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I get what you're saying, but requiring a win against UTEP on the road is a pretty tough standard. I believe they've only lost twice at home this year: Arizona and Louisiana Tech--and both were by single digits. I'm cautiously optimistic now, but I'll be really excited if we are able to beat a top 50 RPI team on Saturday.

Really well-written article!

Absolutely. Charlotte has beaten some really good teams this year and soundly beat us just a few weeks ago.

Welp, it took longer than we would have liked, but this team is really starting to come together. Some impressive moments during this win streak.

It's good to finally see this team demonstrate some consistency. If we can beat FIU on the road on Saturday, then things will really start to get interesting in the conference standings.

So, according to the aforementioned "Show Cause" article, Dave Bliss becomes eligible this June!! Lolz

I'm certainly not counting on it happening, but TJ coming back next season would be huge for what will be a young team.

Absolutely amazing finish!

Man, we just can't seem to win consecutive home conference games this season. Every time I think we've turned a corner, we come out flat the next game.

Also, we do realize that not every FCS team is as epically bad as Nicholls State in 2014, right? Lamar and Incarnate Word also easily beat them.

You guys do realize that Iowa has lost to G5 teams in recent years, right? No one loves the paycheck games, but if you have to play one each year, Iowa's a good fit. They're a respected program with name recognition, but in most seasons they aren't going around clobbering everyone 70-0 or something.

In fairness to DW, he never would have played meaningful minutes this year if everything had gone as planned. And yes, I know we could all cherry pick examples of freshman/RS freshman QBs who tore it up immediately. But, it seems like McCarney was planning on a much longer process of development ("maturing") before even allowing DW to compete for a starting role. He was haphazardly thrust into a starting spot out of desperation. .

Actually, I don't think he's referring to your system. He's been saying the same thing for years. What often happened in the past is that Rivals would rank one team ahead of another despite the lower ranked team having a higher average star rating. If said lower team was North Texas, then some on here would point out that we actually acquired supposedly higher quality players than (insert higher ranked Sun Belt team) and Vito subsequently guffawed at this notion.

Really happy about this pickup. I have to give the coaches credit for getting him in and securing a quick commitment.

Not to be Debbie Downer, but I think we are clinging to the silver lining here a bit too much. A decommit from one of our better recruits this late in the game is not a good thing. Sure, it helps confirm that our coaches are identifying legitimate D1 players (I never doubted that they were, overall), but it also makes one of the lowest ranked recruiting classes in CUSA get even worse. Do not delude yourselves into thinking that Tech is "competing with us" for Banks. They are trying to determine if they are desperate enough to make a late offer. If they are, they will snatch him up in a minute with no shots fired. Now, I agree with some others who have said that Grindle appears to be an equally promising prospect. If we land him, then I'll feel a lot better, and that will effectively mitigate this loss.

Yeah . . . kind of always felt like North Texas was just his safety school in case things didn't work out the way he wanted. I yearn for the day that Texas Tech isn't someone's "dream" school compared to us. Oh well, sounds like we'll move on to some other good options.

Your point is certainly valid, and I don't mean to nitpick; however, wouldn't 3 out of 1665 be .18% and not .0018%?

People, I think we're burying the lead here. A "NotUNT90" has emerged on the board! This presents a great disturbance in the force. Also, 500th post!! It took me almost ten years, but I got there.

It is worth mentioning that most of the potential UAB replacements that get bandied about wouldn't bring as much to the table in basketball.

I guess I'm kind of confused by the outrage involving Tauaefa. Sure, he seems to have D1 talent and is apparently from a great local family. Our coaches did their due diligence and visited/evaluated him and ultimately determined that they were going to pursue other DL prospects instead. What's wrong with that? I'm sure this guy will be a successful college player, and I would have been perfectly happy with him playing for the Mean Green, but his ratings (for what they're worth) would have placed him in the bottom half of our current recruiting class. Again, I have no doubt that the dude can play, but hell--coaches only have so many scholarships to give out, and they have to make difficult choices. Just because one damn good coach did offer the guy doesn't necessarily mean that our staff is making an egregious error. Our coaches have to have SOME faith in their own evaluations, even after striking out a few times in the past. If we are seriously so talent blind that we have given up on formulating our own independent assessments and are simply sitting around waiting to take cues from Larry Coker, then we just need to give up on this recruiting class.

Plano Sr. High class of '98 myself . . . and I went to Vines as well.

I should be able to play.

I really hope that RV has some sort of unofficial standard that has to be met in order for Benford to return next season. And, I really hope that said standard is impressively high in order to balance out the prior two seasons under this regime: something like 20 wins or an NCAA tournament appearance. Hopefully we can get some great wins in there this season but still fairly evaluate the direction of the program after the CUSA tournament. Personally, I always want to see Mean Green wins and could never stomach rooting for anything else. But, this is as much functional as it is emotional. I mean, we wouldn't want to crash and burn so badly this season that no respectable coach would consider coming here, right? Of course . . . it is possible that no such standard exists or that it is much lower than I would like, but I'm trying not to think about that.

NDSU received multiple votes in the AP poll from weeks 2-11. They would probably be favorites against half the FBS teams.

If that had been the only Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl appearance, then yes.