ColoradoEagle

At any school that actually took athletics seriously, a 47% drop in attendance over the course of two and a half years would have the AD and coach both gone. Not at UNT. Forget current and potential fan support, what matters is making a cheap/bad hire and then riding it out as long as possible.

Your thought process here is very entitled. I will (hopefully) always be a Mean Green fan, but I'm not going to lay down my money for tickets and gas, and an hour roundtrip to support this crap. If I still lived in Denton, I might make a game or two out of boredom, but I don't blame anyone for not showing up. This is a terrible product, and does not deserve support. Maybe that's offensive in the era of participation awards, but it's the truth.

If you like going to watch this stuff, and feel good about supporting the team, that's great. Do you. I will vote with my wallet and stay home. The AD can count on a season ticket purchase from me as soon as Benford is toast 4.5 years into his 5 year contract.

Put in my prediction of 52-31 UAB and people called me crazy. My hopes for this season were dashed last week; this week was just double confirmation. This is not a good football team, and I think after today, a lot more people realize that.

Out of the five turnovers observations I witnessed, this was the best.

Each of his points, (barely) translated to standard message board trolling:
SMU sucked against Baylor, but UNT sucked worse against UT-Austin. Greer was almost a Mustang until we found something better. Sed Ellis plays dual roles as a linebacker and a thief. UNT D-Line is inexperienced. It's cute that UNT thinks of SMU as a rival.

The archive of the show is up.

http://www.kntu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6322:dan-mccarney-show-&catid=12:unt-football&Itemid=17

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Some math for your ass...

The 2004 team finished the season at 7-5, against the second hardest schedule of the bowl years. The combined win percentage of teams they beat was 36%, while the teams they lost to was 60.5%. Their signature wins were against three teams with 5-7 records: MTSU, NMSU, and ULM. They did not beat anyone with a winning record.
The 2003 team finished the season at 9-4, playing the easiest (by far) schedule of the bowl years. The combined win percentage of teams they beat was just 29.6%, while the teams they lost to was 70.6%. Their signature win came against 6-6 Troy, although publicity wise the best win was against 3-9 Baylor.
The 2002 team finished the season at 8-5, and was technically the best team fielded during the bowl years. They faced the hardest schedule with the combined win percentage of teams they beat at 36.4%, while the teams they lost to was 72%. Their signature wins came against 7-5 New Mexico State and 7-7 Cincinnati.
The 2001 team finished the season at 5-7. The combined win percentage of teams they beat was 33.8%, while the teams they lost to was 58%. Their signature win was against 8-3 MTSU, and not much more needs to be said after that.
With all that said, here is 2013's team:

The 2013 team has a 5-3 record and has not yet finished the season. The combined win percentage of teams they've beaten is 37.8%, higher than any of the bowl years. The teams they lost to are currently at 69%. Their signature win is against 8-1 (.889) Ball State. The next closest quality win was against MTSU in 2001 (.727). Out of all the bowl years, the 2002 team was the only other one besides 2013 to beat both an opponent with a winning record and an opponent with a .500 record. If UNT wins Thursday, it will mark the first time since 1999 where the Mean Green have beaten two D1-A/FBS opponents with a winning record in the same season, barring a total collapse by Rice.
Also interesting is the combined winning percentage of teams we beat in 2011 was a measly 18.3%, versus in 2012 it was 36.5%. The 2011 team faced pretty unsurmountable odds with the teams that beat them racking up a 74.4% winning percentage.

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