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Plus McCasland was not available when Wrenn was hired. Saying we should have fired Bedford when Wrenn was means no McCasland! McCasland's time here more than made up for an extra year of Bedford.

I suspect the conference and ESPN will work with the schools to get teams into games that will generate the best crowds and best publicity possible.

Yes, even the briefest conversation should convince anyone he really, REALLY wants to win here!

I'm hopeful someone cautions DT and any other players to be very careful with NIL promises. It's currently against the rules to get a signed NIL deal until AFTER you are on campus and then you can't transfer that year. The coach at UNLV readily admits that one of his assistants told that QB how much he'd get and the LATER said what the coach says doesn't really count - it's all up to the collectives who won't commit till you're registered and on campus! UGA and at least one other FBS school in the state of Georgia have "committed" to more NIL than they have money to pay. But the way the system is set up the players can't do anything about it. The NCAA says they are getting dozens of phone calls from players who transferred and found out the promised NIL wasn't there and often their scholarships weren't either! Caveat Lusor (Player beware!)

Yes, he's been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. No reason to go for a coordinator position unless we let him go.

Do you guys realize most of the schools at the G5 level get most of their wins from teams with losing records? I'm just making sure everyone understands the reality here. Ranked in order of AAC standings - 1. Army - 7-0 with 1 win against a team with a winning record - FCS Lehigh 2. Navy - 6-0 with 1 win against a team with a winning record - Memphis 3. Tulane - 5-2 with 1 win against a team with a winning record - Louisiana 4. Memphis 6-1 with 1 win against a team with a winning record which was us! 5. Charlotte was 3-4 with 0 wins against teams with a winning record 6. NT - 5-2 with 0 wins against teams with a winning record 7. ECU - 3-4 with 0 wins against teams with a winning record I will stop researching the rest of AAC as you can see no G5 teams beat many teams with winning records. If we can beat either Tulane or Army, we'll be right there in with the same number of wins - one - against teams with winning records.

Those in favor of a midseason firing of Caponi should look to Purdue firing Graham Harrell. Purdue on the year averages 20.28 points per game. In 4 games before firing Harrell they averaged 21.75. In 3 games since firing him they average 20.80 points. That's close enough I'd all it no change. For no change, they have added work to the staff, taken away preparation time for the team, still paid Harrell his annual salary, confused potential recruits, and still lost three more games. Wait til the end of the season to make coaching changes!

To whom is this message intended? Firing coordinators during the season almost never does much to improve play. You can’t bring in new players, you can install a totally new system, any new outside coordinator won’t know the players. Is this just to make the fans feel better? It makes fans feel better till the next loss or just poor performance when they will be screaming to fire the next coach. I notice the folks that get paid to analyze football teams almost never call for midseason coordinator firings because you’re spending money with no positive result.

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Yeah, except the Pac-X already lost the P. They are a G league now.

Great article from DCTF on the Mean Green. Lots of detail on some of the plays from the FAU game. Well worth the read! https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2024/10/17/how-north-texas-built-the-g5-s-best-passing-attack?fbclid=IwY2xjawF-Wl9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW2eBwpnLwZyztIAL8tdlq7qfOktSoFrNGykO6nixJ64Q-Ne8LFoPOsAUQ_aem_jc36aXzoWywsBoQq_DC_OQ

Not a chance!

He wasn't gone as of 30 minutes ago. And according to the OU student paper, they don't think he'll get fired during the season as OU has had a LOT of injuries. But he is clearly on the hot seat! https://www.oudaily.com/sports/ou-oklahoma-sooners-football-mailbag-seth-littrell-joe-jon-finley-michael-hawkins-jr-sec/article_5c3b8954-8a37-11ef-a0b4-e77295a4a446.html

Remember, the real reason for a "point spread" is to get roughly the same amount of money bet on both sides of the proposition.

It's very low, but not zero! People in the Blue Ridge Mountains for out it's never zero!

No, especially since we know the NCAA is getting dozens of calls from players who were promised one amount and then given something else. AND players CANNOT sign an NIL agreement UNTIL after they enroll!

My understanding is the SEC overruled A&M on adding UT. But UT brings a LOT more to a conference than NMSU does. @Arkstfan I think pointed out a post several years ago NMSU was only admitted to several conference because they had absolutely no other choice. That was how they got into the Belt the first time, into the Big West, and at least one other conference they were in. I don't know their reasons, but no one has wanted NMSU in their conference for decades if it was avoidable.

EHS Class of 1976. When I started at NTSU in Fall 1976, there were no other students that I knew off from Edinburg. I had to explain where Denton was to people in Edinburg and where Edinburg was to people in Denton.

Us Edinburg folks need to stick together!

No school is permanently committed to any conference anymore. Everyone should listen to various pitches, but everyone should independently verify the information. All the reports on what the PAC-X was offering read "potential of $10 to $15 million per school." One I saw read "potential of $12 to $15 million per school." Those numbers just didn't make sense! Wazzu and OSU had the lowest viewership in the old PAC - that was public knowledge! The last media deal offered to the Pac-12-2 was $20 million per school which included "substantial" bonuses for increasing memberships to AppleTV and Prime Video. In other words, a substantial part of that was based on more people signing up to watch and if they don't sign up then the money isn't coming. I just don't see how any combination of ten G5 schools is equal to 3/4 of the viewership of Washington, Oregon, Cal, Stanford, and the four corner schools. Sure, it could be a million or so better than the current deal. But increased travel more than eats that up! I know there are talking heads on TV that claim there's a lot more money out there. But the folks at the networks who sign the checks ARE NOT the talking heads. In fact, over the last year, the guys who sign the checks have been laying off a couple of dozen of the talking heads! I don't think the PAC can offer Memphis or anyone else a substantially better deal than they already have. At least, not offer a deal that stands up to independent verification!

That would be a pure pay for play. In theory, NIL is payment for the athlete’s name, image and likeness which could be completely unrelated to how they play. A right offensive tackle could be the very best player in a school’s history at that position but how many tshirts is that going to sell? Would a consumer buy a product based on that player’s endorsement? Then you have Arch Manning and the thousands of tshirts with him name and number on them that have been sold before he ever got into a game! There’s no question that UT would be making a ton of money off of Mannings name, image and likeness and Arch getting nothing without NIL. He is legitimately earning his NIL even though he had yet to perform on the field.

I think a very easy way for the MWC to get one more full member is to allow Hawai'i to move the rest of it's programs from the Big West to the MWC. Back when the fiasco of the WAC trying to destroy the MWC turned out the other way, the MWC would only take Hawai'i football and not the other sports because no one wanted the cost of flying those teams to Hawai'i every year. That cost is a LOT less than some of the numbers being kicked around for a completely new member! Yes, the MWC would still need one more school but one more is a lot easier to find than two. Plus, the MWC is more likely to get a better quality school if they only need one more.

It also means UNLV doesn't have to go into a meeting where questions about their coaches offering $100k NIL deals could be asked and their answers potentially subject to subpoena!

Here's an article on the subject from the Wall Street Journal. "Schools are officially prohibited from using endorsement deals as recruiting inducements and college athletes aren’t allowed to sign a contract before joining a team. The rules also ban teams from striking verbal or written deals with athletes before they enroll. In practice, however, most players being recruited are presented with a dollar amount they can reasonably expect to earn. " The athletes CAN'T get a written deal until they can't back out! Everything about NIL is a "trust us" scheme! https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/matthew-sluka-unlv-football-nil-a6a06c3e?mod=hp_featst_pos3

I thought I saw this someplace yesterday, but it was in the DMN today. "Friends of Unilv, the collective that works with UNLV athletes, does not sign deals with athletes until they are enrolled, said Bob Sine, whose company Blueprint Sports oversees and operates that collective and dozens others around the country." Many of the collectives won't put it in writing until the athlete is enrolled! The athletes CANNOT get it in writing as the NIL collectives WILL NOT do that!!!! I'm curious if the NT Collective plays the same game - don't allow the offer in writing until the athlete enrolls and then cut the offer when the kid has no alternatives! https://epaper.dallasnews.com/app/DAMONE/editionguid/2c87fdc4-2fed-4c77-b8a8-0ed277bf4589