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It's kind of the same idiocy that scheduling FCS teams besides the two who would bring fans to our games in SFA and SHSU. Instead, we schedule Rhode Island and Portland State...

Don't go crazy...nothing will ever be as dumb as that 1-AA fiasco. It killed generations of previous fans and potential fans during those years. We've never recovered from it... of course, scheduling Liberty for home and home is not really helping us, either...

Either way, the point still remains...scheduling is the worst thing we do--and its not even close.

OOC games in the last 10 years of decrepit, toilet bowl Fouts, while we were in the Sun Belt: (bolded teams are power teams when we played them, green teams were FCS and not provisional teams moving up) 2001--TCU 2002--Nicholls State and South Florida 2003--Baylor 2004--Florida Atlantic 2005--Tulsa 2006--SMU and La Tech 2007--Navy 2008--Tulsa 2009--Ohio and Army 2010--Rice and Kansas State OOC games held at Apogee or will be held at Apogee since its opening in 2011 2011--Houston and Indiana 2012--Texas Southern 2013-- Idaho and Ball State 2014--SMU and Nicholls State 2015--Portland State 2016--SMU and Bethune-Cookman 2017-Lamar and Army 2018--SMU and Incarnate Word 2019--Abilene Christian and Army 2020--SMU and Houston Baptist 2021--Rhode Island and Liberty 2022--SMU 2023--Memphis 2024--SMU 2027--Texas Tech I have to go out to 2027 to HOPE we play as many power league teams in Denton at Apogee as we did for the last 10 years of the worst stadium in America hosted. Meanwhile, in the same time frame, we will have played 9 FCS teams at Apogee between 2011 and 2021, when we played exactly one in Nicholls State, while playing at Fouts as a member of the Suck Belt. Scheduling is the worst thing we do here as a program--and that is really saying something when you factor in the other huge issues we deal with or don't deal with as a program.

Not to mention that the older population in Denton that actually read this paper aren't exactly known for being real supportive of UNT Sports...I know, I used to work there. Back in the 90s, when we moved up to I-A, it was a regular occurrence to have citizens write letters to the editors complaining about the amount of money being spent on something that few in town cared about. And, although not as common, we had the walk-ins that hated the editorials/coverage on UNT football becoming bigger than it had been, so they came and complained loudly in person. Those people are older or are dead, but that mindset for the citizenry is still there in Denton. The DRC--and by extension, BV--are just putting out there what the subscribers want to read. Actually, all papers are pretty much that way now.

Texas Tech can play a punching bag or three during OOC play because they get millions in Big XII revenues and host Ut, Ou, OSU, BU, TCU, and others every other year that their fans care about and will go to Lubbock and watch. We don't have anything like that with CUSA, so OOC play is vital to create fan interest. Liberty doesn't do that...

What's worse than playing Baylor--scheduling the teams Baylor pathetically schedules for OOC games. Of course, Baylor gets millions of dollars from being a power league team and gets big name conference opponents to play in Waco...We don't.

Yes, since its in Hattiesburg...

I see us at 6-6 as well. Sure wins over Lamar and UAB (2-0) Sure loss at Iowa (0-1) probable or possible wins--UTSA, Utep, Rice, FAU, ODU, Army (4-2) probable losses--SMU, La tech, and USM (0-3)

It appears it replaces the army games...

I just figured if we wanted to take some games away from playing Army, it would be to play a team higher up the food chain in a home and home series. Because Army brings fans and our fans will show up for those games, I assumed we would want to replace them with somebody who would provide us with fans coming to the game and help with recruiting. Then we scheduled a home and home with Jerry Falwell U in Virginia.

Some of those core boosters were 100% behind Benford being here as our head coach, many because RV led them to believe it. Again, if we fired Benford at anytime before his last debacle of a season, when his players obviously quit on him and focused on "other" stuff, this probably doesn't even happen. It needs to be a really good learning experience for Smatresk, Baker, and anyone else in administration or that is a big booster to the program. Value winning, not cost...

Can it brainwash us into scheduling better? Because maybe that's the ONLY thing this trip will be good for...

This. Try talking an alum or a college football fan into going to this game. You'll have to do some heavy convincing unless the fan has nothing else to do on a Saturday. Again, if I'm a student or parent of a student who is paying for Apogee, I'm looking at the fact that this stadium, which was sold to the community as a way to bring in bigger and better OOC teams, has hosted UH, Indiana, Texas Southern, Idaho, Ball state, SMU, Nicholls State, Portland state, and Bethune-Cookman, with SMU, Army, Lamar, Abilene Christian, Incarnate Word and Liberty as other teams to visit here in the next five years. All of those teams were Fouts level visitors--hell, the last game at Fouts against K-State was better than ALL of these names. This remains the worst thing our AD does.

What a joke...worst possible team we could schedule a series with. A brand new FBS startup, not in our region, nowhere we recruit, against a team nobody has heard of or cares about, and wont get one mention from the DFW media beyond the final score. Sorry, but Texas State makes a shit ton more sense, as do NMSU, Arky state, ULL, or ULM than f'ing Liberty. I take it back on the media thing. Because Bob Sturm went to Liberty and he will talk shit incessantly on the number one rated station in DFW if Liberty wins. So I guess it can filed under all media coverage is supposedly good... Sorry, but this is freaking embarrassing and awful at the same time.

Probably not when it comes to sports... But when it comes to music and arts, we are top notch... Nothing wrong with that, but its just the exact opposite of how every other FBS university in the region markets their school.

Whatever the cost of the legal representation, subtract that from the buyout we wouldn't pay and that makes the idea of bringing Benford back to colossally lose and attract about 1500 fans per game at the Super Pit and its 10k seats even more ridiculous. I hope Smatresk and Baker use this as a learning experience. When a coach shows you he/she cannot get the job done, you fire them. The cost of termination is less than the colossal cost of losing and not getting any revenue from fans coming to games, as well as having kids on the team that aren't stupid and can see when a coach is a lame duck, knowing that they can get away with stuff that they normally can't do with a real coach.

From this morning, maybe the AAC is trying to reinforce their standing amongst college football media that they belong at the top level of college football. I've been saying this for a while now about this upcoming schism. CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd was recently on XM this morning with some interesting thoughts upon conference realignment. He believes that there will be a divisional split where the current P5, AAC, and MW conferences all form the new division one (everyone else gets regulated down and forms their own mid major playoff).

Somebody's safe space has been violated...

The AAC is not better than the Big East in hoops...and their best basketball powerhouse, UCONN, is strongly rumored to be looking at joining the Big East soon, just to help their mens/womens programs play better teams in conference play.

The AAC's view of itself is perfect for its members in Dallas, TX...both parties are very delusional.

This is a great example of why Benford was a solid hire at LSU as a recruiting assistant. He knows people and can get recruits to fall for his sales pitch. Then, with solid head coaches, those kids can flourish in that system.

2014 still astonishes me on just how little the fans cared about the previous season.we win 9 games, under a coach who was super positive, and had SMU a home to pitch to season ticket holders...and we managed to see season tickets drop. We got RV'd so hard after that HoD Bowl victory...McCarney became Dickster 2.0 towards the end of the season because his recruiting sucked ass and couldn't figure out why Texas HS kids running the spread didn't want to play in a leather helmet offense. So thankful that those two are long gone.

I think most G5 bowls and some p5 bowls would be well served by using smaller venues, especially games between teams that aren't located near the locale of the bowl.

We've had strong enrollment demand without spending much on athletics. However, that doesn't help the endowment, as we've seen by the almost community college connection that the majority of alumni have felt about UNT. Maybe that changes in the next 25 years, but the mistakes we have made in the past really cost us way more in opportunity lost.