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The settlement between the ACC, FSU and Clemson pushes the problem to 2030, when new TV deals for the Big Ten, Big 12 and College Football Playoff could mean enough money for buying an exit. It also gives the ACC five years to show it can pay its top programs enough money to be worth staying. For FSU this means they need Mike Norvell 2023 not Mike Norvell 2024. Those guys are nothing alike.

I'm filing suit against @SMU2006 because his comment damaged my vision. I will use the money I'm awarded to fund UNT baseball.

He cares about athletics. He was one of the initial donors to the Athletic Center and Apogee Stadium and gave $1 million for the new scoreboard and sound system for basketball in the Super Pit. He also sponsored the Frisco Football Classic in 2021 when UNT needed a bowl game invite.

Jumping from the Sun Belt to Conference USA to the American is evidence we don't sit around. If a bigger conference puts some dollars in our G string we take them to the private room. Maybe our moves aren't as good and our assets aren't as big but we try harder.

Derek Football is now Coach Football the football coach.

Decisions like that are being made all over college football by quarterbacks and sometimes it works out really well for them, like both our Chandlers having strong seasons at UNT because they quit someplace else. It sucks as a fan, of course, but until schools have financial help paying their own players more to stay I don't see how this gets fixed.

I wouldn't judge Cash McCollum too harshly over not getting playing time. Drew Mestemaker didn't get any playing time either and when he finally did the whole world could see he'd been wrongly overlooked on the bench.

I think there's donor fatigue even when the results are positive. "My biggest pet peeve and I’ve told them, y’all can’t call me every year asking for millions of dollars, that’s not gonna happen. Y’all need to stop. I love Auburn. I love Auburn. But the chances of me going back to black and broke again because I want Auburn to be good in football and basketball, that’s not gonna happen. I love my school, but I don’t love them that much." -- Charles Barkley

Florida State had a massive $12 million NIL budget for the teams that went 2-10 last season and went undefeated the year before. NIL is not a guarantee of success. You can still suck if you pay the wrong players. I went to a few FSU games last season and that offense was brutal. They had games where they ran the ball 25 times and gained 24 yards.

I hate how long instant replay takes in all sports that use it. Instead of waiting for certainty before making a call, they should look at replays for a set amount of time. When that time runs out, treat it as "the call stands."

You said you want the clock stopped until the snap. At present the clock only stops until the refs place the ball, if I understand correctly. That seems like enough time to me. One of the worst things about the new overtime rules is that even in the third-and-later rounds where teams just go for two points each time, coaches get one timeout. It grinds things to a halt like the end of an NBA game.

Stopping the clock on every first down would make games seven hours long.

Here in Florida the SEC homers are using SMU's presence in the playoff to "prove" that the ACC is not a legitimate Power conference. Heard it on Jacksonville sports radio this morning from a host who went to UF. The game's rigged for the big dogs and they keep making their club more exclusive all the time. Everybody else in the FBS is the Washington Generals. I wish the G5 schools would create their own organization to work together more strongly for a future that doesn't suck.

It's neither a flex nor an excuse. It's just a fact. The American went 6-2, which is pretty good but 7-1 would've been better. The ACC went 2-11! I'm glad SMU left so we don't have to count their bowl loss in our total.

The American won six bowls and lost two -- us and Tulane (against Florida).

That crap pisses me off. Opponents need to show they did their homework by calling us North Texas Normal.

Sucks to lose, but I am proud of the players who stuck around and the noobs who showed up and played way better than anyone expected.

A lot of that 13.5-point line was because we lost Morris and Sheffield. With our QB and WRs playing as well as they did, those disadvantages were neutralized and we could have won this bowl game. There's nothing wrong with being disappointed that didn't happen.

Saquon Mestemaker!

Crud is everywhere this month. We've had it in Florida for two weeks.

Drew's balls are so beautiful D.T. Sheffield is driving to Ford Stadium.

Good points, though I don't want to shorten this game and give Drew Football less time to break the all-time UNT bowl game touchdown pass record.

Mestemaker has tripled his career passing yards in one quarter.

Another touchdown by DREW FOOTBALL!

Didn't know clock management mattered when the first quarter was close to ending.