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UNTLifer Grand Master

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Retiring or tired?  That man busted his behind to have the AAC move up and fought for equality, and now he sees the “power” conferences constricting from five to three. Can’t blame him. This has hit the 💩 slope full speed. 

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keith Veteran

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Not that the writing has not been on the wall for a while, but if the "wealthy" schools have been waiting for a signal of G5 capitulation, this may be it.  A worthy and valiant fight.

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NT80 Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

You don't want to share a conference with the elite Blue Hens of Delaware?

The entire State of Delaware's population is 1 million....the same as Ft. Worth.

NM Green Experienced

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I don’t know about the MWC commish. The PAC 2 landed in her lap. She was about to hemorrhage one of her biggest brands and lose a target in SDSU and Gonzaga. Then the PAC fell apart.

Two things with Aresco retiring we must evaluate:

1. Who is our new leader? Competent and a fighter, great. We have a lot going for us in the AAC.

2. If unsure about new leader do we entertain joining an expanded PAC that will include the MWC OSU WSU…we could take our talents out west along with UTSA and/or Texas State. I would think Tulane Rice Tulsa South Florida. Memphis end up in the ACC. 

I like our landing spot now but Mike was a big part of that. 
 

GMG 

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MeanGreenGlory Mentor

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It’s worth noting that having knowledge of media rights and having great relationships and negotiating skills with media outlets is an essential part of this job. 
 

All of this revolves around money now, and media deals are the biggest source of income and exposure for conferences. This is where Aresco did pretty well and where Judy fell very short. 
 

We need someone who will continue negotiating good media deals with high dollars and great exposure. 

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VideoEagle Mentor

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4 hours ago, MeanGreenGlory said:

It’s worth noting that having knowledge of media rights and having great relationships and negotiating skills with media outlets is an essential part of this job. 
 

All of this revolves around money now, and media deals are the biggest source of income and exposure for conferences. This is where Aresco did pretty well and where Judy fell very short. 
 

We need someone who will continue negotiating good media deals with high dollars and great exposure. 

This!!!!

Look at what the Big XII did by bringing in a person with media experience over a college AD. People thought the Big XII was crazy bringing in Brett Yormark, yet he got them a better media deal and could put the Big XII 2024 in what is arguably an equal position to where they were in 2022! 

 
A media savvy negotiator is more important than college athletics experience! 
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NT80 Grand Master

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1 hour ago, VideoEagle said:

This!!!!

Look at what the Big XII did by bringing in a person with media experience over a college AD. People thought the Big XII was crazy bringing in Brett Yormark, yet he got them a better media deal and could put the Big XII 2024 in what is arguably an equal position to where they were in 2022! 

 
A media savvy negotiator is more important than college athletics experience! 

The AAC media rights deal is good until 2031.  That's a one-time deal for negotiators.  The rest of their time is spent trying to promote the conference, fight fires, and try to influence NCAA decisions for our interests.  Someone with an NCAA background, NIL, and portal knowledge is more useful until our rights deal is up for renewal.

https://theamerican.org/news/2019/3/27/general-american-athletic-conference-and-espn-agree-to-12-year-media-rights-extension.aspx

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wardly Grand Master

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On 12/8/2023 at 7:55 AM, MeanGreenGlory said:

It’s worth noting that having knowledge of media rights and having great relationships and negotiating skills with media outlets is an essential part of this job. 
 

All of this revolves around money now, and media deals are the biggest source of income and exposure for conferences. This is where Aresco did pretty well and where Judy fell very short. 
 

We need someone who will continue negotiating good media deals with high dollars and great exposure. 

Guys, the handwriting is on the wall for G5 and 1AA programs as regards media deals. With the NIL making it more attractive for G5 players to enter the transfer portal, the exceptional players they have will migrate to P5 programs. In addition the monied programs will break away and create a new division and take most of the media money with them. The rest of us, and there will be a bunch as not all programs who now compete at the P5 level will be able to afford the new table stakes, will be fighting over the table scraps that are left. Picture Oklahoma State playing on Wednesday nights instead of Akron. Just an old mans opinion, and I hope I am dead wrong. In addition,until the smoke settles it is hard for UNT to justify spending $20million on upgrading current athletic facilities .

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El Paso Eagle Grand Master

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There is already a divide, even though everyone is in FBS. Perhaps an official split will help to bring some sanity back to college athletics. There will still be available TV deals for those not part of the Pay-for-play conference or whatever you want to call it. It will be interesting to see how they set up the crossover games between the pay-for-play conference and whatever the rest of us are called. I hope once it splits, if teams at our level play one of the paper place schools, they're getting at least 2 million plus per game.

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untcampbell Mentor

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G5 should set its playoff program in motion. 

G5 will be the minor league program and its players will aspire to get to the Bigs.

Its basically that way now, but formalize it. 

And G5 teams should contract with Bigs to help subsidize (including a minor NIL program) their feeder programs, i.e. we get separate contracts with 5-10 Bigs and we coordinate interactions between our players and those teams. Bigs would be incentivized to make it as nice as possible for future prospects.

 

Lots of other ways we could duplicate a baseball-like major and minor league relationship.

 

GMG

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Greenrex Veteran

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12 hours ago, wardly said:

Guys, the handwriting is on the wall for G5 and 1AA programs as regards media deals. With the NIL making it more attractive for G5 players to enter the transfer portal, the exceptional players they have will migrate to P5 programs. In addition the monied programs will break away and create a new division and take most of the media money with them. The rest of us, and there will be a bunch as not all programs who now compete at the P5 level will be able to afford the new table stakes, will be fighting over the table scraps that are left. Picture Oklahoma State playing on Wednesday nights instead of Akron. Just an old mans opinion, and I hope I am dead wrong. In addition,until the smoke settles it is hard for UNT to justify spending $20million on upgrading current athletic facilities .

I agree but, maybe we need to consider the consequences of failing to upgrade the current athletic facilities. It would seem to be a death knell.

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wardly Grand Master

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11 hours ago, Travis said:

What?! Too good for Burger Lake?

I grew up in Ft. Worth from mid 50's till I went to NTSU in 1961. Burger's Lake and the "polio" pool in Forest Park were the only places those of us with limited means could swim. I have good memories of both.

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Cougar King Mentor

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15 hours ago, untcampbell said:

G5 should set its playoff program in motion. 

G5 will be the minor league program and its players will aspire to get to the Bigs.

Its basically that way now, but formalize it. 

And G5 teams should contract with Bigs to help subsidize (including a minor NIL program) their feeder programs, i.e. we get separate contracts with 5-10 Bigs and we coordinate interactions between our players and those teams. Bigs would be incentivized to make it as nice as possible for future prospects.

 

Lots of other ways we could duplicate a baseball-like major and minor league relationship.

 

GMG

UNT fan once again shows they didn't learn their lesson from dropping down to FCS the first time around. Go ahead and kill off another generation of the few fans you have. Real smart.

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LongJim Experienced

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4 hours ago, wardly said:

I grew up in Ft. Worth from mid 50's till I went to NTSU in 1961. Burger's Lake and the "polio" pool in Forest Park were the only places those of us with limited means could swim. I have good memories of both.

Was Barbrook pool in Haltom City open then?  I know it was in the 60's-70's.

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