Green Lantern

I’m just not sure what to make of this squad. Like what is the ceiling?

Nice close to the half after that lackluster start.

Disappointing start 👎

One thing you can say for Coach Morris - he’s very self and program aware. I really hope the Cassidy hire works out for him. He does seem to be learning and adjusting to the ever evolving FBS landscape.

It was legitimately a worse shot than this. No exaggeration. I laughed half of the drive home thinking about it.

😂😂 Dude that one shot that rocketed off the edge of the top backboard was possibly the worst shot I’ve ever seen taken at the D1 level. It was comically atrocious.

I mean isn’t the plan that Cassidy comes in from SH, installs a system that makes more sense for our personnel, brings a few key players from there as well, and at least makes the defense marginally better? Then you pair that with another prolific QB plugged into our system that can run our offense effectively - which is exactly what this kid looks to be - And profit? If that doesn’t work then Morris is probably looking for another gig at the end of the year.

Great points. Humbly retract my statements 😂

Chandler needs to fire his agent. Oklahoma State makes sense. Virginia is madness. Horrible move.

What I’m saying is that with an annual budget with revenues of $858,492,640 for FY 2023 like UNT had, that it is completely absurd for the institution to be asking people like you and I to be funding player salaries - and make no mistake that’s exactly what NIL is. If we wanted to put aside $3,000,000 a year from the annual budget for player salaries, that would constitute .35% of the total revenue generated. Having worked at UNT for 16 years previously, I know how much waste, bloat, and inefficiency is all through the institution and system. We could come up with $3,000,000 a year in wasted, unneeded, consultant fees and barely scratch the surface of what’s available. It’s not a matter of resources being available, it would simply be the will to allocate differently. My suggestion is to allow Universities in FBS to pay players directly from the annual university budget, allocate it directly to Athletics to distribute to athletes as employees of the university, and overall treat it as a sunk cost marketing expenditure - as athletics on TV weekly is basically just advertising for the schools. As for student fees, well there’s a whole pile of mandatory fees the universities impose onto students for all types of services most students don’t utilize at all. No one forces anyone to attend an institution of higher education. Don’t like the fee structure at UNT, find another place. Maybe UH, Tech, Tx State ect are more to your liking? But I doubt it.

Because the whole system is flat ridiculous. Why should the fans have to directly fund “NIL” ie player salaries? These Universities- UNT included - have $600M+ a year annual budgets. Make the schools pay for all of this shit that literally no fans of any school asked for. Cut down the ridiculous coaching salaries and administrative bloat and pay the players with that. The system needs to be changed fundamentally, not ratcheting up pressure on schools fanbases to be complicit in this nonsense. There is no transparency in the NIL world. Just put $$$ in a pool and hope the Collective Leadership are effective sales people and good stewards of those funds? No thanks! UNT would be better off if we could just flat pay players out of the University’s annual budget. It’s now a University Marketing expense. Problem solved for UNT and every other school out there.

I mean he’s good and I wanted him back obviously, but let’s not act like he didn’t contribute mightily to our 5 game losing streak. The offense was not effective in the 2nd half of the year - much of that as a result of his inconsistent play behind a suspect OL. Sucks cause the Bowl game is down the tubes now.

If new PAC successfully lures Memphis & Tulane, I want UNT to be pushing to go with them for hoops reasons alone. Really disappointed with the new look AAC’s lack of competitiveness in basketball this season. We have a whole host of programs in the bottom 2/3 of the league dragging it down.

Completely agree. We’ve got to be more complimentary on both sides of the ball to play at a championship level. I do like the DC hire though. Now - do we have any news about a new special teams coach? That phase of the game was also disastrous for us throughout the season and contributed mightily to several losses.

😂 I hate revisiting the records and specific games of that era cause it was all such a train wreck. Still should be discussed from time to time when some of our fanbase gets restless with wanting to take the next step as a program. Trying to cement ourselves as a perineal Top 50 program is tough but we’re on the right track. I remember years back @TheTastyGreek putting into perspective how tough achieving a Top 25 ranking in hoops was relative to FBS football back in the day. Too lazy to go dig that up but it really highlighted how difficult it is generally speaking and then layer in what you’re describing above - what UNT has had to overcome from a performance and program perception standpoint.

I’ll never understand the mental gymnastics some on here do to justify this underperformance? We fired Seth after a Conference USA title game appearance- justifiably - so we would get someone to take the NEXT step that was elusive for his regime. Now we’ve got people making excuses for wasting the first year of Morris’ tenure by mis-reading the personnel that he judged to be “AAC title contenders” and then flopping. Didn’t use the portal well enough to beef up glaring deficiencies. Then brings back the worst, yet somehow highest compensated G5 DC in America for year 2 which led to an inevitable firing that even the most casual of football fans could see coming from a mile away before the season even started. The 2nd year performance was predictable as well, but extra dissapointing given the soft schedule 5-1 start. To end up 6-6 is nearly unforgivable. We’d better win this upcoming Bowl game.

Agreed. But we can all also agree that this is a great jumping off point for UNT in NET. A quality indicator of the program’s overall progress since Grant first arrived. We’ve come a LONG way from the Benford era.

Nope. A win over a fellow G5 6-6 or 7-5 finisher would be nice, but in the grad scheme of things doesn’t mean much. Would still like to finish with a winning record for a change. Our sights should be to next season already and building a program to challenge Tulane for conference supremacy. Play in the AAC title game next year and then all past sims are forgiven.

Nope

Pretty rich for players or coaches coming from that era of North Texas basketball to criticize anything related to our fans - considering they collectively torpedoed our program. Thank god for Grant and Ross.

I guess I’m saying that in the era of expanded playoffs, the goal posts for success have forever moved. Random Bowls don’t matter anymore. Our focus and bar for success should be playing in AAC title games and legitimately competing for the G5 playoff spot. Not backing ourselves into bowl eligibility.

Not sure how you took his comment as a direct shot at the players? And he’s objectively right. We don’t really “deserve” it. Barely, and I mean BARELY going .500 is nothing to pound our chest about. We started this season 5-1. This has been a colossal disappointment. We’re fans - we fund this perpetually disappointing program (today’s performance included). We can literally criticize anything we want. You be better.

The silver lining - It’s clear that we’ve now progressed to the point as a program that literally none of our fans are excited about simply making a spare bowl game. So we got that goin for us.

Even if we end up with a W, this is embarrassing beyond imagination.

Remember the multiple posts about our equally atrocious special teams???? What in the actual F??? We need to clean house win or loss. This is unacceptable.