untjim1995

We really need to consider if FBS is the level we should compete at if this is where we stand right now. There cannot be another FBS team in the country that is asking this question.

Great bump--this shows how starved our fanbase is for success...a lifetime contract? After a 9-4 season? The only lifetime contracts we give out aren't on paper--they are given by the BOR to our AD. ANd I'll believe he is gone only when he is officially walking out of the AD's office for the last time. Here's a hint--it ain't gonna be anytime soon. Flyonthewall and his wealthy buddies adore RV--so does the BOR, since he keeps us in budget.

After the 2017 season, I'd imagine that we would be best served by hiring a head coach from the head coach at Sam Houston or at another strong program at that level in the state. You're going to need a guy who has shown he can win as a head coach at a level above high school, is motivated to move upward in the coaching ranks, and sees UNT as a place to step up and get FBS experience. Major Applewhite, Kendal Briles, or Sonny Cumbie are all coaching at schools with great budgets and stadiums that get great opponents to recruit to. The jump down from their current or past schools to UNT would be a shock--just as it has been for McCarney. I am still 100% convinced that Mac thought he was getting a USF starter kit at UNT--instead he's learned that the advantages those other places have in place aren't here. I'd look at the head coaches at FCS schools or SBC schools that have recruited well in Texas and would like a raise, both in conference/division levels and in talent to recruit. I'll say this, if its an SBC coach, you had better be prepared to pay better than powerhouses ULL and Arky State currently pay. If you can't or won't do that, you might as well just fold up shop an drop down to FCS again.

I disagree. This team is made up of players that were from mostly recruiting classes from 2012-2014. We ranked 100th out of 126th in 2012, 118th out of 123 schools in 2013, and 123rd out of 123 in 2014. Granted, recruiting rankings aren't perfect, but as a whole, it tells you a lot about the entirety of the program. Sure, we have some talented kids. But the whole is very poor, which is why the results speak for themselves. The best you can hope for is that the class of 2015 that was ranked 90th out of 129, will have some more playmakers in it and we can see that experience pay off by 2017. That's all you can really see for any improved talent coming forward in the future, especially when you consider that the 2016 class will probably be just putrid now that the HoD Bowl season will be a distant memory.

The change that will occur at some point this season is to remove Chico from OC duties, then let him go at the end of the season, since his contract will be up. He will be used as the sacrificial scapegoat--blamed for our QB woes, as well as the offense's lack of production. Don't buy it--he's trying to recruit QBs to play an offense that most recruits' granddads played. He's a hand in poor development and his off-the-field tests are just stupid if McNulty is the only one that gets a good grade on them. But make no mistake, this is all about Mac's archaic view of offensive football. After 2016, the change will be at DC, where we will say that we need a new coordinator to come in and make the defense aggressive again. That will be your 2016 change. Then, in 2017 at some point, we will fire Mac...and RV will hire yet another revenue sport head coach to a 5-year contract. Rinse and repeat...to expect anything different is not to understand how things work around here. Dickey, Dodge, Mac, Benford, Shanice Stephens, and Mike Petersen...and the same guy who hired them or extended them is still in charge. Its just so typical North Texas logic toward sports, its not even funny...

Who the eff are we gonna beat to get to three wins on this schedule? Seriously, we are going to be doing great to win more than a game the rest of the season...

Just pray the check doesn't bounce...as long as the funds get received and they clear, this game has served its purpose for RV and the BOR.

RV thought that it was imperative to extend Mac five years after that HoD Bowl, when an extension of 2 years would have been just fine. He did this to show everyone that he finally got one right in his opinion--except that has backfired completely. Just as he was ready to give Benford an extension if could get to that high hurdle of .500 again last season--just to show everyone that one of his hires hadn't completely failed--RV is desperate to not have two major whiffs in the two main sports again. At this point, though, it isn't looking good for Benford at all, and he will be probably get replaced at some point in 2016.

The real problem is that no QB that can throw a ball more than 10 times a game will ever want to play here. This guy, as well as Bogenshutz at UTSA both play in offenses that allow them to throw the ball downfield more in one game than they would in a season here. They would throw lots of bubble screens and less than 5 yard passes, but that would be it. Seeing how 95% of Texas High Schools run the spread offense these days, where the QB make several throws and rarely gets hit hard, makes our offense look archaic--which it is. And now for the really depressing news--its gonna be this way thru 2016 at a minimum, but even more likely thru 2017, when Mac will just have one year left to be bought out. And, then at that point, he gets replaced by another coach hired by #UNTADforlife... Its just freaking depressing. Its like being here in 2008, after Rice crushed us 77-20, where they took off the entire 4th quarter. We were on our way to a miraculous 1 win season, and it was clear that Dodge was in over his head, but still would have 2 plus seasons left to go because we wouldn't buy out his $300k per year contract any earlier than with one season left to pay for. And that AD who hired Dodge and fired him was allowed to hire the next guy and as soon as Mac showed any decent sign of improvement, the AD extended him for the same amount of time that we hired him originally, just to look like he finally got a hire right in a revenue sport. Now, today, we are stuck--with a terrible offense, a terrible recruiting staff, and a terrible QB situation--and its here to stay for probably two more seasons beyond this one.

waiting on the. BOR to totally reverse their views on all of this might take a while--like a lifetime. At least we get to see if winning at revenue sports means anything to Smatresk. If it does, we will see what the BOR says. That's the only hope...

Realistic expectations for the rest of this year are pretty simple at this point--just develop talent for strength and experience. We might win a game or two, but the whole goal for the rest of this year should be to build up the lines and find a running back. The QB situation is hopeless here, so it is not getting fixed anytime soon. Next year, the depth and experience on the lines should help you get to 3-4 wins, which again, given the talent, is all that should be realistically expected. You cannot look at this as the head coach's 6th year with such expectations--this is what happens when your recruiting class for 2014 was dead-ass last by rivals. The talent from 2015's class was much better, but it's getting redshirted now or just a little playing time. By 2017, they should be able to be at a point to get to 5+ wins. Again, the expectations being asked are to be realistic--with Mac as the head coach, running an offense that nobody wants to play in, being owed three years more on the largest contract ever given by the university, this is all you should expect.

The only hope is Smatresk at this point

we don't do that kind of stuff, Matt...never have, never will. Buyouts are not happening if they are longer than a year. That's how we have gotten Vic Trilli, Todd Dodge, and Tony Benford. Mac will be here for another couple of years after this...

We will probably beat Portland State on Homecoming. But that's it. Getting killed at SMU damn guaranteed this. That team is terrible--they are not better than any other FBS team on our schedule. 1-11 is the most realistic outcome for our coach who still has two more years beyond this one to run his 1970 Woody Hayes offense...

1-11 or 0-12 is staring us in the face. There is just not enough developed talent on this roster and the schedule is full of teams waaaayyyyyyy ahead of where we are right now. When we lost at SMU, this became the reality. Only reason this game wasn't worse today is because Rice let up off the gas in the 4th. To me, without any doubt, the worst statistic to deal with is this one: Dan McCarney has three plus years left in his contract after this season is done. The chances of him still standing on the sidelines in 2017 are just too depressing to realize how high they truly are. And that the #UNTADforlife will be right there with him,

I still believe with all my heart that the I-aa decision to stay down at that level, while coupled with the SWC being at the top of its game during that time, just killed off too many donors, fans, season ticket holders, etc...and the Texas High School coaches and parents of the recruits have only known UNT as being small time and a loser, bring a bought opponent for the teams that they have grown up and followed.

It will be Greer or Means...

I've evolved on the music and arts thing...I don't blame us for lifting them up as the primary Windows to the university. It's what the strong majority wants. And presidents might want us to be a football factory, but the BOR controls that. I think it's rather obvious how they feel--or RV ain't still here.

What makes Minimac the worst option for this offense is that the OL is just young and inexperienced, so the other defense puts 8-9 in the box and Minimac isn't fast enough, nor posess a strong throwing arm. For those that have been around her for years, he's Richard Bridges 2.0. A really nice guy that works his tail off to the best of his abilities--which are just not that great compared to the other choices around him. But Dickey loved Bridge, because he was loyal and did what he was told without a fuss. And, to prove his point, he starts Bridges in a game at Texas Stadium against Tech instead of Scott Hall. And we get clobbered because we are so far behind, in part because Bridges couldn't make plays, especially in that antiquated offense. Sound familiar to anyone??

McCarney isn't going anywhere at the end of this season, nor is he probably going anywhere at the end of next season.

Here's my list of blame for THE problem--going backward McNulty stays as QB because he has the full faith and confidence of his dad's best friend from Iowa and because there's absolutely nothing that will be done to the stubborn head coach<====Losing your first game of 2015 badly to worst FBS team in 2014 because your QB play is below the average of your typical JV QB <====McNulty named as starter because he is a busdriver who tests well<==Canales' tests and poor development of QBs<===Mac's poor recruiting of QBs<=====Mac's Woody Hayes offensive gameplan<======Mac's extension with contract buyout we can't/won't take on<======RV's poor leadership and hiring/extending decision<======BOR making it all about known costs, not winning<===I-aa drop for 12 freaking years<=====Old Nestors wanting to keep football from becoming too big at North Texas<======Hayden Fry leaving because he couldn't get any decent support for a Top 20 ranked team<======SWC teams won't even consider us as members<======Apathy, both in Denton and outside of Denton about North Texas I think I covered it all...

Because we don't care about winning in them, plain and simple...we never have, either. We care about music, arts, and low cost tuition. That's why our Music Department is highly ranked in the country, that our arts school is top-notch, and we get ranked high in the country for being a top value. I wish we did care about winning in the revenue sports--it would be a ton of fun to proudly talk about MG football and basketball to my Aggie, Longhorn, Sooner, Razorback, Horned Frog, Bear, and many other fans, but I can't. What's even worse is that when we win, I get a very token, "How about UNT winning this weekend? I saw yall won over one of those airport school in Florida or just killed that FCS team." When we lose, like we did to freaking SMU, if I get anything, its "That Chad Morris was just an awesome hire.", as if we don't even belong on the same field as SMU. And nobody in UNT leadership even cares enough to enact changes to this mindset. Its as if they agree that we just don't belong on the same field as SMU, much less any other old SWC school, except for little ol' Rice. It really is just too bad...

I think Vito is a bit confused as to what Mac was telling him--he likes the balance when the punt and pass game are equal. Completions to punt ratio seems to be pretty close since 2014.

None...and it ain't close, either.

All we seem to hear is how hard it is here to recruit, how low our funds are, how little we care about athletics, how there's money to be used but the BOR won't let go of it... I think this part is great , though, right now for all of us. The situation with our athletic department and the two main sports is damn near dire. We keep losing, both on the scoreboard and at recruiting, while we just run out the clock on contracts until the buyout is deemed affordable. Because of this, rarely do you get the opportunity as fans of the program to get a clear idea of how the leadership of the university is or isn't going to fix this. Right now, we get to see if the President really cares about this beyond lip service. If he does, can he get the BOR on board to making changes, and at what degree can we make the changes. If it remains status quo around here, we all get to know it--which means that we can determine if we want to contribute to the program still with our $$$ and attendance. If the UNT leadership won't fix this--whether all at once or in incremental steps--the majority of donors and season ticket holders that are still on this MG ship are going to bail. To me, this will all be clearer as the months ahead progress forward. We get to see if Smatresk cares enough to even try and make changes, if the BOR will let him make personnel changes that he wants to make, and who he hires for each position. I really think that if things are going to get fixed in the athletic department, Smatresk has to replace RV--he can't let RV make another hire in one of the two main revenue sports, not with that track record. If RV is here for when Tony Benford gets replaced this upcoming season and is allowed to make the next hire, that will tell you all you need to know about the direction of the program. We get that Mac cannot go even if goes 0-12 this year (its possible) because RV gave him the ridiculous extension. But you can send a great signal to Mac that a new AD is coming and will make his life a living hell if he doesn't win soon in his next two years of his contract. To me, that's what you have to look forward to for the rest of 2015--seeing if we have a President who can rattle the cages and get things changed. Because without any substantive changes in personnel in the AD, that will confirm the status quo remains. And we all need to know if that is going to be the case going forward. Because if it is, most people will probably just walk away, never to be heard from again. If the BOR doesn't care that the Super Pit is at 50% attendance now, as compared to the previous coach's last season, or if it doesn't care that Apogee has about 3500 butts in seats for the last game of the season, then they shouldn't be surprised when even more people take away their support of the programs.