emmitt01

Ok, I'm gonna conduct and experiment. I want everyone to list your favorite color in response to this post. Now, I'm putting the over/under on a thread hijack at 2.

I'm not sure how I feel about the moves to WR. Are we so deep in the secondary that we can afford to move these two? I'm still looking at our numbers and seeing: Quinn B. Jackson Stickler Covington Nwigwe Muzzy And this on a team that doesn't throw more than 10-15 times a game with an inexperienced QB.

Ok, to get back on track. How about George Marshall's hands in big games plus Cougar McBride's off the field behavior plus Byerly's attention to detail in the classroom....

He's too high profile so we won't recruit him. I've heard from several people that we don't like to go hard after big name players for fear of the dissappointment.

I'm reading about all of these guys and how they've already committed to Big XII schools and it makes my head hurt. It seems like to a man their comments should read, "_____ says that the chance to play for _____ and sit the bench behind blue chip recruits from years past is what made his decision easy. 'I'm used to being the man at ___ high school but I really don't need all that pressure. When coach ____ lied to me and told me I'd see the field this year it was really exciting' _______ looks forward to years of having to compete with the guy in front of him and looking over his shoulder for the kid they're bringing in to take his job should he ever win it."

Ok, here's the deal. If you could somehow genetically take the skills, attributes, size, etc. from any three NT players past or present and put them together what would you do? You can build offensive players or defensive players...you can even combine a few offensive guys with a defensive guy. I'll give a few examples. Johnny Quinn's hands and route running plus Jon Ieans' size plus Brock McGrew's speed....Heisman Kevin Galbreath's running style plus Patrick Cobbs' vision plus Jamario's speed...split Heisman vote.

Ok, if you could pick a starting 11 on both sides of the ball from North Texas players who have played within the last 5 years (the Sun Belt title years) who would you choose. You have to project all players to their senior years (so if you pick somebody like Ajani Banks you can assume the 3-4 years of experience) and you can't go back further than players from the 2000 season. Now, once you've done this project how your team would fare against this year's schedule. You can assume that they are able to play every down. Here's my team: Defense CB- Don McGee CB- TJ Covington LB- Cody Spencer LB- Brad Kassell LB- Brandon Monroe Safeties- Jonas and Craig Jones DE- Adrian Awasom DE- Darrell Daniels DT- Brandon Kennedy DT- Isaac Thomas Offense QB1- Scott Hall QB1A- Drew Smith RB- Jamario Thomas FB- Kerona Henderson TE- Andy Blount TE- Jeff Muncheow OL- Nick Zuniga OL- Andy Brewster OL- J.R. Randle OL- Jason May WR- Johnny Quinn WR- Brandon Jackson I think this team would go 10-1 with several blowouts along the way. I'd but the LSU game at about a 17 point loss.

Points is the more important statistic as it tells you whether you are a complete player or just a "poacher." You'll see a lot of players at every level of soccer competition who have an impressive goals per game average but that number will also match their points per game average. That just means they wait for other people to do the dirty work of getting the ball and working it downfield then screams "pass" so that they can take shots.

Man this has got my pants doing a happy dance. Reaching out to Denton area kids is exactly what we need to be doing. Let's take it one step further though. We could have people on this board contribute money to get local kids to the games. We could come up with some cool name for it like "Adopt a kid" or "Scrappy's students" or, wait I've got it, how about....drum roll please....Kid's Korner!

The diet coke guy?

Ewww me next! Me next! I pick Ja'Mel Branch. I think he'll turn quite a few heads on BOTH sides of the ball.

"You're gonna Perri-lose"

So far I've seen an interception, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery as well as several QB pressures. No talent ever comes out of the Sun Belt.

Question (Victor): Do you think Louisiana-Lafayette deserves to be in a bowl game this fall? Commissioner Waters: Absolutely, and I'm working on creating one just for them. I think they will be an exciting option for a bowl, they have a significant fan following and their fans are incredibly loyal.

That's about on par with saying you own a used car...some might be impressed but in the end it aint exactly the best you could do.

De'Angelo Willliams- Memphis Though J-Mo and PC will show on numerous occasions to be more complete backs.

There is no way for this to be a bad thing. Every team we've played the last two years had known who PC and J-Mo were coming in and have gameplanned accordingly...to no avail (unless you're southern miss).

And exactly how many big hits did he take as the third string last year? Plumm I know that the "injury prone" tag is unfair but we're talking about a need position. If we don't have a quarterback with some experience in this offense teams will put 8,9, maybe even 10 in the box on every single play and take their chances...and Dickey will run right at them. You know it as well as I do. We are less than three weeks from LSU then we go on the road for a conference game. Even if you held him out of the LSU game you'd be throwing him into a possible 'must win' game on the road in Smurfboro.

I fear more bad news is on the horizon. The last few years this team has seemed snake bit, which makes the accomplishments all the more impressive but also begs the question of where they could be if every head was screwed on straight.

I and some of the "older" Talons have known that chant for years. Austin Talon found it one day and we used to yell it at games...the facial expressions of those around us were priceless.

Plumm I appreciate your defending the kid, and you are right we have no control over these things, but we're not talking just one or two injuries. He came in to NT with several injuries in high school, then hurts a shoulder which keeps him out of the spring, then hurts his head, THEN hurts his hamstring. If you're not worried about his durability then you must at least be concerned about the lack of continuous reps at the position.

We were 65 last year, let's hope for a jump up.

I find it funny that everyone picks us to crush La Tech and barely beat Tulsa when; 1)La Tech is on the road and Tulsa is at our house 2)Tulsa had one of 1A's worst defenses last year 3)Tulsa is the home opener

No, he's playing the shell game on the Jumbotron. "It's under helmet number 1!!....No, wait, it's under number 2!!"

Harry was reminded of an Eminem song?