Green Otaku

Article is behind a paywall, so I can't read it. I don't doubt that reaching out, talks, and even meetings have/are happening. Now if anything comes of it that's a different story. Schools are looking at their options and seeing what's best for them.

I've been doing the rounds on various boards and the consensus is that maybe Air Force leaves, that they are at least considering it so they could be with Navy. CSU seems far away from a sure thing but maybe they go. That puts the other schools pretty far down the "No" category. I was reading the MW board and some were saying their tv deal is going to be renegotiated soon, with Boise giving up some of that money they are currently getting. From poster Ibanez: https://www.mwcboard.com/index.php?/topic/93183-should-the-mwc-try-to-land-unt-rice-utep-andor-utsa-first/&do=findComment&comment=2981796

If the MW calls, we answer. Let's be honest, chances of the AAC for us are low to slim. Rice and even UTSA have a better chance if they want another Texas school.

Another reason to join the MW. Now I'm going to say this with the * that it's a 1:1,000,000 chance of happening, but just hear me out. Imagine the AAC doesn't get the MWC schools, and backfill with UAB, FAU, and 2 others other than UNT. UNT goes to the MW with 1 or 3 travel partners. Then things cool on realignment for a decade, UNT goes on a Boise St. style run, dominating the MW. Now realignment comes around again, everyone wants to match the SEC and go to 16. UNT would be smack in the middle of possible the last shuffle for decades. B1G would need 2, Big XII would need 4. We've already talked about it on this thread that pickings are slim in the west and the only place the PAC has to draw from is the MW. Is there a chance UNT would get consideration from the PAC? Having already been in a western conference might give us some consideration. I know that's a pipe dream from another dimension, but we definitely aren't getting that in CUSA.

Agreed with everything you posted. It's pretty easy to see when you take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Only the MW (Utah and TCU) and AAC have sent teams to P5 conferences. UNT needs to be in 1 of those 2 if it ever plans on moving up.

I just don't see the MW teams leaving for the AAC. I guess it all depends on the payouts, but I don't see the AAC being able to command the same numbers to make it enticing.

If the AAC doesn't happen for UNT, we absolutely need to push for the MW. With the AAC reloading there is going to be a period where the MW and AAC battle it out for the best G5. I know people are hesitant going west, but the MW has really solid members from top to bottom and will be miles ahead of what's left in CUSA (maybe even over what a rebuilt AAC will look like). Or did we forget the whipping Utah State gave is in the NM Bowl? Not to mention the MW is a monster BB conference. New Mexico, SDSU, UNLV, Nevada, Utah St., always top 25 teams. The last Texas team in the MW is now in the BigXII. If we have the chance to join, we take it and don't look back.

https://twitter.com/northtexaseagle/status/1084222781586358272 Don't know how to embed tweets.

I thought the helmets looked great! The players clearly love these types of things so what ever keeps them happy/can be used as a recruiting tool I'm all for.

I don't disagree with some of your points, but I get the impression from the board as a whole that if we pump enough money into the program it's a guarantee that we will win. My point was that kind of thinking is an oversimplification of how many endless variables affect a program. It's like people have short memories because I remember those saying if we only had a new stadium we would win, we would get recruits, we would sell out games, etc. I'm not saying Apogee doesn't help, but people are always daydreaming that if we had "such and such" that one thing would magically turn the program around. Then they quickly forget about it and move on to the next thing.

So then please explain to us what you meant by saying winning is the easiest factor to change?

The school has made great strides to get to where it is now. Being big doesn't mean being a good school so I'm not sure what that has to do with academic standards. An even playing field? You mean like conference play? Where our best season did not even get us a conference championship? You are oversimplifying how hard it is to keep consistency at a G5 school. If it were that easy DD would have kept winning conference championships and built something more. Money and backing are good but for a G5 team it's about building success over years to get ahead. The very nature of being a G5 team leads to instability, just the way it is. Case in point, look at the great job JJ did with the basketball program, and how all that came crashing down with 1 bad hire. If this realignment stuff moves quickly we are woefully behind where we need to be.

Someone should have told them that was one of the easiest things to change before we took all those Ls.

Seriously? If that is the easiest factor to change why, in our 100+ history as a team, have we not been able to change it? Let it sink in that we have two years under Fry as the only time making any kind of national noise. The reality is that is one of the hardest things to change, and unfortunately with our long history we have dug ourselves into a deep hole as far as perception goes.

Very unlikely. TCU, Tech, OSU and Baylor would be more likely to lobby into the PAC, Big 10, AAC, or MWC. And if they did form a new conference it would be a slim chance UNT gets invited. We always want to look at it as what's most beneficial to us, but if you put yourself in their shoes, say you were OSU or TCU, and could have your pick of members to form a new conference without biases who would you pick? UNT would be far down the list.

Judging by the negative feedback people don't like the cold, hard truth. Because that's what this is right here.

"It seems" and from what would you conclude that? From the few hours he has been the HC? No one knows if he will be a good hire at this point. There is nothing wrong with being excited about our new HC, it's ridiculous to talk about being taken to the promised land without even a single practice yet. Is this even a debatable topic? If being rational is "pissing on optimism", then I don't know what to tell you.

The team hasn't even played a down yet and people want to cling to some idea that "the perfect storm" is brewing? Let's at least have the level headedness to let the man do his job and evaluate the results when you know, the results are shown on the field. Crazy idea huh?

I sure hope so. I'm pulling for Littrell, I think he would be a fantastic hire.

Like I said in the other thread people are acting like Texas is some special place only those with recruiting ties can recruit in. It's a state like any other state. If they are good recruiters they will be able to recruit.

Why are people so adamant about the HC having Texas ties? Like Texas is some special place that people can't recruit in if they don't. If they can recruit, they can recruit.

@1:22 -2:00 is that the best traffic footage they could find for I35? I wish LA traffic was like that. Lol.

You could do what the spanish do, at the end of the match when they want a coach fired during a bad season they wave white handkerchiefs. The tradition came from bullfighting but it is also used to show displeasure by the crowd. Doesn't sound too intimidating but when you have a whole stadium basically waving little white flags in your face, you get the message.

Please no. This is embarrassingly dorky.

Some would call that dodging a bullet