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Jones President and CEO 325 NORTH ST PAULS 11.:/l:_t_T SUIT[ 700 DALLAS. I [XAS 7520i Visit Dallas.com OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR NORTH TEXAS, UNLV By Troy Phillips, www.theheartofdallasbowl.com For two emerging college football programs, opportunity is .. .when you go forward with the thought that UNLV would be knocking. The Heart of Dallas Bowl presented by PlainsCapital playing in a New Year's Day football game, it's just really, re• Bank also sees today's kickoff of its fourth year as an emerging ally exciting for the people here, specifically the guys in our opportunity. meeting and locker rooms. We've had so many milestones we Sin City will meet Big D at the historic Cotton Bowl Stadium surpassed this year." in Dallas' Fair Park when UNLV (7-5) faces North Texas (8-4) Among those are a program-best five Mountain West Con• at 11 a.m. today. This season, both ended long absences from ference wins and the Rebels' fourth winning season since 1984. college football's postseason. UNLV, better known for 1990s "So, it's humbling and it's exciting," Hauck said. success and glamour of its basketball program and being UNT, naturally, will sell today's matchup to its fan base as an neighbor to one of the world's greatest meccas of gambling, affordable (no airfare required!) trip down l-35E to help cele• gaudy resorts and all-night partying, is experiencing football brate the end of a milestone season. The HOD Bowl's choice resurgence. of a team in the region made sense for the event's fourth sea• North Texas, one of the state's largest universities better son as it strives to fulfill a charitable mission. The bowl and known for jazz musical studies and turning out educators, its peripheral festivities are part of a series of entertainment made a landmark investment in its football program with the and sporting events that benefit the City of Dallas' homeless recent construction of Apogee Stadium on the UNT campus. population. The Mean Green, under veteran coach and former Iowa State Eventually, by maintaining its New Year's Day (or there• boss Dan McCamey, had a wildly successful debut season in abouts) spot on the bowl calendar, inviting more regional Conference USA after years in the Sun Belt Conference, nearly teams, preserving partnerships such as those with PlainsCapi• advancing to the C-USA title game. McCarney's team played tal Bank and ESPN, and establishing the kind of staying power defense like few others in C-USA, and fifth-year senior quarter• of the closely-aligned Bell Helicopter Armed Force Bowl has in back Derek Thompson's experience was a difference-maker. Fort Worth, the HOD Bowl figures to grow sturdy roots. Both McCamey and fourth-year UNLV coach Bobby Hauck, Strategically, inviting UNT couldn't have hurt either. The way as well as their staffs, have fought long odds to get their pro• the school sees it, this is a no-excuse venture, and on a work grams to this point. UNT (Mean Joe Greene) and UNLV (Ran• holiday no less. dall Cunningham) have their defining legends going back de• "This is what we've asked for what we've worked for," UNT cades, but there's no time like the present for a bowl victory athletic director Rick Villarreal said. "We've got a great op• to sustain momentum. portunity. What it might normally cost two people for plane "We've come through an awful lot and overcome a lot," said tickets just to get to a game somewhere, to be here in a Dallas, McCamey, who took over a UNT program three years ago probably can bring a family of four, spend a the night in Dallas, that's now in its first bowl since going to four straight New Or• have a great meal and a great day at the game the next day. leans Bowls from 2001 to 2004. "We're really, really proud to "So, yeah, we'll challenge fans. They've challenged us, and represent Conference USA and get a chance to coach against I think we've stepped up and met a lot of that challenge. We Bobby and his team." have a lot of fans in [Dallas/Fort Worth]. Some of them ha• McCamey, who has coached in 20 previous bowl games, ven't been reconnected to the program, but it's time they said a poll of the Mean Green's 22 seniors came up unanimous• stepped up and got reconnected .... All the excuses are kind of ly in favor of staying close to home - Denton is north of Dallas removed, and so it's going to be about numbers. And I expect in an adjacent county - and playing in the HOD Bowl. to see big numbers." "We polled the seniors after we got our seventh win, before His team's fans coming from another time zone, Hauck said we got to our eighth one, just to try and get some kind of feel the more filled seats, the better, whether it's UNT green or for the bowl options that we have in Conference USA," Mcca• UNLV red and silver. rney said. "I will say I was surprised that all 22 of my seniors "None of the kids wants to play in an empty, quiet stadium," wanted to go to the Heart of Dallas Bowl. That's not fabricated he said. "I hope every North Texas alum in the great state of or fake or phony.