MeanGreenZen

For those following how NIL is unfolding across college sports, the case to watch right now is House vs. NCAA. It is a class action lawsuit that could award up to $4B in judgments to former players that the NCAA denied NIL opportunities. If the NCAA loses, and it is projected to, then that would likely be a bullet through the head of the NCAA and cause it to collapse. That would give an opportunity for the Eurosoccer style “Super League” that the SEC and Big 10 schools want to form. At this point, for North Texas, it is probably best for the NCAA to just go ahead and collapse as the courts have removed any ability for the NCAA to enforce its rules. Without rules, it is anarchy and all of our good players in every sport get taken from us with no compensation. But under a different system there may be a way to compensate schools like North Texas for those players and help North Texas find new players to replace them.

We will have a team next season. We do have a coach with a strong track record of identifying, recruiting and developing players. This is a winning program now with good support, lots of great players will want to be a part of it. The transfer portal is going to take from us, just have to make sure that we get ours too.

And I am just counting days until all of the good ACC schools that SMU essentially paid to be in a conference with leave the Ponies behind again to join the Big 10 or SEC.

What is funny is that SMU has all the money and yet they STILL can’t win. 😂😂😂

My objection is with a Mean Green player leaving to represent another college. If they want to leave early for the NBA or overseas, then I don’t hold that against them. But if they are suiting up for another school then I hope they miss every shot they take and lose every rebound. *Unless they weren’t getting an opportunity to play here. Then I wish them well.

I renewed my season tickets the day before transfer portal hell broke loose. I would have renewed them anyway, but it was still a kick to the nuts.

You just get the best player available and build with a one-year plan. You can’t count on any of these kids to play for you beyond one season. I would be hard-pressed to find any school in the country that has been hit harder by transfer portal defections in football and men’s basketball this school year than North Texas.

Rewbean was never even a top 2 guard on any of the teams he played on at UNT. How are you going to make him a Hall of Famer?

Roobin’s all-time wins record shouldn’t count because he didn’t play in a bunch of those wins.

Everyone keeps using the job movement of coaches to justify that players can transfer now whenever they want. And it is a good point except for one HUGE factor. Coaches have contracts. And most of those contracts have buy-out clauses that compensate the school that the coach is leaving. So Grant McCasland can sign a new contract with us then bolt for Texas Tech but Tech has to pay us $1.5M (reduced to $750K because Wren Baker is a weak negotiator and included a deescalator in the contract if Wren was no longer employed at UNT). But the point is that YES coaches can leave, but the schools still get compensated a pre-negotiated amount for the value of the coach that the school is losing. With players who transfer, the school loses all value they have invested in that player. And they have invested a lot: identifying the player, recruiting the player, training, nutrition, coaching, marketing. The school also has to overcome the loss of goodwill that comes with alumni and season ticket holders who are angry that their favorite running back just transferred to South Carolina. I don’t know where all this is going to land. Unlimited player movement might be good for some individual players but it is not good for college sports as a whole. A game without rules is not fun. And eventually people will stop paying attention.

Caitlin Clark is in a bunch of State Farm commercials. That is pretty legit. In other news, State Farm lost $30 billion dollars the last two years, just had their A.M. Best rating downgraded to “B” and had their financial outlook changed to “Weak”. They are in a huge mess and are about to raise rates dramatically, reduce coverages and pull out of certain markets.

Then their scholarships should get taxed. Let’s see how much they like paying taxes on that SMU education vs. taxes on a UNT education.

What we have right now is a game without rules. Games without rules are not fun. All of this player movement is bad for the game. College sports need fans. It is hard for fans to get emotionally invested in these teams when your favorite player ditches your favorite team to go play for someone else over and over again. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out: whether the NCAA can get an anti-trust exemption and put things back similar to how they were before or if the student-athletes get made employees who bargain collectively. And how is all of this going to impact the non-revenue sports? What a mess.

It is pretty concerning to me that the other top programs in the AAC: Memphis, FAU, UAB have demonstrated an ability to retain their elite players. Meanwhile we have lost our leading scorer to the portal two years in a row.

This is the GoMeanGreen forum. Go Mean Green! If they aren’t Mean Green any more, screw ‘em.

Pretty incredible that UAB is keeping him. Guy could go anywhere and get paid $$$. The good teams in the AAC are keeping their best players. Except us last year. Maybe this year will be different for us?

One thing Ross can do is recruit. He essentially recruited our entire team last year. Rubin and Scott to stay and Edwards, CJ, Allen, Buggs and Walker to come. We might have a ton of roster turnover, but Ross knows how to stock the shelves.

Sad that the season has to end with such a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Hope it doesn’t impact transfer portal too much. Also, Edwards’ size was really exposed in this game. SEC and Big 12 teams looking to poach him might want to consider how effective he will be against longer defenders.

Seton Hall is just better than us. They really got screwed by the NCAA.

Can someone move this post to the Kansas State message board? We still have a game to play tomorrow.

Don’t know how clutch K-State fans would say Tylor is. I know he had some moments, but do they feel like they got their moneys worth?

1. Abou must have had a bad attitude or been disruptive in some way to get kicked off the team with his size, athleticism and skill set. Keeping him around might have tilted the chemistry in a way that could have lost us the NIT last year or tanked this season for us. You have to throw out the bad apples. So losing him may have been a blessing. 2. Tylor Perry was good. Jason Edwards provided everything that Tylor did. Sub Tylor for Edwards and our record is basically the same this season.

Then why was he allowed to come to the postseason celebrations?

So no chance for any postseason tournament? Aren’t there a bunch of small, weird ones? Is there anything stopping us from signing a sponsor, inviting a few schools and starting our own?

We need to play. Ross needs more big game head coaching experience.