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Love me some Chico. That guy wanted the permanent gig so bad and was 100 percent committed while he was here, all the way to the alma mater at the end. Longtime Mean Green fans have something in common with him, because we should also be committed.

My son goes to UCF. It does have Orlando to itself, but the main reason they fill the seats is because students turn out in huge numbers and make the Bounce House a scene. With 69,000 students and their level of fan support, UCF has the potential to become a football power as they graduate and keep supporting their school.

In all the years I have watched UNT football, I never saw a coach look more outmatched all the time than Todd Dodge. That first game was a sign of things to come. Allowing him to bring his high school staff along with him, instead of putting coaches with long college football experience under him to help him adjust, was a catastrophic mistake by RV.

That's a fine looking beer. North Texas is moving up in the world.

You are wildly overrating them. Nobody who spent time at a big SEC football school on gameday would think to themselves, "this reminds me of SMU." Their deep football history is so deep it's six feet under. Today's Mustang fans only know the life of a G5 underachiever and getting mad at all the fans disguised as empty seats.

In an alternate universe we won that game over Florida State, Hayden Fry leads North Texas to decades of success and national championships and by 2024 nobody remembers Bobby Bowden. I have washboard abs well into my fifties and keep having to tell women who approach me that I'm married.

The Power 4 might be a year or two away from becoming the Power 3. The article claims that David Miller has ensured SMU's place among the elite, but it's still up in the air whether the ACC survives. The leadership of the conference is a mess. Commissioner James Phillips is getting his panties in a bunch over criticism of former commissioner John Swofford and taking shots at FSU and Clemson like he doesn't care about holding the conference together any more. If FSU and Clemson get stuck in the ACC it'll be the first time a Power 5/4/3/2 conference heavyweight said it was going to leave and had to stay in the marriage. Maybe they will do it for the sake of the kids (SMU/Cal/Stanford).

We tried to get him but your school offered him a a gold horse-drawn carriage.

FSU and Clemson will never be content in the ACC because the revenue per school is significantly smaller than in the SEC and Big 10. This trend is getting worse instead of better and isn't helped by the ACC adding three schools with the lowest TV ratings in the conference. The only possible way to avoid an exit of the conference powers is to divide TV revenue unequally and let the big dogs eat.

Please look harder and find a seventh. I've been trying to convince myself that Eric Morris can get us to a winning record this season.

That's a different article with a different source. This new story was sparked by a radio host posting on X that he was "working to verify a report," which is such a mealy mouthed way to put information out there that it made me cry into my UNT journalism degree.

It's informed speculation from a 10-year college football reporter who had just been at Big 12 media day. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he knows nothing Jon Snow.

He didn't call Florida State and Clemson joining the Big 12 the most unlikely possibility. Here's what he said: "I think there is at least early conversation between the Big 12 and those schools about the possibility. I don't think it's anything serious yet, cause they do have to get out of the ACC, whether that's through a settlement or a court ruling. So we could be months if not years from something. That does seem to be one of the possibilities ... is the Big 12." -- Ross Dellenger

I can't wait to hear how this is actually very good news for SMU.

I was on the Pauline G. Hughes Middle School B basketball team in the early 1980s with @FirefightnRick. I find your comment very triggering. Some of us had to ride the bench even on the B team. When I finally got to play I spun around the defender for an uncontested lay-up and hit the ball so hard off the boards it landed out of bounds. Then I did the same thing again. The coach laughed like hell about it afterwards. As for UNT, I try to keep our circumstances in perspective. Being in a decent G5 conference is miles above what it was like to support the team during the I-AA years. And the AAC still brings me happy tears because it isn't CUSA and our commissioner's name doesn't rhyme with Doody McDowd.

Fancy was a cold-hearted strumpet. She never went back for the baby.

We don't get Collin County or Fannin? Sam Houston gets an invite and the Piney Woods while Stephen F. Austin is left out? I question this random videogamer's judgment.

SMU teams are always better before they play a down of football. Then the games begin and the popped collar crowd gets bored and gives up on going, which is why your attendance has been in the bottom half of the FBS for so many years.

Did the PAC-12 becoming the PAC-2 teach you nothing? After the big dogs leave a Power 5 conference can implode faster than the sub that visited the Titanic.

Don't knock it. I owe my marriage to a woman lowering her standards in 1987.

Cap prices are steep but when I get a New Era 59 Fifty cap from Lids or Fanatics I wear it for years and it holds up well. Nice to see a vintage Scrappy on some new gear. He looks like he's getting sick and tired of all the player transfers.

I wonder what our ranking would have been if we were bringing back most of our record-breaking offense.

We can agree on that. Transferring from UTA to UNT was the best decision I ever made.

Actually, I transferred from UT-Arlington to UNT after reaching out to the next editor and finding out whether she'd be interested in my girlfriend and I joining the newspaper. It was a weird situation that's not entirely different than an athlete coming because a coach offers them a spot. We were pissed off at UTA because of some shit that went down there. In any case if recruitment is what stops an athlete from being an employee, then you are saying that walkons are employees. I think you're overcomplicating things. Athletes perform work, their work generates revenue for schools, schools should pay them.

Some of them do. Many master's and PhD programs give their students free tuition and pay them a salary. They teach, research and perform other work for the department.