TheColonyEagle

I also agree...I've often thought get rid of the "student athlete" charade. Especially at the larger schools. Pay them market value, hire and fire them. If they want to go to school and get a degree pay tuition like the kid that works for the campus Starbucks (another billion dollar corporation) Pay Heisman winners $1 mil a year...fine. He gets hurt...put him on workers comp

I mean...sort of my point. Downside for whom? If these business want to invest in this...that's on them. If they don't put in clauses to protect their money...that's on them too. This is exactly the "reason" people pushed for this. The kid had the power and used it to his financial benefit. Not seeing an issue here....

Perfect analogy

Their “brand” is being an extension of another school. Not sure I would want to be about the “brand”. They’re The University of Texas…….in San Antonio. Sort of like the University of North Texas in Dallas. Very similar except one just happens to already have a football team. (No stadium but still they have uniforms and everything) And if he’s upset about last season, wait until the fans start to regret the (checks notes) TEN YEAR contract he just signed. 🤦🏼‍♂️

No bamboozling on my part...I was just wondering if we should believe the Texas State Climatologist’s office or not.

So all of these predictions have come true?

How do they know that? 1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” 2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment. 3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.” 4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [by 1980].” 5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” 6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.” 7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness. DENTON LOVE!! 👇🏼 8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” Note: The prediction of famine in South America is partly true, but only in Venezuela and only because of socialism, not for environmental reasons. 9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….” 10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.” 11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate. 12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles. 13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years). 14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say,`I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” Note: Global oil production last year at about 95M barrels per day (bpd) was double the global oil output of 48M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970. 15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990. 16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” 17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so [by 2005], it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.” 18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age.” https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-were-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/ In case we need some newer predictions: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

Jimmys and Joes or Xs and Os?

What does a first round draft pick generally make? Here pretty quick...are we going to get to the point where the first rounder decides to actually stay in school for his senior year because he already has the Lamborghini and millions...

Oh yeah. Couldn’t remember the number….

Also...does that mean the NIL Collective consists of 11 people?

Well I guess we don't have to worry about Dickey coming back to replace Littrell....

This is everything. Not only are we so beat up by the past, public perception follows that as well. Look at what happened when Littrell won 9 games two years in a row. Everyone outside of UNT, local media, radio hosts....some national media as well...all basically said "lock Littrell up for a lifetime contract......someone actually won 18 games in 2 years AT NORTH TEXAS. or "He'll be gone...you just don't do that at North Texas...Littrell will have his pick of big jobs." After the Arkansas win (the peak of Littrell's tenure) we got so much attention. Not because we beat an SEC team on the road....but because North Texas doesn't do that. That's why it is seen as a miracle to win at North Texas. I've often said...as long as we view this program though the lens of our history, we'll never get past the absolute abysmal standards that are here. Where a coach actually gets to bowl games with half the other teams in the nation is always pointed out when listing his resume. (just ignore his performance in the games....because after all, NT actually GOT to a bowl game and we should just be happy with that) When anyone adds "for North Texas" after a positive comment about the program....that tells you all you need to know about perception vs reality vs expectations.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-mayor-bowser-asks-national-guard-help-migrant-busses-southern-border-humanitarian-crisis

If it is enough to keep Seth then Wren needs to be next to go

Ironic. I saw this clip yesterday. Whatever you think about Shannon Sharpe and Skip Bayless….hard to argue with his point here

https://www.outkick.com/kirby-smart-contract-extension-georgia-salary/

I HATE the “media market” argument. The fact that a team from College Station and a team from Austin and a team from Norman, OK and a team from Lubbock and a team from Baton Rouge, LA and hell, even a team from Waco plus about 10-20 more teams get much bigger media attention in Dallas than the team right in the middle of Dallas nullifies SMU’s “media market” argument. 🤦🏼‍♂️ What good does it do being in a media market if you’re not covered IN the media in that market. DBU can use the same argument. It doesn’t matter. It has the same impact when compared to those other schools as SMU….

This country was built by immigrants Mayor Bowser. There is no room in 2022 for your xenophobia. NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL

The logical choice for them would be the NFC East but SMU has obviously passed them by...

9th out of 14 CUSA schools doesn't really excite me. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong. Why are we in the bottom half of the conference? Is it lack of some sports that other schools have?

Good stuff Rob. I agree. Also, I'm not going to say we "overrate" Mason Fine. But I think we "underrate" his receiving corp and what they did for him. Look at the 4 receivers he had vs what we had last year. Didn't our top 3 go down with injury? At least our top 2. Guyton, Bussey, Lawrence, Darden Mason Fine was great....but we didn't have 1 receiver with meaningful playing time last year that could crack that top 4. I would say Roderic Burns, but he would be at best #4 on that list whereas last year he was our #1. Fine had 3 NFL receivers to throw to. Think about that....3 of his receivers went to the NFL. In the history of our program, we've never had that. And I'll add....as critical as I've been of Littrell, he still gets a huge amount of credit for changing this offense last season and playing off its strength, running the ball. His ability to adapt was the #1 reason we went on that run late. He gets major kudos for that. But he's not going to make his living running the ball...he's going to have to get back to a passing game. I think that's what he wants to do. Hopefully we get healthy WRs and better QB play.