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Gave Jeff a little love: https://www.rbscout.com/single-post/2018/02/27/RB-Scout-Staff-Symposium-2018-NFL-Scouting-Combine

Cool stuff!

You sound like such a great fan, don't travel to NOLA, bc of short turnaround, then I point out two kids who I believe have all conference ability, and you say well I laugh at them. Bc our DL and LB were so bad last year we had to put the corners on a complete island all by theirselves to get double moved to death, YAH that's so easy to cover.

Leadership is all to blame. You can't force people to be fans. I wonder about those, that call out any group, whether it is students, staff, City and local area residents, or alumni. The vast number of people that are in those groups, don't read NT message boards or could be bothered with NT sports. If you want to cast blame on one administration, that is easy; Hurley. I think his 18 years at the helm, hurt NT surely in athletics, but also his basic take no chances style significantly hindered NT's overall progress. He came in after the pro-athletic Jitter Nolan and seems content with NT's reassignment to 1AA. Many including me believe that didn't have to happen. The plan was to dominate 1AA football and become a power in basketball, neither happened. That long period in football exile just about killed any interest in NT football. Hurley was followed by Pohl, who was much more pro-athletic than Hurley. However, any gains he made in athletics were minimal. He failed to recognize what a liability his AD was. Bataille, came next and I am not sure how much of the above about her athletic decisions were true. It was clear that athletics had little priority in her NT career. Again RV continued on, despite little advancement of the athletic program. RV always seemed to circulate excuses for his bad hires, IMO he is totally responsible. Next, Rawlins; who I believe begin to turn things around. Again, unbelievably he retained RV; he did however significantly increase the funding of athletics at NT. The hiring of McCarney signaled the turnaround of athletics at NT. He was a bad hire based on results, but it was not because he was a bargain hire like almost all his predecessors at NT. Smatresk has not only demonstrated he is pro-athletic, but has build NT into an athletic program that should be at the top of CUSA. He was the fifth president, RV served under. Truly, amazing; you have to give RV survival credit. I don't blame RV, it is the administrations that hired and kept extending new employment contracts. RV was never ready for his position at NT and his continued employment at NT continued to hold NT back for 15 years. This combined with the Hurley reign are the two leadership factors that have most hindered NT athletics. It should be noted that the BOR is probably more important than the presidents in athletic status. So good or bad the BOR is a partner in the progress.

This is not on the fans. Anyone that paid any attention at all at that coaching regime knew the wheels were wobbling during the 2013 season. It was very, very easy to see. Just win more than you lose, be competitive in your losses and a fan base with pride will grow. People that are sports fans are prideful people. They are typically competitive people. These type of people are not going to stand by and watch their team get drug through the mud year in and year out. We can't catch lighting in a bottle for a couple years (Or in your analogy, 1 year) and just expect 31K at Apogee every Saturday. Sustainability has to be the expectation.

Taco Bell with extra hot sauce?

Yea I know. Lots of tats and nice cars though.

Whatever their stated budget status, someone will still be dropping bags for their hoops program. After "landing" Mitchell Robinson (#9 national recruit per 247sports) in 2017, WKU is reportedly in on Charles Bassey (#3 national recruit) in 2019... https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/preps/kentucky/2018/02/14/western-kentucky-basketball-mix-nations-top-2019-recruit-charles-bassey/332583002/

That has already been done at most colleges. I always wonder why someone doesn't sue because of the lack of men's sports compared to women. Look at what most colleges offer in the way of men's sports, basically what NT sponsors plus baseball. Many sports colleges offer are essentially only female such as volleyball, soccer, rowing, equitarian and tennis. Yes, football skews the scholarship numbers in favor of men, but being football is by far the most important sport at almost all fbs programs, it should be treated on some type of exception basis. There has to be some common-sense correlation to number of available participants, financial implications including cost to benefit ratio, and popularity with fans.

The problem is you believe there IS a reputation for most G5's outside of G5 fans. People know who Boise State is, they know UConn. If they are older, they know UNLV hoops. They know SMU, Rice and Houston and if they live in the east, they know Temple and UMass. The rest of G5 is basically hometown heroes at best. When AState and App State signed home and home with Miami there was a fan complaining about going home and home with a CUSA (AState) and FCS (App State). The vast majority of people making up television audiences can't tell the schools apart. When AState rolled ULM after ULM beat Arkansas there were people asking why Arkansas had played someone from Arkansas State's division. I cannot imagine with four of the 10 FBS conferences and 2 FCS conferences in Texas that the casual fan in Texas does a great job keeping things straight. How many alums of the G5's even know? The attendance figures around G5 suggest that a huge swath of alums and students couldn't answer questions on who their alma mater plays because they don't go to the games.

NMSU is a good hoops program and brings value to basketball. There is only one CUSA team rated ahead of NMSU. That was true last year as well. The year before that 2 CUSA were rated higher. This would make you dejected? Texas State sucks at football and basketball but they've spent some on facilities and hey they are in Texas they can replace the close game you lost with Tulsa. ULL has been spending money, they had a losing year in football but they look like an at-large in hoops this year. Troy has been rated higher than all but one CUSA the past two years in football. Arkansas State has been rated higher than half of CUSA every year since 2011 and had a season ahead of all of CUSA and several with only one or two ahead and is spending a bundle on facilities, new indoor practice facility, new video boards for football and hoops, new press box, new end zone facility. Would really ruin your reputation to be affiliated with AState. 2005 to 2012 North Texas in football finished ahead of zero of those Sun Belt schools every year except 2010 and then only topped one of them in 2011.

Leach had bad defenses, but I can guarantee you his weren't as bad at Tech as Coach Bro or Littrell at UNT(So far)

NMS, LaLa, Troy. You’re out of your mind. We have got to stay out of places like that. That jackass ODU writer was talking about JMU too. Same type of nonsense. Why not put Nacogdoches and Abilene on your list of fantasy destinations?

Congrats to all! GMG

Any ideas on why Connor Howard left?

Anyone?

At the time, I uploaded a photo of the Independence bowl during the first half. USM looked like they had way less than 10k fans in the stands. I think people are overestimating how many fans we would have had at a mid week game at 1pm outside in crappy weather. Most all of the G5 bowl options are pretty crappy from either a calendar, destination, or opponent standpoint.

RV, is that you? You can't blame the fans, current or old, of the apathy that surrounds the program. This falls on the AD, primarily the previous Prez/AD as well as the AD/Prez that dropped us down to 1AA. A metric shit ton of blame falls directly on those 4 sets of shoulders.

Guys, one on one routes are a joke. QB has all day to throw with no OL getting pressured into him. Not saying they don't time them, but it's ridiculous. Also. Mark this down, Cam Johnson and Nate Brooks both end up all conference corners. They've both got ability out of this world. Here's to hoping ole Nate can get them right.

I think it's a trucking company. I can't be sure though.

Would someone post link or schedule of spring training dates & times. Thanks

Let's go after Ichiro!

Greatest pic of the games imo. Rick

Anyone else think this has something to do with our new marketing agreement with Learfield? Let's be honest...how much good does this sort of thing do UNT? You get a green hat with the Texas Rangers logo. Outside of the folks who attended and a few "interested" fans, who recognizes that hat as a UNT hat? Marketing dollars must be spent where they will do the most good. Perhaps helping the Rangers fill seats and sell tickets is not exactly on UNT's radar these days. I don't have a clue...on the other hand...don't care if there is a UNT Rangers night or not. Never much did anything for me. Now, and FC Dallas UNT night??? Now you are talking. Ha!

Folks...just wanted to announce a few of the silent auction items we have for this year's event already 1) Troy Aikman autographed/authenticated replica helmet 2) UNT full-size game day helmet 3) Rudy's BBQ gift Cards 4) New I-Pad Cover - Green...of course 5) UNT Letter Jacket - Size Large (leather and wool...of course) 6) Two Sets of Two Each very cool UNT Alumni Glasses Just a start...working on a lot more UNT and non-UNT items for this year's silent auction. It's going to be a great time...Saturday...APRIL 14th at the original Snake Pit on Highland Street (directly across from the Super Pit). We need you there and encourage your signing up to play, making a donation, donating a silent auction item or simply showing up to watch the game and check out the bids for our silent auction items. And, yes, everyone is welcome to join us at Eastside on Oak Street just off the downtown Denton Square for our after-event meet and mingle. Beers will be cols, beers will be good and the company will be excellent!

Was thinking back to this https://www.ntdaily.com/green-brigade-takes-skills-to-the-ice/

Isn't the Ranger's VP of marketing on Wren's athletic advisory council or whatever the formal name is? Also, FSSW runs these promotions and the Rangers just allow it, so I believe our beef is with them* (or maybe ourselves for declining.) I also think they often add days throughout the season - I remember a DBU day popping up late last year. *Every single Rangers organization criticism in this thread is pretty valid, though.

Well Brewer, Hall, Meador didn't play last year. So maybe the coaches liked those better and had needs somewhere else? Or maybe he just decided to stop playing. It happens

Nice to hear a little about the redshirts. It appears those three redshirts including Gibson maybe basically next years' recruiting class. I thought it interesting that Simmons is now training to be a guard, it seems like the front court is a bigger need. At 6'4 he is more suited to guard, but this team has a lot of guards. Probably end up being like Lawson, who they call a guard but plays most against front court players. Tikhonenko, I hope gains some weight and can become a factor around the basket. I know he has been promoted as a stretch forward, but NT needs post help.

We probably have seen more schools add football than drop it in the last decade or so, but that may change. I think schools will drop down to the minimum sports required by the NCAA. With T.V. money all but gone for everyone except P5 conferences, the rest of us must look to reduce expenses in all sports, especially travel. This should lead to regional conferences in an effort to create rivalries and increase interest and attendance. Football for us will become a gate revenue sport identical to 1AA programs. I would expect another conference reshuffle in 2020 when SBC,AAC, and MWC T.V. contracts expire. It is my understanding that CUSA contract is set to expire 6-30-2018, but they were trying to get a 2 year extension to get in step with 3 other G5 conferences.I don't know what the status is of that request is. Another fly in the pie is what will happen to Big 12. Texas,Texas Tech,Baylor, and TCU could go to PAC 12, but the Longhorn Network must be dissolved . Oklahoma, OSU, Kansas, and K-State would be welcome in Big 10, but Iowa State would probably end up in AAC. I think the SBC and CUSA sort out schools one way or another, with ULM getting push out and maybe New Mexico State moving in dependent upon what happens to UTEP. Travel expenses going east may finally push the Aggies to 1AA or kill their football program, and I don't know how UTEP can afford to continue play in the CUSA. For the same reason UNT will not move to MWC, as we cannot afford the travel costs. If revenues decrease, then expenses must as well. The targets are travel, coaches salaries, and administrative overheads. How can G5 programs continue to pay $1 million to head football coaches and $500,000 to head men's basketball coaches is going to be a real problem going forward, as well as bloated administrative costs. The next few year are going to be both interesting and challenging for North Texas.

NMSU is far and away a superior hoops program Troy does football, but I'd take USA over Troy. Easier to get to, great community where the nearest Power 5 program is LSU and has a history of doing things the right way. Plus whomever has USA probably has the Mobile Bowl which is one of the better run G5 games and fun to attend other than the stadium sucking. ULL is looking really good in hoops after spending a lot on football :)

I'll give you that, for sure. Hopefully Reffett gets things turned around soon, so "so far" is all it is.

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If that means being consistently ranked in the top 25, I'll take it.

Friendly wager on that? My not-so-bold prediction says he does... this year. Starting 9/1. He'll start the year 2nd string behind Tauaalo.

Given how the Rangers not paying for their new stadium and fleecing the city and almost refusing to be competitive, not sure how excited I am to go to a game anyways.

I'm hoping Brooks bounces back and we don't see this from him anymore. He's a Senior now, time to step up.

I agree with what you're saying. But in every metric and every power poll, there is an entire conference that separates us and the Belt. To add, the conference as a whole did very well in recruiting only being behind AAC. I think the gap is starting to widen, in football that is. In basketball, an argument could be made that we are equals and given the year one conference may be better than the other.

Where has it been said students don’t attend because of crappy WiFi? I’ve never once had issues with the WiFi at Apogee

Name opponent in comparison to who? Florida State? I think there is no need to debunk that and I don't really care who Troy beat. Also, I would've more than likely went to the bowl game even if it were vs Troy had it been in Shreveport. The opponent played a role, but the distance of driving in such a short notice was also pretty relevant.

With Title 9 compliance issues it will be the men's sports that take the hit. In the future, I believe we will see some smaller schools with very few men's teams outside of Football and Basketball.

What college has students that travel well? Outside of neutral site games, most schools fill their stadiums with home crowds not visitors.

The reason people wish for us into the MW is better it’s a better conference. You are always wanting to improve and play against better teams. The reason people do not travel to UTSA is because of the terrible experiences some fans have had and because it’s not viewed as a rival such as SMU ontop of the drive. LAT had a good turn out when it was on Stadium, and they bring a solid crowds 2 years ago. Rice I believe we had more UNT fans at their game than they had of their own fans. Many reasons the students didn’t vote.. 1-Time, 2-They put it off, 3- They didn’t care, and the list goes on.. The AD office did as much as they could from social media, emails, signs on campus, T-shirt stands with Players from the teams talking about the benefits among other things

McCasland was a good hire for UNT.

I hate all Kalifornia teams. But, let's get the slump over with now before the run to the playoffs. On a positive note, USA Women won gold tonight!!!!

It looks like this is going to be a expensive ticket for what we are getting...unless you really care about women's tourney and watching all of those games. the “Institutional Use” section is for the schools and ticket cost is $180 and as far as I can tell there will not be any single game tickets sold in this area The GA Premium section $180 all session there are 850 seats in this section. There will be single game tickets sold in this area. I;m waiting on a email from the UNT ticket office to clarify cost on this. Talking to them was confusing because the way I understood it ticket cost goes up each round. But I believe the person said $45, then $55 and then another price for the championship. Had a bad connection so I'm not 100% sure on that. GA Green section is $125 and I believe they said $35 for single game ticket The all session passes are usually a good deal if you want to watch all of the tourney. But that's not really the case this year. As you can see from the below schedule, 2 mens game will be played basically at the same time. One starting 30 minutes after the other. So you are missing almost half of the games....you will get a peak because of the 30 minute start times different. But that's it. So if your team goes to the finials you are paying $45 a game seed 5 & below and $60 a game for the top 4 seeds. Of course you can watch half of the womens tourney because they are scheduled the same....2 games going on at once. Why they decided this was a great ideal...I don't know. Common sense says play a mens game on court A and a womans game on court B. That way you at least get the choice of watch the whole mens tourney...with a $180 ticket Once I get the email I will confirm ticket cost for single game ticket. One other thing...each section will have ushers .."can I see your ticket, please" so no moving down from the green ga even if those side court seats are 90% empty Wednesday, March 7 - First Round 11 am Women's First Round Game 1 (Court A) 11:30 am Women's First Round Game 2 (Court B) 1:30 pm Women's First Round Game 3 (Court A) 2 pm Women's First Round Game 4 (Court B) 6 pm Men's First Round Game 1 (Court A) 6:30 pm Men's First Round Game 2 (Court B) 8:30 pm Men's First Round Game 3 (Court A) 9 pm Men's First Round Game 4 (Court B) Thursday, March 8 - Quarterfinals 11 am Women's Quarterfinal Game 5 (Court A) 11:30 am Women's Quarterfinal Game 6 (Court B) 1:30 pm Women's Quarterfinal Game 7 (Court A) 2 pm Women's Quarterfinal Game 8 (Court B) 6 pm Men's Quarterfinal Game 5 (Court A) 6:30 pm Men's Quarterfinal Game 6 (Court B) 8:30 pm Men's Quarterfinal Game 7 (Court A) 9 pm Men's Quarterfinal Game 8 (Court B) Friday, March 9 - Semifinals 12:30 pm Men's Semifinal Game 9 (Court A) 3:00 pm Men's Semifinal Game 10 (Court A) 5:30 pm Women's Semifinal Game 9 (Court A) 8 pm Women's Semifinal Game 10 (Court A) Saturday, March 10 - Championship Game 4:30 pm Women's Championship Game (Court A)

Guns--"assault-type" and otherwise--are in the vast majority of instances used for healthy, constructive purposes. I think it would be difficult to say the same for heroin, cocaine, or meth.

Once again, 66, what's a clip, and what is an "assault gun" ? And comparing drug laws to gun laws is a flawed argument. Drugs are not a constitutional right, and passing drug laws do not risk infringing upon our rights as a citizen. When your pass gun laws, their effect on the constitution must be considered.

Ever thought, or cared, that you probably lose some people that would normally side with you because of the tone or your response? I really agree with your point when I strip away all of the condescending shots at those you don't necessarily share a belief system.