Mean Green 93-98

49 (and counting!) new scholarship players in one class....I wonder how much that shatters whatever our previous record was.

In fairness, if we are going to take a flier on a low character guy, this is the low character guy* we want to take a flier on. He could be the most elite defensive player who has taken the field for us since Booger Kennedy. * I'm not saying he is low character. He's done some clearly bad things in times past, and it's certainly possible he's changed his course.

I remember this guy back several years ago was a Penn State commit, and he was one of the best commits in their class. Then he ran into some serious legal trouble so Penn State had to take away the offer. Hopefully, he's been keeping his nose clean.

The post to which I was responding literally said, "Compare [Morris's] record to [Sanders']." Of course coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly improve. It's hard to do much worse, right? But do they overwhelmingly improve by 3 wins? If not, then your attempted refutation of my point fails. And again, my point was not just that Morris didn't improve on our record; he also made it 2 wins worse. So again, my point that Deion did a better coaching job than Morris last year stands. I hope that changes next year.

Do coaches taking over teams with 0-2 wins overwhelmingly add 3 wins to that total their first year? Do coaches taking over teams with 6+ wins overwhelmingly subtract 2 wins from that total their first year? To insinuate that our coach did a better job than Deion did because he won one more game is absurd.

The Colorado coach won 4 games his first year, while taking over a team that only won one game the previous year. Deion clearly wins that battle over our coach.

This doesn't make much sense. You have to judge a coaching job based on what he stepped into. Littrell only won 5 games his first year; but considering he inherited a 1-win team and installed polar opposite offensive and defensive systems, that was a solid B+ coaching job. When Mosely hired Morris, the assumption was that he would be able to pick right up where Littrell left off and improve on it, considering they come from basically the same school of coaching. EDIT: Looks like @MeanGreenTexan was already typing the same thing when I started typing.

Fair enough. But personally, if I'm the professor, I'm weighing wins and losses a whole lot more heavily than stats. So taking a 7-win team--a record deemed unacceptable--down to a 5-win team has to get a bad grade.

That seems a little generous. I like the guy, and his offense shows promise. But when you clearly underperform the guy who just got fired, that has to be a D.

If Jerry Kill is part of the package, I'm in.

I assume you're talking about Alec Morris? It's not like he was a bust. It's just that Mason Fine exploded on the scene. And if the same thing happens with next fall's P5 transfer and new freshman on the scene, I'll be just fine with it.

Who were you hoping for?

This is a graduate transfer, correct?

Note in his H.S. Scouting Report whom the analyst uses as his "Comparison" QB: https://247sports.com/Player/chandler-morris-46040236/

They've mentioned him as a candidate. Most people think he would be crazy to leave UT for Alabama. About as likely as Kirby Smart leaving Georgia for Alabama.

I guess I missed something. . . . How is he polarizing?

With the current climate of players being able to transfer pretty much willy nilly, I can't see any reason why they wouldn't let a player out of his NLI under those conditions.

NIL or NLI (National Letter of Intent)?

If the coaches encouraged players to enter the portal . . . you're right, they technically still have no obligation to take them back. But it feels dirty. I view that a whole lot differently than when a player has decided he's too good for North Texas.

Personally, I think it's a very good response. Whether or not this leads to actual change remains to be seen, but they have actually taken action.

Expecting whoever is our starting QB next fall to be "just as potent" as Rogers was this past season is unrealistic. But it's not unrealistic that he could be part of an offense that wins more games next season than Rogers did.

Okay, so you're basically in agreement with me.