emmitt01

Just realized Tony Bumford is an assistant coach there and now I want to beat them…by a lot.

They will come… When we play in a new arena, and The outside temperature is between 65 and 67 degrees, and We play a more exciting brand of basketball, and We play specific teams that excite them, and The game is late enough for them to make it after work, and The game is not so late that they can’t get home early, and Ticket prices are lower, and It’s the 30th of February. As soon as that happens…sell out!

I’ll take your starting 5 and reserves with two changes. Give me Umoja Gibson in place of Woolridge and JJ Murray over Reese* *My son would kill me for taking Reese out (he is his all-time favorite Mean Green player) but I think I have enough scoring and I can’t pass up JJ’s ability to take on the opposing team’s best scorer.

If you were given ten picks to build a roster (so, a starting five and five off the bench) made up exclusively of players from the McCasland/Hodge era…who ya got?

I'm a true Dentonite...I went up to the square for some J&J's

I was a student. It was always NORTH TEXAS game, and then pizza

I'm confused; am I a North Texas fan, or a fan of the other team? Last I checked, I show up to the Pit to watch North Texas play basketball because that's MY alma mater...the team on the opposing bench is peripheral to my reason for attending.

If he's gonna be in that #10 jersey, he has some big shoes to fill. If he can, we are in good shape.

You missed his point entirely. He’s not talking about having another“but Denton hates us” pity fest. if the same people (or just half of them) who can manage to make it to Datcu to watch a sub .500 team would make it literally across the street to the pit to watch a team that has won 🏆, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

If you read this article, it is clear that the Power 2 want to not only separate themselves from the G5 but they want to clearly distinguish themselves from the Big XII and ACC. I am a bit incredulous when it comes to being told that Congress (many of whom have degrees from Power 2 schools or could see big monetary contributions from these schools) is going to regulate what the NCAA cannot.

That’s just unfair. He did get into UNT…he just failed out and had to go to a backup school.

This is what I call a “growth game.” This is the kind of game Hodge can use the film from to show the team the razor thin margin between winning and losing against the best teams in our league. If we are who we hope we are, our team walks away from this knowing we CAN beat anyone come conference tourney time, we just have to execute.

Actually (and I hate to even type this because I was SOOOO excited to see EM acknowledge that getting under center is legal) we punched it in from a shotgun formation the play after we went under center

Then we are in lock step

Then EM has a whole lot of explaining to do if he kept a “franchise NFL quarterback” on the bench all year. And, by the way, he never said he was a franchise QB in the NFL, he said he shared some traits with NFL quarterbacks he’s been around. There’s a key distinction there. I’m not saying the kid didn’t ball out yesterday, he was a very very pleasant surprise and the team MVP, but he doesn’t have a Cam Ward body of work.

If we’re already comparing him to Cam Ward, we need to slam on the brakes like we’re trying to avoid rear ending a semi on the freeway

Let’s look at those turnovers. The first I put on him, he threw it straight to the defender (I remember saying immediately after that someone HAD to have run a bad route or fallen down for the INT to be that easy) The second one was a fumble when he was hit from the blind side after literally nobody tried to block the blitzer…a theme, by the way, during this game of defenders running free. Hard to blame the guy when he’s trying to keep his eyes downfield to make something, anything, happen to keep us in the game. The third one was a desperation heave with (if I recall correctly) 8 seconds or so left in the game with no timeouts. Again, not sure how much I knock a kid for just trying to make a play there. The bottom line is this. A kid who was making his first start since he was a high school freshman was asked to carry our team in a bowl game…and he damn near pulled it off

So, you are either so oblivious you don’t know we brought in a transfer from Miami or you somehow forgot. Either way, we didn’t bring that kid in to not play. I think Mestemaker should DEFINITELY get the chance to compete for the job, but he may be caught behind other options who are already penciled in.

That kid played his ass off...and you'll never see him again 393 yards and 2 TD's passing...96 yards (led the team) and a TD rushing

Yes, PM me a phone number and I’ll transfer them to you

The comparisons of Boise State to us (an anyone else in G5 really) reminds me of an old Sesame Street song. Boise is an established brand and accepted by the college football powers that be...and even their CFP appearance this year is unlikely to be repeated because the way seedings are done is being reconsidered as we speak.

He’s supposed to make the hit below the head/neck area