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EM knows quarterback traits when he sees them. In this I very much trust! EM is also a can of Red Bull and gets really excited easily. Putting all this together I think EM is really excited about year 3. He’s been saying this for 2 years now. He sees the promise of the season to come. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun in Denton this fall. GMG

Drove by 6 Texas State buses on Main St tonight in downtown Dallas. They must be staying at the Westin. Talons up MG Nation! Get to the pep rally. Do the Tailgate. Fill the stands. Let’s have some fun! GMG

I’ve watched a lot of bowl games too and have enjoyed most of them. The playoffs were in the bottom interest tier so for, maybe that changes this weekend. Programs who lost their quarterback didn’t do well. They struggled mightily which doesn’t bode well for us. But that’s okay because I’m watching the bowl games differently too. An unexpected byproduct of this is that the guys playing are playing hard and having fun. It’s so freaking refreshing. They may be playing for their next school or for next year, but they are playing. And most importantly having fun. Something missing from most college football talk these days. GMG

I know we spew a lot of you know what at Denton not caring, but have we consistently outreached throughout the year? Our community. Our potential fans. Nothing is given. It must be earned 365 days a year not just basketball and football and soccer and softball season. In addition to uniform pics, birthday announcements, how about some community pics: new alliance announcements (this can be expanded beyond Denton), volunteer efforts - players visiting schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities…I would love to see these great connective photos. The media will never share them but we are the media. Blast our outreach efforts often loud and proud. They will get shared and celebrated on social media. It’s why SMU has so few fans in Dallas. There is no connection to the city and people of the community. Their fans are alums and some of highland park. I’ve never seen SMU do a Hispanic night, a teachers appreciation day…they could have a highland park high school day and bump their attendance - they may. In Dallas these college programs need to run their marketing and promotions departments like a pro team and none of us do. GMG

I’m glad it worked out for the Pirates. Because that scoop and score was legit. Highway robbery averted. They are relentless. In Denton they just kept coming. Good for their fanbase and for the AAC. GMG

When we are not playing them, I love watching Army play. Their 4th down soul crushing makes. The way they sniff the 1st down stick. Infuriating and frustrating for opposing teams. Their competition sans Navy and Notre Dame look shell-shocked. You look up and it’s the 4th quarter and you’re down by two touchdowns. Monken is a great coach and Army is going to be good for awhile. GMG

East Carolina with a winning brawl in true pirate fashion. American 🇺🇸 GMG

EM needs to be less Joey McGuire kamikazee and more deliberate Traylor intentional. My hope is that he is able to pull a miracle identification of a QB to play on Friday. Play it smart, raise the defense, keep us in the game and let’s not get blown out In Ford again. It’s time for the Mean Green to win and bring joy back to the hilltop. GMG

I like when Vito makes his predictions and sends this board into a tizzy. The memes are epic. GMG

I like it, a portal NIL board like the realignment board. I’d be totally down with this. On another note. We should create a bowl trophy for this game. They did with the Vanderbilt Georgia Tech game which was actually a trophy they played for many years ago. My suggestion. The Silver Reel because weren’t both programs featured in Necessary Roughness? The Silver Reel could sit on the sidelines with winner hoisting it up alongside the First Responders trophy. 🏆 Good chance we end up in a league with TSU and anytime we battle, that trophy with engraved scores could make an appearance. GMG

Kiffin would be epic in Norman. OU is in a strange place. They could become Arkansas if they are not careful. GMG

Rooting for East Carolina to takedown NC State. Go Pirates. GMG

Yeah but the players don’t have to build a team and get them to play together. Players have to execute, but coaches have infinitely more responsibility and should get paid. Just as athletes should get paid. I fault neither of them - biatch on. I know us fans are. GMG

They are supposed to be building another stadium where Aloha Stadium was, but Hawaii politics guarantees it will be terribly delayed like 2028 or later. This is making it rough to recruit to Hawaii. I’m not sold on Timmy Chang as a coach completely. He provided amazing memories as a player but the Rainbow Warriors need to get bowling again. Beat TSU GMG

I guess few saw the five overtime slugfest in Honolulu. Oh well I did and it was a blast of a game. Spartans roaring back for Coach Niumatalolo who lost his father last week. A native Hawaiian who played for UH, took his team to the Arizona Memorial for remembrance. Battling it out against a team traveling over 4,600 miles, further than any team this season including that game in Ireland 🇮🇪. That bounce in field goal to send the game into OT as the 4th quarter expired was awesome. A team building, bringing a new stadium to our league, a team seeking consecutive bowl wins after some dire years. Yeah I was one of the few that watched it. Love the storylines and shots of my old island home. It was historic. The most OT’s in bowl history Oh yeah and our conference is 3-1 in the bowl challenge. American rising. GMG

True. It doesn’t matter to anyone outside that school. But did you see NIU storm the field to celebrate the 4th down crushing sack of the Fresno quarterback to end the game? Followed by the lifting of the potato mascot into the air? Loved it for those dudes. Hard work paid off with a dramatic win. After learning our bowl destination my Dallas SEC diehards said they wanted to go to the game. So we’ll have the pre fun and post fun time on the 3rd. They attended the Boise Bowl and Cal game too. They are college football 🏈 LSU season ticket holder junkies who look forward to a fun day. I’m in the minority in this thread but I’m glad we play bowl games. I don’t need to see NIU or Fresno again this season but I’m glad it happened. Beat Texas State! GMG

I love bowl week and we finally got a great game in Boise. What a fun year for NIU. A win over Notre Dame and double overtime win to end the year. They showed some stones on those 2 drives in overtime. Love their style of play. Wish they were a slightly better fit for the American. They are Midwest hearty at our level. A solid G5. I’ve teetered back and forth about our game, swinging from we’ll get blown out with no Morris, to let’s do this. Get this bowl win in January 2025. My hope comes from our battle testing. We played some solid teams and played them fair to well. Army was strong when we got them, Tulane was legit until the end, San Antonio got hot when we got them, same with ECU. Memphis was Memphis. We beat the SBC and MWC. I don’t know. The SBC seems a bit shakier in ‘24 and we were grilled all season. We may be just as good as TSU and surprise. Viva the American. GMG

They said there were like 30 players in the portal. It was a tough watch and San Antonio keeps on rolling. They’ll be tough next year. Glad we get them in Denton. GMG

I’m really not sure how to feel about this whole playoff thing. Just one persons opinion. 1. I was less interested in the regular season big boy matchups. Knowing they could just win their league and “get in.” Or they would be such a draw that they would get in anyway. 2. The teams I would have enjoyed seen were not there. Ole Miss, South Carolina and Alabama are teams I would have enjoyed seen this weekend. The right big teams were there even Indiana because they were an interesting story. 3. I feel this whole playoff drama feels manufactured. I don’t care about who moves on like I do in March madness or even some pro leagues. This playoff felt like baseball playoffs where if your team is there you are interested and there. If not you are onto the next sport. Do I really need to see Texas and Penn State play again? I really don’t care much. And Boise and Arizona State I could really care less about seeing especially after watching SMU Indiana and Clemson this weekend. I didn’t watch Tennessee but if I had they would join them too. All flawed un-interesting teams making up this playoff thing. 4. This is the weirdest to me. I’m football saturated. Weird because I will watch any bowl game and have some interest stewing. We’re talking Ohio vs Monroe in the Bahamas kind of interest stirring. Why do I care about random bowls with 6-6 or 5-7 teams more than I do about who moves on in the playoff? I’m not saturated with the bowls but could care less about the playoffs. I can’t figure me and this out. All I know is that I am excited for some midweek football to come. 5. I was listening to the SMU broadcast on the ticket and they said there were diehard Nittany Lions fans who travel to happy valley every week that sat this one out because it was too cold. In this story I heard football saturation, like I have with this whole production. The 1AA playoffs seem so much more interesting with now with weeks to get excited for Montana State and The Bison in Frisco. Ready to get back to bowl season. GMG

Just win. Figure out a way to get a fresh trophy in Denton. GMG

I would have rather watched Alabama in Southbend or in Happy Valley. Neither of those teams should have been there. I really can’t wait for the split. Clemson Florida State North Carolina and Miami need to get going on up out of the ACC so these first round games are more interesting. We are! GMG

All these people trying to shorten the already short football season is wild to me. As a soccer fan I dig a 9 month season. Even the 3 months feels eternal before week zero. My approach this post season is just have fun. Have a blast of a tailgate with friends. meet some cool TSU peeps. Enjoy the game whatever it yields. Hit the bars on SMU blvd for some post game shenanigans. There are worse days. GMG

Well this is delicious. The Frisco Bowl party against Boise was a blast. Make it happen athletics, association, whoever is spearheading this fiesta. GMG

Be The Team. Seize the opportunity. Be the Team that breaks the bowl drought. Be the Team that wins against the odds. Be the Team that rises up to shout “Enough.” Be the Team to finally win in Ford. Be the Team that gets fans cheering “AAC” in the 4th quarter. Be the Team that generates hope for the rest 2025. Be the Team that shows UTSA how it’s done. Be the Team that lifts a trophy within the first 3 days of 2025. GMG

So who are we? If I look at UNT objectively on this age of NIL I do some of the things we are doing: 1. Get a coach who plays entertaining football. 2. Sell the location and opportunity to display your craft, expertise. I’m talking coaches and players. Be the machine that develops and gets you access. 3. Get a businessman who negotiates deals and hob nobs with AAC brass. Keep us in a top league that keeps its members performing. What’s missing: 1. Institutional drive beyond the hires. We’re talking a collaborative push from inside the house to make the sports scene rock for students, alumni who car and the community. 2. A strong DC to make the entertaining football more palatable. We may have closed this gap. Time will tell. 3. A strong Alumni Association connected and firing on all cylinders. I have no idea what is happening here. Feels disconnected broken in transition. 4. A band that is dialed into Gameday experience creation. Love some of the things they do but they seem to do what they want to do versus being integrated into the program plan. 5. Event outreach to the community. Denton is only getting bigger. It will not be old Denton no matter how strong it tries to hold on. So it seems like we are making some progress but we’re inside the fish bowl. We need to praise what is being done well and fire and hire on the points missed right now. Jared strikes me as a good businessman and business people know how to make tough decisions. People on alert know they are on alert. The key stakeholder here is our new president. Who is he? I’m not sure yet. He could be assessing. He could be plotting. He could be cruising. We’ll find out. Keep progressing. GMG