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  1. 2 hours ago, NT80 said:

    This part concerns me.  It's not the first time I have heard about the PAC coming after AAC teams again with new tactics and offer$.   One article said if the court lowers the poaching fee penalty for the PAC to pay the MWC then they will use it to lure AAC teams again...

    McMurphy on 365 sports- 

    -PAC is not targeting TX State at this time, thinks Pac will double back on AAC schools.

    I feel like the MW is going to fight like it's their last breath to get the full amount agreed upon. These two conferences are basically at war with each other, there will be no concessions. The MW also has the luxury of time, as even if they don't have 8 teams in place when their teams leave, their 2 year exemption doesn't start until 2026.

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  2. 53 minutes ago, SUMG said:

    Geez. So we're now going to McNeese for a game? And they're very good. But have a hard time believing....we couldn't get them to Denton for a game.

     

    If they are coming to Denton in the future I say that's a good deal, if not that is poor negotiating. Still, out of the types of teams available I'd rather play McNeese than some others out there.

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  3. 13 hours ago, wardly said:

    No, its the MWC. TSU is the key to the MWC getting in Texas. If TSU moves the MWC goes after UTEP and/ or Sam Houston.From all I have read  they want at least 2 schools in Texas.

    Then those money figures have to be way off. They lose the top half of their conference but get almost a 50% increase? I just can't believe that.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Shark84 said:

    Just curious. Do you think he doesn't try to schedule good teams to play in Denton on purpose or do you think he is incompetent? This subject has come up for several years even when Baker was here. 

     

    1 hour ago, SUMG said:

    I'm pretty sure.....the ONLY scheduling that the Ath. Director does.....is football.

    In all the other sports........the respective coaches, do it.

    Last year, we were the very last team in Div. I to finalize our schedule. 

    What the Ath. Director could do.....is demand that we make the home OOC games....more of a priority. 

    But, don't hold your breath on that. 

     

     

    I should clarify that when I said AD I meant Athletic Department. Maybe I'm ignorant here, but is there not a team of administrators that works with the teams to take care of scheduling, contracts, payments, budgets, etc?

    Mixed answers on this reddit thread:

     

  5. 2 hours ago, meaniegreenie said:

    That's why I said your point was valid. 

    I don't have much experience with live sound, I'm pretty familiar with RF signals and I think I mistakenly took your statement about "mitigating frequencies" to mean external RF frequencies and not tuning the processed baseband signals.  Similarly, I interpreted your point about not having the "highest quality equipment" to mean quality of sound reproduction, i.e. "concert quality", not simply the quality of the equipment to simply work.

    But as I and others have said, the people running this have YEARS of experience in working with live sound (or at least they should), since they've supposedly been addressing it for nearly 15 years.  So, it's either that they don't care about fixing it or there is some unique situation that is making it difficult to address.  That's why I brought up the point regarding the only things that I could think of that are unique to our environment.

    Yes I was referring to just the quality of the equipment itself. I guess my question is have they brought in/do they employ professional audio engineers that can troubleshoot and fix issues?There's wifi, radio broadcasts, tv broadcast, tens of thousands of people with cellphones crammed into a small space, any of those things could be a factor. Is there someone actively running the equipment while the game is going on? It's hard to know without seeing what their game day preparation is.

  6. Those look great from a purely visual standpoint, the clean design of this year's uniform makes the green really pop. The only thing I don't like is the script on the helmet, and the odd/ironic choice of it saying "Mean Green" while wearing black. Wings logo on a black helmet would have looked better to me.

     

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  7. 41 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

    Who cares about Texas State?  I don't.  Let them stay put, or join CUSA.  They can have fun with La Tech each year.

    Agree, there is no need to expand right now with AFA out of the picture. I don't think the AAC should do a defensive move to block the PAC, let them go if they want. In the future JMU. App St., or VCU as a non-football make more sense to me.

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  8. 10 minutes ago, meaniegreenie said:

    All of that is valid.  But we're there to watch a football game with friends, not go to a concert.

    I'm not sure what this means. I was answering BigWillie's question about how concerts get the audio right. 

    14 minutes ago, meaniegreenie said:

    Making adjustments, etc. is appropriate, but getting a ref's mic working isn't rocket science and it's been bad since the stadium opened.  The only things I can think of that are unique to our stadium are the wind turbines in close proximity and the LEED certification.  Of these, I suspect only the turbines could affect RF and I doubt they are doing anything to interfere with the mics.

    What is your experience with running live sound?

  9. Having these collectives outside of the schools really opens up these situations where people can promise things and not deliver, or say they never agreed to them. Think about it, a faceless organization outside of the school with no oversight, they don't have to disclose what they pay, you don't get to specify where your donations go, it's akin to throwing your money into a void. I'm surprised this kind of disputes hasn't happened more honestly. NIL needs to be brought into the school's AD to make things transparent. Instate contracts in 2 year agreements, and 1 for grad/senior transfers. If you want the player buy out the contract.

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  10. 17 hours ago, BigWillie said:

    As another complaint about the sound system, it looks so bush league when you can't hear the ref on penalties or there is feedback. How hard is this to test before game time?

    I am no sound engineer, but concerts get this right. Like any other performance. 

    Any sound engineering alum that can explain it?

     

    27 minutes ago, KingDL1 said:

    The feedback from the PA and the Ref mics is awful at times. It's only been that way for 15 years. I guess they don't care. 

     

    Concert have the highest quality equipment since that's the main feature of the show, they can't afford to have bad audio. They also have more control with placement, putting the speaker line in front of the microphones so they aren't looping back into the mics to create feedback.

    It could just be the audio equipment at DATCU isn't the highest quality. Maybe the wireless signal isn't strong enough with so many people in the stadium, it could be the mic placement on the ref being poor, it could be the person running the board isn't mitigating the frequencies to prevent feedback, or it could be that the system isn't tuned properly for the environment. It's hard to know without knowing what they use, how it's set up, and how it's run.

  11. 17 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

    This late, I think the best scenario is 3 of the 4 remaining games being scheduled at home so we get 16 (more bang for your season ticket buck) but they're all SWAC/DII/NAIA competition.

    If true we need to demand better from the AD. There's no reason for such poor scheduling.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, NT80 said:

    PAC is trying to find some cheap add-ons to finish their football membership.  Maybe adding Gonzaga is bait for UConn basketball later?   It's all probably an attempt to put pressure on UNLV to commit.

    I don't think Gonzaga does much for them, over half of the BE is equal to Gonzaga IMO. Plus I'd imagine their fanbase is heavily on the east coast, and going west would be a huge deal for them.

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  13. This whole saga has been bizarre, it's why you don't air your dirty laundry in front of the whole country. Now the PAC looks incompetence, greedy, arrogant, stupid, and any other adjective.

    With them suing the MWC about a deal they signed not even a year ago they are losing any goodwill people had for their teams. Their entire organization looks awful top to bottom, and should frankly be a warning to anyone wanting to be part of that conference.

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