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North Texas Notes and Quotes from first practice in New Orleans
Dec 12, 2003
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North Texas Notes and Quotes from first practice in New Orleans

- The Mean Green is making its third straight trip to the New Orleans Bowl. There are several players on this year's team who have key players in the previous two New Orleans Bowls. Seven of the offensive starters and nine of the defensive starters have either been starters or seen valuable playing time in the previous two bowls.
- The team practiced at St. Martins High School today and will practice at the New Orleans Saints practice facility the next two days. On Monday the team will have its usual walk-through at the New Orleans Superdome.
- The team practiced in the usual helmet and shoulder pads with limited contact for nearly two hours. They worked on offensive and defensive team drills for the majority of practice, followed by a short span of PAT and field goal work.
- Every starter who had been injured during the season practiced Friday. Defensive end Adrian Awasom and defensive tackle Brandon Kennedy were both nagged with ankle sprains late in the season but both practiced.
- Running back Patrick Cobbs will have an opportunity to build upon his rushing average of 157.0 yards per game, which leads the nation. Cobbs will also add to his North Texas and Sun Belt Conference record of 1,570 yards rushing this season.

Head Coach Darrell Dickey
"We are excited to be back in New Orleans. Unless you are playing on New Years Day, this is the best possible bowl to play in. We are able to come to a great destination and get tremendous treatment from the people at the New Orleans Bowl. It's great to be the first bowl of the season and then be back in time to spend the holiday's with our families and watch all of the other games.

"We learn a little bit more each time we come to the New Orleans Bowl. The first year was a big learning experience and last we I think we handled everything a little better. We treat this like just another game and we understand that we have to stay focused.

"This has a chance to be the best New Orleans Bowl ever. There will be two very good teams playing that both have tremendous fan support. We know that Memphis will bring a lot of fans and we have had very good fan support here the last two years. All things considered, this should be a great game."

Running Back Patrick Cobbs
"It's great to be back to New Orleans. We set this as a team goal at the beginning of the season and we were focused on taking care of business each week so that we would have an opportunity to get back here. It's a great experience for everyone.

"It has been a great year for a lot of things. We finished the season with an undefeated conference record and we had a lot of players receive several individual rewards. The New Orleans Bowl is a fitting cap to a great season.

"We know that Memphis is a very good team and they will present challenges that we haven't seen this year. We are going to

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