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Will OJ's casket be referred to as a juice box?

Again, they want to be paid, fine. The NCAA is now a professional sports league. That means taxes, salary caps, and signing players to contracts. Texass u wants one of our players, then trade for them. Then we'll see how long before those douchebag programs want to go back to the old ways.

You are right. I sense that you will start to see the best G5 head coaches leave to become assistants at the richer programs. The money and greed of the coaches and schools are to blame for this. I do not blame the networks. It is ridiculous for coaches to be paid millions of dollars and same for AD’s when the players can’t pay their bills. I fear our programs as we know and knew them to be are basically over. We are North Texas State Junior College now.

Sad day

sad day for college sports. They're now just "athletes" & go to the highest bidder.

California JUCO's: DT: Grant Hessler https://247sports.com/Player/grant-hessler-46144473/ https://www.hudl.com/profile/11423510/Grant-Hessler DT/DE: Jackson Volk https://www.hudl.com/profile/11160323/Jackson-Volk DE/OLB: Zone Wierenga https://www.hudl.com/profile/11435380/Zone-Wierenga DE/DT: Darius Hurd https://www.hudl.com/profile/12396154/Darius-Hurd DT: Qau Smith https://www.hudl.com/profile/13472625/Qai-Smith DT: Tywun Gordon

Sorry, been out of the country all week. A small town in East Texas called Jefferson. It's been on and off the list the past few years.

I really thought he would be something when he signed. Just never found his spot.

All in one day or do you spread it out?

I was reading about this a few hours ago. This is basically the start of revenue sharing... It was the goal. They took a huge step reaching that goal in Virgina. I'm glad I laughed at the notion of "student"-athlete 20 years ago. The idea of student is so far removed it's laughable. I thought it was laughable in the early 00s. It's a clown town joke nowadays. Not all athletes. Because I don't know any player individually. But what I do know is that acceptance standards have been dumbed down to community college levels of acceptance over the last 30+ years, and that goes for some pretty elite universities. Now, those lowly standards are still in place. Then, classes are now exclusively taken online for countless athletes. As of 10+ years ago, athletic departments provide tutors, essay editors, etc. To add, multiple universities have been caught creating made up academic programs to filter their athletes through. Not to mention the universities being caught fudging grades and having their assigned tutors complete their online coursework. And we're sitting here still calling these athletes "student"-athletes all the while trying to keep a straight face.

It's true. In the current format apathy will and has been destroying our athletics. The incentive/wish/hope of "getting there one day" is completely gone.

To add to that Virginia passes law to allow schools to pay players directly. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/39967961/virginia-law-allows-schools-pay-athletes-nil

Surprised it took this long. Very underwhelming career here given his size and skill set

There are some good JUCO DL's still out there. Curious if we are even looking there.

Wow great, these jucos have great fan support and donors. We’re screwed!

But those guys are now making more money riding bench than being a starter at UNT. Those are also not NFL guys so if athletics is ever going to pay them, it's going to be now.

With how the roster was constructed by spring time, the coaches had to be banking on some scholarship guys entering the portal so they could grab defensive lineman and fill other holes from spring evals. Seems to be part of the plan, but we will see how it pays off.

Sonny was able to accelerate the turnaround at SMU through the transfer portal so......

I didn't think she could get off to a worse start than last Friday when she walked four batters in 1+ innings of work, but alas, four walks without recording an out last night. She's been going crazy with those pitches sailing over batters' heads.

Green and White, Flight Flight Flight.

West and Swiney weren't going to get any playing time.

Remember Sonny Dykes? I bet you do. He said about transfers, “If they weren’t playing where they were, they probably won’t play for you.” I believe there are exceptions to that. But overall, the best transfers to UNT have been proven guys that we got from lower levels. Not the guys who were highly-rated out of high school, signed with a P4 and then never saw the field there. From the P4, I would be on the lookout for a guy like Marcus Trice. He demonstrated that he could be productive at a high level, but fell down the depth chart on a very talented roster. Grab those guys and give them an opportunity.

Opportunity to make a statement for the Athletic Department as a whole playing an SEC opponent at home. Opportunity lost.

Big Z, I had Franklins BBQ on one occasion and was not that impressed. However, in full disclosure, it was during the Covid Pandemic. When they did finally open the restaurant during the pandemic it was drive-through/pickup only. No "in restaurant" dining. Some day I'll try it again.

My brother was the executive chef for Heim for a while not so long ago.