GreenEggs&Ham™

Timing is everything in life. Eric Morris could not possibly have worse timing with his career meltdown today. He must be absolutely stunned about now. This loss does tremendous damage to the University.

Can someone please write a very thorough and informative ChatGPT prompt about the history of NT Football coaching hires and ask AI to give a psychological profile of the UNT administration. I think AI will mention, risk adverse, nepotism, favoritism, self-preservation, lack of accountability etc..

I was at the 1990 OU UNT game (40-2). OU was ranked but NT only gave up 40 points despite being 1-AA.

For the first time in UNT's history, there needs to finally be accountability. UNT athletics needs to cease being an easy paycheck for coaches, directors and administrators. Maybe it is a Denton culture thing, but accountability is just missing at the University.

I would grill Eric Morris relentlessly at the coaches show. Make him answer why he is so woefully unprepared. Did UNT even have practice this week?

Damn. NTs offense gives up a huge TD. Truely unbelievable. 3 plays...17 point swing. Wow!

Good grief. Middles School kick teams make 26-yard kicks. Historically NTs kick teams have been very strong. What the heck. Freshman snapper?

Interesting. I attended NTSU from 87~91. Graduated in 1991. But I don't remember meeting him on campus. NT has about 30,000 students by 1990 though, so a big place for sure.

Does anyone know what years Stone Cold attended NTSU?

Since I live over 700 miles from Denton, streaming is my only option. Varsity network has always been reliable but not this week unless you wanted to listen to SFA announcers. But I was able to find a new way to listen. Below worked flawlessly.

Always tough playing any of the Alabama schools on the road. Great win for UNT.

The 3rd largest University in the state of Texas is not even on the list. Really? At least place us dead last for accountability purposes alone even if Morris is a new head coach at NT. What is the corporate analogy for NT football? What large corporation consistently underperforms yet their top management remains?

Someone needs to make a movie that follows a “rag tag” college football team as they struggle to rebuild their football team after a massive NCAA scandal. With all their 3 star and above football players stripped away by P4s, a new coach, must assemble a team from a motley crew of non-athletic students and a farmer turned quarterback. Despite the odds, this underdog team must come together to face their powerhouse rivals, learning about teamwork and integrity along the way.

Tier 4: $9,987.52

But UK is one of the prestigious men's basketball programs. Calipari has been in hot water here in Kentucky for his lack of NCAA tournament success in the past few years and UK likely can't raise the $$ to buy out is big contract. This is a gift to UK fans for sure. Kentucky fans expect a lot more from the men's basketball program than probably any other program. Absolutely brutal place with no excuses.

I wanted to see Houton make it to the Final 4 again. Certainly, no shame in losing to Duke in the Sweet 16.

I attended the Louisville game that year. That game was played in their old stadium not the new show piece UL has now. Made sure I purchased tickets in the covered seating area which was a good thing since it rained most of that game. UNT actually led briefly in that game 7-0. North Texas still leads the series though.

I can understand him wanting to enroll at Texas St. TSU is a good school and San Marcos is a nice area as well as being near his parents. But why the hell would he even consider WKU. Most people that I know who moved from Texas to western KY (I live here) say almost the same exact comment to me. And that is, moving from Texas and living in KY was the most humbling experience of their lives. Why would you do that to yourself intentionally. San Marcos at half the NIL $ is a better choice. Of course, I think UNT is a better choice for him, but I am biased a bit on this.

Well Georgia didn't seem to think the bowl game was irrelevant and they didn't seem to have transfer portal problems or key guys skipping the bowl game. Maybe the real answer is that the ACC is not a power football conference anymore. A 60-point blowout loss is pretty hard to make excuses about. 60 points! And this blowout begs the question is it even necessary to have a playoff beyond the 8 top ranked teams from the power conferences? I hate as much as any of you, but the reality is that 6 or 8 football programs will likely dominate the National Titles from here on unless there are changes.

https://www.wbko.com/2023/11/27/wku-defensive-back-upton-stout-enters-transfer-portal/ Former UNT DB Upton Stout enters the portal from WKU. Upton became a star for the Hilltoppers.

His bio says he made honor roll several years.

Okay. Fair enough. So, GM only generates 150 times more revenue than TAMU yet pays their CEO only $29million/yr. And she has a hell of lot more to manage than the HC at TAMU. All the more reason to investigate these outsized coaching salaries. It will ruin college football if it hasn't already. Plenty of coaches sitting at home drawing huge severances too. There will only be about 6 or 7 schools that will win the national title every year from here on. TAMU & UT won't be one of those 6 or 7 schools anyway.

And how does a company that generates $213M/yr. (TAMU athletic revenue) pay out one person $76M and survive financially? Coaching salaries are completely out of control, and I suspect it isn't fair market pricing, but collusion within the NCAA that accounts for these outsized salaries. Hell, Mary Bara makes $29M/yr. but General Motors generates $156Billion (700 times more!) in revenue. And she is overpaid!

The worst rushing defense I have ever seen at the college level. Stone could have audibled the running plays as in "we are running Knighton up the middle" and this defense still couldn't have stopped SMU. SMU's size and athleticism were a notch or two better at every position on the defensive and offensive lines. SMU ran the ball and milked the clock in the 4th quarter which made the score seem closer. But I am still amazed the game was ever close and it was at the half. How can this defense be fixed? My gosh, we need 15 to 20 new players at least.

This is a good indication of a lack of accountability in the upper management of the University. There are also a lot of outsized salaries in College Football. Look at UT, which pays Sarkisian $5.2M/yr. But the entire UT athletic dept. only generated $239M last year. Do you really think a private company would pay such outsized salaries? They would go bankrupt. UT would not be a big company by the way at least not from a revenue standpoint. $millions/yr. is a big big salary folks and 85 football players and a dozen assistant coaches isn't that much to manage. Hell, a BestBuy multistore regional manager likely has more responsibility and generates more revenue than any head coach. So, put me in the "no excuses" camp. I think heads should roll much sooner than has been happening at NT.