TIgreen01

I had the game on in the background and missed this somehow. Must have left the room when this was going on. Anyways, I just kept marveling at how engaged their crowd was DEEP into the second half of a game where they were never really within 20 points of Texas. They got their doors blown off but that crowd stayed until the end and cheered loudly the whole time (I finally turned it off with 3 minutes or so left, so not sure how many made it to the bitter end)....but WOW. I have to say I was impressed with that aspect. There are not many schools or fanbases that would have provided that kind of support. Definitely not Texas fans if the roles were reversed and the game was in Austin...and definitely not here in Denton.

It’s year one, and he hasn’t Benford the situation yet…so No. But watching Grant at Tech sure makes me wish he was still here. That guy is the whole package. Ross still has some growing to do to get to that level.

No, he was not.

From where I sit, TxSt was worse than us heading into the offseason before last year. Then they brought in 50 transfers and had a pretty decent year. A better year than we had? Yep, absolutely. Now fast forward to this year and we are the ones bringing in 50+ new players and turning over our roster. Who is to say we won’t reverse positions? Is it likely? No clue, but the way transfers have completely upended roster continuity now, I am not going to set an expectation either way until I see teams in the field. This is where I was going with my response to your claim that they were definitely better than us. I just don’t know how you can possibly know that at this point.

They lost their entire QB room. I haven’t followed them enough to know who else, but every year is a toss up for every team now. I don’t know how you can definitively say we are better or worse than they are.

Sounds to me like you're getting attached to Edwards and already talking yourself into being able to blame the coach if/when he leaves. He's a great player, but all I can tell you is that you better learn to root for the shirt more than the player or you're going to leave this place a jaded individual. Having to state that out loud and believe it makes me sick. Following kids from HS and watching them develop through college (and sometimes on to the pros) has always been the best part about following college sports...but unless something changes with regard to transfer rules and NIL, that part is dead and gone.

Congrats, you win the award for way too early predictions for 2024. We lost virtually our entire 2 deep on offense. It's going to be a complete unknown on that side of the ball. Good luck and I hope the good guys play at least SOME defense this year.

So...should the ACC lose FSU, Clemson, Miami, UNC and VaTech....do Stanford and Cal stick around? I get that they may still want to be associated academically with Duke, GT, WF....but is it worth it to be in such a far flung ATHLETIC conference where the TV money can't possibly make up for the travel? If they decide it's not, does that mean they tuck tail and join the MWC or WCC? What of the ACC remnants? Do they play with the likes of the Sun Belt and AAC? History says that they would raid the nearest schools from the conference one rung down in the pecking order. If the CFP continues to allow access beyond just the SEC/Big10, then history just continues to repeat itself, impo.

Exactly why I quit responding to him. Oh, and you're absolutely right about Josh White. His mind would probably short circuit if he ever got a real look at the last roster JJ had.

Reading a bit too much into my post. Saying he’s not TP or Hamlet can be true while him still being a very good player for us. Nowhere did I say didn’t like him or didn’t want him on the team. Just said that coaches need to help him and the team more than just turning our best scorer loose to “create”. Your point that he’s a one man offense really only adds to what I’m saying.

Nope, I saw it. He “created” an out of control shot from beyond nba range. That’s not what we’re looking for.

Edwards is awesome, but if we need a three with the last shot he can’t create it. We need to draw up better late game offensive set plays. We got by the last several years with Hamlet and Perry creating shots. Coaches need to step it up to fill the void because that guy isn’t on the team.

I hear what you are saying, but we won the conference 3 years in a row in the regular season but only saw 1 tournament appearance out of that. While I tend to think that that 2020 team was the best team McCasland had in his time here, there was no guarantee we were going to win the tournament....which we would have had to do b/c CUSA was a 1 bid league.

There are 4 playoff spots for FBS football and over 130 teams. There are 68 playoff/tournament spots for D1 basketball with 351 teams. So no, the ratio is not the same.

When you have a rotation of 8 guys, losing 2 of them is killer. We desperately need more depth next season. This has been an issue that we've managed to get lucky and dodge the last several years. Maybe this is a limitation of our NIL funding/allocation? Pulling in guys capable of contributing surely commands more funds.

And yet we've made O-N-E NCAA tournament appearance in that time. College basketball grants more access than FBS football to the "National Championship Playoff", but it still ain't good.

How do you feel about Phil Jackson or Pep Guardiola?

Not a lot to be upset about after that one except the final score. Great game. Great atmosphere. Put on a show on national TV for the second game in a row. Get em in the return game.

Had to watch it on tv and that might be the first time I can remember ESPN announcing being that pumped and excited about anything UNT sports related. They were literally slobbering over us. It’s about damn time. Loved it. Wish I could’ve been there in person…missed what looked like an epic atmosphere, and it absolutely came through on TV.

I missed this game, unfortunately. Just the box score of 1-17 from 3pt is really all you need to see, though. We're a volume 3pt shooting team and made 1. I'm highly inclined to think and agree with those who said we must have been tired. Shooting touch is the first thing to go when you're tired.

Well I’ll be darned. Looks good on tape and that offer list is something. This is a deep QB room on paper.

I had a production stop call and missed all but the last 6 minutes. But what a GREAT six minutes it was! Unreal final minute. I know the team needed that and so did I. Hope it ignites the students and gets some energy around this team.

Kind of a lot, actually.

On the contrary, if dirty schmoo was still on our schedule Pavia IS EXACTLY the guy I want representing the program. What a missed opportunity!

I like every single one of those. But Dogfish 90 minute IPA is my movie watching sipper. Damn good selection. Can’t represent UNT, but still dang good.