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Which sport is more important to UNT?


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Which sport is more important to UNT?  

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  1. 1. Which sport is more important to UNT?

    • Football
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    • Men's Hoops
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1 hour ago, Green Crazy said:

Football makes more money.

Stick 8,000 to 9,000 in the Pit for every home game.  Win a couple of games in the NCAA tournament and get a second CUSA team in The Dance and it could push football as a revenue producer.

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The answer is obvious but as Mac continues to build the basketball program, I hope the student section at the Pit will continue to grow, like it has at Apogee since Littrell took over. I know we need to focus on recruiting the best players, but maybe the Admissions office should also launch some campaigns targeted at high schools in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, etc. to build our population of students interested in basketball.

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4 hours ago, Matt from A700 said:

The answer is obvious but as Mac continues to build the basketball program, I hope the student section at the Pit will continue to grow, like it has at Apogee since Littrell took over. I know we need to focus on recruiting the best players, but maybe the Admissions office should also launch some campaigns targeted at high schools in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, etc. to build our population of students interested in basketball.

Matt we have academic standards and too few goats to lure those Kentucky students. Plus they are all busy redshirting to get that fifth year of high school eligibility. 

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I think there will always be people the want football to be the most important, because this is Texas and all the hype that sport carries here.  However CUSA is not a great football conference, in which our program is barely above average, one big game against SMU and sometimes an invite to play at a power5 school.  From the outside looking in, UNT's football program is barely on anyone's radar in college football.

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, El Paso Eagle said:

Like the idea of a "smaller" venue. Example - WAC school GCU has a nice 7,00 seat. Bigger is not always better

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Totally agree. I went to see us play at Rice right before the quarantine and really liked sitting close. The Pit is awful when its mostly empty.

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One could make the argument basketball is more important to the success of the Univ. I don’t see UNT taking away FB recruits from Texas, Aggy, TCU Baylor TTECH Houston even SMU maybe...I just don’t see it.  How long have we recruited against these Texas schools and when will we see results?  Same struggle year after year after year...but bball however...too bad we had some success overshadowed by Houston and Baylor and Oral Robert’s...if we can make the tournament more consistently is more important than playing in a bowl and getting beat.  

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