Cerebus

No the rule you are thinking about is the spring practices rule. That does set a hard cap on the number of days. There is no cap on the number of practices when prepping for bowl games, you just have to follow the normal hours per week rule.

That bus ride back from Monroe was GRIM.

UTSA sideline was very weird. Thought they would come up with their hair on fire to keep that perfect record. Seemed pretty normal, if not a little lower. Maybe they shouldn't have spent the previous week shooting hype videos with rented Bentleys. Either way, when they got jumped on early they seemed to deflate. Pulling the starting QB at half seemed crazy to me. Yes, they were down 18, but they had a ton of miscues to set us up. Did they expect that to last? We had our own stalled drives and turnovers in the second half. If they had kept everyone in they might have crawled back into it or at least made it closer. Terrible message to send to you team, we outscore them 14-0 in the 3rd, and it's all over but the crying.

SL base salary is $1.35M, but he has guaranteed incentives that boost each year to a minimum of just over $1.8M. SL contract was extended to run through 2023, so two more years left after this one. If anyone has $3.6M+ burning a hole in your pocket, I am sure WB wouldn't turn down a meeting.

Of course it is. It might not have been a problem when we were paying Dickey $120,000 a year, but it sure as hell is when we are paying $2M+ a year to the HC alone. Do we have big donors that could pay off SL's contract, and then sign an even bigger check for a new coach with a bigger assistant pool? YES. Do they want to do that? If they don't, the AD doesn't have millions of dollars sitting around unused to do it. Neither does the school.

I’m pretty sure the guy we wanted is now coaching at a p5 school. So we’re now onto second choices. Then be better talk the big donors into writing those checks, or write them himself. Otherwise it doesn’t matter. We switched the the offense from a spread to pass focus to a spread to run focus. We had ~40 pass attempts against latech, we had 17 against utsa, 14 against fiu.

Some of you have no idea how a coach is hired or fired. Do the big donors want to buy him out? Then he’s gone. Otherwise he is back next year. END OF STORY. I don’t see how they want to 1) write the big check to buy him out, and then 2) write an even bigger check to wade into this insane sellers market where at least 20 teams are fighting for limited talent. This year you’re going to pay BIG money to get someone who would normally be your second or even third tier candidate.

Ask Stebo.

With a 42 pt win tonight, this is the biggest margin of victory since a 2019 45-3 win against... UTSA.

UTSA has sold out the ticket allotment sent to them. They are already hitting the ticket office. Mean Green fans better show up or....

Everyone does this, the dirty secret is that if someone buys a ticket and doesn't show up, that ticket will get reprinted and scanned. Yes, even the P5s. When a certain school to the south of us first came up, they had some big alumni buy a large amount of tickets for every game. Never even bothered to give them out they were just scanned to hit the numbers. The thing is the NCAA DOES care about FBS schools hitting 15k attendance, You have to turn in audited logs. They just don't really care how you hit that number.

The kick catch interference call was correct. Yes, the returner bobbled it, but the ball never hit the ground. Kick catch protection ends WHEN THE BALL HITS THE GROUND. It was still on Burn's body when the UTEP player ran into him.

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No one can out coach recruiting. Find me the guy who knows how to recruit and can hire good recruiters. I feel our main problem is that when we've had some success in the past, the staff wasn't able to elevate recruiting enough to sustain it.

Yes, but one of our wins is against an AAC team...

Look at SHSU, this CUSA is actually more compact than the WAC.

According to Johnny Cash: The Man.

Not really sure what you think we're arguing about? I'm not for SL, or against Traylor. I'm just correcting the statement that Dickey, like Traylor, had no wins against an FBS team with a winning record. Dickey does, right now Traylor doesn't. He probably will, possibly against UTEP this week. But UTSA did extend him before he had one, and NT did not do that for DD.

Yes, however once you are an FBS conference you have a two year grace period. If they can get 8 total schools that can all complete the FBS transition by the time the grace period ends, they can remain. If not, then they can still be a D1 multisport, with a few schools that are FBS independents. Then if they can get to 8 at a later date they can recertify as an FBS.

Every NCAA unit is actually a payout for the value of that unit for each of the next five years, but paid TO THAT TEAMS CONFERENCE. It gets more complicated because the the first two rounds gets you one unit each, but starting with the round of 16 each round is worth more than one unit, based on an escalating scale. So North Texas won 2 units in 2020. That means that in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 the conference will get two units worth of payout, plus what ever unit payouts the 5 year scale still has them in. Now, the unit value changes every year because the NCAA takes the profits each year and then splits them into the total units distributed. The conference the splits the payouts received for that year (and from the previous 4, its a 5 year rotation) out to each school. So yes, some of our exit fees will probably be covered by NCAA units, unless the bylaws prevent that. But the other main components of the conference distribution, namely the CFP payout and the media rights, are paid out year by year. There is no "new" money we can have them deduct from the fees we owe.

Funny thing is Dickey got most of his at the start of his tenure.

I haven't seen the CUSA bylaws. But I have heard from people who have that the exit fees are clearly laid out, you pay back two years of the conference distribution.