(06-03-2019 12:42 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(06-02-2019 01:13 PM)Lizard Breath Wrote:  

(06-01-2019 07:56 AM)everyone Wrote:  

(06-01-2019 01:35 AM)Lizard Breath Wrote:  

(05-30-2019 12:06 PM)everyone Wrote:  You just bragged about killing 20 people and put that on your internet message board resume? Such great potential you have. Get out of here with that mess.

Ahh yes. It’s called doing your job and doing it well. The USA also commended me on my accomplishment with a A AF Combat Action Medal. When you fight a war your job is to kill. I called in (CAS) close Air support and eliminated 20-30 insurgent via 2 cobras and about an hour later we cleared remaining area.


My overall number is much higher than that. So yes, Im very proud serving my country and killing those who try to kill my fellow soldiers or Marines. So if you don’t appreciate that too bad.

You are a disgrace. Pride comes before the fall. I can tell you were just itching to tell people about your "kills". Your character matters much more than your metal and you fail miserably where it matters most.

Think what you want, I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it before until on this website and I doubt I will ever again, I’m not a disgrace. In a small circle of either operators or forces they brag among themselves about certain things that you might think is wrong but for us it’s not. Most people in certain career fields know the person or the top 10 who have the most kills. Especially if your job involves doing such. I won’t talk about it anymore but to call someone a disgrace is not cool. EOD’s keep track of the number of bombs disarmed, snipers keep track of kills, JTAC CCT TACP also keep track of number of Air Strikes called in and confirmed kills. Sorry man that’s how it is. I understand you don’t like it. I won’t ever mention it again I was trying to get a point across. I probably went too far by talking kills so I apologize, I really didn’t mean to offend anyone.


But back to the convo I agree, UNT is doing good. UTSA is so far away from the top, we need so many facilities. Marshall is my pick but I literally think it can change every 10 years, teams & programs go up & down. So I really don’t have a good answer on the flagship team. It’s a question with an answer that changes.

The more tangos you killed the better off the world is. Bravo Zulu. Carry on.

There is only one kind of terrorist I like. The dead kind.

******* dead on man.

(06-03-2019 01:12 PM)tigtoodawg Wrote:  East: Marshall
Middle: USM/Rice
West UTEP

That is honest and true. We all have our up and down years. And yes we all have things to hang our hats on. Some of us have National Championships, some have Hall of Famers, some have great bands, blah, blah, blah. At the end of the day the four above are the flagships.

El Paso has an international airport, so that makes sense

Our twitter followoing suggest we have no flagship. 30k something followers suggest to me local interst and no national interest. We have one coach that has national interest and rest are just fanbase. UCF has 178,459 suggesting a national following a flagship status in AAC; Houston recent sucess 99,462; Memphis 27,836 recent sucess but no one cares; and for my N TX bretheren SMU has 29,946 followers We have work to do, we should just try to improve. Each and everyone us has work to do and lets just play compelling football. History and potential doesn't matter it will all take care of itself eventually.

Twitter Followers:
East:
FAU 33,202; Kiffin 414,319
FIU 23,312; B Davis 8,634
Marshall 32,781; D Holiday 12,289
MTSU 20,751; Stockstill 17,950
WKU 28,534; Helton 16,778
Charlotte 12,404; Healy 17,752
ODU 48,084; Wilder 10,385

West:
N TX 26,703; Littrell 17,058
UAB 28,188; Clark 24,947
La Tech 26,722; S Holtz 15,061
UTSA 43,054; Wilson 23,923
USM 32,327; Hopson 11,869
Rice 12,701; Bloomgren 7,940
UTEP 8,089; Dimel 6,031

FAU placed an athlete, Nattalia Whyte, in the NCAA national 100 meter semifinals. TV coverage - tomorrow, ESPNU, around 9:15P.M.

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Our twitter followoing suggest we have no flagship. 30k something followers suggest to me local interst and no national interest. We have one coach that has national interest and rest are just fanbase. UCF has 178,459 suggesting a national following a flagship status in AAC; Houston recent sucess 99,462; Memphis 27,836 recent sucess but no one cares; and for my N TX bretheren SMU has 29,946 followers We have work to do, we should just try to improve. Each and everyone us has work to do and lets just play compelling football. History and potential doesn't matter it will all take care of itself eventually.

Twitter Followers:
East:
FAU 33,202; Kiffin 414,319
FIU 23,312; B Davis 8,634
Marshall 32,781; D Holiday 12,289
MTSU 20,751; Stockstill 17,950
WKU 28,534; Helton 16,778
Charlotte 12,404; Healy 17,752
ODU 48,084; Wilder 10,385

West:
N TX 26,703; Littrell 17,058
UAB 28,188; Clark 24,947
La Tech 26,722; S Holtz 15,061
UTSA 43,054; Wilson 23,923
USM 32,327; Hopson 11,869
Rice 12,701; Bloomgren 7,940
UTEP 8,089; Dimel 6,031

FLAGSHIP

I don't think using Twitter followers as a metric is fair until they get the internet in Hattiesburg.

(06-05-2019 02:18 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  I don't think using Twitter followers as a metric is fair until they get the internet in Hattiesburg.

Most of those followers are probably far sighted and thought they were following Swiss Miss

(06-05-2019 02:18 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  I don't think using Twitter followers as a metric is fair until they get the internet in Hattiesburg.

I thought Obama took care of that.

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Our twitter followoing suggest we have no flagship. 30k something followers suggest to me local interst and no national interest. We have one coach that has national interest and rest are just fanbase. UCF has 178,459 suggesting a national following a flagship status in AAC; Houston recent sucess 99,462; Memphis 27,836 recent sucess but no one cares; and for my N TX bretheren SMU has 29,946 followers We have work to do, we should just try to improve. Each and everyone us has work to do and lets just play compelling football. History and potential doesn't matter it will all take care of itself eventually.

Twitter Followers:
East:
FAU 33,202; Kiffin 414,319
FIU 23,312; B Davis 8,634
Marshall 32,781; D Holiday 12,289
MTSU 20,751; Stockstill 17,950
WKU 28,534; Helton 16,778
Charlotte 12,404; Healy 17,752
ODU 48,084; Wilder 10,385

West:
N TX 26,703; Littrell 17,058
UAB 28,188; Clark 24,947
La Tech 26,722; S Holtz 15,061
UTSA 43,054; Wilson 23,923
USM 32,327; Hopson 11,869
Rice 12,701; Bloomgren 7,940
UTEP 8,089; Dimel 6,031

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within an hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

clt says most twitter followers are spam bots

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within a hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Which makes you good for your bubble, but the thread is about flagship and if no one outside of your bubble cares you aint a flagship your just a big deal in your small pond. Not even 10% of your 380k alumni care to follow your football social media.

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within an hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Yet you built a 30k seat stadium instead of the 80k seat stadium.

(06-05-2019 03:31 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within a hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Which makes you good for your bubble, but the thread is about flagship and if no one outside of your bubble cares you aint a flagship your just a big deal in your small pond. Not even 10% of your 380k alumni care to follow your football social media.

I'm a diehard season ticket holding super-fan. I have been attending North Texas football games for nearly 20 years, and I don't follow the Mean Green on twitter. Not every fan goes for social media.

As for your bubble theory... Dallas/Fort Worth is the 5th largest media market in the nation, and the largest in C-USA. Sure it would be nice to have more followers on twitter, but it isn't nearly as important to our goals as winning, building better facilities, increasing our budgets, growing our home game attendance, or increasing donations. If we become a perennial winning FBS program, and our sizable alumni base swells up in Dallas/Fort Worth, the rest of the "bubbles" in C-USA, the G5, and the FBS will have to pay attention, and our twitter following will probably increase too.

(06-05-2019 03:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within an hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Yet you built a 30k seat stadium instead of the 80k seat stadium.

Our old AD built the stadium. He was not known for his long term planning. In fact, we have done more in the 2 years under our new AD, than we did in the 15 years under our old AD. For the record, Apogee is expandable to 55,000, but we will not be ready to look at that until we see several other projects built, and our "UNiTe North Texas" campaign develop.

(06-05-2019 01:28 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  Our twitter followoing suggest we have no flagship. 30k something followers suggest to me local interst and no national interest. We have one coach that has national interest and rest are just fanbase. UCF has 178,459 suggesting a national following a flagship status in AAC; Houston recent sucess 99,462; Memphis 27,836 recent sucess but no one cares; and for my N TX bretheren SMU has 29,946 followers We have work to do, we should just try to improve. Each and everyone us has work to do and lets just play compelling football. History and potential doesn't matter it will all take care of itself eventually.

Twitter Followers:
East:
FAU 33,202; Kiffin 414,319
FIU 23,312; B Davis 8,634
Marshall 32,781; D Holiday 12,289
MTSU 20,751; Stockstill 17,950
WKU 28,534; Helton 16,778
Charlotte 12,404; Healy 17,752
ODU 48,084; Wilder 10,385

West:
N TX 26,703; Littrell 17,058
UAB 28,188; Clark 24,947
La Tech 26,722; S Holtz 15,061
UTSA 43,054; Wilson 23,923
USM 32,327; Hopson 11,869
Rice 12,701; Bloomgren 7,940
UTEP 8,089; Dimel 6,031

Includes 4500 Russian mathematicians.

(06-05-2019 03:48 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:31 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within a hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Which makes you good for your bubble, but the thread is about flagship and if no one outside of your bubble cares you aint a flagship your just a big deal in your small pond. Not even 10% of your 380k alumni care to follow your football social media.

I'm a diehard season ticket holding super-fan. I have been attending North Texas football games for nearly 20 years, and I don't follow the Mean Green on twitter. Not every fan goes for social media.

As for your bubble theory... Dallas/Fort Worth is the 5th largest media market in the nation, and the largest in C-USA. Sure it would be nice to have more followers on twitter, but it isn't nearly as important to our goals as winning, building better facilities, increasing our budgets, growing our home game attendance, or increasing donations. If we become a perennial winning FBS program, and our sizable alumni base swells up in Dallas/Fort Worth, the rest of the "bubbles" in C-USA, the G5, and the FBS will have to pay attention, and our twitter following will probably increase too.

I think we can safely assume that MOST of our fans are alumni or family of alumni and not the general masses that P5's get. So lets say you sell out every game you have 350,000 alumni who choose not to care about your football team. Regarding the Dallas/Fort Worth market, depending on the rounding of decimal points you don't even register in your market. And I will repeat you built a 30k seat stadium in stead of 80k. The thread is about flag ship, we don't have one, flagship garners national attention. None of us do that. You have some good things going, so do we but no one outside of the "diehards" care.

I think you all are misdefining "flagship". National exposure and brand recognition is great but using that as your compass then you're saying there's no such thing as a flagship of the MVC? OVC? CAA? Southland? We get more exposure on a whole than any of these conferences. Do they have flagships? I don't know but I think they could and the rest of the country not know about it. To be the flagship you must dominate your conference, in more than one sport preferably.

(06-05-2019 03:52 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:33 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 03:01 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:50 PM)FAU Connoisseur! Wrote:  

(06-05-2019 02:34 PM)Side Show Joe Wrote:  It's kind of a moot point, because we have no flagships right now. But when the time comes I will make my evaluations using tangible factors like winning, facilities, funding, attendance, and donations over social media followers.

Actually the social media is a pretty good indicator if anyone outside of each others bubbles have any interest. You can build the Taj Mahal and if nobody cares nobody cares.

We don't need others to care. We have 380,000 alums. Most of which live within an hour of our stadium. We just need to engage our students and graduates. The rest will take care of itself. Go see our "UNiTe North Texas" thread.

Yet you built a 30k seat stadium instead of the 80k seat stadium.

Our old AD built the stadium. He was not known for his long term planning. In fact, we have done more in the 2 years under our new AD, than we did in the 15 years under our old AD. For the record, Apogee is expandable to 55,000, but we will not be ready to look at that until we see several other projects built, and our "UNiTe North Texas" campaign develop.

and if there was a need ground would be broken and to hell with the other projects. It's Texas and its football.