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9 hours ago, DentonStang said:
It's a great commercial though
SMU went west to get to the east coast? Checks out.
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18 hours ago, Arkstfan said:
A10 today isn't the A10 of a decade ago or two decades ago. In the past 20 years they've lost Xavier, Temple, Charlotte, Butler, and now UMass.
Right, but they're still operating in the same range as MWC and AAC. MAC is closer to Big Sky or Horizon.
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Turning players into mercenaries probably is not the best development for college sports.
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They need to get out of that high school gym they use for basketball.
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I know nothing of UMass, but A10 to MAC in basketball is quite the steep drop. Seems like it'd almost be preferable to drop football entirely.
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On 1/15/2024 at 3:40 PM, Matt from A700 said:
One thing I will say is I hope the Maniacs have a plan for transition of power. This is what, Year 3 or 4 of their program? I'd imagine the leaders are getting close to graduating. The AD can't allow them to lose momentum.
That's what happened when the Pit Crew graduated. Someone tried to resurrect it years later, but then they graduated too, I believe.
Wish they'd change the name back, because Maniacs is really lame.
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1 minute ago, Andrew said:
Wouldn’t want them…. Nobody wants people using snap chat or TikTok.
So you don't want students at the game? You should work for the athletic department.
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4 minutes ago, wardly said:
Agreed! I also agree that SMU is Dallas's hometown university just as TCU is F. Worth's and both UNT and UTA will always be an afterthought.
SMU is as much Dallas' hometown university as the Chargers are LA's team. Potentially less.
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Just now, Andrew said:
Tik Tok should be banned alongside snap chat. I would hope a university they promotes education and the restore for a better future would never promote either of these entities.
You go where your customers are, and that's TikTok.
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On 1/10/2024 at 3:32 PM, drex said:
Lack of imagination, initative and emphasis from the athletic department.
It's this.
I'll give you the easiest of easy examples. I searched whether or not the AD even has a TikTok presence. They do. 9 total videos with the last one being from November of 2022. The hottest social media platform in the target demographic (college students) and you can't be bothered to post some highlights or memes or anything to remind the student body that they have a basketball team.
For the old heads who don't care about TikTok or social media, I'll point out another problem. This athletic department refuses and has always refused the past 20 years I've been watching the program to market outside of Denton. In really ambitious years, I've seen them outreach a tiny bit into Argyle and Corinth.
She doesn't want you. Maybe eventually she will, but not now. This philosophy of "Let's get Denton on board first before expanding out" literally hasn't worked for over a century now. Please try something...anything...else.
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We're a bit into bowl season, but just a PSA for anyone who hasn't noticed: almost all bowl games are on ESPN+ this year. There are a handful on ABC/CBS/CW, and the CFP games are exclusively on vanilla ESPN.
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His defense gives up an average 38.2 points per game to FBS opponents. They give up 487 ypg. With someone who knows what they're doing at the helm, we're likely 6-4 or even 7-3 and bowling. I don't know how it could be any more clear that he's gotta go.
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On 11/6/2023 at 4:22 PM, aprice said:
I'd see your point if we weren't dead last in the FBS. You have to be next level incompetent to be last out of 130 teams. If we were 90th or 100th, I would totally agree with you.
This is the non-beaten down North Texas fan take, imo.
Any program that takes itself seriously knows the difference between room to grow and abject failure.
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16 hours ago, Collin1unt said:BTW, if you're on this forum, and NOT a financial supporter of UNT, just logoff or don't complain. Seriously. You don't have standing.
Yeah. Let's boil our fanbase down to the 700 or so fans who contribute monetarily and tell the rest to get lost. That's the ticket to sold out stadiums and arenas.
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So long as I've followed the program (actually 20 years now), the AD has always been pretty awful about securing major donations. Related or unrelated is there never really seems to be any legwork done outside of city limits.
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It's a bunch of old guys who remember SMU being in the SWC for 80 years and think of them as temporarily embarrassed. It's been almost 40 years since they were relevant at a power conference level.
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9 hours ago, DeepGreen said:
Yessir, I thinking of the same FIU. Did anyone come away from Cal shellacking that we could beat anyone this season? That was some of the worst UNT football I have ever witnessed in my lifetime.
This is still #2 for me. Portland State was the worst.
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1 minute ago, SilverEagle said:
Hmmm, you call it garbage, but it's the best description of our only tradition.......bitching for its own sake.
So you think expecting progress is bitching for its own sake? Or is getting embarrassed on national TV bitching for its own sake? Are we allowed to complain if we end up going 2-10 or is that still bitching for its own sake?
I’m trying to find out how low the bar is here.
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33 minutes ago, SilverEagle said:
People, I don't know who the AD at North Texas was before Hayden Fry, but I can tell you that Jared Mosley is absolutely the best AD I have seen here since Hayden Fry.
And quit bitching about your wrinkled $100 bills.
gtfo with that wrinkled $100 bill garbage. It’s not wrinkled $100 bills that there’s still no movement on the AC nearly a year after he was hired. Or after his football hire brought back memories of a high school coach. Or that the attendance numbers from yesterday were clearly massively inflated when the game should’ve been sold out.
I’m also not on the fire Jared Mosley train yet either, but some of y’all pretending like there aren’t current major questions that start and end with the AD are delusional.
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2 hours ago, wardly said:
Regarding attendance, 20,000 is our average so why would we expect it to be any better.
20,000? I’d be surprised if there was even half that actually in attendance.
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On TV it looked like 10-12k, at best.
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I’m going to withhold my final judgement until the end of the season, but my first impression is that we hired the wrong AD who hired the wrong coach.
I don’t remember ever seeing a home opener with such bad attendance, not even counting new coach, new conference, and Pac 12 opponent. That is squarely on Mosley’s AD.
And then the football performance needs no explanation. We’ve made Cal look like Georgia. Even UT-Martin is holding Georgia closer than we did Cal.
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Why does ESPN’s main camera have the quality of a 90s Sony Handycam? The rest of them are fine.
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Where the hell is everyone? Looks like we’re 2-9 playing FIU on Thanksgiving Day weekend.
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Nick Saban: 'Maybe This Doesn't Work Anymore'
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I think it's deeper than that. If you watch the Cowboys, I'm sure there are a few whose lifelong dream has been to play for the team, but most are just there to collect the biggest paycheck. What makes college sports worse currently is there's no contract. So while you can become a Dak fan or whatever, in college a player can show up for a few games, walk off the field midseason, and wait for December.
There are people like Tylor Perry who give their all to this school and eventually leave to pursue a higher profile and maybe that next step. I don't have an issue with that. But I'm not a fan of the players who 'job hop' using the portal. Not to be confused with kids who get to a school and truly don't care for it and are simply looking for a better situation.
Just typing it out, it's a complex situation, and I'm not really sure the answer. The power programs are upset that their younger bench players want to play, and smaller programs like ours are upset that they're basically being treated like a AA minor league team.