UNT working on game at Texas A&M

[Harry]

Multiple North Texas officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the school is working on a deal with Texas A&M to schedule a nonconference football game.

The contract for the game is in the approval process. Information on the season and date for the game were unavailable.

- See more at: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/06/unt-officials-confirm-deal-in-works-for-game-with-texas-am.html/#sthash.kujkj0dL.dpuf

 

 

[HoustonEagle]

Rather it be Texas.  

[Andrew]

I went to the last game we played in college station and I think I would like to go again! 

[Ben Gooding]

[Aldo]

Where's that deflating balloon GIF...

Count me in the group that wants to see UNT play competitively against other mid-majors. It's such a buzzkill in the season to watch these money games.

[Travis]

It is sad that I immediately know it would never be a 1 and 1 with the freaking AD that we have. 

[Brett Vito]

MGB: Updated with confirmation of year

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/06/unt-officials-confirm-deal-in-works-for-game-with-texas-am.html/

[James329]

Of course there won't be a return game like SMU got. So who gives a crap. Another non-conf spanking. Yay. 

[James329]

Now we have the draw of playing at A&M to help us win the recruiting battle against UL Mon for some 2 star OL. 

[Harry]

It's real simple - play them tough and it's a great thing... Lay an egg and it's sucks.

[Ben Gooding]

Screw playing them tough, beat them. GMG

[MeanGreenDadx2]

It is sad that I immediately know it would never be a 1 and 1 with the freaking AD that we have. 

​Yeah, like we can demand a 1 and 1 and get them to say okay since you demanded it.

[Side Show Joe]

Announcing a road game with A&M isn't really news. It's a scheduling update. News would be landing a home and home series with A&M. We have to move beyond these road games, and schedule P5s that will play us in home and home series. We were scheduling road games with A&M when we played at Fouts too. I believe there are P5 programs out there that will play us in Apogee. And, I believe we should focus on scheduling those teams. Just my opinion.

Edited June 9, 2015 by Side Show Joe

[James329]

I'd rather have the 1 and 1 southern miss got with Kentucky. 

[Travis]

​Yeah, like we can demand a 1 and 1 and get them to say okay since you demanded it.

​Interesting that it seems to happen with other similar caliber schools as us. But, we simply can't.  

[Travis]

I'd rather have the 1 and 1 southern miss got with Kentucky. 

​Me too. 

[MeanGreenDadx2]

When you are negotiating, you have a set of parameters which governs your decision making.  

For example, your schedule (how much flexibility do you have to try to set a date or two dates which further increases the difficulty of matching their open dates).    The AD tried to set up a 1 and 1 with Purdue and couldn't find dates to match and they went out to the mid 2020s looking. 

Or the desire for a 1 and 1 versus a "opportunity game" .  The 1 and 1 won't put as much money in your pocket vs the opportunity game (30,000 tickets if Apogee fills up or a $900,000 check).

Then there is your negotiating position.  Are you in a position of power or a position of weakness.  Does UNT have any power or position versus any P5 school.  My opinion is no we don't.  The non P5 schools have very little power (P5 stands for Power 5, I wonder why) but supposedly Kentucky was a bit desperate for a series that would meet their schedule, so their negotiating position was weaker than somebody else.  

[greenminer]

Rather it be Texas.  

​There must be some personal motive here, because we haven't played A&M since 1998 when we started a decent stretch of alternating OU-UT every year.

I'm okay with 1 body bag game a year, and am happy we get to see the Aggies again.

Having said that, it's deflating to know we are still not nabbing 1-1 deals.  Mac's Apogee record is okay, but to say that it is scaring off these big boys (not necessarily A&M*) from 1-for-1s seems illusory.

*I know there are several that already play in the area against other teams, and playing in the NT region for second or third game is not advantageous at all.

[UTSA Fan]

Now we have the draw of playing at A&M to help us win the recruiting battle against UL Mon for some 2 star OL. 

Man, that sounds like it came from a very, very dark place.

[Ben Gooding]

An AD doesn't or at least shouldn't blindly call another AD to just look up dates. A good AD does his research and knows what is avaliable for his program and the program he is contacting.  A good AD would have known that the Purdue series couldn't have paned out and we should have never even heard of said series, but our AD wants to throw out the impression that he's at least "trying." And that ladies and gentlemen is the only reason we ever even heard of that series. The excuse making from and for this athletic department is pitiful.  

[VideoEagle]

An AD doesn't or at least shouldn't blindly call another AD to just look up dates. A good AD does his research and knows what is available for his program and the program he is contacting.   

​I think RV should do a better job of scheduling, but how does a "good AD" research dates that are not public? There are enough reasons to complain about him without complaining he doesn't have magical powers! 

[greenminer]

​I think RV should do a better job of scheduling, but how does a "good AD" research dates that are not public? There are enough reasons to complain about him without complaining he doesn't have magical powers! 

​Department info that is not made public can still be shared with another school's AD.  Or no?

[MeanGreenTexan]

Hope Sumlin is gone by then, otherwise, that's going to be a rough game.

[UNT90]

Check back in for the first time in a long time and see that the laziness in the UNT athletic department is still occurring in full force.

Hope you are happy with Army and SMU in alternating years plus an FCS as home games each year for the next 5 years, because this AD doesn't know how to do anything else, and, quite frankly, feels absolutely zero pressure to do better. 

Enjoy the the every year away money game ass kicking by a nearby P5 (you know, gotta make sure the local media knows we still are UNT and we still suck and they put it on the front page of the sports section) and a crap ass FCS team at home.

The fact that RV can be as unsuccessful in major sports as he has been and still has a job after 16 years tells me everything I need to know about UNT's commitment to athletics. My commitment will mirror theirs from here on out. 

Death, Taxes, and embarrassing UNT athletics. Some things are just unavoidable.

Edited June 10, 2015 by UNT90

[mgfan]

Our scheduling sucks. Plain and simple.