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I have been rooting against him all along because I didn’t think he would be an improvement over Littrell. If we had hired a smash mouth defense-first coach I may have felt differently. We just hired a less experienced version of what we already had.

I’m not sure if you are serious or being sarcastic.

It was sustained until he lost half the coaching staff to higher prestige/paying jobs. Hiring that OC from FCS and firing Reff to bring in Bowen ultimately cost him his job. Things were on the way up once he had Bennett calling the defense but it was too late by then. Too many on here had already decided that the improvement wasn’t fast enough to merit the salary so here we are possibly sitting at home during bowl season again just 2 years removed from being in our conference title game.

The coach we fired to hire this one took a 1-11 team to 5-7 in year 1 and 9-3 in year 2. It is absolutely possible with the right hire.

Worse than Littrell. If we had to fire Littrell we should have ended up with somebody better than this guy.

Are you sure Rick? I mean yes he beat both Boise and Texas Tech in 1999. He also lost to a 3-8 UNLV, a 1-10 Baylor, a 4-7 Arkansas State, a 3-8 Nevada, and a 4-7 Utah State. I get that those are two exciting wins but would you trade that for the 6 bad losses and a 2-9 overall record?

I agree on that point which is why I view the 2013 team as the best we’ve had in the last 25 years. Defense wins championships.

Respectfully Darrell Dickey was one Big West season away from being fired. If the Sun Belt hadn’t fallen into his lap he’d have been gone at the end of 2001. And yes Dickey had tough out of conference games, but he also lost to both Troy and FAU during the 26 game conference win streak (they just weren’t in our conference yet). From 2001 to 2004 he only beat 3 bowl eligible teams. Here is a snippet from one of my prior posts on Dickey. I doubt anyone would say ULM had facilities advantages on us, even in 2001. ************ From October 13, 2001 to September 10, 2005, Dickey’s teams won 26 consecutive conference games. The streak was bookended by wins over the MUTS. The week before the streak started we lost to 2-9 conference mate ULM. The game that ended the streak was a loss to 4-7 Troy. The combined record for the 26 teams run through was 99-203. If you exclude the 26 losses from NT, their combined record was 99-177. Of those 26 wins, just three came against bowl-eligible teams. Additionally, we lost to future conference mates Troy at the end of ‘01 and FAU at the start of ‘04 which would’ve shrunken the streak to 13 games if they had been in our conference at the time. *************

Skladany was a damn legend. Best DC we have had in my lifetime as far as I am concerned.

He took over a 1 win team that owns the record for worst FBS loss to a FCS program in the history of football. I’d say he improved what he took over.

Thank you. I don’t remember what the name was when I was going in the early-mid 2000s, I just know where it is and how good it is/was.

Just don’t want to waste it and take away how special it would be.

Yea, this is a one and done type deal so you don’t want to waste it on a New Mexico Bowl. I think we would need to be in the CFP for this to happen.

I like Sonny, he seems to have grown to dislike SMU nearly as much as we do.

While I guess that is technically true, we did start off the 2018 season at 4-0.

As was I, Clement and Dillard were automatic. They went 10-3 and won their bowl game that year. Texas Tech won’t be winning 10 games this year.

I was at 2-4 and they were not as bad as yesterday. The Rice game isn’t quite as bad as it looks when you consider Clement and Dillard hold the NCAA record for quarterback-receiver touchdown connections.

I was there and he is right, Morris has WAY more resources and more talented players than Dodge had in game 1 of 2007. Dodge took over for a coach running an entirely different scheme and had to primarily use that coach’s players. Morris in year 2 with his entire coaching staff and chased off the old staff’s players. The job Morris is doing today is far worse than what Dodge did in his first game as a college head coach. This is atrocious for a coach who took over what Littrell left him.

Does it though? 45-7 isn’t that far from 49-0 when you still have 6 minutes left in the half.

Guess we will have to become North Texas State again to merit an invite.

I am also curious as to what sort of playing time they could have expected if they had retuned and also if they were “encouraged” to leave. I am sure there are a couple that weren’t asked to leave but Morris seems pretty content to have washed away the Littrell era players.

Jake Roberts caught 3 for 51 and a touchdown. Isaiah Johnson carried 14 for 71 and a touchdown plus caught 3 for 25. Jamori Maclin carried once for 12 yards while catching one ball for 2 yards.

I guess FCS wins only count when Eric Morris is the coach.