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Believe it or not, it's not uncommon for people to unknowingly buy stolen cars from private sellers. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he's innocent in this. Don't see why he'd come out to move the truck otherwise.

Just want to point out some bowl game numbers: Friday 12/20 at 3:30 pm on ESPN, Tulane vs Florida, 1.78 million Friday 1/3 at 4:00 pm on ESPN, UNT vs Texas State, 1.7 million Monday 12/23 at 11:00 am on ESPN, UTSA vs Coastal Carolina, 767k Saturday 12/28 at 2:15 pm on ESPN, TCU vs Louisiana Lafayette, 1.22 million Saturday 12/28 at 5:45 pm on ESPN, ECU vs NC State, 886k Tuesday 12/17 at 9:00 pm on ESPN, Memphis vs WVU, 1.2 million Wednesday 12/18 at 9:00 pm on ESPN, Cal vs UNLV, 1.48 million (7pm local for CAL and UNLV) Different dates and times, all on ESPN. If I'm a PAC rep, I'm looking at that Texas State vs UNT game and seeing dollar signs. If I'm UNT and Texas State leadership, I'm pointing it out as well. Close to Tulane vs Florida at essentially the same time slots two Fridays prior, better than several other AAC vs P5 opponents, better than several other Westcoast teams, etc... Texas State vs UNT on a Friday evening that could do 1+ million on a yearly basis in a time zone the rest of the PAC doesn't cover would be great for the conference.

Joining the PAC NOW guarantees we're finally not late to the party. We obviously were late to the AAC party but this is a chance to leave this before the collapse and join a conference on the rise. It's interesting to say going out West isn't a good idea while simultaneously pointing at a program that went out West and then jumped to a P5. Yes, we'd have to go all in. No matter what we do, we should go all in. My question to you is, where do we have greater potential if we go all in: the conference that looks to be a 4-5 bid basketball conference and just had a team in the 12 team playoffs or the team that's at best a 2 bid basketball conference and who's last CFP team is now in the BIG 12? Seems pretty obvious which conference is on the rise and which one is crashing but I guess that's just me.

If I'm not mistaken, the new revenue sharing model will have a cap on how much a school can distribute to NIL. Schools will be able to share 22% of revenue with a cap of about $20 million. Bump the HC salary by a few extra millions using revenue then have the coach "donate" that extra money into the NIL fund so it's not technically from revenue but the source is in fact school revenue.

I can see this being problematic. What stops a school like Texas from paying a coach $20 million per year with the expanding the coach donates half to the NIL?

Eh this poster seems misinformed. We make less than they do for now because we just joined our conference. In addition, we're in a part of the country over saturated with sports options. Those MW conferences have had the benefit of occupying rather empty TV time slots due to being the secondary option on the west coast. Simple supply and demand. Hawaii and New Mexico are not worth more than we are other than that they fill TV time slots the rest of the country can't.

Really just shows a misunderstanding of what a commuter is. Living in an apartment half a mile from campus doesn't make you a commuter even though you're not on campus. 82% of our students living off campus is no different than many other schools.

I've said it here before, if politicians were smart they'd put the clamps on college athletics and equal out media dollars across the board, and set salary caps in an effort to level out the playing field. Looking at Texas alone for example, we could be boosting economy in cities like El Paso, San Marcos, Denton, and Huntsville in addition to the already sports-dependent markets like Austin, College Station, and Lubbock. Instead we'd rather keep the same few markets at the top and let the others struggle. Why you wouldn't want more money circulating is beyond me but I guess anything to keep the top dogs happy.

Yeah I caught that part. Guess it just seems like a random thing to bring up. I'd imagine many assistants cross paths over the years while recruiting.

Robinson said in the interview he and Hodge were assistants together at one point. Anybody know where? Or maybe I misunderstood in that they were both assistants at the same time which would seem odd to mention. Made it sound like they've worked together before.

If you take away all the games where we gave up more points than we put up, we're actually undefeated!

There's plenty of dual threat HS QBs who you could recruit. Guys who may not get a sniff at QB at the P5 level but wants to play QB and would be the best athlete on the field at the G5 level. We already regularly seem to have some guys like that on our roster.

None of this is relevant in 2025. They haven't had a winning season in baseball since 2017 and football since 2014.

A good coach is a good coach. No such thing as "just" being a good coach in a bad conference. If that were the case, highmajor programs wouldn't constantly be plucking head coaches from lower tier conferences...

It's been said McCasland couldn't run his system to its fullest here because he didn't have the athletes needed which is why his teams at Tech have looked the way they have. I think it's fair to say a coach in the Horizon may also limit his system to the available athletes. It doesn't take getting into details to come to that conclusion. All I'm saying is let's see what he can do here.

I don't know look it up. You're the one complaining.

Reserving judgment until he actually starts coaching games for us. I don't think McCasland was any more successful at Arkansas State before coming here and Hodge had no D1 HC experience. Maybe Robinson's system couldn't fully be run due to the recruiting challenges the Horizon presents?

Colorado State just promoted a 36 year old who served 1 year as the associate HC and has never been a HC. James Miller has some HC experience and experience with McCasland as an assistant. If we want continuity in our current system that's given us a decade of success, who else is out there? Since I've seen some mention Scott Cross, I'll say it: I really hope we don't go that route. Nothing about him strikes me as homerun hire. He's been a HC for 18 seasons and these are his accomplishments: Championships 1 Southland tournament (2008) 1 Sun Belt tournament (2025) 1 Southland West Division (2012) 2 Sun Belt regular season (2017, 2025) He was barely above .500 in his conference games at UTA and is barely above .500 in conference at Troy. I understand neither has a rich history but neither do we. We shouldn't be paying a buyout for an "established" .500 coach.

The record has less to do with how good of a JUCO coach he was and more to do with experience leading a program at some level of college.

Former McCasland assistant here with us and has been successful everywhere he's been (except Oklahoma State). I should clarify, Oklahoma State wasn't successful but that seems to be a recurring theme lately.

I'm not completely sold on Valentine based on the fact he inherited a Sweet 16 team and went 10-21 two years later. He's bounced back nicely but like Miller, there's some reason for concern. I'd be happy either way though.

I remember being skeptical of Hodge's abilities to recruit new rosters every year and people here pointed out he had success doing it at the JUCO level where you have to recruit a new roster every year. Miller did just that at New Mexico Junior College where he went 77-23 in 3 seasons and had 21 guys go to from JUCO to D1. It was around 09-12 so it's been a while but Hodge's HC experience wasn't really recent if I remember correctly. I'm not saying I'm 100% on Miller but I certainly wouldn't be upset if he were the guy.

I've watched games but never really paid attention to the crowd. I looked at their attendance the past 3 years and it's pretty consistently between 9k and 15k. Very impressive for a mid-major. https://www.statista.com/statistics/219827/attendance-at-ncaa-mens-basketball-games/ Expand that attendance rankings list and you'll see New Mexico on there, above Texas Tech, Uconn, Memphis, Alabama, and Michigan. Very impressive.

Honestly hard to say if they're on the same level with the recent Mountain West losses but UNM has shown they're willing to spend for basketball. They renovated their arena around 2009 at a reported cost of $60 million. I'd imagine they'd be willing to bump pay for Kennedy if he's the guy they want.

Agreed.