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I can't wait to hear how this is actually very good news for SMU.

UTD has giant billboards next to the highway in Denton and all across DFW claiming to be: The No. 1 University in North Texas. The billboards are green and it is a direct shot at us. And while I will acknowledge that UTD certainly has a few smart students, it does lack the traditional college experience that North Texas provides. I say we respond with a billboard near THEIR campus with a big picture of our full student section at a football game and make it say something like: “Have a real college experience at The University of North Texas”. Those nerdy chess geeks don’t even have a football team.

This is actually kind of hilarious. If it happens, you know who would get left out in the cold...again.

Does that exist?

This is just silly clickbait. Even the quoted origin of the story Ross Dillinger clarified that it was just speculation about all possible outcomes and it's the most unlikely possibility. He rated "ACC kicks out lowest performing schools to make an 8 team conference", which is similarly contractually ridiculous

University employees should now sue.........claiming that they are "athletes." That way, they could get all the perks that athletes get (free education, free housing, food, stipend, great health care). I'm sure those guys at the Physical Plant could use a good trainer, after a day of hard work.

I will say their ads stress their "superior" academics while our ads stress low cost, good food, fun times. IMHO, they market to the more serious student while we market for numbers and diversity. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you want, but may be one reason we're not taken seriously as a top flight university in spite of our Tier One status. I may be wrong but I've always taken issue with our advertising that looks almost juvenile when compared to say...UTD. Our latest commercial shows a recent grad accepting an entry level, office cubicle job. Probably realistic, but not exactly lofty goals. I'd like to see us stress our academicly diverse opportunities through our Ststem (medical school, law school) and the lofty positions earned by it. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud to be an alum and I'm not slamming anyone's degree or professional standing. My beef is with our marketing strategy. That is all.

It's informed speculation from a 10-year college football reporter who had just been at Big 12 media day. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he knows nothing Jon Snow.

He actual just worked at UT. His undergrad degree is from Notre Dame and Masters and PhD are from Georgetown University.

I think it makes total sense for A&M to head to the Big. Two instances have fueled this: 1. The non consultation that Texas was being invited and added. 2. Their douchie baseball coach. This was not a slight per se because he was always going to Texas. But the lie on Monday and switch on Tuesday was terrible. Can’t support that dude. I don’t consider it running form Texas because it is an equally impressive move. USC Oregon Penn State the Ohio State university Michigan and Washington traversing into Kyle Field is juicy. Plus you dance with the devil that is Texas and you will be burned. I keep telling my LSU and Tennessee friends to just watch and beware. Either way this would be good for the 12. That basketball league would be stout and football would be solid again with replacing Texas and Oklahoma with Florida State and Clemson. Got to be honest I wouldn’t really want any of those leftovers. What a potential chance for the MWC and AAC to join forces to create an interesting lineup. GMG

Nebraska lost it's AAU status in 2011. They are trying to get it back, but they are currently a Big10 member without that title. A$M won't leave the SEC for the Big10. They have too many other rivals in the SEC. They are a good fit in the SEC by geography and power sports. No mention in this blog about how the Big12 would unlock the ACC media rights jail. I hope the ACC does implode....just to watch the drama for $mut...

/fake cries in SMU

DENTON – One of the state's best rebounding prep standouts Baron Smith Jr. has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the UNT men's basketball team. The consensus three-star 6-foot-9 forward led all of Texas high school 6A boys basketball in rebounding in each of the last two seasons. He set the Haltom High School record for career rebounds (855), single season rebounds (353) and single-game rebounds (26). This past year he averaged 13 points and 11 rebounds per game for Haltom who won 21 games and made a seven-win improvement from the year prior behind Smith's growth. He was named first team all-district after this season. The Haltom City native posted 10 or more rebounds in 20 games last year including the program record 26 versus Lake Country Christian (Fort Worth) in a 14-point win on Dec. 12. Smith was an efficient scorer too as he shot nearly 60 percent from the floor as a senior at Haltom and stretched the floor occasionally as he hit 10 3-pointers over the 33-game schedule. He averaged better than a block per game and had four versus A&M Consolidated High School (College Station, Texas) in a 24-point win. A three-year letterwinner at Haltom High School, he averaged 10.0 points per game and 9.4 rebounds per game over his three seasons with the Buffalos. Smith, who was rated as a top 30 player in the state of Texas by 247 Sports, chose the Mean Green over American Athletic Conference foe East Carolina, Utah State, San Jose State and others. With the addition of Smith, North Texas will have the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's leading prep rebounder and scorer from last season on its 2024-25 roster. Smith joins fellow incoming freshman Tyran Mason from Plano High School who led the entire DFW area last year in points per game (25.3) and signed with UNT last November. For more information on UNT men's basketball tickets, contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or at ticketoffice@unt.edu. Fans can visit the UNT Athletics Ticket Office located at Gate 2 of DATCU Stadium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

This title is WILD! It feels like July offseason talk. We’re putting a lot of resources into putting a competitive product on the field. I can almost guarantee not a single person in the athletic department views UNT as a minor league product. The goal is always to win the conference, win the bowl game…and with this new set up, there’s a chance to be in the final 12. Looking forward to seeing our guys compete this year!

This is a much tougher game than out fans give it credit for.

If athletes are deemed to be employees of a university, I wonder if state/public universities would be required to publish their NIL salaries while private universities would be exempt? That would be an interesting dilemma that could seemingly benefit schools like Notre Dame, USC and Miami.

Power Four Programs Offered 6-Figure NIL Deals to Colorado State’s Tory Horton, Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi Huge fan of these two for their dedication and commitment to their teammates and school. $600K is a LOT of money for 19-20 year-old kids to turn down. Between the transfer portal and NIL, the college football game just doesn't excite me like it once did. With such high turnover rates every season, it's hard to get to know and follow a team. I'm afraid it will get a lot worse before it gets better.

Which is why we should incorporate our entire UNT system in our advertising. No other university offers the post grad opportunities that UNT does, yet we're silent on the subject. We are the giant that continues to sleep and squander opportunities.

This is the answer, poor pick after poor pick for head coach have wasted decades and countless fans. Littrell was close, but ultimately didn't get there. All of the teams you named invested, brought in great hires, and made big runs to improve their reputations. If Morris fails, we need to open up the checkbook and get a real name head coach, or poach someone like JMU had last year.

Hope we don’t whine about it. Just flex dick. Spend money, kick ass. Always have a good answer to “what are you gonna do about it?”. That’s about it.

Because Minnesota isn't exactly an elite P6 basketball program. We aren't a guaranteed win for many teams. If a big school wants to buy some wins, why would they pay a good program to come into their house and beat them?

Well their colors are green and orange. Everyone wants to claim North Texas and Dallas (see TAM Commerce). We taught them how to play the billboard game. GMG

...until it actually happens. Where there is smoke, there is an upcoming ACC implosion soon .

Who is NTU ? 😡

I would love for the ponies to be left without a chair when the music stops!!

@greenjoein his club seats.

One would think our basketball program is at the point where we should be able to get home-and-homes with programs like Minnesota.

Damn, sounds like she got a steal then. She said she only paid $45 for it.

I am questioning why you decided to use that title for this thread.

I was on the Pauline G. Hughes Middle School B basketball team in the early 1980s with @FirefightnRick. I find your comment very triggering. Some of us had to ride the bench even on the B team. When I finally got to play I spun around the defender for an uncontested lay-up and hit the ball so hard off the boards it landed out of bounds. Then I did the same thing again. The coach laughed like hell about it afterwards. As for UNT, I try to keep our circumstances in perspective. Being in a decent G5 conference is miles above what it was like to support the team during the I-AA years. And the AAC still brings me happy tears because it isn't CUSA and our commissioner's name doesn't rhyme with Doody McDowd.

Per 247Sports: https://collegefootballnews.com/news/south-alabama-college-football-preview-best-players-top-transfers-season-prediction-win-total-2024 50/50 Games: at Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, at Louisiana, North Texas, at Ohio, at Southern Miss, Texas State, Troy,

Who????

Apparently, if these signs are prevalent all across the DFW area; they are also targeting UTA, SMU, TCU and the other area colleges. No One thinks UTD is the number one university in just about anything in the DFW metromess. As the value of a college degree continue to diminish, colleges are going to have to compete more intensely for students.

Dan McCarney, when he first got here, was the closest thing we have had to being a salesman as Hayden Fry was. HE believed that this place was going to be huge, as we were opening a new stadium, preparing to go to CUSA in a few years from the first edition of the SBC, and sitting in the middle of the Texas recruiting hotbed. He went on media outlets to tell everyone how exciting the future was here. He was great with TX HS coaches. He would talk to any UNT gathering he could to see the program. And that's when the Apathy Monster defeated him. DMac thought recruiting would be easy here. But he ran an antiquated offense that nobody in the state ran or wanted to run. The TX HS Coaches liked him, but they didn't like that offense and they knew the UNT Apathy better than he did. He had no idea of the decades of apathy he was fighting. He couldn't understand why people didn't show up for games in Denton. He even wondered why the HOD Bowl game in Dallas on NYD could have such a huge green crowd show up for us playing UNLV but wouldn't show up for a conference game in Denton. Eventually, the stress and his coping with it thru drinking almost killed him, as he suffered a stroke. And he was never the same after that. And neither were his teams. What Dodge had recruited was put to use in a solid way by DMac and his staff, but what they had recruited couldn't come close to replicating the same talent he had inherited, especially at the skill positions. And two years later, with the worst collection of QBs we have ever had, we hit rock bottom in the worst loss in modern college football history, that 66-7 loss at home to FCS Portland State on Homecoming. He was rightly fired immediately after the game and the rest is history. Similar to Littrell, having had some success here got him an extension, but it just meant that we had to buyout more in the end. Hoping Morris' tenure will be different, but so far, nothing has suggested we are on a different path.

They do. UTD just had a student drafted to the pros. I would make an NIL joke, but given that he's a Sheikh, I don't think he needs money https://news.utdallas.edu/students-teaching/comet-cricketer-2023/

You need to have the Big 10, SEC, and Big 12. Each conference has 12 members…there’s your minor league system for the pros. All other schools get back to playing college football.

Agree, and I theorize it's one of two things. 1. The AD schedules soft so the teams can rack up wins and inflate their record. They are trying to build the fan base by showing we have "good teams" that win, hoping people don't care about who we play. 2. They AD is strapped for money and doing things on a shoe string budget, or they are horrible at negotiating.

We should never be playing a Non-D1 team. I don't believe there are not more opportunities with Dl programs to have to settle for Miss Valley and LSU-Shv. Same for playing FCS in football.

There is a far better chance of both having cricket teams.

Uhhhh... well.. then why are we paying Jared??!!

I would take a SHSU or SFA home-and-home just for another nearby road game for fans. At least they're still D-I. My mindset is typically conference champion or bust for the Big Dance, I don't care to pay much attention to how much they affect the NET or whatever.

Any of those besides SHSU would be solid opponents. I'd take them over LSU Shreveport and Mississippi Valley, and you can't tell me they wouldn't be open to doing a 1 for 1 deal to keep costs down.

Mac lost interest. I buy tickets to a FBS college football game. I ain't going minor league.

Or get good. I mean all of these dormant alumni would proudly talk about them being UNT Alumni if we have a FOOTBALL run like Boise or Cincinnati or Memphis or SDSU or Coastal Carolina, even JMU. It’s bizarre that in all these years I’ve followed the Mean Green we’ve never hired a coach that has led us to a magical run. Meanwhile UTSA gets Coker and Traylor in a span of a few years. FAU gets Schellenberger and Kiffin. If Morris doesn’t deliver I hope the next coach has won as a head coach at the collegiate level equal or better to the AAC. Napier comes to mind but he couldn’t win above the SBC as the head guy. Experience has always mattered in my book. GMG

This is the biggest threat to our Athletics program: campus indifference, lack of school spirit and sports support. Cal is having the same issue. The key is to recruit sports fans from the surrounding communities to fill the gap. Eventually as the teams get better, and better quality opponents, the games become an event, even to nerds and wallflowers.

I have a different figure in mind. It's less than $1.....but more than -$1.

The AAC is a good conference, it has taken this school decades to get here, and is a very good achievement for a school that does not usually put a lot of emphasis into its athletic program. The school has some very good athletic facilities that as good if not better then some P5 schools. The big thing that I see holding UNT back is the culture, students seem less interested every year in attending games, and as they graduate and become alumni they are less interested in supporting the schools athletics.

Because we are now in the bracket of teams that are no longer considered a guaranteed w, but also not shiny enough of a win for the risk.