MeanGreenZen

F spending time with your family for the holdays! He had a college football game to be at. You get 12 of those a year and your whole scholarship is based on your attendance and production at those games. No way Mac sent him home with a pat on the head, a side of stuffing and a bottle of wine for his family. Every player, coach and Diet Coke boy on that team has family they could have spent the day with. The backup QB doesn't just get left off the travel squad. He must have done something to lose the priveledge of attending the game. DW is as good as gone already. Too bad, but the only person he can blame is himself. Good luck at Prairie View A&M or Sul Ross State next season. Hope their strength coach doesn't post the results of their offseason workouts on Facebook.

Where is DW going to go? You think any program superior to ours is going to find a scholarship for a QB who can't show up to practice and talks smack about his program on social media? DW needs UNT as bad as UNT needs DW. Mac and DW BOTH need to change or we are destined for another horrible, boring, hopeless season.

This is the most boring football team ever. Why would anyone who doesn't have a kid on the team or a compulsion towards punishment watch this? Also, I have a nickname for Andrew McNulty: "3 and Out". Can anyone beat that? The only bright side about following this team this season is that I now know the signs to look for to tell if I am having a stroke.

http://t.co/igBThrjEDu Player transfers TO Texas A&M and is quickly approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse. Player transfers FROM Texas A&M to North Texas and NCAA Clearinghouse just lets the paperwork sit on their desk gathering dust...

http://t.co/igBThrjEDu Player transfers TO Texas A&M and is quickly approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse. Player transfers FROM Texas A&M to North Texas and NCAA Clearinghouse just lets the paperwork sit on their desk gathering dust...

He has not redshirted. Should be a transfer target for us.

Why do people keep saying this is a young team? It is NOT! What positions are we playing freshmen and sophomores? A couple guys on the defensive line and Kishon McClain? And I'm tired of hearing people crying about losing last year's seniors. Did you think they were going to play here forever? EVERY college team loses seniors EVERY year. If EXPERIENCED COLLEGE COACH Dan McCarney with his "big ass ring" from Florida could recruit as well as TODD DODGE we could replace a senior class that included such IRREPLACEABLE players as 1 undrafted free agent that made an NFL roster. You know, some teams at our level have to replace multiple high NFL draft choices AND they keep winning. Coffee is for closers, McCarney! If you can't sell North Texas football to playmaking recruits with these facilities, this student support and the fantastic educational opportunities here, you can shove that "big ass ring" up your own rear and walk back to Iowa.

I like June Jones' idea of playing in the spring. More $$$ in it as networks are desperate for programming then and we aren't competing for attention with Big 12/SEC. NFL can have a supplemental draft after the season for the few players they would be interested in (It is a long time since Cody Spencer was drafted). This could be real, amateur college football played by guys who go to class and actually graduate. Screw the minor league system of hired labor these schools are creating on the back of student debt and an education economic bubble that is sure to pop soon. If we don't like the P5's rules, let's change the game. It would only take 1 conference to make this happen. Everybody plays everyone else once. Top 2 teams play at end of season for the title.

Have you ever smoked marijuana, Rick?

Great info!!!

Brooks has played in two games for Baylor this season and made one tackle. Would you rather start for a team that will always be fighting for bowl eligibility or barely play for a national title contender?

A track record of losing? UNT's overall record is 490-473-33. This is a place that has been down for a long, long time? You won a freaking bowl game last year! This is a crap comment by Mac and will only turn his supporters against him. Instead of saying "It's hard to get good players. Other people keep getting all the good players we want" why not say "We have to do a better job developing our players and recruiting great players"? Mac has some goodwill built up from the bowl win and I can get behind him admitting mistakes. Why trash the program you are trying to build?

Come on guys, how was our coaching staff supposed to know that Derek Thompson's eligibility was up after last season and they needed to recruit/develop a reliable quarterback to take his place? Also, I know Connor Means is winning the Underwear Olympics (he looks the part) but the guy completed less than 50% of his passes in high school last year. If anyone has ever needed a redshirt it's that dude.

If you ask me it is BS that we have a guy who is an NFL prospect at guard and make him play a position he doesn't have the footwork to handle. Not very fair to Lemon, but he is good soldier and does it even though it hurts his legacy and draft status.

Isn't that his point? With UT/OU/A&M always.getting the blue chippers in our backyard and EVERY other program in the country fighting for DFW's second-tier recruits, it makes it that much harder when programs like Baylor and TCU reach elite status. And I can remember MANY guys we have been recruiting in recent years who finally signed with TCU or Baylor. And if I wasn't so lazy, I would list some...

The schools don't have all the power. Kids can switch commitments any time. But a school should hold itself to a level of responsibility and accountability higher than that of an 18-year old kid. Your word should be your word. And it sounds like the kid doesn't understand and is butt hurt trying to get our coaches banned from his campus. This situation gives ammunition to the schools we recruit against, too. And Angelo State and Lamar don't need more help. Lol.

Unless we put an injury stipulation in our verbal scholarship offer, it is wrong to withdraw the offer because of injury. That is bad business. If we are so short on scholarships maybe we find a way out of having multiple scholarships devoted to long snappers. How many punters and kickers are on scholarship now?

Obviously we are entering a new era of UNT football: the era of the dominant quarterback. Because obviously. And since Dajon Williams will be the first in a USC-like run of amazing Mean Green QBs, he will need a nickname. Names like Broadway Joe, Johnny Football and Giovanni Vizza are already taken so my vote for his nickname is Great Dajon, mostly because he IS great, as evidenced by the many scoring drives he has led the offense on (in my mind) and also because it rhymes with Grey Poupon, which remains the best of the high-end mustards. Who is with me?

Or does Mac use this game as an opportunity to let Greer air it out, have some success and gain confidence that can carry over into the rest of the season? I'm not saying, I'm just saying...

105k people are at the Aggie game right now. They aren't there because they received an email or got a bi-weekly newsletter or saw a billboard or got a buy one get one free ticket. They aren't there because they got an excited automated voice message from the head coach imploring them to come. People don't go to college football games for those reasons. People go to college football games because that's what they did when they were students and they made a connection to their school and have a connection to the game day experience that transcended their graduation. They go because they want to see the friends they went to college with, who had the same experience, too. You guys keep griping because you aren't being harassed enough by telemarketers and want a stronger T-shirt gun at games. I'm just going to keep showing up because that's what I did when I went to school and it was fun. As more and more people have a similar experience the crowd will grow.

I saw that dude play in high school several games. Total gunslinger Johnny Football type. Very small. Way too exciting to play for Mac

#realfootballschoolproblems

You guys blaming marketing are full of it. I get phone calls, emails and see sponsored posts on social media all the time from the MG athletic department. Those guys do everything short of offering to have Rick V drive to my house himself in a James Wood automobile with two scoops of Beth Marie's ice cream to pick me up and take me to the game. You want to lower ticket prices? YOU CAN BUY SEASON TICKETS FOR $65!!! Even our music major alums can afford that. The focus on students has yielded great results. The student section was still full on Thursday until early in the fourth quarter when the game was way out of hand and the exodus to Fry Street began. You want energy, intensity and creativity from the pimple-faced minimum wage earning sophomore answering the phone for the ticket office? People with that kind of talent don't sit around memorizing ticket prices to road games and waiting for you to call and ask them about it. Did you try maybe calling Indiana directly and asking them about their tickets? It is not a meteoric rise to the top of the college football world. We started at the bottom not too long ago. Schedule interesting games at convenient times and alums will show up. Give them a good experience and they will come back. Keep doing that over and over and one day we will hit the mythical 30k. Oh and I forgot to mention, start Dajon Williams at quarterback. Once we do that terrorism will be permanently defeated, Ray Rice will stop beating his wife and cats and dogs will finally reconcile.

Selling out a 7,000 seat basketball arena on a slow weeknight against a marquee opponent is one thing. Filling up a 32k seat football stadium on a fall Saturday is totally different. SMU has the $ but they don't have the bodies to be a program any bigger than they are. They don't have many students and many of their alums move away from DFW. That program has a low ceiling and June Jones knew it. UNT has eclipsed SMU as a football program and there will be no looking back. The program all of us should fear making the leap into a Big 12-worthy program ahead of us is not SMU, it is UTSA.

Nothing ever ends well or else it would not end. June Jones took a team that hadn't been to a bowl in 25 years to 4 bowls in 6 full seasons. Under your logic Tom Landry was a failure and so was Ron Washington because they, like Jones, left at a low point after achieving great things. June Jones tenure at SMU was doomed as soon as he took the Arizona State job that fell through. He didn't REALLY want to be the head coach at SMU anymore and stopped doing the extra little things that had made him successful (which in my opinion is also what doomed Darrell Dickey at UNT). Jones' offensive system worked in the NFL and could still work in college. And Todd Dodge was horrible at developing recruits into good college football players. Dodge is not a coach I would compare to June Jones.