University of North Texas Athletics
2012 Sun Belt Media Day
7/16/2012 12:00:00 AM | Football
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 |
| PK | Brett Baer, Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette |
| P | 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
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.
