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Final Sun Belt Football Media Day For North Texas

At the Sun Belt Conference's pre-season football Media Day, held Monday in New Orleans, North Texas senior punter Will Atterberry and sophomore offensive lineman Cyril Lemon were named to the 2012 Preseason All-Sun Belt team. Atterberry was the leading punter in the Sun Belt Conference last season and while Lemon was the only true freshman offensive lineman in the nation to start all 12 games and receive all-conference honors. Click here for the full story.

It's the final Sun Belt Media Day for the North Texas football program, as the Mean Green prepare for their season in the Sun Belt before departing for Conference USA in July, 2013. ESPN3 will televise Media Day beginning at 2 p.m.

Send Your Questions To Coach Dan McCarney and Linebacker Zach Orr

North Texas head fooball coach Dan McCarney and Mean Green junior linebacker Zach Orr are at Media Day. While they'll be answering questions from the press, they're also going to take time to answering questions from the Mean Green faithful.

Send your questions to us via Facebook or Twitter. The fans' best questions will be put to Coach McCarney and Zach, and the best question of the day will earn free tickets to the season opener against Texas Southern.

Sun Belt TV Games

The conference announced its 2012 television schedule, and two North Texas games are slated to be broadcast.

The Mean Green will be on national television on ESPN2 on Tuesday, October 16, at home against Lousiana-Lafayette. It will be the first nationally-televised game from Apogee Stadium.

The October 6 game at Houston will also be shown on Charter Sports Southeast. That channel is not available in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

2012 Preseason Sun Belt Poll 2012 North Texas Football Schedule

1.

 Florida International (5) Sat, Sep. 1 at LSU

2.

 Arkansas State (2) Sat, Sep. 8 TEXAS SOUTHERN

3.

 Louisiana-Lafayette (2) Sat, Sep 15 at Kansas State

4.

 Western Kentucky (1) Sat, Sep 22 TROY (Family Weekend)

5.

 Troy Sat, Sep 29 at Florida Atlantic

6.

 Louisiana-Monroe Sat, Oct 6 at Houston 

7.

 Middle Tennessee Tue, Oct 16 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE (ESPN2)

8.

 North Texas Sat, Oct 27 at Middle Tennessee

9.

 Florida Atlantic Sat, Nov 3 ARKANSAS STATE (Homecoming) 

10.

 South Alabama Sat, Nov 10 SOUTH ALABAMA (UNT Preview)
   First place votes in parenthesis. As voted by the league's 10 Sat, Nov 17 at Louisiana-Monroe
   head coaches and selected media members. Sat, Nov 24 at Western Kentucky

Pre-Season All-Conference Team  
QB Ryan Aplin, Sr., Arkansas State  DL Isame Faciane, Jr., FIU
RB Kedrick Rhodes, Jr. FIU DL Tourek Williams, Sr., FIU
RB Alonzo Harris, So., Louisiana-Lafayette DL Tony Davis, Sr., Troy
WR Josh Jarboe, Sr., Arkansas State DL Quanterus Smith, Sr., WKU
WR Javone Lawson, Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette LB Winston Fraser, r-Sr., FIU
WR Eric Thomas, Jr., Troy LB Kanorris Davis, Sr., Troy
TE Jack Doyle, Sr., WKU LB Andrew Jackson, Jr., WKU
OL Zack McKnight, Sr., Arkansas State DB Don Jones, Sr., Arkansas State
OL Rupert Bryan, Sr., FIU DB Jonathan Cyprien, Sr., FIU
OL Caylin Hauptmann, Sr., FIU DB Melvin White, Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette
OL Leonardo Bates, Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette DB Brynden Trawick, Sr., Troy
OL Cyril Lemon, So., North Texas    
Special Teams
PK Brett Baer, Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette 
Will Atterbury, Sr., North Texas 
KR  John Evans, So., WKU 

Preseason Offensive Player of the Year: Ryan Aplin
Preseason Defensive Player of the Year: Tourek Williams

As Seen At Media Day

We'll be posting photos and video from Media Day here, so keep checking back for all the goings on from New Orleans.

VIDEO:  Behind the scenes as Coach McCarney is interviewed by Cole Wright on the ESPN3 set.

VIDEO:  Coach McCarney interviewed for Sun Belt TV.

VIDEO:  Congrats to Cody, who sent Zach Orr a question on Facebook.  Click here to see Zach's answer.

VIDEO:  Coach McCarney answers questions in a more informal session.

VIDEO:  Coach McCarney talks about building on last year.

VIDEO:  Coach McCarney sits down for a radio interview and talks about Apogee Stadium with Jay Walker of UL-Lafayette.

 

 

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