money has already been funded to convert the HS's football field into a new scoccer (sp?) field and stadium for our womans scoccer team. The HS's gym will be turned into a womans BB practice area.

Our BB building, which seats over 10,000, in the last couple of years has installed a new electronic scoreboard, video board and lighting , a new bb floor, complete new stadium seating and a general major overhaul making it one of the nicest in Texas.

NT supporters have already posted our recent FB success for your information. Three straight conference championships, three straight New Orleans Bowl appearances, a 9-4 and 8-3 records which include a New Orleans Bowl win over Cincinnatii-co-champions of CUSA that year with a narrow loss to TCU by 4 points the other co championship that year. Our FB coaches are in demand with one going to Arizona, another to Mississippi State and another to UCLA in the last two years with another being courted by TCU at this time. I would bet that NT will be recruiting OK more heavily in the future, having recently hired Duke Atterberry who has coached in OKlahoma the last 28 years and is well known and respected by OK HS coaches. Of course we already recruit well there with NEO (including a JC all- american DT who decommitted from KS last year to play for NT) players and last seasons US rushing champion Patrick Cobbs.

I know and expect some of the CUSA posters will flame this post but these are facts, not what if's. Recent posters have gone back years and years (leaving out winning seasons) showing NT FB losses but one of CUSA's newest members has had only one winning season in the last 17 years and that a 6-5 season with over 50 % of 17 years of playing FB having 3 wins or less seasons and you are so proud of this school because it has such potential?

I know and expect some of the CUSA posters will flame why post NT info to this board...well many of the CUSA schools play and have played NT in recent and prior years and will in the future. We have a light schedule next year playing the University of Texas, Colorado and Baylor...all on the road with future games scheduled against Air Force, Tulsa, Virginia in Denton and Miami Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, University of Texas and University of Oklahoma on the road. We are proud of North Texas and what we are doing in a proactive way to improve our athletic programs, just as you are proud of your athletic programs :wave:
02-12-2004 06:48 AM
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