Quoner

I should have known this would be a bad weekend for everyone when I signed on with my laptop from the Houston airport Friday. Not just because it’s a sad thing to do with or without a two hour layover, but because it was the first taste of theWilltoWin show that would set the tone for everything I would miss. Take that, soldiers. I would get caught in his sneaky traps a couple of more times during the weekend, but luckily, he was stopped before “he did something that got him in trouble.” Let’s face it; this forum needs the crazy people just as badly as it needs its jokers, condescending blowhards, sunshine enthusiasts and liberal hippy socialists. That’s why I’m glad Will found a friend in former GreenP1 Memorial Forum all-star Jesse Martin and seemed to end the weekend on a calmer note. Still, many of our favorites laid out this weekend. Kram was off drinking ouzo and slurping hummus out of a North Texas hat balanced carefully on a hot Greek woman’s abdomen, Bob was…well, wherever it is Bob goes between outbursts, and a lot of folks seemed content to sit this one out. Who would step up in our hour of need? Who would bring us sunshine when the clouds were so gray? As kick-off time neared, Southlake’s own ToddRodge struck first, announcing that there were only 30 minutes until the big turnaround where Todge shows us all what he can do. Oddly enough, he’s been quiet since. Then, the game happened. Several folks had good trip recaps and I particularly enjoyed CBL’s attempt to show off our team to new fans. Remember taking people to games in the early aughts and they wanted to come back? Too bad those idiots were just settling for bottom 25 success. I had the joy of following the game through a bizarre mix of texts and phone play-by-play. After trying in vain to find a bar with the game in Panama City (no luck with two early SEC games going), I snuck off to a resort gym and had a nice two hour workout to deal with the stress. Except, I realized there was no stress. As much as I try to psych myself up each week, this is what I know is coming…deep down in my heart. I’ll keep pushing it down like heart burn and will join the chorus calling for an FAU win, but it will always burn when I swallow this season. I also enjoyed finding out Troy Phillips had the same basic viewing experience I did. Good thing I wasn’t counting on covering the game for my livelihood. Speaking of swallowing, I know all 3 of you who posted or PMed asking for this want to talk postgame threads. First, I can’t keep up with everything. You people are insane, and not in that funny, spunky fan base way. There are two posts I’ve found myself rereading over and over again, trying to figure out what the author meant. Greeneagle69, wrote this masterpiece. There’s a lot to digest there, but my favorite line is this: “Right now he feels kinda like and adult that is stuck in puberty.... just cant seem to grow out of his growing pains.” How…how do you know? Maybe the adult groping the pubescent boy has the inferiority complex realgrad88 lectured about. You might say, “but Quoner, that sounds like an assumption SAM Coach might post.” Well, sir, I will slap your face and make sure you understand that Sam Coach does not post assumptions. Tobi Writes had a very detailed look at how to pick up the pieces of the offense. His magic formula calls for 50 running plays and 30 pass plays per game, or 80 plays for 450 yards of offense (200 of them rushing). Well, when we held the ball for 41+ minutes against Clemson, we ran 83 plays, so that should work. In a related note, someone started a Twitter feed called Bleacherreportd that was taken down and suspended tonight. They posted an actual Bleacher Report article each day as well as fake article titles like “The top 48 reasons Tony Romo are clutche” and “The top 40 reasons Ben Rothlezburger can win MVP.” I felt bad about it and checked the main Bleacher Report page a few minutes ago. This was your front page subhead: “Niner defense is doing a great job. The holding penalty really hurt the Saints. Look for N.O. to run more no huddle or hurry up offense next time.” At the rate Tobi Writes is improving with each post; he may be running the site by Thanksgiving. Oh, and with apologies to JayDub, our own national treasure and hosemaster extraordinaire had a nice theory on why the Rodge zone read wasn’t working. He also had a good summary of Dodge frustrations and issues in another thread, but I've grown weary of searching for more links. All that said, North Texas football isn’t all about wins and losses. It’s about making old friends grovel like little school boy bitches (welcome back, buddy!), remembering that time we hired that one coach who was going to be great and shining the bark signal high into the sky until the ones we lost come home. If none of that does it for you, just saty for the free tacos. Oh, and don’t worry. If we fall this Saturday, the Cowboys play early Sunday to mitigate the blaring media spotlight on this program. Until next time, keep a good thought for Ray and pray that our now 9 day ordeal ends soon. Courage.

It will be in the afternoon after a flight home and a work meeting, but it pretty much has to happen.

JERRY JONES NEEDS 2 STOP MEDDLIN' ON DA SIDELINEZ!!!

He's due no respect. Also, I thought we already circumvented RV and were selecting the new coach with a GMG fan poll set up last week. What changed?

???

The jig is up, Mr. Jolson.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't go to their games waving a green flag and rooting for their opponents?

Where was it ever? All you had was the non-fans piling on when he didn't pitch like Jesus right away and look tired. Baseball fans: 1 Git 'sem pitchin' Cowboys fans: 0

A sane and reasonable post from someone else, because it is not your specialty. Not many disagree with your thesis, but your delivery is like giving Corky from Life Goes On the Declaration of Independence and telling him to read it loudly to every British person he meets.

Bold statement, since so many used to audition for that role daily.

Way to show McCoy what's up, doucher. That'll teach him. Whether you have a point or not, save it for your other posts in the oh-so important next head coach or score prediction threads. Brandon, to quote the greatest AD in the history of modern sports: "Thanks for all you do -- clap, clap, clap!" EDIT: Never mind. Just saw you are on a personal mission of change and this thread is part of the process. It makes total sense, so good luck!

As much as I enjoy your painting of marketing and PR with a broad brush (and love the bat signal for me to chime in), I agree that this a huge vendor fail and needs to be fixed. There's a rash of social media vendors that are fighting to differentiate websites and I'm hopeful, with limited business for these vendors to go around, they don't have to settle with the current contract if this crap continues. Also, your last sentence before "just sayin'" was just fantastic. If I hadn't been quoting you all summer in my signature, you'd have a cozy spot back with Bob.

I'm 7-0 and just bought playoff tickets. Slacker.

I'm telling illuvius. We'll never be able to nail this list to RV's door now.

Using "want-to" in place of "can do" feels a little bit patronizing, no? Only pointing it out because I know you would never, ever mean it that way.

I almost want us to slow down. I bought tickets for 9/27 and 9/28 hoping to see the clinch. But, I will still enjoy it happening in Oakland or even LA. I also have a couple of business trips to New York in mid-October. Last year, I saw the Rangers beat them there. I'm just sayin'...

Whatever. We want a coach that is hungry to sink his teeth into the meat of the issues, grow and develop this job, not some fat cat not willing to work for anything. I can't think of anyone hungrier or more eager to feed on our competition.

Cool list. Now what?

Mods, please take this down. It just hits too close to home.

And...checkmate. Hey, chess pieces!

Well, to be fair, was the board really ready for such a ground-breaking thread? A lot of folks are just now taking this question on for the first time.

We've played two games. Seems a little harsh to do a big list when Army is 4 days away.

Adam James.

It only took four letters to create my favorite post of the day - and not the ones you'd think.