Jonnyeagle

Tulsa has always had problems. Rice made a whole lot of sense but UofH didn't want another school in Houston. Tulsa is a very small private school that has no business in the current environment spending as much as the do on football. They should be way more concerned about keeping their doors open in a post Covid world. Average small private colleges that charge a ton of money in tuition are in big big trouble. Tulane is similar but offers access to New Orleans and has a better academic reputation than Tulsa. I don't see East Carolina offering a lot of value either.

My question is do you think they will bring 25 or so teams from the G5 to use as easy wins to ramp up the top P5 team W/L records? This might provide us an opportunity to move up at that time.

This is where we oughta be positioning for IMHO.

To put it more plainly, a separation of the Power Five conferences from the NCAA has long been possible. Those 65 schools, including independent Notre Dame, already exist as separate entities -- financially, competitively and even corporately. But with the coronavirus ratcheting up the stakes, a tipping point may be at hand. "I'm telling you, if you or I were going to place a bet on a stock … you could double down on the Power Five being a separate entity now within two years," said Vince Thompson, founder and CEO of MELT, an Atlanta-based sports and entertainment marketing firm. "The next year will be a critical year for the NCAA," Tatos said. "It will be a critical year for college athletics as a whole. But I think we are starting to see how professional this enterprise is, how divorced it is from any type of education. Schools are starting to make decisions on financial points, [saying], 'This is amateur sports? This whole charade is coming to an end.'" If the financial reckoning becomes severe enough, entire athletic departments could go away. Already, the Mid-American Conference is slashing budgets and sports. Never mind athletics, Akron cut six of its 11 departments within the university. "We're going to lose institutions," Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick predicted. "We're going to have a number of member institutions who won't be involved in college education in 3-4 years." read more: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/why-we-may-be-reaching-a-tipping-point-for-the-power-five-to-break-away-from-the-fbs/

read more: https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uconn-football-tv-contract-cbs-sports-20200511-by6lljlw2ff63ivkh5gr3xpxre-story.html

2. Memphis 2018 average: 30,178 | 2019 average: 38,816 | Increase: 8,638 (28.6%) After years of knocking on the door, Mike Norvell’s Tigers finally broke through and won the American title in 2019. The year began with a crowd of 44,107 fans for a 15-10 win over Ole Miss, then peaked with 59,506 for an ABC Saturday Night Football defeat of SMU. The year closed with back-to-back home games against Cincinnati, which saw crowds of 36,472 and 33,008. 7. Cincinnati 2018 average: 30,519 | 2019 average: 35,985 | Increase: 5,466 (17.9%) Cincinnati open with a 24-14 win over UCLA before a crowd of 38,032, then peaked with a crowd of 40,121 to see the Bearcats snap UCF’s 20-game conference winning streak. read more: https://footballscoop.com/news/these-programs-saw-the-biggest-attendance-jumps-in-2019/

They will probably have to make it voluntary as it would be impossible for them to manage that many people.

3 Years is too long. What a bummer. I woke up in a good mood and now depressed.

UTSA's coach is an excellent recruiter with strong ties in East Texas.

https://cob.unt.edu/mgmt/outstanding-alumni

DALLAS - A total of 805 student-athletes earned the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal during the 2019-20 academic year, Commissioner Judy MacLeod announced today. Medals are given to those C-USA student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better. Link: https://conferenceusa.com/news/2020/5/6/general-commissioners-academic-medal-winners-recognized.aspx UAB garnered the most medals with 86, followed by Old Dominion and Rice with 66 apiece. Here is the listing of NT student athletes: Alex Cleveland Men's Cross Country North Texas Florian Lussy Men's Cross Country North Texas Logan Mitchell Men's Cross Country North Texas Austin Aune Men's Football North Texas Hayden Harrison Men's Football North Texas Cole Johnson Men's Football North Texas Thomas Preston Men's Football North Texas Viktor Jorgen Forslund Men's Golf North Texas Cameron Harlock Men's Golf North Texas Hiroki Miya Men's Golf North Texas Nikolas Nebout Men's Golf North Texas Paul Anderson Men's Track & Field North Texas Caleb Bouchard Men's Track & Field North Texas Hannah Hopkins Women's Basketball North Texas Jazion Jackson Women's Basketball North Texas Erika Barrett Women's Cross Country North Texas Arianna Gonzales Women's Cross Country North Texas Darrian Johnson Women's Cross Country North Texas Samantha Konen Women's Cross Country North Texas Jaden Reid Women's Cross Country North Texas Aubrey Schmidt Women's Cross Country North Texas Madelyn Taylor Women's Cross Country North Texas Katie Finley Women's Golf North Texas Marija Jucmane Women's Golf North Texas Madison Lewis Women's Golf North Texas Audrey Tan Women's Golf North Texas Hannah Ager Women's Soccer North Texas Logan Bruffett Women's Soccer North Texas Michelle Gonzalez Women's Soccer North Texas Madeline Guderian Women's Soccer North Texas Taylor Hunter Women's Soccer North Texas Dominique James Women's Soccer North Texas Kathryn Dietrich Women's Softball North Texas Nicole Ochotnicki Women's Softball North Texas Ariel Thompson Women's Softball North Texas Hope Trautwein Women's Softball North Texas Meagan Youngman Women's Softball North Texas Brooke Beddingfield Women's Swimming & Diving North Texas Isabelle Holbrook Women's Swimming & Diving North Texas Micayla Morgan Women's Swimming & Diving North Texas Karigan Stanley Women's Swimming & Diving North Texas Sophia Hummel Women's Tennis North Texas Louisa Junghanns Women's Tennis North Texas Mariia Kononova Women's Tennis North Texas Nidhi Surapaneni Women's Tennis North Texas Bailey Ashmore Women's Track & Field North Texas Charlotte Kerr Women's Track & Field North Texas Devin Norton Women's Track & Field North Texas Ashlynn Smart Women's Track & Field North Texas Jordan Burks Women's Volleyball North Texas Olivia Petnicki Women's Volleyball North Texas Barbara Teakell Women's Volleyball North Texas Valerie Valerian Women's Volleyball North Texas

I like the name but disagree with some of the schools you are adding. I am ok with a couple of Belt schools but not as manmy as you list.

That would be an awesome match

You may be right but most NT fans I know look at the Belt as a step back. I realize that doesn't seem fair.

Looks like not having baseball hurt us on him as he wanted to play both.

Like his length.

The oil price crash that has hammered the US shale industry is now threatening to put the squeeze on one of America’s biggest university endowments. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems have amassed one of the largest college endowments in the US through their economic interest in swaths of land, just over half of which is leased to oil and gas producers. The companies hand over a share of their revenues to University Lands, which manages about 2.1m acres of territory in West Texas for the educational institutions. Over the past 10 years, the Permanent University Fund (PUF) has reaped $8.2bn from the arrangement, helping to push its assets to $24bn by the end of 2019. But as the economic upheaval unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic has sent the oil price tumbling, the universities have been forced to rip up their forecasts. The royalties the PUF will receive are expected to drop to $500m for the year ending August 2021, according to a spokeswoman for the University of Texas system. “Obviously the royalty flow is not going to be $1bn this year,” says Dale Craymer, president of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association. “We’re probably going to see much slower growth of the corpus as a result of the oil price drop.” read more: https://www.ft.com/content/ab2f0277-1ec0-47ea-a674-9c205fa22c01