DentonLurker

At the end of the day, if this turns into ACC vs. State of Florida, I'm putting my money on the State of Florida. My guess is this thing ends up settling for a lot less than the current buyout. Even Texas basically says you can't sue me. Look at what happened with Texas Tech and Mike Leach. It's also worth noting that the P5 is history. I'll be surprised if the new "division" includes the likes of SMU. SMU will be right back in the "G5" like the rest of us.

I can’t imagine a lot of people here would have cared much about school, the program, etc. if say Brint Ryan came up to them with a check for $500k each of the next 4 years and said, “this is yours whether you graduate or not.”

Kason talk again? Good grief. He may be a good enough person, but he wasn't an FBS level QB.

In today's landscape, I want anyone who makes the team better one year at a time. If that means a transfer QB who is one and done at UNT, so be it.

Agreed. If you can get paid now, go do it. You can always worry about school later.

Dude’s a true freshman and played what? A handful of snaps this year? How could you possibly know that yet?

Definitely not the guy. At least he wasn’t this year.

You should do a little research into his time as OC at Indiana and North Carolina before you pop off about this. Coming in hot with your own little narrative, eh?

I have no idea what his financial situation is. How do we know he didn’t voluntarily agree to less money? My only real point is none of us have any idea how all of this shakes out behind the scenes. At the end of the day, he took the job for the amount he took it for. It’s up to him and his agent to negotiate what’s best for him.

If you want to interpret it that way, fine. I want our stadium full. I don’t particularly care what shirt the fan is wearing. I’m tired of half empty game days in Denton. And I’m tired of waiting on the stars to align for so much of this fanbase to support this athletic department. I want us to play teams that people from Texas know about and/or know/work with people who went to those schools.

The problem with those types of teams is they just don’t really sell tickets. If we start winning and our fans show up no matter who we play, then I say we schedule whoever we want. My strategy until then would be to schedule teams that will put butts in seats and cause us to sell out of beer like Texas State did at SMU yesterday.

I don’t really get this argument. I feel like they would travel and buy tickets. Certainly a lot more chance of a rivalry that would have financial benefits than 90% of our current slate of non-conference games. If our fans bought up all the single game tickets and we sold out no matter who we play, I would agree with you. But we don’t.

And yet, we act like we are somehow too good to play them.

Dang, man… Some of you can literally find the worst in everything this staff does. I honestly have no idea why some of you even follow this team, much less take time to post here. The thing with recruiting is you just never know anything until they put on the team gear and trot on the field.

For those of you who are convinced Braxton is the guy, what has you sold on him? His 2023 stats are not great. It doesn’t even look like he played very much. Am I just missing something about him?

Even if you take out family money, he got $3.2 million in NIL $’s this year as backup QB at Texas.

That feels like all internet rumor to me.

Coach Morris knows ball. QB ball to be specific. I am just not worried about QB with Morris as our head coach.

You do realize the NCAA takes their marching orders from the schools, right? Honestly, I blame the non-power schools for not pushing back against the power schools along the way. The current state of college football is not the fault of the NCAA.

Agreed

They just put out another 🧩

You must not pay for much media if you’re not paying for information someone else got for free.

I have all the confidence in the world that Morris will deliver on that. That’s why I’m happy to see the other pieces they’re putting together.

People just make crap up to stir the pot…