TIgreen01

Whew

Last year's title game drew 22.5M. All time best rated CFP title game was 2015 at 25.3M. Big12/TCU has plenty of drawing power. Just need the team to be competitive to keep them tuned in. Viewership for this playoff format has been in near constant decline since the 2015 high. When the same teams make it every year it hurts the appeal across the nation. The move to 12 teams should help so long as they improve the regional representation and don't continue to concentrate too many teams from just 1-2 conferences.

I'd be more worried about TCU opening up as far as Mac leaving to go anywhere. You can get to TCU in ~35 min from Argyle. SMU is closer to 55, and can get really out of hand in traffic. In all honesty, I think that job makes even more sense than Baylor for Mac. Baylor has won a natty and is routinely pulling in top rated players. Mac would be like Tony Bennett in a power conference---he's recruiting a lower rated kid, but one that plays defense above all else. That philosophy would work at TCU where they have never been any good at basketball (until right now). I thought I heard that Dixon may be on his way to retirement after this year, as well....or in the next couple years. That or he stays here for a long time. It'll be interesting to see how well we do in AAC, a much better bball conference even with UH and UC leaving. We need to see a legit rise in attendance and get back to where we were at the end of JJ's tenure at the very least---and then hopefully add another 1k to the average (we avg'd 4.5k the last couple of JJ years) with most conference games drawing closer to 7-8k. You could see a potential for a sellout when Memphis comes to town and maybe a couple others depending on how the records look at the time.

See below... I thought the guy did an awesome job raising the standard for our pregame performances. Those were legit best in class, or equivalent to it. The problem was that he changed what we had been doing in-game for the worse. Previously our band was much more consistently driving crowd noise---especially on 3rd downs. Since Cook got here he changed what the band did previously, which was pretty successful at getting me to yell on every defensive 3rd down, to something that didn't and then did that inconsistently. We need to be great at both pregame AND in-game. We have the best dang band in the county---or so we proclaim. It's time they live up to that consistently.

No, I don't, but I remember their comeback against the Oilers. People remember great games. That Michigan - TCU game was an all-time great game. Up there with the Boise - OU Fiesta bowl. Personally, I'll remember that game over the championship game because I flipped the channel at half-time. It was never an actual contest. Obviously, the record books will likely only track the championship game....and that score line will be repeated over and over. I agree with you there. Doesn't mean I won't remember that semi-final game more, though...because again, it was one of the most entertaining college football games ever.

They literally just beat the Big 10 champ last weekend. How does that fact get wiped out by last night? They got absolutely destroyed. I get it. But how do we know that Michigan, or anyone else, would have fared better? What will truly be used against them are the TV numbers from the game, and tickets sold. Did they bring fewer butts and eyeballs once the dust settles on the ratings? I'd love to see what the ratings were in the 1st quarter of this game. I'd be willing to bet there were a lot watching on TV. Especially from Texas. Also, once we go to 12 teams in the playoffs, there will be a higher likelihood that they'll earn one of those spots. Win games and you keep your reputation high enough to drive rankings.

I like it. This is exactly how I would describe it if smu had been in the same place. All the angst and jealousy from a rival is on full display here. 🙂

I'd venture to guess that absolutely no tcu alums/fans are happy with getting to the championship and then getting their doors blown off in epic fashion. Why does UNT's history come into play here? If anyone knows what getting kicked in the balls feels like, it's us. I think if I put myself in their shoes and took that flying missile nut kick that they took last night....it would hurt pretty dang bad. It made me sick and I didn't really have a dog in the fight other than pulling for them as a "Texas team". Doesn't change the fact that they had a great season, but that was an absolutely terrible way to end it. I think FFR nailed it earlier in the thread. They absolutely got overwhelmed by the hype and bright lights, initially. They were out of position, couldn't get off blocks, couldn't make routine tackles. On offense they left Duggan in the pocket, rather than roll him out, run him, etc and he took an absolute beating for it. Then they never really adjusted. It wasn't just the players that played tight. So did their coaching staff. Georgia has more talent, coaching and experience and it showed up last night. I think we all knew that going in. We just expected TCU to fight back, even if they fell behind. None of that spirit that they showed in all those come from behind or close wins showed up last night. It's hard to come back when both of your lines are getting dominated...but I still expected to see more fight.

Worst tackling I’ve seen since the last time I watched UNT play. For the love of all things holy, please let Morris break from all of Texas high school and college football and TEACH TACKLING.

Underrated

Pregame he improved quite a bit. In game he reduced substantially. All things told, in game matters more to me. Thank you for your service. Next please.

I would think tonight would be a vindication for their method. He just proved that what he started doing at smu really does work. I don't think tcu making it this far is good for anyone but the rich privates.

Just go back and watch his effort in that game…especially late fourth quarter, and on the play he got hurt on. KD was going all out trying to win that game. However meaningless the game is to you, it clearly mattered to him. Not everything is about money.

I don't see how a break away changes anything for the better. After this transfer portal with unlimited transfers mess opened, we now lose our best players to the P5s...and then we go grab guys from FCS and D2 to replace them. In the break away scenario we are the new FCS/D2. It won't stop the P5/break away schools from tampering/paying our best players to leave if THEY don't adopt rules to stop it at their new level. It's going to take an act of congress to change this and that isn't happening. So get used to it. Edit: I will add that the one rules change that does make sense to adopt are transfer windows. At least set some dates on the calendar when the free-for all whore fest is open for business. After it closes teams can be fairly certain about their roster for the year. We can't be worried about losing a KD Davis 2 weeks before Fall camp. This should be adopted YESTERDAY, but still is not....smh

What are you basing this on? Who is our QB next year?? We had Mason Freaking Fine in 2019. Hard to imagine our team next year being much better than anyone until we see what the roster will look like...especially at QB.

To transfer from UNT to smu? I don’t get it. Why are they even on the list to consider? $$? I don’t believe for a second that Morris told him he wouldn’t have a place here. He’s one of the best players on our roster.

Screw patience. Listen to the new head man himself. “It starts with winning.” Period

WOW!

Getting butt hurt because we finally tagged your QB after his third hurdle? Tell him to stay on his feet or step out of bounds. Otherwise live with the consequences as players WILL take care of that themselve….as we witnessed.

Generally I agree. However, what I think the coaches are responsible for is designing an offense that is unbalanced and really had no answers when we fell behind. That’s been a problem all year. I think they gave up on the run on the drive that started with three and a half minutes left. Our downfield passing game is too easy to defend and we really have no mid or short yardage go to pass plays or a go to receiver. Too much rotation at the receiver positions. We have to feed some of these guys when they make a play. Instead every time a receiver makes a catch and run he comes off the field for a breather. Then we may not see another ball thrown his way for a quarter.

I did the school a solid last year and got stuck on the goal line 4 rows up. In a stadium that ended up being half full. I'm a 20+yr season ticket holder and was not impressed. So this year I went 3rd party and picked my own seats. Paid the same price, too. Bowl ticket purchasing needs to move into the 21st century already. Enough with the lottery style randomness when going through the school.

I think people read too much into this crap. That’s all I’m saying. Morris appears to be a good enough speaker. Great. I don’t really care anymore. Short of him getting up there and looking totally freaking lost (ala Benford), I’m not going to get too worked up. Lots of great coaches are awkward in these settings. Especially in front of the press. I’m gonna judge him after I see his team on the field. And I’m really gonna try hard to not judge until late next season. Once we’ve got a bigger sample size of how well the team is coached. For now, he’s fine. Carry on, and bring on the down votes.

I mean…he said the exact same things as Seth. And the same things that coaches around the country say. He’s articulate enough. He’s read from his coach speech manuscripts and done the homework. It’s not these speeches that matter. It’s gameday. And signing day. Going back a few years, but one of the things about Dickey was that in big games in conference he always had a few wrinkles. We ran the same stuff mostly, but he did know that big games require that little bit extra. He also had big game players, ready to raise their level. The program has come along way since Dickey, but we haven’t been able to get over the big game hump. Morris checks all the boxes. Does he have the little bit extra that we’ve been missing to win those big games? Can he get those big game type guys in here? Time will tell.