MeanGreenZen

Before y’all go and spend all the money on Boss Hodge, please remember that we have to start paying players directly starting this summer too. Where is all this money gonna come from?

I would guess that we wouldn’t open #12 back up without the blessing of Andrew Smith’s family.

It shouldn’t be a “once a year” thing with the Greeks. Those students are looking for a reason to socialize and party and there is a built-in opportunity about 15 times a year via men’s basketball games. It should be a part of the Greek culture just like it is at Baylor and Texas Tech and all the other school’s with athletic support that we aspire to. We have the basketball team and the Greek numbers to pull it off too. I saw Sig Ep there. Who will be there Sunday?

Big props to Sigma Phi Epsilon for having a bunch of members attend the Temple game, being loud and waving their flag. The blue hair women’s studies majors who go to our school will never be college basketball fans. But the red-blooded Americans who are in our Greek system know how to act at a college basketball game. And our AD really has to do a better job connecting with them. Thank you Sig Ep! Hope to see you guys at every game. And invite your friends in other fraternities and sororities. The culture must start with someone. Why not you? Why not now?

Crowd was actually pretty good last night.

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?

Porter played hard and he played hurt. And when our scheme and offensive line opened huge holes, he ran through them really fast. Porter played running back like a walk-on wide receiver. As far as elusiveness and power, he was lacking. Lol to UTEP for giving him a scholarship, but I hope he does well there. And I expect that just like last year, we will have plenty of guys on our roster way better than him to start the season.

This is ridiculous. Chandler Rogers had two carries for Southern Miss in 2019, spent two seasons at ULM, one year at North Texas then a year at Cal. How is he still eligible? This is taking away opportunities from other deserving players. If the NCAA loses every lawsuit, why doesn’t some overlooked high school recruit sue over the NCAA’s failure to enforce eligibility rules? Let’s clear out these guys who are sticking around college football forever. Chandler Rogers has had his college career. Move on and give a real college student an opportunity.

No one should feel sorry for Miami about NIL. In fact, no one should feel sorry for Miami pre-NIL. Besides SMU and Alabama, no school probably cheated more than Miami.

We’ve had an all-conference level QB both seasons Eric Morris has been here.

So we’re getting good at recruiting high school players when it is no longer smart to recruit high school players? And the high school players who are staying are the ones who aren’t really that successful?