Eagle1855

I think you look at what's available and if you find someone that can reignite a fire in this program, you make the call. This season took a lot of steam out of what has been our only quality *major* program for a while. You don't want to lose too much momentum or people might forget about UNT athletics altogether.

Without a doubt. I'll be a life-long ticket holder.

Yeah but I wanted to take it out of context and make a different point. You know, like on talk radio.

I think this is the most important part of this. When you get older, you learn to not put yourself in certain situations and if you happen to find yourself in one, you find better ways to deal with them. I'm excited about having this guy leading this team. He has more tangibles than any QB we've had in a long, long time. Hopefully it's a gamble that pays off.

Exactly. And most college kids don't have kids. So you know, who cares about trick-or-treating. Or it being on a Thursday night. There are over 30k students at UNT. It's a college football game. It's a chance to be on TV against a regional rival (which means we'll be in Houston, too) and people can stop forgetting our football team exists.

I just think the significance of the overitme victory at Guacamole U is being a little overblown.

Eh, I don't know about Houston having less support than UTSA. UTSA is a novelty, right now. It's all new. And when things are new, it's easy to get excited about them. We'll see how it goes after they get their asses kicked around in an actual conference, this season.

Yeah, and GT would be a coup as well. I think everyone is waiting to see what happens with the Maryland buyout. Then the floodgates will again reopen. And chaos will ensue.

I think the Big 12 would gladly take FSU and Miami in a heartbeat, the former being the more likely of the two. Instantly puts them back to 12. A strong 12, at that.

This year I've refrained from visiting the basketball forum because I'm pretending none of this nightmare is actually taking place.

Good for you! I cannot wait for the day I am able to renew mine.

Well I know that the fraternities finance their own, as I was a member of a house corporation established to build our fraternity house. I don't know what arrangement the University has with sororities, but I as I recall, they had to pay for a large portion of their "row" as well. And it doesn't matter if people believe it, there are indeed people in those offices that believe college campuses are better off without the Greek system, regardless of all evidence that suggests otherwise. I suspect it's largely personal. But I have no factual basis for which to make that claim. Only my own opinion based on my own experiences and interactions.

Whether you guys realize it or not, Fraternities and Sororities at UNT have ALWAYS been held to higher standards than the rest of the general student population. A minor, isloated incident with a member of such an organization always becomes a much bigger deal than with an unaffiliated student. I'd post all the positives they bring to the table, but this has all already been done ad naseum and you either agree with it or you don't. What I will say, since this is a football post, is that MANY of the "big" schools everyone clamours to be like with respects to athletics and athletic support ALL have very strong greek systems. Every single school in the SEC. Most of the Big XII. A lot of CUSA. And part of that is because it's been proven greek letter members are more likely to get involved in their university as students and also because they are more likely to stay involved as an alumni. Boo hoo, they don't always go into the stadium. So what? They show up. And that's more than I can say for a lot of people, especially since this football team (that I love) has put a subpar product on the field for over a decade.

The same people who have been trying to get rid of the greek system for over 10 years. I assume they are also banning alcohol at the events of all other University-affiliated clubs, as well? You know, in the interest of fairness. Otherwise, this might be considered a discriminatory knee-jerk reaction.

It may be unstable, but I'd rather figure out where to go next with UH, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, et al., than MTSU, WKU, and friends.

We'd join it yesterday, if invited.

Agreed. I'm VERY glad to see us doing this. Now... we need to uh, win.

JUCO is just fine if you win. Then you establish a winning tradition, which attracts HS talent.

Bahaha. I saw this list yesterday. Was going to post it, then I had a sports brain aneurysm and couldn't deal with it anymore. We're still getting whipped on the recruiting trail, going on more than a decade. Sure, there are some notable exceptions and stars that fall through the cracks, but those who keep posting how little recruiting rankings mean need to consider how it correlates with our winning percentage over the same time period. In reality, it does matter. And for whatever reason, we're not getting it done.

Maybe, but TCU did it on the regular before they got an invite. UH does alright, too. There's no "woe is UNT" anymore. Our suckage is largely/entirely our own doing.

Exactly. HAHA, this is all just so typical.

Two more years if this and people will completely forget UNT basketball was ever a thing.

In theory, this should be our best-attended year, ever. We get the benefit of having several regional "rivals" in our house and it's our first year in a new conference in a still mostly-new stadium. In theory, I tell you.

Agreed.

Well thank you! That's an awesome cake.