untjim1995

UNC is the crown jewel of the next round of realignment--they are the jackpot for whoever gets them. Only Notre Dame gives you more than UNC. They are a basketball blue blood, a football program that is well-known and regarded, they are one of the top public schools in academics in the country, and they are the premier program in a very large state. Clemson and FSU are valuable, too, but nobody has the true combo of value that UNC provides. UNC has enough coattails to even bring along Duke and/or NC State with them wherever they go.

It is what it is. Nothing ever changes, win or lose. The administration/AD knows they have all those student fees and that's enough for them. On the rare occasion where we have a bigger crowd, everyone freaks out and usually end up losing. The attendance issues are varied, but across the board, I do think that the NIL/Portal crap is wearing down on the people who used to love the sport and now see how its tearing the sport apart. Superconferences don't help, either. Folks know that the SEC, B1G, Big 12, ACC, and Big East will always get the preferential treatment and that schools like ours are basically playing for NIT berths unless we win our conference. People get tired of that...not just here, either. This team deserves so much more than they've gotten from the entire university for how much success they've had this season. But the players and coaches know their payoff is coming in the future--somewhere else up the foodchain.

It won’t surprise me one bit if Wichita State is this year’s version of UAB from last season, winning the conference tournament. They are athletic and have started playing much better in these last few weeks.

Too soon

All we are saying is that it must be nice to have that support, that money, those opponents, etc… Tech got into the club in the 90s. They made it. Long before their SWC leftovers. And Rice now feels what it’s like to be UNT and UTEP, programs left out by the other state schools. It is what it is.

More likely, the administration hires people like Mosley precisely because he's cheap AND he isn't from here, so he's not going to cause any problems for them. RV was here for 16 freaking years, all because he agreed to do two things: stay within the budget and never complain about it...then he insulated himself further by fleecing 17 people into feeling like they were big wigs, which bought him at least 5 years. Wren was fine here, probably the best we've ever had, but he knew that the greener pastures were not in Denton, they were up the foodchain. And that he wasn't from here didn't exactly cause any problems for the UNT administration.

If we extend him, just make sure he can be bought out in a few years if things turn the other way. That’s my answer. If you can’t/wont buy him out if needed, then don’t extend him.

Lubbock sucks, but their people love sports and supporting Tech. Denton does nothing like that and never will.

Wow—sorry…I thought USF was in the Dance. I knew FAU did, but forgot UAB won it all.

Actually, it was USF and FAU. It's just the typical UNT luck to finally be in a league that traditionally has been able to send multiple schools to the Dance, then have a very good team, but see only Memphis have a squad that is worthy of the Dance and nobody else, so we get left out, unless we win the conference tournament. I'd love to think we could pack Dickies Arena and create a big home court advantage, since nobody else in the conference is located within 4 hours of that building, while we have hundreds of thousands of students, alumni, faculty, etc...within an hour of that building. But if we do show up big, that just seems to scare the $hit out of teams, so we fall apart and lose, so maybe it's better to just let the apathy help our guys to feel less pressure.

We would be smart to get Memphis, UTSA, Texas State, and Wichita State to join us and go to the PAC. It would be great for that league, too. If you had Gonzaga, USF, St. Mary's and Wichita State for hoops, plus us, TX State, UTSA, Memphis, SDSU, Colorado State, Fresno State, Boise State, Oregon State, and Washington State, you get 8 conference games in football, you get 12 conference opponents for hoops. It would blow away playing FAU, Temple, Charlotte, etc...

The good: We keep meeting the moment, for the most part, and grinded out yet another win. The bad: offense is just prone to dreadful moments, and with zero quad 1 wins, it just makes the pressure in FW amp up, just like it was in Frisco in CUSA. This league has forever been a league to get 2 or more teams in the NCAA Tournament. Forever. And now we finally get in and have a good season and it’s like we are in the Southland, Sun Belt, or CUSA all over again. I guess this should be the motivation to see a huge MG contingent in FW to get us over the hump…surely, we can fill that place up for our guys with a berth on the line for a Big Dance ticket?

I think that CBB and CFB are just starting to feel the effects of the portal/NIL and the way fans are feeling left out, especially at non-power schools that get raided like we are a high school or juco. It’s going to get MUCH worse before it gets better. The CFB playoff popularity will mask the real problems that lower power schools and G5s are showing with lower attendance and declining ratings for non-SEC/B1G/Notre Dame games. But the networks and the power school blue bloods won’t care as long as they get eyeballs for their big games. It’ll take the universities and conferences to basically call an end to this mess before anything changes.

So there are two points to consider about a new arena: 1.) how is it gonna get paid for? Always the same question at UNT regarding athletics. 2.) would cutting down on the size of a new arena to basically half of the Super Pit affect graduation ceremonies for a school with a giant enrollment that gets more people to Denton for these ceremonies than basketball games? It’s Texas and we aren’t going to have college graduations outdoors. Finally, your student experience perfectly sums up our apathy. We had 30 students show up to see a team with a top 10 recruit and a new coach at home. Granted, Bumford was an RV hire, so he was almost assuredly gonna suck, but the point stands that in our first home game, with a team that had gone to the NCAA Tournament the year before and we had the excitement of a new coach and a giant recruit, you joined 39 fellow students at the game.

It kills me that we lost a home game in hoops to those birds. I’ve ceded football to them—they clearly have advantages in corporate and civic support that we don’t, but hoops better not fall behind them ever. They play in a something that many 5A high schools would find bland…