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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?

Navy, yes. But are casual fans in DFW more excited to see Memphis and USF come to town than they are to see UTEP and Rice? I think when you're not talking about obvious big names, playing Texas schools is better.

If we're not in the initial 75-500 schools being considered for Big 12 membership I'll be pissed.

I watched UCF last night because my son just began grad school there. They have created quite the scene there. A crowd that looked as young as any in college football was rocking the Bounce House, which is what they call the place because it literally bounces as the crowd jumps up and down.

The guy loves OU but UNT isn't even his side piece. That's a travesty. And his voice is weird, like a dentist trying to sound soothing as he breaks the news you need another root canal.

Craig Miller graduated from UNT? I listened to the Musers every day for 15 years and had no idea!

Nothing says "catchy team slogan" like a long explanation that must accompany the slogan whereever it is used. They should change it to "Meep meep."

I live in SEC country. The next time someone talks to me about the academic prestige associated with SEC membership will be the first time.

Cry, Baylor, cry. Your tears are as delicious as the Burro Grande at El Matador.

How many teams back out of the second half of a home and home? A G5 or lower P5 school that did that would have trouble scheduling home and homes.

The NFL doesn't have a strong track record of stopping a franchise from relocating where it wants to go. The only recent success was sending the Seahawks back to Seattle when they tried to move to LA in 1996. A Bills move to Austin would be possible but that would be insane when Toronto is so close and a great new market.

Texas State is in the FBS and is the fifth-largest university in Texas by attendance. San Marcos is a four-hour drive. This seems like a pretty good home-and-home to me.

Even if SMU and Houston stayed in the AAC, it's still a G5 conference. How much easier would it be to convince your friends and family to see East Carolina and Tulsa on a back to back? After arriving at UNT as a student in 1988 I've seen us go from "Literally anything, anything!!!!!, is better than Division I-AA" to "Literally anything, anything!!!!!, is better than the Sun Belt" to "Literally anything, anything!!!!!, is better than Conference USA." If a spot opened for us in the AAC it would probably be because SMU, Houston and other schools left the conference and we'd soon be "Literally anything, anything!!!!!, is better than the AAC". As a UNT fan I'm done waiting for the stars to align and for the ancient wrong of not getting a Southwest Conference invitation in the 1970s to be made right. My previous school UT-Arlington killed football entirely in 1985. UNT plays in the FBS, has a sweet stadium and we dumped Eppy for Scrappy. I'll just enjoy wherever we play and get some pleasure from watching the big schools betray their longtime conference mates and destroy conferences and rivalries.

The "North Texas" in the editorial are references to the region, not the mighty Mean Green. Based on the lack of mentions, the DMN doesn't think North Texas football includes North Texas.

Even UTSA?

I live in SEC country and have a son at UF. I keep seeing SEC fans saying that Texas will have to get used to losing in the conference, and though I wish it was true I don't foresee it. UT will be able to combine "come play for Texas" with "come play in the SEC". That will make them an SEC power. But if I'm wrong I may have to go to Gainesville to see that in person.

I was a Daily editor back in the Cretaceous era when Corky Nelson ruled the earth. The paper had a staff who were solid and also ran articles from students taking their first journalism lab class. That made the quality uneven at times but it also helped the latter develop as writers. Dunno what it's like today but most of the time I see decent sports reporting from the paper when it's shared here.

The NT Daily is produced by the school of journalism. Your comment is like saying you love Subway but hate their sandwiches.

Ty Jordan, a freshman running back for Utah who was just named AP's Pac 12 newcomer of the year, died overnight in an accidental shooting on Avenue B in Denton, Texas. https://www.abc4.com/news/top-stories/utah-football-star-ty-jordan-dies-in-accidental-shooting-while-in-texas/?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=socialflow Jordan, a West Mesquite star who committed to Texas before selecting Utah, averaged 144.6 all-purpose yards per game in five games, putting him second among freshmen in FBS.

The biggest problem with today's media compared to the 1980s is that newspaper revenue has collapsed and they can't afford reporters and editors any more. Advertising revenue for all U.S. newspapers was $65 billion in 2000. It's $17 billion today. Out of all the reporters and editors who were at the Star-Telegram when I left in the mid-1990s, I know of only one who is still there: Bud Kennedy. If anyone else reading this also is a dinosaur who still reads newspapers, SUBSCRIBE! I've got subscriptions to five.

You're giving me flashbacks. When I was editor of the NT Daily in 1989, any time we reported bad news related to UNT football we were told we hated the program and wanted to destroy it. But I loved the Mean Green and so did most of the staff. It wasn't our fault Kansas State ended its 31-game losing streak by playing UNT and their fans tore down their goalposts. We were just the messenger.

You know how I know we're good? Five pages of comments on this instead of the traditional rending of garments that followed UNT games back in the day.

I couldn't see a logo on TV, but I do see one here: It's not a bad look, but sometimes we seem more like the Mean White than the Mean Green.