Meangreen Fight

If you are going to a significantly higher rated academic institution than the school you are transferring from that would make sense. The likes of James Madison and Abilene Christian aren't propelling your career post football better than North Texas. I don't fault any player for transferring from G5 to SEC.

Got the time wrong took a late afternoon nap. I was planning to stay out till 1:00 am. 🤷🏽‍♂️

No the shift is all about still making you pay & watch commercials for a whole lot of content you don't want for part you do want. People are not paying more for less on average. NFL games that would likely be on cable or free will now be on Paramount+ full of content I don't want. So now I will miss those games just like I missed this North Texas game because I overslept and the nearest watch party was over 45 minutes away not counting parking and walking to the venue. Before streaming this game would be on ESPN Game plan giving you essentially all the midmajor CFB you wanted. Any sports bar in the area even Chilli's would likely had this game on. I went to 3 late even the Boomer Jacks a watch party was held last year, no luck.

No so much ugly as it is unpractical. I just want them to stick to a version of our helmet logo for a decade. You can switch between green, white, and black (please limit the use of black). But either keep the Texas shape around it all the time or stop using on the helmets 100% of the time. My favorite helmets of all time are the Flying Worm helmets. There also an interlocking modern fat/bold font NT helmets that are fan mock up I love. RV kind of had the right idea of fostering brand recognition just chose the wrong branding.

The 20 number only makes sense if you are certain that is was media partners will want AND that would mean significantly more per team in the conference. Big 12 contract runs out in 2031. I think the 2029-30 ratings for Big 12 regular season games will be the primary driving factor determining the bids they receive for an extension. I think we will see a decline in ratings after the newness of the playoff. Barring one the legacy Big 12 teams winning it all and getting to the final 4 in other years I expect that regular season viewership to decline or not grow at rate that make Fox, ESPN, or whoever hand over more money per team that outpaces inflation. Regardless all of this is infuriating. We just need a model where 50% of all media distribution revenue group of 100 maximum FBS schools. These greedy hacks leading all these changes aren’t growing to sport. They are taking short term maximum payout at the expense of long term stability and growth. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Throwing money at basketball hoping to be a powerhouse sounds like the SMU Football plan. As a cautionary note I heard that UConn Athletic Department has been operating with a +40 million dollar budget deficit the last couple years.

The green light to “talk” is a big difference from having the framework for deal that makes sense for all the teams involved. Like I said if an addition of a team that isn’t a convenient travel destination doesn’t add you your athletic bottom line way more than the travel cost what is the up side? Hoping a media partner values UConn Football at some point in the future isn’t a plan it is a dream. The dream of “capturing” the Northeast market makes sense on paper. But without lineup shakeup with existing teams, I don’t see a media partner excited for a Big 12 with 18 or more teams.

Good point but was than Fine just adjusting to the speed of the game and better offensive line play? Also Muscle mass grows for all healthy young men training properly from ages 18-21. I argue every successful college football player improves from in their first 2 years barring injuries. I saw normal good improvement for Fine Y1 to Y2. I think it was just more impressive given his height, our pathetic recent history at the QB position and improved offensive line protection. He got murdered in the backfield his first year, hard to display arm strength and accuracy consistently when you running for your life every 3 snaps.

But I don’t see how adding UConn Football at any point in the future adds value in the eyes of a media partner. They will need to rattle off 3 consecutive 9-win or more seasons and knock off some ranked P4 teams along the way to be a football value add for the Big 12. If I am an AD with good football program and mediocre basketball program you cannot sell me UConn without a big and LONG TERM increase to my school’s share of the yearly media payout. All the PAC 12 refugees & BYU will vote no. Kansas, Texas Tech and Houston might vote yes. I don’t see the value any for any other program west of the Mississippi. So you being the most optimistic you have 6 votes out of 16. Bret is going to have to wait till the ACC loses FSU & Clemson or gets them a lot closer to the money they want. ACC defectors outside of maybe Wake Forest and SMU will always be more attractive than UConn to the Big 12.

Don’t let facts get in the way of dreams. A Sweet 16 appearance and a last second lost to a blue blood basketball program at MINIMUM is the only thing that will move the needle here. And the program would have to follow that up, retain those players/head coach, and win a NCAA tournament game the following year.

Maybe a regular top 10 team if you don’t have 25 years of elite basket basketball history. Regular season basketball is not a media revenue generator for any program not on par with UConn historically. Conference Tournaments are the only significant revenue generator for all the basketball teams that don’t have multiple titles or multiple Final Four appearances. I don’t see how adding I would like to run an informal poll:. In the past 10 years if you have watched a regular season basketball game without North Texas in it and before the season gets to late January, give me a RV vote. (Less than 30 minutes straight while channel scrolling doesn’t count) If you have watched multiple per the previous description, give me a downvote If you haven’t watched any given the previous description but have watched multiple games after January 20 and before the NCAA tournament give me a thumbs up. If you only watch post season tournament games or games in which UNT is ranked or playing a ranked team give me a trophy 🏆 vote. I expect most people will like or give me a trophy vote.

More athletic potential than Fine. But Fine arrived as a nearly finished product. Even with Bean’s game management limitations the game plan could have been simplified to get better results. If you can dominate FBS with Tim Tebow’s limitations as a passer in a spread formation offense, you should be able to win consistently with a physical talent like Bean against G5 with the horses we had in the backfield at that time. Fine was unquestionably better but a College Coach should be able to develop a player with the gifts Bean had into something even more successful than Fine was.

A lot depends on the revenue/TV viewing projections Stanford and Cal after their first 2 years in the ACC. My Prediction: After the novelty wears out media executives will start accepting that competitive football & rivalries drive regular season football ratings; their appetite for huge contracts with super-conferences will diminish. The SEC & Big 10 will either have to trim the fat or go to a permanent unequal revenue sharing model insuring the conference heavyweight brands get the most money regardless of their on the field performance. I don't think Cal, Stanford and schools in similar situations are prepared to do that and incur the logistics cost of the worst travel schedules in all of College Sport. A restructured Pac 12 with OSU, WSU, Stanford, and Cal would be at the core.

Those rumors are absolutely ridiculous. Without additional changes that would make the transfer a significant financial win for all big brand members of those conferences, it has no chance in hell of happening. Any source putting out these kind of rumors without extensive supporting evidence isn't worth wasting your time on. Comic books are more entertaining and slightly less realistic in this case. 😂

For me it is in response to people defending his mediocre 0 conference titles and 0 bowl game wins like he was great and did us a favor by coaching here get a salary within top 10% of G5 coach salary. That defense is indictive of fans and alumni making far too many excuses for leadership of this program. This program had no qualms about throwing out a head coach with conference titles and a bowl win, after a couple bad seasons that you could partially blame on his health problems (heart attack) and losing the heir apparent starting QB in traffic accident. That coach had the audacity to point out the serious short comings when it came to institutional support for Mean Green Football. He won at the dump that was the last 10 years in the life of Fouts Field. This program will never win the fan support it needs to be stable until 0.500 against FBS competition is consistently met. So the history of not our team not meeting that standard is irrelevant if we want a positive future for Mean Green Football. A 0.500 Mean Green program will never sellout our staduim but it will kept from less than 1/2 full.