[Houston we have a problem!]

25 minutes ago, golfingomez said:

interesting to watch, I was very confused from the beginning of Holgorsen's move to Houston, i thought he had a decent gig in West Va.

It was also interesting to see the move from Houston's part, considering their pretty decent track record working with up and coming coaches. 

With a buyout like they have (now seems small thanks to our friends in College Station), it will be interesting to see what kind of coach they bring in next.

Holgo had a background in Texas with his time at Tech. I think Houston paid more too. 

Also the Houston president said "We fire people at 8-4".... and Holgo only hit that once. 

 

 

[2023 North Texas Assistant Coach Salaries and Other Notable Assistants]

In Summary:

Division 1 College coaching gigs are pretty sweet deals $$ wise

Also, remember when we paid our HEAD COACH $150k?

[Footballscoop says it is down to 3]

4 hours ago, Coffee and TV said:

Jimbo's success can all be placed on Jameis Winston's shoulders in the 2nd half of the Rose Bowl. He has never accomplished anything since and his mediocre stint at A&M for a bajillion dollars proved that. 

Hey Seth pocketed a couple of million off of Mason Fine.....

[Boise State fires head coach]

11 minutes ago, Travis said:

That’s very true for year two. Year three was like year one.  We were ‘in’ a lot of games but that’s worthless. But with year one and three he was only ‘two plays away’ from winning like 5-6 games. And that got old hearing crap like that. Hell, i even heard Mac say that once and I was like… oh man that’s always a mark of a bad team. 

I remember his face after we blew the Ohio game in OT..... could've been 2-0. Was downhill from there 

[Boise State fires head coach]

18 minutes ago, Travis said:

While I get your point… i do. Everytime i have heard this kind of line we have had a really bad team.  I have heard EM say as much and it reminds me of dodge saying something similar. 

difference is dodge's first couple of teams weren't remotely competitive

[Boise State fires head coach]

Talk about a couple of bounces changes the season..... 4 one possession losses.... switch those up and you're 9-1 

[North Texas receives access to Texas University Fund]

1 hour ago, DentonLurker said:

@meanJewGreen, this is from the R1 Our Way Task Force at UNT.

 

Got it. So there's a plan, per se, but it seems like it's a long way off 

[North Texas receives access to Texas University Fund]

For those in the know academically, could this be a way for us to build a long term plan to get into the AAU? 

[North Texas receives access to Texas University Fund]

4 hours ago, outoftown said:

UNT was already very much on its way to being a more and more respectable research university. Smatresk achieved quite a lot in that regard. This will do a lot to help UNT, Tech UH and TSU close the gap to A&M and UT.

I doubt Baylor, TCU and SMU are thrilled though.

 

It is wild how different of a university academically we are from when I started in 06.

Our football program on the other hand.....

[Worst hire since Dodge?]

12 hours ago, Ibleedgreen said:

I personally remember that Gretchen Bataille was extremely excited about the Dodge hire. Remember that he was considered a football god at the time, albeit at the high school level.

I mean we got front page on the DMN when he got hired. "Enter the dragon" was the caption

then we lost to OU by 69 points

[Pulse of the Fanbase..]

I see a lot of potential here.

the coaching staff just needs to realize that games start in the first half 

[Bob Knight passes at 83]

8 hours ago, Travis said:

I seriously thought he already died. 

his health had been failing for awhile 

[Is Hedlund untouchable?]

11 hours ago, Shotshagger said:

There were a few throughout the season but no more than normal. I think starting defender was out majority of season, subbed-in forward out last 3-4 games.

This team was mentioned to be deepest roster in some time, if so, then one could say plug and play failed us.

I’d say lack of creativity more so than injuries failed us.

Hasnt this been a Hedlund issue for the past few years?

He is the winningest coach in UNT history, but we've never beaten a ranked team or scored a goal in the NCAA Tournament..... sometimes people just reach plateaus. 

[UTSA Athletic Fee Failed]

Part of me wants to laugh at UTSA but the other part isn't happy about this. A strong UTSA is good for us - the fans travel well.

[***UNT vs Tulane In-Game Discussion Thread***]

6 minutes ago, golfingomez said:

"My pig found its, found its self smart enough to hop over in the the barrier from his pen to the next pen and eat all of that pigs food and then go to the next one and eat all of that pigs food and then the next one and eat all of that pigs food and make his way back in time for when it was my turn my time to feed him he had already eaten three meals and would just be sitting there waiting for me and I would feed him and he would eat that. That’s why he gained so much weight and got sifted at the fat stock show."

You've never seen a more fired up group of dudes after this speech from Morris

Bob sturm would be proud

[Men's 23-24 schedule thread]

3 hours ago, Green Otaku said:

Disappointing, do those teams count for NET? What's worse is it took us until we were 8 days away from opening the season to get it done. 

More difficult to schedule than you might think. 

[Ken Pom Rankings Out - UNT #87 in nation]

Right off the bat we play #98, 60, 63 and the winner of 47 vs 69.

Big opportunity in non conference to assert ourselves and not have to pray for a bid at the end of the year. 

[Big 12 Has Resumed High-Level Conference Realignment Talks With Gonzaga (Exclusive)]

On 10/9/2023 at 4:53 PM, NT80 said:

Prior to lining up those Pac 12 schools in August, Yormark had conducted realignment negotiations for several months with Gonzaga and UConn. Sources say there is no current dialogue with UConn, but over the last several weeks, Yormark has quietly continued talks with Gonzaga’s top leadership.

Sources told The Messenger that Yormark would like to see Gonzaga join the Big 12 for the 2024-25 season, but that timetable would be a best-case scenario. The Big 12 schools are still digesting the financial ramifications of adding the schools that agreed over the summer to come on board — as well as this year’s additions of Houston, Cincinnati, BYU and UCF. There are many logistical questions that would need to be answered, such as scheduling and how the conference tournament format would be adjusted to account for 17 schools with Gonzaga in the mix.

https://themessenger.com/sports/big-12-gonzaga-conference-realignment-college-sports-mens-basketball

Tech - recent years

Baylor

Kansas 

Houston

Gonzaga

Arizona

Kansas State-recent

 

Not a bad potential top 7 for basketball. Cincy and OKst are historically good, and TCU is on the rise. Best basketball conference? 

[Game Time Announced vs. Memphis - Homecoming]

19 minutes ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

Are you sure that person wants his identity publicly revealed?

deleted it. 

[Not trying to stir a hornets nest]

I can tell you there has never been the political level of what's going on at the Ivies, or even UT (UT has a gigantic jewish community, and a huge palestinian org) . We had some small protestors protest some Israeli speakers, but nothing like you saw at Berkley, NYU, Columbia, or yes, UT. And I was at UNT during Operation Cast Lead in 2008

There was the one-off small protest near the Union. And maybe 3-5 articles focused on Palestinians. But nothing where Jews feared for their lives. More apathy than anything. 

Honestly I fear that Jews in Europe/Latin America will get the brunt of retribution when it comes to antisemitic attacks once Israel launches the planned ground invasion.

And I really fear that 1 million Palestinians are going to be completely displaced because of this 

 

[CBS Sports AP Preseason Top 25 College Basketball Rankings]

So our schedule currently has:

The NCAA TOp 10 team x2

NIT runner up

4 others receiving votes (MEM, St Johns, MSST, Boise)

A top tier A10 team (fordham)

Potential for Dayton/LSU, and Houston

Not too bad 

 

[***Official Temple vs UNT Game Discussion***]

15 minutes ago, keith said:

It does seem to be the one constant, year after year after year.  You’d think that with the constant turn-over in students and a new “largest freshman class ever” coming in every year, we’d eventually break through and become an excited fan base that supports the team no matter what, but it just never happens.  It’s like some invisible apathy torch handed down from one class to the next.  The cycle never breaks. 

Early season losses/poor showings kill us.  We need to start 5-0 or better every year to keep fans (and students) coming out.  We saw glimpses of what could be until that stupid blocked FG at the end of the LaTech game.  

Or just string together years of 10-2 seasons mixed with wins over big time teams

[Men's 23-24 schedule thread]

29 minutes ago, Green Otaku said:

1 more game and that's it according to what others have said. I'm a little surprised that no one else finds it weird that we are still looking for games 26 days before the season starts. 

We're missing UTA on there too. 

Optimist in me says we're a tough team to schedule RPI - wise?  or maybe Jared is playing hardball about getting us another good home game? 

[Men's 23-24 schedule thread]

1 hour ago, Green Otaku said:

Are we still missing dates for late November and December? We are a month away and we still don't have a finalized schedule? I'm telling you guys this seems unusual. 

when i tweeted jared a few weeks back he said they were still finalizing 2. I guess Northern Iowa was one. Curious on the second 

[Column: Top 5 places to cry (or have sex) on UNT campus]

With all the construction and new buildings going on around UNT , I feel like there should be an updated list