MeanGreenZen

I don’t think he will be above Stone Earle or Reece Mooney on the depth chart.

We complain when the athletic department doesn’t have enough money to operate competitively then we complain when the athletic department attempts to maximize revenue to have more money to operate more competitively.

It used to be fun to follow the player acquisition process. I’d pay attention to who we were offering. If a DFW kid committed to North Texas, I’d jump in the car on a Friday night and watch his high school game. I’d scour his Rivals.com highlights too and follow his senior season in the papers. The player was going to be a Mean Green Eagle. Just like me. Maybe he’d have some of the same professors I did and hang out at the same places I used to? I’d invest in learning about him and would follow his career and development for four years. I’d show up to the Spring game to see who looked good. The transfer portal ruined all that for me. It is just too much to track and the payoff isn’t enough. Plus, most of the player movement news at North Texas is that my favorite player is leaving. I’m still a season ticket holder. I give to NIL and MGSF. I’ll show up with my family to every game we can. But I don’t know who these guys are who play for my school now. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football is at the printer and these guys are still coming and going. It is pointless to follow all this movement. Wake me up when the season starts and tell me who our guys are.

Yikes. I guess that is proof that UTSA doesn’t have a good NIL. Their players have to rob people.

Ask Iowa if women’s basketball can move the needle. Or LSU. Or Baylor.

Mosley is smart to not state how much money our collective has. You can’t give away that power in a negotiation. If Mosley said we had X dollars for NIL then any player we are targeting would know how much to ask for. And that player would probably ask for all of it. Or an established player would feel like he isn’t getting enough. And we can’t let our competition know how much we have, because that would make it even easier to target our players and our recruits. Mosley has a hard f-ing job right now. North Texas is in a very bad spot in the current college athletics landscape. But overall, the first year under Mosley was a success. He made a home run hire in women’s basketball and we WON the conference. Men’s basketball was competitive in the conference and won some postseason games with a new coach despite a really bad run of injuries. Football was underwhelming, but there is hope for the future. Mosley needs to be judged by the results on the field. And so far, those results have been pretty good.

Maybe by then, Stone Earle will come back?

Have you seen the numbers that Chandler Morris puts up against great competition when he is healthy?!! Obviously he will be the starter here and if he can stay healthy then even Chandler Rogers will forget who Chandler Rogers was. But even behind Chandler Morris, UNT was still a great opportunity for Stone Earle. Certainly, there would be certain zone read packages that would not be worth risking the health of Morris, that Earle could run. He would have gotten some snaps with us this season no matter what. But he’s not going to be handed the starting job at ACU as they have some real guys there too. The problem is that if Morris gets hurt, Earle would not have been the replacement. He fell behind Cash McCollum and was No. 3 on a 3 man depth chart at UNT.

I don’t have a problem with them selling the naming rights to the conference. It is a good idea. You don’t need private equity for that and it is no different than billboards in the stadium, selling ads in the program or stadium naming rights. But I really don’t like the idea of some outside investor monetizing me for loving my school. F those guys. What do they get a cut of? I’m certainly not donating to the school if 15% of my donation goes to some private equity a-hole. And what else can the athletic program charge me for? I already pay for tickets, parking, concessions, merchandise and NIL. Private equity is a short-term band aid and long-term problem. You can’t get in bed with them.

This is not good for fans at all.

The state of this conference from the transfer portal is just sad. I hope Damon Ward Jr. has a huge year, but 2nd-team All Conference with 39 receptions for 497 yards and five touchdowns? Ikaika Ragsdale had 9 carries for 34 yards last year and is coming off a major knee injury. That’s 3rd-team All Conference? I follow this team pretty closely and I have never heard of Isheem Young before. Sounds familiar but can’t recall anything about him. He’s 3rd-team All Conference too. UNT is going to have to wait until the morning of the game to send that roster program to the printer.

I was on the Stone Earle bandwagon last year. He had his chance. He just wasn’t very good. I wish him the best. We can still find a serviceable 3rd string QB from the bottom of the grad transfer portal.

I also give to the collectives and would like my money back from every athlete that transferred. I know it doesn’t work that way though. After losing ALMOST all of our good players from the football team AND basketball team to the transfer portal, I do question why I continue to give to the collectives. The answer, I guess, is that maybe it helps us attract new players to replace the good players that we used to have who left us through the portal. That is the only reason I am still giving. Anyone have any other reasons to help justify it?

Was he run out of town? I mean it is pretty curious that he’s gone to a new school every year. Maybe no one can stand him for long? He was a pretty useable piece for us who was put in a position to do the things he does well. I enjoyed rooting for him. I don’t like it, but I get it if he gets a $$$ P4 offer and takes it. But why would a player like that go from North Texas to East Tennessee (really?) unless he was forced out?

What is East Tennessee?

And you will still play in a stadium that is 3/5 empty. The good ACC schools can’t get out of that conference and away from you fast enough.

Football, Men’s basketball, Women’s basketball, Women’s soccer, Softball, Women’s tennis and whatever other women’s sports you have to have to make Title IX work.

I am reading a book that touches on the history of football. In the early 20th century, college football was WAY bigger than professional football and society considered it gross and off-putting that anyone would play a sport for money. There was only honor in playing a sport for the love of the game. Obviously, nowadays everything is about ME ME ME and “How much can I get?”. But everything old is new again and I could see society swinging back around to the glorification of the amateur athlete.

This guy wasn’t very productive in high school, junior college or the two D1’s he’s been at previously. Pretty sad if this is the level of recruit we can get in football now. Yikes.

JJ went to Eastfield. This dude goes to Northlake. They are in the same conference. Very low level basketball. D3 Juco.

Probably good for the program to be associated with high level QB training. I’m not going to tattletale on them.

I bet Dusty May steered this guy to Ross, who probably steered Rubin to Michigan once it became apparent he wasn’t coming back. Ross and May have a good relationship so I bet this guy can play.

I remember that! I still say “Scrap ‘Em”. I thought it has always been a thing.

The NCAA doesn’t have balls, but it was the court system that cut them off. If the NCAA had its way, there would be no NIL and players could transfer once if they were willing to sit out a year. Pretty good system.

The guy just lost every good player on his team to schools who gave his players more money. Anybody reading this article already understands the reality of what he is stating. The sooner a new G5 system can be implemented, the better.