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He is really a perfect fit as an OC. He doesn't have to interact with the media or fans as much as the head coach does, plus he can use his time to focus on installing offensive schemes that the head coach wants him to implement. He also can't let the outside influences of the situation cause him to build an offense around his personal views of the situation, but instead focus on what the head coach wants.

It was probably the best thing Parker ever did. We all had to learn the alma mater and sing it everyday at lunch during two-a-days. That way, all the freshmen had to learn it, too...

This. The year SMU just endured under Morris was a retrenching year for them. Them getting two wins was just gravy. Just getting a head coach that seems to know how to run an offense and talk to high school coaches in Texas was the biggest thing SMU accomplished in 2015. Everything else that occurred--their two wins, the playing experience, the changing of attitudes in and around the locker room--are all secondary to getting a guy in there that can turn the thing around possibly in 2 or 3 years. Everything you just read above, change SMU to UNT, change Morris to Littrell, and change 2015 to 2016.

There's not much sunshine to pump these days, but hope springs eternal... Littrell has to overcome A LOT of hurdles, but maybe he can achieve something good here. He is hamstrung with a terrible AD and culture of apathy, both of which will be very hard to defeat. But he might just be the guy to do it. Its hard to imagine that he will, based on the previous 35 years worth of football coaches, but I hope he does and I wish him luck.

Nah, if they have their 4th string QB stay in the game, they probably win over us. And if we played them in San Antonio, we would've gotten run over. No way we weren't the worst FBS team in the country this past year. You don't lose 66-7 at home against a team from FCS on your Homecoming and not be the worst team. We are somewhat lucky that Texas just happens to have 4 other FBS dregs in the state to recruit against in SMU, UTSA, UTEP, and Texas State. If Littrell can find a QB for his system in the next few years, he can easily vault us over these four squads and up to a level that Rice and La Tech are at right now in CUSA.

1.) First goal needs to be to analyze the roster and see who has talent to stay, as well as not having bad character flaws that have obviously hurt the locker room. 2.) See if you can get Dillman to be a QB in your system. If so, let him compete with Damarcus Smith for the starting job. 3.) See what you have on the offensive side of the ball to get a better idea of the players who can play in your wide-open system, versus Mac's Model T offense. 4.) Run off anyone who shows the propensity to quit during practice, conditioning drills, or going to class--not to mention if they cause any problems at all in the locker room. Run off whoever you deem necessary--the university's fans will understand, without even batting an eye. Everyone that quit on the program and caused the worst loss in modern college football history should have to prove they will never quit again. 5.) Use this first year wisely--its the only time that you'll get a full reprieve for terrible football. You are inheriting the worst FBS team in the country. The best recruiting class you are inheriting finished 90th out of 127, including one that was dead-ass last in 2014 and one that will probably be close to that this year, only because of the changes made now and the small window available for recruiting. This is time for character development, strength and conditioning, and gaining playing experience. If it comes with a 2 win season or worse, sobeit. 6.) Don't mention that you won a national championship at OU when you are being interviewed about North Texas.

If someone can photoshop this truck with green instead of blue, with our logo, that would hit it on the head...

TCU is the miracle here. They got great at the perfect time--when the Big XII falls apart from its original membership and the Aggies leave to go to the SEC, creating an opening in the conference. The Northern Big XII schools who depend on Texas recruiting give the mandate that A&M must be replaced with another Texas school, preferably one that is really good and can help get their alumni in DFW an easy game to watch. TCU, with its small enrollment, gets the nod over UH, all because they got a great football program before UH did. As for us, well, its really hard to imagine us moving too much further up the food chain. As was mentioned, SMU has the dollars, the tradition, the DFW media, and the location of being right in Dallas. They blocked us from CUSA for years until they decided to jump up to the Big East, until that turned into a fancier version of their previous conference. That allowed us to move up to their slot in CUSA, which has also turned into a fancier version of our previous conference, but gave us actual Texas schools to compete with for the first time in a FBS conference since the 60s. I think this is the perfect place for us right now, playing schools we should be able to compete with each year, hopefully being able to win.

UH is a great story this season--but their location is the killer. The Big XII and SEC don't get anything extra from adding UH. The Pac-12 might be their best bet, or the ACC, but I expect that the Texoma Four will go west to the Pac, when the GOR for the Big XII expires in 2025. The Big XII is DOA. It doesn't have the TV sets that the other conferences have, nor the prestige. The B1G, ACC, and SEC will choose from the carnage. KU, WVU, and possibly K-State will find homes in the other leagues. Iowa State, Baylor, and TCU have their work cut out for them. My guess is that the P4 will break apart, but they will throw a bone to those G5 programs that are better than the P4s bottom teams, programs like UH, Boise State, Memphis, etc...They will let them be a BYU-type possibility--be independent, still get considered as a possible contender, and treated like a quasi-Power league member. It won't surprise me at all to see independents in football come back into vogue again, like they were until the early 90s. Houston, Baylor, TCU, Boise State, UCF, and a few others might just follow the lead of BYU and kick it old school again, just to have some hope of getting some P4 $$$, both in regular season games, as well as possible bowl games. Right now, BYU has scheduling problems that they somehow are able to get resolved. But if they got some of the programs to follow suit, these schools could easily play each other, plus 3-4 P4 games a year. It won't surprise me if this has some of this programs hang on for awhile, to see if they can make it financially and competitively--assuming that they still have conferences to be a apart of, like BYU does, for their other sports.

As predicted, Rob Evans will be our interim coach at some point in early 2016. Once a winning season is out of question, Benford will get the Dodge treatment...

FIFY

Awesome, that means the MGC should grow by about 6 people this year...

If he comes here, and that is a still a bigger if than we want to acknowledge at this point, it will all about finding a QB that can play in his offense. Most likely, that person isn't here as a QB right now (Dillman??), so if he has to go out into the JUCO ranks or start a true freshman, that new QB will need time to grow, for sure. I can tell you that his starting QB won't be one of the guys on the roster currently as a QB. Damarcus Smith will be a fine backup, but Greer should be gone very soon, and the others aren't built for this kind of offense, either, so a few of them will probably be gone, as well, or at least staying at the bottom of the depth chart.

If he can make that offense go, like it has under Fuente, then he can be very successful. But that requires a good passing game, something he isn't known to like. Maybe it will be different for him as he sits at a place where recruiting is much easier and support, both financially and in attendance, will dwarf anything he dealt with here. But a big part of me wants to see a Sportscenter highlight of Memphis fans screaming, "Throw the ball!! Throw the ball" during a loss to some AAC team...#MGschadenfreude

You very well may be right, but I figured once Tulane, Tulsa, ECU, and UAB left, that the conference schedules would look like other conferences do when they play cross-divisional games. Maybe not... I just know that Marshall, WKU, and MUTS are miles and miles ahead of F_U, ODU, and Charlotte in the east...and us in the west.

Truth in advertising... This one will not be close. UTA by 20+.

Why wouldn't we see them? Don't you usually play a home-and-home series with the teams from the other division every two years? In 2014, we played the F_Us and UAB. I just figured that was how it would be done going forward in CUSA, since its done that way in every other cross-division in other conferences. If not, and we play some combo of the F_Us and one against Charlotte/ODU, with two of them being here, I could see potential, certainly, for a couple of more wins. I still think 2-10 or 3-9 is the ceiling for this thing next season, with the little talent and a roster full of guys who showed they will quit on the university, but maybe the scheduling gods will help our situation by giving us 3 more of the worst FBS school in the country to play against, along with UTSA, UTEP, SMU, and Army.

This was the perfect ending to this season. Let's play everyone and give out participation ribbons!! You tried hard!! No one will ever convince me this wasn't the worst team we have ever fielded in the last 40 years of UNT Football and that it wasn't the worst FBS team in the country. It reminds me of Mike Rhyner's opinion on the 1992 Mavs that won 11 games, avoiding the worst record of all-time in the NBA--there may be records or stats that say differently, but you'll never convince me that they weren't the worst team of all time in the NBA. That's exactly how I feel about the 2015 UNT squad. Worst loss in modern football history. Worst QBs that a FBS squad has ever produced. Our only win was because a very bad UTSA team was down to their 4th and 5th string QBs and we still managed to win by scoring a TD late in the game at home to win. There may very well have been a few teams worst than this one in the previous years of FBS football, but for 2015, we were the worst. I have no doubt about that. 66-7 at home against FCS Portland State on Homecoming cemented that fact.

If we win 4 games next year, the next coach should be CUSA COY...we have no QB, no defense, and an entire offensive roster built for a 1970 scheme. If the schedule we played this year reverses in CUSA play, we will play SMU, Bethune-Cookman, @‌Army, and @ Florida in OOC. We play the CUSA West teams, with the ones we are competitive with (UTSA and UTEP) on the road, as well as at Rice, while playing home games against La Tech, CUSA West champion USM, Marshall, and MUTS, and at CUSA East Champion WKU. I see us winning at home against BC, most likely. We should be able to compete for a win against this crew (@Army, SMU, @‌UTEP, and @UTSA). The others are certain losses at this point. 2-10 seems realistic, in my opinion. 1-11 is very,very possible, but so is 3-9. Anything above this would be borderline miraculous at this point, with the roster we have, the schedule we play, and introducing a brand new coaching staff.

I have a hard time imagining us beating Charlotte or EMU, since our one win was over UTSA playing their 4th and 5th string QBs here at Apogee and we managed to win with a late TD. No way we beat either of those teams on the road, for sure, especially with McNulty or Greer playing QB.

This is very true, on every level. But, as with most managerial positions, the responsibility lies on the direct leader of the department that is under-performing. The GM of a baseball or football team may be the one responsible for the roster that sucks, but the head coach or coordinators are the ones who get the axe first, usually. Smatresk, RV, his 17 BFFs, and the BOR all have various levels of input. But the next hire that fails is still going to be considered a RV hire, both by fans and media. Smatresk isn't getting fired for the head coach sucking in football or hoops, nor or any member of the BOR. But at most schools, the AD would be on the chopping block in a minute. Just not here...for all of the reasons we have gone over infinitum RV will be here to make two hires that bring in revenue to the school, just not as much as it could easily do if we got someone in here that could win. That's well above my donation-grade, obviously. I accept that this is what the university finds acceptable. I like football and mens basketball, with teams that can compete to finish at least .500 while playing actual schools I have heard of before (not many of the schools Benford gets to play at the Pit in OOC). My university doesn't want that. And that's ok. I saw where we just got the oldest working organ in the state of Texas to be moved up here from Victoria and the university, rightfully, trumpeted that news on Facebook and other media outlets. That's the type of thing they are proud of and I have come to understand that there is nothing wrong with them wanting the music department to be their primary window. And its what a majority of the UNT Family wants, as well. Its certainly double the amount of people that are students or alumni that care about athletics around here. If you doubt that, look at the UNT Facebook page or the majority of letters to the editor of the DRC regarding athletic support at UNT. Its just not close...

In all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if TCU came up with more money since he will be the sole OC, most likely, and it was enough to sway him toward keeping things as is for him and his family right now. When you look at the roster here and the issues he would face, it probably made him realize that doubling his salary at TCU as the OC for a guy who isn't leaving anytime soon beats the hell out of tripling your salary and going to a barren wasteland of college football right now, with no light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon. We have no QB, no size on defense, and an entire set of offensive players built for an offense that is 180 degrees from Meacham's. When he was tripling his salary to take that on, it looked pretty attractive. When TCU doubles his pay and gives him the OC duty as his own, with a roster full of great talent that is a Big XII power right now, he probably found the current gig a heckuva lot better than the move up to Denton. Littrell may very well get another offer before its said and done. If so, we will find out just how badly he wants to get back closer to home.

The answer is simple...come on down, Bruce Chambers!!//RV

Get it right, MGT...his TD on Homecoming against FCS Portland State was against their 3rd and 4th stringers...#accuracy