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Point well taken. I think you are most likely correct.

I think you are overly optimistic. Will the game survive? Of course but at what cost. I think the G5 and lower P5 schools will have to re-evaluate their investments.

Did very little at Tulsa unfortunately. Maybe he and the coaching staff didn't see eye to eye. Maybe he had injuries. I guess I don't understand why we are bringing in guys that haven't produced at this level. https://tulsahurricane.com/sports/football/roster/nick-rempert/11084

It came in my email. I provided the links at the bottom on how to get tickets etc. This seems like a public notice and not meant to only be read on their site. If I am wrong I apologize. Seems like they would want the info on how to get tickets to get out. For more information on UNT men's basketball tickets, contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or at ticketoffice@unt.edu. Fans can visit the UNT Athletics Ticket Office located at Gate 2 of DATCU Stadium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

DENTON – The UNT men's basketball team has signed forward Brenen Lorient who is coming off back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances at Florida Atlantic. The 6-foot-9 transfer comes to the Mean Green after playing two seasons with the Owls where he played in 52 total games and was a member of their 2023 Final Four team that also won the Conference USA regular season and tournament championship. He will have two years of eligibility remaining. The Ocala, Florida, native is joining a North Texas team he’s played against three times in his career. In those three games, Lorient averaged 3.0 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game. In his most recent matchup against the Mean Green in the quarterfinals of the 2024 American Athletic Conference tournament, Lorient scored four points, had two rebounds and a block. This past season in a win versus Eastern Michigan, Lorient scored a career-high 13 points on 6-of-7 shooting in just 15 minutes of action. He has scored five or more points six times, including six points in 10 minutes off the bench versus Illinois. Lorient’s single-game career high for rebounds is five, which he’s done twice — last season against Memphis and North Texas. He had a single-game career high three blocks versus Temple in the 2024 AAC Tournament semifinals. The athletic rising junior scores predominately around the rim. Last year he shot 52 percent in the paint but did show some range as he knocked down three 3-pointers. Lorient is a 2022 graduate of Calvary Christian Academy, a perennial prep powerhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was a three-star prospect and was rated as the nation’s No. 130 overall prospect, No. 25 power forward in the country and the No. 22 player from the state of Florida. He chose FAU out of high school over Florida Gulf Coast, Georgia State, Murray State and Stetson among others. While at Calvary Christian, Lorient helped lead his team to the 2022 Florida High School Athletic Association 4A state championship, a No. 3 end of season national ranking and a 26-2 overall record. CCA also won the National Federation of State High School Associations State Champions Invitational title, which is a national tournament between state champions. Calvary Christian won by an average margin of 24 points in Lorient's senior season. He played alongside four other players who would earn DI scholarships: Greg Glenn (Tulane), Marvel Allen (Dayton), Carl Cherenfant (Memphis) and Taylor Hendricks who after one season at UCF would be the No. 9 overall pick by the Utah Jazz in the 2023 NBA Draft. Prior to his time at CCA, Lorient led Forest High School in Ocala, Florida, to a 2021 region title and the school’s first state semifinal appearance since 1973. He led the Wildcats that year in points per game (17.5), rebounds per game (9.0), assists per game (2.8), steals per game (1.4) and blocks per game (1.4). Forest finished with an 18-8 record in 2021 and the 6A region 1 championship. He was named the Boys Basketball Player of the Year in Marion County by the Ocala Star-Banner. Lorient joins a UNT incoming class that includes freshman Tyran Mason (Plano HS) and so far six other D1 transfers: Jasper Floyd (Fairfield), Latrell Jossell (Stephen F. Austin), Johnathan Massie (Longwood), Grant Newell (California), Brock Vice (Creighton) and Atin Wright (Drake). The Mean Green are coming off a 19-win season last year under first-year head coach Ross Hodge. UNT reached the second round of the National Invitation Tournament for a third straight year and won a NCAA national postseason tournament game for a fourth straight year. They are just one of seven schools in the country who have an active streak of four or more consecutive years. For more information on UNT men's basketball tickets, contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or at ticketoffice@unt.edu. Fans can visit the UNT Athletics Ticket Office located at Gate 2 of DATCU Stadium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Didn't seem to garner a lot of interest but hope springs eternal!

LINK: https://www.nilcollegeathletelitigation.com/media/4660999/clge_not_240306.pdf https://www.nilcollegeathletelitigation.com/?utm_source=gdn&utm_medium=natl&utm_campaign=clge UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA If you were denied NIL compensation opportunities any time between 2016-2023, your rights may be affected by a class action lawsuit. A federal court authorized this notice. It is not a solicitation from a lawyer. A class action lawsuit has been filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Pac-12 Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, and Atlantic Coast Conference, including Notre Dame. (“Power Five Conferences”). The lawsuit claims certain NCAA rules that prevented student-athletes from receiving compensation for the commercial use of their names, images, and likenesses (NIL) and prohibited NCAA conferences and schools from sharing any NIL revenue they receive with student-athletes were anticompetitive. You may be included in the lawsuit if you are a current or former college athlete who received a full Grant-in-Aid (GIA) scholarship and compete on, or competed on, a Division I men’s or women’s basketball team or an FBS football team, at a college or university that is a member of one of the Power Five Conferences (including Notre Dame), any time between June 15, 2016 and November 3, 2023 OR who competed on a Division I athletic team prior to July 1, 2021 and received compensation while a Division I college athlete for the use of your NIL between July 1, 2021 and November 3, 2023. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS DO NOTHING If you do nothing you are choosing to stay in the lawsuit. You will be eligible to share in any money that may be obtained through continued litigation or settlement. You will be bound by past and any future court rulings on, or settlement of, the claims against Defendants, and you will not be able to pursue your own claims against them. EXCLUDE YOURSELF If you exclude yourself from the lawsuit (i.e. opt out), you will not be able to share in any money that may be obtained in this case through continued litigation or settlement. You will not be bound by any past or future rulings against Defendants. You may pursue your own claims against Defendants. These rights and options—and the deadlines to exercise them—are explained in the notice. Your legal rights are affected whether you act or not. Please read the entire notice carefully by clicking HERE.

This is really sad. He sounds depressed about everything.

I really dislike the judgement of people based on their followers count. Some people don't care about that. Doesn't mean they don't know what they are talking about.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. Only the biggest schools with the most money are benefiting from NIL. There are no rules and tampering has become the standard. They are killing my interest in following college athletics. I would rather go back to the Stars then suffer through this dung.

I got this article in my inbox, basically stating that Cal now has a new position called NIL Director. Is this now allowed and is it something we should be doing as well? https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/california-golden-bears-nil-name-image-likeness

I think you misunderstand me I am all for students having the right to protest. That is a freedom I take very seriously.

DENTON, Texas – The UNT football team and head coach Eric Morris have announced the themes each game for the 2024 season. The Mean Green will play six games inside DATCU Stadium this season with their home opener on Saturday, September 7. The 2024 UNT football game themes are below: Sept. 7 vs. SFA – Home Opener Sept. 21 vs. Wyoming – Family Weekend/DATCU Day Sept. 28 vs. Tulsa – Oktoberfest Oct. 26 vs. Tulane – Homecoming Nov. 9 vs. Army – Celebrate America Nov. 23 vs. East Carolina – Senior Day In addition, weekly traditions such as Mean Green Live, the Mean Green March, Fifth Quarter on the field postgame and many more activities will continue in the 2024 season. Kickoff times and television designations for the first three weeks of the season, as well as the season-long weeknight games, will be finalized by June 1. The rest of the schedule will fall under the customary 12-day and six-day selection processes. More information on festivities fans will be able to enjoy at DATCU Stadium throughout the season will continue to be announced in the weeks leading up to contests. UNT football season tickets for the 2024 season are now available. Mean Green football season ticket holders receive several exclusive benefits including access to the best seats, exclusive presales for home, away, and post-season events, an exclusive season ticket holder gift, and more! Fans interested in becoming new season ticket holders for the 2024 season may online or by calling the North Texas Athletics Ticket Office at (940) 565-2527 during normal business hours. Season Ticket prices for 2024 in most of the general bowl have been frozen at the same price levels as last season. The only changes will occur in sections 104-106 where permanent chairback seating is being added. Patrons in those areas will be contacted directly by the UNT ticket office about this exciting seating enhancement and the reseating process. A full reseating of patrons in those sections will be conducted in May utilizing MGSF Priority Point order. Following the completion of the current patron reseat, those patrons who did not have seats in Sections 104-106 last season will be seated.

Students at the University of North Texas walked out of class Tuesday to take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The protest was one of many happening at colleges and universities across the country where students asked the institutions to disclose their assets and divest from any ties to Israel or weapons manufacturers. In Denton, a few hundred students walked out of class and met on the lawn outside the University Library. The local chapter of the Palestine Solidarity Committee planned the event. "We stand here in solidarity with students at Columbia, students at Yale, students at UT Dallas, students at UT Austin. Students at college campuses all across the nation and really in the world," said Talia Irsh, with the Palestine Solidarity Committee. Irsh, a junior, helped coordinate the event which included a protest walk around the administration building and a loop around part of the campus. “Faculty and staff canceled class and moved around meetings in order to be here today," Irsh said. One of the demands from the protestors is similar to what we’ve seen at the University of Texas at Austin, is for the university to publicly disclose its assets in its foundation and to cut ties with Israeli assets.” Link to more: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/unt-protest-israel-palestinian/3528945/

Should be a good atmosphere for our game there.

And they are paying him >1 million dollars!!

I think that is a great idea!

There is a Mark Witte that works at Wells Fargo with my mom. I wonder if he is the same guy.

I as well!

DENTON – The UNT men’s basketball team has signed 6-foot-6 Longwood transfer guard Johnathan “John John” Massie, fresh off a conference championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. The Houston native was Longwood’s second-leading scorer last season averaging 11.3 points per contest and playing in 34 games and making 16 starts for the 21-win Lancers who won the Big South championship. Massie joins the Mean Green with one year of eligibility remaining. In the NCAA Tournament, Massie was Longwood’s leading scorer against No. 1 seed Houston. In their conference tournament, Massie helped lead the Lancers to wins over the tournament’s No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 seeds as he averaged nearly 10 points per game and shot 66.6 percent from deep. He shot 77.7 percent from 3 over Longwood’s final nine games of the year. Massie scored in double figures 19 times last year including a career-high 31-point explosion versus Winthrop on Feb. 10 to lead his team to an 84-74 win. He was named the Big South Player of the Week following his heroic performance. On the final regular season game of the year, Massie led the Lancers to a 74-72 win over the league’s regular season champion High Point with a 16-point and 5-rebound performance in 22 minutes of action. In addition to scoring, Massie is a solid rebounder as he pulled down an average of 5.2 boards per game last season, which was the third-highest average on the team. Longwood was one of the nation’s top rebounding teams as they had an +8.8-rebounding margin for the season – sixth best in the country – and averaged 13.4 offensive rebounds per game ­– 12th best in the country. Massie had eight or more rebounds eight times last season and had a season-high 12 rebounds versus Charleston Southern on Jan. 6 in a 21-point win. Massie has been tremendous at getting to the foul line in his career. He attempted 151 free throws last season, which would have been a close second on UNT last season. He’s a 72.7 percent free throw shooter in his three-year career. The incoming senior began his collegiate career at McNeese State where he was named the 2022 Southland Conference Freshman of the Year. As a sophomore at McNeese, Massie led his team to the Southland Conference Tournament championship game, as he averaged 10.5 points per game that season and averaged 15.1 points per game during the season’s final month. North Texas is coming off a 19-win season under first-year head coach Ross Hodge where they reached the second round of the NIT. He was the only rookie head coach last year to lead his respective team to either the NCAA Tournament or NIT. The Mean Green won 10 league games in their first season in the American Athletic Conference. It was the most league wins by a first-year UNT head coach. UNT is one of just seven schools in the country who has won a NCAA postseason game in each of the last four seasons. For more information on UNT men's basketball tickets, contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or at ticketoffice@unt.edu. Fans can visit the UNT Athletics Ticket Office located at Gate 2 of DATCU Stadium between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

I am pretty aroused at the potential impact of this signing for the program! This kid is a player!

I though Farrar was good!

I poste dthis in another thread, but will repost here. Did we not see an increase in attendance? I saw postings on that here on this site as I recall? Maybe I am mistaken.

I may be mistaken but our attendance has increased significantly over the past few years. May be wrong.