NorthTexasWeLove

What's your suggestion?

DEFUNDING is not UTA. Does UTA have an underfunded football program? And I'm not advocating for abandonment. I'm advocating for resource allocation that makes regional and national sense.

Well, yeah. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's the very comparison I'm making.

Where did I say that?

And where's that going to get us?

Not true.... at all. Maybe in your mind, it's this way. Maybe when you're watching ESPN highlights, it's this way. The reality is several G5 conferences have multi-year multi-million dollar TV contracts with major networks. Sure. it's peanuts in comparison to major programs, but it's a gigantic financial gap from FCS.

Simp coaches speak in premeditated damage control. He is a prime example of it. No child of mine would go play for a loser like this. JS. He sounds pitiful.

You think we have top 80 viewership? Top 80 donorship? Top 80 attendance? "Potential" will be weeded out. Those data points will be the drivers. I have no idea if we have top 80 in any of those. I feel like we don't.

I don't understand how our own fans/alum or administration can't see this. Yeah, Yeah - I get it. This is TEXAS!!!!!!!! But I also get simple math and resource allocation.

Good stuff. I think our size is OK. If Brice pans out, our size is really good. 4 players 6'9" or better that can all contribute. That's rare air even for a major program, especially for a mid-major. I don't mind having a couple 6'1" guards, so as long as they aren't getting heavy minutes together. On paper, Ross and his staff have done a really good job. Now, they have to gel it and it has to translate onto the floor.

Judy at it again. She is adamant on watering down the G5 product out of spite.

That's where his logic derails...... FCS football does not thrive. With the exception of some FCS dynasties, FCS athletics is largely ignored by the masses. If the TV networks would contractually lock in G5 programs into a stand alone playoff that financially made sense, then I am 100% for it. Until that fantasy guarantee comes around it is a bad idea.

On the surface, not right now. Sure, I agree with you. But once the interest declines further the TV deals will shrink significantly. Then, we'll be on track to being almost as irrelevant. I give it a decade.

Answer to his question: You don't. I wonder how many P5 OC job postings he's opened up and read.

What part is the biggest drop in awhile?

Good get. Seems like an auto 8/5 defensive guy from the jump. These are the pieces that allow teams to go from competitive to really good.

There is no way the media machine allows this hypothetical new level of play to grow legs. And I agree with you, there is a market for it. But it will get minimal to no exposure and wilt away. The media is the driver of all things. Imagine the sports media marketing G5 athletics like they've been doing with women's basketball. Hell or high water, they're trying to make women's basketball a thing.

UNT has a huge %. UT does as well. But unlike UNT, UT has a huge % of football nuts and t-shirt fans. Historical conservative universities, a la Texas Tech, does not. Baylor does not. SMU does not. Nutsack does not. Etc. They're there, just not in a sweeping %. I would say UNT and UT takes the cake in this race. Not a race I want to be a part of. And had I done better due diligence selecting a university from 1500 miles away while waiting to separate from the military, I wouldn't be. But I'm not a beta male and therefore can never be a t-shirt fan. Not in my DNA.

Dunno, don't care. We ain't them. However, as for all resources into basketball, no. But a lot more, yes.

Ahhh, yes. Thank you. It's amazing.

Yeah... we need that protest photo reposted. THAT is the reason our athletic support sucks. When only 10% of your student body cares about sports to begin with you're set up to fail. Then when you give that 10% no reason to care about UNT sports you're destined to fail. Here we are, right in between suckitude and failure with very minimal room for error.

Their isolation is definitely beneficial to them. But as to our lowly attendance figures, it has nothing to do with the cowboys during our football season and the mavs during our basketball season. If anything that should be beneficial to us. Do whatever it takes to get named players in front of our players, students, and alum. Partner with them like we did with Frisco, etc. But a Sunday afternoon Cowboy game has very little/nothing to do with our 14k in attendance on Saturday.

Dog shit excuse. It has nothing to do with anything. It's one of the same several excuses used in an attempt to put a curtain up and around the real problems.

Someone post that protest picture... It's exhibit A as to why interest is not in our programs. And our Waldo lookin prez pats himself on the back for "growing" the university. Thanks, buddy.

I think patience is important here. The long game here is to wait until about 20 or so P5 programs have to come up for oxygen. They can't and won't be able to keep up. Donor fatigue will eventually set in.... a drop in ratings will be met with that. Administrators will start looking for other options. The only option is us and our likings.