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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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18 minutes ago, cousin oliver said:
I feel like you underestimate the damage losing a star player does to a fanbase like ours. And Tyler wanted to be at UNT his whole life!
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.
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On 3/16/2024 at 1:48 PM, El Paso Eagle said:
I think the well-made point is with all of the money we hear being thrown around; you would expect to see more players in commercials and public appearances instead of the minimal "appearances" or social media postings that are there to meet a requirement to hand them money.
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.
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On 3/13/2024 at 4:25 PM, KingDL1 said:
If Rogers doesn't start, will he still get the NIL money? I heard that most of the time, NIL money promises to transfers are conditional.
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.
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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.
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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.
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2 hours ago, MrAlien said:
I think its safe to say they will both be in the SEC, and that deal would be way more lucrative then what they are earning in the ACC, and ultimately worth the exit fee. The ACC media deal becomes an option for ESPN after 2027, and with out the heavy weights, ESPN may not want to pick up that deal.
There's talk that the SEC doesn't want them because of what it already has in Florida and South Carolina.
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14 hours ago, greenminer said:
*NEXT CONFERENCE* "So, here are our exit fees. Are you okay with them, or are we supposed to account for future realignments for you?"
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.
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On 3/18/2024 at 11:40 AM, NT80 said:
Do we turn down hosting Notre Dame because they may bring a lot of fans and might beat us?
I applaud you for using the word "might" instead of "will." That's the kind of moxie we need more of around here.
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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.
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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.
The ACC adding SMU, Stanford and Cal to stay above a school minimum isn't sitting well with Clemson or FSU.
QuoteThe league, currently at 17 members, is required to have 15 members to satisfy the ESPN agreement. Falling below the number opens the door for the network to end the contract — one of the primary reasons that the conference added three schools (SMU, Stanford, Cal) last year in a controversial expansion movement not supported by three members (we’ll get to that later).
Those three schools significantly lower the ACC's average TV audience per school.
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We need to put player names on the front and back of uniforms so they know what to call each other.