untjim1995

You posted just above that football was our only problem..

Our basketball teams have sucked something fierce for the last three years...

I thought he showed lots of flashes of greatness, but he showed even more rust from being wasted on the sidelines. I can see clearly why his style of play irritated McCarney so much--very modern QB that makes plays with his feet and arm...or basically the complete opposite of the McNulty Busdriver he adored. I think we would have beaten SMU with Damarcus Smith in the lineup, but I'm not sure if the team would have beaten Portland State or not, with the defense we are throwing out there. Keep in mind, that this is easily the worst defense we have fielded since the heart of the Dodge years, yet it took SMU three quarters to get anything of major note going on us. That's why we knew that losing to that squad was going to be very ominous to the rest of the season, a season that right now could really, really use this crazy thing called a bye week. But the greatest AD of all time didn't give us one this season, so playing the best team in our conference 5 days after suffering the worst loss in modern FBS football history, while breaking in a new QB and a new coach, went about how we expected it to go. The upside is that just like in the Dodge years, most of the time that we suffer an ass-kicking, at least the offense should be more exciting to watch. UTSA will beat us, since we are their rag doll, so it will be up to UTEP to hopefully mail it in at the end of the year when they come here after Turkey Day to play us. UTSA just dominated UTEP in El Paso a couple of weeks ago, so I figure that should be our one hope for a victory. Just to emphasize how awful this entire program is at this point, the average score of one of our games is now 50-17. That includes an FCS school, a team that was the absolute worst FBS team last year in SMU, another team that was the worst team in FBS in 2012 and 2013 in USM, then Rice, Iowa, and WKU. Its not an exaggeration to say that this team would challenge the 2008 Dodge team that went 1-11 and beat 0-12 WKU as its only win, as the worst team we have fielded since we moved back up in 1995. I am fairly certain that our last I-aa team in 1994, with Mitch Maher as our QB, would probably have beaten most of our teams we have rolled out since then.

I don't see us getting one, unless UTEP had mailed it in the weekend after Thanksgiving, in front of about 2000 at Apogee. Our defense is small, slow, and the scheme is just awful as far as pass defense goes.

this is how I imagine RV greets you...

Andrew McNulty's best position on the field is on the sidelines...

they don't care if they are the only ones there, just as long as they get to have access to all things UNT sports related with their AD buddy. it didn't bother them at all with the decline in attendance at the Super Pit and it won't bother them at Apogee.

So embarrassing to be connected to UNT Football right now...

Just left at halftime to take my seven year old son home. There were maybe 4000 butts in seats--WKU brought their usual allotment of a out 50 people. How this game got selected for a Thursday night TV game at the beginning of the year by CUSA just amazes me. Anytime we've played WKU here, a crowd of 10k butts in seats is really, really more than what should be expected.

nicely played, sir...

It appears that RV will be on the search committee for the next head coach. Whether he leads it or is just an equal part to a janitor on it, it doesn't really matter to me. If he's involved, it's sending the wrong message. It just amazes me how much the BOR and the UNT17 like RV...

I've been looking for that same coach for the last 25+ years...the reason we can't be one of the greats is fairly simple: the culture here doesn't want it to be great--many of the voices from the alumni, students, faculty, administration, and the local citizenry openly disdain the program's existence. If you can get that mindset to change even a little bit to be more pro-athletics, the sky would be the limit here. But, except for Hayden Fry's later years here in the late 70s, nobody has ever led us to a higher level.

A mass exodus is getting closer to occurring, Neal Smatresk...

Don't be surprised if an eagle's head ends up in your bed...wrapped in a gently used Jimmy John's wrapper.

fify

Be careful, UNT90...you're gonna be on the hit list of the UNT17--they're gonna protect their friend at all costs (literally)...

So embarrassing...on so many levels, just as bad as it can get for a school that is supposed to be a FBS program. The entire program needs a Mean Green enema at this point. The AD needs to be replaced, the head coach needs to be hired from far away from Denton, and the whole lot of coaches on the staff, as well as a huge chunk of the players need to go. Once you quit, you'll always quit--and let others around you see that quitting is acceptable.

UH has one P5 conference to join--and its remote, at best--the Pac-12. The Pac-12 needs a Texas presence, but won't take anyone but UT for academic reasons (Tech) or social reasons (Baylor). UH is now Tier 1 academically, IIRC, and would give the Pac-12 the chance to get all of the state's subscribers for their Pac-12 network, without waiting for the Big XII's GOR to expire in 2025. It wouldn't be that inconceivable to see the Pac-12 invite UH and another non-P5 team that brings a good sized western market for cable subscribers, like UNLV. That would give them TV sets in California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas, all before 2025. But I don't think the Pac-12 wants to expand anytime soon. The Big XII would be even more DOA if they added UH to their conference. No added TV market or added recruiting benefit. If the Big XII expands, which I now think it won't--it would add Cincinnati to the east and BYU. But the split of the TV money to lower the pie for the other ten Big XII schools is an ender. I do feel for UH--they have the size, academic prestige, and TV market to help conferences, but the Big XII future implosion will give the other Power Conferences better recognized programs to pull their way in the next shuffle. I still believe that UH will join Baylor, TCU, SMU, Tulane, Tulsa, and others in a new Big XII conference, but it won't be a power league. It will look like the American Athletic Conference after the Big East split for hoops. And it will be a really good league for G5s: TCU, SMU, Baylor, UH, Tulsa, Tulane, Memphis, Cincy, K-state, and Iowa State. I could see them even adding UTSA and UTEP, as well. CUSA would just replace those two, if that happened with NMSU and Texas State.

We will score more than we have all year, but we have no ability to stop WKU's offense. WKU 65 UNT 31

The guys on this team aren't exactly selling themselves as being a high-character group over the last 5 days...

And there's a 100% chance that rows at Apogee will be even easier to stretch out across in 2016...

At this point, anything to win a game might be accepted...

TCU had the two main advantages of having money and the old SWC pedigree to bring in good coaches and get good recruits. IIRC, LaDanian Timlinson chose TCU over UNT, even before Fran got there. Once they got good, Ft. Worth's civic pride in TCU really came out--supporting them with decent to really good support as the years went forward. With Boise, they took advantage of their location and the fact that they had no competition for fans in that location, which is a decent size town. They scheduled smartly for becoming a winner, then did something that few G5 teams ever do--they played and beat P5s wherever they played them. To me, the programs to look at and try to emulate are at UH and Fresno State. Get solid recruits that want to play near their homes, then win games against teams people have heard of and care about beating. For us, that means winning OOC games against FBS opponents and our Texas/Louisiana conference mates. Nobody cares in DFW about beating eastern schools in the SBCUSA, even if they are really good sometimes (see FIU, MUTS, or WKU). But DFW does pay attention when we get punched by a really bad SMU team or get bought by P5s every year to play "Drop the Soap" at their stadiums. I know UH has a higher pedigree for sports and academics right now, since they have money, but I still think we could mimic them if we can get a good hire.

This has to be a sock...I'm going with a new TFLF sock puppet. If not, your kid needs to get suspended for being socially stupid to post this at this time. But again, you're a sock, so I'm not talking to anyone connected to Carlos Harris...

I really don't think Mac looked at this job as a retirement gig from a recruiting standpoint. He just sucked at it, mostly because of the offense he stubbornly ran here. Again, fromt he high school coaches I've talked with, they really liked McCarney--they told me they thought he was a very positive and motivating guy that understood their career...but his offense was one that they couldn't relate to and their kids didn't know how to play anymore. That offense was viewed as boring and a bad fit for recruits. That mindset eventually affects recruiting of all aspects of your team because kids see who is going where and where they aren't going. The next coach has to understand the spread offense, run some form of it here, and help Texas HS coaches and the recruits understand that we now play an offense that resembles the one that 95% of high schools in this state run. Whether its an assistant coach or a previous head coach, its imperative we do that. The biggest problem, though, is that the talent here won't fit real well with that spread offense. But we saw that Dodge was able to take Dickey's Buick offense and get the offensive numbers up very quickly--it will take something very similar here in 2016 for us to see marked improvement on that side of the ball.