untjim1995

What a great year for us…SMU goes to the playoff in their first year as an ACC member, UTSA clobbers Coastal Carolina in a bowl game on their home turf in SC, and we go 6-6 and get to play Texas State in a bowl game, which we will most likely lose. #cursed

Vito writes for a paper in a town that is almost completely apathetic to the program, with a sizable portion that absolutely loathes our athletic teams’ existence. Nobody with a brain should ever be surprised that Vito isn’t a UNT homer—he writes to cater to the 100 people that read the newspaper still.

When we and Boise moved up to 1-A, I believe there were like 92 FBS programs. Now, there are 134 and more to come. I don’t blame the power leagues from looking down at the programs that can’t match their support. It’s like comparing the MLB teams to minor leaguers.

Tell us who else had a payroll to meet that was hidden by the Governor of Texas? After having been on probation several times before this...

The UT Athletic Department will just get treated as a corporation, saying funds received to it are voluntary, even if tax-deductible. And no politician will touch this, knowing how quickly they'd get hammered for hurting State U's football team and its funding.

You know, the playoff system to create a champion is better, but I still loved the way CFB was when conferences were regional, they had their champion tied into a specific bowl game, there weren't so many spare bowls featuring matchups that nobody cares about between 6-6 teams, and each season, the end of the year was talking about who had the better resume if this team loses or wins in their bowl game. I grew up loving the SWC and the Big Eight. Each year, the goal was to make it to Dallas or Miami and see where the chips fell. You were neighbors and friends with grads of those schools. I'm sure it was the same in the old version of the SEC and the ACC. It was just a fun time--and if things went great, the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, or the Rose Bowl would be for a national title. But if not, you watched them all because the games mattered in the big scheme of it all and they were on all day and night on New Years Day, along with the Fiesta Bowl, and then, later, the Citrus Bowl for the ACC Champ. Its a bygone era, no doubt, but the games had great coaches all over the country and players we got to know over the years. Yes, there was plenty of cheating, and yes, the big boys controlled the game, but it was more fun. Whatever it is we have today, I feel sorry for people who think CFB today is more enjoyable to follow and support. They probably think we are olds that have Good Ol Day Syndrome and that is fine. I can't really refute any of that. But it was a sport I and many of my age (50s now) loved and followed intensely. Today, we are dropping out very quickly, as we see the farce the portal and NIL are making of this great sport. Very sad...

If the owners of this stie didn't need the visits/posts from you, you'd be gone...which is extremely pathetic on many, many levels.

Imagine being in a power conference and having a fan troll the website of a G5 that you don’t play and go to the website and troll all day…what an existence. Shoot me if I’m ever close to being that pathetic.

The really, really stupid people are the fans who pay for a high priced coach at a school that gets poached by p4s as soon as anyone, coach or player, shows a hint of ability.

Now it’s here to stay…it’s the future and only $$$ will let you into the club. Until the really powerful teams split off.

The reality is that money talks. They have it. We don’t. Our advantage is in enrollment and alumni, but they just don’t care about our teams, much less the university. We can’t compete with the money or the prestige of those power programs.

All 750 people at the stadium on gamedays will appreciate that

When this news came out, that Marshall couldn’t play in the game, I figured one of two things would happen: 1.) La Tech would get in the game for attendance purposes. or 2.) The I-Bowl would go ask the closest SEC school with a losing record to come play, like Mississippi State, just to get a bigger chance at an attendance boost.

Hopefully, we can pillage Sam’s defense and bring a lot of them here.

I mean, they’ve had decades to back us and never have, so I think those CoC voices, old and new, are more correct…