FirefightnRick

I still feel it was a mistake for Sam to leave FCS, but I've always felt K.C. Keeler was a special coach regardless of his age and would thrive. Check out how he's handled the jump to FBS and the NIL mess. Hat tip to @SUMG for the article. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/moneyball-at-sam-houston-how-the-bearkats-are-thriving-despite-the-least-amount-of-nil-in-the-fbs/ Rick

I am submitting a recommendation to name the next dorm after the blowhard clown for his appreciated achievement. Rick

Certainly one of the best. I’d add the late 60’s teams, the Chuck Mills teams of the 80’s, Lacroix’s group, Gary De Loach’s teams and of course Skladany. Just about every era had its share of violent hitters. Kim Phillips, Sean Wash, Lance White. But I’ll never forget Jonas Buckles and Craig Jone, and neither will anyone who got hit by them. With the new rules in place nowadays those times are long over. Rick

With his best DC, Skladany..(a.k.a The Morton’s Fisherman)… he came up 7 points short from winning a conference championship that year. Rick

ROTFLMAO! Hilarious! Rick

Only at North Texas would we have moronic fans defend getting our asses handed to us 66-21, and it wasn’t that close, during an early regional tv game. Rick

Memphis trying to run the score up on Florida State. Conference gonna be a blast!!! Rick

I’d like to see a defense-first minded head coach. We may not win many P4 games, but like Corky, Dickey and McCarney we’ll play well on the road most times and vie for a conference championship now and then. Since Dodge I’ve completely had it with the Chunk & Duck-minded guys. It’s defense first or nothing! Rick

Y’all just aren’t donating enough to the collective. Rick

…..because he was never a part of a defense this bad. Rick

We were nearly Carthel’d. That’s why guys like @SilverEagle @SUMG and myself wanted his daddy Don instead of McCarney. We would have gotten a two fer before Colby eventually won a natty at A@M Commerce. Those dudes can coach! Rick

I couldn’t agree more. Rick

Yup, I’ve had enough of that horseshit! Rick

Thanks again Matt. I had a great time. It was very cool of the team to come over and thank us. Rick

Thank y’all for the kind words. You know I’ve always felt like one of the most blessed people on earth for being able to share life with three different families. My family at home, my fire family at work and my Mean Green family. Emergency workers need their families to de stress and take their thoughts of the shift somewhere else, and this family, my Mean Green family has certainly done that for me. Whether we are fighting over our opinions on subjects of the moment, or loving each other in celebrating Mean Green successes…it’s all been a family to me and helped me focus on happier times. My last shift yesterday was an overwhelming day of emotion, reflection and joy seeing family and friends and coworkers one last time at the station. I greatly appreciate hearing from so many of you, and was especially proud seeing @SilverEagle repping the Mean Green at my station, as well as his Mean Green alumn son Jeff, or as he’s known now on the FWFD, Chief Covert. I hope to make more games now, hopefully more road games, though my wife’s Honey-Do list has now grown longer than a @PlummMeanGreen post on national “Stadium Day”. So I’ll see how it goes. So till the next tailgate,….It’s All Good And All Green. Rick

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And where were their fans? I didn’t see 10 people in blue and red. Really makes you wonder, other than just for no other reason than the exorbitant level of cash they have flowing to their athletes why any any of them would want to play for that program? To be ranked 32nd and can’t get anyone to travel 35 miles to see their team play, and a really good team at that? That’s really something else. Still, it was a solid, never give up fighting win by this team that was All Good And All Green! Rick

Tony Worrell, Chris Davis or Kenneth Lyons. Rick

LEARNING!!!!!!!! Rick

You know we may not be winning on the field right now but we damn sure win on game day, tailgating wise. I was thinking about it yesterday as I enjoyed some of the best food and drink with the best group of people you will ever encounter at Tony and Vic’s, and Scotty’s tailgates, and the day had me reflecting on how unbelievably fortunate we were to have the vast Mean Green Athletic estate to enjoy one of the most beautiful days of the year. Easily accessible lots, vast, wide open spaces and beautiful green belts in every direction that gives us access to tailgate under massive oak and pecan trees. It’s just beautiful to me. Many of you and myself have traveled the country attending these events over the years. In fact I was in Minneapolis the weekend the Gophers played Michigan back on the first weekend of October this season. As I drove around the tailgates at The Bank I actually felt sorry for their fans because it looked horrible and reminded me of what it would be like setting up a picnic in a WalMart parking lot in the center of a city landscape. What we are privileged with is truly a football game day Nirvana imo. Thank you again to Scott, Tony and Vic and everyone who invited SilverEagle and I to your tailgates. Y’all absolutely knocked it out of the park. Can’t wait to do it again. Rick

Happy Birthday Jack! I hope you have great day! Rick

Yes, and Memorial Stadium honors their 179 who died in WWII. And here is the unveiling of a statue honoring Maj. Gen. Rudder and the naming of Rudder Way. https://youtu.be/Z1mwUoOXLE4 Rick

I don’t know, it may just be me? But imo any school that has recently invested funding to renovate their stadium, which they have sold out nearly every game recently, every fall attempts to surpass its sister school by building this big of a bonfire every year, and who went out and acquired its own 3-inch M1902 Field Gun with matching caisson…. probably brings a good crowd to Denton and will be looking to steal our lunch money. This isn’t my grandmother’s Tarleton State University anymore. Maybe Phil and Jeff would like to join the rest of us in the 21st century? I hear it has a great, new groove. Rick

Team errors were my concern as well and part of why we finished third. In 6 crucial losses to WKY, UAB and Charlotte we committed 9 errors. Rick