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Unfortunately, that apparently doesn’t bring in butts in seats…but I agree with you. I like winning ugly a lot more than losing

Morris, like Benford, would go to Tech in a heartbeat. That’s the rub with hiring these guys. If theyre any good, they’ll go asap. But if they aren’t, we are stuck with them for years and years.

Absolutely. And that will happen. Somebody has to get fired for this. Or you really aren’t serious at all.

Nobody earning a paycheck cares about their Alma mater more than continuing to earn that cash.

You’re right. But unlv will lose all of those players next year, too.

Major respect…

Unless the UNT 17 is ready to write another check to pay off an embarrassment, that’s just not happening. It is what it is.

I’ll tell you what really needs to change…College football and the levels we play at. We don’t need to be playing at a level that we lose every single decent player each year to a dream power school, nor do we need to be playing schools that can double or triple or more our attendance and budgets.

I’m not. That would be the best thing or this is gonna end up being an 87-7 game

Here’s the deal. If you go to the game on Saturday after this, you’re not helping. Only way to change it is to not support it. They need the cash and they need the butts in seats. You can lie to yourself about this being your school and your Alma mater…this is also our embarrassment. Again.

This is really more like when Dodgeball had us lose to Rice 77-20, when Rice blatantly quit in the 4th quarter so as not to score anymore.

Always fun when your ACU buddy can talk crap to you and calls you North Texas State

The wheels are about to come off

Tech looks like a mad team.

They look like a power 4 team and we look overmatched.

I’m conditioned to expect this to go completely wrong for us, but I’d love to have games in football and basketball against those pac brands, especially if it gets some other programs I mentioned before in this thread.

In true North Texas fashion, the SBC jumped up very high not too long after we left. Appy State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, and others have a lot to do with that, of course. And CUSA dropped off severely about 4-5 years after we joined. And the AAC change isn't looking all that great yet, either, if we're being honest.

In truth, the AAC probably won't lose anyone. The Western schools just want to consolidate around closer schools with programs that are more similar to each other in the western time zones. Wyoming is more like Idaho and Montana and the Dakotas. SJSU and Hawaii are much more like UTEP and NMSU than they are any of the MWC schools that are leaving. Get UNLV and Nevada, see if you can get AFA, if you can, then add in UNM, and get Gonzaga and St. Mary's for hoops. That's a solid 10 team football conference. And its a very strong basketball conference.

Actually, Nebraska and Colorado left the Big 12 first...

I bet that place can be a monster...

The new Pac is smart by OSU and WSU. Playing Wyoming, San Jose State, Hawaii, and New Mexico provides very little in help. Travel is expensive and they carry very few eyeballs. Air Force, Utah State, UNLV and Nevada will probably be next on their list. That gets them to ten and it keeps them in the same footprint they've all been used to. The invites to Gonzaga and St. Mary's will be coming soon, too, just to add in more names for a revenue sport. I doubt they expand East. For decades, we have waited for the MWC to come back to Texas after TCU left. And all that UTEP, UNT, SMU, Rice, and UTSA saw were nothing. I can see Hawaii going independent. I think Wyoming, SJSU, and New Mexico may very well be SBCUSA teams very soon. Maybe the AAC sees value in UNM, but I doubt it.

Similar to Littrell when he was here or Traylor at UTSA, if Kinne stays at Texas State, he will find out that losing good assistants, losing QBs that are playmakers, and having to play with a target on your back all catches up to you. I agree that Kinne has been a solid coach, just as the other two were, but Littrell stayed here for hopes of a bigger job than KSU after Snyder and the entire thing fell apart. Traylor could easily be headed in the same direction.

Whatever it is, they’d pay it… must be nice.

Completely agree. They should be our new OOC opponent for every season.

The Power Teams shouldn't be playing FCS teams--they can play G5s and let the G5s play FCS in OOC play.