TIgreen01

I'm not sure I agree. Our OOC was pretty solid this season. Our home schedule was pretty crap might be a valid gripe. Either way, we had teams on our schedule that are in the wheelhouse of who we need to be scheduling and beating. Good to very good mid-major programs, with a couple of P5 programs mixed in. If we go 2-1 against the trio of Utah St, McNeese and High Point we are in the discussion for an at large bid. Instead we went 0-3. The scheduling is not the problem, imo, unless you want to say we need to get more of those games at home instead of at neutral site tournaments.

Don't forget the covid year. Record didn't show it but they were a complete team and rounding into form right at the right time only for the tourney to be canceled. Will always believe that was our Sweet 16 (at least) team that just didn't get a shot to show it. The next year was the year we beat Purdue.

Having done no other research, it seems likely that this is targeted at specific schools rather than the whole. That 25k out of 500k stat appears to be misleading, perhaps purposefully?

North Texas basketball is official. That’s the first time I can ever remember us completely jobbing another team via the refs in any sport. This team is gonna do special things.

Maybe good for some to do some research before firing off hot takes: https://247sports.com/college/west-virginia/board/105475/contents/college-basketball-attendance-report-2024-25-239681802/ Interesting to look at all those power conference school's attendance averages early in the year before they get the in-conference Blue Bloods on the home calendar to bring their averages up. If you dropped UNT into any of the power 5 leagues, we would pull the same numbers. As it is, check the 'Others' for the Top 10 outside the power 5. All familiar bball mid-major powers that have either deep history of winning titles or recent runs of huge success. UNT attendance falls about where you'd expect it to based on our history, conference affiliation and recent success, IMPO. Having said that, we have dropped off since Wren and Mac's early years. The AD needs to do a better job marketing this team. We're getting better TV coverage the last 2 years due to the AAC deal with ESPN and our success meaning we're landing our "better" games on national broadcast channels. That probably has something to do with the drop. However, I'd expect the students to turn out to be on camera, and they are definitely not. Student turnout is on the AD. No question they are not doing enough at the present time. Also a hot sports take is that our Greeks are the most disconnected from the school out of any of the schools we'd like to be compared with. I think a lot of that has to do with the UNT administration. Generally a roller coaster ride over the past 20-30 years of whether we're Greek friendly or not. It's the group you HAVE to go after for help supporting sports. But then we will make an effort to pull them in and they get hassled and made to jump through hoops (pun intended). This is the low-hanging fruit at UNT, but will require the AD to work with several departments to make UNT more Greek friendly. I say this as someone who was not involved in Greek life and generally the tech-bro/frat-bro/sorority dingus turns me off...but you HAVE to court these people for sports attendance. Period.

That's the only time I've ever turned the Super Bowl off before it ended in my life. Didn't make it through the 3rd quarter. At no point did it ever feel like KC was in the game. Seattle / Denver 11 years ago, then maybe San Fran / Denver and Washington / Denver from the Elway days were like that? Not old enough to remember seeing the Bears destroying the Pats. It was bottom 5 all-time. Maybe a Prince or MJ performance, but not Kendrick Lamar.

Maybe start here: https://www.unt.edu/about-unt.html#:~:text=UNT's Mission,in a rapidly changing world.

I guess people need a refresher on what a university is and what it is supposed to provide. If you want to have your professional education be transactional in nature only, go to trade school. University may not be for you.

Seems the b10/sec are so worried about making sure they generate the absolute most revenue versus their peers that they’ve lost sight of what excites people about college sports in the first place. Until one of them relents and settles for setting caps in spending, and potentially sharing revenue, I don’t see how this changes. I think that the power brokers believe that most current fans will just adopt their local big state or closest big brand and continue to follow college sports. Time will tell if they are right. For me, I will not. If it gets to the point where UNT no longer has a chance to be in the pool, my interest will evaporate overnight. Maybe they don’t care and assume that enough will that they’ll keep growing their own brands and revenues.

When you’re winning your fans seem to figure it out and show more emotion.

I personally hope they reduce the number of bowls available next year and fix the stupid transfer calendar. There were only a couple of bowl games this year that saw both teams come in with near full strength rosters. Then you have the playoffs happening around these games at home sites. Almost no bowl game matchup had any kind of normal pregame hype to get excited about. Its another chance to see your team play, but at a premium price, likely involves some sort of travel (to not always vacation destinations) and half your starters might be missing. It's a complete wreck. As far as our game goes, we were lucky to not have to travel too far, but unlucky to be missing our QB and knowing we were going to see a walk-on in his place. Turns out that walk-on played a heckuva game, but going in you expect a mismatch and blowout loss. Not a good recipe to sell tickets.

How does he still have eligibility?!?!

I expected to lose, and we did. Forget the storylines. If UNT is ever going to get out of the shadow of itself, we have to stop making ourselves feel better after losses and focus instead on how to win.

Too much talk about hoping he can find a defense. It reveals a glaring lack of a plan to play complete team football. Watching UNT football the last two years has felt like we have three completely disconnected units. We have an offense that runs a QB friendly system, a defense with absolutely no identity and same for the special teams. Kinne at least puts the offense and defense together. Running the up tempo offense with an opportunistic, attacking defense looking for turnovers. We should’ve been doing the same, or at least have some idea of what the whole team identity is by now, but we don’t.

Bowl games in the current climate are a poor judge of program strength. Need to fix the calendar this year or we will see more and more teams turn down invites when they lose their starters to the portal.