NorthTexasWeLove

I should be able to do this. Golf would be a good future event to do, and yes, I'd be willing to tag team the set up of such an event.

Uhhh

From 17-1 to 20-10.

Where are they wrong?

All great and dandy...but might as well move the CUSA tournament, because fans aren't coming to watch them shit the bed in the 1st round. And the athletic department can stop with all the 'first time since fill in the blank with irrelevant stat compared to arbitrary year." It's not fooling anyone. We are squarely a middling CUSA team, at best. It doesn't matter that we beat 10 schools of the deaf. Schedules and results are public information. They know that, right? Football and basketball are running on such parallel tracks it's eerie.

Bunch of bullshit. Gar------Bage. Let's start ramping up for football. This is a waste of time and money, and has been for flirting with a month.

Good.

FAU ranked far too high. 4th is reasonable and fair.

46-19 2nd half score. Embarassing. Smart with his crisp 14% from 3 land leading the way I see.

Meh

The soft backdrop white noise of the pumps running also doubles as their "home in-game noise generator."

Wow. Very retro of them. Have we knocked on the MWC door yet?

Cut the PA volume in half. Literally, half. Create post or pre game interactions with fans and players, particularly aimed towards students to help cultivate them as lifelong fans. And A before the season starts signature/signing day event on the field of Apogee.

Bad taste in the mouth ending the season badly 3 years in a row sort of resonates.

Gus Malzahn is as good as gone. Helton is playing with fire. The other 3 are going on year 3 or 4 with no sight of improvement on the horizon with horrendous overall records. 4 of those 5 are all but guaranteed to be open. Helton may be able to salvage for an additional year.

Yes to all.

Oh I have no idea. That's the lazy choice. And it also be the best choice or a disastrous choice. Who knows, except of course for WB.

Unless some unexpected seasons take place look for these openings: Auburn USC Illinois Indiana Rutgers What would be surprising firings, but very possible: South Carolina Vanderbilt Arizona Not probable, but possible 2nd year head coaches being sent packing: FSU UCLA Then the surprising retiree of X coach (maybe Duke or Michigan State, etc) as well as the guaranteed surprising firing that will inevitably take place. Then universities plucking current head coaches that creates other vacancies. Point is, this off-season was pretty calm in regards to the revolving door. Look for it to be more chaotic next off-season. And Jimmy boy will be front row and center.

Yup. I think he knows he's gone. And I think Fat Jimmy has already told him what his most likely suitors are for the upcoming offseason. I just hope he prepares THIS team to win football games like he did the first 5 weeks of last season and not like he did the last 5 weeks of the season (when he started taking flyers).

70% play calling/30% OL play. We do not have a world class OL. Sometimes they whiff and whiff badly, especially on the edges. It creates havoc when this happens. With that said, our OC did not adjust to what defenses were doing in regards to pressuring our QB. Same counts on step backs, same methodical route trees, same calls when the defense is tweaking at the line to get to Fine. Really poor OL play does not produce almost back to back 4k passers and 64% completion %. They are not great, that is no mystery. The lack of in the moment play calling to sway defenders from pinning their ears caused a lot of our OL "issues".

I derailed the thread. No one is accusing any one of anything in this situation. Let us all not be so sensitive.

And the Big East has been able to hang onto power conference status by name. Though they have backfilled with quality programs and do have 3 or 4 historically good programs left. It's not sustainable for them though. Their a product on par with the AAC, which has never been considered a basketball power conference until very recently (posted article). Football has "P5" and basketball has "P6", with the 6th conference being the BigEast. But not having all year exposure on their universities such as football in the Fall and basketball in the Spring will eventually make their basketball programs suffer. Without Villanova's run, the BigEast would've already dropped down a perceptual ring in my opinion.

Not sure as to why you believe there will be a rule next year as opposed to this year or last? This is the 3rd year they have been doing these trips. I think this is bending the rules, but is good experience for the players in general. But it's doing something, financially, that gives them a recruiting and branding advantage. Programs financially stacked as Michigan could afford this, and that's it. Unfortunately, it needs to stop.

I agree. The issue is not with what UNT is or is not willing to do. The issue is what the NCAA isn't willing to do. And that's to push swift consequences onto offenders of the NCAA bylaws. They pick and choose or only get involved if the federal government aims their magnifying glass on it or if the public outcry is too loud to ignore. Too often 18 year old kids are flashing stacks of cash and shiny new cars on Facebook, instagram, etc. and the NCAA doesn't even lift a phone. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/dont-punish-alabama-for-alleged-actions-of-ex-player-middleman/ https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/candid-coaches-revealing-how-many-teams-cheat-commit-major-violations/ https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/anonymous-coach-believes-sec-cheats-conference/ https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2015/09/scoring_grades_how_schools_cheat_to_keep_athletes.html https://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/08/anonymous_coaches_in_the_sec_8.html https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/08/more-dozen-athletic-programs-have-committed-academic-fraud-last-decade-more-likely https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/blair-kerkhoff/article116893433.html https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/09/20/arian-foster-admits-getting-money-in-college/ This one below is a particularly good read especially for the fans unaware of what a bag man is and what their role is: https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2014/4/10/5594348/college-football-bag-man-interview And the list goes on and on and on and on... Sometimes the NCAA acts, often times they don't. When they do, it's a smack in the back of the head at most. And it's usually redacted down to lesser penalties a la Ole Miss and Penn State. Cheating is rampant. There are countless documentaries, articles, receipts, transactions, first hand interviews, etc. that proves it is very alive and well. The NCAA, due to their inaction, has proven they just don't care. So the big question is how do we compete with this? Or even how do the inferior "P5" programs compete with this. Even though their cheating is well documented in some cases, just not as frequent or egregious. How do they compete with this? The NCAA turning a blind eye is allowing about 10 programs to monopolize college football AND basketball. Cheating is proving to pay....pay 37 million to 51 million was the per team compensation via TV deals distributed to "P5" universities pending conference affiliation. While, I believe, CUSA programs received a lofty check of 600K. This is not sustainable. Something has to give. And the only way for it to happen, with convenience, is for the NCAA to adhere to their own rules and pass down punishments that are severe enough to push programs away from their recruiting tactics. The NCAA has to make the risk much greater than the reward.

This is positive stuff. Landing a kid of this caliber and for him to come in and be a game changer would be ideal and if he lives up to the hype would propel us to UCF status. But if Mississippi State and Nebraska, etc are in on him and really wants him, a bag man will be at his door soon enough to wrap up that commitment. Maybe even a new shiny job for mom and dad with a probable Tahoe with a bow on top. It's just how things are done and there is nothing we can do about it and apparently nothing the NCAA will do about it.