MeanGreenZen

There are a lot of quarterbacks who had better TX high school football careers than most of those guys.

He is a kickoff specialist. Didn’t kick PATs or FGs at Baylor. I wonder if that is why he transferred?

Our 3rd string tight end is good enough for P5? This makes no sense to me.

Preferred walk-on?

Losing a 4-star QB doesn’t hurt your roster depth?

Coach Morris is almost 40 years old and has been a successful college head coach before. He doesn’t need a babysitter.

His age is irrelevant and actually works in his favor as teams will assume he has the maturity to handle a backup role. All that matters is he has three years of starting experience at a high level and one year of eligibility left. Proof that you are a semi-competent college football player is enough to justify scholarship offers (as depth) at the biggest of programs. Even freaking Jake Roberts is getting offers from blue bloods. Just wait and see what kind of offers Aune gets. They will blow your mind. (I suspect Aune wants to land at TCU. It is where he wanted to go in the first place, he can keep his house, they are losing their QB, Seth might end up there too)

Aune’s experience alone will get him a spot with a major P5. The old man got the majority of snaps at UNT for 3 seasons. That is incrediblely valuable. Even Alabama would want that type of experience on the roster as a 3rd string QB. Aune’s Twitter account is about to be posting offers from the biggest programs in college football. Now, am I super pumped to watch anyone other than Austin Aune QB’ing UNT next season? Hell yes.

Because the NCAA no longer exists.

Excited about this hire, but my question is: If Gilbert is so good, why did Texas let him go? They can certainly afford to pay him more than we can. It looks like his position with us is a promotion over what he was doing with Texas, but UT could have certainly money-whipped him to keep him at his previous job or promoted him themselves, especially if he was tied to certain must-have recruits. Did he not get along with Sarkisian? Not like Austin?

Does that work?

I bet the Yankees draft him AGAIN too.

Uhhhh… you qualified for a bowl game and get to play on national TV. That is the highest level over 99% of college football players will ever achieve. You have just 4-5 seasons of eligibility before you get to move on and get a normal job. Some players never qualify for a bowl game. You put in the work all season and you don’t see it through to the end? Finish what you started and don’t be selfish.

You would be dumb to enter the portal before a bowl game. You only get 4-5 chances in your life to play in a bowl game. Why waste one to enter the portal early? The portal is gonna be there after the bowl game. Also, the portal and signing day should be AFTER the season. So dumb that it is not.

Hahaha! Pitt crying when Jordan Addison was illegally recruited from them and then turns around and illegally recruits a player from us. I think this situation perfectly symbolizes the ethics of college athletics.

Hahaha! I remember those twins. They couldn’t step foot on the field without drawing a personal foul.

If Deshaun Watson can be the highest paid player in NFL history then Art Briles can be a college head coach again.

None of the coaches you listed are OLD. Gary Patterson is old. The game has passed him by. I am talking about old coaches moving to a lower level and starting over. It doesn’t work.

He has a NOTHING program in the Top 25. And he already turned down Texas Tech. He is front of the line for the biggest of biggest college football jobs.

Traylor derives much of his value from his Texas recruiting ties. Don’t know how well that translates to West Virgina or anywhere far from Texas. Traylor already turned down the third best coaching job in Texas. I can’t see him leaving for anything but a premier P5 gig. Probably next year when the Aggies finally fire Jimbo or if Sark has a .500 season. Another down year at OU could be interesting too.

Is consistently average-ish the best we can hope for as North Texas football fans?

That team is just better than us. Better players. Better coaches. Way more fans. Sucks.

How many old coaches ever get fired and then find IT again at a new school? Maybe Mack Brown. Not Dennis Franchionne. Not Larry Coker. Not Howard Schellenberger. Anyone? Gary Patterson had TCU with a losing record last year. They ditch Patterson and with the same dang team will probably play for a national title.

Was Wren Baker perfect? Hell no. Was he pretty damn good? He was. MBB coach was a home run hire. Managing realignment into American was great. He kept Littrell when we were all desperate to keep Littrell (although that turned out lukewarm). Softball improved under Wren and soccer remained excellent. Using the consultant to create the Mean Green Maniacs was also a great move. He did his job well here. I wish him success. I also expect his replacement to do just as good. Managing change is a big part of college athletics. We can do this!

Traylor was already offered a good P5 job at Tech and turned it down. He is getting paid at UTSA and has them in the Top 25 and now moving up a conference. Way easier to win at Tech than WV. Wren has no shot at Traylor. Now if Sark can’t ever figure it out or if the Aggies can afford to buy out Jimbo…