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No kidding...$45 seems awfully high for a game that won't see 20k in a 70k stadium...

We don't click on offense for two simple reasons: the players on offense here (except the QBs) were recruited to play here in a polar opposite offense. And the system we are running has inexperienced QBs. As they get used to SL's system, the better things will eventually get.

His hiring certainly did. His scheduling is what keeps the dirt piled on. I still, for the life of me, cannot understand how we decided that FCS schools were worth paying to come here. Either we need all the money we can get from the body bag game or we should have been scheduling 4 OOC home-and-home series. The money we pay to get 16k to the watch a FCS spare just doesn't seem smart.

I say this, but we did apparently get lucky that Nicholls State came here in 2014 instead of this year...

It's so our luck for them to be good in the year we play them--just like Iowa last year.

Clemson is ahead of Troy at halftime, 13-10.

UGA ahead 20-14, late in the 3rd.

At the half in Athens, 10-7 Dawgs. FCS Nicholls State was the worst opponent I've ever watched us play, just two years ago. I guess their new coach has got things straightened out from when they came to Denton last time.

They've been known to throw batteries, bottles, etc... Trashy fanbase for a school that should be thankful that UT keeps them around...

FIU getting murdered at home by Maryland, 41-7 in the 4th. Too bad we don't have them on our CUSA East schedule this year.

Fair enough

Ben, I apologized to you...just accept it.

You are right, I shouldn't have put in the word "idiot"--I think I let my frustration with a few of the younger posters get the best of me. I agree with your last sentence, too. But this poll shows what most people around college football thinks of us currently. Look, I love the Littrell hire--I think he has everything we could ask for in a brand new head coach--young, energetic, bright, good family man, etc...What I fear around here, from reading so many posts is that there are a few folks here who have expressed views that we should be winning right away, that we should have beaten SMU, except for a few plays. Well, it may be true, but SMU whipped us for the most part--and they aren't good. They just happen to be further along on the rebuilding process. I just don't want the fanbase to get upset when we are losing a lot his year--we don't have the talent and what is here was recruited for a polar opposite offensive system. You sound like you understand this. But others get riled up because some other FBS school in the state won a game against a MAC school in 2OTs. Well, that other team may have lost scholarship players, too, but my guess is that their new coach didn't bring in an offense that was 180 degrees different from their previous coach, either. Nor did that team suffer a loss so catastrophic that the entire team's character had to come into question. Sorry for the insulting words earlier in the thread--I'll work to stay above that. And that even applies to Ben Gooding...

This. And if you are playing SMU every other year in Dallas, you can use that game as a pseudo-home game while playing a team in OOC at HOME that people want to see.

I've never seen a poster say they expect a certain number of wins, then not say who we will get those wins from. Its ok, if you're wrong, its an internet forum. Hell, if we win 3 or more games, the posts about Seth Littrell becoming a damn near legendary coach around here will never cease from me. I want Littrell to be our next Hayden Fry--and I think its reasonable to believe he can do that-- if he can get highly recruited Texas HS talent to come here and buy into his system. Its ok to recognize that we are basically kneeling on ashes right now, trying to even stand up again--its not going to make you less cool for being a UNT fan or that you'll look bad for admitting it.

You expect us to win 4 games this year, according to your post. We have 11 games left. How is that not part of the equation? I think its a big part of why we are considered last on this list--they are telling the college football world that they don't expect to see us win against any FBS teams on the schedule. I figure we have two games we win this year, BC and UTSA, with Army being hopefully competitive. Again, who are the 4 wins you expect us to get this season going to be against?

Aldo, tell me who the 4 opponents are that we beat this year that you are expecting us to beat...

Announced will be around 17,500--unless rain get In the way.

Whether we do or not, the point is to explain to homers on here that think we are going to win 6 or more games that we are still the worst FBS program in the country. Instead, we get hit with this is just an excuse for Seth Littrell to use as a crutch. The man has 68 Effing Scholarship players back from the worst team in the country last year that suffered the worst loss in modern college football history. And since Texas State beat Ohio in 2OTs, we are now supposed to expect more like Texas State? Guess what--Texas State would kill us right now...because they have FBS talent on their team across the board, even if it's SBC level. We don't...and Littrell knows it.

I think so, too. I feel like it will be a close win for the good guys, but probably settled very late. It seems funny to say this so early, but this will probably the biggest game of the year for the team and for Littrell. You lose, and 0-12 is a probability. You win, you move forward and you can tell recruits that we are moving upward from the depths of 2015.

Apparently not much at all, based off of the last 50 years or so.

Yeah, man!! We better get to 6 wins or Seth Littrell better GTFO!!

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/rankings/cbs/128

I can tell you that you should feel re-assured about playing the CUSA West teams--we might lose one or two along the way, but I am failry certain that most of CUSA West--and the SBC Western schools--will be the ones we are competing against for the long term. I really do believe Rice will move up to the AAC if/when UH leaves, but I don't see the other Texas schools in CUSA leaving anytime soon.

Maybe you should just go follow Texas State... Please...