Big news — DaMarcus Smith eligible

Very happy for Mr. Smith. Kudos to him and his support team.

GMG

Best news I've heard all day. Now on to learning the offense.

I really want to be excited, but with our recent history of transfers I'm hesitant.

“He is way behind Andrew McNulty, obviously,” McCarney said of Smith.

Mac is making it harder and harder for me to defend him. If he is OBVIOUSLY way behind McNulty why would you bring him in??

I really want to be excited, but with our recent history of transfers I'm hesitant.

He's already here, and he's eligible now.

Get ready Mr. McNulty, your grip on the starting position has already begun to slip. Practice harder so you can get better, so you can actually provide some sort of challenge to Mr. Smith this Fall.

If Dan McCarney starts McNulty in one game this season he should be kicking rocks immediately following the finale of what will almost certainly be a losing season.

Damarcus Smith will be a fine CUSA level QB. He has all the tools to be really good and he is now eligible to showcase his talents. This is and will probably be the most exciting news of the offseason. GMG

$100 bucks says Mac starts McNulty

I would love to see him start day 1, but he's got to prove it.

This is good news but I feel the only chance he had to be a day 1 starter depended on him being eligible for spring.

I don't think so. I think Mac is feeling a little pressure and winning is what he's paid to do. Hopefully ego doesn't prevail in the fall because it sure isn't going to be talent coming from AM. Possibly the best QB UNT has had in quite some time just became eligible, this is exciting news.

its now up to chico to get this guy up to speed and put him in situations where he looks good enough to get mac to buy in to the offense.

shouldnt be too hard. he sold mac on greer and got him 3 games.

He is way behind Andrew McNulty, obviously, McCarney said of Smith.

Mac is making it harder and harder for me to defend him. If he is OBVIOUSLY way behind McNulty why would you bring him in??

I'm not Mac's biggest fan, but in his defense he signed Damarcus thinking he would be eligible in January. Edited May 18, 2015 by BillySee58

Well he'll need to adapt.

"Those struggles were a key reason the Mean Green struggled in a 4-8 campaign.

UNT scored 21 or fewer points in seven games last season, when the Mean Green finished 4-8. UNT won just one of those games."

I can't remember Brett, what was our record last season?

I pray out of the 25 QBs we can find 1 quality player. Last year was so pathetic. The UT game was an embarrassment.

Any word on young Thaddeous?

How can we have all these damn QBs and not one who can out right win the job? In no way can McNulty be better than all these other guys. Can he?

No.

"Those struggles were a key reason the Mean Green struggled in a 4-8 campaign.

UNT scored 21 or fewer points in seven games last season, when the Mean Green finished 4-8. UNT won just one of those games."

I can't remember Brett, what was our record last season?

Details are sketchy and sources currently unavailable; we will continue to dig through the 4-8 season to find what our W-L record was.

Todd Dodge.

This is good news but I feel the only chance he had to be a day 1 starter depended on him being eligible for spring.

I agree with this. But commenting on the main subject matter of this thread, I don't feel very celebratory about a QB candidate who has been struggling with grades. Call me provincial, but I feel that the QB needs to be (if at all possible) the smartest guy on the field.

I agree with this. But commenting on the main subject matter of this thread, I don't feel very celebratory about a QB candidate who has been struggling with grades. Call me provincial, but I feel that the QB needs to be (if at all possible) the smartest guy on the field.

I don't care if my QB can't explain theoretical physics or knows anything about the Peloponnesian Wars.

I feel the QB needs to be (if at all possible) the football-smartest guy on the field.

Let's not forget, Vince Young scored a 6 on the Wonderlic.

Right now I'm pretty sure you could bring a 21-year-old Joe Montana into the mix and McNulty still gets the starting job. Anything else would be an admission of error on the part of the national championship winner from Florida. If there's anything this guy doesn't do, it's veer from the course in any way, shape or form.

Edited May 19, 2015 by oldguystudent

It was so wise of RV to schedule that BYE week one to give Smith another week to get ready

I don't care if my QB can't explain theoretical physics or knows anything about the Peloponnesian Wars.

I feel the QB needs to be (if at all possible) the football-smartest guy on the field.

Let's not forget, Vince Young scored a 6 on the Wonderlic.

Thank you for immediately taking it to the extreme and absurd level.

Football smart is pretty much what I'm talking about. I was just thinking about our "other" QB with "great potential" who never seems to have academic problems, but his biggest weakness (according to most who assess him) is his lack of enthusiasm for learning the playbook.