golfingomez

geezus i am losing money like crazy right now in my pick-em challenge i picked against both CUSA teams tonight

and there it is

almost another TO there

hell yes!

no team that has a record as bad as ours has been for a decade can recruit well enough for any style of play... it's winning that brings the recruits... and as mentioned earlier, sh!t tons of money doesn't hurt... look at the upgrades to the locker rooms of Oregon and A&M these past few years and tell me 18 year olds don't consider the ridiculosity those places have

pretty sure my neighbors heard me laughing on this one

can't believe I'm saying this... Go Roadrunners.

i think we are missing a key point in this though... The big schools are all running the spread now! While this may seem like an obvious and irrelevant point, you have to remember why the spread was invented in the first place... Much like moneyball, the Spread was invented because it helped teams with smaller and inferior talent stand a chance against the schools with Big O-Lineman that could pound the ball. It was a market inefficiency. As long as you could find a QB who was accurate, you could spread a defense as far apart on the field as possible and beat them in one on one matchups. those big LBS designed to stop the run were getting torched, taking them out of the game. it spread from smaller high schools to the 5A level schools and then to college. Small college coaches used the spread to lure receivers to play for them and get the ball 80 times a year, instead of going to a power school where they would get the ball 50. The Spread is a genius design... later on it was tweaked by schools who saw the advantages of running the ball. So yes, while the rest of the country has been adjusting the past ten years, smaller schools rode the wave of slinging the ball around to get into the BCS and 'compete' with the bigger schools. It was something that only a few colleges were running as late as 2005... Now, everyone is running the spread, making it null as far as a competitive advantage goes... everyone on the field has been running the spread since middle school. they are used to seeing it and are prepared for it. TCU brought the 4-2-5 to the public eye, linebackers are slimmer and faster now to accommodate slot receivers and running down WR's. Everyone has adjusted. Now the market inefficiency is tight, power formations, featuring fullbacks and running backs. Teams like us need to be able to communicate to RB's, OL's and TE's that this is the place to be. We don't know yet if this is going to be something that will stick, but I think it's worth a shot. Yes, throwing the ball is important in being able to beat these P5 schools, but that doesn't mean you have to change your offensive schemes to throw the ball. Two of our best passing plays (IMO) last year were the TE fake block, then drag back across the defense (HOD Touchdown) and this play we ran against Rice where we had 3 RB's in the backfield, then they all went out on routes and led to a touchdown by Jim-Jim. thank you for reading my unnecessarily long post

what do you base this on?

best black jerseys ever

This morning I wore my Mean Green polo to work and stopped at an Einstein's Bagels on the way there... the young kid at the register took my order and then asked me if I went to UNT... told me he was going to be a junior this year... but the way he was excited about telling me that he is going to UNT made me happy... the pride is coming around guys

look, I understand the argument for a more revved up offense... but I like the attempt to keep the power game alive... it makes you unique, which in turn makes other teams have to get out of there regularly scheduled pre-game plans and gameplan specifically to stop us... it also is a big help to the Defense... getting that extra rest time and staying fresh helped our D last year when we started to get rolling... the last argument i have for it is that, Mac has got us winning... and I'll take the vanilla offense over the let's go crazy style anyday... it might not allow us to beat the big boys yet, but if we continue to play our style (and win), TE, FB, RB and OL recruits are going to want to come here, along with Defenses... those are my 2 cents, try not to spend it all in one place

here's the offense you want to run then http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/stats/_/id/249/year/2008/north-texas-mean-green looking at those stats, we managed 8.9 yards per completion... we ran more bubble screens under Dodge than I have seen any team do... ever... combined... we also won one game that year... against Western Kentucky... a team that had just moved to FBS football

but that is the best part of your song... matches up the best to the original

you didn't cry when Tune's dog ran away? heartless

I'm just going to assume that you weren't here for the Dodge years correct?

i agree... even after that nightmare in NO last year

Thank you God, you the best, Amen.

in relation to #3, wasn't QB a big question mark for the Horns in 2006? the had two freshman that they were trying to figure out who to play

at least 1 appearance in the College Football Playoff

I know this isn't what you said... but i read gold, chain and Ricky V. and this is all I could think of

I don't think Benford would have noticed had the Super Pit fallen into a sinkhole

good god... please let this happen on saturday

UT 31 UNT 17 prove me wrong Mean Green... I dare you