VideoEagle

Yes it was. Luis was a family friend. I was impressed he played football and still graduated after 5 years with an MBA in accounting. I saw the start of his recruitment to North Texas. After Marshal beat Judson for the State Championship in 1990, Dennis Parker the Marshal coach who was already announced as the new North Texas coach ran over to Luis and started talking up North Texas on the sidelines. I haven't talked to him in years and had no idea he was also a poker player.

Do you think Judy has the where with all to do that?

If we were able to finish 4-0, the we are in the Championship game no matter what anyone else does. It is improbable, but after seeing some of the games our remaining opponents have played it is certainly not impossible.

I must have seen a different game. I saw a quarterback that passed for ALL of the touchdowns the team scored, 325 yards, and an amazing 21.6 yards per catch! And, this quarterback gave a lead to the defense with under 2 minutes to go and UTSA had NO time outs. Aune obviously did NOT lose the game.

10 unanswered points for Western and they win. I agree the winner this afternoon has a decent chance at the Championship. I’ll go farther and write if the loser plays well the rest of the year, they also have a shot to the Championship game. It’s the top two teams this year.

Back when the WAC was talking about admitting SWTSU and UTSA, I was very strongly against the idea. UTSA had done nothing to justify moving up! But once the WAC admitted them, they were going to by FBS schools no matter what anyone else thought so I changed to "Why fight it, it is a fait accompli." Ever since, I've noticed post after post from people hating the very idea UTSA was playing football, posts hoping they would lose every game they play, posts mocking their promotions, their location, their facilities. What is see is exactly the same vitriol as between Texas and OU or Michigan and Ohio or USC and UCLA. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. If they ARE NOT a rival, then we would never have the level of comments! It is very possible to have more than just one single rival in college football!

From the reaction of UTSA fans, their rival is us.

I'm not listening to the radio. Is Dave Barnett doing play by play? I've known Dave for about 45 years and he doesn't make comments about a player he doesn't believe.

Obviously I wasn't being sexist enough!

I started to ask exactly the same thing but was trying to avoid being too sexist.

Does that mean she is the Senior Administrator for women's athletics? Just glancing at the title, it appears she's the senior most woman administrator and I know that is NOT what the intent is.

@Brett Vito Just finished reading it. Very good analysis. I encourage everyone to sign up for the Mean Green Spotlight.

And the Big 12 payout would go up is they get UA, ASU, UT and CU which makes jumping even more tempting!

That was what I read someplace, but I don't remember where.

Wren is the best AD since I’ve been around and that goes back to 1976. He hired GRant, but more importantly how he hired him. When Wren arrived he looked at the available bb coaches and decided the right coach wasn’t available at the time so he stuck it out for one more year to get a home run coach rather than just settle for anyone different. Wren was patient and thus hit a home run as a result. Wren developed a plan to be ready when the next conference shake up happened. By being patient and executing his plan, NT was so well positioned that the President of SMU said we were the most ready to moved up to the AAC! Instead of being the last one in, the AAC was “who do we add besides NT.” Again, patience in executing a plan made a huge difference in the outcome. Bill Byrne, a former AD at Texas A&M, said the difference between a good AD and a great AD was having patience when the fan base had none. Fans are too fickle to be trusted with making real decisions. That is why universities hire someone with patience to be an AD. Wren is the best AD in at least 45 years. We’re not getting rid of him because some fans with incomplete knowledge of the real alternatives want “change.”

This is a terrible trend. If it wasn’t SMU, most of the folks in this group would be commenting on how bad it is. I for one find these kids behavior disgusting and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. The idea behind NIL was companies could pay to use the players names as endorsements or in games because other people wanted to be associated with players. I’m not sure who wants to be associated with quitters.

That one I can answer as I asked Russ Cambell about the change in licensing back 10+ years ago when it happened. KNTU-FM is licensed to McKinney, Dallas and Fort Worth. That means they put what is called a city grade signal over enough of that area that the FCC considers them to "serve" the area. When they were first licensed at 440 watts, Denton county was about all they really covered with a city grade signal. When they got their power increase, the license was changed to Denton, Dallas, Fort Worth. Someone, I forget whom, was putting another radio station in the already crowed DFW market. For that station to be allowed to add Dallas and Fort Worth to their license, they paid for a three-way (maybe 4-way) move of licenses and transmitter sites. KNTU got a very nice chunk of change for making their license McKinney, Dallas, Fort Worth. Russ wouldn't tell me exactly how much, but he said it was a "no brainer" to make the change. Since Russ and Bud Buschardt retired, I don't have regular contact with anyone in RTF or Media Arts or what ever they are calling it now.

There is a thing in higher education called tenure that means you can’t do that.

We use a system recognized by the NCAA to count fans. It is not based on butts in seats and never has been. Almost no schools use butts in seats, they use the NCAA system.

Yes, there are different standards. Matt Wells only had two 4 win seasons before last year. Seth has two 9 win seasons under his belt. If he gets another one this year, I think we’d be crazy to fire him. I don’t believe he will get nine wins this year. I trust Wren to make the correct decision based on how Seth performs over the entire year and what Wren believes are our options for other coaches.

Being in the Conference championship game 3 out of 5 years and winning it at least 1 out of every 3 would be extremely successful. If a coach can do that, I say let them coach forever! Do that and the Top 25 finishes will happen on a regular basis. That also allows that every team has off years. And everyone has to rebuild every few years.

Yes it would. If He won 9 games he’d have had 3 different 9 win seasons, more than any other coach in our history. I’m sure Wren doesn’t want to be compared to Steve Pedersen, the AD at Nebraska who fired Frank Stolich for “not producing up the the standards they expect.” I do not think we will get to 9 wins. But if we do, firing Seth would undoubtedly be regarded by most of our fans including me as an idiotic move.

Yes, this is how it works! Thank you!

And Arkansas State. And others. More importantly, schools from other conferences saw how they behaved. Even schools who were never in the Belt don't want to have to deal with that kind of behavior.

That would presume another conference wants them. The way La Tech administration has behaved toward other schools over the last 30ish years, not enough members of any other conference does.