January 31, 2023

Dear Mean Green Baseball Supporters,

The last couple of months have been an eventful time for U.N.T. athletics.  We hired a new football coach that is bringing new excitement to our program.  And with Wren Baker leaving his athletic director position here to go to West Virginia, we now have a new athletic director also. We believe Jared Mosley and his staff will do an outstanding job and that he is someone who is fully vested in growing the athletic programs at U.N.T. and ensuring our success.  

The Mean Green Baseball Project has also been busy.  We have had some exciting things happen also.  We had a strategy meeting as a group just after Christmas to plan for the new year.  In that meeting we knew our number one goal was to get a meeting with Jared Mosley.  We did get that meeting and it was a very positive meeting.  Baseball is definitely on the near radar of the Mean Green.  The first priority is getting the new athletics center built so that our student athletes have enough living space. And we are fully behind that.  But we feel like we have a chance to be next. We also feel like after 35 years of excuses, we deserve to be next.  

That is where you come in.  We have to have your continued support and your continued push in making sure baseball is at the front of the list and not on the long-term goals.  We have had some exciting things happen to help expedite baseball.  Through social media, solid contacts, and word of mouth, the DFW baseball community is now keenly aware that baseball is being pushed at U.N.T.  And they are excited and asking questions and beginning to push the envelope.  The DFW baseball community understands what a sleeping giant the Mean Green have in baseball, and they want baseball here badly for the student/athletes in this talent rich area.  We have had people throw out ideas like initially playing at the Frisco Roughriders stadium the first few years since we have a new U.N.T. Frisco campus right there.  Not a bad idea.  We have been approached by independent minor league franchises that want to visit with our athletic department about a joint stadium venture coupled with a minor league franchise in Denton.  And we have had numerous conversations with people who are willing to help push this through.  They just want to know what they can do.  

We have also had conversations with outstanding baseball people who would love to be a part of building a program here at U.N.T.  Baseball coaches all over the country realize what a baseball hotbed Denton is laying in and how good the program could be.  

As always, money will be the key.  We have to find that big donor to get a stadium and the quicker that person or people or organization is found then the quicker baseball will happen.  The stadium does not have to be outlandishly big but does need to be a solid D1 stadium that can be added on to as we grow the program.  

And when baseball does happen at U.N.T, it will be glorious.  There will be nothing better than a warm spring night in Denton watching our Mean Green baseball team play another tough conference foe and coming out victorious. 

Light the Tower Green!  It is time for Mean Green Baseball.  

Yours in Baseball,

Doug Rush
President, Mean Green Baseball Project