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Hope he gets to play as much for the Raiders as he did in 2020-21 for the Chargers. Six years in the NFL is impressive for an undrafted free agent.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/G/GuytJa01.htm
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11 hours ago, greenminer said:
This has Old-Denton, Tie-dyes-on-Fry-Street-Fair vibes.
My Denton is so old I was around when Sigma Alpha Mu became Delta Lodge. Fry Street Fair just returned after 17 years under new management.
Anyone go?
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Too warlike. Try this instead.
EPP 'EM!
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2 hours ago, NT93 said:
What I think is insane is just the way things have turned, not that kids want a part of it. My goal when I started college was to get out as soon as could. Now kids are going to take a pay cut when they graduate. That’s crazy. I don’t blame the kids though. I blame the system.
I am glad the athletes are making money but there has to be a better way to do it. The current NIL and transfer portal are bonkers. They're taking a jackhammer to the foundation of the sport.
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21 minutes ago, Shark84 said:
Does the NCAA still have any academic eligibility requirements anymore?
Yes. You must take at least 12 credit hours a semester and pass 9 credit hours with a 1.8 GPA (year 2), 1.9 GPA (year 3) or 2.0 GPA (year 4-5). Or someone who looks like you and can fake your signature must meet those requirements.
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19 minutes ago, NT93 said:
I didn’t give you the barf, but it’s unbelievable that people are staying in college to make more money. Isn’t the purpose of college to be able to get a job and make more money? It’s just insane.
Athletes are the only college students who had to overcome a presumption that it's wrong for them to make money while in school. Everyone else -- like the dot-com types -- didn't have the NCAA blocking them from income. When I was in college in the 1980s, Michael Dell was running a computer business out of his dorm room at UT-Austin. He made $200,000 profit his first year.
I don't think it's insane for college athletes to want some of that sweet green cheese. A lot of them won't make the NFL or will only be there for a short time on cheap rookie deals. When the money truck arrived on campus of course everybody got in line.
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How does this topic make someone barf? It's one of the only things about the NIL that isn't bad for fans!
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I heard this during the NFL Draft over the weekend: Only 58 underclassmen declared for this year's draft, the lowest since 2011.
This is way down from a peak of 130 in 2021. The chance to earn serious NIL money in college is keeping more athletes from shortening their college careers.
One pundit said this trend meant there were a lot fewer NFL-ready players available during the final day of the draft. I don't know if that's true since the team here in Jacksonville has a long tradition of avoiding NFL-ready players.
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Encouraged by head coach Trent Dilfer, the entire University of Alabama at Birmingham football team has joined Athletes.org, one of several players associations attempting to organize players ahead of the anticipated future where they can collectively bargain for a slice of the sport's revenue.
"I wanted to make sure I helped pour gasoline on something that is going to happen no matter what," said Dilfer, who was paid zero dollars and zero cents playing for the Fresno State Bulldogs from 1990-93.
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46 minutes ago, SUMG said:
You have to have some kind of relationship with the players. They can't all be "rentals."
We need to put player names on the front and back of uniforms so they know what to call each other.
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On 4/24/2024 at 9:47 PM, SMU2006 said:
When you have 4-5 billionaires footing the bill you don't care about the ROI.
If that was in Latin it could be SMU's motto.
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The Florida attorney general has sued the ACC, saying the conference's media rights contracts and ESPN agreements must be made public under the laws of the state.
I look forward to hearing from @SMU2006 how this makes it even more certain the ACC will prevail.
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22 hours ago, SMU2006 said:
The FSU/Clemson lawsuits are hilariously bad as proven out by a sitting judge in Tallahassee telling FSU to mediate with the ACC, in large part due to the fact that the grounds for the suit are beyond frivolous.
I know the ACC means a lot to you since your school has been a member for so long, but that judge sending the case to mediation has nothing to do with the merits of the suit. It is his normal practice.
“I send every case to mediation except mortgage foreclosures. This is not being done any differently.” -- Judge John C. Cooper
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/22/judge-orders-florida-state-and-the-atlantic-coast-conference-to-mediation-in-latest-legal-round/-
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8 minutes ago, Censored by Laurie said:the piety is boring so just stop. you never cared about the kids, just how they made you feel about your school...because that's somehow super important in your social circles
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.
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11 minutes ago, greenminer said:
Gonna be honest: what's killing my Mean Green vibe is not actually NIL, it's all the Mean Green fans griping about NIL.
If Mean Green fans grousing could kill your vibe, how did it survive on GMG for 21 years?
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9 hours ago, MeanGreenGlory said:
What's the rationale behind waiting until after spring to get defensive linemen in the portal vs. going after more in the previous portal window?
The girls all get prettier at closing time.
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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?
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On 4/8/2024 at 3:45 PM, ADLER said:
I bet the girl behind him in gold is one of those "He's a real jerk. He didn't look me in the eyes the whole time we were talking" type of person.
Now just hold on a minute. She's clearly a "they don't make quarterbacks like Derek Football anymore" kind of person.
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59 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
But it's now about brand recognition and money more than anything else. Do our peers have a better brand and more money? And players can get lured to that brand and money because the free flow of scholarships, money, and transfer capability. A coach choosing a job now, more than ever, just became much more about the resources and name of the school and the weight of their brand.
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.
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19 minutes ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:
Someone hit on this a few days ago...
How are we and programs like us supposed to ever hold a coach accountable ever again?
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.
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54 minutes ago, greenminer said:
Why is it not convincing anyone? Do people not want this to be about equal financial opportunity?
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.
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19 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
Guess I am showing my age, but if I were the coach, once you decide to enter the portal you are done here. Another poster messaged me with the same feeling. Zero commitment today. All about what I can get for me, period.
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.
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On 3/4/2024 at 5:32 PM, rcade said:
Congratulations, @FirefightnRick! You've come a long way since Pauline G. Hughes Middle School basketball.
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.
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13 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:
As much of a fan I am of Wren and Jared, their availability on social media also leaves them subject to hearing displeasures much more often than Rick might have. I don't think he was on Twitter.
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.
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Are G5 Programs Being Raided by P4?
in Mean Green Football
Posted · Edited by rcade
I like the sound of that.