MeanGreen22

I think he's made some positive changes in a lot of key areas. The fall kickoff gala before football season was a great event. I believe season ticket sales are up across the board(?). The street basketball event was a lot of fun. I think he's handled 2 coaching hires pretty well.. I like Eric and think he's a good coach (but yes, this is a make a break year.. just how this goes). I LOVE Ross. Even though that was kind of a layup, Jared should get props for not overthinking and wanting to make a big splash on his first hire. Football made some great strides this year in putting butts in seats. Win a couple more games that it looks even better. Yes, basketball is still behind in that regard but its not fair to ask someone to fix a couple decade long issue in 2 years. I've seen enough positives to give him the benefit of the doubt and give flexibility to things here or there that may still need addressing.

Porter earned a scholarship. I also don’t care that we didn’t give him one. Good luck to him. Exciting times at UTEP.

I would surely hope they would hype this up more than they have. Be a shame if they did this on 48 hour notice and the stands were empty.

I don’t really understand the strong desire some have to expand. Like a couple others said, if the conference loses some teams, sure.. they’d be on the short list. But we’re already seeing the flaws in these huge conferences and not being able to play everyone on a yearly basis. Lets see what the next couple years looks like before the AAC just starts throwing invites out to anyone that shows a couple good athletic years.

I’d like to log a prediction that he ends up at Texas State.

Oh absolutely. I wanted to make note that the kids have a blast playing at the games and they themselves are not just phoning it in. Band leadership are the ones that need to step up and drive better fan engagement/excitement.

FWIW, you can tell the band members are absolutely having a great time doing what they do. I just wish that would translate to more fan engagement.

It’s been kinda assumed that Isheem Young would take his final year elsewhere, but I think a strong argument could be made by this staff to stay and take that defensive “QB” role he was going to be this year.

This was specific to basketball but applies here as well, but was told once by a North Texas fan that they wouldn’t stand up and cheer until the end of the game. Kinda sums of the bulk of our fanbase. Is it apathy? Is it lack of pride? Too “cool” to cheer? Idk. But I do know Texas State fans created a definite home field advantage on Friday. And don’t give me this football being a disappointment nonsense. Texas State came into the season looking at a conference championship and dark horse CFP G5 rep and ended with 7 wins instead. They still showed up and showed out.

The face of a kid about to become a North Texas legend

Might cost $30k just to live in Austin let alone attend college. State propaganda.

And they sure have been hitting these 3 positions hard in the portal. Feels like 3/4 of our commits are just these positions. Which I love.

I believe I saw this was a temp rule by the NCAA only applying to outgoing seniors this season. Basically so they weren't tied up in court over the Pavia and all the following suits.

University of North Texas of Sam Houston State in Denton

You would have thought we'd have a couple former JUCO guys in their senior year with potential to come back by nope. Rempert the only one and he's in the portal now.