[Do facilities really matter anymore?]

To answer the original question, I think facilities only really matter if you don’t have them. An indoor facility is pretty much an indoor facility. I can’t imagine very many recruiting battles are won or lost because one indoor facility is “better” than the next, but a recruiting battle might be won or lost because you have one or don’t have one. I do think facilities have slid down on the importance level from even a few years ago though.

[Do facilities really matter anymore?]

5 hours ago, JT Hammons said:

Once they move NIL back into the athletic department the tax deduction will return.

I’ll be curious to see how that plays out. I feel like the IRS objection is going to still be there when donations to schools is still to directly pay athletes. You already can’t deduct donations tied to seat benefits. I don’t see how this is going to be deductible.

[Jared Mosely upset and rightfully so]

Just now, NT80 said:

How much did Big?12 make in that same time period?    Oh, he didn’t bother with that info…

I have the same question. Also, is CFP revenue included in that NCAA number?

[Jared Mosely upset and rightfully so]

8 minutes ago, Ross Hodgeson said:

 

That major madness take is laughable at best. 

[Social Media Posts]

Yeah, that looks like the recruit grabbed those pictures. That’s not coming from the school.

[House vs NCAA settlement getting closer; step toward stability?]

45 minutes ago, wardly said:

What about academic scholarships?

Are student fees being used to cover academic scholarships?

[House vs NCAA settlement getting closer; step toward stability?]

15 hours ago, NT80 said:

bringing athlete compensation in-house

I'm so curious if this could eventually be the straw that breaks the back of mandatory student fees. It already feels rotten that you're requiring one student to pay for another student to go to school. Now, student-athletes are not only going to get school paid for but also get paid for NIL. It just doesn't feel sustainable that way either. I expect regular students to start pushing back at some point.

[Do we rent out the IPF?]

I sure would hope so.

[Morris signals it is over]

6 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

You really think the average Alabama fan is anymore committed to sports than the average NT fan?

Honestly, yes. I think the average Alabama fan commits more of their personal resources and time to supporting the team than the average NT fan.

6 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

That is the exact opposite of your expressed point that it is somehow the fault of the administration, students or alumni that schools like NT can't compete.

I feel like our revenue numbers prove that the commitment just isn’t great.

That’s a reflection of administration decisions (dropping to I-AA “lack of commitment to athletics”), general lack of interest from students (“lack of commitment to athletics”), and general lack of financial support from fans (as you even mentioned “lack of commitment to athletics”).

6 hours ago, GrandGreen said:

Most D1 schools are dependent on school and student funds to even field football teams.

Forcing a tax on students is not “commitment”

[Morris signals it is over]

Morris didn't say anything that most of us haven't already said or felt. Quite frankly, what he said has been true for a lot longer than many of us want to admit. Our lack of commitment to athletics (whether you want to blame it on administration, students, alumni, or realistically all of the above) has set us back and has been an issue for years. It still hasn't changed, and it's going to continue to come back to bite us for years to come. There has to be a clear divide at some point, even though I would argue there's been a fuzzy divide for a long time. It's just a matter of time at this point that it becomes crystal clear. We are not going to be in the top tier of that divide. Our stakeholders (I use this broadly and there are clear exceptions) have made that choice over however many years now. It's just going to finally come to a head.

[Are G5 Programs Being Raided by P4?]

P4? LOL 

[2024 Coaching Caravan locales, dates and times announced]

[Texas Tech season tickets sold out this year]

On 5/1/2024 at 5:08 PM, UNTLifer said:

I am worn out hearing from Joey McGuire, Kirby Hocutt and the Red Raider Club on the radio and television.

Man, I would love to hear people say this about Mosley and Morris!

[2024 Coaching Caravan locales, dates and times announced]

2 hours ago, Zeleny' Orel said:

Think it would be a good idea to add stops in Central Texas, East Texas, West Texas, and Oklahoma to those already planned to extend our footprints to new areas.

Generally, I would agree with you, but we would need to commit a lot more resources to marketing and promoting those areas before I’d take our head coaches there. Just a few short years ago, I went to the one in Fort Worth and there were maybe 20 people there outside of athletic, university, and alumni association staff members, and of those 20 probably 10 were people who came down from Denton. I can’t imagine how disappointing it is as a head coach to show up to those kind of events with the lack of support.

I kind of wish they’d find a way to incorporate some musical group like the Eli Young Band to help drum up interest in these. We need to find some kind of “hook” for these events to build these up.

[The Biggest Blowout Lost for Every Texas FBS Football Team]

Did they ever find them?

[Best BBQ in each Texas college football town]

On 4/15/2024 at 7:12 PM, Cr1028 said:

According to whom? I’ve worked for in Austin and lived in the greater Austin area for over 15 years and I have never heard of Interstellar BBQ.

I think Texas Monthly ranked them #2 in Texas last year. You should definitely go try it. It's definitely in my Top 5 I've ever had. They're still pretty new in the BBQ world. I want to say they only opened the storefront in 2019, but I could be wrong.

[Lesser Reasons for Transferring]

I'd add that they see it modeled that you move on when you have a "better opportunity" even if they're only at a school a year or two. It's what their coaches do, it's what the administrators at the schools do, etc. The days of coaches/ADs spending their entire career at just a few schools is pretty much over.

[Season Ticket Change]

50 minutes ago, greenminer said:

But here is someone that questions our ability to accurate count seats in a football stadium.

Not questioning our ability to count seats. I’ve just been around enough construction projects in my career to realize sometimes things just get messed up. I remember there being some club seats they said were on the drawings that ended up just not being there when DATCU opened despite being on all the drawings. There’s a reason home inspectors find things missing or installed incorrectly in new home builds.

[Season Ticket Change]

I'm sure they know how many seats are supposed to be installed, but with construction/renovation you just never know until it's done. Since they're re-seating the area, it makes sense to me to wait until they're installed and you can see and touch them to make sure. Could you imagine if they ran into something unexpected and a row is short a seat yet they already assigned seats for that row?

[Stone Earle deserves to be the starter]

Care to elaborate on why you think he deserves to be the starter?

[Congratulations to Andy McNulty]

16 hours ago, Marty said:

That doesn’t look like our Andy Mac.

It also doesn’t appear to be his wife

[SMU People Doing SMU Things]

GMG loves them some SMU threads

[NIL Estimate]

It’s not surprising in the least that our NIL $’s would lag behind the AAC. We are pretty pedestrian in every revenue category (donations, ticket sales, etc.).

[QB commit - Chandler Morris - transfer from TCU]

10 minutes ago, DeepGreen said:

  We're going neck and neck with Tx State-San Marcos?  That's just sad.

Is it though? They hired his dad.

[Was at the game last night]

Bahaha… Just couldn’t help yourself?