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The thought makes me sad Buildings in which I “did it” No longer exist

Back to more WR offers? Must have lost one…

Yes. Yes it is. But unfortunately for programs like NT no one cares anymore.

I think it was parody.

I will be enjoying apperitivo hour in Rome this Saturday around kickoff time and not thinking about the Mean Green for once in a long while.

I predict we win the first half

Passion is better than apathy! All good.

Jesus Thomas I would hate to see how you react to someone who wasn’t a friend. I have been following this shitty program since 1997. Not sure why I would stop now. To the substance of your post: Rogers deserves criticism for not holding on to the ball but man he was left hung out to dry on both those plays with no TE or RB in the backfield to help pick up the defenders that had a free run at him. (On a related note I have us seen a ton of empty backfield sets this season and I am not sure what benefit they bring. We almost never throw to the RB and we lose a man in protection.) The coaches failed to adjust to Navy’s pressure. In fact, they got more pressure in the second half. We have up EIGHT sacks, ffs. So sure Rogers gets criticism for the fumbles but also credit for a 75 yard TD run and completing over 60 percent of his passes. Cleveland catches that pass in the end zone on the second drive and we win. Or if we come away with points on the first drive instead of shotgun runs on the goal line and passing up the easy 3 points and instead doing what? Run from the shotgun on the goal line. And that’s on Morris. On the defensive side, we gave up 400 yards with those 27 points. And we were lucky it was only 27 because most of the “stops” we got were from Navy getting in their own way with a penalty or a bad pass. Navy also adjusted better by distributing the ball to the backs after starting out with all QB runs. I will give credit to Craponi for mixing up the front for this game and also doing a good job of rotating players to try to keep guys fresh but they couldn’t keep Navy from long sustained drives in the second half when it mattered. And I guess we should be glad they run a slow ball control offense because as others have noted, they probably only scored 27 because of a limited number of possessions. In the end, we got out coached. I think a lot of that is the inexperienced coaches Morris brought in (including himself to a point) and their failure to recruit to the systems they wanted to run. This is especially glaring on defense, where we are undersized at DE and LB. And then they went forward with their plan without the guys to run it. On top of that, the tackling has been atrocious but much of that has looked to me to be partially due to guys in the wrong place or taking the wrong angle. It’s bad however you slice it. So that’s where my “vitriol” toward the coaches come from. They have failed to beat the winnable teams at the front of our schedule and it only gets tougher from here. We (rightly) fired a guy who padded his resume beating weak teams and brought in a guy to lose to creampuff FIU because there are no training wheels at this level. Real programs would make a change at DC (or would have already) with these results. Yes, I know we are just “little ole UNT and should just feel lucky we have a team at all” but if we fired a guy who made the conference championship and a bowl, doesn’t that signal that we as a program want more? So eat the overpaid DC’s contract and make a change! Would also be a good idea to have a real OC instead of the Head Coach running the offense. Instead we have a lot of JV assistants.

I have seen people elsewhere blame Roger for the loss bc of the fumbles - and he does deserve some criticism for not sensing the blitz well on those two plays - but iirc both sacks were to unblocked defenders. And both plays were also empty backfield formations. Why did Morris refuse to give more blocking help when Navy was blitzing so frequently. Even a weak chip block by a RB or TE would have given Rogers enough time to tuck in the ball at the very least.

Definitely looked like they mixed it up for Navy, but they just aren’t very good.

Do the right thing, Jared. Just like FIU we just lost to a bottom of the barrel team. FFS.

That’s twice and neither were backside pressure.

100% agree. This game was over at halftime basically. And Navy sucks. They are not a good team at all.

Anyone else get the feeing Navy scores a TD on every drive the rest of the game?

Well that was horrible

White tops? Did you mean jerseys or this:

Around 15:20 remaining in the podcast: “…with the new front we are putting in…” https://meangreensports.com/podcasts/mean-green-coachs-show-the-podcast-eric-morris-ayo-adeyi-nick-nakwaasah-erik-stevens-aditi-silwal-/112

Really? And what would we have held if Earle hadn’t thrown two INTs and completed 50 percent of passes?? Rogers was 11/15 with 2 TDs. The defense blew that game - we can all agree on that - but can we at consider that the game might have been out of reach without the first half turnovers and ineptitude??

Or his 1/3 completion rate