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If Seth beats UTSA in SA are you still wanting to cut bait?

Great so now a school’s collective like SMU or UTSA can claim a big NIL check has been written but doesn’t even pay the players with it? And has no documentation or audit requirements from the NCAA? I'm beginning to think we need to appoint a czar or some type of special person to clean this mess up or it’s going to kill the sport forever.

Congrats

Well in the case of SMU NIL has not panned out very well this far. They are not having a good season and many of their best players refuse to play and are leaving the squad. Is it possible that this NIL thing could backfire?

Not sure if it was Joel Klatt or who but someone was making the point that recruiting services are bogus and A$M has picked their classes based on stars instead of position need and desire and the things coaches used to consider before offering scholarships. I’m pretty certain that A&M had the best class in the country last season and look what it’s gotten them. Another thing they stated was that a lot of these supposed recruiting gurus never even played the game.

Fan bases rarely look at their own program with rational eyes. North Texas is no different. Scour the message boards or social media and you’ll find plenty of Mean Green faithful clamoring for a change at head coach with Seth Littrell in his seventh season in charge. This despite Littrell’s success over the past six seasons. North Texas was awful before Littrell arrived prior to the 2016 season. North Texas had one bowl appearance in the previous 11 seasons and only five total from 2000 to 2015. Littrell has led the group to five in six full seasons in Denton. The Mean Green only won six or more games four times in the 16 seasons during the current century. Littrell has three in six years. North Texas is 3-3 on the season and sit atop the C-USA standings with a 2-0 record. A six-win season seems inevitable for the Mean Green, which means Littrell would be responsible for more bowl berths in seven years than North Texas received in the previous 25 seasons. North Texas hasn’t had this time of sustained success since Hayden Fry was on campus in the 1970s. North Texas will reach a bowl and finish with at least six wins. And then I guess it is on the administration and fan base to decide if it wants to walk into the AAC with its most proven coach in 50 years or start from scratch because they feel like six bowl games in seven seasons is somehow underachieving for a program that went decades without earning any type of post season success. read more: https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2022/10/08/411-from-week-5-of-the-college-football-season-texas-longhorns-favored-in-red-river-rivalry;-mad-max-duggan-takes-reigns-for-tcu?ref=article_preview_title

When Austin Aune of Argyle (Texas) was playing high school football, Joe Biden was in the White House – as Barack Obama's vice president. That was 2012, Biden is back in Washington, D.C. as president and Aune is back on the gridiron for the University of North Texas at age 29. He's believed to be the oldest Division I starting quarterback in the modern era. Once a three-star prospect at Argyle, he committed to TCU on the condition he would also be able to play baseball for the Horned Frogs. But before he took the field for Gary Patterson, Aune was drafted by the New York Yankees and spent six years chasing the MLB dream. In 2018, he gave up baseball and returned to football at the University of Arkansas before transferring to North Texas. After appearing in a handful of games over the past few seasons for the Mean Green, Aune tossed three touchdown passes as the starter as North Texas beat Florida Atlantic 45-28. He was 14 of 20 for 180 yards and three scores. Not bad for the "junior" who celebrated his 29th birthday on Sept. 6. read more: https://www.maxpreps.com/news/H_BIUHBKb0SkcPpL2P7HNQ/high-school-football-former-argyle-quarterback-austin-aune-becomes-oldest-division-i-starting-signal-caller-at-north-texas.htm?ftag=MPG-05-10aaa4j&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Still fighting.

Thanks for posting.

Agree - hate for the kids to go through it but it is what it is.

The main difference between UNT and teams like UNLV, UTSA and SMU is the quality and amount of portal players coming from high level FBS programs. Most here will agree, Seth was very late to the game in terms of setting the stage for being a portal destination. Sonny figured this out sooner than most. But so did Traylor and Arroyo. Signing lower level portal transfers is not going to cut it against transfers from Alabama, Arkansas, Ole MIss, Oklahoma and Texas. The lack of bringing in a quality QB other than Mason Fine is also a huge red flag. Again, if this was year 2-3 maybe you swallow your pride and hope for better.

This is crazy talk. This is a fantastic gig for a winner personality. Great location, facilities, growing enrollment. Just moved up conferences. This place could win all The time with the right guy.

Gary would be a home run hire.

No also based on last year and his high school career. Do you read links? 2021: Finished the 2021 season as the TSU single-season record holder in total offense with 265.9 yards per game while finishing second in the SWAC and fourth-all time in single-season passing at TSU with 2,017 passing yards...was a dual threat as he rushed for 121 yards and one touchdown while passing for 271 yards and four touchdowns en route to national honors against Arkansas-Pine Bluff...rushed for 134 yards and a touchdown while throwing for 163 yards on 13-of-25 passing in season finale at Alabama State. HIGH SCHOOL: Ranks third all-time in Texas High School Football passing history with 13,000 yards…led an offense which averaged 56 points per game in 2020..threw for 4,344 yards and 48 touchdowns in his senior season…passed for 4,389 yards and threw for 47 touchdowns as a junior…had two games with 400-plus passing yards and seven games with 300 or more yards passing…rushed for 1,506 yards and five touchdowns in 2020…led his high school to the state quarterfinals which was its longest run since 1963…named a finalist for Mr. Texas Football High School Player of the Year Award by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Magazine…earned Texas All-State, District 15-4A MVP honors…named All-South Texas MVP…2020 Whataburger Super Team Honors.

Impressed with the quality of this video done in-house with the new video staff at UNT.

Guy has tremendous field vision and was making plays all over the field the other night. Terrific athlete, good wheels and arm. I think if he was playing with a D1 line and receivers he could be special. https://tsusports.com/sports/football/roster/andrew-body/5452

A guy on here named @KRAM1and @KRAM2knows a lot about this subject as I know recall

Week 0 has come and gone, and Week 1 is underway as of Thursday night. One of the teams that enter this weekend at 1-0 is the North Texas Mean Green, who beat UTEP on Saturday, 31-13. At the helm for the Mean Green is quarterback Austin Aune. He completed 16 passes for 236 yards and three touchdowns, without an interception. Aune led his team to its first win of the season and earned Conference USA Player Of The Week honors in the process. In addition to his on-field talent, he has one of the most unique stories in college football. Austin Aune is the oldest starting quarterback on the FBS level The North Texas quarterback graduated high school in 2012. Born in 1993, he will turn 29 years old on Tuesday. Aune, who saw time for North Texas in each of the last three seasons, won the starting job outright during fall camp. It marks his fifth year at the collegiate level after beginning at Arkansas during the spring of 2018 and transferring to UNT before that fall. Yes, you read that correctly. Aune graduated high school six years before he enrolled in college. read more: https://www.outkick.com/austin-aune-north-texas-28-year-old-high-school-2012-oldest-quarterback-college-football/

Let’s check back in three weeks whence they are 0-3. Part of why they are pressing so hard for attendance this week is they know in 3 weeks it will become very difficult.

FIU barely beat a D2 team and La Tech is getting drove by Missou.

It’s what it takes. We have to start holding businesses that benefit immensely from UNT to reciprocate. Some of this falls on the AD as well.