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I just learned there's a Conference Realignment forum.

SMU fans come here to experience a P5-level message board.

The Safeway Bowl isn't a lose-lose when we're beating them. I still want to see us go to Not That Gerald Ford Stadium and put another slobber knocker on them like 43-6 in 2014.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has added Stanford, California and SMU and now has 18 members. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/stanford-cal-smu-join-acc-conference-membership-growing-to-18-schools-as-latest-realignment-domino-falls/ To get the invite, SMU had to give up all ACC media rights money until 2033. This expansion couldn't happen when Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina and North Carolina State were all against it, but N.C. State flipped. The ACC has a clause in its current media rights deal that if it falls below 15 schools ESPN can renegotiate. Seven ACC schools have been exploring how to get out but they have the longest-running media deal in the P5. This will be the first time SMU is in a major conference since the Southwest Conference was murdered. But since this is college football, who knows if the ACC will still be around in a year? There might just be the 32-team SEC, 32-team Big 12 and 69-team Missouri Valley Conference.

When I arrived in 1988, UNT used the helmet in my avatar that squashed the eagle with an NT logo too small for anyone to read. That helmet looked particularly good when Corky Nelson swung it like a mace at SMU players and coaches on the way to the locker rooms at halftime.

Saving it would've kept UNT in the tiny fraternity of schools that have a running track around the field, like Buffalo, Eastern Michigan, Penn, Bucknell, Villanova and Dartmouth. Nothing brings you closer to the game than being further from the game.

Do you think P5 schools are judged for choosing to play us? Every school schedules teams below it in the college football hierarchy. As long as that's not all we are scheduling I don't see the problem.

I was curious about the pronunciation so I found videos from DATCU like this one, which shows it's "DAT-Q". The name will take some getting used to, but two of the founders of DATCU were professors at what was then called North Texas State Teachers College, so it's a good partnership that should benefit both DATCU and UNT. Actually it didn't take time to get used to. I'm already used to it.

Apple is in good shape. It has Messi.

Damn. Didn't even make it to camp. If I'm reading this correctly ... https://overthecap.com/player/austen-aune/11546 ... he earned 0 percent of his three-year, $2,695,000 non-guaranteed UDFA contract. Did he at least get a free trip to Atlanta?

He's having fun now. He never has to be the guy who decides whether to fire Huggins for on-court performance.

I see your point, but I don't think we should ignore the marketing value of a P5 coming to Denton just because we wish it was common for P5s to come to Denton. As Don Rumsfeld said, "You sell season tickets with the schedule you have, not the schedule you might want or wish to have at a later time"

I hope Austin defies the odds and makes the Falcons roster. Here's their depth chart at QB Desmond Ridder Taylor Heinicke Logan Woodside Feleipe Franks

Microphone sensitivity. He'll be taught to recognize when he's around one.

Wren is having fun now that he's used the offensive comments to claw back $1 million of Huggins' salary. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37595150/sources-bob-huggins-take-1m-salary-reduction-anti-gay-slur

Anyone else here go to UT-Arlington and UNT? I don't ask because I have divided loyalties. UTA is dead to me.

Boy is he going to feel foolish next year when UNT wins the NCAA tournament.

SMU's deal to pay every football and basketball player $36K a year for 2022-23 was publicized everywhere. They were the first school collective to do something like that, though some bigger dogs in P5 followed with much bigger yearly salaries, er, nameimagelikeness-eries.

I don't think the NIL money means we should feel more license to rip players. Most players paid NIL money are getting less per year than if they were a shift manager at Arby's. College football is still a sport full of athletes who love the game and appreciate their scholarship and their school. The ones making big NIL money and getting lured away to transfer are rare.

Aune still has a shot to make it as a backup and some of those guys stick around for years. Chad Henne just retired at 37 and led a scoring drive in a playoff game last season when Mahomes got hurt.

You assume incorrectly, sir. Rojomojo made the Chiefs practice squad as a long snapper back in twenty aught four. Had to retire after he began dating a cheerleader and tore his sacroiliac during a disastrous first attempt at tantric lovemaking.

Fun fact: Austin Aune played in the Blue-Gray game against Kurt Warner. Threw a couple picks and a couple touchdowns.

I don't think scholarships are a problem. Players only get them while they are here. If there was a way within the NIL to reward players for staying longer I'd like to see that happen. I support players having a lot more freedom to transfer but it does detract from the enjoyment of the sport when the roster is in constant flux.

I don't want to hear from college coaches like Gundy whose idea to reform the NIL free-for-all is to give coaches a lot more power over player movement. Unless the coaches also agree that their own movement is restricted when they sign a contract and they have to honor it in full.

This is definitely North Texas news. We proudly tell prospective recruits whenever a former player's brother reaches the NFL.