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It's a pretty easy goal, follow what Cincy did. If any future P4 realignment happens you make yourself the clear pick.

Welcome, much respect to the Cowboys.They have always been a solid team throughout the years. They are the type of team we should be scheduling home and homes with. Hoping for a good game (with a Mean Green victory of course) and that everyone stays healthy. Cheers.

As far as the ACC I think that's why we have no time to lose, we need to make ourselves attractive by winning multiple AAC championships and even getting into the CFP so we make ourselves an undeniable candidate. I know SMU is there, but we need to make our resume so strong that we are a no-brainer pick.

$10-15M possible? Yes. Likely? I have doubts, mostly because will a network be willing to pay $80-$150M a year depending on the number of teams? ESPN and FOX seem to have their late night slots covered, would they bid for it? Does a network like the CW have that kind of money? Also maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it feels like multiple people think I'm saying turn any kind of interest for the PAC down immediately. I said in multiple posts that if we get interest from the PAC we should definitely take a look, run the numbers and weigh the options. If the deal is good go, if not stay in the AAC. My personal opinion/speculation is skeptical that the numbers are there, but I'm not saying we should be closed off to the idea.

If you have enough stats go a certain way that's a trend, and SL's trend was never being able to make it over the hump. Close a few times, but couldn't put it all together. No one wants to go backwards, but that's on the AD to make the right choices.

Hardest hitting defense I had ever seen. Lee and Trice I remember specifically being monsters.

Yes good offense that was cancelled out by bad defenses. Defense by year: 2016: 96 2017: 111 2018: 43 2019: 105 2020: 126 2021: 78 2022: 110 No bowl wins, no conference championships. Stats are nice, but people don't put stats in trophy cases. Isn't that what this whole thing is about? Winning championships and creating a winning culture?

And I expect the AD to take the pros and cons and weigh what's best. What I am predicting here is if the PAC can't lure Memphis/Tulane the contract is not going to be near the numbers being thrown around. Maybe $6-$8m, if I had to guess. We have to remember that the west is very sparsely populated and the big city centers are all in the B1G, ACC and Big12 (LA, Seattle, SLC, Phoenix, Denver, SF) without the central time zone teams what kind of deal can they get? Can the media partner offer the same level of coverage and exposure of ESPN? What will the travel expenses be? I'm not saying don't take a look at what's offered, but you have to run the numbers and see what makes sense, and that's going to be up to the AD to decide. Personally I find it a high hurdle to clear if they can't lure the top of the AAC as a block.

Everyone is going to have to deal with that when the decision comes. We might see some big shifts and maybe even some teams not wanting to continue/a split to a new division 1 for those teams who can. Those issues will come up despite whatever conference we are in. If the PAC brings a few AAC teams and offers a good chunk of money we should go if invited. If the brands of Memphis, Tulane, USF stay in the AAC, we should really consider staying as those schools not taking an offer means the move will be a lateral one with more travel.

All the years we have run that system have not been fruitful, so we just keep doing the same thing? It's fine to take bits and pieces that work, but I would like to see someone outside of this coaching tree. I think it'd actually be a good thing to expand recruiting.

If Morris is eventually fired I'd be ok with not seeing the air raid/Leech offense at UNT ever again.

Agree. The PAC will be listened to by the teams that they are interested in, but it is in no way a slam dunk.

Because networks don't want to give more money for the same product, with media deals they also don't have to. Most realignment deals happen when media deals are already in place. The AAC lost 3 members getting paid roughly $21M a year, ESPN was unwilling to pay an extra $21M a year to have the 6 schools get equal shares. So if the AAC wanted to have all teams getting full shares they would have just added 3, but would we have made the cut?

From what I've read the AAC payout will not be half shares for the entire time of the deal. There are no specifics as to how much, but the money is supposed to ramp up to be equal to a full share towards the end of the deal. https://www.agent49.net/the-charlotte-49ers-are-american-athletic-conference-bound/

Then you keep looking higher up the chain and find out what isn't working, because someone's choices might have cost us 2 years of wasted resources.

Oof... I forgot who our reporter is....

Post game conference? Morris needs to have his feet held over the fire.

NIL didn't seem to be a problem of Abilene Christian.

Yup. The problem is you can't learn a new defensive playbook/scheme during a season. Maybe other teams have done it, I'm ignorant if others have made it happen. If we continue to be terrible on defense Morris has essentially wasted a whole year by not fixing a clear and glaring issue. I've talked about it before, he made his choice to keep Caponi, he needs to bear the consequences of that choice.

Not with these performances. Maybe Western Michigan.

The bigger issue in my eyes is that as the HC you are basically the CEO, you don't do the nitty gritty work, but you make sweeping decisions that guide the ship. If you can't evaluate that people have the skills to do the job, and make a decision to change when it's clear they didn't meet expectations, how can I trust you can guide the ship? The focus then starts to shift abou them not being able to do their job, to you not being able to do yours.

Am I reading too much into this or is CM really isolated on the sideline? He doesn't seem to be hyping up teammates or talking to them after plays? No. "Hey that was my fault, we'll get it on the next one." type of gestures. I don't think it has only been this game too.

So tired of this, make any P4 team play in Denton first so they can't buy out the return game. That what USF does.

This is the key to everything. The athletic department is the most important piece to success. You need leaders who are always pushing for better things and never settling. You need an athletic director and department that can accurately evaluate hires. UNT has never been able to put a good staff together, that's why we haven't been able to get good hires outside of McCasland.

That's not until 2027, and I can almost guarantee you that Tech will try to buy that game out. There's no way they are coming to Denton.