State of College Football

greenminer · December 31, 2024

I mean, MBB is def the winning program. But by what other metric has it taken over FB? Money? Attendance?

NT80 · December 31, 2024

5 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Gentlemen, I get it. You don't agree. Now tell us about UNT football in the FBS D1 era(s). And how this football program has shined a positive light on our university.

The juice isn't worth the squeeze in football. It's a numbers game. The numbers are very ugly for UNT football and like-monied programs. This isn't of opinion. It's simply a matter of fact.

Football drives the bus, even if we’re only .500. Basketball has more games, however in this great MBB era the past 5 years, football has still been on more ESPN main channels more times. That’s National exposure and $$. Basketball can’t match it.

NorthTexasWeLove · January 1

3 hours ago, NT80 said:

Football drives the bus, even if we’re only .500. Basketball has more games, however in this great MBB era the past 5 years, football has still been on more ESPN main channels more times. That’s National exposure and $$. Basketball can’t match it.

And that will end right when the current media contract with the AAC expires. You know this.

National exposure... We are the least watched game when we are aired. I've seen a running average of less than 100K on several of our games. ESPN can't wait to rip this bloated contract out from underneath the AAC and delegate us to ESPN+.

And 5 years? We have been .500 or better in 19 of the 25 seasons this century in basketball. That is consistently putting together a competitive product year after year after year. That will never happen in football. Ever.

Given football money will soon be dried up, winning and geographic matchups for all of us peasants will soon mean everything.

NT80 · January 1

1 hour ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

And that will end right when the current media contract with the AAC expires. You know this.

National exposure... We are the least watched game when we are aired. I've seen a running average of less than 100K on several of our games. ESPN can't wait to rip this bloated contract out from underneath the AAC and delegate us to ESPN+.

And 5 years? We have been .500 or better in 19 of the 25 seasons this century in basketball. That is consistently putting together a competitive product year after year after year. That will never happen in football. Ever.

Given football money will soon be dried up, winning and geographic matchups for all of us peasants will soon mean everything.

6 more seasons of contract $$.

Let’s see where college football is then.

Army was a good addition for the AAC. We also achieved some solidarity in the Conference as Memphis, Tulane, etc rebuffed PAC overtures.

Edited January 1 by NT80

Meangreen Fight · January 1

On 12/31/2024 at 7:07 PM, NorthTexasWeLove said:

And 5 years? We have been .500 or better in 19 of the 25 seasons this century in basketball. That is consistently putting together a competitive product year after year after year.

Nobody watches regular season college basketball. When the football Money dries up how will a nice G5 basketball program generate revenue to stay that way? If you aren't a rabid college basketball fan and really interested in using UNT basketball player's Name Image & Likeness what is a UNT Basketball Player's image worth if he or she isn't on the NBA or WNBA's draft radar? We will never be able to afford to outbid any of the top 25 basketball teams.

Edited January 3 by Meangreen Fight

BigWillie · January 1

14 hours ago, Meangreen Fight said:

Nobody watches regular season college basketball. When the football Monet dries up how will a nice G5 basketball program generate revenue to stay that way? If you aren't a rabid college basketball fan and really interested in using UNT basketball player's Name Image & Likeness what is a UNT Basketball Player's image worth if he or she isn't on the NBA or WNBA's draft radar? We will never be able to afford to outbid any of the top 25 basketball teams.

Thats the great thing about basketball, you don't have to. You get several good players and make it work in a system. Football is much harder to do this because you need more money and more skilled players.

It has been stated many times over, but no one is advocating dropping football, it's just more allocation to basketball than it has now. If that has to come from football, I think it makes sense. It really wouldn't take much at all. Probably what football spends on jock straps.

untjim1995 · January 1

17 minutes ago, BigWillie said:

Thats the great thing about basketball, you don't have to. You get several good players and make it work in a system. Football is much harder to do this because you need more money and more skilled players.

It has been stated many times over, but no one is advocating dropping football, it's just more allocation to basketball than it has now. If that has to come from football, I think it makes sense. It really wouldn't take much at all. Probably what football spends on jock straps.

You know, a school like UConn has done just fine with a focus on their basketball teams and less on football…which just won a bowl over UNC.