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We don’t… Because we don’t get 100k for every home game we play. Or get tens of millions from our network covering our conference. We need to figure out how to compete with UTSA. That’s the bigger problem we have now.

It’s what drives me crazy about this place. How goes a college in Texas act like athletics is nothing special. We decided to be an Arts and Music school while every other school that has football actually promotes the sport as the primary window to the university. Here, we tried to kill it in the 80s. Keep I mind, we did that five years after we were a ranked football team for the only time in our history.

I'm kinda with you on this. If the revenue from the stadiums/arenas show revenue back to education, not just upkeep on facilities and paying athletics, then that's great. If it doesn't cover all of that and bring money to the school system, then its a drag and we shouldn't be funding any of it. The older I get, the more I wonder why we let our school systems sponsor sports when the community can do that via rec/select leagues. Make the schools focus solely on academics and education. Let outside groups handle music, arts, sports, theater, etc...Let those groups use the current fields, buildings, theaters, etc...at these schools for their training and games. Instead of working for an ISD (and taxpayers), let these coaches and instructors earn more in a setting where competition and achievement gets rewarded even greater than ISDs can provide.

Fajita Faculty Lunch Day will look gigantic compared to hosting Temple here on the weekend after Thanksgiving. And then all those admins will say, "See. nobody cares about UNT sports..."

Well there it is...a reddit poster certainly knows better for sure than the guy who has covered the Pac for decades. Similar to how we all know more about UNT athletics than Brett Vito, since we post on this board.

The lawmakers? Do you mean Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court? And good luck arguing your point on anything that isn’t football or hoops at Power Schools.

Im sure that this survey will be the catalyst for athletics now mattering more than cleaning the buildings and grounds on campus.

115 donors…

Morris knows that Cam Ward will be his meal ticket going forward with the power schools to be an OC or QB coach.

This was great. As is always the case, the more things change, the more they stay the same. We never could get SMU or really any of the old private SWC schools to support us in any way, in football or basketball. I know that UH didn't exactly help the case for us being in the SWC, since they came right into the league and handled the competition rather easily, for the most part, from 1976-1985. I love Hayden Fry and Bill Blakeley, but their biggest mistake wasn't seeing that the Big Eight was their best play. They could've used the Big Eight coming into Texas as their power move to get some SWC sway. But in reality, if we had gotten into the Big Eight in the late 70's, we had premier college brands in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado, as well as some solid OSU teams, to host. And in hoops, Kansas, KSU, Mizzou, Iowa State, and Oklahoma were all big national brands. Imagine seeing Barry Switzer, Tom Osborne, Bill McCartney, Larry Brown, Roy Williams, Norm Stewart, and Billy Tubbs leading their squads in games in Denton in the 80s, while SMU and TCU were hosting a dying contingent of SWC teams in those two sports?

It will be a MAC or CUSA team, almost assuredly.

Well, at these NFL-lite, NBA-lite programs, there are plenty of alums and t-shirt fans who will gladly pay. For others not so fortunate, who see their teams get poached every season and see their coaches hired away, the reality is that those who will pay for this nonsense will continue to dwindle.

The breakaway can’t come soon enough. Let them play their pro ball…

It won't be 15, but it will be something around 36-48. They will cover all of the states that have major programs currently and can protect themselves from state's AGs or senators fighting the NCAA. IOW, a Kansas, Arizona, West Virginia, or Utah won't get left behind, even though a Kansas State, Baylor, or a Mississippi State might. When you look at the B1G/SEC, you are correct that there are probably 15 brands that matter nationally. Then, add in Notre Dame, Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, etc...and you can see how this would eventually get built out.

The revenues for extra home games could easily be made up from TV and playoff money. I don’t think that will be the ultimate deciding factor. But I think that 48-54 will have every major flagship of current power schools for each of those states that are used to be a power school. Places like WVU, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Kansas, etc…they’ll all get included. It’s the second schools and especially the private schools that are gonna be squeezed out.