GMG_Dallas

Some of their student play-by-play guys went viral a couple years ago for their humor during radio broadcasts. I don't doubt it's some students with the freedom to do whatever they please as long as it's appropriate. About your UNT Dallas and UNT Frisco assessment, I'm in agreement that I like seeing the other UNT branches succeed. I wonder if having them do well at the D1 level wouldn't enhance the perception of the Denton campus a bit. Most of your flagship schools have their other system schools also compete at the D1 level but it's usually pretty clear which campus is the primary. Just a thought.

P4 OC jobs pay as well or better than G5 HC gigs these days plus NFL teams occasionally hire college coaches to be a coordinator. We absolutely could finish .500 with top 10 offensive stats and see him move on.

Surrendering ourselves to a G5 playoff would be disastrous. It would give the P4 all the ammo they need to effectively remove the automatic bid for the highest ranked G5 champ. The correct solution, in today's environment, is to maintain the automatic G5 bid for the main playoffs and have a mixed G5/P4 NIT style tournament as Pernetti suggested. Don't take, add. Wouldn't be a bad idea to allocate future "NIT" and playoff spots per conference based on their previous performances. They do this in Europe for their European tournaments. Each league gets a coefficient rating based on the previous 5 years performance in European competitions. Not performing? You lose spots. Performing? You gain spots. So you know, the ACC going 1-9 so far, the Big12 going 2-7 back in 2022, the SEC going 6-8 and ACC going 2-4 both in 2021 would have some affect on that rating and future potential spots in the playoffs and NIT. No reason the ACC should get 2 spots next year considering this year's playoffs. The rating would just ensure transparency.

Didn't play against us. Looks like he'd been battling injuries this season.

The ACC is 1-9 so far this bowl season with 3 games to go. 0-4 against the G5 unless you count Washington State as a G5 now.

Before Army's bowl results this evening, the AAC is 5-1 in bowls this year. The lone loss is Tulane who was playing without their QB while Florida had Lagway who started much of the season. If Army handles business and we figure out a way to win, the AAC will finish with an impressive 7-1 bowl record and 3-1 against the P4. Regardless we're still looking at a 6-2 record if Army and us split ours. Good stuff from the conference!

Hopefully that evens things out for our defense a bit. I don't doubt our offense will be ready to go in some capacity. May not be 50 passes but they'll get their yards on the ground.

Will Mack Leftwich be coaching Texas State's offense since he's been hired to be Texas Tech's OC?

https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/ben-baby/ He's a UNT grad who started his career at the Denton Record Chronicle in 2011. Way to represent UNT!

The NIL/Transfer portal has put a damper on the bowl game because our top producers on offense are no longer on the team. I'm going to the bowl game but I'm starting to wonder why. The offense will be closer to a spring game offense than what we actually fielded a month ago... because of the transfer portal.

Suddenly cheap seats and empty stadiums don't seem so bad.

Understood. Time will tell. I'm just hopeful things change. I don't necessarily care for things to be the way they were either but for the sake of college sports as a whole, things have to change. There is no future with this current system.

When I hit submit reply, I thought to myself how funny it was they used the word "committed." Didn't last long!

I'd like him to just to avoid playing against him To add

80,000 fans aren't necessarily the ones footing the bill for NIL, though. The issue with this current model is nobody could go to the games and nobody could watch on TV but player salaries would still be funded by big money boosters. There's no correlation between a team's revenue, or the sport's revenue as a whole, and player salaries/NIL deals. The NFL doesn't work this way. When overall viewership goes up, media deals gain value which increases media distribution to the franchises and raises salary caps with it when new media deals are signed. NFL teams are required to spend 89% of the salary cap over a 4 year span or pay the difference to their players because that money comes from media deals. The teams make most of their money from ticket sales, merchandise sales, and such but those don't pay salaries like they might in the MLB or even NBA which allows for a luxury tax when exceeding the salary cap. For the NCAA to follow a similar model where wins and losses don't matter to "school" salary pools (insane to type), you'd need an NCAA-wide media deal that pays all schools the same and a salary cap that is the same across the board determined by that media deal. I doubt it'll ever happen. We'd be right back at boosters paying players under the table. It's going to have to start with boosters getting spending fatigue to spark change.

Lot of fun bowl games so far. Toledo vs Pitt last night was incredible. This was another great game as well.

Exactly. Should have read this before replying to @GMG24.

Completely agree with you. I really don't care about how this affects him or other coaches at premiere athletic departments. I'm only looking at this from the lense of boosters who thought they'd outspend every other school only to lose their legendary coaches early to burnout. Spending is easy when you're winning. Not as easy when you're on the outside looking in (Miami, Alabama, Michigan, LSU, etc...). The big spenders will dictate the future of college athletics either by making this all worst or by seeking to stabilize this mess.

Thank you for clarifying as well.

Certainly changes my tune about him then. He's lucky he still had a home here in Denton. Maybe one day we'll be in a position talent wise to tell guys like that their services are no longer needed and they no longer have a scholarship at UNT.

Wonder if that's why he entered the portal and then returned. With Mercer starting, he probably figured he'd lost his spot then got it back once Mercer entered the portal.

I don't feel sorry for them. I'm just taking inventory of the landscape. If schools like Miami, Alabama, and Texas find this new era isn't as easy to win in as they thought, we might get some positive change for the sport in the form of salary caps and maybe even a legit pro sports transfer system where you have to pay the other school a release clause to snatch a player.

These are estimated total costs based on what the schools and depth of education provide. The schools included estimated costs for books, transportation, and personal/miscellaneous expenses in their total cost of attendance. All to say, I wouldn't take the numbers as 100% accurate. I just looked at UTSA cost of attendance and the estimated is over $29k. Looking at tuition alone, we are a few hundred more expensive than Tech and UTSA though. I wonder if some schools lower their tuition rate a tad because they know stuff like housing is more expensive in their area (example San Antonio and Houston vs Denton). I don't know what the cost of living is like in Lubbock.

Please move if needed, posting here as it's related to NIL and is probably more applicable to football than basketball. Miami basketball head coach is resigning. The following are quotes that should be of concern to any fan but especially some of your blue blood programs. What happens when you can no longer outspend your peers so your legendary coaches leave? Saban was the most name worthy retirement but there's been plenty others and here's another big name leaving. NIL will be reeled in when the big money boosters lose their favorite coaches, no longer see the wins on their records, and see they can no longer just money-whip their way to success. From the Miami Herald: “At this point, after 53 years, I just didn’t feel that I could successfully navigate this whole new world that I was dealing with because my conversations were ridiculous with an agent saying to me, `Well, you can get involved [with a prospective player] if you’re willing to go to $1.1 million, and that would be the norm.” ... “What shocked me beyond belief was after we made the Final Four just 18 months ago, the very first time I met with the players, eight of them decided they were going to put their names in the portal and leave. “I said, `Don’t you like it here?’ They’d say, `I love Miami, it’s great.’ But the opportunity to make money someplace else created a situation that you have to begin to ask yourself, as a coach, what is this all about?’’ He added that he tried “every which way” to make things work, but “last year was a disaster”, and this year was not going well, either. He felt the new players were not buying in as transfers had in years prior." https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article297597538.html