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The NCAA does not permit NIL deals to be tied to on-field performance in any way. https://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa-bans-performance-based-nil-205541938.html If the NCAA changed this, NIL deals might look like employment and bring a host of new issues to a complicated legal situation. I am all for athletes getting paid but the present situation where some take the money and skip games is terrible for the sport.

I think all the players do the endorsements they get paid for. They just don't get much attention since the endorsement was never the point. Maybe players should have to wear a patch on their jersey for each of their sponsors, like NASCAR.

The NIL is not allowed to be tied to performance, which gives us situations like Myles Brennan getting over $300,000 in NIL deals and then retiring from football. He had more NIL deals than games played but got to keep all the money. Until players become employees with a player's union the NIL chaos will continue I imagine. Don't see how to stop it otherwise.

Paying somebody doesn't give them a false sense of worth. It gives them an exact sense of what they are worth. FSU players didn't quit on their team. They quit on ESPN. Creating a 5-vs-6 showcase matchup for the network didn't matter to them, the same way that going 13-0 and winning the ACC didn't matter to ESPN. Kirk Herbstreit was laying the groundwork for FSU to be excluded even before Jordan Travis got hurt. I think we're going to see a lot more players doing what the Noles did this year, when their bowl game isn't in the playoffs. I fear we might even see it in playoff games. College football is a house of cards.

Under this kind of thinking nothing we achieved in the Sun Belt could ever matter because of the teams in it. Dickey's team lined up against our opponents 26 times in a row and beat them. We had some of the most exciting moments in my 34 years as a UNT fan during that run. I am not going to downgrade the achievement because the Sun Belt was the Sun Belt (which it isn't anymore, go figure). And I certainly don't want to act like we lost conference games because of two games against future conference foes. Pride in the Mean Green doesn't have to be as complicated as precalculus.

I did not expect any Mean Green fans to take the position that Seth Littrell's record is our ceiling in football. If I thought that way I'd be getting in line to drink Guyana Punch.

That's how it felt to me too. FSU didn't have the players who provided 97% of their passing yards, 88% of their rushing yards and 84% of their receptions. Has the Orange Bowl ever been more irrelevant as a capstone to a season for two high-ranked teams? If you reach a bowl game with a team that no longer exists before the opening kickoff, what is being proven in that game? Even the winning coach and previous national champion thinks there's a problem.

Are you really a P5 when you go undefeated, win your conference and don't make the four-team invitational? By visiting Tallahassee after my son enrolled and going to some games this fall, I brought the curse of the G5 with me.

My comment was about four consecutive years. Overall win percentage isn't the best metric for FBS coaching success. To be good you also need conference titles and big wins out of conference. Seth laid more eggs out of conference than Mother Goose.

It's not our ceiling. Darrell Dickey's team had a four-year run where the Mean Green won our conference every year, went to a bowl every year and won our first bowl game since 1946. It also included 8- and 9-win seasons during an era when UNT was playing body bag OOC games to fund athletics. Seth Littrell had only one season approaching that level of success.

If I fired you and had to pay you $1.6 million to do nothing for the next 12 months, would you be bitter, or would it be the greatest thing that happened to you other than the birth of your children or the day you first tried Sriracha hot sauce?

There isn't an FBS program that would accept a ceiling of .500 with losses in almost every bowl game, conference championship game and big OOC game.

When you leave without making a single public statement to anybody, not even one thanking the players or expressing any gratitude for a seven-year opportunity that sends you out of town as a multimillionaire, you're bitter. Seth Littrell got big support in Denton. Only one coach in the conference had a higher salary. There was even a bowl game created for his team by an alumnus in 2021 so the Mean Green wouldn't miss a bowl at 6-6. People are going to say Littrell didn't owe us any comment after being fired. That is true. It is also true he was as bitter as a dank IPA.

He got plenty of appreciation. His salary was huge compared to his predecessors, the football program got significant financial outlays during his time in Denton and fans supported his teams when they were good. There was no reason for him to be such a bitter Betty on the way out the door. UNT gave him at least one more season than his record deserved.

Boo him 50 percent of the time and cheer him 50 percent of the time.

I will be surprised if the expanded playoff slows down the rate of players who sit out for the NFL Draft. So many athletes are skipping bowls for the draft or the portal that a lot of bowls feel like the start of the next season instead of the end to this one. FSU isn't the team that went undefeated any more with five stars skipping the Orange Bowl and even QB Tate Rodemaker hitting the portal instead of playing.

There isn't enough aloe vera in Texas to treat that burn.

FSU putting "member" in quotes like that is chef's kiss.

It's not the size of your endowment, it's what you do with it.

The only financial problem FSU has is the ACC's TV deal. When FSU joined the ACC in 1991, they had to raise $7 million a year to keep up with elite teams in other conferences. Now the gap is $30 million. One of their trustees said today that if you take out TV revenue, FSU's athletic spending is the seventh highest in the FBS. He said, "It's one thing to fundraise and make up $7 million. It's another entirely to make up over $30-to-40 million annually." https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2023/12/22/fsu-acc-takeaways-lawsuit-grant-rights-deal/71890649007/ FSU is going to chew its leg off to get out of the ACC beartrap just like SMU did the AAC.

FSU's lawsuit against the ACC is citing the "lack of football value" brought by SMU, Cal and Stanford, compared to the schools that other Power 4 conferences added. I wouldn't be so sure that SMU joining the ACC is still an improvement for them. If FSU and the other big schools leave, the ACC could fall apart like the PAC-12. Then SMU is floating on a headboard in the Atlantic.

It's cool that some fans travel to games but the overall fanbase contains a lot more people who don't have the time or opportunity so they watch those games on TV. I don't think the Mean Green would benefit from being on TV less. There would be some benefit to home game attendance but it would significantly drop the number of alumni who follow the team. One of the biggest problems with CUSA was the low-quality TV production that made games look small time.

Why is it more special to not be able to see your team's games every week? Rare is for steak and Pokemon cards, not sporting events. Being able to see every Mean Green game in Florida is glorious.

I find the complaints weird too. There should be as many bowls as there are cities and committees that want to run them and fans who want to go to them. Is a 6-6 team playing another 6-6 team in Shreveport going to be remembered forevermore? Probably not. But it's still a chance for two teams to mark a season with a celebratory trip to a bowl with everything that goes along with it, like a banquet where they get to put on ties, hear some speeches and eat chicken, mashed potatoes and chocolate pudding. If there was a vote for more college football or less, I am voting more.

If you put a player in your schedule graphic and he leaves, fans of the other 132 schools mock you mercilessly. It is much better to put Morris on there looking back at all the teams we are passing by.