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That Tech game is going to be a dry heat scorched. Bring your sunblock. Lots of time to get juiced up before entering the Alamodome. GMG

With what we had to do to get on that boat, they'll never see the moustache

Didn't realize there were so many defenders of Pine Bluff, AR on here.

Nope. He made his bed. He can sleep in it.

You can leave out the IMO because it’s a fact, not an opinion. Is the death of non revenue sports an unintended consequence or a sacrificial lamb?

Oh man. A full revenue share from the acc network may be enough to buy a belt for when you pull your trousers back up.

SMU hasn't finished in the top 12 since 1985 and you're expecting College Football Playoff revenue?

SMU is the guy who threw on a woman's dress at the last minute hoping to get on a lifeboat, but he forgot to shave off his Snidely Whiplash mustache.

College Athletics is better than Pro-Sports...get paid...change schools every year to the highest bidder. IMO...it ain't amateur sports anymore. NIL may very well be the death to many G5 non revenue sports.

And if so by whom? It seems like all of this NIL stuff is happening at an inopportune time. We don't know if the new prez will be as supportive as Smatresk has been. Also I know nothing of Chancellor Michael Willams and his thoughts on athletics either.

Winning!

You will be right there with us. The split will be the SEC and whoever else they entice to get to 20 schools, The BigTen, which will become the BigTwenty, and everyone else. If you think you all will be in the top 40, then you are drunker than a smuT coed.

With the price of pay to play in college now a reality I don't see G6 programs having the financial resources to support 16 varsity sports nor to add an expensive non revenue sport such as baseball. In fact I might put college baseball on the endangered list for G6 programs. The truth of the matter is that we are entering uncharted waters and if I was an AD or university President I would be very reluctant to spend monies until the smoke clears. [ Note: I refer to D1 conferences as P4 and G6 as the PAC 2 + MWC will not be included with the Big 12, ACC,Big 10, or SEC in the future.]

You got a nice trip to the Fenway Park Loser Bowl, lol. Otherwise known as the Not-ready-for-Prime-Time Bowl.

Being a passenger on the Titanic felt great at 11 p.m.

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I think it is unlikely he would return at this point.

If back pay must happen, why couldn’t each school, or conference, be responsible for back paying its own players?

I can't imagine UNT adding another non revenue sport that would require at least $10 million+ just to construct a venue. What I can imagine is North Texas dropping as many sports as possible in order to keep those remaining financially viable. We are headed into a financial abyss that is unprecedented in amateur sports. Historically our athletic department has been underfunded and while I hate to yell that the sky is falling it well may be. I just don't see a silver lining for G5 athletic programs.

Could Buggs still return to NT ?

There is a lot of information yet to be processed. Is the NCAA going to require a certain number of sports? How will woman's sports be affected? Where is the money going to come from on a go forward basis? What will be the value of AAC t.v contract once the P4 conferences spin off? Would the G6 schools be better off by being pro active , leave the NCAA, and develop their own rules for membership? We will need to do it sooner or later when the P4 conferences move on. Also, the legal rights of college athletes is driving this and the NCAA is powerless to prevent change .

BB🏀🏀🏀

Is that per day? Per month? Not much money. My wife spends that much in a week of shopping. Maybe I just don't understand.

Reading is hard. I didn’t catch that it was based on AP poll finish.

Wait! Are we now saying that a kid that went to Kilgore JC (right in our backyard) ended up committing to Troy, we had a shot at him, but now he's going to New Mexico State? Did I read this correctly? If so, we suck!!!!

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Also stop scheduling them and giving them easy victories. Let them beat up on each other. That will ultimately turn off the lower level school and force their hand.

Well, the Dems vote on it and then read it, so they are both idiots.

So Buggs is the only one that hasn't found a new school yet? I heard that he had some good schools interested.

Lamar has a little history on their side. UAPB is in my Mom's hometown and it is rough now. I'm not sure I would let my child attend there because of the terrible crime and even worse condition of the city. Really sad, because it used to be a beautiful town decades ago.

Honestly, I would not be surprised if Coach Hodge encouraged the guys to dip their feet in the portal to see if they can't secure more money elsewhere. He loves these players, and wants what's best for them. I highly doubt he subscribes to the Littrell mantra of, "Once you're gone, you're gone". I bet he still keeps in touch with them, letting them know that they still have spots here (with the same, if not more NIL$) if they don't get what they're looking for elsewhere. As has been stated several times before... Coach Hodge is cut from the JUCO cloth. Turnover is constant in the JUCO world. He knows how to deal with this.

Weird comment since a super majority of ACC schools voted SMU into the league.

As of now, yes. However the future seems unclear. I can see UNT with men's basketball and football, women's basketball, softball, volleyball, and soccer with everything else eliminated including track and field. In fact , some of the women's programs mentioned could be eliminated as well with just enough programs to satisfy Title IX. I think that when the G5 programs go their separate way that the NCAA will be unable to impose program requirements on its members. This is just a guess and by golly of an old man [81] who has seen many changes in college athletics when players were amateurs. This is no longer the case in a "pay for play" environment where the rules are being decided in the courtroom instead of the boardroom. The new financial requirements are overwhelming to programs like North Texas as where does the money to compete come from? It's no longer bricks and sticks which we have invested in just to level the playing field. It's the same question; what do we want, what do we need, and what are we willing to pay for? The next few years are going to be very challenging and some schools may remember that their mission is academics, not athletics, and decide to drop out of the race , similar to the decision UTA made decades ago.

There is a very real probability that our school may be playing football at a club level in about 15-20 years if nothing changes in the current landscape for the better. Unless we get comfortable with being a juco/stepping stone for the folks up the food chain.

Yeah, misread that one. 50 million, 50 thousand...

Title IX still applies, right?

In Mississippi, for instance, university and collective leaders led a campaign this spring to change their state statute to permit such a move. In Missouri, a state law has existed for more than a year permitting the school’s collective to receive institution funds for distribution to athletes. Other states, as well as the collectives within those states, are marching toward a similar goal, said Walker Jones, a former agent and apparel executive who leads the Ole Miss collective, The Grove. On July 1, The Grove will transition from a booster-funded collective to a school-financed third-party agency. “Our major gift donors will be thrilled to death with it,” Jones said. “Now, the money, instead of only coming from John Doe’s pocket, also comes from the university. We then go hunt out deals for the athletes and get them active in the community to satisfy [NIL agreements].” Hibbs says this method is “the best of both worlds.” In this new model, funding for a roster would mostly move within the university, where donors receive tax deductions and priority points for required donations as part of their football season ticket packages — not the case with collectives. link: https://sports.yahoo.com/the-next-evolution-of-nil-collectives-and-the-battles-that-await-this-is-a-big-inflection-point-120051261.html

The difference is SMU is the rich guy who can buy his way to a life boat while UNT drowns down in steerage.

Oh man, this confirms we will blow away our AAC revenue easily

I would hope they give him another shot if he indeed wants to return.

Its better than the $50 gift card to Blockbuster Video that we were getting in the AAC.