South Alabama and North Texas to Play Series in 2024/2025

UNTFan23 · August 16, 2017

I haven't seen it announced on either the North Texas Athletics/South Alabama sites but just saw this tweet pop up a few minutes ago.

MGNation92 · August 16, 2017

Beat me to it! I'm definitely okay with this series. Not a huge name, but an FBS opponent in non conference play is always good. Who knows, we might be in a SBCUSA conference with them at that point anyways.

AustinFromUNT · August 16, 2017

We'll get to play Alabama teams twice a year then. That's fine by me.

UNTFan23 · August 16, 2017

Just now, AustinFromUNT said:

We'll get to play Alabama teams twice a year then. That's fine by me.

Hopefully the schedule will be such where it will be home/away against the two teams for those two years.

Tyler Maryak · August 16, 2017

DeepGreen · August 16, 2017

Yawn.

GrandGreen · August 16, 2017

Not sure why anyone would applaud this series. I don't like this series at all. Unless the away guarantee game is dropped, NT has two OC fb division games every year and I believe NT should be able to find a better matchup than this. If you are going to schedule Belt teams, why not ULALA, ASU or TSSM, at least they are closer. If RV scheduled this series there would be howls from a lot of fans.

Edited August 16, 2017 by GrandGreen

dmaxel · August 16, 2017

I'm not a big fan of this. There's just not much name recognition with such an opponent. If we're looking for that level of competition in an opponent, I'd rather prefer Texas State. Yeah, another Texas team, but who would you rather watch us play against?

MeanGreenTexan · August 16, 2017

raw

DeepGreen · August 16, 2017

We should at least be scheduling games against AAC teams. Now South Alabama. And don't forget those marquee matchups against Incarnate Word and Liberty.

UNTFan23 · August 16, 2017

Just now, DeepGreen said:

We should at least be scheduling games against AAC teams. Now South Alabama. And don't forget those marquee matchups against Incarnate Word and Liberty.

We have Houston and Memphis on the schedule.

MeanGreenTexan · August 16, 2017

Just now, DeepGreen said:

We should at least be scheduling games against AAC teams. Now South Alabama. And don't forget those marquee matchups against Incarnate Word and Liberty.

Incarnate word is a payroll game. Not the same as a home/home. Liberty is much more pertinent to the conversation.

Green Lantern · August 16, 2017

3 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

We should at least be scheduling games against AAC teams. Now South Alabama. And don't forget those marquee matchups against Incarnate Word and Liberty.

Agree. Love that we have Houston, SMU and Memphis, but I'd really like to see if we can establish multi game series with Tulane and Tulsa as well.

TreeFiddy · August 16, 2017

south Alabama H/H!

So, this pretty much means that in 2023 & 2024 that we are going to have 5 home games or we are planning to eliminate the road P5 payday game. I guess we will find out when we schedule our next 2023 or 2024 game. Seems like if our plans are to eliminate the road P5 game (not sure if we are), we would announce to the world that we are stepping up our game and looking for H/H series only. We could get some mileage out of an announcement like that in terms of commitment to high level football and would place a lot of pressure on our conference mates.

UNTFan23 · August 16, 2017

1 minute ago, TreeFiddy said:

south Alabama H/H!

So, this pretty much means that in 2023 & 2024 that we are going to have 5 home games or we are planning to eliminate the road P5 payday game. I guess we will find out when we schedule our next 2023 or 2024 game. Seems like if our plans are to eliminate the road P5 game (not sure if we are), we would announce to the world that we are stepping up our game and looking for H/H series only. We could get some mileage out of an announcement like that in terms of commitment to high level football and would place a lot of pressure on our conference mates.

We only have three OOC games scheduled for those years so there is still a good chance we get a second home game for each year.

TreeFiddy · August 16, 2017

2 minutes ago, UNTFan23 said:

We only have three OOC games scheduled for those years so there is still a good chance we get a second home game for each year.

Agreed. That would be awesome and mark the end of the road P5 games. Yes, please.

ZacB · August 16, 2017

5 minutes ago, TreeFiddy said:

south Alabama H/H!

So, this pretty much means that in 2023 & 2024 that we are going to have 5 home games or we are planning to eliminate the road P5 payday game. I guess we will find out when we schedule our next 2023 or 2024 game. Seems like if our plans are to eliminate the road P5 game (not sure if we are), we would announce to the world that we are stepping up our game and looking for H/H series only. We could get some mileage out of an announcement like that in terms of commitment to high level football and would place a lot of pressure on our conference mates.

Maybe they're looking for a H/H with a couple of P5's, a la Texas Tech?

MeanGreenTexan · August 16, 2017

3 minutes ago, TreeFiddy said:

south Alabama H/H!

So, this pretty much means that in 2023 & 2024 that we are going to have 5 home games or we are planning to eliminate the road P5 payday game. I guess we will find out when we schedule our next 2023 or 2024 game. Seems like if our plans are to eliminate the road P5 game (not sure if we are), we would announce to the world that we are stepping up our game and looking for H/H series only. We could get some mileage out of an announcement like that in terms of commitment to high level football and would place a lot of pressure on our conference mates.

As of now, this is a roll of the dice, because we cannot make enough money with our crowd sizes to make up the difference in the budget that the paycheck games provide.

If this is the case though, I do like Wren's confidence that he will be able to overcome that gap within 5 years.

DeepGreen · August 16, 2017

23 minutes ago, Green Lantern said:

Agree. Love that we have Houston, SMU and Memphis, but I'd really like to see if we can establish multi game series with Tulane and Tulsa as well.

You beat me to it. I'd like to see the addition of Tulane and Tulsa to our OOC schedules. And teams from the MWC and MAC.

Aldo · August 16, 2017

Context

2024:

at USA
SMU
at Texas Tech

I'm withholding judgement on this one until I see what the second OOC home game is.

If we're bringing in another mid major (not FCS), then I'm cool with this move. It's not at an FCS and it's not at Alabama.

Edited August 16, 2017 by Aldo

emmitt01 · August 16, 2017

Would certainly have rather had Texas State-San Marcos...but a G5 home/home (especially one that is winnable) isn't the end of the world, provided it's not the end of The Wren's plan

Edited August 16, 2017 by emmitt01

Mean Green 93-98 · August 16, 2017

southsideguy · August 16, 2017

i think the army series was better then this series.

Cerebus · August 16, 2017

Winnable G5 game. I would have preferred Texas State (in 2024/2025 their OOC is just UTSA/ASU at this point) but winning games is what matters.

Solid B.

Ben Gooding · August 16, 2017

I would have preferred Tulsa, Tulane, LaLa, AState, Texas St, etc. over this. This isn't a very good series. There are minimal pros to this outside of it being a winnable game. Maybe because we have so many starters or contributors on the roster from Alabama...All the programs I listed would be far less expensive to travel a team and staff to and far more fan friendly. This isn't Liberty dumb, but it's still dumb.

Oh and of course, we're yet again the back half home game.

Also...This may set up a 5-game home schedule for 2024...And it most certainly will if the financial ship hasn't started to turn yet. Just, dumb.

Solid C-. F- if we have a pay day game that year.