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No, this is what happens when you keep things locked tight and behind closed doors until the last minute. Most institutions affected in this way will not yet of had the time to process this and respond. Even a majority of senators when probed on their positive indications towards particular provisions admitted to not having read the bill and were just trusting leadership. Yikes, man, yikes.

Hmm, may because they're making massive layoffs elsewhere, including here at home. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/att/2017/12/20/att-plans-lay-nearly-300-center-dallas-next-year http://fox4kc.com/2017/12/20/hundreds-of-metro-att-employees-laid-off-just-before-christmas/ It should also be noted that those who are getting $1000 bonuses are getting that from union negotiations completely independent of the tax bill.

This was a very cool move by all involved. Rick

An update to this: A+ - (1) Reggie Williams A - (1) Keyvon Davis B+ - (1) Jaxon Gibbs B - (4) Austin Ogunmakin, Jason Bean, Deandre Torrey, Darrian McMillan C+ - (1) Jordan Hunt C - (7) Larry Nixon, Kason Martin, Dayton Leblanc, Keelan Crosby, Cole Brown, Josh Sa'afi, Jordan Redfearn 7/15 (46.7%) are "B" or higher I didn't count Carroll right now, since signs are pointing to him not being part of the class anymore. He would have us at 7/16 (43.8%). Still continuing the downward trend, but not as dramatically as before. I expect this number to continue to go up as we likely get more guys at the end who saw their offers dry up. I would imagine it will probably be around 50-55% with about 5 spots left. I really think anything below 65% is not very good recruiting. 65% having at least two other FBS offers doesn't seem that hard, but it has been. Any FBS offers at all. 13/20 should be very doable, and it still leaves room for underrecruited "system" guys and guys who the coaches see something in that other coaches don't. Certainly some great gets at the top, and plenty of "system" guys, but this class could use more foundation guys than just Williams, Davis, and Gibbs.

They really should end this bowl (no name sponsor). No operable play clocks; and the score board isn't working. To only hope for 600 fans from both schools shows no one wants to go there. It's a 3rd world country. PLUS the stadium sucks. I rather goto New Mexico Bowl than the Bahama Bowl and I am in South Florida.

Yeah, it's a press move and an alignment/backing move more than it is an indication of this being some saving grace for the people of this country. Still working my way through the TCJA, so not trying to say it's great or awful as of yet, but you saying the bonuses are independent of the bill is correct.

I'll let my young friend #oldguystudent elaborate, but we all got clipped by the tax bill.....

That's rich coming from the fear mongering reality challenged GOP'er. Scared of the mythical Antifa. Claiming everything is a false flag. 911 was an inside job. Newtown didn't happen. Child sex rings in pizza joints. Crisis actors. Kenyan born president. /facepalm But the liberals are void of anything close to reality.

I'm going to predict that nobody in the NCAA has the stones to make that call.

#P6

I really think QB is a different animal than other positions, too. So many QBs get offered on size alone (Greer, Means), but you can find undersized QBs who can play on the FBS level but don't have many or any other offers because of height (Kellen Moore, Rakeem Cato, Blake Bogenschutz, Matt Johnson, McKenzie Milton, Mason Fine, etc). For the same reason, it's also easier for an underrecruited guy to pan out in scat back/slot receiver roles. Chancellor, Harris, Mike Lawrence, Evan Johnson, etc. These guys are underrecruited because of size but as long as they make people miss it doesn't matter. On the line, tight ends, linebackers, outside receivers, 3-down backs, defensive backs, the more offers the player has, the better chance he has to be good, statistically speaking.

Man, I've been trying to read a lot on all sides to get my head around the changes that are still just trickling out because of the way this was passed, which was stupid, because gomeangreen.com had me covered the whole time. Thanks guys! I'm off to do some light financial planning in the VVIP if anyone would like to join me. @LoveMG is gonna share his top 5 investment plays of 2018 in the chat!

Jalie is awesome! So happy that one of our own is leading this program and has the team finding their groove.

Shoutout to @Mean_Green09 for being right about this one yesterday and calling Duffy playing against Georgetown. Got a good source

WB got it right with the future games he has scheduled since Liberty got added. If you are going to play FCS games, play SFA or SHSU. They are the only ones who bring people to games because of their alumni bases. The others are just awful. And when you lose one (or in the case of Portland State, you get seal-clubbed and bent over a barrel), it just kills momentum at a place like UNT. But Texas State from the SBC, as well as Arky State or ULL, would be fine OOC teams to play again and would help you for conference play, as well as to have games that people will travel to attend.

i agree with the other two teams. I rather play Texas State at least they would bring fans.

I am pretty sure that we have proven in the past that we can discuss topics like this with well thought out, fact based content. Everything should be fine. ETA: In before the lock.

Should this be moved to the Eagles Nest? It is becoming political tax issue. I come here to get from it for a while anyway. I rather argue uniforms, w-l records and O/C schedule. I can watch CNBC or FBN for my tax information.

"So those that need to make ends meet will have to make some cuts. And those cuts will probably come from programs that aren’t revenue drivers like football and men’s basketball. We’ll be passed out in the floor from shock if coach salaries decrease accordingly to help schools pay the new tax. Instead, we’re bracing for future stories about athletic department cuts to other sports, especially at schools without large donor and alumni bases." https://www.yahoo.com/sports/new-tax-law-will-cost-college-athletic-departments-lots-money-185631171.html

I got you, bro.

East Mississippi CC is the school that just about all SEC teams, send their prospective student athletes to school, to help the athlete to learn how to read and write, and to make grades high enough to qualify! I would bet that Saban is really pissed that these two big DT's jumped ship from Bama to join Butch Davis at FIU! What the heck does Davis have to offer to sway away players from Bama, Auburn, Mississippi, Miss St, SC, and Kentucky?

That is one nice tush. Butt(no pun intended) I really dislike all of the ads that are showing up.

Typical AAC apologist. The AAC is 1-9 in bowls against other G5 teams in bowl games over the last 4 years. The secret is out, the AAC is not good. If the AAC is lucky, SMU, Tulsa, and Tulane will shut down their football programs. What a joke they are.

I get that same ass, but didn't want to say anything. Does anyone know the backstory on this butt?

In a weird twist of fate, my family and I ended up on the same flight as the women's team on our way up to Chicago for the holidays. Got to talk to Jalie Mitchell for a while. Great group with a great leader. Not their two best showings of the year, but they have a great shot of going 9-3 in non-conference this year. Definitely building something special.

Really, That's what you focus on in my post. Point is folks on this board have been critical of UNT recruiting and there thoughts on players talent based on offers and many other subjective criteria. Take a look. This is one of the last players UNT had that went to NFL. Wow...3A Powerhouse. Source: Wikipedia "Brad Kassell attended Llano High School in Llano, Texas and was a letterman in football as a quarterback. In football, as a senior, he rushed for 1431 yards and 20 touchdowns and passed for 839 yards and eight touchdowns, and was named the Class 3A All-West MVP, and won All-State second team honors. Brad Kassell graduated from Llano High School in 1998." Look at this. Mr. Kassell wasn't a QB in the NFL. Imagine that.

DRC: http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/mean-green/2017/12/21/unt-forward-tikhonenko-cleared-ncaa-will-redshirt

Not that is matters currently, but I know some fence sitters up in the club level that are all paid off, but have soured on the whole gameday cost and have decided to not renew and let them lapse. I can imagine that some people, without the incentive of some money back on their club level investment may go ahead and let them lapse too. I, am not one of those people, but the bonus of writing off the MGC does play into where we do our end of the year holiday donations. We don't exchange gifts in my family, we donate to charities in the recipient's name. Definitely makes me want to veer toward ACLU or the Innocence Project with that end of year donation instead of upping the MCG. We can go back to the base level for MCG to have all our club seats. Donation pools are zero sum. Anyhow, just pointing out the edge cases where this does have an impact.

This is ridiculous. Probably every player on UTEP's roster committed to that school before Trump was in office.

No bowl would ever schedule a rematch of an in-season match up. Uh, wait a minute. Nevermind.

I'm really hoping you come through for me this year....

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=21832611 Check out the speech at 1:03. The struggle is real and familiar.

I am just going to leave this here: Frisco Bowl Attendance: 14,419 New Orleans Bowl Attendance: 24,904 That is 10,485 more tickets sold....

This! Way way too early to say one way or the other. Remember, you did not get “full” tax credit anyway this year. I think 80% was countable. Just re-classify and create new “credits” for buying premium seats. We have far too many creative tax accountants around to not figure this out. Every NCAA program is working on it...and word will spread fast through the Tanaka. I recall when they first started to reduce to 80%. Lots of gnashing of teeth and hand wringing then too. Best advice for now...either standby and wait or get those next year donations in before the end of the year.

I’ll gladly pay less overall in taxes (about $6k for my family according to online calculators) and keep paying my MGC membership.

You thank the big boys for this law. It will hit them hard I think. I dont do it for the donation (tax break) I do it for Mean Green sports. Then again i dont own a suite and sit with the little people at the 40.

Smu did wax our ass...

I'll say this. If we can't beat SMU next year, it ain't happening for awhile. We have them here, with SL and Fine here, and they will be breaking in a new coach, without their NFL First Round Draft Pick at WR that we couldn't match up with in a 1000 years. Arky is a whole other animal. I would love to think we can beat them up there, but I know the odds are stacked against us for the obvious reasons. I think the other two games (Incarnate Word and @ Liberty) are embarrassing to be on the schedule and shouldn't be close at all.

Yeah, and La Tech has done really well in snabbing 10+ 3 star kids a year while being a top 5 CUSA program in recruiting and on the field. See that correlation? See how it's not a coincidence?

Not only do we have to find an aggressive defense....but we can't fall apart on the O line when they run simple stunts. And when we do pick up the stunts we can't use lazy, security-guard-shack-gate type tactics to hold D linemen out of the backfield. Spencer Leftwhich would have strangled someone to death last Saturday afternoon. Rick

Moot* point, but let's move on.

Similar to want MGNation92 said, a blue shirt means Fall 2018 he will not be on campus unless it is on his dime, and spring 2019 he will be on scholarship and redshirt fall 2019.

I don't think dead hookers count as fans.

With all off the asinine comments you make. Talk about someone who gives themselve to much credit.

no love affair with TSU . we dont like when SMU calls us NTSU. Just showing a little respect to them. I would rather play TSU then Liberty or the world team. How many fans will they bring to our game? TSU fans would show up for the game. I want to fill Apogee because we need the dollars.

We're going to have a thorough review of the new law in February led by a guy who is as smart as he is boring. I've read some of it, and it's, well, it ain't written by English majors. There are some major points that have the highest level of tax experts scratching their heads going, "What the hell does this mean?" I have one client for whom the definition of a single word, still very unclear, will swing his taxable income $17 million up or down. There are going to be lawsuits, regulations, and of course, tax accountants and lawyers sitting in rooms figuring out new tax avoidance strategies as @KRAM1 correctly remarked. Just sit tight, all. They pay us the mediocre bucks to figure these things out. Edit: I'll add to this that this bill is all encompassing. It's so comprehensive that I imagine they'll end up calling it the tax code of 2017 a la Reagan's massive changes that we now call the tax code of 1986. I don't know how they came up with so many things to affect in such a short period of time, but here we are. It's gonna be a while before the dust settles and people figure out where everybody stands, and money gets redirected to the most advantageous paths.

SUMG = Stand Up Mean Green. He’s the real deal.

Well folks... it came in yesterday! My UNT ring! Here it is! GMG!!

He's going to play at A&M Commerce. That's a pretty crappy thing to say when you have no idea if he works or not in the classroom. Could have a severe learning disability, could just be lazy in classroom but to assume either way is not a good look IMO.

The only camp that he has been reported as attending is our's.