untjim1995

loose: lose :: bear:bare

UNT--$1,000,000 UF--60 points

Its funny--we saw Southern Miss fall to the bottom of FBS in basically 2012 and 2013, then SMU in 2014, and then us in 2015. It now appears that Rice might be the biggest loser in 2016, based off of their start and playing under a coach who tried to leave in the offseason, like SMU basically did with June Jones. Just as we have seen USM run back upward quickly with the right hire, as well as the progress SMU has shown under Morris and the way that Littrell has reinvigorated Denton, if Bailiff gets fired soon, we can look at Rice as the next school that needs to find the right hire to rebuild up from the ashes...

And how realignment may affect our conference, as well.

I agree completely here. We have two teams left that are possible wins (Rice and UTSA), in my opinion. Rice looks like the best chance right now, just because its early and they have looked absolutely horrible. I fear that the UTSA game will be at a point when our depth issues start to really show up, not to mention their revenge factor from last season's ridiculous loss to us. But, again, if we pull off both of those two games on the road, and that gets us to 3 wins, I'll pronounce Seth Littrell as the best hire we have had here since Corky Nelson. Because if he pulls that off from what he inherited, it will be a great sign for our short-term future and his long-term future...

Our schedule for OOC is so frustrating, but there's not much that can be done, unless other FBS schools get openings on their schedules and then we can buy out the FCS opponents, which seems pretty far-fetched. RV's laziness as the AD shows in many ways, but the schedule is his lasting legacy of pure suckitude. So next year, we get Lamar and Army to go along with Rice, UTEP, UTSA, and an Eastern CUSA team out of this group (ODU, Charlotte, FAU, or FIU). Its not exactly what was promised when Apogee was being voted on, but its what we got with RV.

One of these days, we will beat one of these power conference teams, but we would do really well to avoid southern powers in the ACC, SEC, and Big XII. You can Still make a lot of money going to B1G or Pac schools. Yes, Iowa drilled our worst team we have ever had, but that was also Iowa's best team they have had in decades. In any previous season, Iowa has struggled in those OOC games that they have bought, which is why next season's bodybag game at least intrigues me that we can compete, unlike most of the years we have to play these games. The othr big issue I have with playing these southern schools, especially Arkansas, OU, A&M, Texas, or LSU is that those schools alrady have plenty of t-shirt fans and when we lose, it just further enables our alums and students to continue following those Power schools instead of our own.

Just a tad... Fine has a bright future here--he can actually throw a ball with accuracy more than 5 yards down the field. But I will add that McNulty is a great alum...

Well, in that vein, McNulty was offered a PWO status at Iowa--until Uncle Dan came to the rescue...

I love this picture--but the reason we don't get to use this venue to our advantage like we hoped is that the stadium NEVER looks like this, in terms of attendance, since that original opener against UH back in 2011. Our recruiting must get fixed with TX HS recruits, coaches, and parents. All they have basically known is that we are a loser and haven't really cared for too many of the last 25 years. And that apathy has rally rooted itself in the psyches of these of these adults. Now, it appears we are really trying to fix this, but it has to be seen by these TX HS coaches and parents. Dodge, because of his name, recruited here the best overall for his tenure here, while Dickey probably had the best class we have ever gotten. But overall, our recruiting has just been putrid. If Littrell and company can fix this, we will be on our way. If not, we will stay where we have basically been for the last 20 years in FBS play. And its that last part, that scares the hell out of me--because we wont be FBS much longer I we cannot get this fixed within the next 5 years, IMO. That ultimate FBS culling is coming--and I just think the teams in the MAC, CUSA, and SBC aren't going to be long for this level of play. At least the teams in the MWC, AAC, and leftovers of the Big XII when it folds, will still get to play the Power Leagues, which is why it is a must that we win soon in football and mens basketball, to get a spot in one of those leagues.

Winning on the road is a hard thing to do. Hell, even our best team in the last 12 years won 3 road games, the 2013 HoD Bowl Champs. Winning one road game would be awesome, even if you're looking at Rice, Army, and UTSA as winnable opponents--although I think Army will be much tougher than the other two teams. I think Littrell is a great hire--he will be a legitimate homerun hire if we win three or more games, in my opinion. Just gotta keep Fine healthy...as someone mentioned, I'd start Morris this week and play him a lot, just to let him get one more start here and take the hits of the Florida defense. Then, let Fine be the guy going forward. He is really the key here to winning another game or two this year.

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.