(11-16-2021 11:47 AM)slycat Wrote:  

(11-16-2021 11:25 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(11-16-2021 10:16 AM)slycat Wrote:  Dang, so close to having UTSA and a rival.

Not sure it really would have mattered . . even IF they’d come to The Belt, how long would they have stayed.

For reasons I still can’t fathom (probably leadership, and that’s why I can’t fathom it), that program has a knack for Falling Forward . . .

They’re like an annoying Brother in Law who turns everything he touches into Gold.

UNT is the same. Failing upward.

. . . admittedly I’m biased, but I’d say to a lesser extent. UNT has had recent success in both Football and Basketball (which you can’t say about the Runners).

. . and their Facilities are head and shoulders better than that crap you find on the nUTSAck campus. If they (utsa) weren’t renting the cities Dome for Football, I can’t imagine where they’d play on Saturdays.

I’d say that both schools have experienced their share of growth. I give UNT an appreciable edge in recent success and facilities . . . enough so that their falling forward I get . . . at least more so than nUTSAck . . them, I just scratch my head.

Now if only UNT would restart their Baseball Program . . . .

(11-16-2021 01:07 PM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(11-16-2021 11:47 AM)slycat Wrote:  

(11-16-2021 11:25 AM)Bobcat87 Wrote:  

(11-16-2021 10:16 AM)slycat Wrote:  Dang, so close to having UTSA and a rival.

Not sure it really would have mattered . . even IF they’d come to The Belt, how long would they have stayed.

For reasons I still can’t fathom (probably leadership, and that’s why I can’t fathom it), that program has a knack for Falling Forward . . .

They’re like an annoying Brother in Law who turns everything he touches into Gold.

UNT is the same. Failing upward.

. . . admittedly I’m biased, but I’d say to a lesser extent. UNT has had recent success in both Football and Basketball (which you can’t say about the Runners).

. . and their Facilities are head and shoulders better than that crap you find on the nUTSAck campus. If they (utsa) weren’t renting the cities Dome for Football, I can’t imagine where they’d play on Saturdays.

I’d say that both schools have experienced their share of growth. I give UNT an appreciable edge in recent success and facilities . . . enough so that their falling forward I get . . . at least more so than nUTSAck . . them, I just scratch my head.

Now if only UNT would restart their Baseball Program . . . .

UNT has spent on facilities and basketball is much better. Their football had a couple good years and now UTSA is having their good year. Overall, G5 programs in Texas are....lacking. Houston may have been pretty decent but they spend at a much higher level.

(11-15-2021 10:50 PM)Usajags Wrote:  

(11-15-2021 10:45 PM)TheMackAttack Wrote:  

(11-15-2021 09:49 PM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  Before it was all over 9 CUSA schools reached out- the 3 we added 4 that ended up in the AAC and 2 that remain in CUSA. I was told many times that CUSA schools were practically begging to get out of CUSA

It seems pretty well established that Western Kentucky and Louisiana Tech reached out. That UTEP didn't isn't a surprise, and FIU's administrative negligence is par for the course. Middle Tennessee is surprising though.

FIU administers May have been hoping for a CUSA collapse so they could have an excuse to close up shop.

"May have" or did?