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1 hour ago, untbowler said:
We need to get him on staff, for next year, the man knows how to Coach.
I thought the same thing.
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For those wanting the AAC to reach out, last time it was brought up the either they or the AAC didn't deem it as desirable. There probably isn't enough money to add them without lowering the per team payout.
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Credit where it is due, very good road win. Offense looked great. One thing I didn't see mentioned is the offensive line, they looked stout and defended Morris well all night. Let's hope that's a trend we see all year.
Defense still needs a lot of work, too many open receivers and missed tackles. We need them to step it up considerably or we are not going to be able to keep up with better teams.
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On 8/17/2024 at 11:46 AM, Matt from A700 said:
I believe we could technically schedule five more nonconference games since our MTE is only two games, I'm sure we'll only get four more though. Two more at home would put us at the standard 15 total for the year.
Can we finish the schedule without stooping down to D2 or NAIA level?
Let me repeat how disappointed I am there seems to be no interest from at least one of the parties in keeping the UTA series alive. The women already stopped playing them last year. Additionally, they aren't on the schedule for volleyball after we participated in their nonconference tournament in 2023. If the series isn't extended in softball, I will be worried there's some sort animosity between the schools.
So what about the NCAA Tournament auto qualifiers from the lower end conferences? Could we get teams like Stetson, Montana State, Longwood (probably not since we took one of their players), Oakland, Saint Peter's, Howard, Wagner, Samford, McNeese, or Grambling? I wouldn't even sweat agreeing to a home-and-home with a team like McNeese and Grambling since it'd be an easy road trip.
We seem to have an affinity for Mississippi Valley State, but if our only other option is NAIA/D2, then I'd be calling up their conference mates like Alcorn State and Jackson State who also schedule nonconference almost completely on the road.
I refuse to believe we don't have the pull/name/ability to schedule with the AQs you listed, as well as some other teams. We really don't have the ability to schedule LA Tech or WKU? Either of those is an easy home and home deal.
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Anyone else losing the star graphic next to the thread title to show your participating in a thread? It's only happening in the football forum I think?
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Great info and reps all around to those who posted.
SUMG that is some great backstory, wow.
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2 hours ago, NT80 said:
You said “very good opponent”. They are a name opponent, but not very good.
We have had elite, Top 25 type opponents at the Pit. We hosted LSU, Texas, and a #1 DePaul at home. It can happen, but takes the effort.
I should have said decent, and yes at least well known. I'd still much rather play them as well as teams like New Mexico/WKU than some of the teams we've scheduled in the past.
When did Texas come the Denton? I was curious to when that was and couldn't find it listed.
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3 hours ago, 3_n_out said:
I believe we just have to hold on for one more season. Recently read that we aren't receiving any monitary shares/media rights from C-USA and AAC for two years (this year being the last) due to transferring out/in. With that said, we should be able to see what this program can do in the near future with improved finances.
We gave up the last two years of conference revenue in CUSA and it wouldn't make sense to still be making anything from that conference after we left. I am curious on what our AAC situation is. From what I understand is we would be getting half shares, so $3.5M. What I have heard is that the AAC will also take a cut out of that as an entrance fee. This article sites that our revenue is rumored to be $2M a year:
QuoteConference USA schools currently receive less than $1 million annually in television revenue. The amount they will receive is still being finalized, but the television revenue will be more than $2 million at the start of the deal and rise significantly from there. Incumbent AAC members are still expected to average about $7 million annually over the course of the current ESPN television deal, which runs through 2031-32.
This article that sites that one says:
QuoteIt appears that Wichita State and Tulsa each paid $2.5 million to enter the AAC last go round, so its conceivable that Charlotte and others will be in that range. If so, that’s roughly $5.5 million to leave CUSA and enter AAC, in which Charlotte will start out with more than $2 million per year in TV money that will “rise significantly”, which means the move those fees will be recouped in as little as 3 years. Well worth it to this Charlotte fan.
https://www.agent49.net/the-charlotte-49ers-are-american-athletic-conference-bound/
Also the half shares are just media payouts, not total conference revenue from NCAA credits, CFP distribution, and other payouts. I tried to find a UNT document that had that listed last year, but could only find fiscal year 2023. It seems UNT does things from Jan. to Dec. for reporting?
https://meangreensports.com/documents/2024/1/11/2023_NCAA_Financial_Report.pdf
Page 26 says we had $0 in media rights, but page 28 says we had $1.13M in conference distributions.
I did however find a UAB document that covers 2023-24 that had $3.5M figure, but I'm unsure if that is conference distribution. Page 48:
https://www.uab.edu/financialaffairs/images/documents/reporting/Budget_Summary_Book_FY24.pdf
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17 hours ago, NT80 said:
While we're all excited about hosting Oregon St (a name brand, former P5 member) let's not mistake them for Duke or Gonzaga. They are not actually that good in basketball...
2023-24 = 13-19, 5-15 in Pac-12
2022-23 = 11-21, 5-15
2021-22 = 3-28, 1-19
I didn't say elite, we aren't ever getting those types of teams in Denton unless they are forced to come here like Virginia in the NIT. It's still a step up from the LSU Shreveports and Angelo States we've been scheduling. The bar is pretty low, which is sad.
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Finally some welcome news, credit to the AD where it is due. Very good opponent, and happy for this series.
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5 hours ago, NT80 said:
It's all about finding a QB. Traylor found a QB. We found a QB too before Cal kidnapped him. Did Morris find another one? We'll find out soon.
QBs and linemen are the crucial building blocks. Let's hope we've improved on both.
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6 hours ago, GrandGreen said:
I stand corrected. Coker had a great record at Miami, but only one good year at UTSA
However, he did start the initial program at UTSA, so the record is very deceptive
Commendable to admit an error, not often it happens on the internet today. Respect.
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1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:
Never got the argument that teams didn't want to come here. Other teams that have had success and won tournament games, both NCAA and NIT, don't seem to have the same issue.
I've been assuming that it really means we don't have the money to bring teams here, otherwise our department is really poor at negotiating. People argue that we are a tough team to play at home, but at the same time not good enough to lose to. Those two things contradict each other. Like you said other teams that have been worse and better have no problem filling out their schedules. My post on the previous page highlights the types of teams that we should be getting in the Pit, since our conference mates can.
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17 hours ago, MrAlien said:
I dont know if you can afford to wait until the season is over... How do you convince players to play here next year if you continue with a failing coach? Recruiting for 2025 is already in progress, if we are 1-4 heading into October with out a coaching change, then we might as well kiss next season good bye as well.
You have to give him at least the full 2nd season to see what he can do. Even as someone who thinks this year is crucial.
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13 hours ago, GrandGreen said:
UTSA has been good for a while, Traylor did not exactly inherit a bad team.
UTSA was 4-8 the year before Traylor took over, the year before that they were 3-9. When Traylor takes over they go 7-4 in conference for 2020. Contrast that with UNT going 7-5 in conference the year before Morris takes over, but going 5-7 his 1st season. If anyone did not inherit a bad team it was Morris.
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4 hours ago, untjim1995 said:
That will take $2.7 million to send him away after this season.
I get it's a lot of money. I just wonder what the threshold of the fanbase/department is? 3-9? 2-10?
I'll refrain from continuing to hammer the woes with Caponi until we see how they look this year. IMO Morris really needs a much improved defense or this will be a huge red flag about his ability as a head coach.
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4 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:
Per Grant this weekend, they are close to locking down a home-and-home with a noticeable name that would start in Denton.
Fingers crossed, we need some good news coming out of the scheduling front.
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Another 5-7 season and Morris should be gone. We don't have the time to waste on a third year to "see what happens."
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For a quality opponent to come to the Pit.
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23 hours ago, Green Lantern said:
Would have preferred a “splashier” more sure thing hire than Morris when they moved on from Seth. Especially given we’d just played in the CUSA Championship game (“we don’t care how you get there folks, just get there”)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t part of the selling points for Morris that he was taking less salary up front to have a larger assistant pool? Then hired Caponi at one of the highest assistant coach salaries in G5? All to watch the defense crash and burn - ruining the chances of a promising season otherwise?
Can’t believe our fanbase isn’t fired up for the season.
I was hoping for Herman or Fuente. I thought UNT needed a name hire this time around and not an up-and-comer.
IIRC THE highest paid assistant in G5.
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Hell of a coach too. I wouldn't mind of we hired him on for a 2nd tenure.
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2 hours ago, NT80 said:
It's not accurate regardless. Yes, we need more attendance overall at sporting events. How? Better marketing. More engagement with Denton, DFW, students and alums. It's still more campus-culture based indifference than the product. We have added better opponents in Conference but fail to schedule quality home OOC games in football and men's basketball. They are not attractive enough to fans to make them excited to attend when the football team is sub .500.
UTA is the definition of a commuter school. 41,000 students, dropped football because of poor attendance, built new $70m basketball arena, averages 1200 attendance.
We are punching bellow our weight with the amount of students and alumni we have.
Agreed on the marketing, the other thing is people need to have something to cheer for. People don't turn out because the reputation of the football team is poor, but when they did have something good we did see fans show up. I think back to the LA Tech game under Littrell, it was the first time I genuinely thought there was a positive buzz around the team, then we took that momentum and rammed it into the ground, and never recovered. We need multiple years of that kind of success to make people change their attitudes about FB.
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29 minutes ago, NT80 said:
This is a false statement. That's like saying UT-Austin is a commuter school because most students commute from somewhere off campus, but in Austin. UNT gets a lot of students that reside in DFW, just because it's close. But UNT has a huge residential dorm community on campus and a ton of apartments and houses close to campus. It's not a commuter school at all like UTA, with little to no dorms on campus.
You do know the term isn't literal right? What I said in quotes, "commuter school stigma."
noun: stigma; plural noun: stigmas; plural noun: stigmata-
1.a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person."the stigma of having gone to prison will always be with me"
We can't get away from acting like a commuter school, not that there are literally no dorms on the campus. 45,000 students and 324,000 alumni in DFW, but we can't fill a 30k stadium?
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7 hours ago, Hunter Green said:
We have an excellent business and engineering peograms and a medical and law school but it doesnt help that the last two are not on campus. We don't market those type students. We market to teachers, music majors, social workers and the like who don't make a lot of money and typically don't support athletics or give back to the university. Not only that, a lot of our students work their way through school and don't attend many games. It was too many years of being a commuter school and the culture, or lack thereof, it creates.
No doubt that having Law and Medicine on campus would be a good boost. The school of Business has 9,000 students, and 2,012 graduates. That's not a small number. So I ask again if these majors are sure fire supporters then there should be plenty of them going to games and donating money, right? "Mattress Mack" is one of the notable UNT business alumni, does he donate to the school? The School of Business has been around for nearly 80 years, they should have plenty of donors to pull from.
Like I said the School of Liberal Arts & Social Science and the School of Music only make up 27% of the graduates, you can find the numbers in the PDF I linked above. Music is small, it only graduated 362.
Your last sentence is the real answer. UNT can't shake the commuter school stigma and struggles to get donations/fan support across the entire campus. It doesn't help that the FB team dropped to 2A, and outside of the run Dickey made there has been no sustained success. We have had no fan building momentum in 2 decades.
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****OFFICIAL SFA vs UNT In-Game DISCUSSION****
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I've been a harsh critic of the defense, but they really kept us in the game during the early plays where the game had a chance to get away from us. Offense were much more the problem this time, too many turnovers and mistakes. Let's hope they clean it up because we looked like a completely different team on offense today.