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  1. My hypothetical assumed that all home games would be in Denton and UAB as a decent G5 team. Also I count only 6 road games as the Kansas game is at worse a “neutral site” game hundreds of miles from Kansas in DFW. And the Idaho State game would be swapped with maybe a team like New Mexico, UTEP, Tulsa, Tulane or La Tech, as Idaho State plays FCS now.
  2. Converting College Football to a post season ESPN TV event. 🤦🏽‍♂️. It isn’t going to work out like they think it will. It will make 70% of regular season games completely irrelevant. And that 70% will include a lot of regular season games in the super conferences. I point at College Basketball regular season as a cautionary story. A few hard core fans of mid majors will still watch regular season games. But most fans aren’t hard core for any program including the “Blue Bloods”. What does Northwestern vs Purdue even mean if neither of them can get first or second place in the Big 10? They aren’t going to the Big 10 title game. And even if one of them is a playoff “wildcard” chances are pretty good they will rematch OSU, Michigan, or Penn State on the road and get blown out. Contrast that with about 25 years ago. A high rank Purdue vs high rank Northwestern regular season game had “playoff” atmosphere. Because the winner would be in contention for a great bowl and Big 10 title just by going on and maybe lucking out and getting Michigan/OSU at home and beating them. Now who knows if they will even get to play one of the top 3 ranked teams in their conference in 2024? It’s stupid.
  3. If only we could financially pull off football independence and schedule like this today.
  4. @greenjoe perfect response to @jtm0097 comment. Old Denton culture inside the Athletic Department is a cancer that spreads to new employees. The transition from Wren Baker, Seth Littrell and Conference USA is endemic of that. I am not even sure who the AD answers to and what kind of power that person is allowed to wield. I think that is huge part of the problem. Because during this period of time the school moved like it didn’t have a long term plan bigger than the AD, football head coach and conference we happen to be in/going to. I think that where Coach Mac may have misjudged this university’s commitment to big long term goals. Here is where the rubber meets the road; I can’t market free tickets to my friends because when their dismal record over the last 2 decades is brought up in response to my invitation there is very little I can point to except the now not so new Apogee/DATCU stadium.
  5. I am engineering grad. NONE of my classmates attended games while in school nor have I seen any of them at games as alumni except maybe at a random homecoming over the past 20 years. Students would be foolish to come here expecting good football and basketball (men's or women's). Stop blaming the "customer" for the earned reputation of putting out a bad product. That is why find it comical that so many scoffed at the mere suggestion that school pursue a Coach like Deion Sanders before he left for Colorado. The attention of the pursuit alone would make an impact on the perception of the program. Just like Cowboys fans are super skeptical of "All In" when you don't even call one of the best running backs in the league to gauge his interest when he lives in DALLAS and your team needs a RB to support your QB.
  6. OL quality as a squad is more about the weakest link rather than the best individual lineman. I don't agree with @3_n_out but it certainly possible if all the individual lineman are best than the worst lineman in the squad last year. And if the offense is 60% pass vs 40% run or if is closer to 50/50 with a zone blocking run scheme that makes the weakest link more important vs strongest link. It is great to have a monster like Larry Allen, Eric Williams, or Travis Fredick. But it you aren't scheming to run behind him their impact can be limited when the best pass rusher on the opposition just moves to go at weaker offensive lineman. So many unknowns about this coming season it hard to be excited or pessimistic about it. I just wish this was year 3 of our new coach instead of year 2.
  7. You're right and that was the collimation of a season 1/2 of good football. But these are all good ideas that should maximize the possible engagement that the on the field performance makes possible. I speculate a7-5 program with all/most of these intiatives implemented will get 20,000 in home game attendance but the same team with that support may barely top 16,000 fans.
  8. You are probably correct. Because i would think minimum due diligence of a NIL leader would involve only signing contract AFTER they enrolled, on an athletic scholarship or officially on the roster.
  9. You are in complete an utter denial. ESPN nor any other distributer is really interested in GOR other than a means to control cost on the rights to air game featuring brands that bring fans. That isn't SMU or the lesser brands in any of the conferences. All the schools thar were the last to get into a P4 lifeboat are in danger of being excluded when the big divide inevitably happens. And it is inevitable unless a major ruling in pending court cases make an elite semi-pro CFB league unpalatable to media distributers and the big brands they want.
  10. You should know money talks and BS walks. What happens if ESPN call the lower value ACC team’s bluff and tell you that letting FSU go will make them happy? You don’t want to piss off the ultimate sugar daddy. ESPN- Tell you what ACC irrelevants and your cabin boy SMU; you can either divide up your portion of the remainder of the promised revenue now and go away or the next contract we offer your school will be cents on the dollar. Mind you in the meantime until your contract run out we are going to put as many of your games on at bad time slots and behind a paywall and show your real independent value without us. Rememberthe money is coming from the distributors and advertising on the games. Hurting and restricting FSU, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Miami, and North Carolina is bad for viewership numbers.
  11. Wow, the delusion is worse than I thought. Unfortunately this isn’t about students or academics at all. It is about how much a media distribution outlet win pay to air your games. For SMU since the death penalty that has been G5 level. Otherwise SMU wouldn’t been the last G5 team to find P4 lifeboat they had to pay an entrance fee to get into. ESPN isn’t happy they are getting SMU games as a part of their package. And if and when any of those teams you listed leave the ACC they will NOT consider SMU an on par replacement.
  12. This is a completely delusional position. 😂 The message is that small schools, that don’t win big once in a while and don’t have large fan bases aren’t revenue generators. Having your large donors essentially pay the other schools in the conference for right to be in the conference established a precedent that SMU doesn’t have value to the elite athletic brand schools.
  13. Also have you heard that the playoff committee is considering not granting SMU a P4 share of CFP revenue. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/sources-cfp-may-withhold-added-revenue-from-smu-despite-power-five-move/ar-AA1mvYqa
  14. Couldn't agree more but "leadership" has put themselves in the position where they can rarely say no. Chiefly because they almost never said no to anything if the check was large enough. Moreover Div 1 NCAA institutions have been happy to screw over their peers for the biggest check. Absolutely no financial hardship reason for the richest schools in FBS to leave their regional conferences. The greed and lack of loyalty is now two way street that everyone in revenue college sports has access to now.
  15. That is the mindset of the schools every time conference alignment and scheduling comes up. Every school not in Big 10 or SEC would leave traditional rivals to join one of the those conferences behind. No consideration of the the hardship maintaining academic eligibility while regularly traveling over 3-4 time zones during the week for games. Stanford and Cal in an East Coast conference. UCF and Arizona in the same conference garbage.
  16. DING DING. That why I push back so hard on those with the opinion demonizing the players and NIL. The guys playing today enjoying NIL don’t remember classic Bowl games that were more than just named for a product. They don’t remember classic Big 10 vs PAC 10 Rose Bowls. They don’t remember guys running around with Roses or Oranges looking ecstatic to be in a Bowl game. Every time schools/conference got to a decision tradition vs more money they chose more money. As a whole you can not tell me that a four team playoff after the bowl games would have resulted in more money for EVERYONE than a 12 team playoff. That EVERYONE is the problem. You can’t make decisions as independent entities in a league at the long term expense of the sport and expect not to harm your own program in the long term. Almost everyone in the media is late preaching caution and doom. The formation of BCS was the last chance they had to get off this dead end cut throat greed but they chose greed.
  17. Yes I love watching big play, “let it fly” offenses but not so much for my team because our program has never shown it could have that type of offense and good defense to go with it. The Murphy Twins defense with Mason at his peak here is as close as we got. Mason could not stay healthy and I may be wrong but it seems like having all 3 of them healthy was rare.
  18. Yes it is all crap shoot for QB. The physical tools only go so far at the position of quarterback. Landing transfers on the defensive side of the ball at this point is far more important. Because right now we know for certain a few players that already had experience when Caponi got here just won’t be able to cut it in his scheme. But I think his scheme is garbage, but that doesn’t matter because they chose to roll with him at DC. If we can get a quarterback of defense that is successful, that is a one year rental like our QB was, that arguably could make a bigger impact than Rogers did.
  19. Was it an “anti-trust” ruling or “pro labor” ruling. You cannot morally square everyone in revenue generating sports being free agents for the highest bidder and not treat players essentially the same way. They could have circumvented this expected outcome by giving recruits irrevocable 4 year scholarships (except in the cases of 2 semesters of ineligibility or violation of student conduct rules). They didn’t. The large profitable programs wanted a captive labor force they could control. That was never going to stand long term to legal challenges.
  20. I am not salty at him at all. But he is just an ordinary coach nothing special at all. The record is what it is. Nothing special, not horrible but nothing special. How he performed is what I expect BARE MINIMUM from any coach given the resources relative to his conference peers. He CONSISTENTLY came up short. And many times those conferences peers operating with less out coached him. That is just the fact. So I remember 1-11 but it is not some monumental accomplishment to go 7-6 given all the resources to be better than that. Decent man, consummate, professional but that should be standard for any coach who gets an FBS head coaching job. I appreciate that he did not leave the program in shambles.
  21. I didn’t log a response because they very valid opinions. I wouldn’t call him a bad head coach but absolutely ordinary. Never understood the confidence in him viewing his resume before he got here. And I think we will see what he really is an OC next season.
  22. Fundamentally it is all a farce legally. Once the NCAA lost control of television contracts in 1984 they lost financial control of the biggest revenue source outside donations going directly to the schools. That was when the NCAA should have been proactive creating better transfer rules and a NIL system. They’ve let the financial hypocrisy buildup so long since 1984 that once the dam broke it was bound to be a ton of collateral damage. SMU was a canary in the coal mine sacrificing a small private school program knowing full well they would NEVER do it the blue blood programs if they were caught doing the same thing. The NCAA is controlled by the big brand programs not vice versa. As soon as an NCAA president has the courage to implement anything for the good of the whole that hampers the elite they either be fired or a lawsuit from some of the member institutions is forthcoming.
  23. Not likely. Even a 50k NIL game check for top players headed to the NFL isn’t worth risking millions for an exhibition game. What will Cheez-It Bowl swag mean when the game is no longer called that or doesn’t even exist in the schedule.
  24. That would be the death knell to anything resembling what we had before NIL. Labor laws become in full effect. A players union may start, minimum salaries, family healthcare coverage and other considerations become financial burdens. Coaches would have to take pay cuts at most programs or ticket prices raised significantly. Raising ticket prices is not a good option because attendance isn’t just a problem at G5 programs. A lot of FBS just leaves because they can’t sustain that financial model and the other sports they want to sponsor in NCAA. The decision makers for the bowl games created this issue by following the same “survival of the fittest” bottom line at every step in their development through the years. Most bowls gave up their traditional names, venues, dates, conference tie-ins and etc when enough cash was flashed at them. Then you had the BCS reducing the value of all the bowls not in the NY6 BCS agreement. The best thing for EVERYONE at the time was a 4 team playoff AFTER all the traditional bowls were played. Go look up the history. In EVERY year there was controversy (not involving an high ranked team ineligible for post season play due to NCAA rules violations) a 4 team playoff after the bowls would have settled everything with zero controversy except maybe bad calls in the games themselves. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Look at this year. How many players sit out from the top 8-10 ranked teams in Bowl games if they know by winning their bowl game they could be selected for the playoff? Not many. Their goal as players is to play for championships, get their education, and/or get to the NFL. Playing in a meaningless bowl does not assist that endeavor in any way if their games have been on TV every week of the regular season. The casual FBS fan base that will watch bowl games with no impact on playoff participation or not an actual playoff game isn’t very big. So if you want them to play for your entertainment exclusively, then they should directly get compensated from the same funding pool the TV and ticket sale money goes into not just NIL.
  25. 😄 is that is actual footage of SMU fans trying to figure out how to escape from gomeangreen.com?
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