MeanGreen22

Same twitter folks that were all over Grant to TTU, unfortunately.

Ever had a boss that told you to do something you really didn't want to do? Now did you do it? Of course you did.

Absolutely on the school administration but Jared is having to take the fall as the face of athletics. Jared is a basketball guy through and through, and I’d bet is just as annoyed by this as we are

Host a quarterfinal game against a Big12 team? Sorry, can’t. Employee pizza party that day.

Think Brett deleted this when realized the tweet was aggregated from a small podcast that was giving their "projection" based on rumors.

Grant was at $1mil when he finally got poached. Ross will hit that number very soon.

Really need the Shockers to return to their former glory. Their fans are awesome and passionate. Would be a HUGE boost to the image of American basketball.

He wants to go back to the good ol days where the SEC got to pay kids under the table instead.

That’s kinda what I’m saying. What if the AD had investigated and the feedback is “We’re good”? Let’s not pretend that most kids that go to UNT aren’t there for the athletic prestige. I’m just trying to play devils advocate here because it’s obviously not an easy task or else it would be done.

Has anyone stopped to think maybe we know why people don’t show and it just is what it is. We collectively come here and workshop different things to engage the unengaged, but if they just don’t want to come then not sure what you’re suppose to do at this point.

What a loser way of thinking. Win your games and you'll get a spot.

FWIW, the do usually do a "Greek" night once a year. Only so many times you can really pull that string. Also, don't discount the blue haired "nerds" of UNT. More of them show up to these games than Greek life does.

If they truly wanted Texas State, it would be announced by now. Seems pretty plain that they are the back up to the back up plan. Unfortunately for the Pac, that plan is the most likely at this point in time.

"Also, the Bobcats are good enough – they have gone bowling each of the past two seasons." Man if this is the criteria, we should be considered a powerhouse program after going bowling 7 out of the last 9 seasons lol

Evans, Sibley, Gray, McGill, Harris, Clayton-Johnson, Hawkins, Becks. Just a loaded room full of talent. Cobbs will comb through it all and get us worked out.

It's not shown in the rendering but I remember hearing that the central video board would be replaced with TWO video boards on each side that were the same size as the current one. Now maybe that has changed but renderings are not always the final product.

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.