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What a huge get for that league…if they add St. Mary’s, too, they will be a great hoops league.

That was also known as Dickey Ball

The thing with SMU is that they also get this weird kind of sympathy from the CFB media for the Death Penalty. Even though it was well earned and well deserved, the media, both local and national act like it was just terrible. It’s like people thinking Bonnie and Clyde were some kind of heroes for robbing banks.

On Tuesdays during the CFB season, the Ticket covers the big games of interest. At the very, very end of the segment on the morning show, if UNT is mentioned, which is about 50%, it’s George givng his opinion in about 10 seconds, which is 10 more than the afternoon show gives us. Again, the entire program exists in the giant shadow of power schools and we can barely get a mention. We lost the one game that matters to these people so I guess that does it for UNT football coverage for the entire year.

The local DFW media is just all in for both SMU and TCU to do well. I think it’s actually because so many are alums here of UNT, but it embarrasses them. The other day, for example, on the Ticket, with both George Dunham and Craig Miller listening to their guest, Brian Jones, the CBS Sports college guy they have on weekly, Jones called us North Texas State, as in Texas Tech murdered North Texas State. Neither of those guys even corrected it, just kept listening. Think of the average North Texas grad. They probably don’t even care or follow our teams. They probably loathe the existence of the program that they had to pay for as a student, which they are still paying on. If they like sports, they’re all in on some Power Team. And the ones in DFW have some dream that they wished of going somewhere like SMU or TCU. It is what it is…

The whole thing is eventually going to burn itself down. Wait until the next Great Recession hits…that money is going to dry up for NIL. Right now, middle class folks that think their school needs funds for better players are already being squeezed out by the cost of attending the games. Soon enough, the higher net worth folks at these G5s are going to bail when they realize this isn’t helping their school out in any significant way. The top 30-50 schools that want to be NFL-little schools and run like that just need to go away. And leave the rest of us to have a setup that looks and acts like amateurish college football.

My guess is that UNLV will accept this deal and go to the Pac to get to 8 for football and 9 for hoops, with Gonzaga also joining. That will leave the MWC with Hawaii, San Jose State, Wyoming, AFA, Nevada, and UNM. If I'm the MWC, I quickly add UTEP and NMSU and just buy time to see what else they can do in the years ahead. And CUSA will just add in some more FCS teams out East to their league.

The very best thing that could happen to college sports is for NIL too bankrupt it. Then, you can get back to playing actual amateurish sports again. I don't think anyone minds the idea of a supplemental income of some sort, but having the universities pay players directly and boosters to do it as well is just gross. These players suing from decades past knew what the situation was when they took the scholarship and the exposure at these schools. But if I really want this all to burn down, then I guess I should root for the Fab Five and Reggie Bush to win their cases.

This really isn’t that surprising to me. These AAC teams have a bird in hand, so to speak. Travel is mostly regional and within one time zone of each other. The PAC can add in UNLV, Utah State, and maybe even New Mexico and Nevada, too. It’d be a solid regional league out west, dropping off dead weight from the MWC and adding in the two left behinds in OSU and WSU.

We are half way there

How can James Madison go to unc and pound them, when we pay Tech and get pounded violently?

Oh trust me, I don't think its great, either...but I think that's what the AAC will do, as its very easy.

I think this will be a win, probably an easy one for us. If it isn't, thats a scary thought. Wyoming is terribad.

I mean, that's a good move for both parties. They've got 10 solid G5 names. Its' very weird to see the Pac have a team in Tampa, but its weird to see the ACC have teams in the Bay Area of California. The AAC can backfill pretty easily. Get Texas State, ULL, MUTS, and Georgia State and you've basically replaced these four TV markets fairly easily.

I just don't see it. But, and this is a big one, if that league got Gonzaga and St. Nary's to join them, as I suspect they will, their basketball will be off the charts better than anything the AAC offers, since they would be bringing over Memphis, too. And I'm assuming they get the Nevada schools, as well as Utah State eventually, too, maybe even UNM. If that league can offer SDSU, St. Mary's, Fresno State, Oregon State, Washington State, Boise State, Gonzaga, UNLV, Nevada, Utah State, Colorado State, New Mexico, UTSA, Tulane, Memphis, and us, that would be a very strong basketball conference, which probably would totally be worth it, as your 3 revenue sports would greatly benefit over the AAC, by miles. And I think between the TV payouts and the increased in NCAA Tournament credits, it would be worth it.

What I've always heard from students as to why they stayed at the tailgates was that they could watch on TV the games they really cared about. That's the rub here--so many fans of UT, OU, A&M, Alabama, Notre Dame, etc... these G5 and FCS schools all battle that facet. Not sure what the answer is, but its definitely been a problem for a while. Maybe you just make cellular access the very best you can make it and let people have the ability to follow those games while still going into the stadium.

We will win this game, as Wyoming is really, really bad. And it will be hot and humid here, which will help us. But the damages done from getting boat raced by a school that we got embarrassed by will last all season. Attendance will still not get anywhere close to the 30k mark…again

I think it’s the last two. Denton and much of UNT’s family absolutely don’t care a thing about UNT sports. Maybe it’s because of the arts and music, maybe it’s because it’s an educator school, maybe it’s because of the commuters, or maybe it’s the history. But I will say that the sabotaging part, to me, was what kept a guy like RV here for 15 years because he opened up tailgating and kept us in budget. Couldn’t hire a revenue coach to save his life, though, especially football. It’s that kind of sabotage that we pay for still. And that’s not even talking about the nuking of the fanbase in the 80s and 90s from the ridiculous 1-aa fiasco, which literally killed off tens of thousands of potential fans from alumni and current students that just didn’t care to watch us play Nicholls State while Texas was playing Tech or Baylor or Whoever on the same night. That’s what is impossible to overcome, in my opinion.

The problem is that many programs will gladly pay for kids to be on their roster. And now that scholarship levels are about to rise, big programs can actually get kids to come to their school to basically not play for someone else. The sport is basically ruined for old guys like me that miss the days of scholarship only football and for affordable tickets for a family to go watch a cfb game and not have it take 4+ hours to play, most likely against a team I’ve never heard of or don’t care a thing about.

Western Kentucky thought Todd Dodge was a wizard...

The Pac will never be a power conference. My guess is that as we get closer to the Big 12 deal expiring in 2030 and the ACC deal expiring in 2035, the consolidation of the power leagues will continue, but there will be no more additions to that list, only more relegation, just as we have seen to Oregon State and Washington State.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kinne bring a ton of his previous team up to San Marcos when he accepted their job? Yes, they're FCS players, but the continuity he got to use at TSU has shown in the results Morris was hired away as a coordinator, even though he had been a successful coach at UIW. He didn't have anyone to bring with him. After the first season ends and we lose everyone, he's rebuilding again with 70 something new faces. That just won't work.

I’ve often wondered what this place would’ve looked like if 2014 didn’t see us fall backwards to a 4-8 season. We had the momentum of McCarney turning us around and winning that HoD Bowl over UNLV. But Skladany retired, Derek Thompson graduated, and our recruiting just fell off a mountain. DMac never recovered. He started getting so frustrated about not getting any traction for recruiting and began to talk about how hard this job was. And then Portland State happened. But if he could’ve kept the momentum going in 2014, I believe things would’ve been much better for us in 2015 and he doesn’t get fired after the worst loss in modern college football history.

Whether it’s been getting murdered by Tech, manhandled by UH, or getting embarrassed by SMU, the problem has always been that we get clobbered by teams that our fans want us to be able to compete with…and we don’t. We just roll over and get crushed. That’s beyond embarrassing. This isn’t including losses to SEC giants, but in state schools’ alums that we live near and work with everyday. Saturday was amongst the lowest points ever for me as a Mean Green alum. I got shit talked by an ACU alum…and had no reply. ACU.

Since 1995, when we moved up to FBS/ I-A, we are playing our 30th season. So far, we have had 6 seasons with a winning record. That’s 20% success. It hasn’t mattered what stadium we have played in, what conference we have played in, what coach we have, what AD/President we have, or what our funding has been. So the questions are what continue to be the roadblocks. Well, now the portal and NIL represent canyon-esque problems. So does the reputation of the entire program with TX HS coaches and parents…as well as the apathy/loathing of the program from within the university and Denton. Im not sure what can fix any of this, especially the nil/portal. It’s just hard to see this getting better when the entirety of talented players and coaches leave in the offseason for other places that pay more.