DentonStang

Where's all the boohooing over the portal now?

Demonstrably untrue

It used to be like an unpaid internship that gave you a housing allowance and paid for your tuition. Now you get paid for the internship. If they are smart they'll take advantage of the tuition perk. If not, they'll trade their football labor for their allowances and pay. Their choice.

This is just a sign of catastrophic problems in that program. It's a one-off. FSU had issues because they massively screwed up their very high dollar portal haul with bad culture guys and ill-fit to scheme guys. These aren't new problems, they are just being made visible quicker. Good. Players can leave a bad situation or a situation where they aren't being paid a fair NIL wage and go elsewhere, rather than waste their college years in a disaster program.

Come on man, it was no different before. A player at school X usually could not care less about X until they signed to play there. A lot of students didn't care about X until they enrolled, too. And when they didn't like the classes/social scene/town/it was too hard/etc they cared about school Y they moved to not school X anymore.

Does UNT have the infrastructure and admin support (degrees, compliant professors) to keep all those players eligible and to keep them out of (cover up) legal trouble? Do you have the perks necessary to keep them happy? Not to mention the NIL the entire Sanders roster is built on. Doesn't he make over $5M at Colorado? Nothing stopping these things from happening but if your admin was serious enough to do them, you'd be doing them now. It took from June's first year to Dykes term for us to figure out HOW to do these things and get them in place. That's part of why June quit on us. The money is the easy part.

Sanders would not have answered the call and wouldn't be successful at UNT anyway. Like the Cowboys fans perpetually blaming QBs, then coaches, it's misguided. Their problem is the common denomination - Jerry Jones. Yours is your administration that is not committed to winning. It was very obvious at SMU when they weren't, when they decided to be, and when they finally figured out how to be. Boise has very little NIL. Army and Navy have no NIL. UNLV has very little NIL. JMU? TxSt? You could be doing vastly better, and IF coaching is a deficiency, it's a symptom not a root cause.

You get better players transferring down every year than you are pulling from HS. Overall roster still better.

You are not wrong on this. You don't need one player with a big check, you need lots of players with smaller checks. Linemen, linebackers, etc.

Great. Every two years you replace them. Just keep the cycle going. An even better get is a senior who was passed up by a younger player, and just wants his final season or two with playing time. Experienced and not looking to transfer out, and discount.

These aren't NIL transfers they are playing time transfers. They likely get, and will get, very little NIL. Exactly the kind of players UNT should be going after.

Preston Stone is available

I knew we could beat Clemson if we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot. I was right............ .............not at all confident we do well with this one. I just want to avoid a TCU-Georgia style war crime. BUT if we somehow pull it off, I know we can nuke Boise and advance to...... get war crimed by Georgia. Hrmn.

I can tell you it felt exactly like that picture looks

Anyone got some Intel on Penn St?