UNTcrazy727

Yeah, traditionally it's the last 2 weeks of September. For example, Addison is having their Oktoberfest Sept 14-17 this year. You'll see celebrations bleed into October, but October 14th is really late.

Homecoming is the game that has the most casuals fans. You don't want to schedule a game you a likely to lose. You want to send those casuals home with a winning experiencing. They won't really care who the game is against. This is what literally EVERY program does. It has nothing to do with thinking small. It's just smart marketing.

You don’t schedule Homecoming against good teams. And Homecoming is going to have a good crowd regardless.

100%

I included the preview they put out for our collection in the thread I started.

Still very odd we decided to make Memphis Homecoming instead of Temple.

We're finally getting a Homefield Apparel collection! This is amazing news for any North Texas fans who have long wanted quality throwback gear. Here's a preview...expect around 8 items at launch.

There’s nothing the AD can do about it. You think Texas wants to play Rice at 2:30 PM on Sept 2nd? No one is immune. Sure it sucks, but it’s a small price to pay for moving up to a conference with an actual TV contract.

Take it up with ESPN and the AAC.

...Except its actually smart.

Tell that to UTSA fans. They think he's over critical of UTSA. People just love to hate writers because they don't constantly pump up their favorite team. He just predicted us to go 7-5 next year. That's way more optimistic than a lot of people here think.

So doesn't it make sense to have the Maroon Out game vs them? Now the whole stadium will actually be maroon.

La Tech, FIU, ACU, Temple, Navy, Tulsa, UAB, No reason we shouldn't win at least 4 of these games. With our easy OOC schedule, anything less than 5 wins would be very disappointing. I'm expecting 6-6 or 7-5.

Cal's QB was sooo bad. If he was halfway decent they would have beat us by multiple scores.

What's your point? He was a solid QB until injuries wrecked his throwing arm. Even then, Dodge wasn't as good as Rogers was at ULM.

I think a lot of people are assuming Ruder has turned a corner just based on him looking good in a few controlled scrimmages. Let's remember, he looked great in fall camp of 2021 and won the starting job. But once the bright lights came on he played like crap. Compare that to Rogers, who has a lot of solid game tape, while playing on a really bad team. IMO, their prior on-field performance plays a bigger role in who starts next year than most realize. Unless he completely shit the bed, I don't think Rogers was ever going to lose the job. Though it does make me feel a lot better that he came out and all but ended the competition on Saturday.

Tuesday at 5 PM? It’s like they don’t want a big crowd.

Yes it does because the clock stops in the last 2 minutes. And even if it didn’t the drive still would have happened. We got out of bounds on both first downs. Nothing would have been different. And if you think games dragging past 3:30 hours is great then we’re going to have to agree to disagree.

Why? There's no reason to stop the clock outside the last few minutes of each half. All it does is make the game longer.

I think we can all agree the SOW needs to stick around as our primary logo. That said, we need something else to compliment it within our branding. We can't keep slapping the SOW on different things and calling it a different logo (I.E. TX outline, UNT script, North Texas script, etc.). As someone who loves the interlocking NT, here are some schools who use interlocking letters as a secondary logo. It can be done! Oregon State: Florida State: Texas State: Arizona State: South Carolina:

I don't think doubling down on a trend (TX Outline) is a way to build a better brand that stands out. It's an overused look that dozens and dozens of Texas high school and colleges use. I don't mind it as an alternative logo for merch, but we're leaning too hard on it, IMO.

That’s how you do a custom hat! I’ve learned that’s what you have to do to get a nice hat since all that’s available to purchase are dad hats. Here’s what I ordered last year…

Don’t think I’ve ever seen this one before

Agreed. The UNT script should only be used for academic purposes. When people see the "logo" below they think of the university/academics, not athletics. I hate the push that's been happening the last 3-4 years to brand athletics under "UNT". I fear part of the strategic plan will be to officially drop "North Texas" from our branding and adopt "UNT".

And Ross Hodge's daughter was repping it at his introductory press conference. There are obviously people in the athletic department that want to use it. I just want them to figure out whatever legal issues there might be with the the alumni association so they can start selling it to fans.