2 Texas top 100

[H-towngreen]

Bobby Burton at Texas247 put out his final Texas Top 100 today. North Texas showed up twice with Caleb Chumley at 84 and Tee Goree checking in at 80.

[Ben Gooding]

Well this is the Texas 100, not the national 100. North Texas should land at least couple of these guys a year just off a geographical standpoint alone.

[H-towngreen]

Well this is the Texas 100, not the national 100. North Texas should land at least couple of these guys a year just off a geographical standpoint alone.

You would think but this has become a rare occurance.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Well this is the Texas 100, not the national 100. North Texas should land at least couple of these guys a year just off a geographical standpoint alone.

[Stan R]

Yeah ok but the Texas 100 has how many national top 100 in it? Probably a large percentage I'd guess.

[Rudy]

Take it one step at a time. If we continue our success and upward climb, we will start to pull Texas 100 regurlary, then we will start picking off National 100, etc.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Well this is the Texas 100, not the national 100. North Texas should land at least couple of these guys a year just off a geographical standpoint alone.

Wonder how close in talent the Texas Top 100 is to the National Top 100?

[Ben Gooding]

There might be 10-12 guys from the Texas 100 on the ESPN150. Regardless, landing a couple of these guys a year should be the norm not the exception. A lot of those 100 are from the DFW are I an sure. There's no reason not to land a few of them. In 2 years from right now the North Texas campus will be very, very nice. Education is already very good. The endowment is pitiful, but will start changing with the increase of business and engineering students. Over the last 30-40 years UNT has put too much emphasis on the music and art programs. Not to offend anyone, but most violinists and amateur artists won't improve the schools endowment. But that is changing and changing fast. To put our pitiful endowment into perspective..UNT-113 mil UT-6 bil ATM-7.6 bil Rice-4.8 bil UH-589 mil UTEP-151 mil Texas State-119 mil TCU-2.1 bil SMU- 1.1 bil Anyone see a trend...Our endowment at 113 mil is higher than UTSA (by a small margin) and SHSU. This is way off subject, but just wanted to inform the ones on here that may be uninformed. It all starts with the Alumni.

[Ben Gooding]

To answer the Q above, 18 Texas players are in the ESPN150. 12 in the top 100 nationally. Just looked it up. All ESPN300 players are either already committed to P5 schools or are deciding on a list of P5 schools.

[Mean Green 93-98]

There might be 10-12 guys from the Texas 100 on the ESPN150. Regardless, landing a couple of these guys a year should be the norm not the exception. A lot of those 100 are from the DFW are I an sure. There's no reason not to land a few of them. In 2 years from right now the North Texas campus will be very, very nice. Education is already very good. The endowment is pitiful, but will start changing with the increase of business and engineering students. Over the last 30-40 years UNT has put too much emphasis on the music and art programs. Not to offend anyone, but most violinists and amateur artists won't improve the schools endowment. But that is changing and changing fast. To put our pitiful endowment into perspective..UNT-113 mil UT-6 bil ATM-7.6 bil Rice-4.8 bil UH-589 mil UTEP-151 mil Texas State-119 mil TCU-2.1 bil SMU- 1.1 bil Anyone see a trend...Our endowment at 113 mil is higher than UTSA (by a small margin) and SHSU. This is way off subject, but just wanted to inform the ones on here that may be uninformed. It all starts with the Alumni.

This kind of reasoning is flawed. It suggests that if we allowed our superior music program to become mediocre, it would somehow spell success for sports. A university collectively thrives as more areas thrive, not as other areas are neglected.

Symbiosis, my friend.

[Ben Gooding]

Endowment doesn't have a direct correlation with sports. It betters the entire university as a whole. Better professors, better facilities both athletic and academic, more research, more students, bigger campus, basically better everything. If you aren't growing in some facet you aren't improving.

[Ben Gooding]

And I never said to neglect anything. Just put as much emphasis on everything else as they have put on music and art over the last several decades.

[Mean Green 93-98]

And I never said to neglect anything. Just put as much emphasis on everything else as they have put on music and art over the last several decades.

Actually, you said, "UNT has put too much emphasis on the music and arts programs." But I agree with your revised statement above.

[drex]

I have an art degree from North Texas and I'll put my giving record up against a bunch of alums.

[eulessismore]

I have an art degree from North Texas and I'll put my giving record up against a bunch of alums.

The "too much emphasis on art and music" thing was just playing a broken record from past days to a crowd that increasingly doesn't even know what a cd is. I didn't get a music degree, but did take guitar class with a guy who did, and who then went on to graduate law school and become the president of the national immigration lawyers association. He was smart enough to see a demand for that kind of work among athletes, had a working arrangement with the pga to handle those issues for golfers who play all over the world. I could go on, but wife is calling for me to do something else. Maybe music school helped him get those creative juices going. And, by the way, not everyone working in education is living in poverty. If you haven't been to a big time music event at the Murchison on the UNT campus, there's an opportunity to see outreach to the movers and shakers. Dudes, think outside of these old tired cliches!

[Ben Gooding]

Well everyone has an individual story and a story and defies the odds. But at the end of the day 113mil is North Texas' endowment and its at that for a reason. Please enlighten me on what the reason is, because apparently I am wrong.