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This sounds like a marriage counseling session that went off the rails. Nobody needs to be reminded when the season starts that they declared their intention to quit supporting the school during the offseason. Everybody knows supporting UNT is like herpes. You think it's finally gone and it flares up again.

If Mean Green fans grousing could kill your vibe, how did it survive on GMG for 21 years?

The girls all get prettier at closing time.

What I don't understand: How do we know our NIL is underfunded compared to our conference mates and other peers when the financials don't have to be publicly reported?

Now just hold on a minute. She's clearly a "they don't make quarterbacks like Derek Football anymore" kind of person.

I don't see anybody in the AAC with brand recognition far above the rest, aside from Navy but they are a special case. Before the NIL UNT was doing well in our conferences in terms of financial and facility support. Whether that's true with our collectives is an open question.

We can hold them accountable based on how their peers at the same level of the sport are doing. Almost everybody is facing the same problem of the here-today gone-tomorrow roster.

I am fine with players making money and playing where they want to play, but I have to admit the current Wild West era of the NIL and transfer portals is making the product less enjoyable. I miss having a good chance of following an athlete for their entire college career. It would be nice to have some incentives for players to stay put.

If you were the coach you would be looking to move too when a better opportunity arose. Everybody in the NCAA is looking out for number one. As a coach I would love to see players who entered the portal decide to stay. It would be one less hole I had to fill next season.

To the person who gave this a Confused: FirefightnRick and I played on the same middle school basketball team in Burleson in the early 1980s. I'd like to say we dominated the league. It isn't true but I'd like to say it.

That may have been for the best. When he was on Twitter with the Light the Tower NIL collective he kept posting political opinions because he forgot which account he was on.

I don't underestimate it. I just accept that it is the way things are until somebody figures out how to bring more order to the chaos. Bigger schools damage us. We damage smaller schools.

The people forking over money for NIL probably don't want to fork over more for commercials, since that money could be spent on more athletes. If I was bankrolling NIL deals for UNT I would make the players endorse Morrison's Corn Kits.

It is against the rules to tie NIL money to performance. An athlete has a name, image and likeness regardless of whether he plays a down of football, and that's what the money is buying. It's like paying Randy White to endorse SKOAL.

Does it suck he didn't stay? Yes. But he should always be remembered for the NIT championship, CUSA championship, CUSA player of the year and NIT Most Outstanding Player honors. He scored over 1,000 points in 67 games and the team went 56-14 in his two seasons in Denton. We need more players like that even if they eventually get lured away by deep-pocketed rat bastards higher than us in the food chain.

I am not surprised. He proved himself to be a great coach and motivator in FAU's run to the Final Four last year. After watching his post-game comments as they climbed the bracket I was ready to run through a wall for him.

There's talk that the SEC doesn't want them because of what it already has in Florida and South Carolina.

The conferences FSU and Clemson would go to don't use a grant of rights to lock schools in. They don't have to because it would be crazy to leave all the money behind. The SEC only costs $30 million to quit, which makes the ACC shooting for $500 million pretty funny. SMU fans must be telling themselves that if they end up in a PAC-2 scenario, at least their two-member conference will have $6.5 billion dollars.

I applaud you for using the word "might" instead of "will." That's the kind of moxie we need more of around here.

The four-page grant of rights is going to fail. It isn't going to lock schools into a TV revenue death spiral with the ACC. Every football power that has wanted to leave a conference has ended up getting out. These lawsuits will be settled with the schools agreeing to an exit price they can live with. The ACC adding SMU, Stanford and Cal is one of several moves where the conference helped itself at the expense of its top football schools. It brought the ACC's per-school TV revenue down, increasing the gap between the ACC and the Power Two.

Here's more news that will be of no concern at all to SMU fans: Clemson has also filed suit to get out of the ACC grant of rights. https://sports.yahoo.com/what-does-clemsons-lawsuit-against-the-acc-mean-here-are-4-key-questions-on-move-that-could-have-massive-implications-211611971.html The ACC adding SMU, Stanford and Cal to stay above a school minimum isn't sitting well with Clemson or FSU. Those three schools significantly lower the ACC's average TV audience per school.

Interesting Nick Saban quotes in this ESPN article: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39623503/how-alabama-moved-nick-saban-kalen-deboer-49-hours

Nice to see Patrick Cobbs moving up. A lot of would-be tacklers are going to have green tire tracks on them this season.

Great to see some North Texas gear above all that worthless junk from OU and UT. I haven't seen the logo before that looks like a kicking tee with a cowboy hat. How long has it been around?

Congratulations, @FirefightnRick! You've come a long way since Pauline G. Hughes Middle School basketball.