No they aren't conforming with the technicalities. Nobody is watching or holding anyone accountable so it is just the "wild west." The NCAA doesn't have the balls to enforce anything.
The AAC is a good conference, it has taken this school decades to get here, and is a very good achievement for a school that does not usually put a lot of emphasis into its athletic program. The school has some very good athletic facilities that as good if not better then some P5 schools.
The big thing that I see holding UNT back is the culture, students seem less interested every year in attending games, and as they graduate and become alumni they are less interested in supporting the schools athletics.
I don't buy it. Let's look at our conference and see what notable opponents our conference mates can get at home.
USF: Central Michigan, Loyola Chicago
FAU: Loyola Chicago, Liberty, Charleston, FIU
Charlotte: Georgia St., Davidson
UAB: Southern Miss, McNeese, Drake
Memphis: Clemson, Virginia, Vanderbilt
SMU: Texas A&M, Dayton
Tulsa: Loyola Chicago, New Mexico St.
ECU: Georgia Southern, South Carolina
Tulane: George Mason
Temple: Ole Miss
WSU: WKU, Richmond
UTSA: Army
Rice: Harvard, Louisiana
That's a myriad of teams with different reputations and rankings, yet they were all still able to get solid opponents at home. What was our best home opponent? UT Arlington? Is that on the level of any of these teams? Not to me. Every other team in our conference can schedule solid teams at home, so why can't we? We need to be objective and call out when things aren't done well.
Who's job is it to schedule these games, obviously these games are worth a good chunk of change, I would think that the university would have someone who's dedicated job is set these games up. I know the coach has the final say in scheduling, but I wouldn't expect him to be handling the details of scheduling.
Everyone is paying for play in reality. But they all conform with the technicalities of the laws/rules by doing things like requiring the athletes to do certain interviews or events to justify paying for their NIL. Trying to back collect would break the technicality.
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