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North Texas Mean Green football 
Current season
First season 1913 Athletic director Rick Villarreal Head coach Dan McCarney 1st year, 3–5 (.375) Home stadium Apogee Stadium Stadium capacity 30,850[1] Stadium surface Field Turf Location Denton, Texas Conference Sun Belt All-time record 467–442–34 (.513) Postseason bowl record 2–5–0 Conference titles Lone Star: 8
Gulf Coast: 5
Missouri Valley: 5
Southland: 2
Sun Belt: 4Colors Green and White Fight song UNT Fight Song Mascot Scrappy Marching band Green Brigade Marching Band Rivals MTSU Blue Raiders
New Mexico State Aggies
SMU MustangsWebsite www.meangreensports.com The North Texas Mean Green football team represents the University of North Texas in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-FBS (formerly known as I-A) college football and competes as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Mean Green have attained several conference championships, including four consecutive Sun Belt Conference championships.[2] UNT has a 51.7% winning percentage in school history, but since Hall of Fame Coach Hayden Fry left after the 1978 season, UNT's winning percentage has trended downward. From 1978 until 2005, UNT had a 41.9% winning percentage. From 1991 to 2005, the Mean Green had a 39% winning percentage. From 2005 to 2010, the team went 13-56, a 19% winning percentage.
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Modern History
Though coach Hayden Fry left the school in 1978 with a 9-3 season, he also left it with a mounting athletics debts.[3] The team was subsequently demoted to Division I-AA status by the NCAA.[4] In 1982, the university recognized that the athletics program had a deficit of $1.6 million and voted to join the Southland Conference.[5] The program experienced little success in subsequent years, but in 1995, a coordinated campaign by donors to purchase large blocks of seats at Fouts Field spiked the average attendance enough for the school to enter Division I-A once again in 1995.[4]
After the school joined the Sun Belt Conference in 2001, Darrell Dickey briefly revived fortunes in Denton, winning four straight conference championships. The team played in the 2001 New Orleans Bowl despite having a losing record. After he went 2-9 and 3-9 in his eighth and ninth seasons, the athletic department fired Dickey on November 8, 2006.
The school then hired Todd Dodge, who had been offensive coordinator at UNT from 1991-1992, on December 12, 2006. Dodge had been one of the nation’s most successful high school football coaches, amassing a 98-11 record overall at Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, including a 79-1 record over his last 5 years. His teams at UNT struggled to win, however, compiling a 6-37 record overall and a 3-23 record in conference play. After a 1-6 start to the 2010 season, the school fired Dodge. He was replaced by offensive coordinator Mike Canales as interim head coach. In 2011, the university hired Dan McCarney as head coach.
Home field
A rendering of Apogee Stadium
Apogee Stadium
Main article: Apogee StadiumSince 2011, the Mean Green have played at Apogee Stadium, formerly named Mean Green Stadium. The stadium seats 31,000.
Fouts Field
Main article: Fouts FieldFrom 1952 to 2010, the team played its home games at Fouts Field. The first game was a 55–0 win over the North Dakota Fighting Sioux in 1952. The final Mean Green game was a 41–49 loss to the Kansas State Wildcats in 2010. The Mean Green posted a final record at Fouts Field of 155–100–7. From 1971 through 2001, the Mean Green played 21 home games at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, 32 miles away from the university's campus in Denton. The Mean Green posted a 9-12 record while playing select home games at the off-campus stadium. Only one season, 1972, saw the Mean Green play more games at Texas Stadium than their home field in Denton.[6]
Rivalries
- SMU Mustangs, in the Safeway Bowl.
Achievements
Conference Championships
Year Conference Coach 1932 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1935 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1936 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1939 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1940 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1941 Lone Star Jack Sisco 1946 Lone Star Odus Mitchell 1947 Lone Star Odus Mitchell 1950 Gulf Coast Odus Mitchell 1951 Gulf Coast Odus Mitchell 1952 Gulf Coast Odus Mitchell 1955 Gulf Coast Odus Mitchell 1956 Gulf Coast Odus Mitchell 1958 Missouri Valley Odus Mitchell 1959 Missouri Valley Odus Mitchell 1966 Missouri Valley Odus Mitchell 1967 Missouri Valley Rod Rust 1973 Missouri Valley Hayden Fry 1983 Southland Corky Nelson 1994 Southland Matt Simon 2001 Sun Belt Darrell Dickey 2002 Sun Belt Darrell Dickey 2003 Sun Belt Darrell Dickey 2004 Sun Belt Darrell Dickey Bowl Games
Date Bowl W/L Opponent PF PA December 21, 1946 Optimist W Pacific 14 13 January 1, 1948 Salad L Nevada 6 13 December 31, 1959 Sun L New Mexico State 8 28 December 17, 2001 New Orleans L Colorado State 20 45 December 17, 2002 New Orleans W Cincinnati 24 19 December 16, 2003 New Orleans L Memphis 17 27 December 14, 2004 New Orleans L Southern Miss 10 31 Players
Retired Numbers
- 28 - Abner Haynes (1957–59)
- 33 - Ray Renfro (1949–50)
- 55 - Richard Gill (1968–69)
- 75 - "Mean" Joe Greene (1966–69)
College Football Hall of Famers
Pro Football Hall of Famers
Current NFL players
Head coaches
Years Coach Seasons W L T % CW CL CT % CC Postseason 1913-14 J. W. Pender 2 3 4 0 .429 0 0 0 .000 0 0-0 1915-19 J. W. St. Clair 5 20 10 3 .652 0 0 0 .000 0 0-0 1920-24 Theron Fouts 5 23 14 2 .615 10 2 1 .846 0 0-0 1925-28 John Reid 4 16 18 3 .473 10 8 2 .600 0 0-0 1929-41 Jack Sisco 13 74 37 10 .653 44 8 8 .867 7 0-0 1942 Lloyd Russell 1 3 5 0 .375 1 2 0 .333 0 0-0 1946-66 Odus Mitchell 21 122 85 9 .586 43 26 2 .634 9 1-2 1967-72 Rod Rust 6 29 32 1 .476 16 14 0 .533 1 0-0 1973-78 Hayden Fry 6 40 23 3 .629 6 4 2 .667 1 0-0 1979-80 Jerry Moore 2 11 11 0 .500 0 0 0 .000 0 0-0 1981 Bob Tyler 1 2 9 0 .182 0 0 0 .000 0 0-0 1982-90 Corky Nelson 9 48 52 1 .480 24 20 1 .556 1 0-3 1991-93 Dennis Parker 3 11 21 1 .348 7 14 0 .333 0 0-0 1994-97 Matt Simon 4 18 26 1 .411 10 5 1 .688 1 0-1 1998–06 Darrell Dickey 9 42 64 0 .396 31 20 0 .608 4 1-3 2007–10 Todd Dodge 4 5 31 0 .139 2 20 0 .091 0 0-0 2010 Mike Canales 1 2 3 0 .400 2 2 0 .500 0 0-0 Total 16 Coaches 94 467 442 34 .514 204 143 17 .588 24 2-9 CW=Conference Wins, CL=Conference Losses, CT=Conference Ties, CC=Conference Championships
Notes
- ^ admin.xosn.com
- ^ "North Texas Championships". College Football Data Warehouse. http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/sunbelt/north_texas/championships.php. Retrieved 2007-08-20.
- ^ Rogers 2002, p. 482.
- ^ a b Rogers 2002, p. 617.
- ^ Rogers 2002, p. 618.
- ^ North Texas Mean Green Football Media Guide. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas. 2010. p. 93.
References
- Rogers, James (2002). The story of North Texas. University of North Texas: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 9781574411287. http://books.google.com/books?id=uEqJXwQHe6kC. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
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