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Yes and I love that he didn’t have all the accolades coming out of high school but has worked so hard and long to get better.

Do we honestly think Jeff Traylor and Bill Clark and FAU are playing by the rules? Or SMUt? I think Rice is honest and always will be but outside of them I don’t see it happening. Too much money to be made by the coaches and players now with NIL. There is no enforcement so it’s like the Wild Wild West. Look at KD, he was tampered with after the supposed deadline by many teams!

Wren said on Harry’s podcast that he wanted to evaluate coaches throughout the season but I also feel like with the facility improvements they want finances are playing a role as well. Also it seems like getting McCasland’s deal done was a top priority as well so that effected the budget as well.

This is a good sign. I hope you get taken care of soon.

per Las Vegas Journal: North Texas; 6 (o-120) read more: https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/college-football-2022-season-win-totals-full-list-2610970/amp/

Without Woolrodge we are in deep doo doo.

Looks good man!

Interesting to see some of the names on the list. No surprise who is at #1… https://openpayrolls.com/rank/highest-paid-employees/university-of-north-texas

Why more G5s? Just more mouths to feed.

SMUt?

Looks like coaches convention in SA.

How much you want to bet that USF will start recruiting in our backyard now? This AAC thing is going to be tough.

Agree. I think for someone like KD, he would get more money at a Texas A&M but could he have the same stats and results that he gets here at UNT? The key thing I see is can a player still have a valid shot at the NFL if they are at a G5? That is a much better prize for these young men.

When you consider elite tailgating atmospheres, you probably think of LSU, Ole Miss, the rest of the SEC. SMU likely doesn't grace the list– that is, until you've been there. The Boulevard is undeniably one of the best tailgating scenes in all of college football. It's high-class, energetic, widespread, and exciting. Plots on the Boulevard main strip are in high-demand and are mostly filled with wealthy alumni (which there are plenty of) and organizations. The farther north you get, typically the younger the crowd, until you get to the student's area. While it's more raucous than the tamed side across the street, it's still very high-brow. After all, SMU is the SEC team of the American. read more: https://www.si.com/college/tcu/.amp/football/road-to-cfb-smu-football-game-day

https://www.hudl.com/video/3/13209464/609cc304bed6f0129460ba40 https://www.wranglersports.net/sports/fball/2019-20/bios/latu_will_fvo3 https://www.wranglersports.net/sports/fball/2021-22/players/willlatuguib

Cool to see Kishawn is back in the fold as well as Alvin!

Penn State has always been a usurper, at least to me. In 1984 the Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA’s attempt to control individual universities’ college football TV rights was an illegal restraint on trade; while the lawsuit was instigated by the University of Oklahoma, it was conferences that were the biggest beneficiary, as it simply made more sense to negotiate TV rights as a collective of similarly situated schools. This was a problem for independent Penn State; its traditional rivals like Pitt, Syracuse, and Boston College joined the basketball-focused Big East, leaving the football power to make overtures to the Big Ten. The 1990 announcement that Penn State was joining the conference was a controversial one within the Big Ten itself. A fair number of the conference’s athletic directors were opposed to the move, and most of the coaches (it is university presidents that make the decision, and even there Penn State only received the minimum 7 votes in favor); I was a 10 year-old sports fan of a then-decrepit football team in Wisconsin that had nothing going for it other than Big Ten pride, and resented the idea that Penn State was going to come in and potentially dominate the conference. It all feels quite quaint here in 2022, and not just because Wisconsin has had more football success than Penn State; the Big Ten added Nebraska in 2011, and Maryland and Rutgers in 2014, in both cases setting off seismic shifts in the college landscape. Both expansions made sense on the edges, both figuratively and literally: Nebraska was a traditional football power neighboring Iowa that, more importantly, gave the conference the 12 teams necessary to stage a lucrative conference championship game. Maryland and Rutgers bordered Pennsylvania — Penn State was a well-established member of the Big Ten by this point, in practice if not in my mind — and, more importantly, brought the Washington D.C. and New York City markets to the Big Ten’s groundbreaking cable TV network. It is the latest expansion announcement, though, that blows apart the entire concept of a regional conference founded on geographic rivalries: UCLA and USC will join the Big Ten in 2024. They are not, needless to say, in a Big Ten border state: Read more: https://stratechery.com/2022/big-ten-blame/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Good stuff. I like the logo a lot. Not to nitpick but any chance they can get a white version of the T-shirt?

Agree but keep in mind SMU was able to pull this off back the SWC and they had a much smaller enrollment back then as well. The NIL is tailor made for a program like SMU.

You are right about Rice as they have a huge endowment but the word I have always heard is they are not allowed to tap into that for athletics. The players still have dreams of playing in the NFL, so in the big scheme of things being in a good place where you can be successful is as important as NIL in most cases. I think KD was offered money but had no guarantees he could get the same playing time or NFL attention stats at TU or TAMU.