FirefightnRick

We can’t, nor should we try. The G5 needs to break away and start the NCAAA(National Amateur Athletic Association), under new tv contracts with its own 16-32 team playoff in football, similar Dance in basketball etc. Or, NT needs to drop to FCS and dominate in football and attempt to hang on to compete in D1 basketball. One of the two? @flyonthewall Thank you for all you did, and still do. Rick

Maybe he knows that today, their school is more than willing to move Heavan and Earth to accomodate their any need, like for a home tournament game against P4’s on national tv? Rick

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I think the advantage we have, if there is any advantage at all, is access to a mass population and the opportunity to play at home? And that’s what we have to offer high school kids, mostly. Which is why I have always felt we have a really good chance to build a dominant softball team due to access to phenomenal local talent, and the limited local softball schools we compete against for recruits(2)? But of course, in this era of professional college sports the HS kid is getting crapped on, especially in basketball. But any advantage we may gain we piss away every time we hire yet another apathetic employee making the decisions for the entire university. So now I’ve chosen to spend my free time and hard earned money…. ….in my front yard, working on the Dirty Blond and travel. Rick

Not anymore classless than forcing him and his staff and team to hand over home court advantage after earning it the hard way. The university told him they don’t give a shit. So why should he? Rick

Good. Now back to my regularly scheduled lawn mowing. Rick

Scott Cross from Troy. Rick

It’s actually WORSE than pro sports, because the coaches and athletes in pro sports are contractually obligated to work for a period of time for the people who pay them and operate for the most part, within a fairly even plain. And then for programs like North Texas, where we add an additional level of horribleness in which we hire our support staff in a revolving door manner that leads to the “Just Do Enough To Get Buy, Oh Well, It’s Just North Texas, It Ain’t My School” -environment we currently find ourselves in. Which of course leads to a lack of any demand for excellence or accountability. Rick

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basketball/article/march-madness-2025-st-francis-pa-announces-its-dropping-from-division-i-to-division-iii-a-week-after-first-four-loss-173131906.html "The governance associated with intercollegiate athletics has always been complicated and is only growing in complexity based on realities like the transfer portal, pay-for-play, and other shifts that move athletics away from love of the game…” I don’t blame them one bit. Rick

Embarrassing. Rick

No, my point being University-wide apathy. That’s worse than just a scheduling Uh-Oh by the AD. University-wide Apathy is what caused this. If you, or me, or FlyOnTheWall or Harry, SUMG or…fill in the blank_____________ bleeding-green-alum were in on decision making, we’d had made sure last April, last May, June, July, August, whenever the schedules are planned for the upcoming season, we would have made damn sure tournament time in March for the SP is kept open, or flexible. It would keep us up at night after we were off the clock, making us sick, stewing about it till we got it right. And if we were told no, we would go up the chain till we found a YES. Instead, the university , not simply the AD,…told the entire college basketball watching world that The University Of North Texas does not care about athletics, and told our teams and our donating alumni to go pound sand. Rick

Yes,….all effing day. Now, they know how tuff of a team we really have, winning in Stoolwater where it was 5 on 7. We beat Ok State, the refs,….and the North Texas Administration. Rick

Ugh! Can you believe we lived through that? Rick

An ex coworker texted and asked why they refused to foul #10. I said..”because he’s The Man At The Line, Nationally, at 94% and OSU knows it”. Rick

Sadly, or fortunately, they have no idea the true reason. Which is much worse than just a simple mistake by the AD department. A single mistake by the AD would have almost been acceptable. Rick