When Will UNT Make a Bowl?
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Spring transfer portal
I disagree. NIL pricing right now is nuts. AState ended up dropping $80,000 on a Colorado QB transfer who played two games and went 0-2 in those games. True freshman went 6-5. Held off some NIL bids to get him into the portal and he's back, basically because his family thinks he can score a much better deal after starting a full year. His number one backup will be a true freshman. You only have so much money to spend and using a money ball philosophy the best buys are offensive linemen, linebackers and strong safeties. So you either get cheap transfers who are cheap for a reason or you sign freshmen and develop them to play the skill positions. Every year a bit over 20% of the people eligible to play football run out of eligibility. Someone has to take freshmen and develop them. A-State has brought in freshman kickers the last two seasons because of the expectation the starting kicker was going to get bought. So he went this year and we will face him at Michigan. A-State can't pay six figures for a placekicker, say we possibly lose eight points over the season, we can't afford to pay $25,000 per point to make up the difference and as the UFL has shown, there are good kickers out there. I 100% believe modern roster building has to include a lot of portal activity but you still have to patch the holes by developing freshmen unless you've got a massive budget and even then the P2 are spending on high school players they project as big contributors. Way I see it, the big losers are jucos. Why would spend much on juco OL when I can get an Ole Miss castoff for just a bit more and they've faced better competition? I'd rather take a WR from Incarnate Word than Blinn because the Incarnate Word kid is getting just as many snaps but playing better competition. -
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Rubin didn’t leave UNT for NIL money
I also heard he couldn't get into Michigan due to grades. They are not known for being lenient towards athletes. -
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A few HSO's
NIL is just a way to make paying players easier and legal. I really don't have too much of a problem with it, except that the stupid portal exists to allow Power schools to buy players from colleges. At North Texas, we will never be able to have guys stay around if they are any good. They know they can play at one of their dream schools AND get paid. With just NIL in place, a G5 setup could still exist. But the portal just kills any chance of having a program sustain itself. And its why I just don't support the sport anymore. Last year, I left it all behind. I watched about 4 games all season, of which 3 were the CFB playoff games because I was at someone's house and they were on. And I haven't felt bad, either. I have my weekends back, all while I enjoy time for other stuff with the family and friends. Those $$$ and hours I spent on CFB now go to other activities that have, quite frankly, provided way more enjoyment. -
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G5s Finally Getting Together......Talking About Their Future
Every generation believes what they grew up is the how it is. Well it isn't and never has been, whole thing is always evolving. Used to be we had 180 schools playing Division I football and a dozen bowl games and depending on where you lived, you might not even get to watch four or five of those games unless your local TV station agreed to carry the Mizlou broadcast. Used to be the only NCAA requirement for a student-athlete to be eligible was that they be enrolled full time. It was the conferences, many with in excess of 20 schools set rules like had to meet some standard of academic progress, the conferences determined what a scholarship could cover and should not. The conferences determined the maximum scholarships that could be awarded. Sure this was back when Montana and Idaho were in what is now the Pacific-2 but it happened. Well things are changing. The Big Ten and SEC have just almost collected every high TV value school in the nation. They are in a crack over litigation about their agreement to cap compensation rather than allowing the market to determine value. It sounds like they are offering to commit something like $15 million to $20 million per school to compensate athletes. Maybe they lump it all up on the stars, maybe they just pass it out to everyone on the roster. If they spread it to everyone then making the 105 roster at Texas might be worth $50,000 a year to a walk-on. That's before NIL money. Right now there's no real money in Big Ten and SEC saying abracadabra AAC, MAC, Sun Belt, MWC, CUSA go away into another division. No right now the benefit is for them to remain FBS and say see it's a free market, we aren't monopolizing it because those leagues have bowl agreements and tv deals and they can play their way into the CFP. We are complying with antitrust laws. -
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Rubin didn’t leave UNT for NIL money
When all is said and done, I wonder if it will be more rewarding to be connected to the history and tradition that someone else created or be connected to the history and tradition you helped create yourself?
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