DMN: Les Miles Involved in UTA Football Planning Meetings

[Talon90]

Interesting.....thoughts on UTA bringing back their program? It's always been rumored over the years but it looks like this will eventually happen maybe sooner than later.

Les Miles and UTA Football Planning

[NorthTexan95]

There was a previous thread where we talked at length about it.  UTA put some high requirements to be met before they would restart the program which I am doubtful they will be able to reach. 

[MrStrange18]

Love that DMN can post articles about a non-existent football program at UTA, but no mention of the  Mean Green and the upcoming bowl season! 

[Salsa_Verde]

This is about 20 years too late for them. I guess if by some miracle they did get it going I don’t think they would have the facilities to be FBS. There are just too many FBS teams as it is right now. I just don’t see them breaking through. 

[RBP79]

It talks about building a new stadium???

They built one right before they quit football. If I remember correctly NT played one game there. High aspirations.......

 

[UNTcrazy727]

1 hour ago, MrStrange18 said:

Love that DMN can post articles about a non-existent football program at UTA, but no mention of the  Mean Green and the upcoming bowl season! 

Yeah! Screw them for not speculating about our bowl game! 🙄

[DeepGreen]

UTA football.  Do we really need another college team in the state of Texas?  I hope it never gets off the ground.

[Matt from A700]

I wonder how much it would cost to repurpose Rangers Ballpark in Arlington like they did Turner Field in Atlanta.

[Stix]

28 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

Do we really need another college team in the state of Texas? 

Do we really need another college team in the DFW area?

[meangreenlax]

UTA has always seemed more like the E-Sports type of school. They have tough competition with UTD though

[Christopher Walker]

7 minutes ago, meangreenlax said:

UTA has always seemed more like the E-Sports type of school. They have tough competition with UTD though

UNT was actually the first public university in Texas to sponsor intercollegiate varsity ESports teams, and they've already been winning big.

https://recsports.unt.edu/esports

[meangreenlax]

1 minute ago, Christopher Walker said:

UNT was actually the first public university in Texas to sponsor intercollegiate varsity ESports teams, and they've already been winning big.

https://recsports.unt.edu/esports

[UNTLifer]

2 minutes ago, Christopher Walker said:

UNT was actually the first public university in Texas to sponsor intercollegiate varsity ESports teams, and they've already been winning big.

https://recsports.unt.edu/esports

Sorry, ESports are not sports.

[meangreenlax]

3 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Sorry, ESports are not sports.

I can go either way with it. But we have competitive semi-varsity teams (hockey, lacrosse, rugby) that aren't even allowed to sell merch to offset their costs, but we have room for E-Sports. Got it. The Rec can eat shit.

[Christopher Walker]

13 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Sorry, ESports are not sports.

No opinion either way on it, just interesting that it has as much hype as it does.

[Cerebus]

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

Sorry, ESports are not sports.

I mean, I don't get it, but I know A LOT of college kids who will watch DOTA and don't care at all about actual outside against other people sports. 

[MGNation92]

56 minutes ago, Cerebus said:

I mean, I don't get it, but I know A LOT of college kids who will watch DOTA and don't care at all about actual outside against other people sports. 

Damn Gen Z ruining our country

- A disgruntled Millenial

[Cerebus]

27 minutes ago, MGNation92 said:

Damn Gen Z ruining our country

- A disgruntled Millenial

Welcome to the old man club. It'll happen to gen z too.

[VideoEagle]

On 11/28/2018 at 11:09 AM, UNTLifer said:

Sorry, ESports are not sports.

Not to you and I, but we're old. This IS going to be a huge thing in coming years. I heard a talk on esports at a networking breakfast a couple of months ago. The esports SuperBowl last year had several times the total viewers as the NFL' SuperBowl. The NBA is starting their now esports league and the current audience for NBA games on TV is getting old - averaging over 50 - as people in their 20s just don't watch it much and in steadily decreasing numbers. Here's a link to the NBA story. 

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/nba-create-professional-esports-league-makers-nba-2k-huge-money-maker/

 

Here's an article from Goldman Sachs on how esports in a major growth investment in years to come because 20 something and younger prefer it to "real" sports in steadily increasing numbers. At the breakfast, the speaker talked about the average NFL viewer is now 55+. Baylor is investing in esports already and is either now or soon going to be offering esports scholarships. I don't get it, but at first I didn't get texting either! 

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/infographics/e-sports/index.html?cid=sch-pd-google-esportshub-searchad-201810-----&mkwid=JoRcjaSG&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3IPgBRCAARIsABb-iGKlv1eYpI45Eilh1UwFfmh5mXIicMBHbwoP_VrefFEzHT93tupjehUaAl7BEALw_wcB

[southsideguy]

WTF, this is not a sport this playing video games. I can see it now, Chad is day to day because of a sprained index finger.  How can this even be thought of as a sport?   The rate it is going the P-5 will drive all the little guys into this arena.  Will we have e-cheerleaders and e-band.

 

UNT signs 4-star e-recruit Kenny.

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2018 by southsideguy

[southsideguy]

coach's visit to another 4-star recruits basement.

[Huff]

I would love to see UTA start up  their  football program again.  We had some great games with them many yearrs ago and could have great games in the future.

[UNTLifer]

I get that gaming is popular but it isn't a sport. 

[97and03]

Can't this nonsense go to the Eagle's Nest now?

[southsideguy]

On 11/30/2018 at 2:26 PM, Huff said:

I would love to see UTA start up  their  football program again.  We had some great games with them many yearrs ago and could have great games in the future.

I can see it now Metroplex weekend SMU vs TCU, UNT vs UTA. It doesn't excite me and it will water down the recruiting even more.

Edited December 2, 2018 by southsideguy