MeanGreenZen

I drive an hour+ through DFW traffic to get to games. Parking, ticket entry and concessions are super easy. Traffic is a different story and I know most alumni aren’t going to fight through that. Some will. The lack of Greek presence at UNT basketball games blows my mind. Go to an SEC or Big 12 basketball game, the Greeks are fighting each other to support the team the most. We have a big Greek community at North Texas. I’ve never seen them at basketball. Culture has to start somewhere. The athletic department needs to reach out to the Greeks and come up with a plan to get them to games. If you can get the Greeks, I promise, the rest of the students will come like a snowball rolling down a hill.

The Tomato still exists now. And I almost always stop there on game days.

I don’t see why anyone would need an NIL agent. Enter portal, negotiate with collectives of the schools you are interested in, find the best offers, pay a decent contract lawyer $500-$1,000 to share their thoughts, sign your pay-to-play deal. No agent needed.

lol, Houston Cougars: the lowest athletic budget in the P4. You’re already on the G5 message boards. You might as well bring the whole athletic program with you. Maybe you’ll be able to win some football games again?

I saw the SMU men’s basketball team got EMBARRASSED by Duke the other day. Money can’t buy everything.

I have two free tickets (third row, center court) to the January 22 men’s game vs. Temple to anyone who hasn’t attended a men’s game this season and is curious about what all the fuss is about. DM me.

D1 football has about 130 teams. D1 men’s basketball has almost 400 teams. 69th in basketball is closer to being a Top 25 team in football. And in reality, that UNT NIT winner could have very well made the same Final Four run that FAU made if we had been allowed into the NCAA tournament.

I understand that he was the fifth string running back. And he only got significant playing time when those in front of him started getting injured. UNT football lacks a lot of stuff, we have NEVER lacked productive running backs. Whoever they plug in there next season will be atleast as productive as Porter was and likely way more productive.

I am for anything novel, and fun that sounds cool. Denton, America does that for me.

I can’t say that I care too much about them having UNT ties. Who will do the best job? Hire whoever that is. If it is a tie, yeah, favor the UNT alumni.

He made two amazing basketball coaching hires.

That is actually a pretty fun idea. Both Wren and RV were more of a “sales” guy than Jared, who seems like an “operations” guy. That is fine, but you need to hire someone else to be that sales person who promotes the program and builds excitement for the program. Jared has made some homerun hires in basketball, but is it still a homerun if no one is there to see it?

I’m not making excuses. I’m disgusted by it. It is a hell of a product and I can’t believe people aren’t showing up to see it. They are missing out. There are a lot of creative ideas you could try to fill that place up. I’ve been pretty pro-Jared since his hire, but this is a pretty embarrassing flaw and ultimately he is the one getting paid the most to make the athletic program succeed. And good attendance is part of that success.

I don’t think UTEP is going to have much success if they are granting scholarships to guys who are only walk-ons for us. Let them fill their entire scholarship allotment with our walk-ons. I’m sure Porter is a fine kid with a bright future. He is a below-replacement level D1 college running back.

Thank you for tracking this. The 8 pm start on a weeknight with bad weather predicted on the horizon certainly didn’t help. But I made the 2+ hour round trip drive to be there. It feels like we have more games this year during the winter break when students aren’t here. Is that true?