DentonStang

Who the hell knows. SMU is totally neurotic on what team shows up.

None of us will say we "earned it" through on field results. It's not 100% accurate to say we bought our way in, as if, say, Boise offered to take no money they still aren't getting in - geography , facilities, academics, etc., but yeah it's totally about the money. That's the thing, the fantasy that conference upgrades are about performance is limiting you and the rest of the G5. It's like saying your company's CEO is the boss purely through merit. It's not. He can't be a buffoon, but you can't ignore that he got his degree from SMU with the son of the company founder. He had connections. There is more than one path and it isn't about meritocracy.

You mean like Rutgers who joined the big 10 the year after having a losing record in the AAC? Or Colorado joining the PAC with Utah despite not sniffing a winning record in many years? (Yes they came from B12 but still an upgrade) Or Louisville in 2014 coming after two good seasons, only one of which was winning the American, and a whole lot of very average in the Big East before that?

Well that's ridiculous. P5 is, and always has been, entirely about money and luck. Most did not earn anything and perception of being a 'worthy' P5 is largely historical. The only difference between Texas Tech and UNT is playing UT and A&M every year for 100 years.

It won't be 2036, but 3 years from now isn't substantially different from now.

Lol all of those teams, including UNT, would love to schedule a game with a local P3 team. TCU doesn't have issues scheduling.

Hey, Virginia is awful!

Looks like the SMU-UNT game is done. SMU released their 2024 conference schedule as well as OOC being Houston Christian, TCU, BYU

Spending time in Iraq and Afghanistan makes going to Denton a little more palatable, I'm sure.

What is the appeal of Army if you don't get the army Navy game, the game that generates all the money?

UNT offense looking vastly improved

Temple is...... Not good. They managed zero 3rd or 4th down conversions and only 131 yards of offense even with our backups in at least the whole 4th quarter I know they are hurting with Kurt Warner's son being out, but Temple would still be bad with Kurt Warner himself playing

Sure, on a macro level. Ohio State is not getting stuck on a crappy channel because they are a huge draw and SMU is not drawing what they drew no matter the channel. Nobody would debate that. But look at the same teams playing every week on different channels. You're going to have a lot less viewers on ESPNU than main ESPN. You can lump all teams into a few buckets of viewership, and everyone on the same bucket will get wildly varying viewership, but due to channel/time not individual team. You can pretty much put all G5 in one bucket. I'll highlight some bad SMU numbers to demonstrate. Week 5 SMU vs Charlotte 18k viewers on ESPNU. Wow. Nobody watched this game. Week 7 SMU vs ECU 467k viewers on ESPN. Since nobody watched the week 5 SMU game, I guess ECU was responsible for 440k viewers then? Then where were those ECU fans for ECU vs Marshall which only had 90k viewers on....you guessed it..... ESPNU. This doesn't even consider timeslot either. You can do the same thing with upper confidence teams too. Look at B12 games on Fox vs FS1 or B10 games on ABC vs any other channel.

35-24 Tulane

Viewers is largely driven by channel and time outside the top handful of schools. No reason to read much into it

You are on crack. NIL is the great leveler. Yes, you'll never spend with Ohio State. But you'll never compete with them before NIL. But if you'd organize your bazillion alumni you could jump up dramatically from where your are now

If you need to expand concessions there's someone in this board that can help you

We went through this with the Allen Stadium which was a newsworthy pricetag at the time. What never got reported is that the stadium included multisport weight rooms, multisport facilities like wrestling rooms, a data center, etc. enabling converting the old facilities into classrooms. It was essentially a high school expansion with seats on top, and quite economical when you consider that. I would assume something similar is happening in Prosper, but I don't know for sure because it's easier to just report outrage vs a balanced view.

This is investment money. ACC football means we collect even more NIL money to pay to athletes from largely low income families. Unlike UNT, our football program could be thought of as a 7 figure charity operation.

You can't tell me you can't come up with just 100 people with $1M. They just aren't motivated properly

Next $100M is mostly raised to cover the second half of our no revenue period in AAC

https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/09/15/gj-kinne-texas-state-bobcats-roster-overhaul-win-baylor

Worked for Texas State

The top 10 is not parity, but overall transfers have increased parity. Look at all the upsets all across football the last two weeks. I'm not sure if it will affect the top 10-15 teams or not, but everyone else is coming closer together

I recommend NIL and transfers