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I want to hear stories of how you were passed over for a job or promotion in favor of somebody from a P5 school solely because they had a better football program. Our firm loves UNT grads because they have a reputation for coming in hungry to learn and succeed as opposed to can do no wrong entitled from some other schools. There is one that we've stopped recruiting altogether because of the incessant entitled douchebag character of every one of their graduates we've ever brought in (none of whom made the cut). Surely we can't be the only employer in town who sees that and favors work ethic and drive over "I'm from X school. Love me because we went to a big bowl game last year."

Somebody increase this kid's athletic fees tenfold!

This is by far the most sensible thing you've had to say about this topic. I'd be totally down with such a plan.

I think I may have misunderstood after seeing all the names from BillySee. Is national signing day like the deadline to sign? Have several others signed already?

OP has five people. Is that all that signed today?

I'm just gonna pre-empt opponent look-a-like threads and welcome Seth Rogen to the North Texas family.

I would imagine so, but I'd also imagine you wouldn't be driving it around continuously. Unless you're @THOR. He'd probably sit on top of it and drive it into a tree or something.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this company. Just saw it on a sponsored facebook post and thought it looked kinda nifty. Anywho, in their FAQs:

1. My god! A high school coach can evolve and adapt to coach successfully at a higher level? What is this wizardry? 2. I watch very little NFL football. Like probably less than two regular season games a year. That general ignorance admitted, it is my understanding that the NFL is very conservative in its game planning and play calling. NFL Coaches are very hesitant to be the first guy to do something. What I saw on Sunday is that Pederson came in, said, "Screw that tradition," and went after the Patriots wire to wire with the play aggression meter set to eleven. NFL could probably use a shot in the arm like that.

Last time there was in 2008 on business. It was like being in a foreign country. At least I hear they got rid of that ridiculous private club nonsense.

Remote controlled, three speed, bluetooth speakers, headlights, 30 beer capacity, option flag bracket and roof rack. Spendy, but would definitely be cool. Link

Sound right about on par with a lot of Dallas residents I observe.

Conversely, my daughter, who started watching UNT sports in 2008, has never seen a basketball loss, and has never seen a football loss at Apogee. People need to be picking her up at the dorms in a limo or something.

UNT would be wise to put in a little over 3,000 reserved seats for post season hosting purposes. Capacity across CUSA: Charlotte: 1,110 seated 3,000 SRO FIU: 2,000 FAU: 2,000 LaTech: 3,000 Marshall: 6,200, 300, 2,500 (They apparently have three different places they play) MTSU: 2,600 ODU: 2,500 Rice: 7,000 (Averaged 2,903 home attendance in 2015) Southern MIss: 4,300 UAB: 1,000 UTSA: 9,500 (Like football, they don't have a stadium of their own and play in the local AA Texas League minor league stadium) WKU: 1,500 Top ten average attendance for 2015: 1. LSU -- 10,815 2. Arkansas -- 8,291 3. Ole Miss -- 8,014 4. Miss. St -- 7,449 5. South Carolina -- 7,355 6. Texas -- 5,557 7. Texas A&M -- 4,857 8. Florida St. -- 4,278 9. Clemson -- 4,251 10. TCU -- 4,093 Continuing down the list, the top CUSA was Rice, coming in at #21 with 2,903 and Southern Miss coming in at #25 with 2,709. No other CUSA schools are listed in the top 50.

Post had nothing to do with taxes, but rather that my refund will pay for my contribution and tickets. When I get it, I plan on asking what the newly named thing is all about.

Outside the SEC, a "Big" stadium might have about 4-5,000 seats. This of course does not decrease the size of the field itself. So you would have to build a large domed structure for a sport that doesn't get even basketball demand in the seats.

You guys are welcome. I was watching on ESPN3 and the Mean Green kept falling behind. I know how this works. I can't witness wins. So I turned it off, knowing that if I wasn't watching, they would come back for the victory.

I have no idea about Dallas Baptist, though they did recently unveil a shiny new stadium. TCU sells pretty well. I've been there several times where it's standing room only, but those have been series between two top ranked teams and post season games. Friday nights are the premier night, so those are more crowded. Sunday and mid-week games are mostly just parents at virtually all programs not names LSU.

I don't know how to clip quotes. To the first point on CUSA, ok. I knew I might be wrong on that one. Prior to the rule change, the B1G was playing the first couple weeks on the road. The bigger factor was that they couldn't practice before the start of the season like the warm weather schools could. They've been pushing to make it even later, holding the CWS in July, but southern schools are balking at the idea -- baseball pun intended.

As long as the 11.7 scholarship limit is in place, baseball has a parity that football and basketball will never have. (Of course the B1G and SEC are both whining and lobbying HEAVILY to get that limit removed) My school made it to the CWS in its sixth year of existence after reinstatement and sustained remarkable success for about a decade. Oregon made it to the tourney in its second year of existence after reinstatement. I'd have to go digging, but there are plenty of other examples. There basically aren't any bad teams in D1 baseball in Texas. They're all pretty good. Rice, Texas, TCU, and Dallas Baptist (Dallas Baptist!) are generally the powerhouse programs in the state, but even UTSA fields a decent team. A new program would be primarily freshman and juniors, so the second year would have nearly the entire roster returning. Things get good quickly.

B1G has been whining for years to get rule changes to their advantage. The most prominent has been pushing back the start of the season from the last week in January to mid February.

Somebody resurrect @UNTflyer to clarify on this. I am certain that I made a statement back when the stadium fee passed that it was in the interest of athletics to bond out for eternity and never actually pay them off, but I can't remember why that was. Edit: OK. So here's how the language reads -- The fee was $7 an hour the first semester the stadium opened, and $10 an hour after that. The fee can only increase 10% per year unless otherwise specified by student vote. And the part I was talking about with the bonds: I suppose the other thing to consider is that had UNT exercised its right to increase the fee at a rate of 10% per year, it would already have doubled at this point to $20.

I am well aware of CUSA's standing in the college baseball pecking order. The B1G and SEC are slowly but surely eroding away the status of CUSA and the Big West, but they're both still up there for now.

Only tbd days til opening day. That is exactly right. I have completely given up on baseball at UNT. Like not even a remote afterthought in post coital fantasy. Wren more or less said when he got here that it wasn't a priority, which to me is administrator speak for it ain't f'n happening. Somebody please correct me because I'm probably wrong, but I thought that when we joined CUSA, baseball was still a priority sport in the conference and our admission was contingent on having a team. We pulled a great wool over then commissioner Banowsky's eyes. Meh. My old school has stopped paying attention to baseball, leaves a curmudgeonly octogenarian in the dugout as coach, hired a bunch of students as the assistant staff, and the whole thing happens during tax season anyway. So long college baseball. We hardly knew ye. (This isn't a sensitive topic for me whatsoever. Nope. No one bit.)