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Title IX still applies, right?

Power just came on from 6:00am this morning. Central and East Dallas got hammered. Lots o old big trees to snap the power lines. Bars packed watching the Mavs game! GMG

Got 4 inches of rain in about a 3 hour time frame. Never lost power.

Lost power for a few hours. A few trees down in the neighborhood.

I can't imagine UNT adding another non revenue sport that would require at least $10 million+ just to construct a venue. What I can imagine is North Texas dropping as many sports as possible in order to keep those remaining financially viable. We are headed into a financial abyss that is unprecedented in amateur sports. Historically our athletic department has been underfunded and while I hate to yell that the sky is falling it well may be. I just don't see a silver lining for G5 athletic programs.

Big week ahead for Mason. It's between him and Shea Patterson to be the back up QB. https://3downnation.com/2024/05/26/its-up-to-the-coaches-qb-mason-fine-states-final-preseason-case-to-be-riders-backup-qb/

There is a very real probability that our school may be playing football at a club level in about 15-20 years if nothing changes in the current landscape for the better. Unless we get comfortable with being a juco/stepping stone for the folks up the food chain.

Baseball would make sense, baseball is still very popular in this region of the country. UNT already has a hockey team but its not NCAA, they play in TCHC, they do fill up the arenas and the games are fun to watch, it would be nice if the university supported them a little better.

Could Buggs still return to NT ?

I believe he said the best offensive backcourt. They're probably the most talented we've seen. Win a championship and they can enter the conversation of greatest along with Chauncey Billups/Rip Hamilton, Manu Ginobili/Tony Parker, Joe Dumars/Isaiah Thomas, and Steph Curry/Klay Thompson.

There is a lot of information yet to be processed. Is the NCAA going to require a certain number of sports? How will woman's sports be affected? Where is the money going to come from on a go forward basis? What will be the value of AAC t.v contract once the P4 conferences spin off? Would the G6 schools be better off by being pro active , leave the NCAA, and develop their own rules for membership? We will need to do it sooner or later when the P4 conferences move on. Also, the legal rights of college athletes is driving this and the NCAA is powerless to prevent change .

How's all my homies doing out there? I'm in Allen and just had some tree branches snap off and some pool stuff all over the place.

The Stars were on fire the last two periods.

Let's not forget about the Stars and the greatness of post season NHL play. Great comeback win last night in Edmonton. Stars now up 2-1 on the Oilers

As others have pointed out, breaking away doesn't stop them from raiding our rosters. I'm afraid there is no going back. We all need to push for player contracts.

BB🏀🏀🏀

Need to finish them off tonight in Dallas. Don't give them any hope and a chance to go back to Minnesota. A week break will also be good for Luka's health.

Totally agree on this. The only issue I see if that if they separate the have from the have nots you will see a lot of lower level P5 programs start losing a lot more games as they cannot rely on lower level wins against G5 schools. These new big P5 conferences are so big they don't have much room for non conference games as I see it. Some actually have mandated you have to play 9 plus conference games every year.

In the new NIL era how should UNT athletics be focused?

A small part of this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. The decision-makers at the various networks lockup conferences with contracts and put the match-ups they deem to be the most desirable in the best time-slots to maximize eye-balls and low-and-behold, those get the highest ratings. Of course that confirms in their mind that they have this thing figured out and the cycle repeats. The 37K viewership for UNT/Temple was on ESPNU, but let's face it, none of the games on the U pulled in big numbers with most under 50K. We had 88K for the UNT/Cal game. The most viewed game of the season on ESPNU was the Memphis/Missouri game at 181K. Put the UNT/SMU game on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox at a desirable time-slot and I suspect we'd double or triple the 618K we got on a Friday at 9:00p on ESPN2. Same teams, same game, but different numbers IMHO simply due to network and timeslot.

I’m just waiting to watch some ball, I hope it is against like institutions. Saturday afternoons hearing the roar of the Green. I’ll catch some SEC Big games but on my schedule and convenience. I’m not seeking it out over a weekend with the Mean Green Tribe in Denton Texas on a warm, cool, windy, rainy, Saturday afternoon. I may be unique but I followed this team to Monroe. Troy, southern miss, El Paso, Colorado Springs, Tempe, boca, Murpheesboro, bowling green and las cruces. Some of the best trips of my fandom. It’s going to be green forever no matter the landscape. GMG

Jay Bilas is a douchebag. Always has been.

This ain’t politics. College sports have very certain brands that make the networks money with eyeballs. The little guys aren’t any of those brands.