TIgreen01

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.

I was not at the game and didn’t watch on TV. After 25 years I’m sick of it. On a family vacation and didn’t miss it except that I still check the damn score and see the L. Gimmick football equals losing football. Seen enough to know that nothing changes that.

Disgraceful. We continue to find and define new lows. We need the GMac/Hodge equivalent of fundamentals first. Then and only then will we pull out of the tailspin.

Truly the one matchup the college football gods could conjure that leaves me with no choice but to not watch it. Pedophile U is impossible to root for. Dirty cheating smu is impossible to root for. Douchecanoe them both

Thinking along those same lines…does the NFL eligibility state three years since 18th birthday? Or three years playing some form of post high school football? I don’t think this will have as much of an impact as feared for the reason that most of the time, college coaches want guys in their system more than a year at a time.

Should’ve just left it to the first sentence. Team that spent the most in illegal, under the table, payments to players for DECADES gets mad when it goes above board and the really big money people in the country, that had not wanted to cheat, start throwing money around…and quickly relegate Bama to an “Also ran.” Boo frickin Hoo.

This thread is the worst. Ever. Damn you both.

Just make these guys employees and sign them to contracts already. Would completely change how we think about this kind of behavior. Today it’s pretty sickening to follow.

Curious what his thinking is if he takes that offer. Gundy just fired the OC and DC. He’s got to have someone in mind, already, and wondering who that could be. Maybe Chad? If not, I think I’d be looking to try to drum up interest elsewhere if I were Chandler. If his goal is to play pro ball, Gundy definitely has a track record for getting QBs a shot in the NFL, but they looked completely lost up there this year.