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What do the academies do about navigating NIL? Is it any different?

It is spectacular. If you don't have a reservation, you will be disappointed. Some time ago, the reservations were booked months in advance. Not exactly the place you can pop-in and pop-out. If you do - enjoy the goodness.

The internet and journalism is quite a jungle.

It's not an unbelievable scenario. It may very well be what actually happens, just not yet done.

If anyone really wants to know what the real Athletic is reporting, it's that the PAC12 is after Tulane and Memphis. Others the PAC 12 are looking into are UTSA, North Texas, Texas State and South Florida. Current as of Wednesday. 9/18.

You win championships by playing the stats game. On both sides of the ball. He had shots at them. More than any other time in school history aside from Dickey. I just do not want to move backward.

I don't understand how it was not fruitful. In 2015 UNT was dead last in the entire FBS in offense and 5th to last in defense led by a defensive minded head coach. Since then, Littrell and his offense gave UNT the best chances to win championships and football games, regardless of bowl game status. Two of the best seasons, record-wise, in history. It took North Texas to 6 bowl games from 2016 to 2022. Prior to that, North Texas had been to 6 bowl games since 1959. To me, that is fruitful. UNT had a guy that ran a balanced, successful offense that transformed when Mason Fine left to add TE wrinkles. Hired an experienced defensive coordinator with former head coaching experience. Everything fans are currently asking for, I feel like. The results were not there and instead of letting him work through it, powers that be got rid of it. The grass is always greener... but football and offenses have left the wishbone, the swinging gate, the triple option behind. If that is the criteria for the next head coach, you may immediately eliminate some of the best options available.

Mike Stoops

You're right. I have been looking for optimism that the guy coming in was closer to accomplishing those things than the guy going out. So far, I'm still looking. UNT looked flat out bad today - In every measure from coaching to playing. Not even competitive.

Seth was 7-6, playing for a conference championship against a ranked team in his last season. I'd take that, too. So it looks like the bar is/was better than 7+ wins. Smatresk, instead of walking back an ultimatum because the arrow looked to be pointed up again, decided to make good on his word. At the end of that season - with Phil Bennett as our DC, you could not have convinced me there was anyone available who was a better coach for this job, at that point in time, than Seth. So here we go - Ready to take the big step of acting like a big-boy program and firing a coach in a winning season for not winning a conference championship. I was so hopeful UNT knew the guy they wanted, because big-boy programs do not get rid of upward arrow coaches unless they have something worked out already... Only to be let down by announcing they are "conducting a national search". Uh-oh. They didn't think about the next big boy step... and the one after that... So here we are. Playing out the "anyone-but-Seth" lottery. Someone here who is optimistic/happy with the way things are going, please tell me how Morris is going to end this season better than Seth's last season. Because I need a pick-me-up and something to look forward to.

Same as everyone else. - The 2 9-win seasons - Beating Arkansas - Going to Bowl Games - Playing in conference championships - Mason Fine - The talk about our Headcoach getting hired away - Our OC actually getting hired away I will take that over this. Keep the receipts. If we win a bowl game, maybe I'll prefer this. At this point, At best, Morris may be the same. What I miss the most was how the coaching search that got us Seth Littrell was conducted. It looked like UNT actually knew what they were doing.

You can interchange Kinne and Morris at this point. We went from target hiring an OC at legitimate Top 10 offense and team in the hunt for a National Championship one cycle to hiring an OC from a Top 80 offense and trying to decide which former Incarnate Word Head Coach is better.

It's more productive than just saying, "fire this guy". Maybe if the person making the fire get emotional this time again we can have a short list here to help them out with it.

100% agree. To my knowledge, UNT could have hired Morris a bunch of other coaches including GJ Kinne and Colby Carthel. By the time we made a decision to fire our head coach some of the options were off the table. I look at Seth as a guy who did a fine job for UNT and Morris as a guy who is not a step up. Not saying we should or should not have fired Seth, but would have expected us to hire a guy who is a step up. Not someone we hope will step up. The whole way the last coaching change happened was a complete disaster, to me, and everyone responsible for handling that is no longer around. I realize I may be being unfair to the current staff, but that's just how I see it.

We had Phil Bennett for a time. He's not a guy I would call incompetent.

I am advocating for not making a change just for the sake of change. I think we should fire someone when we know we can get someone we want. My impression of how Seth firing went down was he was given an ultimatum, fired, and then, and only then, did we start answering or making phone calls to gauge interest. I feel like its just a recipe for getting meh.

Smatresk fired the last guy for getting to a conference championship. He's not here to have to deal with the pile he left behind. WTF is UNT doing?

The last guy to vie for conference championships was fired after getting to one.

I wonder if FAU is having this same conversation.

Shoot 35% from the floor again and see how it turns out for you.

I don't believe it is Mac not studying or knowing offense. Especially when he is over there stomping his foot to get offensive players moving. I think when you have coached a group of players to slow things down until the last 10 seconds - they get complacent for the front 20 seconds of the clock and may get accustomed to playing that way, even when they need to speed it up.

FAU, Charlotte, and UAB felt like our opponent was playing our game plan against us - just better. They were able to stagnate our offense, either by their doing or our own. I can't tell. It's tough to watch, but UAB hit some tough shots, played really well and had a good game plan.

The absolute best site for tracking this: https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2023/conference-tournaments

But Texas Tech is in Lubbock...

The Athletic had an article that said our metrics make us one of the top 5 "giant slayers". That is - if we make it to the court with some of the top teams in the country - the likelihood of the Mean Green coming out on top is higher than other bubble teams. I might have skipped over some parts of the article explaining exactly how that was determined, but good press nonetheless.