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Yea, ask the folks that have been around since the Fry days what dropping down did for our program.

Yep, Chris Vaughn, another Ole Miss assistant implicated in the violations was let go after spending two years on Charlie Strong's staff at Texas. He was instrumental in signing a top prospect in Brandon Jones for the Horns. He chose the Horns over a "whose who" list of power programs. Texas will never be investigated. Write it in stone. He magically stopped playing dirty when he came to Texas to coach with that core-value having "treat women with respect" non-adulterer Charlie Strong.

Big West bretheren. These may be two of the few FBS teams that have been worse than us over the last 20 years.

I need to know the game start time before I predict.

Vest, vest, who wore it best?

So according to my Texas Tech co-worker buddy, Patrick is trying to become the D-Line coach at Mississippi State now. Looking to head back east I guess.

I agree with you.

Prior to his senior season, Dajon was in Lone Star Recruiting's top 10 quarterbacks in the state ahead of both Davis Webb and Baylor's Chris Johnson.

I think most of this could describe DT just as much as Hall and he should be in the NT HOF someday. I think you could say that DT was a large part in our victory over a Ball State team that would go 10-3 that year in '13. He also played a big role in our '13 bowl victory. Thompson passed for 256 yards while completing 21 of 30 attempts. His 7-yard touchdown pass to tight end Drew Miller in the third quarter broke a 7-7 tie, while his 34-yard strike to Darnell Smith put UNT up, 28-7, in the fourth quarter and essentially iced the game for the Mean Green. Thompson left the game briefly in the first quarter after suffering a knee injury. He said the patella popped out in his right knee and had to be pushed back in. “He took some good shots,” UNLV head coach Bobby Hauck said. “We hit him, knocked him down, roughed him up. He got right back up and did a good job.” Dare I say that the drop from Scott Hall to Daniel Meager was less noticeable than the drop from Derek Thompson to McNulty/Greer? Maybe it wasn't but it sure felt like it, at least as far as talent level goes. @Harry It seems that youtube links work from google chrome but not internet explorer.

Well Texas State had two drafted last year so they should be kicking our ass in recruiting but they aren't.

I'm sure the recruits that didn't choose North Texas told Littrell and Co that they weren't going to sign with us because the athletic director has never hired a coach who had a player invited to the NFL combine. That makes a ton of sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me. They would just ignore the success of the guys below and go to another program based on the athletic director's success in the 3 main sports. I get it.

I love this kid. He seems much more excited to be here than Morris. I can't wait to see him on the field.

Thanks Harry.

^^^I hate that I can't post videos anymore^^^

For me, it was the game pictured below. It was the first time I watched us beat a team in person that I'd actually heard of before attending NT. It was the first time we played them since moving back up from I-AA and we won.

I'd take DT over Hall. We have two bowl victories in our history. One with Andrew Smith and one with DT. DT won the bowl MVP. Scott Hall was ranked #86 out of 112 (23rd percentile) with a QBR of 36.1 his senior year in the same rankings adman used above where DT's QBR was 55.3 and he was 80th out of 128 (37th percentile).. Don't kid yourself that Scott Hall was a great quarterback. He was a defensive back that turned out to be an average quarterback on a team with great running backs and stout defenses, no better than DT.

I won't be satisfied until I know the SMU game starts after 5pm. It is disappointing that RV couldn't get the AFC South Champs in for a game. Would've been nice to get a regional power into Apogee. That RV is just no good.

It is also a fact that in 2013 we had our highest average attendance in history at 23,509. Another fun fact, the lowest attended season since RV took over prior to this season's car wreck was in 2001 at 14,769 per game which is more than 1,000 over this season. This season was trash, the reasons have been fired or moved on in other ways. Attendance will eclipse 18,000 this season and I'd guess closer to 20,000 is what we'll see but 18k is a sure bet. Mark it down.

Average Attendance in 2004 was 15,184 in our 4th consecutive bowl season including our 25th consecutive conference victory. Average Attendance in 2008 was 16,956 in what was considered(until this year) our worst season in history. This season's attendance was more a product of losing that first "home" game to SMU. Had McCarney and Co not laid down for old Chad Morris, attendance would've been much higher in the first game which would've propped up the average. I'm sure a lot of students that got convinced to go to the SMU game skipped the home opener they otherwise would've went to. In Dodge's last season (2010), our attendance for the first home game was 23,743 at Fouts. In McCarney's last season (2015), our attendance for the first game at Apogee was 19,602. But the opponent you say? Rice in both cases. This season was a product of everyone seeing 2014 all over again on Sept 12, 2015. Everyone knew how the season would turn out after McNulty trotted out there 2.5 minutes into the game with the ball on SMU's 16 and proceeded to hand the ball off 3 times in the redzone leading to a Trevor Moore field goal. This past season was all on Mac, Don King couldn't have gotten people to pay to watch that hot garbage.

Based on the below that I pulled from our Facts and Records book, we had played SMU 34 times prior to 2015 which is the second most times we've played any team. The team we've played the most? Our fellow former teacher's college to the south, SWTSU-SM is the team we've played most with 37 total contests. We should eclipse that in 2018 if our series continues but we do have a history with the 'cats even though we haven't played in over 20 years. I'd much rather have played them than Portland State, Nicholls, TxSouthern, or Bethune-Cookman. OPPONENT W L T LASTMEETING SCORE Abilene Christian 15 8 1 1994 48-0 Air Force 0 1 0 2003 21-34 Akron 0 2 0 2006 13-33 Alabama 0 4 0 2011 0-41 Alcorn State 1 0 0 1990 20-7 Angelo State 1 0 0 1984 7-3 Arizona 0 1 0 2002 9-14 Arizona State 1 4 0 1998 15-34 Arkansas 0 9 0 2007 7-66 Ark.-Monticello 2 0 0 1941 60-0 Arkansas State 8 14 0 2012 19-37 Army 0 4 0 2010 0-24 Auburn 0 1 0 1981 0-20 Austin College 10 5 1 1946 14-0 Ball State 2 0 0 2013 34-27 Baylor 1 11 0 2004 14-37 Boise State 3 3 0 2000 0-59 Bowling Green 0 1 0 1964 7-21 BYU 2 3 0 1980 23-41 Burleson College 4 2 0 1922 13-9 Cal Poly-Pomona 2 0 0 1976 21-10 Cincinnati 9 7 1 2002 24-19 Clemson 0 1 0 2010 10-35 Colorado 0 1 0 2004 21-52 Colorado State 2 1 0 2001 20-45 Dallas University 3 2 0 1919 87-6 Daniel Baker Col. 3 0 0 1931 32-13 Dayton 0 1 0 1952 14-20 Decatur Baptist 11 0 0 1929 97-0 Drake 10 4 1 1976 63-0 East Carolina 0 1 0 1979 16-49 East Texas State 19 6 1 1951 48-7 E. Washington 1 0 1 1988 51-0 Emporia State 1 0 1 1955 62-0 Florida 1 0 0 1947 20-12 Florida Atlantic 4 6 0 2014 31-10 FIU 3 5 0 2014 17-14 Florida State 0 2 0 1977 14-35 Fresno State 2 0 0 1951 62-0 Georgia 0 1 0 2013 21-45 Hardin-Simmons 11 8 1 1963 18-12 Houston 7 7 0 2012 21-44 Howard Payne 2 1 0 1949 34-14 Idaho State 1 0 0 1995 41-38 Idaho 6 4 0 2013 40-6 Illinois State 1 0 0 1996 20-14 Indiana 1 1 0 2014 49-24 Kansas 0 3 0 1998 13-24 Kansas State 1 6 0 2012 21-35 Kentucky 0 3 0 1984 7-31 Lamar 4 2 0 1986 33-13 Long Beach State 0 2 1 1974 19-35 LSU 0 5 0 2012 14-41 Louisiana-Lafayette 9 8 0 2012 30-23 Louisiana Tech 6 7 0 2014 21-42 Louisville 10 7 0 1995 14-57 Marshall 0 1 0 1988 0-7 McMurray 4 2 2 1957 14-7 McNeese State 6 5 1 1994 38-17 Memphis 4 15 0 1980 29-10 Meridian 2 1 0 1920 41-0 Miami (Fla.) 0 1 0 1980 8-26 Midwestern 7 1 1 1956 14-7 Missouri 0 1 0 1995 7-28 Montana 0 1 0 1994 17-21 Murray State 1 0 0 1989 28-14 Middle Tenn. 8 5 0 2013 34-7 Mississippi 0 4 0 1956 0-45 Mississippi State 2 6 0 1978 5-17 Missouri State 2 1 1 1994 26-20 Nicholls State 6 0 0 2014 77-3 Navy 0 1 0 2007 62-74 Nebraska 0 1 0 1993 14-76 Nevada 2 9 0 1999 28-41 New Mexico 1 1 0 1983 18-8 New Mexico St. 22 9 2 2004 36-26 North Dakota 1 0 0 1952 55-0 Northwestern St 4 6 0 1994 28-25 N. Illlinois 1 0 0 1996 24-21 N. Michigan 1 0 0 1968 17-3 Ohio 0 2 0 2013 21-27 Oklahoma 0 7 0 2007 10-79 Oklahoma Baptist 1 0 0 1920 29-0 Oklahoma City . 1 1 0 1949 26-7 Oklahoma State 1 10 0 1994 34-36 Oregon State 1 1 0 1997 7-33 Pacific 1 1 0 1951 0-34 Parsons College 1 0 0 1965 26-7 Pittsburg State 1 0 0 1938 28-0 Rice 2 3 0 2014 21-41 Richmond 2 6 0 1982 22-13 Sam Houston State 19 11 1 1994 21-16 Samford 1 0 0 2000 14-6 San Diego State 1 6 0 1975 12-30 San Jose State 1 2 1 1981 16-28 SE Oklahoma 4 1 1 1920 47-0 Southern Illinois 4 0 0 1967 37-0 Southern Miss 4 5 0 2014 20-30 SMU 5 28 1 2014 43-6 SW Oklahoma 1 0 0 1950 76-6 South Alabama 1 0 0 2012 24-14 South Florida 0 2 0 2002 17-24 Southwestern 5 2 2 1938 27-6 Stephen F. Austin 23 3 3 1994 33-33 Sul Ross St. 1 0 0 1951 62-6 Tampa 1 2 0 1970 7-18 Tarleton State 1 2 0 1921 0-13 Tennessee 1 0 0 1975 21-14 Tenn-Chattanooga 5 3 0 1966 42-7 Terrell Academy 0 1 0 1914 0-6 Texas 0 10 0 2014 7-38 Texas A&M 0 7 0 1998 9-28 TCU 2 16 0 2002 10-16 Texas State 28 6 3 1994 27-14 Texas Southern 1 0 0 2012 34-7 Texas Tech 4 4 0 2001 14-42 Thorp Springs 1 0 0 1916 48-0 Trinity 16 9 2 1957 13-26 Troy 2 8 0 2012 7-14 Tulane 0 1 0 2013 21-24 Tulsa 7 17 0 2013 42-10 UAB 0 2 0 2014 56-21 ULM 13 16 0 2012 16-42 UNLV 1 4 0 2014 36-14 UTA 11 4 1 1985 23-20 UTEP 14 6 3 2014 17-35 UTSA 0 2 0 2014 34-27 Utah State 3 4 0 2004 31-23 Vanderbilt 0 2 0 1997 12-29 Weber State 1 1 0 1971 0-20 Wesley College 1 0 0 1921 33-6 Western Kentucky 4 2 0 2012 24-25 West Texas State 17 6 0 1983 32-3 Wichita State 11 5 1 1974 10-10 Youngstown 2 0 0 1957 68-13