MeanGreenZen

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The early returns on Mestemaker indicate Morris might be able to ID quarterbacks. Maybe the most unlikely QB to start a bowl game in college football.

I wouldn’t get too attached to him. He might be happy to take the reps at your school for his freshman season, but as soon as he works his kinks out he will be off to one of the only two football conferences that matter anymore. And neither are the Big 12.

SMU has mountains more money than North Texas, is in a better conference and congrats on making the college football playoff. BUT WE HAVE A BETTER BASKETBALL PROGRAM THAN YOU so get out of here with that nonsense.

Floyd was likely the best defensive guard in the American last season. He was our best ball handler and had more assists than any player at UNT in the last five seasons (impressive when you look at our run of guards). Floyd can attack the basket to score in the paint. He’s also an average-ish 3 pt shooter. His only real weakness is a lack of a mid-range game, but that really isn’t important in basketball anymore. Most importantly, Floyd is a winner. In his college career, he has won a JUCO national title, made it to the CBI title game and the NIT semifinals. Some day the college basketball system might change and we will be able to retain a player like this. That day is not today. He’s probably making 10x what we can pay him at WV. I can’t even be mad at that.

He will start there and be very good for them.

Given the resources we have, the hire was fine. The next bad basketball coach Jared Mosley hires will be the first bad basketball coach he has hired. He gets the benefit of the doubt on that from me until he funks it up. Now the next time the Super Pit is not available for postseason basketball I am going to climb up to the top of that green lit tower and jump off it headfirst.

UNT and the rest of the G5 have been losing players abruptly due to greater NIL $$$ demands for years. It happens once to an SEC team and it becomes the biggest story in sports. Lol.

Donor fatigue is real and it exists even in the P4. Can you imagine digging deep into your pocket for some real money, landing a targeted player and then the player sucks or the team sucks? Or what if the big money guy you spent for gets beat out by some two-star? Does the coach feel pressure to play the guy your big money booster paid for?

We aren’t already?

Robin Jones is an all-time great here. I get that every team needs a 9th and 10th man, but our team also needs an alpha and a No. 2 scoring option a No. 3. I see maybe one of those guys on the current roster.

This is happening everywhere now. Baylor’s point guard signed a new $1M deal with their collective one week then signed a $2M deal with BYU the next week. The House settlement won’t fix it either. That is just going to create a new mess.

Instead of backups from Cleveland State, I was hoping this dude would be pulling in the best guys he faced in the Horizon League last season. A la Dusty May taking Ruwbean Jones to Michigan.

Good point, I wouldn’t give to NIL if my $ was being redistributed to athletes at other schools. Don’t know if it is part of this proposal, but would be hard for a program to agree to share concession sales, ticket sales and local advertising sales with other schools. Some sort of model that shared 50% of national broadcast rights with athletes could work. I also have a hard time with the morality of using student fees to pay a small forward. And any model that doesn’t use student fees to pay a small forward will leave UNT behind.

Florida just won the national championship with a backcourt of Walter Clayton, a SENIOR at his second college and probably the best point guard in the country and Alijah Martin, who is almost 24 years old and already made a Final Four run at FAU. We need to bring in a guard who can score 15 a night with 6-8 assists. Who is more likely to do that… A 22-year old who averaged 15 & 6 in a similar college conference last season? Or some high school kid who has barely played against anyone on the other side of puberty?

Late. We gotta wait for all the guys who don’t get what they thought they were gonna get in the transfer portal to come to terms with that and be willing to take what we can offer. There will be value available.

True story: the judge in the House case thought every time they were referencing the SEC they were talking about the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Experienced guards win in college basketball. Would rather replace Floyd and Wright with two dudes like Floyd and Wright: older, more developed players who have won and been productive at the college level already. It is a formula that works here.

Ugh, no high school kids.

Something like this is really the only shot we have to be competitive. P4 political power will probably never allow this happen. http://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases/baumgartner-introduces-restore-college-sports-act-bring-sanity-and-fairness

Wow! That message board is claiming that Jason Edwards got $1.5M from Providence! Our finances aren’t even in the same universe as those guys.

Dusty May still landing the best players in the American Conference! Would love to see Dr. Ob grabbing the best guys he played against last season. A Mean Green Horizon League All Star team could dominate the American next season.

So $1.2M in for Ross and $500K out for Dr. Ob? So we just made $700K? How many fajitas will that buy?

Vito now reporting that Lorient is not officially in the portal. My guess is Dr. Ob is withholding his paperwork until he atleast has a chance to make his pitch to stay. Unless his pitch includes $200K, Lorient will eventually be gone.

Hurt my feelings when he left us. But how must Vanderbilt feel? Dude was a beloved, featured scorer on an academically prestigious SEC school that made the NCAA tournament. And he leaves that for Providence?