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This post just elevated me to Mentor rank on GoMeanGreen. I'm kind of a big deal.

The NIL is a harsh mistress.

Hayden Fly is going to pull it low and let it show.

To me, there was no scenario in which keeping Littrell made sense after the CUSA championship stomping. So no matter who we hired, that was going to be a better move than keeping Littrell. Head coaches are like Bathroom Monkeys. When one has no more cleaning power, drop it in the bin and order a new one.

Gotta get my opinion down so it goes on my permanent record at GoMeanGreen. I was hoping for UNT to hire somebody with head coaching success in the FBS -- and preferably in the P5. Justin Fuente was at the top of my list. Eric Morris isn't that guy. He's another 37-year-old looking to make his bones like Seth Littrell was in 2015. There are positives about Morris that make me cautiously optimistic, but in telling friends about the hire I keep leaning really hard on one fact like it was my Stuart Smalley daily affirmation: "He recruited Patrick Mahomes." Please let Morris be so excited in front of the media that Jeff Traylor thinks he should dial it down a notch.

You seem to want to fix our personalities. Good luck!

As a soccer fan still reeling from the news about Grant Wahl dying in Qatar, I am not ready to lose The Most Interesting Coach in the World.

Not even if we paid him money?

By this time Diet Coke Man could be coaching his own team. He should be on Mosley's short list.

I wouldn't have seen any of this game if I hadn't set UNT basketball as one of my favorite teams on ESPN, which put the game live on the ESPN.Com homepage. That ending was must-see TV. Love to see the Mean Green take charge and make the boisterous crowd go home unhappy.

Please don't let this be a decision Jared Mosley inherits. I hope that Mosley is his own man and any guidance from the departing Wren Baker on hiring the next head coach was filed under "Outsiders, Advice From." This could be the single biggest decision of Mosley's entire tenure as AD. If we believe in him as AD, he needs to either make the call on the hire or be 100% on board with it.

I want a head coach who has to keep a notebook by the bed to write down crazy plays he thinks of in his sleep.

Inspired by your comment, I asked the AI program ChatGPT to write a speech for Seth Littrell after he was fired and include a reference to a specific TV show. Here's what it wrote: Dear members of the University of North Texas community, It is with a heavy heart that I must announce my departure as the head football coach of the Mean Green. I have been honored to lead this program for the past several years, and I am grateful for the support and opportunities that I have had here. While I am disappointed to be leaving, I am proud of the progress that we have made on and off the field during my time here. I am confident that the program is in a strong position, and I have every faith that it will continue to thrive and succeed under new leadership. As a lifelong fan of football and a big fan of the TV show Friday Night Lights, I know that the game is bigger than any one person or any one coach. I will always cherish my time with the Mean Green and the memories that we have made together. I want to thank the university, the community, and the players for their support during my time here, and I wish the program and the university nothing but the best in the future. Sincerely, Seth Littrell

If he had sent a group text there's a higher than 100% likelihood [1] that it would've been shared publicly by somebody. 1: A word of caution on my math: I failed pre-calculus three times at UNT before passing it with an A my final semester in 1991.

Maybe, but creative plays help an offense by making defenders less confident in what they're seeing on other plays. When you never do anything unexpected -- it's third and long and Darrell Dickey is going to keep calling a draw play until one succeeds -- life becomes easier for the opposing defense.

I'll be surprised if they don't put UT in the name someday. The Archfiend of Austin will make it bend the knee.

I watch whoever currently holds the only true championship in the FBS -- the College Football Belt. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s8aWwQ3TVcI9uK9FqQj9w9S6q0m6gi9pl5ho6D3Dft4/edit#gid=369365817

SFA voted on Nov. 29 to join the UT system, which was a dumbass move. They could've joined our system and become University of North Texas East Texas. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/stephen-f-austin-state-university-system-vote/

I like hearing about coaches with Denton and UNT ties wanting the job, but Youngstown State HC plus a bunch of OL jobs isn't enough meat on the sandwich.

I'm glad to see more schools move up to FBS, especially the future UT Nacogdoches since I went there my first semester of college before my dad decided "I will pay for your college" was more of an aspirational statement than a binding verbal contract. This does raise the urgency for UNT to become strong enough to be invited aboard the P5 ark. A biblical extinction event might be coming.

Even if Traylor graduated from UTSA he wouldn't stay for 10 years if there were greener pastures to poop in.

I think he's already on short lists at P5 schools. Billy Napier jumped from the Sun Belt to the SEC. And not even a smaller SEC school, but big-bucks Florida. My guess is that after next season UTSA loses him unless it does a massive faceplant in the American.

If a university in Texas posts a job for 10 business days and secretly hires somebody during that period, any applicant no matter how hopeless would have standing to sue. You and I should both apply, then use our lawsuit money to be UNT's new Mattress Macs.

I got a private message here from a new member suggesting that I'm not giving Seth Littrell his due for earning more bowl trips than any head coach in team history. Yes, he went to five bowls and his teams will have gone to six counting this year's. But he had the good fortune to be coaching during an era of huge bowl inflation driven by content-hungry TV networks. If Odus Mitchell had coached when six wins guaranteed a bowl trip, he would've taken North Texas to 12 bowls. Three more of his teams went 5-5 or 5-4-1. Hayden Fry's teams went 7-4, 7-4, 10-1 and 9-2 from 1975 to 1978 and never got a bowl invitation.

Any applicant.