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What with our receivers? The ball is hitting the in their hands and they can't pull it in!

Last night Baron had three touchdown receptions in the FIRST QUARTER of Coppell's area game against Jesuit. He's a good punter as well! After the 3rd touchdown, he did a standing backflip in the end zone. There's a picture of him half way through the flip in the online sports section of the DMN.

Why would you think NIL money would guarantee good results? A$M proves that’s not true!

I've finally had a chance to start reading up on the 3-3-5 defense. Someone - I forget who - asked me to explain why you use smaller linemen in a 3-3-5. Here's what I found from an article in the San Diego Tribune - "The defensive linemen in the 3-3-5 tend to be smaller and more mobile, their main objective not to rush up the field, but to tie up blockers so the linebackers and safeties can fill the gaps and make tackles." I found this from a primer on the 3-3-5 from Throw Deep Publishing. The primer is good and understandable for those of us not steeped in deep Xs and Os. You do need a base level of football understand to follow, but it assumes a pretty basic starting point. The primer is free, but the more in-depth training with videos is behind a paywall. Here's a link to the free stuff https://throwdeeppublishing.com/blogs/football-glossary/the-3-3-5-defense-an-in-depth-guide

After checking 3 different coaching sites, the answer is not with a 3-3-5. The whole idea of the 3-3-5 is it works as an alternative for teams with smaller, but relatively faster linemen.

Most schools are members of conferences. Every conference win generates a conference loss for another team. Teams with the best records will have more wins against teams with losing records. It's just math, folks. Discounting wins against teams with losing records ignores basic math!

@keith thanks for putting this list together. I'm really curious to see what the results are at the end of the year. I remember seeing a study that was published in 2012 or 2013 that went back 8 to 10 years comparing how firing a coach resulted in an improved record the next year. A lot of the trends from then still seem to be valid. For example, the worse the team was, the more likely there was immediate improvement. But for teams with a 7-5 record or better, firing the coach only resulted 1 out of 3 times in equalling or improving. Looking at this list, there are seven teams that were 7-5 or better last year and only 2 improved. Yes, firing a coach sometimes works immediately, but 2/3 of the time it doesn't.

Waaay back in the 80's, I saw more sports reporters on a regular basis. What I was told by an AP voter was the rankings for the top 12 were pretty accurate, but beyond that most reporters don't follow closely enough to know for sure. Once a team gets into the top 25, as long as the don't lose they will likely stay there.

This has to be the greatest Aggie joke of all time. No one held a gun to the Aggies and forced them to sign that contract. They did it because they thought Jimbo would win them a National Championship by now. He didn't, but those who think he's "not motivated" haven't been paying attention. He's been doing everything he can to improve, but it hasn't worked yet. I find it very funny no matter what they try, the Aggies seem to average 8-5 in the SEC. They averaged 8-5 in the Big XII. They averaged 7-4 in the SWC. Maybe, just adding more money isn't the answer.

Good luck with that!

Early morning and I was just looking at high school playoff pairings! 12 - 12 chances.

I don't know if that's the ONLY thing, but better tackling would go a long way toward improving the defense. I've lost count of the number of times a player was in position for an early stop only to miss the tackle. If you can't tackle, the scheme doesn't matter!

Do you have a really high turnover rate?

Because there are only 10 chances to see our Mean Green football team play each year.

Our offense is good. The defense seems to be slowly learning to tackle. Each week we get better. It’s the last time we’ll play SMU for a while. I think we win by one score in a shootout.

THIS!!!!! I can't upvote it enough!

Wait, people want to fire Caponi because he runs a 3-3-5 "which cannot work" and replace him with a coach that runs a 3-3-5!?!?! From what I've seen in our games, we need better, more consistent tackling. There were a LOT of plays where guys were in position but didn't tackle well. If you can't tackle, it does not matter what scheme you run it won't work! Fix the tackling and the defense will improve!

I just went back and looked at several newspaper articles from when he was hired. He was most certainly NOT a big risk. Multiple news articles praised him as a PAC-12 OC last year. Here's just one from the Seattle Times. Morris built a winning program at UIW and his recruits are now crucial to Texas State's current success. A LOT of people on this board were strongly in favor of hiring a successful P5 coordinator with successful head coaching experience at a lower division and Texas ties. That's exactly what NT did!

If we beat SMU, all will not be forgiven. But a lot of NT fans will be much happier!

True! Denton county has a population of 941k+ and is a 40 minute drive from hundreds of entertainment options. Boone is in Watagua county with a population 54k+ and is a two hour drive from Charlotte with about a quarter of the entertainment options. Going to a game is one of very few choices for a fall day in Boone! In Denton, there are a lot more options. Saying that’s an “excuse” is like saying the rotation of the Earth is just an excuse for the sun not rising in the west!

Do want to institute a totally new base defense or do you want to win immediately? Those two choices are mutually exclusive!

Not the possibility of a chance. The sole reason he was willing to take the NT job in the first place was his close friendship with Seth. We fired Seth. Phil's not coming back.

I've never seen ANY athletic department make a public announcement there was going to be a rebuilding year. That's not how it works. As a Memphis fan pointed out last week, expecting a new coach coming in the same year we move to what everyone knew was a tougher conference is "unrealistic."

Technically no, they would have needed to expand Fouts BEFORE the NCAA passed the rule. It was all retroactive. We simply had to drop for at minimum of a few years. But, we could have returned to 1A much, MUCH faster if we'd expanded Fouts. Hurley was very much in favor of 1AA versus dropping football altogether or worse yet changing to Division III. He wanted scholarship football, but the Regents wanted to balance the budget AND reign in athletics after Bob Tyler was just spending beyond what he was authorized to spend.

It could have been USL, I’m not certain. I thought their stadium was big enough to qualify. There were several ways to qualify- stadium size, average attendance over a period of years, at least two games over a certain attendance in the same period, and more. The big one was being in a conference where at least half of the other schools qualified as the NCAA didn’t want to mess with conference membership. No, they did NOT know it was coming. The rule passed retroactively - if you didn’t qualify when the rule passed there was no period where you could qualify. All of the requirements had to have been fulfilled at the time it passed. We needed to have played most of our games at Texas stadium during Jerry Moore’s time. @Arkstfan knows the details. I don’t know the NT internal politics of why it wasn’t fought. I suspect part of it was the total contempt for athletics Bob Tyler created within the university. I’m told multiple administrators from Mississippi State told people at North Texas “don’t hire him.” He nearly got NT on NCAA probation for giving athletes extra benefits. It appears he knowingly spent WAY over budget which angered the Regents. Plus there were a lot of faculty from President Matthews day that wanted football as long of the coach didn’t make more than a Department Chair. I’m certain, though, that just filing the waiver request would not have helped. It possible it WAS filed as the NCAA rejected all the waiver requests.