North Texas Mean Green - North Texas Mean Green Football, North Texas Mean Green Men's Basketball, North Texas Mean Green Women's Basketball (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: North Texas Mean Green Football, North Texas Mean Green Men's Basketball, North Texas Mean Green Women's Basketball, New North Texas Mean Green Stadium, Fouts Field, Bill Mercer, Mean Green Village. Excerpt: New North Texas Mean Green Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The University of North Texas commissioned HKS, Inc., a Dallas-based architecture firm, who previously designed the Dallas Mavericks' American Airlines Center, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, and the Texas Rangers' The Ballpark at Arlington to design a replacement stadium. The proposed 30-35,000 seat stadium (currently called "New North Texas Mean Green Stadium") had a projected price tag of $60M. That price reportedly ballooned to $78M after a student referendum was held. The stadium was first proposed in the early 2000s when UNT created their athletics specific complex, Mean Green Village, from a failing golf course on the other side of I-35W, opposite of campus. Texas state law allows student athletic fees to fund up to 50% of the cost of a new football Stadium. A previous attempt to get students to pass a referendum for a student fee in 2002 was widely seen as a powerplay by the athletics department. It was sold mostly as a way to help the university achieve Title IX compliance in its athletic program. It was rejected by 55% of UNT's voting students. The SGA tried to overrule the student vote to give the athletic department their funding and most members of the SGA were recalled over this perceived abuse of power. Since then the UNT Athletic Department has funded most facility improvements exclusively through donations. The last facility in need of being updated was Fouts Field, the expense of which appeared beyond simple donations. In 2008, the athletic department... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15125546