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A University that produces rich, successful alumni that love sports, hate losing and are willing to spend their money to influence change in the athletic department.

Comparing the viewership numbers to our home attendance, it looks clear to me that our fan base did indeed watch the game. Maybe questions need to be asked to our school administration about why our fan base is that small.

Compared to our student body, yes, no doubt.

I’ve been beating this drum in other posts, but the bottom line is that the culture and identity of this university does not attract sports fans. Those students turn into alumni that still don’t like sports, no matter how much winning is going on. You would think that the administration would be interested in why our alumni are less engaged and less likely to donate compared to other schools of our size, but the answers likely won’t be pretty and go far beyond just wins and losses.

You’ve hit the nail on the head, our University has far too much in common with UTA. That’s our biggest problem. As for being a SMU wanna be? If by that you mean having some semblance of admission standards, not just accepting anybody that walks off the street, producing successful, proud alumni that earn tons of money and will use that money to wield influence in college athletics? Yeah, you damn right I’d like some of that in Denton.

Haha, Frisco? Those kids are going to a P5 or somewhere that has academic standards. We might be getting a few Plano kids, but it’s more like Lewisville, Grand Prairie, Arlington, Garland and the like.

We don’t have the donors. We have a few donors that have enough money to gain access to the decision makers, but no donors that have enough money to BE the decision makers. This school hasn’t produced a Boone Pickens or a Tillman Ferttita or a group of donors that bankroll conference re-alignment. We don’t have anybody that hates losing and has the money to do something about it. That’s on the university. The cancer is the university lowering admission standards, selling a “best value” degree, marketing toward commuters, community college transfers, first generation college students, international students, liberal arts, music and freaks. The one demographic we don’t market toward is the one demographic that comprises 99% of athletic donor money. The school actively tells them to go elsewhere. This school is perfectly fine with picking up the cutting room floor for pretty much every other school in the state. That’s the cancer.

He fits in perfectly at UNT if he despises football.

I can’t tell if this is serious or parody. So what do the people who actually get paid by the AD to perform this job do?

The time and the location is the point. They don’t want the DFW working class crashing their exclusive club.

Vengeful dictator? Give me a break. If you’re so scared do us a favor and GTFO.

The few alumni that actually like football have supported the program at one time or another. No need to keep beating them up. Problem is that roughly 250,000 of those alumni hate sports.

This school doesn’t market themselves to or attract sports fans or football fans or the type of person that will donate to a program before any kind of sustained success. Until that changes…

Who?

That picture is enough for any potential donor’s manhood to go into retreat.

Should have set up a football game nearby. They would have dispersed immediately.

Ding. Ding. Ding. The demographic most tied to athletic funding is the demographic most underrepresented and actively discouraged from attending UNT. Take a walk around campus at UNT and take a walk around pretty much any P5 school. It’s 2 different worlds. This is exactly why I say things won’t change until we change the profile of the student this school attracts.

The school administration has to change the profile of the type student they market to. Period. Until then, the "Director of Marketing and Fan Engagement" is going to have an uphill climb.

Take it up with the school administration and the type of student they market this school to.

And like it or not, those are the type of people who buy tickets and support football teams. App St. and UNT attract vastly different types of students. Most students who are attracted to UNT are opposed to any outwardly display of testosterone. As said in previous posts by others, you can’t force somebody to like football, and this school attracts far too many students that hate sports.

Yes

Unless things change this season, every network except NBC has enough room on the bug for “North Texas.” ESPN definitely has enough room, that’s the one that matters now being in the American. However, on ESPN’s bottom line, their ticker, they have been using “N Texas.” If the networks aren’t using the logos or wordmarks that the AD would like them to use, then they need to be more aggressive in getting them the right logos. The networks will use whatever the school wants them to use, but some PA in Bristol won’t know if the school wants Diving EagleUNT or just plain Diving Eagle if nobody tells them. They’re making art for hundreds or thousands of teams across all of their properties.

Ticket holders will get their license plate frame and like it!

Since when did the AAC logo include a giant black stripe?

This stuff is ugly. I'd argue that we still don't have options. The most requested Nike sideline items have never been available to us. I'll stop moaning and groaning about merch when the items the staff wear on the sideline are made available to the public.