NCAA proposes new rules to allow direct payments to players

[NT80]

Here it comes.   Lots of changes proposed.   

The enforcement part seems sketchy....

"An enforcement group that will be created and operated by the defendant conferences will aim to "provide oversight for rules relating to the terms of the settlement, including third-party NIL and the annual benefits cap," according to the NCAA.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/44787232/ncaa-proposes-new-rules-allow-direct-payments-players

 

[untjim1995]

The breakaway can’t come soon enough. Let them play their pro ball…

[DallasGreen]

On 4/22/2025 at 3:23 AM, untjim1995 said:

The breakaway can’t come soon enough. Let them play their pro ball…

More than 4 decades ago Corky Nelson told a meeting that North Texas highest aspiration could only be to become the best of the bottom 100 programs in D- 1 , anything else was delusional. Corky saved football at North Texas with dedicated coaches that could operate on very limited resources. Do not deceive yourself that this  program can exist even in FCS form w/o football. Any attempt to drop football will only result to a drop to non scholarship competition. This level of athletics for a school the size of NT would be a disgrace and make us even more the laughingstock of this state 

[NorthTexasWeLove]

20 minutes ago, DallasGreen said:

More than 4 decades ago Corky Nelson told a meeting that North Texas highest aspiration could only be to become the best of the bottom 100 programs in D- 1 , anything else was delusional. Corky saved football at North Texas with dedicated coaches that could operate on very limited resources. Do not deceive yourself that this  program can exist even in FCS form w/o football. Any attempt to drop football will only result to a drop to non scholarship competition. This level of athletics for a school the size of NT would be a disgrace and make us even more the laughingstock of this state 

Non-scholarship level? You know that's D3, right? 

To the general sentiment of your point, I tend to agree. UNT football is sort of a joke punchline. I was never sure it would ever do much, but I was somewhat hopeful. With the landscape the way it is, I am all but certain that UNT football will never be much of a anything. Even if we one day have a 2016 Western Michigan type year the market conditions would breakdown our roster as fast as humanly possible. It is literally impossible, with our terrible support and low football NIL to ever have even a smidgen of sustainability. Frankly, as I've said before, given our recruiting pecking order throughout the state and region we will never even sniff a 2016 WMU type season, IMO. 

I'm not sure how anyone could dispute this outside of ignorance/hope. 

So, the university athletics is clearly standing at a Y in the road... What to do? Keep kicking the can down the street and faking it while trying to swindle any possible donor they can? Or make wholesale changes to dress our athletic front porch up. From the looks of it, our basketball program might be heading back down into mediocrity... Are we going to do anything about it? Or just be bad to mediocre in EVERYTHING we do? 

[NT80]

Football in the AAC is something to be proud of.   Many other college football programs only "wish" they could be where we are.  We are not Akron!

If we never make a CFP, not a big deal.   I doubt we make a Final Four either.

We just have to celebrate the good wins when they come.  Win an AAC Championship and a decent Bowl game, and I'm OK with that.

We only lost to Boise by 3 points in a Bowl just 2 years ago.

We beat Arkansas 44-17 in Fayetteville.   That is an accomplishment to be proud of as a football program.

Don't give up the good fight!

 

[Jonnyeagle]

15 hours ago, DallasGreen said:

More than 4 decades ago Corky Nelson told a meeting that North Texas highest aspiration could only be to become the best of the bottom 100 programs in D- 1 , anything else was delusional. Corky saved football at North Texas with dedicated coaches that could operate on very limited resources. Do not deceive yourself that this  program can exist even in FCS form w/o football. Any attempt to drop football will only result to a drop to non scholarship competition. This level of athletics for a school the size of NT would be a disgrace and make us even more the laughingstock of this state 

Yeah but that was way back when and we had a chance to compete because money was not in play.  With these new NIL rules we are better off focusing on specific sports than trying to be a jack of all trades and master of none.