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Cmon man...that's your reaction to someone who wrote an article that represents what the majority of college football media expects?

Rice probably brought about 25 people to WKU...a perfect reason why these G5s need to get aligned in conferences that are much closer geographically.

You know we are playing SMU, not Notre Dame, right?

Last year, I posted on here that if we couldn't beat SMU, 1-11 was a certainty--and that was what happened. This year, if we beat SMU, I think we will actually win 3 or more games. I'm on record that I think we are 2-10 or worse, but a win over SMU would really be a nice start to this year. We have these FBS opponents that our 68 scholarship players can probably compete with--SMU, Army, and UTSA. Beat SMU, Butt Cookman, and one or both of these other two and you have had a spectacular start to the Littrell Era here. There's many reasons we are generally rated as one of the three bottom teams in FBS right now, along with UMass and ULM, but its that depth that is the main one. And this SMU game in game one at home represents a GOLDEN CHANCE at a win, just because we won't have depth issues show up yet, as it will later in the season. Same goes for the Butt Cookman game.

Are those the 5 hookers that Craig James killed?

His last 5 years here set this place so far back in the minds of college conferences and media, we literally are stuck watching other CUSA teams get considerations we won't. Thats why I always say we started caring about this stuff too late to be able to move upward where I thought we would go 20+ years ago. RV being here 5-7 years too long just crushed our program because he had no idea how to hire a winner in the sports that matter.

SMU has Tulane, Tulsa, and probably Rice on their side for votes--always have. Those privates care for each other as much as possible. SMU would do what they did back when CUSA had an opening--back an out of state public school with no market (La Tech), just making it clear that they want nothing to do with a close conference rival not named TCU. It was a blimp to make sure UTEP got in before we did. Our only chance upward involves the MWC, but they are very content to wait out the Big XII and get the best of the leftovers, being TCU, Baylor, and others. Only other way things change is for CUSA to become the best G5 league and have the college football world openly say that. Right now, we are usually ranked with the MAC as the third or fourth best G5 league. That is probably our best chance to jump SMU on the college football totem pole.

Well, the good news is that Craig James wont show up for sure now...

I know I'm gonna hate myself for asking this, but why?

So, BYU and Cincy should be the two that get picked, with Memphis and Houston next. If that occurs, the AAC will replace Cincy with NIU, Memphis with MUTS, and Houston with Rice. CUSA would then replace MUTS and Rice with Arky State and ULL.

The Big XII will invite Cincy and BYU. The AAC replaces Cincy with Northern Illinois or Ohio.

I see a Grubes phone call to a sports radio station out of this market asking them, "How could this happen?" and setting a record for longest penalty kill on a sports station...

I think they will bring all 100 of them...

This is spot-on...

FIFY

The rivalry thing just doesn't really bother me that we don't have one that is a big deal yet. I expect that the UTSA thing will turn into one, though. Texas State would be a very smart one to start up again, as well. People around here are going to lose their $hit when SMU buys out this series. It is going to really, really bother them. But SMU only plays us when they need us. After the Death Penalty, we signed a 2 for 1 with them. In the mid 00's, when Phil Bennett was trying to get them bowl-eligible to save his job, they scheduled us. And when they are needing wins and a decent attendance to replace A&M and Tech not coming here anymore, they just call us. When they don't need this, they won't play us. They were nowhere to be found on our schedule from 1995-2004, when we moved back up to I-A and they fell backwards and we moved forward. It wasn't until we fell backwards that Bennett got us scheduled.

SMU 44 UNT 31 Just don't see our defense keeping Matt Davis contained...

Quint is one of the best movie characters of all time. "Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies, farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain..."

Don't you just love millennials...

Up votes are given just for saying hard-hitting stuff like 'We rock because I think so..." or "North Texas belongs in the SEC, Big XII, etc..."

Only thing missing is the albino squirrel that the kids want to become our mascot...

I can't speak for 90--he does it on his own pretty well...but I deal in reality. I saw us at 4-8 last year, beating SMU, Portland State, UTSA, and UTEP because we had the absolute worst QB situation I have ever seen us have--before the season started. But my caveat was a loss to SMU meant 1-11, almost guaranteed. It turns out, miraculously, we got there. I guess not picking us to go 8-4 before the season means that I was "rooting for failure", but it really just makes someone look incredibly out of touch to have thought this before last year. Or stubborn. Or not really anything but a homer. You haven't been around long enough to understand how much a season like last year hurts the program. It takes years to make your way back up from it, if you can make it back up. Don't just look at us, either. Look at USM, having to go 0-12, 1-11, and 3-9 before last year's 9 win season. Look at SMU--they won 1 game in 2014, 2 games last year (one of which was because they played us), and probably won't win 4 games this year. Its exactly why realistic fans KNOW that 2 wins this year will represent progress here. You're feeding the beast here, Quoner...kinda of UNT_Playmaker-like, just to go back in time.

Last year, before the SMU game, I said on here that if we couldn't beat them, there wasn't one other FBS school we could beat. Well, Portland State showed that we couldn't even beat a FCS team that was ok. If it wasn't for UTSA being down to their 5th string QB against us here in Denton, we would have been 0-12.

Just wonderful...another great thing to get made fun of this week by all my college football buddies... When will the marching band rankings come out? I want to dominate the locals in something and this is it...

I think he believes that going independent from the MVC wasn't a good move. IN hindsight, it wasn't, as Hayden put all his chips into getting us into the SWC. Once that didn't happen, he left, the university basically gave up on supporting football, and we got what we got--until Norval Pohl showed up. Our place in the current college football world isn't bad at all--we finally have Texas rivals in a conference, as well as two other recognizable names in La Tech and USM as division mates. But we are probably forever blocked behind SMU in the college football hierarchy because of their history, money, and location--for whatever reason(s), the conferences above us always look at SMU as delivering the DFW market over us, but they know that SMU's name is well known and their cheating gives them notoriety, which brings media coverage. Nationally, people still call us North Texas State, while even regionally, some people still think we aren't even FBS (see the Aledo HS recruit who had no idea we were even FBS). It would take winning at a level we never have to get us above SMU--unfortunately, their money will still always talk, as will their location. It was basically the Agent Orange being dropped on the program. It didn't kill it, but it might as well have. Even with the progress that we have seen, it was 25 years later than it should have been. And the patient, while looking healthy, still has the side effects of being around that Agent Orange for too long. The apathy, loss of alumni support, and lack of connection with the local residents in Denton are all less today than ever before---but that means we get 15-20k at games instead of 5-10k as we did 20 years ago,