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ECU does have a large stadium and great crowds. But App St has great wins: 2019 beat North Carolina and South Carolina, both on the road 2020 beat UNT by 28 at the Myrtle Beach Bowl 2021 beat ECU by 14, lost at Miami by 2 2022 beat Texas A$M on the road, lost to UNC by 2 2023 beat ECU by 15, lost to UNC in 2 OT

I read this will be the first football season that either OSU or WSU has not competed at the top level (P5). I think they will try everything they can to get back to that level, either by elevating the PAC again, or even buying their way into the ACC (if they lose a couple schools). Merging into the MWC will be their last option to take.

SEC?? LOL

App State would like a word with you...

It's a very important game to set the early tone for the season. Much like FIU was last year but we quickly found we needed adjustments. If we can go 2-0 heading to Lubbock it would give the players and fans a lot more confidence for the rest of the season.

They lost their head coach, star QB, WR, and RB. So, they are a lot like us reloading. No one really knows how all these new players will mesh with each other, and for USA new playbook and system. https://collegefootballnews.com/news/south-alabama-college-football-preview-best-players-top-transfers-season-prediction-win-total-2024

You traveled a lot of miles to NT away games. Did you go to the UTA/NT first game at that new Maverick Stadium? It was Sept 6, 1980. I was there, as were a lot of NT fans. Previously UTA and NT played their games at a neutral Texas Stadium. Maverick Stadium was listed as a 12,000 seat capacity, but there was 18,033 in attendance opening night, a 31-14 NT win. It would be the largest attendance there ever for UTA, as all other best crowds were under 9500. UTA dropped football at the end of the 1985 season, a UTA loss to NT at Fouts Field 23-20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_Stadium

Great report, thanks.

Excellent list. You have been places!

Challenge ALS lost their next game to Forever Coogs (UH alumni) 70-75. Quarterfinals are next on 7/29-30. All #1 seeds have lost.... https://thetournament.com/tbt/bracket/

I am glad you have seen NT play in many away game stadiums. It is fun to support the team on the road, in hostile territory. So, of all the NT away games you saw, which opponent stadiums/atmosphere/location were best? Which fans were most friendly vs unfriendly? I love to visit other college towns and stadiums on vacation trips. A couple years ago we saw Michigan, Notre Dame, Western Mich, and Michigan State stadiums. As far as a campus stadium, I just feel the atmosphere and connection between the campus, students, alums, and stadium are an important part of the whole game experience. The game becomes a part of the school and the stadium is the school's stage and dressed in school colors. The detached or non-school stadiums feel too sterile, like they are just leasing a generic building for the game....which they usually are. Colorado State recently built an on-campus stadium and their fans talked how great it was to be attached to their campus environment.

Dabo Swinney irked by proposed roster changes, impact on walk-ons https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40641381/dabo-swinney-irked-proposed-roster-changes-impact-walk-ons

Their stadium is on campus. Maybe you were in Bloomington, Illinois? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Indiana+University+Memorial+Stadium/@39.1759746,-86.5221637,1757m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x886c66cc1c54621f:0x9b14fde5e5641040!8m2!3d39.1808988!4d-86.5256316!16zL20vMDYydHQz?entry=ttu Indiana is also in the Big10. Not hard to draw fans to see those conference games.

I'm just posting information to our fans about a subject/subjects that could affect UNT Athletics down the road. But I can delete it all too and let you find your own info if it bothers you so much you feel you need to police it like you do. Let the Mods police things on the boards. But as you have observed the Mods aren't doing anything anyway, but that's Harry's problem, not yours. Anyway, back to the subject....OSU/WSU are watching the ACC lawsuits. Their priority is a P4 invite, which only comes if the ACC loses schools. If there is not ACC chaos by Feb, then the PAC-2 will decide to either merge into the MWC (official G5 status then) or steal 6 MWC schools, trying to keep the PAC alive. I think they opt to keep the PAC alive as long as possible. If the MWC becomes fractured they in turn could reload with FCS move-ups (now $5mil by NCAA rule) or try to invite AAC schools for a merger.

Geez. Are you the new forum-police? It wasn't pasted in it's entirety. The original full article is behind a paywall. The portion I posted is from a thread on a public fan message board. The poster even says this is "excerpts". Do you know what excerpts are? From the thread poster: "Basically a rehash that corroborates what Dodd has already reported. Here are some excerpts:" Otherwise, do you have any comments about the subject matter? Will they merge or purge?

Sure...ask Baylor why they relocated their stadium to campus...and why USF is building a stadium on campus... Sometimes I think you're not going to be happy until NT kills football.

Memphis begins $220M in stadium renovations (it's still not on their campus)...

Latest on OSU/WSU vs MWC. From the MWC board and The Athletic: https://www.mwcboard.com/index.php?/topic/92358-conference-realignment-thread/page/1822/#comments .............................................................. Basically a rehash that corroborates what Dodd has already reported. Here are some excerpts: Last December, the parties agreed to a one-year football scheduling agreement, helping the Beavers and Cougars secure six additional Mountain West opponents for their 2024 football schedules in exchange for more than $14 million. …. Both sides say an agreement on a 2025 football schedule needs to happen before the 2024 season kicks off. So will it? “I’m pretty confident,” Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez said. “You never know with how contracting goes. It was built in anticipation as a two-year schedule. Because that’s how you mitigate competitive inequities, and we figure if we’re going to do it, it’s easier to do two. It’s not for any reason except for we had to get through June meetings, then July gets kind of quiet. (Pac-12 commissioner Teresa Gould) and I have been talking, and it’s just been a phone tag thing.” … “We’ll have to see if everything falls into place or we explore a different path for that second year,” new Washington State athletic director Anne McCoy said, “or if everything goes forward with the Mountain West.” Big picture, Oregon State and Washington State want to buy as much time as possible and see what happens elsewhere — perhaps, say, if Florida State and Clemson try to officially leave the ACC, that league might explore getting back to 17 members. Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes told The Athletic earlier this year that joining a Power 4 conference is the top priority, followed by some merger with the Mountain West. “It’s important to get the time to see where the landscape is going,” said Oregon State executive deputy athletic director Brent Blaylock, who represented OSU at the Vegas event. “We’ve seen the volatility of how things change. We know some of the other friction points going on in other places. So it’s important for us to just stay abreast of what’s going on.” The Mountain West, meanwhile, feels more emboldened than it did a year ago and doesn’t appreciate the image of being a backup option. The introduction of a 12-team CFP means the Mountain West champion has a path to the Playoff for the foreseeable future, while the Pac-2 can only receive an at-large berth, and the CFP deal with ESPN runs through 2032. The Mountain West also got six teams into this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It won’t beg for two more members. “When I first started (as commissioner), everyone was growing to 14, 16, and I thought maybe that’s where we need to be,” Nevarez said. “I’m not seeing a need now. Certainly if there’s an opportunity to make us better, I would absolutely chase that down. But I’m feeling pretty good about where we are.” … What does hang over the Mountain West is its television deal, which recently added TNT Sports as a third partner and runs through 2025-26. That coincidentally times up with the Pac-2’s window. It’d be an easy moment to make an addition. But what about departures? The Mountain West office has maintained that its exit fee ($18 million, or $36 million for schools leaving within a year) applies regardless of the TV situation, something that was brought up last summer when San Diego State danced with the idea of leaving the league. Any attempt by Oregon State and Washington State to pull Group of 5 teams from multiple conferences would be very expensive, even with a $255 million war chest leftover from the Pac-12. The football agreement signed last year lays out that adding one Mountain West school would cost the Pac-2 $10 million. Adding six schools would cost $67.5 million; 11 schools would cost $137.5 million, not including their exit fees for leaving the MW. But adding all 12 would cost nothing. The league held firm in putting that deal together, protecting everyone. The one wild-card scenario is dissolving the Mountain West, which would require nine of 12 schools voting in favor and therefore removing any exit fees. That possibility has not garnered enough votes to be an option, especially given the open desire of the Pac-2 schools to land elsewhere. Oregon State and Washington State will chart their future amid plenty of internal change. Football coach Jonathan Smith and highly-touted quarterback Aidan Chiles left Oregon State for Michigan State, and star running back Damien Martinez went to Miami (Fla.). Washington State athletic director Pat Chun left for Washington, and talented quarterback Cam Ward went to Miami. Influential president Kirk Schulz will retire next June. That turnover has made a difficult situation even tougher. No one associated with the Pac-2 [at the league’s media event in Las Vegas] could say what the future holds …

Why would people over-pay to see a lopsided game like that?

We had minimalistic uniforms in our past; and someone got fired for it, lol...

Reminds me of Army's all-black uniforms....