MeanGreenZen

Does James Madison have a better NIL than us? And if so, why would they give it to Ayo Adeyi?

This is unacceptable and I let them know it. Please do the same. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. DMNsports@dallasnews.com

I mean, it’s not like any posts on this forum are saving the rain forest or stopping human trafficking. But I watched a lot of college basketball this weekend and other schools have full stands and aren’t making the excuse that school isn’t in session. Most of these kids live in DFW anyway. And plenty of them are still in Denton. I drove over an hour to be there. I give my money and time to support this program and I believe the student support should be a lot better than it was yesterday.

Have we tried offering a cash reward to the fraternity that gets the rowdiest at a game or all games? Because I am willing to donate towards something like that. These dumb kids don’t even know what they are missing. College basketball is so fun, especially as a student.

Student turnout was absolutely embarrassing. The fraternities and sororities especially should be ashamed of themselves. What are these kids doing? College basketball is fun and we have a damn good team. The students need to get their shizz together and support this team.

Will Buggs or Rubin be playing?

Ummmmm… Cedar Hill is one of the nicer areas in DFW.

Like Chandler Rogers? I’m just saying, at this point, at UNT’s position, under the current rules: we are recruiting kids for one year at a time. And I am not advocating that we pick up a P2 benchwarmer. I’d rather see us get a Sun Belt/C-USA/FCS starter with reps under his belt.

Why? What is the upside? If the young guy produces, he is just going to transfer as soon as he can. You will never see those additional years of value.

Those NIL earnings are just projections. Nobody has to report what they are making in NIL.

Definitely worth taking a flier on, but would be dangerous to count on this guy,

Seems like a good kid. I can’t imagine he finds a D1 landing spot.

I love the idea of an NIT playoff in football. Some real $$$ could be made with that. And we would actually have a chance to make it.

Chandler Rogers was playing his fourth season of college football when he became our starter. Cash McCollum was playing Class 4A high school football a month ago. The difference in experience between those two is miles and miles. You can’t count on a Class 4A QB to start Year 1 in the AAC. And Stone Earle threw 4 TDs and 4 INTs last season. That’s not good. It would be foolish to count on him too. Our starting QB next season is getting pulled out of the transfer portal in the next few weeks. And I expect him to be pretty good.

How could it get worse? We’ve basically lost all of our good players. What would be one or two more? Or all the rest of our players? This is a complete roster rebuild already.

I mean, it can’t get worse than it already has been. Might as well stick around to see if anything good can happen.

Their entire athletic department is in the RED. NIL is funded by boosters. If they had enough boosters, their athletic department wouldn’t be losing money.

If Cal is so great, why did they get left behind in the PAC-12? And why did they have to accept a 30% share to join the ACC? I thought Rogers would land somewhere decent like Miami or Nebraska. Cal is a broke school too. Can’t imagine they gave him much of an NIL deal.

He failed to leave a legacy here. If he had stayed, won a conference or a bowl game then he would be a program legend. We will see what happens to him at Cal.

Let’s all tell our grandkids about the magical 5-7 season and the quarterback who didn’t even make honorable mention all conference.

Lol, that is the best he could do?

There was something romantic about college sports when it was: Can the kids who go to my school beat the kids who go to your school? Now that it is just which school booster collective can throw the most money at the best professional football roster, it is way less fun. That is just math. Compare bank statements. You win. Who cares?

How dumb do you think NIL makes Jerry Jones and the NFL feel? ”Wait, we could have just gotten our fans to pay the players directly?”

The Dallas Cowboys aren’t asking me to make donations for their player compensation, coach salaries and facilities. I do not buy tickets to Cowboys games. Every few years I might buy a $25 Cowboys t-shirt. I do watch their games on TV, which helps them derive sponsorship money. For North Texas, I buy multiple football and men’s basketball season tickets and attend most games where we also spend plenty on concessions, donate to MGSF, have a recurring monthly NIL bank draft, watch the games on TV and get my ears on the ball with Hank and Dave and spend $100s on Mean Green gear every season. It is way more of a commitment to be a college sports fan than a pro sports fan. I just don’t know if we can compete in football anymore with NIL without MULTIPLE big money (million $) boosters. But I am willing to be one of the smaller NIL boosters and see if we can get enough of us to make a difference.

RB Reggie Pegram (Purdue) and WR Darius Terrell (Texas) were other P5 transfers who were solid contributors for us.