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Are any departing UNT players getting offered that kind of money?

All UNT players who leave like this should be forced to do it during the middle of a game, like that one guy who quit the Mean Green to pursue his love of men's fashion. At least then we could boo them.

This kind of stuff is murdering the sport. What are the odds Chandler Morris will get an opportunity at a bigger school like the one he'd have in Denton next season? Our last Chandler to bolt threw for 117 yards this year at Cal, which was a mere 3,265 less than he did at UNT.

We are in a slightly better place than 2022, because we're the same barely average team except in a better conference. Is that enough to have confidence Eric Morris is the guy long-term? Hell no.

Point taken, Tim, but I wasn't talking about the early years. I was referring to Littrell's final years always having us around 6-6 and crapping the bed in big OOC games and bowls. He was the averagest coach in the FBS. 44-44 record.

This is the correct answer. I became a lifelong fan during the Southland Conference years in the Division I-AA wilderness. Something can be a good time even if it is small time. I'll never forget Corky Nelson throwing haymakers in the enormous brawl between SMU and UNT going into halftime in the late 1980s. UNT fans were nearly berserk for the rest of that game. Only the long walk and the cheap pitchers of beer at the Flying Tomato afterwards calmed us down.

If we win the bowl game it isn't Littrell all over again. He couldn't get to 7 or win a bowl game. This game is a chance for Eric Morris to prove he's an improvement over Littrell. That wouldn't be enough to show he's the right guy for the job, but it would at least be a step in the right direction.

We have a home and home with them in 2026 (away) and 2030 (home).

It would make no sense to turn down an opportunity to win seven games and end the bowl losing streak.

I don't see how Texas State is beneath us. We're an underachieving G5 program that struggles to win more than 6 games or achieve signature wins against bigger OOC opponents. Until that changes, we have to prove we're above schools like Texas State by beating them.

Do you think being ranked No. 8 a week ago meant anything? Take the teams out of the question and a No. 8 team losing by a last-second field goal in a Power 4/3/2 conference championship game probably wouldn't make them fall out of the top 12.

I'll meet you halfway and hate on Texas.

Clemson losing three games including eight days ago probably had something to do with it.

This isn't about right and wrong. It's just a bunch of jiggery pokery to keep the cool kids in the club, like Nick Saban's Alabama getting in last year because ESPN secretly knew he was going to retire. The Barcalounger crowd doesn't feel that way about the new coach whose name sounds like a Lethal Weapon villain.

I was going to lament SMU getting in but Nick Saban's tears are delicious.

Don't use Oregon as the example of why it's OK for schools to change their look more than Lady Gaga. Oregon is sui generis. They have the brains and riches of the biggest sports brand in the world backing what they do. We, uh, don't. I'd favor any uniform look for us as long as we used it all but one or two times a year. We could even go back to the helmet from my era where the eagle has been broken into pieces by a T sexing an N from behind.

I gotta start following our polo team. Beating SMU to become back-to-back national champions is the kind of headline I need.

SMU is about to buy each of the playoff committee members a Trans Am.

CBS Sports projects that we will play Texas State in the New Mexico Bowl. The unholy clash of two former Incarnate Word coaches.

Get yourself some Lexington-style barbecue while you're there so the trip won't be a total disappointment.

SMU is 11-1 and playing in a Power 4/3/2 conference championship game in just two days. Yet their fans are hanging out this week with us. Does anyone find that utterly bizarre? If UNT was 11-1 and playing for a spot in the College Football Playoff this weekend I wouldn't even remember that SMU exists.

Who do you think we should organize -- fat cat boosters? I will start a Facebook group "Mean Green Alumni Billionaires" and see who joins.

You make cheating sound so considerate. As for SMU remaining near the top of the ACC in the future, you might take a look at how things are going in Tallahassee just 12 months after FSU went undefeated. The portal giveth, the portal taketh away.

One of my sons goes to UCF. Fans are giddy he is leaving. The only trend in play here is a coach leaving before he got fired.

Has our stadium ever hosted a concert? That was a big promise made in the push to get it financed. Since then, streaming and other changes have forced musicians to go on tour all the time to make money. Here in St. Augustine, Florida, we had an amphitheater in a public park we were only using for a yearly state history play, and now The Amp is a major venue getting big-name acts all the time. DATCU would be a desirable concert venue.