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I think you have to give a coach a couple of years. Now, in the day you would give them longer than that but now the timeline is pretty short. Morris made a lot of mistakes out of the gate. That said, I hope he can turn it around and he deserves another year to show us what he can do.

To follow-up on that I just don't see any coordinated strategy from Morris et al. I get that NIL and portal have screwed the pooch, but insisting on a high school focused strategy just seems like putting lipstick on a pig. Why in hades would we sign a high school player when we know that if they are any good they will bail on us. To me, if we weren't going to improve upon Littrell, why go to the trouble of buying out another coaching salary?

These guys want playing time and we don't really have much to offer with the numbers we have. Plus a lot of the best have already committed.

Someone here predicted that NIL would be taken over by the AD and it now appears that is the case. ------------------ Roadrunners Family: It has been an exciting first year for UTSA Athletics as a member of the American Athletic Conference. Entering this academic year, I challenged everyone from our coaches and staff to our student-athletes to our supporters to be bold in pursuit of our aspirations, and all of you have responded. I write to you today to share a few important updates about our Name, Image and Likeness program at UTSA, which significantly impacts our student-athletes and our entire athletics community. I am committed to providing each of our nearly 400 student-athletes the best tools possible to maximize their NIL opportunities. To position our student-athletes for success in the NIL space also means setting them up for success in their lives and careers beyond UTSA. As an athletics department, we have created the Runners Go Bold Exchange through which businesses and individuals can connect directly with our student-athletes with opportunities to work together. Our partnership with INFLCR provides our student-athletes the ability to receive custom photo and video content to build their brands, as well as financial literacy and other educational opportunities. We recently launched Roadrunners NIL Shop, through which our athletes can sell their own branded merchandise. I want to express my appreciation to the three NIL collectives who have become tremendous resources for our student-athletes – 210 Inspired, City Fans 210 and the Runners Rising Project. Their commitment to our student-athletes has created countless unique opportunities for them. To contribute to student-athletes scholarships through the Roadrunner Athletic Fund or to support our student-athletes directly through NIL, please visit the following links: Roadrunner Athletic Fund 210 Inspired City Fans 210 Runners Rising Project Thank you to each of you for your continued commitment to UTSA Athletics and to our student-athletes. Your support makes all the difference in the futures of all of our Roadrunners. Birds Up! Lisa Campos, Ed.D. Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics, UTSA

Well looks like everything is moving back to the AD and University like it was before. UNT will have to have some steep budget cuts if they are spending 20-30 of their budget to athletes. probably will have to drop some sports as well. Sad!

We have to adjust to the circumstances or we are cowards. Don't forget the serenity prayer. Yes this NCAA thing and NIL is a mess but it will ultimately work its way out one way or another. The university has directed too much towards facilities and the programs to walk away. And I like what another poster said, let's band together with other G5 and sue the hell out of them. They all receive federal funding and any judge and jury would see this as monopolistic.

I tend to agree with you although live sports is still a valued commodity I don't know how a perceived minor league college football league would be viewed. It would essentially put us back to IAA

Also stop scheduling them and giving them easy victories. Let them beat up on each other. That will ultimately turn off the lower level school and force their hand.

DENTON – This past spring UNT student-athletes earned the highest semester grade point average in the department's history. North Texas and its 337 student-athletes had a combined 3.280 GPA in the spring of 2024 and a 3.234 cumulative GPA over the entire school year. It marked UNT's 10th consecutive semester of a 3.0-plus department wide GPA. A department best 71 percent of all student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher and four Mean Green teams achieved their respective highest semester GPA ever: football, men's track and field, soccer and softball. Ten teams posted a semester GPA above a 3.2 with women's golf leading the way at 3.810. Its third straight semester of achieving the highest team grade point average. Six teams had at least 90 percent of its roster earn a 3.0 or better GPA: men's golf, women's cross country, women's golf, swim and dive, soccer and tennis. Nine North Texas teams improved on their semester GPA from the fall of 2023 to the spring of 2024. Eight North Texas teams have an active streak of 10 consecutive semesters with a 3.0 or better GPA. Mean Green women's tennis has now had a 3.0 or better GPA in 25 straight semesters. Fifty-four Mean Green student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA in the spring to receive Presidents List honors and 40 UNT student-athletes graduated in the spring. North Texas freshmen this year made a smooth transition from high school to college as they achieved a 3.189 GPA in the spring, setting a solid bar moving forward. UNT has improved on its department GPA in each of the last four semesters and has improved on the previous department GPA in eight of the last nine semesters. All data excludes spring of 2020 semester when the COVID pandemic shutdown in-person school during the middle of the semester.

Man he was a beast.

Texas State seems to be making some good strides as of late.

Hear from Coach Morris and the Mean Green Football Staff, participate in on-field drills lead by student-athletes and coaches, tour the facility, dinner with a cash bar, and much more! All proceeds benefit Denton County Friends of the Family. You don't want to miss this! $40 Registration Fee Monday, July 29th at the Lovelace & McNatt Families Practice Facility 5:30 PM | Check-In 6:00 PM | Event Begins

I like this. The only question mark is what cooled off the new staff at Troy? Measurables look legit.

Dude is huge, maybe 6-7 or even 6-8 and very broad shoulders. Super nice kid and family. All yes sirs and respectful. they are thrilled to be at UNT and I would not count him out next season even as a true frosh.

DENTON – The UNT men's basketball team has signed Missouri Valley Conference All-Tournament team selection transfer guard Atin Wright. Wright comes to North Texas from Drake where he was the MVC champion's second leading scorer averaging over 14 points per game during the season and was one of the league's top 3-point shooters as he made 65 long range shots at a 40.6 percent clip. The 6-foot-1 guard started all 32 games he played in last year and helped lead the Bulldogs to the 2024 MVC Tournament championship as he averaged 16.3 points per tournament game and poured in 17 points in the title win over Indiana State. For his tournament performance he was named to the league's all-tournament team. Wright will have one year of eligibility remaining. In Drake's NCAA Tournament game last year, Wright led all players as he scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting versus Washington State. It was his ninth 20-point game of the season. He scored a season-high 26 points on Feb. 13 in a 78-75 road win over Evansville. In that three-point win at Evansville, Wright sank a 40-foot-game-winner at the buzzer. One of those 20-point performances came on the road against American Athletic Conference foe UAB on Dec. 22. Wright scored 20 points versus the Blazers on 11 shot attempts to go along with a pair of steals. Wright last year played six games against opponents who reached the 2024 NCAA Tournament. In those six games he averaged 15.1 points per game, including three 20-point performances. Drake went 4-2 in those games. The Hawthorne, California, native began his collegiate career at Cal State Northridge. He played three seasons for the Matadors and was a two-time Big West All-Conference honoree before transferring to Drake in 2023. In his final year at CSUN (2022-23), Wright averaged 16.7 points per game. On Feb. 15, 2023, he set the Matadors single-game scoring record as he dropped 42 points at UC Davis. Wright will join North Texas with 116 career games played, 1,530 career points scored, 198 career 3-pointers made and 174 career assists. A southern California native, Wright graduated from Fairmont Prep in Orange County. He averaged 22.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.1 steals per game as a high school senior. He led Fairmont to a league title his senior year and advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2AA California Southern Sectional playoff round. His junior year, he led Orange County in scoring with 25 points per game and was named Southern Section Class 4AA Player of the Year. North Texas is coming off a 19-win season under first-year head coach Ross Hodge where they reached the second round of the NIT. He was the only rookie head coach last year to lead his respective team to either the NCAA Tournament or NIT. The Mean Green won 10 league games in their first season in the American Athletic Conference. It was the most league wins by a first year UNT head coach. UNT is one of just seven schools in the country who has won a NCAA postseason game in each of the last four seasons.

Wow Dusty May strikes again. FAU is starting from scratch now.

So do the new Virginia laws mean that all the NIL will be run thru the AD? Seems to makes sense and I think it will be adopted nationally. It doesn’t help having multiple entities calling on the same small group of alumni and fans for donations. Centralization makes sense here if you ask me.

We get you are a closet New Mexico fan but noone l know cares that much about them. Sure they have more fans at games but there is frankly nothing else to do there. We have fielded a much more competitive program than they have recently.

I think Ruben should still be eligible for it since he played here for four years and got his degree.

I noticed that as well!

I have been perusing the sites out there and it seems like we are not the only ones going through this. I don't blame the players for wanting to see what the market has to bear but sometimes the grass is not always greener.