DentonStang

Correct. Bad? No. Particularly good? Also no. Very..... Meh.

There are multiple income streams. Media contract is one (the biggest) but there is also bowl revenue, playoff, NCAA tournament, and others that flow through conferences.

This will ultimately lead to a much better situation for a tiny sliver of athletes and destroy the opportunity of the vast majority entirely

No

What, like Annapolis, Philadelphia, Tampa......

We're making more as ACC members while foregoing that revenue than we were making in the AAC. Anyone in the AAC SHOULD be desperate enough to take that deal, so yes, we were desperate. But it's not a financially bad move.

1. Anyone still posting on ponyfans is a nut 2. If done right such a tournament could be good for everyone

Told you.

On the contrary, sir. They should be quite proud that we've managed to go from historically, record-shatteringly bad last year to just streaky midling-bad in a SINGLE YEAR!

But the conference is pretty weak other than a couple teams, such as this one.

I hope, but am not very confident, that you are right. Because if you are not right, next year will be very very painful for SMU.

Hate to rain on y'all parade but...... We are not very good.

If your D is too big you can't penetrate very deeply.

Given what I've seen from UNT alumni around Denton, I'd have to think you have many UNT associated breweries who could make several beers. Even SMU has a beer.

None, at least not systemic in the program like that. There's specific do's and don't 's that you can follow to meet the LETTER of the rules. The spirit of the rules are another matter, but also irrelevant. I wonder if an ACC team set them up to torpedo their conference destruction dreams.

It's not about the money, it's if you are technically following the rules, which we are. Everyone knows a coach can't deliver a player to a booster. That's just sloppy. Plus the player declared for the portal, visited FSU for an offer, then left the portal taking no NIL? That's an obvious setup. Someone wanted to get FSU, set them up, then ratted them out. My guess is retaliation for excessive tampering.

I can't believe any school would do such dirty underhanded tactics!

The coach has always answered to boosters. At successful schools they were already making payments. NIL does nothing except bring things into the open and democratize it. The transfer rules are the more disruptive portion. NIL without free transfer wouldn't look anything like this. Free transfer with no NIL would still be chaotic, maybe a little less because the G5 level isn't really paying under the table but players still want to go where they can be successful.

Soul, morals, ethics; all things the weak use to feel better about their position. Pure Nietzschean slave morality.

Dignity is just another negotiation term

I'd say it's the open transfer rules generally. While some transfer just for money, good programs can pay their people what the are worth. Most transfers are for play time because they are doomed to backup status where they are. Or they don't like the coach etc.

I rarely take direct shots at UNT, but I do expect to take some. But I'd hope they would be better shots based on things UNT does better than SMU. Like clowning our pathetic stadium concessions or our abject failure of a bball program.

NIL is not the cause for opt outs

This is a running theme on here. Make fun of SMU losing to a team that went 6-6 in the ACC. Pretend UNT didn't lose to teams with worse records in both AAC and CUSA. Make fun of SMU for bad attendance. Pretend UNT doesn't have worse attendance with vastly more students & alumni (and a better home schedule this year too). All the ways you make fun of us actually makes more fun of yourself. Bizarre.

We lost, clearly, but it wasn't a whoopin', we were leading into the 4th quarter, and it was competitive by both sides throughout. Not like, say, UNT vs bowl eligibility requirements, which was a straight whoopin'.