VideoEagle

From the reaction of UTSA fans, their rival is us.

I'm not listening to the radio. Is Dave Barnett doing play by play? I've known Dave for about 45 years and he doesn't make comments about a player he doesn't believe.

Obviously I wasn't being sexist enough!

I started to ask exactly the same thing but was trying to avoid being too sexist.

Does that mean she is the Senior Administrator for women's athletics? Just glancing at the title, it appears she's the senior most woman administrator and I know that is NOT what the intent is.

@Brett Vito Just finished reading it. Very good analysis. I encourage everyone to sign up for the Mean Green Spotlight.

And the Big 12 payout would go up is they get UA, ASU, UT and CU which makes jumping even more tempting!

That was what I read someplace, but I don't remember where.

Wren is the best AD since I’ve been around and that goes back to 1976. He hired GRant, but more importantly how he hired him. When Wren arrived he looked at the available bb coaches and decided the right coach wasn’t available at the time so he stuck it out for one more year to get a home run coach rather than just settle for anyone different. Wren was patient and thus hit a home run as a result. Wren developed a plan to be ready when the next conference shake up happened. By being patient and executing his plan, NT was so well positioned that the President of SMU said we were the most ready to moved up to the AAC! Instead of being the last one in, the AAC was “who do we add besides NT.” Again, patience in executing a plan made a huge difference in the outcome. Bill Byrne, a former AD at Texas A&M, said the difference between a good AD and a great AD was having patience when the fan base had none. Fans are too fickle to be trusted with making real decisions. That is why universities hire someone with patience to be an AD. Wren is the best AD in at least 45 years. We’re not getting rid of him because some fans with incomplete knowledge of the real alternatives want “change.”

This is a terrible trend. If it wasn’t SMU, most of the folks in this group would be commenting on how bad it is. I for one find these kids behavior disgusting and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. The idea behind NIL was companies could pay to use the players names as endorsements or in games because other people wanted to be associated with players. I’m not sure who wants to be associated with quitters.

That one I can answer as I asked Russ Cambell about the change in licensing back 10+ years ago when it happened. KNTU-FM is licensed to McKinney, Dallas and Fort Worth. That means they put what is called a city grade signal over enough of that area that the FCC considers them to "serve" the area. When they were first licensed at 440 watts, Denton county was about all they really covered with a city grade signal. When they got their power increase, the license was changed to Denton, Dallas, Fort Worth. Someone, I forget whom, was putting another radio station in the already crowed DFW market. For that station to be allowed to add Dallas and Fort Worth to their license, they paid for a three-way (maybe 4-way) move of licenses and transmitter sites. KNTU got a very nice chunk of change for making their license McKinney, Dallas, Fort Worth. Russ wouldn't tell me exactly how much, but he said it was a "no brainer" to make the change. Since Russ and Bud Buschardt retired, I don't have regular contact with anyone in RTF or Media Arts or what ever they are calling it now.

There is a thing in higher education called tenure that means you can’t do that.

We use a system recognized by the NCAA to count fans. It is not based on butts in seats and never has been. Almost no schools use butts in seats, they use the NCAA system.

Yes, there are different standards. Matt Wells only had two 4 win seasons before last year. Seth has two 9 win seasons under his belt. If he gets another one this year, I think we’d be crazy to fire him. I don’t believe he will get nine wins this year. I trust Wren to make the correct decision based on how Seth performs over the entire year and what Wren believes are our options for other coaches.

Being in the Conference championship game 3 out of 5 years and winning it at least 1 out of every 3 would be extremely successful. If a coach can do that, I say let them coach forever! Do that and the Top 25 finishes will happen on a regular basis. That also allows that every team has off years. And everyone has to rebuild every few years.

Yes it would. If He won 9 games he’d have had 3 different 9 win seasons, more than any other coach in our history. I’m sure Wren doesn’t want to be compared to Steve Pedersen, the AD at Nebraska who fired Frank Stolich for “not producing up the the standards they expect.” I do not think we will get to 9 wins. But if we do, firing Seth would undoubtedly be regarded by most of our fans including me as an idiotic move.

Yes, this is how it works! Thank you!

And Arkansas State. And others. More importantly, schools from other conferences saw how they behaved. Even schools who were never in the Belt don't want to have to deal with that kind of behavior.

That would presume another conference wants them. The way La Tech administration has behaved toward other schools over the last 30ish years, not enough members of any other conference does.

I’ve no real doubt the most common words in a college football broadcast are so variation of “brought to you by.”

One reporter per beat is normal in 2020's news coverage. I believe the DMN only has one reporter covering the Rangers and one covering the Mavericks with various columnist writing articles after games or significant events.

You might start with "Will ANY phases of the game be working this week?"

If don't know if it's in the agreement, but if I'm an advertiser I wouldn't like most of the listeners tuned into a feed that can't play my actual advertisements.

Yes. Bill Snyder, who wanted the NT head coaching job when Hayden left, comes to mind as a pretty good assistant that became a successful head coach.

Yes, it would be nice but it's not technologically practical. Years ago when the Dallas Cowboys broadcasts were on KVIL, the station made sure to delay the radio broadcast to sync up with the TV broadcast from over the air channels 4, 5 or 8. It was pretty simple as the delay was only about 2 to 4 seconds and the delay was the same for everyone watching, even those on cable TV. Then came satellite broadcasts like DirectTV and Dish. Those were a LOT more delayed - often 5 to 10 seconds. There was the live game, the local broadcast and the satellite broadcast all with different delays. Which delay do you choose? KVIL decided to keep the local OTA and cable signal. Then when cable companies started carried HD signals, the cable companies changed so intead of all the signals going down the cable to your house at the same time, only the signal a decoder box was watching would be sent to save bandwidth. You might notice that is you are watching in the same program in two rooms the signal isn't exactly in sync. That's just in your house, imagine trying to sync when every TV is getting the signal at a different moment. Oh yeah, and now since the play by play is steaming, it is algo getting to every player at a different moment! Yes, it could be possible for the feed of play by play to go down the same signal path as each broadcast signal. But only if every cable, satellite and streaming organization was willing to cooperate. And they are not. That's why the school's play by play isn't going to be in sync anymore.