[Jared Mosely upset and rightfully so]

2 hours ago, NT80 said:

Easy answer:  No.   

Breaking away won't help avoid paying.  Non-FBS schools are having to pay the settlement too.   It goes back several years before now, players claiming they were denied the ability to earn NIL.    

Breaking away also won't improve our athletic department.   It would become the new 1-AA / FCS division....

no media = no fans = meaningless sports = diminished school marketing appeal = diminished diploma value.   

I tend to agree with you although live sports is still a valued commodity I don't know how a perceived minor league college football league would be viewed.  It would essentially put us back to IAA

[Jared Mosely upset and rightfully so]

3 hours ago, Wag Tag said:

Be proactive and get out of the NCAA. The G4 are never going to be P5, why hang around? G4 conference with their on playoffs and championship. 

Also stop scheduling them and giving them easy victories.  Let them beat up on each other.  That will ultimately turn off the lower level school and force their hand.

[UNT Athletics: Student-Athletes Earn Highest Semester GPA Ever]

DENTON – This past spring UNT student-athletes earned the highest semester grade point average in the department's history.

North Texas and its 337 student-athletes had a combined 3.280 GPA in the spring of 2024 and a 3.234 cumulative GPA over the entire school year. It marked UNT's 10th consecutive semester of a 3.0-plus department wide GPA.

A department best 71 percent of all student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher and four Mean Green teams achieved their respective highest semester GPA ever: football, men's track and field, soccer and softball. 

Ten teams posted a semester GPA above a 3.2 with women's golf leading the way at 3.810. Its third straight semester of achieving the highest team grade point average. Six teams had at least 90 percent of its roster earn a 3.0 or better GPA: men's golf, women's cross country, women's golf, swim and dive, soccer and tennis.

Nine North Texas teams improved on their semester GPA from the fall of 2023 to the spring of 2024. Eight North Texas teams have an active streak of 10 consecutive semesters with a 3.0 or better GPA. Mean Green women's tennis has now had a 3.0 or better GPA in 25 straight semesters.

Fifty-four Mean Green student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA in the spring to receive Presidents List honors and 40 UNT student-athletes graduated in the spring.

North Texas freshmen this year made a smooth transition from high school to college as they achieved a 3.189 GPA in the spring, setting a solid bar moving forward. UNT has improved on its department GPA in each of the last four semesters and has improved on the previous department GPA in eight of the last nine semesters.

All data excludes spring of 2020 semester when the COVID pandemic shutdown in-person school during the middle of the semester.

 

[Patrick Cobb]

Man he was a beast.

 

[eBay item: Odd looking NT helmet with 2023 team signatures (40) from our game @ Navy.]

1 minute ago, keith said:

It's ironic that in the age of NIL, this type of "memorabilia" has almost no value anymore.   

Good point.  Same thing for Hall of Fame.  Our Hall of Fame will be full of players who transferred out and will be known as alums from other schools.  Tylor Perry will always be known as a KState alum.  Sad.

[Texas State $23 Million Stadium Naming Rights]

Texas State seems to be making some good strides as of late.

[Mean Green Queen's Football Clinic]

Hear from Coach Morris and the Mean Green Football Staff, participate in

on-field drills lead by student-athletes and coaches, tour the facility,

dinner with a cash bar, and much more!

All proceeds benefit Denton County Friends of the Family.

You don't want to miss this!

 

$40 Registration Fee

Monday, July 29^th at the Lovelace & McNatt Families Practice Facility

5:30 PM | Check-In

6:00 PM | Event Begins

[New TP Commitment (5/19/24): Derek Burns Jr]

I like this.  The only question mark is what cooled off the new staff at Troy?  Measurables look legit.

[Just saw Tyran Mason at the mall]

Dude is huge, maybe 6-7 or even 6-8 and very broad shoulders.  Super nice kid and family.  All yes sirs and respectful.  they are thrilled to be at UNT and I would not count him out next season even as a true frosh.

 

 

[Atin Wright is officially signed with Mean Green]

DENTON – The UNT men's basketball team has signed Missouri Valley Conference All-Tournament team selection transfer guard Atin Wright.

Wright comes to North Texas from Drake where he was the MVC champion's second leading scorer averaging over 14 points per game during the season and was one of the league's top 3-point shooters as he made 65 long range shots at a 40.6 percent clip.

The 6-foot-1 guard started all 32 games he played in last year and helped lead the Bulldogs to the 2024 MVC Tournament championship as he averaged 16.3 points per tournament game and poured in 17 points in the title win over Indiana State. For his tournament performance he was named to the league's all-tournament team. 

Wright will have one year of eligibility remaining.  

In Drake's NCAA Tournament game last year, Wright led all players as he scored 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting versus Washington State. It was his ninth 20-point game of the season. He scored a season-high 26 points on Feb. 13 in a 78-75 road win over Evansville. In that three-point win at Evansville, Wright sank a 40-foot-game-winner at the buzzer.

One of those 20-point performances came on the road against American Athletic Conference foe UAB on Dec. 22. Wright scored 20 points versus the Blazers on 11 shot attempts to go along with a pair of steals. 

Wright last year played six games against opponents who reached the 2024 NCAA Tournament. In those six games he averaged 15.1 points per game, including three 20-point performances. Drake went 4-2 in those games.

The Hawthorne, California, native began his collegiate career at Cal State Northridge. He played three seasons for the Matadors and was a two-time Big West All-Conference honoree before transferring to Drake in 2023. 

In his final year at CSUN (2022-23), Wright averaged 16.7 points per game. On Feb. 15, 2023, he set the Matadors single-game scoring record as he dropped 42 points at UC Davis.

Wright will join North Texas with 116 career games played, 1,530 career points scored, 198 career 3-pointers made and 174 career assists.

A southern California native, Wright graduated from Fairmont Prep in Orange County. He averaged 22.7 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.1 steals per game as a high school senior. He led Fairmont to a league title his senior year and advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2AA California Southern Sectional playoff round. His junior year, he led Orange County in scoring with 25 points per game and was named Southern Section Class 4AA Player of the Year. 

North Texas is coming off a 19-win season under first-year head coach Ross Hodge where they reached the second round of the NIT. He was the only rookie head coach last year to lead his respective team to either the NCAA Tournament or NIT. The Mean Green won 10 league games in their first season in the American Athletic Conference. It was the most league wins by a first year UNT head coach. UNT is one of just seven schools in the country who has won a NCAA postseason game in each of the last four seasons.

 

[Atin Wright is officially signed with Mean Green]

 

[Atin Wright is officially signed with Mean Green]

 

[Vlad Goldin to Michigan]

54 minutes ago, GMoney said:

They've been gutted too!

Wow Dusty May strikes again.  FAU  is starting from scratch now.

[Congratz to Chania Price]

 

[Will we see changes coming from inside UNT?]

23 minutes ago, untjim1995 said:

Anyone could see this coming as you looked at the landscape the Supreme Court allowed with NIL and the NCAA allowed with the portal.

So do the new Virginia laws mean that all the NIL will be run thru the AD?  Seems to makes sense and I think it will be adopted nationally.  It doesn’t help having multiple entities calling on the same small group of alumni and fans for donations.  Centralization makes sense here if you ask me.

[Noland To New Mexico]

26 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

I'll miss CJ.
Those of you saying it's a "lateral move" have never been to a game in the Pit, or have any knowledge of the overall CBB landscape, with MWC basketball being a very respected conference.   They have a rabid fanbase, and I'm willing to bet the bump in NIL is noticeable.

The Pit is an incredible facility that I hope NT's new arena will be modeled after.   I got to take in the NT victory over UNM back in McCasland's 2nd year.   One of my favorite memories of NT Sports.

We get you are a closet New Mexico fan but noone l know cares that much about them.  Sure they have more fans at games but there is frankly nothing else to do there.  We have fielded a much more competitive program than they have recently.

[We Got A Commit]

 

[Hall of Fame]

I think Ruben should still be eligible for it since he played here for four years and got his degree. 

[Rubin Jones to enter transfer portal...]

1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

Damn, losing Aaron and Rubin even bumped the basketball subforum down below football again...

I noticed that as well!

[A Scott Leaving Us]

I have been perusing the sites out there and it seems like we are not the only ones going through this.  I don't blame the players for wanting to see what the market has to bear but sometimes the grass is not always greener.

[NIL unfair to women]

2 minutes ago, Shark84 said:

How long until this gets brought up? You only have a handful of women college athletes that are making big NIL money. Clark and Reese in basketball and Dunne at LSU in gymnastics. This isn't going away and I'm sure lawyers are chomping at the bit to take the NCAA to court. 

Agree 100%.   I am frankly surprised that this issue has not yet come up in the courtrooms.  The NCAA is such an absolute joke.

[AAC in the Tourney]

21 minutes ago, golfingomez said:

Northwestern making this a very North Texas-style game... FAU up 20-19 at half!

Based on this i fully expect FAU to pat them on the head with about 4 minutes remaining and win comfortably

I feel  the same.

[LSU (3/19/24)]

 

[Tylor Perry says goodbye]

 

[St. Joseph's at Seton Hall]

1 minute ago, MCMLXXX said:

I predict that Seton Hall will win. Who you got?

Please note that neither Kansas State nor any former player is relevant to this topic.

Seton Hall is favored by 4.5