Basketball IS the sport at UNT. I don't have to imply that or state it. Basketball has organically taken over the athletic department. And what about football at UNT? The coaching changes or injuries or transfers? How has all this worked out at UNT? Oh, and guess what? We've had the coaching changes and injuries and transfers on the basketball court... still humming along. UNT basketball is everything UNT football wants to be but will never happen. I know that because it has never happened at the FBS D1 stage, ever. We can all keep living in this fantasy world of "one day", but it ain't happening. Other FBS D1 football schools will start to shift their funding to avenues that makes sense and will propel their basketball programs to new heights. We need to be the one of the first in order to maintain our run of success for the next decade+.
Love the spirit. We are capable of being there, and winning the title game, but right now the offense gives me too much reservation to necessarily consider anything else a disappointment.
Definitely agree that there is a steeper drop off in the bottom half of the conference this season. There are 4 teams that are 200+ in KenPom. That doesn't even include Rice who lost to our little brother.
House divided on that one. I'm all in on Boise State to win the whole thing, but both sides of my wife's family are from Pennsylvania (even though she herself grew up in VA), and through them she largely roots for the Nittany Lions.
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