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This was very good again.

"North Texas: where people end up." That's a phrase I heard long ago when I ended up at North Texas State, and I suspect it really still rings true. People go to Texas, or Bama, or A&M, or Georgia, or Michigan, in part for the sporting scene and history. Not all their students, to be sure, but enough that there's a likelihood that the venues will be filled. Most students at UNT are probably not at their first choice school, and definitely aren't at their first choice school if the athletic social scene is a big driver for them. North Texas isn't quite the commuter school it used to be, but the attractions of almost anything else on a Saturday night can't be easily dismissed. Pick up UNT and stick it in East or West Texas, and you'd have more people at the game -- if only because there's nothing else to do.

That's not how conferences work. The commissioner can steer the direction of a conference, throw out ideas, and talk to networks, etc., I'm not saying they are powerless, but it is the members who ultimately vote on things. If they don't like the direction things are going they can tell the commish to come back with something different. It was said that adding WOSU to the MWC would be a 10% bump in revenue at most. They don't want to go to a conference and only make $5M a year, when they were making $21M a year before. They are doing everything in their power to not be seen as a G team, and they need to differentiate themselves from the rest somehow. That's why they wanted to poach the top of both conferences, they are shooting for that $15M a year to say, "Look, we are still above the rest of these teams." It's hubris.

I am submitting a recommendation to name the next dorm after the blowhard clown for his appreciated achievement. Rick

No matter if it was Seth or if it's Eric or if it's whomever is next, it's going to take more than a heater for a few games to get people outside of die hard supporters fired up enough to start showing up to games. Ideally, we'd see three consecutive seasons where we win more than we lose and we look competitive in our losses. The last time we had three consecutive seasons with a winning record was 20 years ago, 2002, 2003, and 2004.