MeanGreenZen

Student turnout is absolutely embarrassing. A Mean Green basketball game should be an absolute EVENT for the student body: even on Christmas break. Most of these kids live in DFW and would enjoy an opportunity to get away from their parents for an evening. An easy connection that has not been made here is with the Greeks. Did you see all the High Point Greek pledges wearing suits to the basketball game when we played them at their place? Why aren’t OUR Greeks competing throughout the season to show the most support for the basketball team/athletic program? The winner gets their letters displayed prominently inside the Super Pit/DATCU, gets their own commercial on the video board and Hell, Mosley should be putting up his own $$ as a cash award to incentivize this. There could be Greek basketball All-Star games at halftime or after our game to encourage attendance and get the whole community out. We gotta find a way to get consistent Greek attendance at these games. And once you have that base of students who are always there, it can turn into a snowball effect.

Also wonder how this impacts a kid like Tylor Perry, whose eligibility JUST ran out before this season because of JUCO time served. I guarantee guys like him have probably already filed lawsuits asking to be granted immediate eligibility and reinstatement.

This is a horrible ruling as we are on our way to having career minor league football players sponsored by colleges. It also means that North Texas and all other colleges will benefit from more developed talent. Hurts high school kids who want to go to 4-year institutions the most. Why recruit a HS kid when you can get a player who is two years more developed? It has been established in court that the NCAA cannot establish any sort of eligibility rules. Can the individual conferences band together and put forward some sort of eligibility guidelines and/or transfer portal restrictions that makes sense?

Why sign a high school QB when you can get QBs that are already proven at a higher level?

I predict massive failure. Tom Brady ain’t walking through those doors in Chapel Hill.

Rising is a damn good QB when healthy. One of the best in the country.

Thing is, if you are going to spend $1M on injury-prone CM, you definitely need to spend that much on someone else just as good too. Maybe he plays, maybe he doesn’t. Plenty of programs have the $ to do it. CM’s bio: Oklahoma, TCU, North Texas, Okie State… My grandpa is spinning in his grave over what college football has turned into.

At this point, if you CAN contribute to NIL and don’t, then why do you even still follow college football? Or atleast, why would you follow North Texas? I’ve invested almost 30 years loving this football program. I feel like I have some ownership in it. This is the current system. No one is going to name any buildings after me, but I give to NIL. It’s not much, but it has to help some. And I do that because I want to win. Maybe we’re just a poor music and teachers school and our opportunity to have a winning football team is over? Well, I refuse to believe that. I wish more of you would too. And NIL is part of the game right now. Will you help us play?

How is it going to be a write off to compensate someone for their name, image and likeness? Even if you move away from NIL and make their compensation straight salary, I don’t see how our government is going to allow paying college football players to be a write-off. With everything going on in the world, you are going to incentivize people with the tax-code to pay college football players millions of dollars? It’s not a good look.

His effort and toughness are admirable. Compared to his peers, he’s not all that talented. I’d bet all four guys above him on the depth chart would be more dangerous and productive if they had gotten the same carries as him. They got hurt, he did too, but he kept playing. Availability is the best ability. I’d like to see more talented guys above him on the depth chart for next season.

Yeah, I am not sure how much NIL money we have and was surprised someone said $500K. Seems high to me. Based on our inability to retain any player of consequence, I would guess it is much less than that. If I was Eric Morris, I would be funneling atleast half of my salary into the NIL collective. The stuff I read says he can do that. If he can, maybe he could win here and then make real money in the P4 and not have to do that anymore.

I don’t know how you can make NIL tax deductible. You are literally paying someone for their name, image and likeness. So every company that pays for a celebrity endorsement would get a tax deduction? That would not be right.

I’m not saying don’t spend $500K. I just wouldn’t spend it all on one injury-prone QB. I can’t imagine that our entire NIL budget is much more than $500K. I might spread that out a little more, especially for multiple potential playmakers on defense.

I would hope that Porter is back to being the fifth string running back next season.

I can’t think of many worse ways to spend finite resources.