TripleGrad

CU Board of Regents officially accepts invite to move to Big12 conference.

If this happens, CU will have to schedule some different OOC games. Opportunity for UNT maybe? 2025 @ Houston 2026 vs Houston 2027 vs Kansas State 2028 @ Kansas State 2036 @ Oklahoma State 2037 vs Oklahoma State

I think Colorado's record over the past decade proves that NAMES, not athletic accomplishments, determine who the media powers are interested in. And that's what drives conference invites.

I'm not certain that adding North Alabama (ASUN) and San Jose State (MW) as OOC opponents helps move the needle any.

Just as SMU runs away from UNT, A&M runs from UT. Obviously the AAC is the Aggies' next home . . .

10 years of decent football in over a century isn't a capital-H History. North Texas has always meant bad football and small crowds. -That- is the part that needs to change. First the consistent wins, then the crowds come. Our last conference championship was almost 20 years ago. Tell me why current students would be passionate about football?

Just win consistently, regardless of the conference. That's the secret sauce that worked in Fort Worth.

Honest to goodness, the official answer was climate concerns and sustainability. I read that as "we, the University, don't care that much about athletics." If the school doesn't care, why should the town? And frankly, the town and the school have been adversaries for quite a while. The freaking FARMERS have a parade through downtown when the Fair opens.

Maybe I'm just old, but I feel like the last several years has severely reduced the value of recruiting and getting those high school commitment players. 10-5 years ago, a player would join a school and usually spend 3-5 years at that school. There were transfers, but having to sit out a year limited the impact. Today, if a G5 team gets a player that turns out to have unusual talent, or develops beyond expectations, there's a NIL collective out there dropping the cash and prodding the player toward the transfer portal. A smaller/lower school might get a year from a guy, and then *bang* gone to the majors. Granted, this doesn't happen to every player, but look at the folks we've lost over the years just when they were having impacts. Thoughts? Am I just wrong about this? It sure seems like we're cheering for laundry these days instead of players.

I was at SFA on the drumline, and NTSU came into town. I liked their drumline, so I transferred. Unfortunately work and life got in the way, so I was only on that line for a semester/football season. 6 or 7 years later I got the first of three UNT degrees.

It's a shame Apogee (not Apogee) has never hosted a bowl game. What would it take to get a CUSA vs MAC mashup here?

Fortunately, people have developed these things called airliners in the century since college football conferences were first formed.

If we had the option, we'd jump too and start praising the PACXX. We are that shallow.

for those who don't see the joke, Mississippi State is also maroon and white.

What values are those? Public pajama bottoms and 2nd best food? I say no not due to any "I hate evangelists" viewpoint, but simply because there's enough competition in the AAC already. Let's prove we belong before inviting others.

At this moment, there's no way to know who our rival will be. Rivals need shared history, and something from the 1900s doesn't count. 3-4 years of one team screwing up another's season, and we'll have a rivalry. Besides, the AAC feels like it's headed toward CUSA 4.0, and I strongly doubt the teams will be the same in a decade.

3-9 L Sep 2 (Sat) TBA Home California Denton, Texas (Apogee Stadium) L Sep 9 (Sat) TBA Away FIU Miami, Fla. W Sep 16 (Sat) TBA Away Louisiana Tech Ruston, La. W Sep 30 (Sat) TBA Home ACU Denton, Texas (Apogee Stadium) L Oct 7 (Sat) TBA Away Navy Annapolis, Md. W Oct 14 (Sat) TBA Home Temple Denton, Texas L Oct 21 (Sat) TBA Away Tulane New Orleans, La. L Oct 28 (Sat) TBA Home Memphis Denton, Texas (Apogee Stadium) L Nov 4 (Sat) TBA Home UTSA Denton, Texas (Apogee Stadium) L Nov 10 (Fri) TBA Away SMU Dallas, Texas L Nov 18 (Sat) TBA Away Tulsa Tulsa, Okla. Nov 25 (Sat) TBA Home UAB Denton, Texas (Apogee Stadium)

Well, in all fairness the University only cares that they get paying customers. The most cost-effective students are the mediocre ones that don't get scholarships and that take several extra years to earn that degree. Extra points if the students don't require expensive equipment for the coursework. So maybe the advertising is perfectly targeted.

It's a radical solution, but not an unreasonable one.

Did Judy move west?

The other aspect is that "rivalry week" (when did that become a thing?) tends to draw eyeballs to the marquee conferences. Why put the best games in the AAC against that juggernaut?

I liked the 1995 schedule. But this one is definitely more winnable 🙂

Maybe don't market the school to the pajama-pants-and-round-glasses crowd? But hey, we have the 2nd best food . . .

The place was packed when we were going for 5-0 against LA Tech (and damn, that blocked FG still hurts). There was finally a buzz in the local media about North Texas. People want to be associated with winners. UNT has never had a tradition of winning in football. MBB is a bit better, but there's so many games that it's easy to see why people don't necessarily make it a highlight of the week. The rest of the sports listed by the OP will always struggle with attendance in Texas. Frankly, the average college student (or alumni, or town resident) doesn't and will never care about soccer, softball, WBB, track, etc. Those sports are required to exist but shouldn't be a consideration when it comes to major sports marketing. 3 college sports matter: football, men's basketball, and baseball. We've never been great in the first two (Purdue not withstanding) and the third doesn't exist. Just WIN, baby.