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I'll be at the game but I have Tech season tickets through my father-in-law. I'll be the lone one on the home side in green. Plus the game is the day after I get back from Alaska so I'll be ready for some heat to thaw out if it's a day game.

Misleading title. There will be tickets for the game, and I'm trying to get as many people together here for a group discount as well. If anyone would also be interested in trying to coordinate a hotel group discount, let me know.

Assuming he graduates from Michigan. He IS a graduate of UNT.

RIP UTSA… just got hit with a stray bullet.

Every generation believes what they grew up is the how it is. Well it isn't and never has been, whole thing is always evolving. Used to be we had 180 schools playing Division I football and a dozen bowl games and depending on where you lived, you might not even get to watch four or five of those games unless your local TV station agreed to carry the Mizlou broadcast. Used to be the only NCAA requirement for a student-athlete to be eligible was that they be enrolled full time. It was the conferences, many with in excess of 20 schools set rules like had to meet some standard of academic progress, the conferences determined what a scholarship could cover and should not. The conferences determined the maximum scholarships that could be awarded. Sure this was back when Montana and Idaho were in what is now the Pacific-2 but it happened. Well things are changing. The Big Ten and SEC have just almost collected every high TV value school in the nation. They are in a crack over litigation about their agreement to cap compensation rather than allowing the market to determine value. It sounds like they are offering to commit something like $15 million to $20 million per school to compensate athletes. Maybe they lump it all up on the stars, maybe they just pass it out to everyone on the roster. If they spread it to everyone then making the 105 roster at Texas might be worth $50,000 a year to a walk-on. That's before NIL money. Right now there's no real money in Big Ten and SEC saying abracadabra AAC, MAC, Sun Belt, MWC, CUSA go away into another division. No right now the benefit is for them to remain FBS and say see it's a free market, we aren't monopolizing it because those leagues have bowl agreements and tv deals and they can play their way into the CFP. We are complying with antitrust laws.

several offers dropped as soon as he hit the portal grad transfer with two more years

This is what happens when you put effort into the program. I live in Tech country. I am worn out hearing from Joey McGuire, Kirby Hocutt and the Red Raider Club on the radio and television. They even have their spring game in Midland where many wealthy boosters live.

Should be a good atmosphere for our game there.