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Does Booger Kennedy have any sons?

How is that not a personal foul? It's much worse than what our player did to theirs out of bounds.

I voted this up but I'm going to pretend I was the user who voted it down.

Mean Joe Greene won 30 games in them from 1966 to 1969.

The offense's demeanor is listless. The Stadium announcers are ripping them for the offense walking out to begin a drive and no one trying to lift them up.

SMU is way behind us in total alumni and alumni in DFW. SMU has 45,000 alumni in DFW and 117,000 overall, while we have 294,000 in DFW and 434,000 overall. Not the most important metric to consider, admittedly, but there is some sleeping giant potential if the Mean Green ever put together a run of excellence in football.

Hiring a head coach directly from high school to the FBS is begging for eternal ridicule. You have to give that coach a few years in college as an assistant, like how Jeff Traylor went from Gilmer High to UT to SMU to Arkansas before getting the UTSA top job.

I think people greatly overestimate how much UTSA's 7-5 record last year is helping them in realignment. We're not talking about a G5 with a 9- or 10-win season getting into a prestige bowl and winning it. They had one good year and got into the Heart of First Ticket Responder Bowl. We've done the same thing twice and even won it once when Derek Football threw for 256 yards and 2 touchdowns.

You make good points, but Baylor had two of the largest coaching scandals in NCAA football and basketball history and didn't end up irrelevant and nationally hated. If a Truly Awful Person could get UNT into the G5 elite it would be pretty tempting to hire him and find out how many Hail Marys we had to say to make up for it.

The debate is whether a move from UTSA to UNT would be a step down, not whether Traylor would actually do it. I can't think of any coaches who left the top job at one school to take the top job at another in the same conference. Nick Saban moved from LSU to Alabama but had the decency to fail in the NFL for one season first.

Multiple reporters including Brett McMurphy were told by sources that it got as far as contract negotiations. That sounds more likely to me than the idea that Seth Littrell's agent Jimmy Sexton -- who also represented 11 SEC head coaches and seven NFL coaches as of 2019 -- would lie to a major college reporter just to boost one of his G5 clients.

Or it will all come crashing down around him at UTSA and limit his future prospects, making him think a $500,000 pay raise somewhere else would've been a good move. After two 9-win seasons at UNT, Seth Littrell looked like someone who might parlay it into a P5 job. He was reportedly the front-runner to succeed Bill Snyder at Kansas State in 2018 before he took himself out of consideration.

Jeff Traylor is making $800,000 a year in base salary at UTSA, competed to Seth Littrell making $1.35 million. An extra half-mil in your pocket doesn't seem like a step down to me.

This is North Texas. There are no fake fans after all these years of suffering punctuated by occasional hiccups of happiness. "We choose to support the Mean Green not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

If the external speaker is equipped with Bluetooth, you should be able to connect to it and broadcast your computer's audio.

UCF hiring George O'Leary after his Notre Dame debacle reminds me of the fans here who wanted UNT to do the same by hiring Jim Leavitt after USF. (I think FirefightnRick was one of the people touting this idea.) Now he's SMU's defensive coordinator and we're about to find out whether he can still coach.

Point taken, but I'd say that UCF's rise began under his predecessor George O'Leary, that infamous NYU-Stony Brook graduate and triple letterman who led the Knights to a 12-1 record in 2013 where they were 8-0 in conference, beat Penn State and eighth-ranked Louisville and won the first BCS bowl they reached in a massive upset over sixth-ranked Baylor. (The only sad part of that year was it led my hometown Jaguars to bet the farm on Blake Bortles.)

It isn't an either/or situation. On-field success and the TV market are both considered by conferences extending invitations. Orlando is the No. 17 TV market and the fourth-fastest growing metropolitan area in the U.S., growing 10 percent from 2015 to 2020. And UCF packs its house. I've been spending time there lately because my son just began graduate studies there, and I'd sell my second-favorite grandma to traffickers for UNT to have that level of fan support, local interest and media attention.

For TV purposes the "Dallas market" is actually Dallas/Fort Worth, so the market is shared by TCU too. It's the fifth-largest TV market in the country and can support three FBS schools. The schools just have to win, grow the alumni support base and fill their stadium.

If a comment could have jazz hands, it would be this one. What city builds a football stadium for an NFL team before getting a team? That place turns 30 in 2023, making it older than all but six current NFL facilities. If by some miracle San Antonio got a franchise, the first thing they'd do is announce plans to build a new stadium.

It's a 10-year-old football program. They've had as many as 48,000 empty seats at their stadium during games, which has to be an FBS record. Their athletic budget is $8 million a year lower than UNT's. I am not seeing anything that would make them "the clear choice." San Antonio is untapped because the geniuses running UTSA chose not to play football for the school's first 42 years of existence. Even now they aren't spending like they want to move up -- six Sun Belt schools have larger athletic budgets than UTSA.

I enjoyed the commercial the first 10 times I saw it. The next 10,000 times, not so much.

UTSA just beat Illinois 37-30.

I didn't ask about UNT. I asked about SMU. What makes you think the rest of the AAC is giving SMU the power to veto the invitation of any other school? It's not like your school is an AAC juggernaut. Your conference record is 42-48. When you were invited out of CUSA, you were a small fish in that pond. Your record in the conference was 43-67 (39%). Ours is 45-54 (45%). Your average attendance in your final CUSA season was 21,800. Our average attendance in 2019 was 21,300. As for TV, in 2019 your game against Memphis set a new primetime ratings low for ABC's college football broadcasts. Your enrollment is 11,000. Ours is 40,000. You have 45,000 alumni in DFW and 117,000 overall. We have 434,000 and 294,000 in DFW. When SMU got the invite to the AAC, there's no criteria I'm seeing where it looked better than UNT does today. SMU does spend $30 million a year more now than UNT on athletics, because you're so well-endowed. But you're not getting any better performance than us! Which is what I always said going back to my college days. It's not the size; it's how you use it.

"SMU will never let UNT in the AAC" sounds a lot like "Texas A&M will never let Texas in the SEC." Why do we assume that when the rubber hits the road, SMU has any power to stop anything that its conference wants?