TIgreen01

Truly the one matchup the college football gods could conjure that leaves me with no choice but to not watch it. Pedophile U is impossible to root for. Dirty cheating smu is impossible to root for. Douchecanoe them both

Thinking along those same lines…does the NFL eligibility state three years since 18th birthday? Or three years playing some form of post high school football? I don’t think this will have as much of an impact as feared for the reason that most of the time, college coaches want guys in their system more than a year at a time.

Should’ve just left it to the first sentence. Team that spent the most in illegal, under the table, payments to players for DECADES gets mad when it goes above board and the really big money people in the country, that had not wanted to cheat, start throwing money around…and quickly relegate Bama to an “Also ran.” Boo frickin Hoo.

This thread is the worst. Ever. Damn you both.

Just make these guys employees and sign them to contracts already. Would completely change how we think about this kind of behavior. Today it’s pretty sickening to follow.

Curious what his thinking is if he takes that offer. Gundy just fired the OC and DC. He’s got to have someone in mind, already, and wondering who that could be. Maybe Chad? If not, I think I’d be looking to try to drum up interest elsewhere if I were Chandler. If his goal is to play pro ball, Gundy definitely has a track record for getting QBs a shot in the NFL, but they looked completely lost up there this year.

Considering, it looks like between us and a few others, we are about to completely raid SHSU of their entire defense (maybe team?), it's a pretty icky situation all around. Marshall looks to be in a similar situation with their entire team possibly following their HC to Southern Miss. I don't think that's NIL, but the free transfer gone wild. Losing your entire team if/when you lose your coach is just a ridiculous situation to be in. When it happens in basketball, it sucks, but feels manageable due to the roster sizes being so much smaller by comparison. I get that we were able to bring in 70+ transfers last offseason, but that didn't exactly lead to a successful season this year. It didn't work for Colorado, either, the poster child for this era. Year 2 they did better, but they held on to the core of their team from the first.

I'm more talking along the lines that Green Lantern and Green Otako are. Move the entire thing into the AD. Make them paid employees and pay them out of our general budget. I think that's probably coming to all of the NCAA schools, so I don't know that splitting out will be necessary. However, if not everyone is on-board, we should join the side that is. I tend to think that splitting is more risky than staying where we are. What would not be good would be for us to split from the football factory schools and then have them enact rules that essentially eliminate roster size limits or create actual barriers to competition that are not easily overcome from the outside. I'm of the opinion that we need to continue to have a seat at the table, be in on the conversation and are continuing to drive it to a place that works for us. Not a fan of taking my ball and going home.

Why would they not come? You're talking about going from a 1 year deal today to a multi-year contract. That's what I think would have to happen. So, a kid is offered a 3 or 4 year deal. UNT is on the hook to pay him whether he pans out or not. That's better than possibly be out of a scholarship after one year if the staff wants to push me out (today that's happening just as much as players choosing to leave on their own).

Until they change the system this is the best thing to happen for EM and UNT. Well, it’s step 1 anyway. Step 2 is Chandler getting 1.5-2mil from his new school. EM and UNT make these mercenaries money. We can build on that reputation. Really, I hate losing Mercer more than Morris. He won’t be as easy to replace. Morris was maddeningly inconsistent. Maybe had the highest ceiling of anyone we’ve ever had suit up at QB, but too much inconsistent play from him. I think we can do better. Still hope he makes bank, but hard to believe he turned down 500 unless he was holding an offer for double that.

Yep, EVERY conference has a bid. Winning your conference guarantees you a bid. Don’t win it and you leave it up to a committee to decide. Winning matters. We don’t have that in D1 FBS football.

Seems like the early portal opening is going to massively impact bowl games from now on. If we’re playing with our full squads, I’d expect TxSt to beat us badly. Similar or worse than what they did to utsa. By the time the game happens, though, how many players on both sides will have transferred out? A blowout loss to this squad would not be good for UNT and really not good for EM.

The system is backwards is what I’m saying. It should not be setup so that a conference championship game is considered anything other than a must win game. A playoff field picked by a committee is lame.

Losing in your conference championship should eliminate you. It’s not an “extra game”. It’s a qualifier. This whole thing is dumb and a farce. Couldn’t care less about which conference is better than another. If it’s a playoff, then you gain access by winning your conference. Not by losing it or not even making it to the championship game. But we don’t have a real playoff. We have TV rigging up some garbage. And now they’ve let the devil himself in the room. Dirty rotten filthy schmoo.

Pretty disappointing. Wright has got to figure out some way to gain consistency. He’s great or terrible. No middle ground and we need him to keep teams honest. Also, like McNeese, another loss where the bad guys get over 30 free throw attempts.

In before the lock. I was entertained.

He’s not sniffing top 50 here while we run up tempo air raid. All of you will be disappointed if that’s your mark. We need to get into the 60-75 range and keep scoring in the 26-28ppg range. Or lead the league in sacks, negative plays generated or turnovers. At this point I’ll take either. I like hearing he plays a simple scheme, too and agree with the comments about us being too complex and confusing too many players too often under Caponi. I’m a big fan of KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid!

A bit early for this reaction. Let’s see how they do in the playoff. OSU has the most invested in its roster this year and has always been at or near the top in spending on football. I still expect OSU to go deep into the playoffs and be there at the end. Also, sounds like Day’s family has about had it with the fan base up in Columbus and may push him towards the NFL.

Disappointed to see the 3 man fronts likely continued. Having not watched any SHSU or ACU games in the past couple years, I'd be interested to know if he at least has a goal line / big package, ideally able to go with multiple fronts as the situation calls for. Single most infuriating thing I watched all year was us lining up in a 3-3-5 on the goal line against UTSA. If I see that ever again, in my lifetime, I'm pretty sure my head will explode. Overall, as Cooley said, we have no idea what we're getting until later on and the games get played. I'll reserve judgment until then. For now, welcome aboard and get to work! There's LOTS to do.

Back and forth game between two good teams. OSU really protects the rim and plays tough defense. When they got set we struggled mightily, but we adjusted by turning up the pressure, got steals and turnovers and pushed the pace in transition. The mark of experience is finding different ways to win and we seem to have it.

We need an offensive coach who puts the defense first. All the teams mentioned (Boise, Tcu, Cincy, UCF) had badass defenses paired with high flying offenses. You CAN still play fundamentally sound defensive football but you can’t pair it with an offense that kids don’t want to play in (what doomed Mac). I actually think DD in 2024 would do both. So the answer is find the next Darrell Dickey. HFC is tricky to hire. He’s got to be someone that can recruit assistants, first and foremost. Dickey had been around a long time and came from a football family (his Dad was KSU HFC) so he had ties everywhere. With a young coach you are betting that he, himself, is going to win games and account for a lack of a deep staff…or that other coaches see him as someone on the rise that they ride the ladder with. That’s what Littrell initially brought and his first staff was tremendous. Then as they started taking promotions he couldn’t replace them. I don’t know this for sure, but Morris doesn’t seem able to bring in enough experienced coaches, yet. His first staff was extremely underwhelming from a resume standpoint. All the doom and gloom in this thread is tiring. UNT still funds the football program at a level that is competitive with the top of the g5. Maybe we need to bring up NIL, but overall, we’re not nearly as far off as some people would have you believe.

You guys realize that all that has happened to this point in the season is that we’ve beaten all the teams we should have (teams with way below .500 records) and lost to every single team that had a winning record? It’s exactly what a mediocre team does. We’ve seen this show for years now. It’s just that the way our schedule lined up it looks like a collapse. Next week we play a pretty lousy Temple squad. I expect we will win that game unless it is played in a winter storm. Then we can judge if this was a collapse, or just doing what we’ve been doing since 2021.

Apparently they were called off as they approached the stadium. Don’t know exactly why but a lady in front me at the stadium said she saw them turn and fly away.

I’m just done with the air raid system. Don’t care who the coach is.

I get it. Trust me, I feel it. I’ll still never root for us to lose. Even at 5-7 it’s not likely that we’d fire him. He has already bought himself another year by scapegoating the DC.