UNT's best defensive player jumps in portal

[JT Hammons]

This is just depressing.  Not sure I can continue to follow or support this stuff anymore.  Not fun anymore.

 

[Tom McKrackin]

"After much prayer" my arse!  Just be honest and say, I am greedy and wanted more money than UNT was able to pay me.  Sick of the lies by these players and supposed "tough decisions".  You turned your back on the program that gave you a chance.  My position is don't let the door hit you on the way out.  Good riddance.

[El Paso Eagle]

Sorry but I've gotten to the point where I don't really care about any particular player anymore. How do you support players when they have absolute zero loyalty to the university? Let them do what they choose but then again they should also be held accountable to criticism or any comments made just like we do with professional athletes.  Sorry to rant but I'm absolutely sick of what is happening, and yes I know some of you are going to jump in and say they have the right to make money. Making money is not the issue. The fact that this whole cluster f has come about with no rules and neither side giving a damn bit about what the fan base thinks about. So come this fall I will be supporting the University of North Texas and whoever we put on the field but I'm sick and tired of hearing players and their families talking about their appreciation and loyalty to North Texas. With all due respect just perform on the field and don't expect the fans to be invested in the individual players.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

Got tampered with and ran to the money like a street whore. 

[DeepGreen]

College football has become the "wild, wild west".  And I don't like it at all.

[cousin oliver]

I tend to want to love and support our players and their families no matter what they decide to do career wise.  It is sad but I don't think we have any choice other than to give them 100% support when they leave us behind.

[Big Z]

 

[MeanGreenTexan]

It's really hard to follow Mean Green Football anymore.   I barely know (or simply don't know) who anyone is on our roster.

Basketball is the same, but at least the roster is only a fraction of the size and they play 3X the # of games, so you get to know them better.

As for the pot shots at these guys, it's embarrassing that y'all would hold these guys to "loyalty" when you know you'd have done the same things when you were their age.   

If Nelson is chasing money, and can get it, then good for him.  Not his fault.   
If he can't, then he learns a very tough lesson.  Sad for him, but happy schadenfreude for y'all, I guess.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

39 minutes ago, cousin oliver said:

I tend to want to love and support our players and their families no matter what they decide to do career wise.  It is sad but I don't think we have any choice other than to give them 100% support when they leave us behind.

[NT93]

1 hour ago, cousin oliver said:

…no matter what they decide to do career wise….

So you’re of the opinion that playing college football is a career?

[UNT_FH_FR_YR]

1 hour ago, NT93 said:

So you’re of the opinion that playing college football is a career?

It is now.

Whether it actually is or not doesn't matter because the players are treating it that way with their NIL agents "NCAA Portal and NIL Experts" 

 

 

[MeanGreenTexan]

1 hour ago, UNT_FH_FR_YR said:

It is now.

Whether it actually is or not doesn't matter because the players are treating it that way with their NIL agents "NCAA Portal and NIL Experts" 

 

 

 

[greengal]

Sad for us as we sit next to his family at games.  They are super nice people and love UNT.  They will be missed a lot!

[UNTLifer]

5 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

I tend to want to love and support our players and their families no matter what they decide to do career wise.  It is sad but I don't think we have any choice other than to give them 100% support when they leave us behind.

Oh, we have a choice.  My choice is IDGAF about them when they leave us behind.

[MeanGreen_MBA]

6 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

It's really hard to follow Mean Green Football anymore.   I barely know (or simply don't know) who anyone is on our roster.

Basketball is the same, but at least the roster is only a fraction of the size and they play 3X the # of games, so you get to know them better.

As for the pot shots at these guys, it's embarrassing that y'all would hold these guys to "loyalty" when you know you'd have done the same things when you were their age.   

If Nelson is chasing money, and can get it, then good for him.  Not his fault.   
If he can't, then he learns a very tough lesson.  Sad for him, but happy schadenfreude for y'all, I guess.

These guys, as it is today, are not employees.  They are student “athletes”.  If they were employees, they could be fired.  I get they are graded and can be demoted, but as I understand it, they cannot take away scholarship.  
 

this is no relation to an employee taking another job. It is not the same.  
 

sign them to contracts, pay them, and take away scholarships.  Contracts dictate class time, scheduling, behavior, and buyout for leaving early

[greenminer]

8 hours ago, Tom McKrackin said:

Just be honest and say, I am greedy and wanted more money than UNT was able to pay me.

Can you imagine what this would all be like if they were, indeed, honest?

I'll pass.  I have a pretty good idea of their truth, and don't need that mess in my social media feeds.