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untjim1995

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  1. That’s the point for sure. Winning a spare bowl against another G5 means nothing to anyone beyond the diehards of the winning program.
  2. Same with any bowl we play in…it’s no different
  3. What a great year for us…SMU goes to the playoff in their first year as an ACC member, UTSA clobbers Coastal Carolina in a bowl game on their home turf in SC, and we go 6-6 and get to play Texas State in a bowl game, which we will most likely lose. #cursed
  4. Vito writes for a paper in a town that is almost completely apathetic to the program, with a sizable portion that absolutely loathes our athletic teams’ existence. Nobody with a brain should ever be surprised that Vito isn’t a UNT homer—he writes to cater to the 100 people that read the newspaper still.
  5. When we and Boise moved up to 1-A, I believe there were like 92 FBS programs. Now, there are 134 and more to come. I don’t blame the power leagues from looking down at the programs that can’t match their support. It’s like comparing the MLB teams to minor leaguers.
  6. Tell us who else had a payroll to meet that was hidden by the Governor of Texas? After having been on probation several times before this...
  7. The UT Athletic Department will just get treated as a corporation, saying funds received to it are voluntary, even if tax-deductible. And no politician will touch this, knowing how quickly they'd get hammered for hurting State U's football team and its funding.
  8. You know, the playoff system to create a champion is better, but I still loved the way CFB was when conferences were regional, they had their champion tied into a specific bowl game, there weren't so many spare bowls featuring matchups that nobody cares about between 6-6 teams, and each season, the end of the year was talking about who had the better resume if this team loses or wins in their bowl game. I grew up loving the SWC and the Big Eight. Each year, the goal was to make it to Dallas or Miami and see where the chips fell. You were neighbors and friends with grads of those schools. I'm sure it was the same in the old version of the SEC and the ACC. It was just a fun time--and if things went great, the Cotton Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Sugar Bowl, or the Rose Bowl would be for a national title. But if not, you watched them all because the games mattered in the big scheme of it all and they were on all day and night on New Years Day, along with the Fiesta Bowl, and then, later, the Citrus Bowl for the ACC Champ. Its a bygone era, no doubt, but the games had great coaches all over the country and players we got to know over the years. Yes, there was plenty of cheating, and yes, the big boys controlled the game, but it was more fun. Whatever it is we have today, I feel sorry for people who think CFB today is more enjoyable to follow and support. They probably think we are olds that have Good Ol Day Syndrome and that is fine. I can't really refute any of that. But it was a sport I and many of my age (50s now) loved and followed intensely. Today, we are dropping out very quickly, as we see the farce the portal and NIL are making of this great sport. Very sad...
  9. If the owners of this stie didn't need the visits/posts from you, you'd be gone...which is extremely pathetic on many, many levels.
  10. Imagine being in a power conference and having a fan troll the website of a G5 that you don’t play and go to the website and troll all day…what an existence. Shoot me if I’m ever close to being that pathetic.
  11. The really, really stupid people are the fans who pay for a high priced coach at a school that gets poached by p4s as soon as anyone, coach or player, shows a hint of ability.
  12. Now it’s here to stay…it’s the future and only $$$ will let you into the club. Until the really powerful teams split off.
  13. The reality is that money talks. They have it. We don’t. Our advantage is in enrollment and alumni, but they just don’t care about our teams, much less the university. We can’t compete with the money or the prestige of those power programs.
  14. All 750 people at the stadium on gamedays will appreciate that
  15. When this news came out, that Marshall couldn’t play in the game, I figured one of two things would happen: 1.) La Tech would get in the game for attendance purposes. or 2.) The I-Bowl would go ask the closest SEC school with a losing record to come play, like Mississippi State, just to get a bigger chance at an attendance boost.
  16. Hopefully, we can pillage Sam’s defense and bring a lot of them here.
  17. I mean, they’ve had decades to back us and never have, so I think those CoC voices, old and new, are more correct…
  18. I’ve been told many times that they have zero interest in being a FedEx-like sponsor of UNT sports, that they don’t want to make Dentonites feel like they’re choosing to support UNT more than TWU and that they know most Dentonites don’t care for our athletic programs. That’s straight from Chamber of Commerce members, past and present. Denton is the single worst place for a college football team to exist.
  19. It'd be nice if #3 was actually winning on the field against decent teams...but here we are
  20. Once the Supreme Court allowed the NIL and portal to be the rule, the P2s and their networks were ready to pounce. So now we have CFB in the hands of the power brands, both conferences, and networks run the sport and made the rest of us their bitches.
  21. You may not know this, but Mattress Mac gave us a million dollars for the football program back in 2006. He and Darrell Dickey were apparently close and Coach got him to donate. Well, we fired Dickey, as the program really began to fall back. That pissed off Mattress Mac, so he agreed to only let the money go if we named the practice fields after Darrell Dickey, a coach who went 42-64. After this, he has never shown even a hint of interest in our athletic program ever again. I suspect that he will never give another cent to our program.
  22. Harbaugh was considered "too costly" by Gretchen Bataille, our President at the time. He basically used us for interview experience and got the Stanford job. RV basically realized that to keep his job, as always, he just had to stay in budget, so he hired Todd Dodge from Southlake Carroll, who brought over his coordinators from the high school to be our coordinators. The good news was that Dodge didn't cost us too much, so we fired him after he was deemed affordable to let go, as it only cost us $325k to fire him, after his spectacular 6-37 record. And thank goodness we didn't fire him after his third season, or else that $325k we saved by letting him coach again for a 4th season got us one extra win for Coach Dodge and it allowed us to have our best season since 2006, at 3-9. RV got to keep his job as AD for another 9 years after hiring Dodge in 2007. Even though he hired the worst football coach in our history (Dodge), the worst women's basketball coach in our history (Shanice Stephens), and a men's basketball coach that absolutely destroyed a program that had been in the NCAA Tournament and had a great 5* recruit herein exactly one season (yet still got 5 years to coach). He was only let go after the 17 boosters he had fleeced for years to pay for access to our program decided that paying off the contract of Dan McCarney for over $2 million immediately following the worst loss in modern college football history on Homecoming against an FCS program in Portland State 66-7 was too much to swallow and eventually saw him leave in the spring of 2016. No matter how frustrated anyone is with our athletic department right now, its light years better than it was back then.
  23. What will you do to celebrate winning a bowl game?
  24. This is where the G5s and FCS need to go. Contracts for NIL, just like you have contracts for coaches. If you leave for the portal, you owe the $$$ back for the contract not fulfilled, including cost of attendance, stipends, and the remaining NIL. The NIL is something this old guy doesn't like, but I get it and accept it. The portal is my line in the sand. As long as it stays as it is, my interest and support of the sport has dwindled considerably. I'm not alone--and my generation of men are the ones who have disposable income and resources that are now being used in different ways. College football had been trending in the wrong direction for me for awhile, particularly in value for money spent and time spent at a game. But at least I knew that the kids made a commitment to stay at UNT for the majority of their college career. Following Mason Fine was incredible as a fan. He is non-duplicable in today's world, as he would get bought by anyone else up the food chain after one season of doing anything of note on the field. I recognize that the reality is that UNT and the rest of the G5s will just accept their place under the table of the P4s and fight for scraps and crumbs. And its why my decision to walk away from attending games in 2023 has been the best financial decision I've made in years.
  25. Exactly. Over the last 61 years, UCLA, UConn, Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Kansas, Villanova, Indiana, MIchigan State, Florida, Louisville and NC State have finished #1 at the end of the season 52 times. Then, you have a school like Michigan that won a title to add to their two football titles. That's 12 teams in hoops only, then add in the 15 teams that have won multiple titles in football. UTEP, Marquette, Georgetown, UNLV, Arkansas, Arizona, Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia, and Baylor are the ones who won one title. UTEP is the clear outlier (from 1965), but all of the other teams listed have all gone to the Elite Eight or farther in other tournaments to balance out their title. Quite honestly, the entire NCAA could cover about 40 schools and get all of the champions of their two main sports. But its schools like A&M that have such giant football programs and money that they will always be included in any kind of setup of top tier programs, even with no championships in these two sports.
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