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“I don't worry that much about the players because they're young and healthy and with proper treatment could could be back in playing shape in a short period of time.” - Sorry, I’m not usually a very vocal member of this board, but this is an incredibly irresponsible point of view. Many, many thousands of young people have died from this disease. The fact that any of us would knowingly put these young men in harms way...it’s deplorable y’all.

Cancel TAMU and owe them $1.2 million or whatever it is. That’s expensive leadership

It is important to know who is touching your balls.

I don’t shed any tears over losing a kid that can’t spell Texas

This will be my 3rd Saturday in a row to host a (re)watch party on Facebook. You can watch along and comment with others in the chat. I'll post the link here once it is started (around 7pm or so tonight).

The truth is all of our options are garbage. The good news is that serious complications from COVID to children are vanishingly rare and probably much less so than flu. I also heard on the news yesterday that children aren't very good at transmitting it either (though who knows how accurate that is). Of course, there is a chance the teachers could get sick or the kids would bring it home to their family (which I understand to be the bigger concern than the kids themselves). The thing is that online school is a really really poor substitute, for younger kids especially. It also means that the kids hurt the most by not having physical school are those kids who are already underserved and/or don't have a supportive family structure. IMHO, the best of the terrible options would be to have kids attend school unless they or someone in their household is in a high-risk group. Those who couldn't attend could stay online. I'm not sure what would happen to teachers who are high risk though. I guess they might have to take a leave of absence in some cases. That's terrible to say..but things are terrible.

I found some on Sports Fan Island and a couple of ETSY stores. https://www.sportsfanisland.com/products/north-texas-mean-green-ncaa-3-pack-face-cover $24.99 for 3 https://etsy.me/2MypKlR $10 https://etsy.me/2Odyv5s $8

Well, then what are we gonna do on Saturdays in the Fall?

I'm aware, just overstating a need for solutions that'll work. There's no way to go back and fix mistakes from the beginning of this, it's a matter of not letting it get worse when it doesn't need to.

It's probably some of our best programs (music, chemistry, etc) could get hurt the most, because they attract students who want the best education for the money in those fields. I am sure this could cause some deep pain to many good programs at UNT. On the other hand, I think UNT and other universities should do as much as they can to have an innovative combination of online and classroom instruction, perhaps in a way to nuance this guidance (i.e., have some classroom instruction for a mostly online course, with perhaps a fourth of the class enrollment in classroom instruction one day a week, thus allowing both social distance and physical presence for all in a class).

Golf seems safer than tennis because you don’t have as much risk of multiple people touching your balls. Although, you could mark your balls so you know whose balls you are touching.

The Pac-12 just announced they are following the Big-10 that they are playing conference games only. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pac-12-follows-big-tens-lead-moves-to-conference-only-college-football-schedule-for-2020-season/

“... a literal change in history...” Sorry Skipper, but you can’t change history, literally or otherwise. Some would try, but what happened, happened and you can’t change it. Thankfully we can learn from it, unless we erase it and future generations are unable to do so. No, I didn’t read the article. It was a long day at work and I just didn’t have it in me😂😂

I've been extremely silent, since I don't have a lot of fans on my take of the "million dollar man" (spoiler: I am not a huge fan) But, for what we are paying for and what we are getting? This is 100% absolute grade A prime pure as the hope diamond Bullsh!t if we aren't one of the "good" teams. I'm not questioning you...you are spot on. I'm questioning our coaches because this is totally unacceptable. If we go 4-4 with Million dollar Seth, with our talent, and still consider half the conference above us? We are being robbed.

Not at all. Just disagreeing from experience with part of what you said. I too don't want kids to get sent home either.

For the record I am very concerned about how the PRC uses students to spy or steal tech. That’s a real thing. But most people just want a good education to either stay in the US and contribute or to return home and make it better there. I prefer the latter, but understand that our country often needs the former.

Yes there are problems with student visas. I have issued them. It is a tiny percentage that try to commit fraud and most are caught by State Department officers. Pro tip: DHS does little to protect you or stop illegal immigration. US universities rely on international students. They pay a LOT of money in general to attend our schools. Some NT program could fail without international students. Anyone here proud of our tennis team? It will cease to exist.

I like your thoughts, @Coach Andy Mac I think by the time Rice gets here we're clicking as a team and get the W. 5-3 is my guess. L vs Southern Miss W vs Charlotte W vs MUT W vs UTEP L vs LaTech L vs UAB W vs Rice W vs UTSA I just want the boys to play!

Better than the circle jerk you and your buddies have going on, but to each his own. Too bad sarcasm is lost on you. Fight the Power!

back up qbs played more in the UTSA game, no? I would like to see them

But if they are already here living and studying, why force them to get on a plane to go home to study remotely? That’s rent money paid here and sales taxes collected every month. A lot of extra expense to the student to just pack up and leave, break leases, etc.

We are a season removed from back to back 9 win seasons and a win over an SEC team (yes I know they sucked but we dominated them). Last season was disgusting and the ‘18 season was a completely squandered opportunity but I feel like these are growing pains we need to ride out with a promising dude who is still finding himself as a head coach. Not into the idea of trading out at all. He has hopefully learned the staff personalities he needs to fit into the program more...I don’t think he’s the greatest motivator on the planet because he’s such a disciplined personality he has a hard time accepting that anyone would be any different so he needs assistants who connect with the players on a personal level to motivate so he can focus on his real talent which is scheme. We’ve brought in some solid classes but still have plenty of holes. I’m in the camp of being patient. We have a tremendous AD who is filling the gaps financially and facilities wise, they’re both young and learning. We are trending well still in my eyes. Another bad year obviously affects plenty, but we have a major void at quarterback and it’s not gonna be super smooth. I expect excellence ultimately but we are still crawling out of the butt of a undeniable gap in the college football landscape and there are uncountable nuances to the challenges we’ve historically faced. I’m grateful and optimistic.

Is this news to you?

With 8 conference games I am thinking 4-4 is realistic? Wins over UTSA UTEP MUTS and Charlotte? Losses against the good teams like La Tech UAB, Southern Miss and Rice.

If the focus is on limiting travel, conference only games just doesn't make sense to me. Divide up by geographic regions and let's play some football. I'm sure many would hate it (especially UTEP and UTSA from C-USA), but Pat Forde's realignment proposal makes too much logical sense. This would be fun and a bit chaotic, if only temporary until the pandemic ends in a few years. https://www.si.com/college/2020/06/29/ncaa-college-football-conference-realignment PS - I give bonus points to this proposal for putting Alabama in the Sun Belt. 😆

Welcome aboard!

If TAMU cancels, at minimum, make the pay the buyout.

Swimming and diving. A chlorinated pool is about the safest place you can be.

247 Article on this commitment: https://247sports.com/college/north-texas/Article/DB-Robert-Johnson-commits-to-North-Texas-Mean-Green-football-149007870/ https://www.hudl.com/profile/12485776/Robert-Johnson 6'2" 180 lbs. As stated in the article above, he run a "self-proclaimed" 4.5 forty.

Because that's what they do.

I'm thinking it's almost mid July and no decision or direction. Judy is already behind the power curve.

Hummmmm.....Rice??? I'm thinkin that at best a toss up but one we should win.

Districts not running buses and cooling/heating buildings has to be cutting down greatly on cost. From what I understand the Federal and State dollars are being allocated based on participation with the online classes. Monies are not being withheld due to children not physically being on campus

You seem to be totally clueless..you do realize that the guy who posted that is a public school teacher, right? I am thinking he knows just a tad more than you about the situation. I have a ton of respect for him. You..well, you might be just a tad too woke for me.

IMO #2 is a good number for SL. Needs to surprise us this year to stay there.

This would be the only way, assuming we can even have football. Yeah summer heat doesn't seem to be doing what we all hoped: the states with the largest increases in cases for the last 3 weeks are Arizona, Florida, and Texas.

I'm leaning towards there will be a season this year. The reason is that the P5s will lose combined multi-millions if there's not. That could mean that only FBS will have a fall season but another question is will it start on time? Maybe, if the summer heat reduces the spread of the virus. I don't worry that much about the players because they're young and healthy and with proper treatment could could be back in playing shape in a short period of time. I saw where Texas Tech had 20 something test positive when they reported and all but 2 are now negative. I've got the longest row to hoe because of my age and I've been diabetic for a long time although that is improving. I've bought my season tickets so I'll be there barring a turn for the worse. We should know more this week.

I’ve been looking into ways to host virtual watch parties of games. I’ve done a couple recently over Facebook Watch watching past games. Some of you have stopped by for a bit. It’s nowhere near as great as going to a live game, but still fun to watch a little football with North Texas faithful.

this is amazing. there are 24 topics per page in these forums. - @El Paso Eagle started 5...ranging from Defunding the Police to the dangers of a post-gendered Bob's Big Boy - @LongJim started 3...a couple Reason articles and a discussion on how many progressives are disappointed with their closest affiliated party's nomination - @MCMLXXX started 3...a holiday salutation and two framed articles that left out major context from his initial post - @UNTLifer started 2...a 10-year old article and a gross misinterpretation of the movie Idiocracy - @THOR started 1 that was simply him trying to justify his behavior that will single-handedly cost us a football season. (it's your fault, thor) and then one each from @97and03, @ADLER, @TheColonyEagle, @Hunter Green, @meangreen11, @Venson...with the bots rounding out the numbers. so, these are your liberal overlords? seems like a plurality of "conservative" voices at first glance. so if quantity isn't the problem...maybe you're feeling "shouted down" because the quality of your argument is lacking?

Update: Just ordered this (told the wife that since it has Pac Man AND Galaga, it’s actually a purchase I couldn’t pass on...I “think” she bought it)

Those kids seem to be content choosing other places, if you can't get that level talent in state (Shame on you for not recruiting better as SMU UH etc don't have a problem doing so) but the next step is to try and get out of state kids in.

Nice! Which day is poker day and what is the buy in?

I've heard that there may not be game day sales. We should know in July.

So are we gonna have a attendance thread every other day?

Where?

Found some fabric online and made my own.

Third offer is Syracuse, man if only he had signed out of high school 6'4 320 with a few really good offers already.