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An example of the benefits of a degree from the University of North Texas.

I know there may be a few that laugh up their sleeve at this--not sure why--but this kind of $ donor and willingness to invest in the university can transform the entire school in virtually unlimited ways.

Congratulations Mr. Ryan, thank you for all your support!

Firtitta is worth $5.5B. GBR is more than doing his part and I’m super grateful for him. We need to support financially how we all can to continue to take some pressure off the AD having to continue to knock on the same doors.

UTSA is positioning itself to be the next University of Houston. We seem to keep striving to #Hit6

A big part in finding more fans and more support is the excitement around a program and it's sports. The AAC announcement and success in men's basketball, softball, et al will help that. Football, however, costs the most and draws the most attendance and media but is not pulling it's weight with excitement the past few years. That needs to change or Wren needs to make a change within it.

You are only hope, Obi-Brint-Kanobi…be our Tillman Fertitta, please.

We do perhaps the most inept job of branding in college sports. We have an incredible opportunity with Mean Green and continually blow it. Emphasize the Mean Green and use green and white and cut out the other colors especially the freaking Gray

For those interested, they took game one from Clemson last night winning 2-0. Kelly Maxwell, the pitcher that shut us out by the same score, threw a compete game giving up two hits and striking out 13.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but we will get the same afternoon games (even 11 AM kickoffs) in the AAC.

I should have majored in accounting..........

They are standing directly in front of one of the practice buildings. There is a north building and south building. I spent more time in music practice north than any other place/building/bar in Denton. I know that view even after nearly 20 years after graduating. My guess is, they are standing directly in front of Music Practice South, on the sidewalk that approaches Avenue C at an angle.

Truer words have never been spoken.

You have to beat the opponent in front of you. Need I remind you that only reason the Cowboys became available to Jerry Jones to buy was the consistent LOSING, low attendance and TV Blackout of a few home games. This program has a reputation for losing. None of our the pro teams aren’t to the affect losing has on apathy. When we beat Arkansas that got a ton of coverage because we had a good record and the bear a well known program. And the tickets for our games are no where near the prices for bad seats at a Cowboys game. UNT sports is not competing for pro sports consumers. And to suggest they are is just foolish. All time we have a below 0.500 record against CUSA opponents. We are 0.500 all time and way below that if you throw out our record as a FCS team or against FCS teams as an FBS team. And I shutter to think what our overall records would look if we didn’t beat up on UTEP, New Mexico State, and Texas State. We are a combined +50 against those teams. The apathy here is EARNED. Here with a whole bunch of losses to the teams “we care about”. You could give out free tickets and not pack Apogee with 3 losing seasons for every season with 8 wins+

So ready to get out of this garbage conference. 0 night games after Memphis and 0 home night games after Texas Southern. Cannot wait until we get nice Friday night/Saturday night games on ESPN once in a while and can actually rewatch them later without cable. I haven't been able to rewatch a NT football game in full in years because they get lost in the ether thanks to Judy's inability market her product. See ya, CUSA!

The game is scheduled for 2pm central or Noon Local. Source: ESPN, CBS sports, and unlvrebels.com

Still think OU is the heavy favorite to repeat! Again! Interesting note on Clemson, they finished 5th in the ACC regular season behind Notre Dame and ND lost to McNeese St. 11-1 at Regionals! A lot of parity in softball, that’s for sure!

The time Is now! Bring them back. GMG!

I agree. I like the gray but it only goes well with forest green IMO. Personally, I don't care for the black either. It's very hard for me to read the numbers with green on black. Even harder to read the name. Why not just stick to the registered colors.

Love it! Willis Library?

It will give Seth time for Golf.

This isn't bad at all. 2 October afternoon home games, all CUSA road games are Stadium, which means DFW area broadcast (Channel 21 or 27, can't remember). No weeknight games.

Already booked my flight to Vegas!

Great for both him and the university.

UNLV ticket website shows us as Northern Texas lol https://www.unlvtickets.com/rebel-football/single-game-tickets/

I like the afternoon games in the fall and the late summer games in the evening. It makes for a more comfortable gameday experience in my opinion.

Didn’t realize Dallas Cowboys were recruiting and snatching 3 star prospects and underclassmen from the transfer portal. Are fall Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays The only time prospects can visit UNT campus? How did Lil Ole private school TCU get back to national prominence after being left out of the Big 12? How did SMU ever get ranked again after being left out of the Big 12 and before that getting the death penalty? The pro football thing only applies to game attendance. Stop it with the excuses. The self-inflict it wounds here are too numerous to recount here. And I am in the opinion that we are witnessing another wound infliction by retaining an offensive 0.500 coach whose offensive specialty (remember let it fly) has been on a downward/flatline trend 3 straight years. You can support this team without making excuses for them. Show me “we beat UTSA” trophy. Where were we ranked after that great victory? Did we get a good bowl game because it with an opponent people knew and wanted to see from that UTSA victory? I know UTSA got a CUSA championship trophy after that and in spite of that “devastating” lost. And yes we can beat them and there is no excuse for not beating them 2 out every 3 times for the first 15 years of their program. But minus this freakishly bad weather game we would be below 0.500 to them right now 9 years into this rivalry. Seth should already be gone and saying things like “San Antonio is the second largest city in Texas with no pro competition” is kind of logitech keeps mediocrity going here. There are too many resources here to have any Excuse for consistent mediocrity and more really bad seasons than really great seasons. I challenge you to look at the other 12 Texas schools that play FBS level football over the past 10 years look at their resources comparing them to ours and our outcomes. I think you will come to the conclusion that we drastically underachieving. So giving copious kudos points for a victory over a 10 year old program just doesn’t make sense to me. Especially when it barely got up to 6 win threshold without beating 6 FBS teams. At the end of the regular season we were still sub 0.500 against FBS teams. Then topped it off with a hard fought loss against Juggernaut Ohio St—- I mean Ohio Bobcat— er I mean Miami of Ohio, Yes The victory over UTSA was fun but it shouldn’t have saved Seth’s job by itself because it was a bad season. It wasn’t a disaster but, it was bad. A below 500 record against FBS teams season is a bad season. We should be better than UTSA we should be like 6-3 at worst against them and have a CUSA title like they do.

Embarrassing for a program with a head coach in his 7th season.

Exactly and that is not even mentioning that UTSA started their program from scratch in 2009, and UAB shuttered their program for 2 years.

Cry me a river. I still say UTSA has the much harder schedule. they have Houston, Army, Texas, WKU, UAB, Tech UTEP. The only easy games they have are TSU, Rice, FIU and us.

I like his film. I think he might be able to help us.

red alert @ADLER

plumbers and electricians can make six figures these days. Trade school is not a bad idea.

I’ve only stayed at the MGM Grand (several times) and New York New York. All on business. Only done sports betting at MGM and it was nothing noteworthy (always bet on UNT basketball and they never won for me). This will be my first pleasure trip to Vegas. Staying at TI. (I’m told by a former Vegas resident that everyone calls it TI now and no one calls it Treasure Island anymore). Good mix of budget and location considerations. If cost wasn’t a factor, I’d be staying at Delano. Skyfall is my favorite lounge in Vegas, which is at the top of Delano. Also, looks to be a brief walk across the bridge to the stadium.

UH does have those pro teams around for sure…and when they aren’t good, it shows dramatically in their attendance. But here is your difference…and @Cougar Kingwill back this up. UH made sports important decades ago. They are a huge school with a lot of alumni in business/science/engineering. Their football team has been ranked in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and the 20s. Their basketball program has been hugely successful at times I’ve the last 55 years, from beating UCLA in the first nationally televised game in the Astrodome, to Phi Slamma Jamma, to their team today that recently has gone to the Final Four and is currently expected to be Top 5 next year. How did they do it? They paid for and kept good coaches AND fired coaches who didn’t meet their expectations. Why did they do it? Because they have monied alumni who care…a lot more than a school based on getting teachers and artists educated, which is what we are proudly known for. Nothing wrong with it, either, but it doesn’t add up to having sports matter. We keep coaches until they are affordable to fire. There are exceptions, of course, like DMac being fired ASAP after the worst loss in modern college football history. But the reality is that Jimmy Gales, Corky Nelson, Dennis Parker, Matt Simon, Vic Trilli, Darrell Dickey, Todd Dodge, Tony Benford, and now, Seth Littrell, all got canned when there contracts were at an affordable spot to be let go…not a moment sooner. Look at the records of these people before they got fired—they all deserved to be let go before they actually got fired. Extra year(s) because of lack of money or lack of Will to spend it. UH don’t play that game…and we shall see if upstart UTSA will, either. We don’t know. UTSA is the new kid on the block, but they have a lot of corporate and civic sponsors that we don’t have and will never have. It’s what years of the EARNED APATHY you mentioned costs us today.

Just curious. What happens to the old Band uni's when new ones are bought. addendum: Not a fan of the "Beefeater" style hats.

I like the black helmet to the left.

True--but that's where this is headed.

wait why are we not there? Highest paid coach/five years to build a program with some of the best facilities in CUSA. I count what 4 programs from CUSA there. Unacceptable, especially since the level of competition is going to higher next year. To early for a list of possible coaches for next hire? Or will be give a SL another year to see what he can do in the AAC. I am predicting a 4-8 season.

@biggameboomer hadn't heard about Gunnell yet. That's probably why.

Agreed. A lot of the posters here are like the UTEP fans that stormed the court after they beat us in basketball in El Paso, content ruining someone else’s season rather than being good enough that everyone else is trying to ruin yours.

Big Game Boomer has about as much credibility as Amber Heard Plus KD a top 5 LB in CFB don't @ me

WFT? How about Dennis Fisher's purchase of red uniforms with dark green (that looked like black from a distance)? I thought it was a visiting band the first time I saw them...also, they had red drums at one time. A branding nightmare.

Have you watched UNT Football at all over the last, oh, say 40 years? Because everything you posted about is basically the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of what we do here. There is one excuse that cannot be defeated here and it’s monstrous: Apathy. We care about one game a year, against SMU. After that, the crowds are about 10-20k depending on how we are doing and who we are playing. There are almost 40k college students at UNT, 300k living alumni in DFW, and millions surrounding us…and that gets us about 15k on a Saturday in the fall against a CUSA team. As far as SL goes, We have no money for buying out his contract and his staff and then hiring someone else.. We aren’t paying off $1.3 million extra dollars to get rid of the darling of the biggest donors the athletic department. That is not how it’s done here. Never has been, never will. And, yes, pro sports of every type kills us for attention and ticket buyers. In November, a DFW resident can go watch the Cowboys, Mavs, Stars. TCU, SMU, or UNT. Now ask yourself which team I listed above gets mentioned last on almost every newscast? And beating UTSA didn’t save SL’s job…beating UTEP saved his job. And beating FIU and UTSA were the whipped cream and cherry on the sundae.

She’s still one of us. Her diploma says so. A No-hitter in the Super Regionals VS the #16 team in the nation. Incredible. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/33995625/hope-trautwein-throws-no-hitter-no-1-oklahoma-sooners-run-rule-no-16-ucf-ncaa-softball-super-regional?platform=amp