Cr1028

Thank you

(1.) 5-7, 9-3, 9-3, 4-8, 4-5, 6-6, 7-5. (2.) 4-8, 4-5, 5-7, 6-6, 7-5, 9-3, 9-3. (3.) 9-3, 9-3, 7-5, 6-6, 5-7, 4-5, 4-8. At what point would you have fired the coach with these 3 scenarios? Also, consider the coach with these scenarios would have inherited the worst fbs team in all of college football. Also, what would Morris need to do to merit firing after inheriting a conference championship contending bowl team? How many years does he get a pass? Does he get minimum 4 like Dodge?

I saw this the other day but chose not to post it because despite practicing, he has yet to be added to their roster. https://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports/photos-marshall-football-conducts-first-practice/collection_16c4c1b6-4bfd-5089-91e3-5d595e579dc0.html?mode=nowapp

And what did he do with those two seasons? He improved both years. The first year he knocked off a ranked and undefeated UTSA to get to bowl eligibility. The second year he was a pass interference call away from beating eventual champion UTSA in their house, led us to the second conference title game of his tenure, and another bowl game. You say “year 4 and 5” but with the staff turnover he face after 2018 and 2019, you could put him almost in the same category as a second year 1. This team was built to compete and was on the rise. Eric Morris decided he couldn’t build on that and chose to tear it down instead.

Littrell didn’t get a hall pass in 2020 when he had to use grad assistants for a qb coach and you never knew which players would be available week to week because of covid testing. Littrell didn’t get a hall pass in 2019 when his OC/quarterbacks coach, running backs coach, wide receivers coach, and co-DC/linebackers coach were all poached by big name/money schools. Why should Morris, who hails from the same coaching tree as Littrell, get a hall pass?

You serious Clark? You may need to revisit the 2017 class. You can’t be serious here. Morris took a 7-5 team that played in a conference championship game and a bowl game and led them to a 5-7 season facing essentially the same schedule as the year before except for Tulane being added. He got beat by FIU for crying out loud. We beat that team 52-14 and 49-7 in the two seasons prior to Morris’ arrival. He is a worse version of Littell.

Yea and I bet the $$ per win is similar too without needing to take 12 years of inflation into consideration.

So that excuses their poor performance? Why did we even bother paying them then? Why do people talk so much crap on Todd Dodge if he wasn’t expected to win because “resources”? What is the current guy’s excuse?

And trips to conferences championship games. Remember that thing we played in the year before our current coach got here to help us get worse. 4-6 was covid so throw that out. But I am sure you are right, we are much better off losing to the FIUs of the world who we absolutely destroyed during the last two seasons of Seth Littrell. Dude is the only coach to have 2 9-win seasons here since Hayden Fry. Yes he didn’t get us over the top but he was not mediocre. If Eric Morris ever wins 9 games in a season or makes the conference championship game, then you might change my mind. Until then, as far as I am concerned, we have downgraded our coaching staff in football.

How many North Texas coaches in our lifetime were less mediocre?

Back to “sittingathomeforbowlseasonville”

Yep. Two great Mean Green players for us and one pretty good coach too.

I hear you. All in favor of concerts and wrasslin’.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/curious-texas/2019/12/18/how-will-the-cotton-bowl-transform-into-an-ice-rink-curious-texas-skates-to-the-winter-classic/?outputType=amp After all the input costs, how could this possibly be a revenue raiser? I think you are pretty much stuck hosting concerts and maybe 7 on 7, select flag football tournaments.

What would be the incentive for those teams coming to DATCU?

There are Heisman trophy winning quarterbacks that were only offered as DBs at Texas. I never understood how they could miss so bad over there. Texas A&M offered me as a safety. Texas offered me as an athlete, which meant they could have put me at any position. I wanted to be able to go into the conference and show them why they should have offered me as a quarterback—to prove to them that they made that mistake. https://texashighways.com/culture/heisman-quarterback-nfl-commentator-robert-griffin-on-returning-to-texas/ “‘I think that's a big reason why I didn't go to the University of Texas. They wouldn't pull the trigger on me and my size at any position,' Manziel said. ‘They wanted me to play safety. Safety, me. Ain't got a lot of white safeties out there Shannon.'” https://clutchpoints.com/texas-football-news-johnny-manziel-drops-truth-bomb-longhorns-recruiting

No, Riley flipped his commitment to play with dad. Vizza transferred out after his sophomore season which was Riley’s true freshman season. Vizza was in the 2007 HS class and Riley was 2008.

The other guy was saying Vizza only played his freshman season of 2007 before being chased off by Rodge and I said that was false because in 2008 Vizza was still the qb for his sophomore season while Riley was a receiver during that 2008 season as a true freshman.

Yes that happened his freshman season of 2007. He came back and played his sophomore season in 2008 as well. https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/college_sports/college_football/article/ex-heights-qb-vizza-tossed-football-and-scored-817823.php

Can’t risk giving any advantages to the 7-6 6th best team in the Sun Belt.

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I’m disappointed in you fellas for leaving these gems out.

I had exactly the same list. Greene, Haynes, Mitchell, and Cobbs

You are absolutely wrong. I know for a fact Riley was still at Southlake in 2007 because I saw him at the OU game that year. I also know for a fact that Riley played receiver as a true freshman in 2008 while Vizza remained our starting quarterback. You may be correct about him transferring out because he expected Riley to take over in 2009, which would have been Vizza’s junior season. Or maybe it was other recreational activities that were the driver behind him moving on. Only Gio knows. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/giovanni-vizza-1/gamelog/2008/ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/riley-dodge-1/gamelog/2008/

Not entirely accurate. Vizza was our starter in 2007 and 2008. Riley played receiver as a true freshman in 2008 and because our starting quarterback in 2009 until he got injured. The start to the 2009 season was actually very exciting with Riley at the helm. We beat Ball State on the road and ended up losing a close overtime game to Ohio in a monsoon. Then the wheels began to fall off again. That Ohio game to this day was the biggest beatdown (weather wise) I have ever experienced, much worse than the 2021 UTSA game even though that one wasn’t pleasant.