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  1. 4 hours ago, El Paso Eagle said:

    BYU has a collective that is paying for the scholarships for all Walk-Ons that make the team. So basically that is adding additional scholarship players over the 85 

    Is that true? If so, sounds like it would be easy to bring a lawsuit against BYU (and the NCAA) for circumventing Title IX. Because no one can seriously pretend that women profit from this whole NIL scheme as much as men do.

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  2. 5 hours ago, meaniegreenie said:

    https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/fans-players-sun-impacts-football-games

    From another source (CDT times):

    Location                
    Partial Begins         
    Totality Begins
       Maximum 
    Totality Ends        
    Partial Ends
    Dallas, Texas
    12:23 p.m.  
    1:40 p.m.
     1:42 p.m.      
    1:44 p.m.   
    3:02 p.m.

    These are the times for 2024, not tomorrow.

  3. Does anyone know when we might be able to expect kickoff times to be announced for the TBD games in October? I'd like to go to the one against Temple but it does actually make a difference for me if kickoff is (for example) in the early afternoon or in the evening.

    Thanks!

  4. Just now, UNT'19 said:

    Yeah exactly. We would have to somehow prove that the rivalry enhancement would generate a crazy amount of revenue for the conference... as well as SMU.

    That would require a ton of advertising from both UNT and SMU, and I don't think SMU would want to put any effort into that.

    All I can say is that if Wren is able to convince the AAC and SMU it's a good idea, he deserves a lifetime contract.

     

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  5. Just now, UNT'19 said:

    Our biggest case to being added is convincing them that it will enhance our rivalry with SMU. But I feel like that is unfortunately a long shot.

    This, plus it would free up a non-conference slot in our schedule for a new series. It would be benefits galore for us, but the AAC would only have little gain from adding us, and SMU would likely try to block anyways.

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  6. 4 hours ago, meangreenlax said:

    No way. The interior of campus should be for people and buildings. It's already bad enough that we have a street grid running through campus. 

    Last word was that Willis was going to be incorporated into a hypothetical new library, where that ugly music building is to the west.

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    This is a picture of a potential render (not final design) of what a renovated Willis would look like. All links to where I got this picture from no longer seem to work, but hey I at least still had the picture.

  7. 1 hour ago, ipd054 said:

    To me the opponent and location should be second and third down the list. 

    We want to play in a game as late in the season as possible.  It is about practice, yes practice for our 2019 team.   Reps matter give me any game after the 21st and I will be happy.  A full month of Reps and coaching will help us immensely in 2019!

    After getting an extra month I want the best team in the best location.  I would pass up a better team in New Orleans, Boca Raton, and  Frisco to play a week later.  Heck if possible I would pick the hell hole of El Paso on New Years eve so I get a few extra weeks of practice. (OK maybe that would be taking it too far, but I would go to any other bowls on that day)

    At this point the Bowl is a reward for a good year for our seniors and prep for 2019 for everyone else.

    I believe that the NCAA limits the amount of practices that a team may conduct between their last regular-season game and their bowl game. The only advantage we'd get by having a later bowl game is more rest in between practices.

  8. Pro tip: if you use Gmail for your email, you can create multiple email addresses based off of your existing one and all mail sent to it will still go to your regular inbox.

    Example: your normal address is gmg@gmail.com. You can tell Sling/Fubo your address is gmg+sling@gmail.com, and you'll still get the emails sent to it (important since a lot require you to verify the address). Need another address for a new trial? Maybe use gmg+fubo@gmail.com next. Just add a "+whatever_here" before the @.

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  9. 7 hours ago, Harry said:

    Question do you have to elect the BeIn as an add on or is it a standard on say the orange or blue package?  Asking for a friend!

    BeIN is part of the $5 Sports extra. That is independent of the Orange and Blue packages, which contain ESPN and Fox Sports respectively (the combo package that has both is $40).

  10. This isn't a problem unique to UNT. It's a problem you see all across DFW -- no matter the team, most people are fair-weather fans. To those same fans, our game against USM was "just another game" and didn't have anything special enough about it that the casual fan would notice in the 2 seconds they take to consider going to the game. Was it a well-known or highly-ranked team? The average fan doesn't care much about USM, and they're not highly-ranked. Did this game have a special label, such as "homecoming" or "xxxx championship"? Nope, not that either. All they know is that its a game they're not drawn to, and it's (supposedly) going to rain. That's all they need to make a decision.

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  11. Shanbour should start since he's definitely the one who knows the system way better than Bean/Martin/etc (no dig on them, but they're all still too new). I have no problem with the others coming in at some point during the game, thanks to the new rule that allows them to be in 4 games without sacrificing the redshirt. We used one game for some of them, and I don't think we'll desire their services in close games. Why not against UTEP if we have a cushion?

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  12. It was by far my favorite moment of the whole game. Definitely the loudest I've ever heard it in the 6 going on 7 years of every home game that I've been to. Even funnier was that this started completely on its own -- whenever the cheerleaders wanted to get it started during a timeout, everyone was too busy booing the refs for the 2-point conversion.

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