Varsity

As of now the Big 12 is 3-3 in bowls. Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State have all won. Missouri, Kansas State and Texas A&M have all lost (or in the case of A&M, had the stuffing kicked out of it). Oklahoma and Nebraska have yet to play.

Texas A&M can go to hell.

Home: Away:

Oh, please.

Thanks, GoMeanGreen. Anybody? McCarney?

....think he might make a good coach at UNT? Iowa State is a tough place to coach (only one coach has left there with a winning record since 1919) yet McCarney has taken the Cyclones to five bowl games in the last six seasons and twice had them one game away from winning the Big 12 North Division. What do you think?

DKR-Texas Memorial Only seats about 80,000 right now. Most fair weather, bandwagon fans are the Miami Hurricane fans. The saying goes that Miami's support is a mile wide and an inch deep. They draw big numbers for FSU and UF but can't put 40,000 in the stands for a lesser opponent. Still, 40,000 for an NT home game would be a dream.

Too bad Nancy Armour is a complete idiot. Harvard's black and white center stripe and school motto? FSU has the best helmet in college football? Louisiana-Lafayette at #5? Baylor dropped the all green look this year, maybe she should get an update. Penn State and Notre Dame's togs have little to reccomend them. Frankly, NT's unis don't look that good.

I've seen both and Texas is far and away better.

Yeah, I really thought they would just line up and go for it on 4th down. when they faked the punt, I wasn't surprised. Going for it on 4th down was, I think, a way to get more snaps for their young QBs.

Yeah and your avitar is the one to use. Why did UNT go to the trouble and expense of developing what looks like a damn good logo if it won't be used in the most obvious place to use it, i.e. THE SIDES OF THE HEADGEAR???!!

Holy *bleep*! If I saw kids in my neighborhood acting like that on the street I have to put em out of their misery with my shotgun.

Interferring with the natural course of things. Wish that hawk had come back for one of THEM.

Ditto.

Next up, Texas versus THE WORLD!

Considering this will be the debut of a new Texas QB, I'd go directly after him and try to rattle him. Throw the sink at him with blitzes. Hell, why not?

Wow, I just found out that I am one of the oldest cats on the board at 45. I think I'll just lay low for awhile.

I'd like to know how the Green is going to put pressure on whomever plays QB for Texas with a three man front. That and contain Brian Robison. That dude is a load.

That's the key right there. You don't get much without giving and if few are interested, it really doesn't matter what you put on the field. That said, winning gets attention, that's fer sure.

Though a football fan for 33-plus years, I have seen the recruiting process really up close for the last three years through my nephews. One played HS ball near Denton in '04 and would have liked to go to UNT, but, no offer. Frankly, he was a bit of a gamble but an out-of-state school rolled the dice on him and won. My nephew worked his ass off to get ready and was the starter at his position on opening day, held onto it throughout the season. Second nephew is a bluechipper in the Houston area, lots of schools -- big league schools -- knocking at the door. UNT would be a perfect fit for him, major-wise, geographically and it is pretty much what he is looking for in a school, but it looks like he is going elsewhere. UNT never contacted him, never sent him ANYTHING. Hell, even A&M Commerce sent him a brochure! You want players? Be aggressive and show a kid some early interest. Move in on them to show that you were interested from the get-go. That's how my nehew verballed, because one school latched onto him early and let him know he was wanted. Take a chance on a kid who may not be all world, he might show his gratitude by working his way into your starting lineup.

While out buying school clothes for my sons last Thursday, I saw a man wearing an NT cap and a kid in an NT t-shirt in two different locations. That's a rarity in the Houston area.

How far back are you going? S.O.S., Same Old Sooners.

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If NT has the players, it would be a good idea to go to a base 4-2-5 defense because opponents tend to use three wide receivers on the majority of plays. More and more teams are using light linebackers that could double as an extra saftey (rovers). Hardly anyone uses odd fronts of three or five men on defensive line of scrimmage any more because of the spread passing attacks. Five men rushing leaves too few pass defenders and three men gives the quarterback too much time. Most teams rush four with lbs, corners, and safeties trying to disguise who will blitz and where it will come from, if anywhere. This is more to confuse the offensive linemen than the quarterback.