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Why would you put any money in a basketball venue that averages less than 4,000 fans per game?

Different pay for different play is called the NFL. I am no attorney but I can't see where the NCAA has the power to intervene in NIL payments.

Moving up in conferences can be difficult. Houston, Cincy, UCF, and BYU all struggled. Also, except for UTSA, the newbies in the AAC did as well.

Once at a point in time in a galaxy far,far away from North Texas football fans, the DMN looked at the college careers of the top dozen or so highly ranked high school players from the Metroplex. It was surprising to see the number of 4 star players who flamed out in college. I am not saying that I wouldn't like having a few on campus, but sometimes ranking can be misleading . If we had gotten just a little more play out of our defense this year against Navy and Memphis we would have finished 7 & 5 and gone to some piss ant bowl that no one ever heard of , and probably lost. Morris knows the holes that need to be filled so I trust the process. Merry Christmas to all you Mean Green grinches , and have a happy new year.

The DMN has great article today on number of athletes playing Olympic sports recruited from local high schools getting NIL money. This bodes major problems for G5/ Mid Major programs and all their other sports.

We are now alone in 5th place , just about 5 points behind Memphis. Tulsa is #2, and sighed 10 of top 100 in DFW

Remember that UNT has played in 3 bowl games despite having a losing record.

They have moved SMU out of AAC, have Charlotte 1st, UNT,UTSA,UAB tied for 5th, Rice last. Navy doesn't report.

The one I saw earlier today had us last with 10 commitments and SMU first. Its a moving target thru tomorrow.

Guys, 247 has us ranked last in the AAC regarding transfers coming in. Hopefully this will change.

On another note, I googled "The top 10 college football trick plays" and our punt return against Arkansas is listed as #3.

Well, we did give both Navy and Memphis a gift.

I have been to Liberty Bowl. Think Cotton Bowl at Fairgrounds.

Maybe we are one of the "cupcakier " teams in the conference.

A&M up to 20 today, Arkansas at 18.

Well he moved to the ACC and will be appropriately compensated. He did a great job for North Texas and I hope he continues his success at Cal.

It's not a static number as it changes frequently. I still don't know of a program with more players in the transfer portal than UNT. Yea, we are #1.

I grew up in Ft. Worth from mid 50's till I went to NTSU in 1961. Burger's Lake and the "polio" pool in Forest Park were the only places those of us with limited means could swim. I have good memories of both.

Guys, the handwriting is on the wall for G5 and 1AA programs as regards media deals. With the NIL making it more attractive for G5 players to enter the transfer portal, the exceptional players they have will migrate to P5 programs. In addition the monied programs will break away and create a new division and take most of the media money with them. The rest of us, and there will be a bunch as not all programs who now compete at the P5 level will be able to afford the new table stakes, will be fighting over the table scraps that are left. Picture Oklahoma State playing on Wednesday nights instead of Akron. Just an old mans opinion, and I hope I am dead wrong. In addition,until the smoke settles it is hard for UNT to justify spending $20million on upgrading current athletic facilities .

Don't forget that there is a spring transfer portal as well.

7 according to 247 sports.com

It may be the death of some if not most G5 programs but there is something that can be done about it . Let the 4 power conferences break away.They get the vast majority of the best players anyway.Then the G5 programs set a minimum NIL amount that its "members" must meet in order to stay at the G5 level. The schools that either can't or won't meet the minimum will be reclassified as 1AA programs. This will cause some conference realignment and probably the creation of a few new 1AA conferences but if conferences like the AAC are not proactive schools like North Texas are hosed.

UNT has 23 players in the transfer portal. Other programs with new coaches coming in are Houston ,no entries, Tulane, 1 entry, and Texas A&M, 8 entries. Granted this may change but from what I can tell 23 players is a really big number.

I just counted 109 quarterbacks that have entered the transfer portal YTD.

I wish you were right, but for the better players the portal is a way to get paid for playing, and I cant blame them.