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Do you have to buy the all session pass at $125? Is there not an option for single tickets?

No clue. It's not advertised on the tickets website that I could see. Gotcha. Yeah surely there's more they can do. When I was there (2011-2014), I don't remember there being many efforts made to get students to go. Honestly, it was almost like athletics didn't exist unless it was homecoming or if you chose to pay attention.

Now I'm known as a cheap guy so don't fight me on this, but if they want seats filled up, they should lower this to $5 tickets for the rest of the season. Currently the cheapest tickets to the game on 2-24 are $16. Factor in a family of 4 you're looking at $64 plus taxes, fees, gas, and food/drinks. Times are tough and prices everywhere are going up. Budgets are tight for some families. $5 tickets makes it really hard to pass up. Not much out there that can beat $20 family entertainment for a family of 4. Just like pro sporting events, the prices are up because of scalpers but basic ticket prices are actually relatively low. Like I said, don't fight me. My point is make it as difficult as possible to pass up. When I was at UNT, the Cinemark used to do half off on Thursdays and half off for students. We used to go for $3. Hard to pass up no matter what movies are out there.

Also, make it easier to get tickets. I have a family of 7. UNT doesn't sell online unless through Stub Hub. I can't buy 7 tickets at once on their site. The max is 6 or 8. So I either need to drive from nearly Terrell to Denton to go to the box office or call/email and give my payment that way. People don't buy stuff that way, it's all online. Not a great way to get casual fans to buy tickets.

It's great that you could make that drive. For me, coming from Kaufman County, 1 hour will get me to north dallas at that time of day. And after a long day of work, a causal fan or "simply" alumni is not making that 1 hour drive even if just from Plano. The fans who care about the team know how good they are. If they know how good they are and aren't making it, it's because they can't. Those who aren't making it don't care to know how good they are because it's not their thing. This needs to be about building local fans who can consistently make games and the way to do that is to find the people who it would be easy to make the games. Create new fans. Expose people but to people won't budge on something they don't care about if it's inconvenient. That's local fans you need to get. You aren't going to get somebody who doesn't care about UNT athletics to drive 1 hour in traffic after work to watch a game they don't care about, doesn't matter how many hot dogs you give away.

This is all that's needed and frankly, it's all that should be focused on. SMU's website shows an average home attendance of 3,314. Ours shows 3,151. It's tough to draw basketball attendance without being in a major conference and it's not just us. That said, the students alone should be able to fill the Super Pit with ease. Unfortunately, support for UNT athletics is always low amongst students. I went as much as I could when I was at UNT and don't understand why more students don't get their butts in there. You're not going to pull casual people from DFW to get all the way to Denton for a college game mid-Saturday with everything else there is to do and if they wanted to see a college basketball game, SMU or TCU are closer. Judging by SMU's numbers, college basketball is just not a priority event for Dallasites on a Saturday. On Thursdays, that's a heck of a drive in traffic unless you're a die hard fan taking off work. This is me speaking from personal experience. I want to make games but I can't. I work Saturdays and live 65 miles away. I can't make that drive in evening traffic on Thursdays for a 6pm game when my kids have school and get out at 4:15 living 65 miles across DFW. I'm not the only one in this boat. If they want consistent attendance, they have to get it from the students and locals.

My assumption that they know of Lofton is based on him being team USA's leading scorer in the most recent FIBA U-19 world cup and leading team USA to gold. The basketball world knows who he is. Bleacher Report has him in the under the radar draft prospects for 2022. If you're saying NET rankings and other factors are more important then I'll take your word. I'm not too familiar with the at-large process and what they look for.

Sooo my thoughts are this... La Tech is the only team with a chance of an at large bid but they'd probably have to make a run in the conference tourney. I say this because that guy Lofton Jr is an NBA prospect and I wonder if he wouldn't boost them into an at-large bid because of the hype. Thoughts?

What does it take in general? Since 2015, a C-USA team has pulled off an upset in the first round of every March Madness but 1 (not including the Covid off year). It's crazy that despite consistently pulling off upsets of top teams, we don't get better seeding and/or an at-large bid team.

Where to look forward... last season we had the number 1 class in C-USA. Number 2 the year before in 2020, number 4 in 2019. We've had what, 5 or 6 transfer? And we're gaining 6 transfers from other programs. I'm not worried in the recruiting department. I don't like what SL has produced in terms of on-field production because I feel like the results should be better based on our relative recruiting success. To criticize the recruiting classes seems like complaining for the sake of complaining. That's where my issue with your negativity stems from.

Why are you showing a screenshot of a recruiting rank before signing day and that doesn't include our 6 transfers?

Are there 25 projects being recruited?

And how do you know who that kid is when they're still in high school? If you never recruit any projects, you'll never hit on any either. If only it were that easy to just get the "one kid like that" 100% of the time... we've got guys crying on here about losing Brammer who was a 2 star (247) recruit with 5 offers, two of which were UNT and Texas Southern, and none of which were big programs. Then we've got you crying about recruiting Sampson who is *currently* unrated with 6 offers (more than the other guy!) including the same UNT and Texas Southern as Brammer. Make it make sense!

Some of y'all are never happy. When a local under-recruited kid does big things at another school, we cry about how we can't find guys like that. When we go after a project with huge potential but little offers, we cry about how the offer list or whatever else isn't good enough. Can't teach size. He has that. Let the coaches earn their money and develop him.

In that case why not just go D2 and be the best sh*t on turd mountain? I'm honestly not expecting much in the football realm but I can't wait to see what our basketball program can do in the AAC. For me, it's time to move forward understanding building a successful football program is highly unlikely under the rules. That said, March Madness Basketball is the best because anybody can make a run. UNT basketball in the AAC sounds like lots of UNT basketball in March to me. I can't wait to see what our Mean Green can do in AAC basketball.

What? First, it's part of college football. You only get players for 4 years of playing time barring an exception. It's not like we're in the pros where you wasted a first round draft pick who was supposed to be with your team for 15 years. We know every year, players including starters will leave. Theoretically, you should have around 25 players leave every year if you recruit 25 from HS every year. If there isn't another LT ready to take over, that's the coaching staff's fault - not Brammer. Second, I can't compare a football player I don't know leaving a year early to my wife and the mother of my kids leaving. If you feel that strongly about this, please, for your sake, understand it's not that serious. You're going to be ok. My perspective is this. My happiness as a fan is not more important than this guy's life. I want UNT to be the most successful out there but not at the expense of a college kid's personal experiences. If a player wants to leave, that's his life. He owes us as fans nothing. We will survive. I'm sure the Alabamas of the world don't get mad when a player declares for the draft early. We shouldn't be upset when a player leaves for a P5 for his last year playing the game he's loved his whole life.

All this boo-hooing over a kid trying to do better for himself seems selfish to me. Obviously I hate losing good talent but I can't blame a guy for trying to take advantage of his talent to experience something new. After college, a lot of these guys will never play again. I don't blame him for wanting to take advantage of his last chance to experience P5 football. He's given the program a few good years and for that let's be thankful. Now it's up to our coaches to take advantage of the transfer portal as well.

Fair enough. I was just curious. I admittedly don't know much about him so I didn't know if it was a fun tease, coach's kid who walked-on, or what... thanks. And I hope he turns into a great player. Some of the stuff I've read about a few of the young guys have me excited.

Hey y'all, I follow the games but don't spend much time on here. What's the joke with him? I just looked up his recruiting profile and he's a freshman who had decent offers. Or is it just that he's a true freshman getting minutes so your team got blown out?

Thanks. Glad he's still playing. I saw him at the State Fair when he was still at UNT. Nice guy. He seemed shocked I knew who he was. Frankly, Nic Smith (RB) was shocked I knew who he was when I saw him at the fair too. And yes, these videos the nfl have been producing are pretty good.

Good video. I'm sharing this to see if anybody knows who's at the 6 minute mark with the North Texas shirt? Looks like maybe Jordan Murray but I didn't think he was in the NFL more than a minute. This video is a year old so maybe he was with a team when the video was filmed. Anybody know? Anyways, I found it awesome to see an NFL video with a North Texas shirt in it. Thanks!

You seem to be misunderstanding the difference between coaching candidate criteria and going after a specific person. It's why I said y'all are delusional. Chadwell ain't coming here. Move on and look for somebody who could view HC here as a promotion, not a step down. Alright I'm out. Have fun throwing out random names of people who are already in better situations thinking they'll head over to Denton to be your hero.

God y'all are delusional. I hadn't logged on here for over a year or even looked on here in that time for this reason. You seriously think a guy coaching the number 16th ranked team will come to C-USA when he'll have $3-$4 million P5 offers at the end of the season if he keeps this up? Coastal Carolina's previous headcoach went 56-22 and had only 1 year of HC experience which was coaching the Omaha Knighthawks of the UFL where he went 1-3. He started at Coastal Carolina at 62 or 63 years old so he wasn't some young up-and-coming flashy hire either. The reality is, there is no magical criteria that will get you THE GUY. Some coaches are a hit and some aren't. You can't keep limiting criteria by saying we need a this guy or a that guy or a guy with prior HC experience who's no longer HC for a reason and expect to land the next Saban. We need to move on from SL and that is the only thing that needs to be set in stone. Who takes over needs to be wide open.

Why in the world would a coach at a ranked G5 school go to another G5 that just got blown out? Chadwell keeps this up, he'll be a P5 coach after bowl season. He ain't coming to no UNT. Looking at his history, Chadwell was a small school HC from 2009 to 2016 and went to Coastal in 2017 as a positions coach. He groomed there for 2 years and took over in 2019. He wasn't a big flashy coaching hire, just a program recognizing their talent. We can't get consistency by starting over every time we want to fire a coach. It takes too long for a new coach to get "their type of guys" in and by then, 4 years have gone by, the shine is gone, and we're back to looking for a new coach. Is there nobody in our staff with prior experience who is HC material?