What kind of scheduling conflict?!

CMJ · 2025-03-25T01:17:20Z

48 minutes ago, NT80 said:

All these excuses are laziness.

Bulls to Blackhawks floor change (including seating changes) takes 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Removing flooring to concrete surface (for a luncheon) would be even faster.

While I agree with you they should have tried - you do realize that United Arena probably has a way bigger staff than the Super Pit does. What takes them a couple of hours would probably take us twice as long.

NT80 · 2025-03-25T02:07:26Z

51 minutes ago, CMJ said:

While I agree with you they should have tried - you do realize that United Arena probably has a way bigger staff than the Super Pit does. What takes them a couple of hours would probably take us twice as long.

OK, hire 40 extra guys.

Pay them from the gate of the 8000 fans attending the OSU home game.

UNTLifer · 2025-03-25T02:09:58Z

2 minutes ago, NT80 said:

OK, hire 40 extra guys.

Pay them from the gate of the 8000 fans attending the OSU home game.

Once again, requires creative thinking and planning.

BigWillie · 2025-03-25T03:02:21Z

I think it's been said on here before, but just having a statement from the AD with reasonable details that address some of the valid concerns that have been brought up wouldn't be a lot to ask for.

Instead, people have to complain on X and get a 2 sentence response from leadership. PR goes a loooong way with the people that give you money.

untjim1995 · 2025-03-25T03:07:49Z

57 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Once again, requires creative thinking and planning.

It’s not even creative. Just normal thought and planning.

We don’t care enough about sports here. Never have, never will.

meaniegreenie · 2025-03-25T03:53:25Z

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

Once again, requires creative thinking and planning.

Actually, it really only requires a small amount of effort. The numerous solutions almost present themselves.

Ross Hodgeson · 2025-03-25T04:19:09Z

The post references a scheduling conflict at the University of North Texas (UNT) involving a National Invitation Tournament (NIT) basketball game, which was scheduled after the regular season, clashing with a pre-planned event at the Super Pit arena.
The user highlights the missed opportunity for UNT to host a Power 4 (P4) team in the postseason, a significant moment for the program, due to the conflict with a cheer competition and a staff luncheon.
Replies clarify that the cheer competition rumor may be false, with the actual conflict being a presidential staff luncheon, which requires the basketball court to be dismantled, a process too complex to reschedule quickly.

GMGGWBG · 2025-03-25T13:04:59Z

No need to dismantle basketball court if you change venues to something close by, but the game is today so Go Mean Green!

Green with Envy · 2025-03-25T13:54:30Z

45 minutes ago, GMGGWBG said:

No need to dismantle basketball court if you change venues to something close by, but the game is today so Go Mean Green!

No need to dismantle the basketball court anyways.

Allen HS hosts cheer, dance, flag and wrestling competitions in their gym all the time. They have the means to cover the floor.

They host graduation for 1800 kids every year on their turf and they have the means to cover the turf. Them HS girls walk on it with their high heels and ain't no one falling, so you know the cover is strong enough.

The floor at the pit could have been covered. The turf on the IPF could have been covered. But that requires forward thinking.

That said, Allen HS probably has a larger operating budget than us and can afford those things, so my point is moot.

TheColonyEagle · 2025-03-25T13:58:40Z

18 hours ago, NT80 said:

A Power Conference school would make it work, as Athletics is important to them.

Remember, this is the athletic department that will lecture us on “if we want to be big time, we need YOU to do your part.”

But, what we have here is a small time athletic department telling fans and alumni what THEY need to do to become big time.

what a joke

keith · 2025-03-25T14:45:04Z

I think we all get that these things happen. Scheduling a multi-use facility will invariably lead to unintentional conflicts. And, as has been pointed out by many, it's not just us, there are countless examples where other schools/teams had do go on the road instead of playing home. If I understand the angst of my fellow fans, none of that is really the issue.

The issue is the underlying and credible believe that they didn't even try to rectify the situation. If they did, what did they try? It seems that they just said, welp, we thought we were going to have to play on the road at SMU anyway, we'll just switch to OSU. After all, putting on these home games is a lot of work.

The other part is that, while this happens to a lot of schools, these types of opportunities for UNT don't come around too often and to have them slip through our fingers is just painful and another beatdown we have to endure.

I'm going to add that I suspect they spent more time drafting/reviewing the weak-ass response sent out than they did thinking of ways to make this right.

Edited 5 hours ago by keith

dml7007 · 2025-03-25T14:57:36Z

Building a college-level basketball arena with a 6,000-seat capacity can cost anywhere from $50 million to $100 million or moredepending on the scope of the project, location, and features included. Does anyone have that money to write the check? Until then we have to hope the University learns from this, and works to create ways to prevent.

GrandGreen · 2025-03-25T15:33:54Z

31 minutes ago, dml7007 said:

Building a college-level basketball arena with a 6,000-seat capacity can cost anywhere from $50 million to $100 million or moredepending on the scope of the project, location, and features included. Does anyone have that money to write the check? Until then we have to hope the University learns from this, and works to create ways to prevent.

It is not a facility problem, it is a management of the facility problem. Having more venues with these people in charge would probably lead to more scheduling disasters. .

UNTLifer · 2025-03-25T15:43:10Z

43 minutes ago, dml7007 said:

Building a college-level basketball arena with a 6,000-seat capacity can cost anywhere from $50 million to $100 million or moredepending on the scope of the project, location, and features included. Does anyone have that money to write the check? Until then we have to hope the University learns from this, and works to create ways to prevent.

We all know that but the problem is still poor management and vision.

Regarding the new arena, they should have those plans in hand and hitting up every major corporation in the DFW/Texas Market trying to sell naming rights considering the location right on I35. Hell, the university should have sold naming rights to the SP years ago, but nope.

NorthTexasWeLove · 2025-03-25T15:47:13Z

2 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

We all know that but the problem is still poor management and vision.

Regarding the new arena, they should have those plans in hand and hitting up every major corporation in the DFW/Texas Market trying to sell naming rights considering the location right on I35. Hell, the university should have sold naming rights to the SP years ago, but nope.

Lol.... not at all. These people can't compete the funding for the athletic center expansion going on 3 years. And people, because they've literally been glad handed by Mosley or one of the cronies on his gigantic staff, Will go to the depths of hell to defend any and everything they do. It's insanity and it must stop.