Price of poker just went up

DeepGreen · April 29, 2020

Univ of Texas will pay Wyoming $1.85 million to play at Royal-Memorial in 2023.

untcampbell · April 29, 2020

This has stuck in my craw for a while. To win a national championship in most years, a team has to be undefeated. Outside of a vigorous conference schedule, it is best to have a bona fide OOC win, preferably against a Top 15 team outside of their own "major" conference. Guaranteed wins then make up the rest. The value of guaranteed wins is enormous and us outside looking in should collectively drive that price higher. Wyoming and other teams that have gotten "above market" paydays are on the right track. $2 million plus should be the goal, especially when no return game is in the mix.

GMG

greenjoe · April 29, 2020

I couldn’t ageee more. If “big” schools are going to use schools with lesser resources the price should be 2 mil.

untjim1995 · April 29, 2020

27 minutes ago, untcampbell said:

This has stuck in my craw for a while. To win a national championship in most years, a team has to be undefeated. Outside of a vigorous conference schedule, it is best to have a bona fide OOC win, preferably against a Top 15 team outside of their own "major" conference. Guaranteed wins then make up the rest. The value of guaranteed wins is enormous and us outside looking in should collectively drive that price higher. Wyoming and other teams that have gotten "above market" paydays are on the right track. $2 million plus should be the goal, especially when no return game is in the mix.

GMG

That will happen very soon. The paydays used to be well under a million--nobody knew that better than us under RV. Today, those games have really jumped up in value, primarily because the Power 5 make so much from their network contracts.

RBP79 · April 29, 2020

I also agree those pay checks should be bigger. But some on here hate " Bodybag" games regardless of the payout. I say...remember the Arkansas game was suppose to be a "Bodybag" game when it was scheduled. I like them but not sure about the students playing the game.

untjim1995 · April 29, 2020

1 minute ago, RBP79 said:

I also agree those pay checks should be bigger. But some on here hate " Bodybag" games regardless of the payout. I say...remember the Arkansas game was suppose to be a "Bodybag" game when it was scheduled. I like them but not sure about the students playing the game.

So were games at LSU, Texas, OU, Alabama, Tennessee, Clemson, Iowa, and Georgia...

RBP79 · April 29, 2020

10 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

So were games at LSU, Texas, OU, Alabama, Tennessee, Clemson, Iowa, and Georgia...

Yea...but we handed Arkansas their ass. Other than beating Texas many years ago, I know what the score was, Arkansas game was one the best road games I've been to. Didn't make the Tech wins.

NorthTexasSportsNetwork · April 29, 2020

12 minutes ago, RBP79 said:

Yea...but we handed Arkansas their ass. Other than beating Texas many years ago, I know what the score was, Arkansas game was one the best road games I've been to. Didn't make the Tech wins.

Do we count the Baylor win as a P5 back in 03

greenjoe · April 29, 2020

Some years ago, I asked the team physician about "money games." I asked if there was any truth to the belief that money games were more likely to get our players hurt any more than conference games or home games against "lesser" opponents. He said no.

drex · April 29, 2020

Injuries when D1 plays D1 seems even to me as far as injuries. However, D1 vs. FCS is another story. The FCS guys do not have the depth and are often smaller. I remember vividly what Nebraska did to us when we were 1-AA..it was not pretty.

RBP79 · April 29, 2020

5 hours ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

Do we count the Baylor win as a P5 back in 03

Absolutely! But I was just counting the away games really guess should include Home.

MCMLXXX · April 29, 2020

44 minutes ago, RBP79 said:

Absolutely! But I was just counting the away games really guess should include Home.

It seems that the win over Oregon State at home in Sept. of 1995 is forgotten. It was a 4th quarter come from behind win (30-27) that far to few witnessed as most of those in attendance had already left Fouts. That was a P5 win right after we had just reentered FBS. The schedule that season was brutal (Alabama, LSU, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisville, etc.).

Edited April 29, 2020 by MCMLXXX

NorthTexasSportsNetwork · April 29, 2020

12 minutes ago, MCMLXXX said:

It seems that the win over Oregon State at home in Sept. of 1995 is forgotten. It was a 4th quarter come from behind win (30-27) that far to few witnessed as most of those in attendance had already left Fouts. That was a P5 win right after we had just reentered FBS. The schedule that season was brutal (Alabama, LSU, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisville, etc.).

My dad said it was ONE of the most impressive wins he has seen by UNT ever. First year back in FBS, and he was glad he was able to make it. Of course I was young