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LOL. When I joined the Daily in 1988 there were sordid rumors about what had gone on in GAB 117.

The last time all FBS schools were anywhere close to competitive parity had to be before 1984 when the schools won an antitrust battle to take the control of the sport's TV away from the NCAA. But in the 1970s it wasn't a level playing field for UNT either, excluded from the Southwest Conference. If it had been more fair, Hayden Fry might have stayed.

This is a fun one-day headline for Utah but I have some questions. How many of those 85 Utes actually want a leased Dodge Ram? If you polled them I bet a lot would prefer the money that's being spent on this. Is the collective going to pay for their auto insurance, gas and on-campus parking too? How is this PR move going to look if any of those players crashes and hurts themselves or others behind the wheel?

Thanks. I love the Mean Green and wish I'd spent more years in easy driving distance to our games instead of moving to Florida. I just spent the evening on FSU's campus in Tallahassee watching tens of thousands of fans leaving the game, camping and cooking out in the RV parking lot and loving life. Gameday here is an enormous street party. I can still hear it going on at Potbelly's nightclub from my son's apartment. They started partying and drinking at 10 a.m.! If I had the money to make Denton that kind of scene I'd spend it, but while Brint Ryan was getting his UNT degree in accounting with an emphasis on taxation I was getting mine in journalism to be a newspaper reporter. Half the papers I applied for jobs at are dead.

Calling people haters is an attempt to score points on the Internet. The things I do to support the Mean Green are because I enjoy doing them. We should stay in our lanes. I am in the fan lane. Eric Morris is in the getting paid $1 million a year to win games lane.

If I'm a fair weather fan when was the fair weather? I've been rooting for this team since I transferred to UNT when it was still called NTSU.

I'm going to assume that we are mostly average fans here, not donors writing big checks. Some people on GMG think they can shame us into giving more in the hopes that money will produce wins on the field, but that's unrealistic. Non-rich alumni give money to their school's athletic programs when they are excited. They don't see a bunch of losses piling up, a new coach stumbling out of the block and open up their wallets. For us, the money follows the success, not the other way around. The only people capable of turning their money directly into athletic success are the big donors living the suite life who could bankroll an NIL collective and better facilities. That ain't us. We aren't loaded and we are completely immune to shame, otherwise we wouldn't be UNT fans at all.

I'm not calling to fire anybody but the defense didn't play really good. We gave up 331 yards on the ground and were already the worst in rushing defense in the American before this game, giving up 241 yards a game.

Probably analytics.

You started talking about the game after I posted that comment. I feel like I helped you grow as a person. I might be the wind beneath your wings.

We didn't. We fired Littrell for anybody but Littrell.

They could have gotten extra space with a delay of game. They didn't need to look foolish by having two players in motion trying to sack their running back pre-snap.

Damn. Felt like a win was ours for the taking today.

That Navy play with two players in motion was hilarious.

Nice response by the offense. If we could scheme our defense up to even average FBS quality we might have something this season.

Correction: Except when it happens to us.

I don't buy this excuse. We had one of the highest coaching payrolls and athletic budgets in CUSA and we're competitively funded in the American. We are not spreading around NIL money like a P5 school but aside from SMU nobody in our conference is. Telling average fans to give more money is a waste of time when the results on the field don't deserve more money.

It's helmet to helmet, announcers. That's a penalty all the time!

Nice catch! Held on knowing the Mack truck was coming right at him.

We can still win this game but I'm not mortgaging the house to bet on it.

You are arguing about board moderation during a game while telling people they should be focusing on the game. And you're not even discussing the game!

We hire coaches who dig their own graves.

I should check myself for one. Rogers is back in and I didn't notice.

Maybe a concussion check at halftime?

We pulled Rogers?