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"original poster child for pay for play"..... Tell me you know nothing without telling me you know nothing. Not even the worst in the SWC let alone the poster child.

He's getting north of $500k and getting to finish out his college career at a P4 program that has elite academics. Lil' Morris' dad fleeced Arkansas for about $20m so I don't think he's gonna have to worry about begging for nickels under Harry Hines.

Yeah what an idiot getting a degree (or grad degree) from one of the best public institutions in the nation....

but how do you really feel?

Brett Yormark, Big 12 Commissioner, basically told SMU that there was one school in the country that made obvious sense to add and it was SMU but TCU, OK State, Baylor, Tech, etc. did not want to elevate SMU. This year is proving them right to a certain degree b/c with the level playing field SMU will outspend and surpass them in record time. Why waste four years of your life in Lubbock, Stillwater, Fort Worth, or Waco when you could be in Dallas?

what a bunch of garbage. Schools have been paying players, inducing high school recruits, and skirting (or outright ignoring) the rules since they started keeping score. The only difference now is that its out in the open for everyone to see. This is a bunch of revisionist history and yearning for the "good ol days" when in truth this stuff has always been there.

Nope. Embrace that entire era. We were willing to take care of our players financially and paid the ultimate price to do it. Now? Everyone's doing it. We have a billionaire class that has tasted some success and now can't get enough of it. SMU is going to consistently be a Top 4 team in the ACC.

TCU is academic trash. Four year country club where rich Yankees can cosplay as ranch hands.

If you think a handful of billionaires can eradicate world hunger you should return your UNT degree (and I certainly hope you're not an ECON major).

Yes. UNT can be an upper tier G5 program. Very few G5's have the combination of location, resources, etc. From all indications, however, there is not an institutional or administrative desire to win at a high level. Until that happens it'll be Frisco Bowl levels of success.

Keep telling yourself that when you're watching the Frisco Bowl and SMU is playing Notre Dame in the Peach Bowl. Money talks Copium Commando.

If you honestly think what happened to SMU was in any way fair treatment given what other programs were doing at the time (or what has happened in the subsequent 35 plus years since) then are you divorced from reality. SMU was made an example of and it did absolutely nothing to curtail paying players or offering inducements to high school recruits. Nothing. The NCAA has long since acknowledged had they known the fallout from SMU that the death penalty would've never been on the table. It took all of one year playing in a power conference to see SMU's potential now that the administration, boosters, and athletic department are all in alignment.

RL's extension puts him north of $6m a year through 2031. He's not going anywhere unless its a true blue blood (top 10-12 programs in the country from a prestige perspective). Above poster is correct. Its about money. The billionaire lot finally has a taste of success and now the floodgates are officially open. Basketball has a Top 10 recruiting class. Football on the cusp of a CFP run. School if fully committed to winning at the highest level. The sleeping giant is wide awake and ready to seek vengeance on the most egregious and unfair penalty ever handed down to a college program. 40 years worth of revenge about to be unleashed.

With all the uncertainty regarding college athletics now is not the time to abandon ship. Who knows what the sport will look like in 5-10 years. UNT has more resources at its disposal than the vast majority of G5 programs. No way is now the time the throw in the towel.

Chandler Morris isn't going anywhere. UNT is the perfect spot for him.

I wouldn't say that SMU will never play UNT again.

In 5 years there will be no more P4-G5 regular season games.

Inevitable outcome but the revenue relegation piece is somewhat interesting.

Certainly but Baylor's entire class is set to dissolve. Most kids committed only b/c of NIL promises which will no doubt be thrown into question with a coaching change.

There are about to be mass defections from Baylor commits when Aranda gets canned in early November.

It was not well deserved within the context of what others were doing at the time. SMU's cardinal sin was not paying players. It was beating Texas, A&M, and Arkansas without being protected as a blue blood.