VideoEagle

You nailed it! If we play as well as we have at times, we can win every game remaining on the schedule. Play like with did at FAU and we can lose everyone.

@SilverEagle is working on the invitation.

I can't find a link to the story, but Disney is planning on launching it's own streaming service in 2019/2020. Some level of ESPN is planned to be a part of that service. The article that I wish I could find discussed Disney's fear of cannibalizing their cable/SAT TV revenue stream. This article show that revenue stream might already be greatly reduced by 2020.

The way CUSA has things set up, payout doesn't matter very much at all. All bowl payouts go into a pool that first covers teams expenses and this is shared by all 14 members with the bowl teams getting an extra share. Bowl payouts are frequently with funny money anyway. For example the might "payout" $250K but charge you $100K in expenses for hotels, meals, etc. People used to complain about the "low payout" of the New Orleans Bowl but their pay out didn't have any deductions.

When we get to the point we're going to bowl games three or four years in a row, THEN we can start getting picky. Now they are so few and far between that any bowl looks good compared to staying at home. No, I don't want the Bahamas or Hawaii, but I would say stay home rather than go to either of those.

So, don't play in a Super Bowl!

The defense certainly played better than they did at FAU. I'm certainly confused at the difference between the punt coverage team and the kickoff coverage team. One plays quite well and the other, um, doesn't. Next week is huge - we still have a chance to win the West, but we'll need to find a way to play well in Rust-on.

I don't see how a medical "redshirt" is happening for English. I've been trying to research this a bit and found a couple of things of interst. First, the NCAA doesn't call it "redshirt" although everyone else does. You can't have voluntarily taken a regular redshirt year - if you already used a redshirt year if must have been "due to circumstances beyond your control." The coach telling you to redshirt isn't considered to be beyond your control. A third part that I found interesting with it must be during the first half of A SEASON. Not sure exactly why, but I've found multiple references to injuries during spring or fall preseason practice don't or rarely qualify. That makes no sense to me, but lot of NCAA rules make no sense. Of the various article I found, this one seems to be the most complete.

You won't be alone - my wife and I will be in green as we don't own black north texas gear.

Only conference games count for conference standings. Both of us are 3-1, but we have the won the head-to-head tie breaker.

The All Blacks? We're playing rugby now? That haka is cool!

Did you sign something in blood? Or meet a mysterious coach under a goalpost at midnight?

Sounds like a good reason to take a break from tailgating to wander over!

Good analysis. "UNT has some work to do defensively," has to be one of the larger understatements of you've ever written. But I agree totally with "It's one game. It was a tough game, but it's still just one game."

In both of the examples you gave, the starter was injured and thus the backup HAD to come in. More importantly, in both of those cases you have very experienced starters being backup up by far less experience - rookie in Prescott's case - quarterbacks. The reason to leave an INEXPERIENCED QB in is to allow them to gain experience. If you starter is experienced and the backup is, THEN you pull the starter in garbage time. On your second point, I quick Google search finds a full page of people saying Landry Jones should have replaced Ben. It's so common as to be cliche that the backup QB is the most popular player on anytime after the starter has a bad game. I am NOT saying never to pull the starter at the end of a game, rather there are very sound, football strategy reasons to sometimes leave an inexperienced starter in.

You pull a starter to give more experience to the backup when you have a very experienced started. We don't have a very experience starter. When you have a starter without a lot of experience you give him every snap you can. Fine is a true sophomore which means even if he started every game his freshman year he still could use more game time. And he didn't start every game last year. He is still making mistakes and misreads that experience will help fix. If he's a Senior or RS Junior, you pull him, but not when he still needs to see things from the actual field in order to learn. I understand the backup QB is the fan favorite on every team, but no the coaches weren't "padding" anyone's stats. They were letting Fine learn and gain experience in a tough situation. It wasn't going to pay of in this game, but it will in a year or two. That's what happens when you have a young starting QB.

Very true! But if we can get back to playing as we did against SoMiss we'll beat then by 21. It all depends on which team shows up.

Good article! After Iowa, there were no teams left we couldn't beat if we worked hard at all levels including coaching. Likewise there are no teams that can't beat us if we don't! How the team responds will determine how the season turns out. None of our goals are out of reach but we must do better if we are going to earn any of them. Frankly I'd not spend much time with this game film. Three is blame for every player and coach after this one. Time to move on are work like they can and have. We've seen this team can be either great or terrible. The choice is up to them.

That is exactly what Hayden Fry did - he voted us pretty high, but not #1 or #2. Back then there were fewer voters so one high ranking could get you into the top 20. (Not only fewer voters, but they only ranked the top 20 also.)

You had to walk counter-clockwise if I remember correctly. ABC did by far the most college games - two each Saturday. And none were on the independent channels at all!

With ANY technology, there are going to be some who have difficulty. This makes it clear they are working on the problem and explaining it. As mentioned above, Baker responds to tweets and emails. Other threads have shown there are AD employees who follow what's on this board and I'm sure they are letting the powers that be known there are issues being reported. I have no idea why you can't use your student ID, but suspect it has to do with privacy/identity theft issues. It's along the same lines of being fingerprinted for various state licenses where different state organizations are are forbidden to share that data.

So the chances of that group coming goes from about 3% to 0%. Again, it doesn't actually have a significant effect on the number of people at Apogee.

I think a couple of hundred or so is the number who don't come because of TX/OU. The folks who prefer to follow BigXII/SEC don't go to out games in any large numbers any how - having TX/OU just means to people who weren't going to come anyway have yet another excuse.

No, they haven't allowed that in quite a while.

Now that's a real promotion! Great job Athletic Department!