NorthTexasWeLove

This is a means to him. It's the highest living wage he has ever earned in his life. To hell with defense, because he knows if he keeps putting up offensive numbers he will parlay his HC job to a more substantiated P5 OC job than what Washington State had/has to offer... a la Seth Littrell. It's not about winning anymore. It's about statistically doing well in what your perceived MO is while at the G5 level. This thought process has now even infiltrated the G5 head coaching level.

Man, it's always been like this out of that fake ass athletic department. Always. And you know they're all scrambling around poking around at other job opportunities every offseason just as much, if not more, than our players do/are. Basketball has a couple organic advantages. And it's simple numbers. It takes way less players, coaches, and money to be successful. The football program always has been kind of a joke. Reaaal bad when we're bad. Kind of flukey when we're decent. And a ton of mediocrity in between. The joke will eventually be the elephant in the room. Then, the program will be the financial liability. Frankly, if we're trying to be serious about turning athletics (in our case basketball) into a positive light on our university, the football program has been a huge financial liability for some time.

Noooooo. Not true. You didn't like the corgis race? What an EVENT!!!!

It's still baffles me that UNT got put in position to buy that pos out and that UNT had to buy that pos out. They could have easily hit him with dereliction of duties, but would have had to smear him to do it. So, to avoid smearing him and hiding facts, but also to avoid looking like an incompetent athletic director/department, UNT forked over 1.8M. Just.... wow.

Vitriol? Let's not be a softie. He doesn't like the system. Outside of the players, who does? Broke p5 fans/alum is probably the other group.

It's true for her.

In theory, you are probably right. However, the mass email/twitter communication is not going to get it done. If they wanted to do this, they need to spend some money and create a UNT Teacher Day of Giving - Annual Reunion. Bring every single possible teacher that can make it to DATCU, cater to them with food and guests, and convince them that giving back is the only way to propel our university forward and see how many wallets they can open up. Market the event appropriately with a runway of at least 2 or 3 months. But this just arbitrary giving day with lazy and cheap marketing will most often times fall on deaf ears. But, hey, it's the UNT way.

Is there a place to sign up for this? I know talks have went soft on alignment, etc. However, there is no greater time for UNT to be positioning themselves while it's not a national media event. UNT must be doing everything in its power to align itself with the best possible peer group it can snab. The ONLY thing about it I would dislike is getting away from the service academies, but they can always be on the non-con here and there. Outside of that, this would be a really good position for UNT to be in.

By and large, people agree with your stance.

Assuming he graduates from Michigan. He IS a graduate of UNT.

Sure but they folded up like spineless cowards.

I'm simply disputing the bullshit being typed and posted on this thread. But of course I would. But then I would tell you the truth rather than lying about it.

Get a program. Problem solved. I agree, rip the names off the jersey. I don't need to know their name. I don't care who they are. I come to games to watch UNT play, period.

It's amazing. Just examine that picture. Let it sink it and fester. When anyone brings up the lack of poor athletic attendance this picture needs to be immediately reposted.

He saw it in 1981. Nothing has changed.

Meh. That's what his mama said. It sounds better than he was selling himself to Michigan.

If we're talking about Davis and FAU, A 2 year bump in success is hardly history and tradition unless FAU spins off a couple decades of success from the May/Davis era... Which is, uh, unlikely.

The options are A) Take a transfer with experience that is surely as talented as a true freshman or B) Take a true freshman and watch him get plucked away if he is as talented as the transfer with experience that you opted not to take. Why not take the transfer QB that is toward the end of his college career that has a lesser likelihood of transferring out again.

It's baffling. But... big followings = big egos with big pockets. It's not a "go to see johnell play," it's a pay whatever I can for my team to win. Not 1 fan/alum/student from UK or Arky gives a damn about johnell Davis. Not 1. NIL has gotten professional level to the point of market price or FMP. The only difference is there's no cap or contracts.

Hmmmm... I remember a time not too long ago they literally shut their football program down on a whim. Like, a cocktail napkin conversation in a smoke filled back room sort of shut down.

The rigor of collegiate academics aren't your daddies standard academics. Some places are said to be comparable to a good high school academics or that of your local community college. And that's just for the normal Joe blow students. Imagine being an athlete.

Uhhh... because unlike AAA affiliates and major league teams, we compete with the money wielding programs. Huge difference