[Can the team keep practicing?]

On 11/30/2021 at 2:51 PM, MeanGreenTexan said:

I think you get 10 or 12 days of extra practice no matter which bowl game you go to, right?   And considering the first bowl game is 12/17, I think there's still the remainder of this week (at least) before practice time would start.

No the rule you are thinking about is the spring practices rule. That does set a hard cap on the number of days.

There is no cap on the number of practices when prepping for bowl games, you just have to follow the normal hours per week rule.

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"(It's) a common misconception that's been around for years," NCAA spokesman Christopher Radford said. "There is no specific limit on the number of practices a team may hold while preparing for a bowl game, but standard NCAA rules apply for participation in practice or other athletically related activities. Same as the regular season, these rules limit practice and other athletic activities to a maximum of four hours per day and 20 hours per week."

 

[Seth Littrell]

On 11/27/2021 at 6:59 PM, Talon90 said:

Can't believe it's been 20 years!

That bus ride back from Monroe was GRIM. 

[I know we are all hung up on coaching talk]

UTSA sideline was very weird.

Thought they would come up with their hair on fire to keep that perfect record.   Seemed pretty normal, if not a little lower.  Maybe they shouldn't have spent the previous week shooting hype videos with rented Bentleys. 

Either way, when they got jumped on early they seemed to deflate. 

Pulling the starting QB at half seemed crazy to me.  Yes, they were down 18, but they had a ton of miscues to set us up.  Did they expect that to last?  We had our own stalled drives and turnovers in the second half.  If they had kept everyone in they might have crawled back into it or at least made it closer. 

Terrible message to send to you team, we outscore them 14-0 in the 3rd, and it's all over but the crying. 

[DRC Sunday column: Should UNT coach Seth Littrell stay or go? It's up to AD Wren Baker, who faces critical decision]

5 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

What is the exact buyout?  His base salary is $1.35 million not $2 million.

SL base salary is $1.35M, but he has guaranteed incentives that boost each year to a minimum of just over $1.8M. 

SL contract was extended to run through 2023, so two more years left after this one.

 

If anyone has $3.6M+ burning a hole in your pocket, I am sure WB wouldn't turn down a meeting. 

[DRC Sunday column: Should UNT coach Seth Littrell stay or go? It's up to AD Wren Baker, who faces critical decision]

On 11/29/2021 at 9:07 AM, MeanGreenTexan said:

You keep harping on this, so I guess I should too:   The buyout money is not a problem.
Under RV, it probably would have been, but it's not now.

Of course it is.

It might not have been a problem when we were paying Dickey $120,000 a year, but it sure as hell is when we are paying $2M+ a year to the HC alone.

Do we have big donors that could pay off SL's contract, and then sign an even bigger check for a new coach with a bigger assistant pool?  YES. 

Do they want to do that?  If they don't, the AD doesn't have millions of dollars sitting around unused to do it.  Neither does the school. 

 

 

[DRC Sunday column: Should UNT coach Seth Littrell stay or go? It's up to AD Wren Baker, who faces critical decision]

15 minutes ago, Professor Lambeau said:

IF WB is going to let SL go, then he damn sure better have his replacement in place, signed, and delivered so it does not become a poop show (see LSU).

I’m pretty sure the guy we wanted is now coaching at a p5 school. So we’re now onto second choices. 

10 minutes ago, Jonnyeagle said:

But what if Wren has his guy?  

Then be better talk the big donors into writing those checks, or write them himself. Otherwise it doesn’t matter. 

7 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

Answer me this:  what changed after the first have of the season when the loses piled up?  What switch was turned on for the team to reel off those five straight wins?  Whatever was said or done, this football team took note and was on fire!

We switched the the offense from a spread to pass focus to a spread to run focus. We had ~40 pass attempts against latech, we had 17 against utsa, 14 against fiu. 

[DRC Sunday column: Should UNT coach Seth Littrell stay or go? It's up to AD Wren Baker, who faces critical decision]

Some of you have no idea how a coach is hired or fired. Do the big donors want to buy him out? Then he’s gone. Otherwise he is back next year. END OF STORY. 
 

I don’t see how they want to 1) write  the big check to buy him out, and then 2) write an even bigger check to wade into this insane sellers market where at least 20 teams are fighting for limited talent. 

This year you’re going to pay BIG money to get someone who would normally be your second or even third tier candidate. 

[Sonny Dykes to… OU?]

 

[Anyone know where I can find some crow?]

Ask Stebo.

[Biggest win since...]

With a 42 pt win tonight, this is the biggest margin of victory since a  2019 45-3 win against... UTSA.

[UTSA Ticket Allotment Sold Out]

UTSA has sold out the ticket allotment sent to them.

They are already hitting the ticket office.  

 

Mean Green fans better show up or....

[🦅🦅🦅North Texas - UTEP ⛏⛏⛏Official Game Thread]

1 hour ago, Mean Green Matt said:

Arkansas specifically reports the tickets scanned number.

Everyone does this, the dirty secret is that if someone buys a ticket and doesn't show up, that ticket will get reprinted and scanned.  Yes, even the P5s.

When a certain school to the south of us first came up, they had some big alumni buy a large amount of tickets for every game.  Never even bothered to give them out they were just scanned to hit the numbers. 

The thing is the NCAA DOES care about FBS schools hitting 15k attendance, You have to turn in audited logs.  They just don't really care how you hit that number.  

[🦅🦅🦅North Texas - UTEP ⛏⛏⛏Official Game Thread]

The kick catch interference call was correct.

Yes, the returner bobbled it, but the ball never hit the ground.  Kick catch protection ends WHEN THE BALL HITS THE GROUND.

It was still on Burn's body when the UTEP player ran into him.

[Joey McGuire to TTU…]

https://twitter.com/lubbockonline/status/1457593745705218049?s=21

 

[North Texas - Southern Miss Official Game Thread]

4 hours ago, outoftown said:

I have this weird feeling, that NT will still somehow end up winning this clunker.

[Some Names That Interest Me]

No one can out coach recruiting.

Find me the guy who knows how to recruit and can hire good recruiters.  

 

I feel our main problem is that when we've had some success in the past, the staff wasn't able to elevate recruiting enough to sustain it.  

[The SBC...]

On 11/1/2021 at 9:58 AM, southsideguy said:

So glad we could help this AAC numbers with our two wins.......😉

Yes, but one of our wins is against an AAC team...

[CUSA Will Survive, Adds 4]

1 minute ago, Wag Tag said:

How the hell are they going to travel?  I guess we know where the exit fees will be spent!

Look at SHSU, this CUSA is actually more compact than the WAC.

[CUSA Will Survive, Adds 4]

 

[What comes around?]

According to Johnny Cash: The Man. 

[UTSA Extends Traylor]

17 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

Why don’t you check how many Seth has? Maybe that’ll cool your jets.

Not really sure what you think we're arguing about?  I'm not for SL, or against Traylor.

I'm just correcting the statement that Dickey, like Traylor, had no wins against an FBS team with a winning record.

Dickey does, right now Traylor doesn't.  He probably will, possibly against UTEP this week.  But UTSA did extend him before he had one, and NT did not do that for DD.

[C-USA down to 3 teams?]

5 minutes ago, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

Interesting, didn’t know that. Does this mean they would no longer be a FBS football conference if they can’t get to 8 FBS teams without FCS->FBS transition teams? 

Yes, however once you are an FBS conference you have a two year grace period.  If they can get 8 total schools that can all complete the FBS transition by the time the grace period ends, they can remain.

If not, then they can still be a D1 multisport, with a few schools that are FBS independents.  Then if they can get to 8 at a later date they can recertify as an FBS.

 

 

[C-USA down to 3 teams?]

Just now, VideoEagle said:

And doesn't CUSA get to keep some NCAA unit money for a few years after NT leaves?  Costs for a multi sport but non football conference are less I think. I'm pretty sure they get at least 1 year to try to find more schools. Lots of reasons and ways to hang on for the exit money. The exit money is likely mostly forfeited media money. 

Every NCAA unit is actually a payout for the value of that unit for each of the next five years, but paid TO THAT TEAMS CONFERENCE.

It gets more complicated because the the first two rounds gets you one unit each, but starting with the round of 16 each round is worth more than one unit, based on an escalating scale. 

So North Texas won 2 units in 2020.  That means that in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 the conference will get two units worth of payout, plus what ever unit payouts the 5 year scale still has them in.  Now, the unit value changes every year because the NCAA takes the profits each year and then splits them into the total units distributed.

The conference the splits the payouts received for that year (and from the previous 4, its a 5 year rotation) out to each school.  

So yes, some of our exit fees will probably be covered by NCAA units, unless the bylaws prevent that.

But the other main components of the conference distribution, namely the CFP payout and the media rights, are paid out year by year.  There is no "new" money we can have them deduct from the fees we owe.

[UTSA Extends Traylor]

5 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

Give Traylor 7 and a half more seasons to accommodate you.

Funny thing is Dickey got most of his at the start of his tenure.  

[C-USA down to 3 teams?]

11 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

I just don't see any way the exiting teams pay the full fees. I think they end up maybe paying 1 million, maybe 1.5

I haven't seen the CUSA bylaws.  But I have heard from people who have that the exit fees are clearly laid out, you pay back two years of the conference distribution.