DentonLurker

I’m glad they mix it up. There have been so many of these types of things on the club level already. Gotta keep these fresh!

Once the track stadium is complete, basketball offices are done, IPF is done, and athletic center is expanded, I don't think UNT lands that far from the ones you mentioned above. It takes a little time to pull everything together. This administration seems to be determined to do things the right way, which includes refreshes to facilities sooner than later (see athletic center upgrades, basketball practice facility refresh, locker room refreshes, etc.). I think the refresh piece is the piece that was missed by the last administration. It always took too long. Lobbies, locker rooms, public spaces, etc. should all be refreshed every 3 to 5 years, IMHO. That's a big part of getting longer lives out of buildings and preventing them from feeling so dated. It looks like things are heading in the right direction under current university leadership.

I become more and more convinced that this staff worked really hard to plug some holes the first couple of classes, and that doesn’t necessarily translate into stars and high recruiting rankings. Now that they’ve plugged a lot of those holes, I think the stars may start to show up and drive up the recruiting ranking. Just my $0.02.

What is your point?

It appears more like it's just not laid out the way either coach or WB wants it laid out. The article mentions head coach offices not being very big and the two programs sharing a hallway. Sounds like the coaches want it a little more separated between the two programs.

A $25K change order in the grand scheme of athletics or construction, in general, is not that big of a deal. I'm sure there's a bevy of funds in the foundation that can be tapped for this. Glad they're making the change to make it what the coaches and WB want it to be.

At the end of the day, we don't know if the coaches are spending everything they want/need to or if they are not getting to do some stuff because of a lack of funds. Sounds like a good coaches caravan question. Until we know the answer to that question, it's all arbitrary. Arbitrarily increasing a recruiting budget because "we need to be higher" is certainly a waste of money.

You can literally make this argument in every sport, every year... In any given year, wins are wins and losses are losses. That being said, I agree with this. I would bet Littrell and Co. do too.

They used to use that to take the coaches to caravan stops. I remember seeing it multiple times. Not sure if that was just before Baker or if they used it last year. The problem with things like this is you never use them as much as you think you might and they always end up costing more to maintain than they seem like they should.

At the end of the day, the Cotton Bowl Stadium is a dump. The City of Dallas messed up years ago by not spending enough money to upgrade it over time. They're going to lose the Red River Rivalry soon too. The HOD tried to replace the "Cotton Bowl" that moved to AT&T and it just isn't the same anymore. Time to move on.

I would think John Nitardy, Mike Smith, or Reggie Johnson would be able to help you out. I've had good dealings with all 3 of them over the years. The staff directory has phone numbers HERE.

UMS..... Lemme guess

You can CLICK HERE and click a section to see a view from that section. The pricing/colors don't appear to be updated, but the view wouldn't have changed.

If he came in and was better than White/Shorter, why would you worry about eating into their playing time? Shouldn't you put the best players you have on the field?

Yes. Bring him on. You can never have too many receivers in this offense. He had an offer from North Carolina coming out of HS. I wonder if Littrell already has a connection with him?

"Annual scholarship and program support for our student-athletes remains a critical component in our mission of building champions and preparing leaders," Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker said.

Until the money raised actually exceeds the scholarship bill, what difference does it even make where the money goes? State budgets do not work like a bank account. The revenue budget is pretty much exclusive of the expense budget. The only caveat is that total revenue has to match total expenses.

I would bet they fill that spot with either G5 assistants or quality control staffers they already have around their program.

For me, I don't know how it could possibly be enforced via Twitter. There are so many ways to hide who you really are on Twitter. How would they ever prove that a particular person tweeting a recruit is really even a booster and not some opponent fan trying to get that school in trouble? I feel like Twitter would have to cooperate by sharing who the accounts are registered to and I can't imagine that's a precedent that Twitter would want to set. I would agree with Crebus that it is probably very clearly a violation. I just am not sure there would ever really be a way to enforce that via social media platforms like Twitter.

I feel like this will get addressed very quickly. If SL is the up-and-comer many of us think he is and he has lost faith in Ref, he will make a change. If he hasn’t and he feels there are things that contributed to the failures besides just coaching, he won’t make a change. If SL really is going somewhere, I don’t see him blindly sticking with Ref at risk of causing other programs to question his ability to lead a program like what might happen with a coach who is at the end of his career. Just my 2 cents.

I could see playing a non-conference, "neutral site" game in Frisco. I just wouldn't want to lose a home game at Apogee to do it. I went to the FCS champ game in Frisco a few years ago and it's actually a decent venue for a football game. 6 home games, 1 game in Frisco, and 5 road games... I could support that. As far as getting Denton, non-UNT alums involved, I've always thought it would be cool to have an "All But One" Club for alums of other schools who want to support the local school in all games except the ones against their schools. Have it roll up into the MGC increasing membership, give them access to a sports bar type area outside the stadium to watch the games of their schools, etc. Find ways to embrace their schools while encouraging them to support the Mean Green the rest of the time. Expand it to sports other than football. Etc.

I agree with @UNT Five&Dime .Allow students who care enough to reserve tickets early an opportunity to get better seats and switch to scanning ID's on game day to fill any seats that are left. If they run out of student seats, you are just out of luck and should have reserved your seats sooner. I feel like UNT has done their very best to make something so simple complicated. You're bound to be able to run some analytics to see that based on X student tickets reserved early, we expect Y students to walk up on game day. Once you start building that data, you should be able to make an educated guess each week on how many students will be there.

My goal for the team in this game is to get Quinn in there. They need to put UTEP away early enough that Quinn is behind center sooner than later.

I think part of what makes the Dickey situation complicated is that he is still coaching. I could be wrong, but for the most part, I feel like coaches get honored after they retire. I think the Dickey era already holds its place in UNT history. I just think that honoring the man takes time and will be a lot less awkward once he is no longer coaching. Just my 2 cents.