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Bag man article is a good read. I posted it in another thread a few weeks back.

FML. We are in a vicious cycle of irrelevance. And this absolute dumpster fire of a conference commissioner is a disgrace. She has done nothing - nada - zilch.

Just got around to listening to this. Those guys are pretty plugged in about CUSA and a myriad of other topics, really. The younger guy, Godfrey(?), seems to be particularly good.

I could definitely stomach the headlines to see this happen. Every sport in HS, college and professional has a real playoff except CFB. It's wrong.

I think it created a false sense of expectations. And it was a calculated decision by the athletic department to do just that. When a program schedules like this it's basically putting all your eggs in the conference tournament while trying to garner interest/revenue during the regular season. It's wrong to do to the fan base. But I do think with proper scheduling this conference can be a 2 bid league. I don't think even a 20 win power team makes the tourney with our OOC.

We didn't play that well going into conference play either. Our best players played well early on and we were winning nail biters. I think 5 of our first 7 CUSA wins were by a combined 16 points. That's not sustainable and it clearly caught up with us. Once we got into pod play, similar competition, we started eating it. And of course the break down before pod play. Lackluster X and O coaching, roster management, and bone headed game management (R. Smart) led to this. I keep pointing out the schedule because though a disappointing ending, some still are viewing this as a successful season. And should we view it as successful?

It was for sure a combination of many things. Angelo State - Not D1 Humboldt State - Not D1 Portland - 7-25 University of Arkansas at PB - 13-19 Texas A&M - Commerce - 14-18 Maryland Eastern - 7-25 Maine - 5-27 Saint Peters - 10-22 Indiana State - 15-16 Best OOC win was vs 18-13 Hawaii. So it wasn't enough we were playing cream puffs, we were playing bad cream puffs. And if we would've played a decent schedule we wouldn't be able to hang our hat on "20 wins". But do we want to hang our hat on this, this way?

And their basketball fans care. They had just about as many fans as us there and they're 12 hours away and we're 30 minutes away. Embarrassing.

Bc we're also in a pretty weak conference with a fair amount of shotty teams to feast on.

. This is blasphemy. To not question an absolute epic collapse is foolish. Name me 1 team with a 16-1 start to end the season like this. And if you want to chalk it up to pitiful scheduling, as do I, then the finger must. Be pointed directjy at the AD for pourous scheduling. This just can't be chalked up to reasons. *Didn't help that our Dallas Cowboy QB was sitting courtside with noodle arm Mike White wearing a WKU cap.

As do I. We'd be lucky to hear jack shit. There is 0 offensive sets to speak of. Look like a HS team hoping to just get a shot off, contested or not. Embarrassing display, and Grant needs to publicly address this ASAP. #joke

Roosevelt Smart needs to be sat....forever. Dude is the epitome of a liability.

Going to sound crazy, but, uh, how about Grant McCasland call some basketball sets. That'd be great. I'll hang up and listen.

Hopefully they have the embarrassing numbers of 15 and 8,200 on their minds. Clamp down.

Yeah, but UNT very well could have broke even on that investment. This one if they choose to do it...not so much.

Good time to break the losing streak dating back to I believe Feb 7th. May have to head over tomorrow.

It would be very cool. Most people would love it. Revenue would be streaming full tilt with 8 playoff games and talking about building a fan base for the "little guys", this would do wonders. But...The greedy piglets at the top would fear this woruld water down the product, and in hand would MAYBE water down TV contracts and then possibly allowing monetary push puts to slightly erode. And their bank roll is numero uno.

Gotta puff our chest with validity and beat UH and finally get a dub at smug.

That's the most in depth article I have ever read on UNT football. Good stuff.

Yeah, I know some BS drawings were generated some years ago. But nothing of substance came of any of that. Do real ground level work to get the project off the ground. Substantiate it with actual technological ways to donate into an allocated fund. See where it takes us.

I know, it's kind of crazy.

Well, I would like the AD to create a fund allocated for baseball. Make a big announcement about the "growing interest in baseball at UNT". Make a public luncheon out of it to announce, have computerized drawings of an arbitrary potential field, costs to create the team, and open the fund. It's planting a real seed. Couldn't possibly hurt anything.

....to allow UNT a baseball program as to the likes of 12 of our CUSA members? And don't give me title 9 BS. That all applies to the other CUSA members and SOME HOW, SOME WAY, they're able. . So.....