Christopher Walker

Fees were refunded a prorated amount this past term if requested.

Okay, but we forget that the NCAA is *us*, the Royal We. Yeah, Emmert and the investigations side of things is truly incompetent, but if we were to enact change, you'd have to petition our own leadership as its the ADs and university presidents that ultimately make decisions collectively. Hell, Smatresk has even rejoined the NCAA governing board this year.

Yeah, she actually uses her box seats at games. Her son was a scholarship player for Virginia Tech. She’s known to tout the value of sports.

Oh?

This just calls for us establishing some mutual fan clubs, in my opinion.

Our history says we teeter from end to end fairly wildly, but all indications since the Wren™ tenure have us on the up overall.

July 6 is going to be the big deciding day for UNT per the academic units meeting we had today. Smatresk, Cowley, and McClellan gave a really informative briefing that detailed the initial steps to re-open including lab and soft clinical practices over the next two months. Summer instruction is still fully-online until the SUM II term at which point we'll know by gating protocol to what degree the Fall will look like. The campus leadership was really pleased with the response readiness of the university personnel and now know we can all convert to fully-online instruction within two-weeks notice. We got $14.5M in Cares Act stimulus the vast majority of which has been directly applied to student assistance with matching funds raised for international and undocumented cohorts. We've also been amongst the speediest at getting this money in the hands of recipients, totaling more than 6,000 applicants, while there are still major university systems across the country that have not yet made distributions to even a 10th of those figures. A lot of our funding was prioritized by the federal government because we're an MMI and HSI - majority-minority and Hispanic-serving institution. Because of that aid, our retention numbers are not as dire as peer institutions; we're currently up year-over-AY for Summer enrollment and nearly even for Fall. However, international enrollment is a chief concern as those students' tuition payments are substantial. Through M&O and hiring freezes, the university was largely able to halt any massive shortages we would have otherwise faced in this pandemic. Only looking at 5% cuts to budgets for AY21. Right now, all planning for mass gatherings are still suspended for the Fall. This could still have large impacts on performance-oriented curriculum such as music, dance, theater, and of course athletics. We also learned on this call that Smatresk has rejoined the roster for the NCAA board of governors and is abiding by their collective decision making and guidelines for Fall sports. He's confident we'll have a football season, but made one line of comment that it could be abridged. He also gave other details about plans for athletics staffing to start re-meeting and eventually seeing students, again starting in July.

Sad I missed this the week-of. Has shades of Fine-to-Bussey to cap off UTSA in 2017.

Aha. The Hennessy connect strikes once more.

Harry– Since a lot of our time lately has been consumed with crossword puzzles, Kim and I loved this one and readily ate it up. Then I got bored last night and decided to make my own. Thanks for the inspo:

Retention of existing students and preventing a massive melt of the incoming class is of major concern to campus leadership right now in this pandemic.

Brees seriously making it look easy, though. Don't know if that's just an awkward pull, but Mason sure looks to be wrapping his head around it.

So again, like I said, until the current dynamic changes... Hit me back when that happens.

Here’s the thing, y’all. It’s not just UNT alums; it’s universal. The current Millennial generation (ages 24-40) has access to something like only 2.9% of the nation’s wealth, and Gen Z behind them is projected to continue that trend. Until that dynamic changes, you’ll likely not see a warm enthusiasm towards any entity that helps accrue personal debt.

Closer to home and getting to be part of an interesting upgrade for the whole UNLV program. The stadium and facilities they’re sharing with the Raiders are nutso advanced.

There is such thing as second eight-weeks registration. A student gets their semester's content shortened to half a semester. Tough, but doable.

I didn't catch who it was, but there's a FB on the Houston team that announcers mentioned was one of our own.

Top end of potential this year.

We tried telling y’all.

Yoooooooooooooo- Emmit, absolute congratulations.

I didn't realize Leblanc is a freshman ..... :internal devious laughter and pity for opponents' offenses ensue:

Just.... wow.

ESPN seems to agree with you concerning LaTech, but still only quick projects CUSA with two wins this bowl season.

True Miami is in a bit of disarray both in the locker room and in schema, and Skip Holtz presents the most formidable challenge from a coaching-view. I still don't see the Canes losing this one, though.