Report

Women’s Basketball 2024-25 AAC Schedule Announced The UNT women’s basketball team’s American Athletic Conference schedule for the 2024-25 season was announced Thursday by the conference office. Coming off the winningest season in program history, which included a share of the team’s first conference championship since 1986, the Mean Green will start their title defense with back-to-back road games at Tulane on Dec. 29 and at UTSA on New Year’s Day. The first league home contest is set for Saturday, Jan. 4, when UNT will host Wichita State. It will be the first of three multi-game home stands during conference play as the Mean Green welcome Memphis to The Super Pit one week later on Jan. 11. Another two-game road trip will see North Texas face off with co-champion from last season, Tulsa, on Jan. 15, followed by a contest against the AAC Tournament champions, Rice, on Jan. 18. The Mean Green will then return to The Super Pit for six of their next eight games, starting with matchups against UAB (Jan. 21), Tulane (Jan. 29) and Charlotte (Feb. 1). The two road games during the stretch come Feb. 5 and Feb. 8 as UNT will head to The Sunshine State to take on South Florida and Florida Atlantic. Three home games in seven days will follow, as UNT hosts Temple on Feb. 12, Tulsa on Feb. 15 and USF on Feb. 18. North Texas will close out the month with a pair of road games at Memphis on Feb. 22 and East Carolina on Feb. 26. It will be the program’s first ever trip to Elma Roane Fieldhouse in Memphis, Tenn., and just the second trip to Greenville, N.C. The final conference home contest will take place March 1 as Rice makes the return trip to Denton. UNT will then hit the road for its final conference and regular season matchup of the year against Wichita State March 4. Postseason play begins with the 2025 American Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Championship March 8-12 in a 13-team single elimination bracket. Season tickets for the 2024-25 Mean Green women's basketball season can be purchased at https://meangreensports.evenue.net/list/WB. General Admission season tickets can be purchased for $75 while premium seating can be purchased for $225. Contact the UNT Athletics Ticket Office by calling 940-565-2527 or emailing ticketoffice@unt.edu to purchase tickets today.

That would be a pure pay for play. In theory, NIL is payment for the athlete’s name, image and likeness which could be completely unrelated to how they play. A right offensive tackle could be the very best player in a school’s history at that position but how many tshirts is that going to sell? Would a consumer buy a product based on that player’s endorsement? Then you have Arch Manning and the thousands of tshirts with him name and number on them that have been sold before he ever got into a game! There’s no question that UT would be making a ton of money off of Mannings name, image and likeness and Arch getting nothing without NIL. He is legitimately earning his NIL even though he had yet to perform on the field.

The whole thing is eventually going to burn itself down. Wait until the next Great Recession hits…that money is going to dry up for NIL. Right now, middle class folks that think their school needs funds for better players are already being squeezed out by the cost of attending the games. Soon enough, the higher net worth folks at these G5s are going to bail when they realize this isn’t helping their school out in any significant way. The top 30-50 schools that want to be NFL-little schools and run like that just need to go away. And leave the rest of us to have a setup that looks and acts like amateurish college football.

I'm not sure what this means. I was answering BigWillie's question about how concerts get the audio right. What is your experience with running live sound?

Haven't done these in a few years, let's try it out again