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Never forget the effort that the team showed us against Portland State on Homecoming in 2015. That was the low point for any FBS football team in modern history. Complete quit by everyone.

Some P4 coach will say that this showed them how much heart Sheffield has whenever they pay him to leave here.

This. So many people on here just don’t understand that UNT Football isn’t going to be anything bigger than we have seen. It can’t, not with NIL and the portal mess allowing the P4s to buy away anyone with talent on the roster. So we will start over again next year with a different roster, same clueless coach who cannot figure out 4th down on offense (much, much less defense), and we will have a schedule that should be good for us, but in the end will be too tough. Rinse and repeat for the most part since 1995. High end is a 9 win season, low end is 1-2 wins.

Agreed--its not like he's had Todd Dodge level seasons here. But the thing with Morris is that he's inherited a situation much better off than what it was when Littrell got here and has done absolutely nothing with it. Right now, he just likes yet another Leach disciple that only focuses his entire time on one side of the ball and even that isn't that great.

That is usually a hill too steep for us to climb

Sadly, the teddy bear will probably enter the portal...

Can you imagine how nuclear this place will go if SMU makes the CFB playoff, UTSA wins a bowl game, and we get blown out by Texas State in a bowl game?

LOCK THE GATE

Its Boca, so they probably do have someone with deep pockets nearby. But they draw flies to games and always have. Surprised to see this idiot get bought out. Herman is one very strange dude.

You might want to stick to following tennis...

OOC scheduling for games at the Supet Pit has always been surprisingly hard for us. Now that we are in the AAC, you would think we could get some decent names here beyond one good program a season.

Look, they split the road trip against two solid teams. Move forward and learn from it.

My God, Cincy would get some serious revenge on the 2002 NO Bowl. Like by 50+

We still own UTEP and SHSU…I think

In their defense, they probably got influenced by free tickets, the DFW media swooning over them, and want to see why being a real winner feels like.

I think that the reality is that we are just incredibly spare. I watched the NO Blwls and loved it, but absolutely nobody besides the diehards in this site ever cared. We drew flies to games at a toilet of a stadium. As FFR mentioned, we had some great wins, but we usually just UNT’d the bed in OOC play. Once we lost Scott Hall at QB, like Mason Fine or Derek Thompson, we fell apart. Our alumni don’t care because the administration has never cared about winning. They don’t have to. We get plenty of new students every year. And they are completely content with music and arts being the primary window. Heck, a solid basketball program can’t get 35-40% of its arena filled. It never changes here because it’s not meant to change or ever will. It’s why 98% of the UNT alumni base walk away.

People loved Leach and they watched him raise Tech up to #2 that one miraculous time. But that system is only meant to compete over time against teams with less talent on defense. Whenever it faces ANYONE with legitimated defensive talent or coaching, it almost always loses. Tech, Wazzu, and MSU were always the same thing under Leach. But people adored Leach’s quirkiness and randomness, so he got a pass. These Leach disciples aren’t ever gonna win anything of note. And I completely blame Leach for his influence on turning TX HS football into glorified 7-on-7. Today, linemen and defense are hardly produced at any decent level in this state. Why? Because this crap doesn’t condone hitting in practice or focusing on defense. Instead, we get basketball scores for the winning teams.

I think FAU and UAB would’ve still beaten us in CUSA play in those years. We wouldn’t have scored enough against them, but probably lost closer games to them each.

They don’t ever care if fans support them Or not. They get paid and wait for their next gig up the food chain.

It’s what happens to every G5 and Lower P4 program…

It’s always their Super Bowl. And they always come ready for us when we go down there. We never match their energy or their strategy. We just bend over.

Dodge, Littrell, Morris…all spread offenses that rarely lead to anything of matter here. Go back to DickeyBall and McCarney’s Bus drivers…at least the games end faster when you lose.

We have been believing that since Fry left in 1978

Morris is showing his ass tonight…dumb coaching decisions in a rivalry game you need to have for recruiting purposes.

We have lost 4 of the last 5 against this program, 5-7 overall. UTSA has been playing FBS football since 2012. Since 2013, we have been in a conference with them. Through last season, they are 72-65. They've won 2 conference titles and have gone 1-4 in bowl games, while also being ranked. They've had three coaches. In the same category above, we are 63-71. No conference championships and have gone 1-6 in bowl games. We have had 4 head coaches. If we lose to them tonight, Morris will basically tell us that he just isn't going to be able to lift this program higher than it was when he took it over. UTSA in 2024 is not good. They're 4-5, with wins over Kennesaw State, Houston Christian, FAU, and (somehow) Memphis. Not counting having to sacrifice themselves to UT-Daddy, they've lost 4 games against peer programs, Texas State, ECU, Rice, and Tulsa. Maybe I'm wrong, but we should beat these guys, even on the road at a place that has been a house of horrors for us, if we have the right coach leading us. This is one of those games that will tell us in our hearts if we have someone worth a damn as the head coach or if he's no different than everyone else we always hire here.