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Everybody sounds like Cris Collinsworth these days, who could make a Patrick Mahomes incomplete pass sound like it was the immaculate reception. The big stars get hyped all game long even when they crap the bed. Actual players doing actual good things in front of our actual eyes get overlooked.

I think I'll hold off on believing this story until there's a better source. Jason Whitlock stopped caring about reporting facts a long time ago. He's on social media all day long saying offensive things for engagement.

Not long, judging by the empty seats at Florida State games the last half of this season. That's a strong brand with a national championship in 2013, but even with 24,000 fewer seats due to stadium renovation, the place got cavernous. Fans stayed home instead of subjecting themselves to that disaster week after week.

We're a historic underachiever in football, but we've managed to upgrade our facilities, budget and coaching salaries, climbing up to the American, which is a respectable G5 conference. Our plight isn't so bad that we should be considering another voluntary drop from the top tier of college football. Most of our doom and gloom is about never rising above 6-6 or achieving signature OOC or bowl wins. We need to stay where we are and hope that when the FBS gets its shit together there's still a viable sport for the G5.

Basketball having a good run since 2017 isn't enough to make "the" premier sport at UNT. There would also need to be large enough fan support and media attention to demonstrate that it eclipsed football, but those haven't happened yet.

The quotes from Boise State in that article make me think they're fooling themselves about their ability to stay competitive with the big dogs.

True, but the entire North Dakota population is 783,000, which is smaller than Fort Worth. Put a strong football team in Denton and we'll have advantages from being in DFW that are better than being the top school in a small state.

We will always have to worry about TV viewership. TV dollars are the big divider between the haves and the have-nots.

I'm having trouble with the premise that Miami can't compete financially for players. They assembled one of the most expensive rosters in the FBS in football, estimated at around $15 million. Big-money boosters are trying to bring back The U's glory days with their checkbooks. If this coach couldn't hack the NIL era it isn't because Miami lacks NIL donors.

Whether we recruit them out of high school or get them in the portal, the risk of a QB leaving after a strong season in Denton is the same. At some point if our transferred-out quarterbacks keep being roster depth riding the bench, maybe a 3,000-yard passer under Eric Morris will be more reluctant to leave.

I don't care about blame. There's enough to go around. I'm fine with college football players being paid and them getting more transfer opportunities, but the way both of those things are currently implemented has been a Hindenburg-level disaster for college football. Uncontrolled and unaccountable money from boosters and a transfer portal during the season are terrible ideas.

I thought a 12-team playoff would mean less arguments about teams that didn't get in deserving a spot, but I underestimated the ability of Alabama to suck enough to not earn a place in the CFP. The SEC and Big Ten get way too much presumption every year of being good. It starts with the first preseason poll, when nobody has done anything on the field.

You think our new hires should coach the defense in the bowl game?

SMU played like their paychecks bounced. Good times.

Starting in 2025, the Ivy League will participate in the FCS playoffs and the winner of the conference will get an automatic bid. Football was the only sport where the Ivy League did not compete for a national championship. The idea to join the FCS playoffs originated with a proposal from the league's student-athlete advisory committee. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43040720/sources-ivy-league-participate-fcs-football-playoffs

You can't call it Pay for Play when they don't have to play to get paid. NIL is an endorsement deal, like Walt Garrison making bank in those old Skoal tobacco ads. Except most of the time they don't even bother to make athletes do an ad. They just say "here's a big check for just being yourself."

It will be headline news when we learn a player was only allowed to transfer once.

SMU was the first school to announce a pay-the-whole-roster deal. It let the world know that the Piggybank Express was open for business again and it fostered team cohesion. Those benefits seem worth paying even the bottom of the roster like an assistant manager at Subway. I am surprised SMU had any fat cats left who cared about football success. The 1980s was a long time ago. But I guess what the Hard Line used to call the "cocaine and boob job crowd" in Dallas wants a winner.

If a quarterback we recruit from high school puts up Chandler 1 or Chandler 2 numbers at UNT, he's also going to be one-and-done.

I don't know how you could possibly believe that the G5 is better able to compete with the P5 overall when unlimited and unregulated money is flowing into college football. Our all-conference team each year is a shopping list for bigger schools. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/college-transfers-power-five-conferences-aee82375

Does anyone know if this new money is no-strings-attached just like NIL?

I'd choose Oklahoma State too. Mike Gundy is the kind of coach who will help you bury the body.

Florida State coach Mike Norvell has restructured his contract and given $4.5 million back to the school for a new fund that shares revenue with athletes: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43003950/florida-state-mike-norvell-restructures-deal-gives-45m-new-initiative He makes $9.9 million next year so this is like taking a one-time 45 percent pay cut. He has a deal all the way to 2031 that's in serious peril if this year's catastrophic collapse becomes a trend.

My justification for not donating to an NIL collective is that the wild west NIL era is harming college football and making the gap between the G5 and the P4/3/2 wider, so why would I fund that?

I'd rather have a transfer portal window after the spring semester than one before the bowls. Force players who want to transfer to do it in the summer. The players who stayed get the benefit of spring practice and longer offseason time with their teammates.