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Drew Pearson did that once.

We could do a lot worse than UTSA as our biggest rival. Many years ago the NCAA Football game had a feature declaring your school's rival. Ours was chosen as New Mexico State.

The issue is moot. Our games will be broadcast and produced by ESPN in the American. The amateurishness of CUSA broadcasts is not going to be our problem any more.

It's the network's job to make more people want to watch its product. Any live college football broadcast looks more exciting when played before a packed crowd and impressive stadium. I think it's in the self-interest of the networks and UNT to show Apogee's best side.

This is like saying an ugly fat guy should avoid telling women he's rich. Having potential recruits notice you're running through your conference is a good thing. UNT's eight conference wins in a row is the third longest active streak in the country behind Cincinnati (17) and Georgia (15). Alabama lost its streak yesterday against Tennessee.

Tom whipped out Peter to yell "NORTH!"

It's bad luck to leave Peter hanging.

I think this discussion isn't about UNT. We're in a conference with a chump-change TV deal and our NIL is still walking on Bambi legs. The tsunami of money transforming college football hasn't gone far enough inland to reach us.

Videogame development. Moviemaking. Acting. Lots of professions that entertain millions exploit workers because they know so many people are dying to make it big. College football isn't unique in that regard.

When billions of dollars are being generated it doesn't matter whether you call it a sport or a job. Either way It fits the definition of a task performed to produce revenue. Most of the last 100 years wasn't like today, where the amount of money in the sport is staggering. Playing for nothing but a scholarship was more fair back when Archie took Veronica to the games in his jalopy. The number of games played and the burdens of the sport were lower too.

OU is so bad that Junior Miller has started wearing UNT gear.

College football was never going to last as an amateur sport when coaches started being paid millions of dollars a year to coach players who couldn't even sign a football for pocket money without bringing down the wrath of the NCAA. Starbucks employees aren't so valuable to the business that they are heavily recruited by competitors and their decision to sign with Starbucks is broadcast on TV and reported by the media. Only 800 out of 70,000 college football players signs with an NFL team. No amount of dues-paying by a coach makes it reasonable for one to earn $9.8 million a year and a TV network to pay $3 billion to televise the performance of athletes who are paid nothing under the premise that their sport is "amateur." Amateurism was a rickety structure and coaches took another sledgehammer hit to the load-bearing walls each time they signed a record-breaking contract.

I can be happy for former Mean Green athletes who succeed elsewhere as long as they don't trash UNT or transfer to SMU or UTSA.

I don't think players pull the mid-season parachute over fun or winning records. They do it because someone is telling them it will get them more playing time elsewhere. I hate some of the repercussions of the current anything-goes era but I hated the "pay athletes nothing while coaches earn millions" era more. If this all leads to player contracts, salaries and salary caps that might be the best outcome.

Losing only two conference games is rare for SMU. They've only done that three times in 20 years. Mostly they go .500 or worse. UNT's record against SMU might improve when we're in the AAC together because they have a tradition of disappointing their fans when conference play begins.

This is a Wednesday night massacre. As someone born in Dallas, I will be filing suit against SMU in the morning for putting the city's name on its uniforms and bringing shame upon us all. When I win, every UNT athlete will get an NIL deal to endorse Morrison's Corn Kits Pan Kits Mexi Kits.

Maybe if it was some crazy expensive and powerful sportscar, but I was thinking more of the possibility of an NIL moneyman who has sponsored an athlete for several years leaning on him in a Black Sox scenario.

It's a new account created for the collective in June 2022.

If anyone reading this is affiliated with our NIL collective Light the Tower, could you get somebody to delete the off-topic political tweets that were posted under the collective's account? They have nothing to do with the mission of improving UNT athletics. I requested this directly but they're still online:

That's funny but it's also disturbing. The kind of people throwing money at student athletes via NIL could be shady or worse. And I'm not just talking about Rick Villareal.

If boards got a national championship GMG would make the playoff each year. I can't blame Mustang and Cougar fans for hanging out here to gather insight and wisdom they can take back to their fanbases.

Dickey had more sustained success than Littrell. From 2000-2004 UNT won four straight conference championships, reached four bowls (and won one) and had three seasons in a row with winning records. The reason to consider moving on from Littrell is that a six-win season where you don't win the conference and get stomped in a bowl game is the lowest possible definition of success.

NIL deals can't be tied to performance in the sport. LSU quarterback Myles Brennan signed deals with a car dealership, Raising Canes, Smoothie King, GameCoin and Small Sliders in 2021. He never played a game after that and quit football in August. He keeps all the money: https://www.actionnetwork.com/general/lsu-qb-myles-brennans-retirement-could-slow-speed-breadth-of-nil-deals-across-college-football

If they're not getting playing time at SMU and don't think that will change, I'd call it mercenary, not disgusting. College football is a take-care-of-number-one world. If the rule is bad then it should be changed, but while it is place players can be like coaches, who never let loyalty to their current school or players override self benefit.

SMU has players who won't play for you EVEN WHEN YOU PAY THEM.