untjim1995

He's actually the ONLY coach in the last 20 years who hasn't taken a huge steaming crap on the program by the time they left Denton...but I forgot that we never, ever mention Hayden Fry around here and the success he had after he left UNT to go to Iowa.

He started both of them because he thought they could win games. When they proved they couldn't, he went back to what QB he knew would run the bus the way he wanted. He gave Greer 3 games. He then gave Dajon 3 games, which included Nicholls State. Both went 1 and 2. After that, McNulty started every game and went 2-4, beating both F-Us. He definitely wants to win, so he uses the QB that is the best on the roster to run his offense. Its just very telling that Andrew McNulty is your best QB option at an FBS university in the state of Texas and that your offense has an almost negative appeal to any decent QB prospect in the area you recruit. I agree completely on gameplans, but it was as clear as day that Coach Mac was never comfortable with the offense that Dajon had in place, so he went back tot he more conservative gameplan, but went with Minimac instead, since it was obvious to everyone that Greer cannot play FBS football.

It doesn't matter--McNulty is Mac's guy, so he will start. End of story. It sucks, but there's nothing we can do about it. Yeah, Dajon is probably the best QB on the team, but he doesn't have Mac's trust--at all. With coaches like McCarney, once trust is broken, its almost impossible to get it back together. That old-school thought process is just very different from today's laid-back, more hip coaches. For example, I doubt very seriously that Andrew McNulty would start over Dajon Williams in Lubbock for Kliff Kingsbury or at SMU with Chad Morris. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, either, as I think Kingsbury is in waaaayyyy over his head at tech and Morris will find out that SMU is just a cemetary for coaches to go and try to lead that program back up. But to old school coaches like McCarney, George O'Leary, Dennis Franchione, or Larry Coker, they aren't letting the leash get to far ahead of the dog...Unfortunately, of all those listed, Mac's offense is like Dickey's was--pretty much as boring as hell to watch and only effective with a strong defense and a strong running game. For those two coaches, the best QB you can get is a solid busdriver. Hall was that for Dickey, while Derek Thompson morphed into that in his senior year for McCarney. Other than that, giving Andrew Smith some sway since he passed away before we truly could see his skill set on the field as an upper classman, our best QBs here since we moved up to FBS in 1995 were Vizza, who got the $hit beat out of him becasue of a porous line and terrible gameplan, and Woody WIlson, who got all of about one game to show off his skills as a great freelance QB and beat SMU only to get yanked by Dickey for too much freelance in his mundane offense that managed to win a whopping 5 games after Hall graduated. Everyone else has basically gone from meh to suck in the last 20 years here.

or Jon Sharks...

Name one place Andrew McNUlty would be the starter. I can't...

This is where college football basically divides itself even further--now that the P5s can legally buy players, who doesn't think that those payouts aren't going to astronomically jump? Yeah, you have some G5s giving this lip service that they will pay to play, so to speak, and then you have a few G5s that actually can pay but have no fanbase to entice P5s to invite them up. I truly hate the idea of paying players to play college football when they get full scholarships to earn their degrees. The NFL must be laughing their asses off at the NCAA, which continually subsidizes their minor league system, just as the NBA laughs, too. If the price to play poker involves paying stipends of several thousand dollars, it makes bought games for schools like ours even more of a necessity. It probably goes back to having to play 2 road OOC games against P5s in the future. This is where the G5s are really stuck...

In my opinion, the real problem is that Andrew McNulty is your starting QB because not another one out of 8 on the roster is better, according to his coaches. But when you run an offense that Woody Hayes thinks is just the cats' meow, while the entire state you recruit basically plays in a glorified 7-on-7 offenses and have QBs that throw 50 times a game, you are setting yourself up to have your best QB be Andrew McNulty.

If you are insinuating that he could be fired because of this, the calendar says its 2015, which is Year 2 of Caoch Mac's 5-year deal. If this was 2017, you might be onto something. But right now, if Mac's head is on a platter, its gonna sit there and rot for another two years, bare minimum. I am 100% convinced that Mac will get the last year of that contract, assuming it doesn't get extended before then again, by announcing that he will retire in 2018. Could you imagine how happy the BOR would be to not have to pay two coaches at the same time?

Extension??

You've lost games to Texas State and UTSA in recent years...after being a SWC team. Now THAT is unfortunate...

8-9 man fronts are effective agains teams that cannot throw downfield with any accuracy. It gets even more effective whenyour opponent's defense cannot put pressure ont eh QB and force turnovers. Hence, the difference between UNT 2013 and UNT ever other season since 2005. Look, McNulty is a bus driver, nothing more, nothing less. He is a hand-it-off QB and throw bubble screens and short manageable passes QB. If this thing surprises us on offense,, its only because Wilson and Jimmerson have breakaway capabilities, especially in the backfield and at the LOS, where those 8-9 man fronts will present trouble. I can tell you this--our defense and special teams aren't at a 2013 level, where frequent TOs and big kickoff and punt returns gave DT's offense great field position or leads. McNulty won't have any of that. But, just in case you are still convinced that we are going to be similar to 2013's Mean Green, lets' compare the schedules: 2013 Idaho--W over worst FBS team @Ohio--L in a close game against asolid opponent where our QB threw a pick 6, IIRC Ball State-W at home in the afternoon of a sweltering day @Georgia--L, but special teams and defense kept us in it well into the 4th quarter @Tulane--L to a good CUSA opponent, who stakced the box against us and dared us to pass, which we didn't do MUTS--W--we dominated them @La tech--W--clobbered them on the road in Skip Holtz's first season @Southern Miss--W--clobbered them in coach's first season Rice--W--great win on Halloween where the defense and running game just pounded the Owls into submission UTEP--W--clobbered a really bad team on Homecoming UTSA--L--bad QB play caused us to lose, while their QB played great @Tulsa--W--crushed a really abd Tulsa team UNLV--W--HoD bowl game win in DT's best game ever 2015 @SMU--still a terrible FBS team, one of the absolute worst in football Rice--HIgh quality CUSA opponent, basicallly who we are striving to be @Iowa--Bodybag game I @Southern Miss--we gave them their only CUSA win last year in Denton Portland State--FCS team that no one in Texas cares about Western Kentucky--solid CUSA opponent, another program to emulate--get them on Thursday night @Marshall--one of the best G5 progrmas last year, will be epically tough on the road UTSA--our kryptonite @La Tech--becoming a solid team that befits their tradition of being a really good G5 program @Tennessee--Bodybag number 2 @MUTS--have gotten their act together again UTEP-- vastly improved team from the last time they were in Denton I see 2 teams that are almost absolute wins: @SMU and Portland State--lose either of those and you are in DEEP trouble. I see 2 teams that are possible wins--UTSA and UTEP I see 5 teams that a win is possible, but not probable--Rice, @USM, WKU, @La Tech, and @ MUTS I see 1 team that won't pay us to pound us into the ground-- at Marshall I see 2 teams that will pay us to beat us into submission--at Iowa and at Tennessee Our 2013 team would probably go 7-5 against this schedule, maybe 8-4 again. This year's team should get McCarney coach of the year votes if they finish .500 or better, because I see 4 games that are possible to probable wins, of which I think we win 3 (UTSA owns us...)

Thhink for a moment how incredible it is that Andrew McNulty is the #1 QB at a FBS school...not saying he shouldn't be the number one QB with what we have currently on the roster, but how amazing it is that out of all the candidates for that position, he is the clear choice as the best QB option in our coaches' eyes.

When Coach Mac was at ISU, they absolutely owned Iowa. He knew that game mattered more to ISU than it ever mattered to Iowa, so he got his team up for it and they usually won the game, no matter where it was played. Some years, that win was part of a winning season, but often it was a part of a losing season. I expect that the SMU series will look a lot like this to McCarney, too. He knows this is the one game that the fanbase wants more than anything else, which is just sad for a lot of reasons, chief of which is that SMU isn't anywhere close to the SWC version that the older alums hated so much. They are on par with La Tech or Rice, but that's what the fanbase wants, so I expect Coach Mac to continue to play this game up to his team and to the fans.

The guy has season tickets to football, he posts on here often, and wants us to act like a real athletic department at a large university. To me, that is completely in the best interest of the program. The only ways a small donor can put pressure on an AD are through money, attendance, and social media. Again, to me, the worst thing a fan can do is to just blindly support whatever they get spoonfed from losing ADs, coaches, and boosters who l ike being close to the leaders of the department. I've got no interest in knowing the AD personally, especially if that AD has no worries about ever losing his job.

Man, how did yall get an AD with such foresight and tenacity? I realize that a metropolis like Jonesboro, Arkansas is an attractive place to visit and the bump in recruiting must be phenomenal for Mizzou and Iowa State...I'm certain they just laughed at RV when he called them and asked them to come to podunk Denton in the middle of nowhere where their is certainly no talent to try and recruit. The sarcasm and irony here just hurts my fingers as I typed this post.

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UNT90s rants might wear on you, but you really cannot argue that he is dead-on about the scheduling suckiness of OOC teams in Apogee by RV. We were told that teams like Indiana and Houston would be the norm for OOC, that we could now attract bigger names here. Since then, we have played these home OOC games: Texas Southern, Idaho, Ball State, SMU, and Nicholls State. Beginning this season and going forward, we have home OOC games against Portland State (only one in 2015), SMU, Army, Lamar, Abilene Christian, and Incarnate Word. For a lot of fans, games against FCS competition isn't worth our money or our time. I didn't watch Texas Southern or NIcholls State come to Apogee, nor will I watch Portland State, Lamar, Abilene Christian, or Incarnate Word when they visit Denton. Idaho, Ball State, SMU, and Amry are fine, but they really should be the second game of OOC home scheduling, to be matched with a decent name from the other G5 leagues...I don't even expect a P5 game anymore, just give me a MWC (or BYU), AAC, or MAC school to fill out the schedule. I get that Big XII teams won't play here--they have nothing to gain from it, which is sad if for nothing else because a game at ULM is looked at as being more valuable than a game with UNT--but other P5s could have come here during the last few years, before they started tightening up their OOC schedules. Hell, I'd rather play Texas State in a long series to play along SMU and Army than to play those FCS or low level G5 spares...

UH only gets Houston's attention if they are winning big--if not, they are just like every other G5 in their urban markets. The number of t-shirt P5 fans in Houston is enormous, just like it is in DFW. Only difference for UH is that their only local competition is Rice. Meanwhile, the SWC locals run the DFW media when they aren't covering other P5 schools--plus we aren't located in the heart of the Metroplex's big cities, unlike the two private schools. This Herman guy at UH will find out one of two things in his time there: 1.) If he wins, he's gonna get a P5 job somewhere that will pay him a lot of money 2.) If he doesn't win, UH will fire him--they have the resources to do it, as well as the expectation within the university's "family" to do it

Why would they be meaningless playoff games? They certainly would have more merit than the spare bowl games we all are forced to play in, for the most part. Try to do something to create buzz for your brand of football--since the P5 media have already admitted that they give less than 5% of their time to non-P5 football during the regular season. Or we can just hope and pray the P5s will somehow keep paying for the G5s athletic budgets by buying them for blood-lettings in their stadiums each fall. I think that strategy has a shelf life that is nearing expiration, at least in my opinion...

Or the G5 could do something crazy--like make a playoff system of their own to be played while the P5s are waiting for their bowl games in late December/early January. A playoff system is always welcomed--and more importantly, covered by the media and attended by fans. Get rid of the cheap bowl games and get a 16 team G5 playoff system going, just like FCS does.

This SC kid is probably better off dropping to FCS instead, just to be eligible immediately. Plus, a lot of FCS teams play fun, wide-open offenses that throw the ball a lot...basically the polar opposite of McDickey Ball.

Its almost as if people are surprised that McNulty is Mac's guy...of course he's gonna start. He's the only QB on the enitre roster that Coach Mac trusts. Its never gonna be Greer because he doesn't trust him on the field. Its not gonna be Dajon because he doesn't trust him on or off the field. Even if the Juco QB can get here and be eligible, he won't have any of Mac's trust--he might be the second-string backup QB at best this season.

If someone protested loudly to the media about not going to listen to Governor Wendy Davis, they would look like just as big a loser as those complaining to the media about Greg Abbott. Shockingly, I didn't get on a high horse to make this very opinionated statement. Your post above is just your way of trying to make the current douchebags who are causing this issue to embarrass the university to be somehow understandable, probably because they are "on your side" politically. Guess what, if you defend this kind of stupidity (left or right), you're part of the problem in this country right now. All we do is demagogue others and never even listen to their views in a respectful manner. Just get to the media first or to your online social media group as fast as possible to create more angst. The country is more divided than ever--we literally have the least amount of cohesiveness ever as an American people. I don't know for certain that it will hurt our country even more in the future, but I know its not going to make it healthier, either. Civil debates and peaceful protests are one thing--obnoxious, run-to-your-favorite-media-outlet-and whine-without-showing-respect reactions are the polar opposite. I am a pretty strong Catholic--yet I often listen to speakers who look at the world in a very different way than my Catholic theology teaches if the topic interests me. Why? Because its the right thing to do, even if it makes my blood boil. I need to understand that view point better if I want to re-affirm my own view or to ask myself if that is a valid thought. My pastor at our church often talks about listening to other viewpoints, if for no other reason than to show others that you can respect their right to think differently. Now, if a Satanist shows up to defend his view in some talk, I don't have any interest to hear it, so I don't go. But I sure as hell don't cry to the media about it, like a child. I act like an adult and allow for adults to determine if a speaker is deemed worthy or valuable to the audience, which usually is shown by the crowd that shows up and its reaction to said speaker. If you go to a free speech, one protected by the Bill of Rights, just to shout it down or to interrupt it because you disagree with it, you're just an idiot--a selfish one, too. At least let someone speak their mind if they are invited, just as you would if you invited a guest into your home. If we followed that kind of logic, I have zero doubt that we would be a lot more civil toward each other today--insted of this "gotcha" mentality that exists in our society now, which provides absolutely no value whatsoever, in my opinion.

Seriously, why can't someone just be big enough to walk away if they don't like the invited speaker, particularly a political one, without making it into a huge spectacle? I just don't get it--what good does it do to hurl insults at a university for having the state's governor come and give a commencement speech, a state that just elected him, rather easily, I might add. I really don't get that at all, especially at a public university. The same would be the case if Ann Richards had given a commencement speech in Denton back in the 80s. It just makes you sound like the vocal minority that always whine about things when they don't go your way. Just don't go--that is your stance. But accept that a public university is made up of both Dems and Pubs. Its ok to get a liberal speaker, just as it is to get a conservative speaker. In the end, all this has done is show "intolerance" at a university--which is supposed to be the tower of virtue regarding diversity and tolerance of all things. If a LBGT commencement speaker showed up here, would there people who would go crazy? Yes and they would look remarkably stupid, just like the liberal loudmouths do right now. Its one thing to disagree and to not show up because you don't like the speaker's politics--by the way, that seems incredibly shallow to me--but to go and cry to the media about it is just so weak. I cannot stand Barack Obama, but I'd respectfully listen to a commencement talk he would give at a graduation if for no other reason than he was invited and asked to talk so he deserves to at least be heard, plus he's the freaking President, a position that deserves respect, whether its Bush or Obama or Clinton or Reagan. Same with the governor... We live in a world where the first thing people are taught to do when they don't agree with something as petty as a guest speaker at a college commencement is to go and stir up the hornet's nest in front of their desired media. Its beyond ridiculous, in my opinion...

This is just pathetic...