SilverEagle

He should have been put on scholarship the very day that he was named #2 behind C4. Not that anyone cares, but I'm still pissed about Shane Porter not being put on scholarship. It was reported on this board that he wanted to stay at NT but went to UTEP because they gave him a ship. This guy was the leading rusher (648 yrds) and he added 91 yards receiving. What the hell?

To me, most of the time when an injury is "faked" is when a team is desperately driving for a tie, or a win and they didn't get out of bounds, and they need to stop the clock. When that happens, the clock needs to start immediately when the "injured" player officially leaves the field. AND the only substitutions that are allowed is for the position of the "injured" player.

Which of our RB's (or future RB) suffered that injury?

Thanks. Based on his Minnesota highlight video, he truly looks like he has immense talent. At least against LaLa. Why did he transfer? Injury? If so, how bad?

Are there any videos of him demonstrating his immenseness on the field, in the heat of battle? @ HS or @ Minnesota.

Well we like to think that we've moved on a great deal since our days the Southland, but have we moved on as much as Texas State? Everyone still has their perception of Texas State that is stuck in the days of the Southland. But they have moved on people! Going to Texas State would be a good road trip for us. Their stadium has the same capacity as ours, and they brought more fans to a bowl game than us. And we are only about 35 miles from Ford Stadium. PLUS they have a better FOOTBALL BAND than us.......Bing Videos

Tulsa serves pretty much the same purpose. They are the Rice of Oklahoma. And I don't like them either. I used to hope we could develop a rivalry with Tulsa, but they (like Rice) don't seem to be the least bit interested. SO, as far as I'm concerned, they can both go off to some other conference and be aloof and indifferent to them.

Totally agree with this. I feel the same way about Rice.

I believe that that is just what happened at the end of fall practice when Coach M. installed Mestemaker as #2 in the QB lineup. And look how that turned out.

??? Where is this article/discussion located?

The Band and the Cheer staff and the Talons do not have a coordinated routine to engage the fans before or during the game. Other than the very generic "Go Mean-Green" we have no signature yell. We have no relentless signature chant, other than the very disjointed and often awkward "NORTH-TEXAS" chant. Which often ends very awkwardly. I've told this story several times in the past, so get your "roll-eyes" emojis ready. In 1990 I was invited to participate in a focus group. Dr. Peter Lane was the person leading the group, and basically, they were trying to determine if there was any interest in North Texas getting back into D-1 football, and what concerns (if any) that the group has about this prospect. The group seemed to feel that it was a good idea and so the meeting was coming to an end. At that point I asked if I could add something to the discussion. Dr. Lane reluctantly agreed. I said that when I go to North Texas games, I observe that we have a Band that shows up in the correct colored Uniform and plays their football play list along with other tunes. The cheer staff show up in their appropriately colored uniforms and proceed to do "cheer stuff".....mostly gymnastics. The football team shows up in their appropriately colored uniforms and goes about the business of trying to win a game in front of what always appears to me to be (for the most part) a somewhat disinterested and/or confused-about-their-role, crowd. I said that all of these aforementioned groups show up and meet the basic requirements of their roles and then leave. There doesn't appear that there is any connection between these groups, before, during, or after the game. I said that it looks more like a contracted event than a gathering of true fans who are celebrating our North Texas culture......whatever the hell that is. So here we are, 34 years later, and based on comments in this thread (and others) nothing has really changed since 1990. Oh, there is one change. When I visited with Dr. Cook a time or two three or four years ago, I told him that I always wondered why we didn't have a "North Texas" fanfare for the beginning of the Band's pre-game show. Like the Texas Band does. I said that surely someone in the most outstanding school of music in the southwest could come up something as relatively simple as that. Well, Dr. Cook came through for us. Thank you, Dr. Cook!

Well, since he installed him as the #2 back at the beginning of the season, I don't think it was a surprise to Coach Morris.

The Band has been a shell of what it used to be for at least a couple of decades. Our cheerleaders are gymnast only. They know nothing about promoting spirit. But then, neither does the Talons and neither does the Band.

It was just another comment amongst many others, in other threads. Including the "pump the breaks" etc. I need to go do something else, and so I just picked this thread to say something, while all my brain cells are focused.

So Coach Morris is overstating things regarding Mr. Mestemaker? How many more are going to come on and pick apart Coach Morris's expertise regarding QB's? He may or may not have been a significant part of the development and ultimate skillsets of two very impressive QB's (Mahomes and Ward) but he was certainly around them long enough to recognize traits of outstanding QB's. And so because of this experience (and expertise), he named Mr. "M" the first back-up to CM, way back at the beginning of the season. And this was with two QBs in the mix with state championships in their resume. SO, after Friday's performance by one of the most unlikely QB candidates in North Texas history, who the hell knows what he's talking about? Coach Morris, or the "my $100 bill is wrinkled" crowd?

Yep, pretty much. I was more impressed with their RS Freshman QB than I was him.

Yeah, he came alive in the second half. But the most impressive run that I've seen (so far) was by Ashton Jeany of BS. He took a hand off and got 10 yards for a first down. Not to impressive sounding in print, but I watched him get hit by six Penn State players and he pushed two of them for the last two yards across the first down line. THAT was an impressive run.

He kind of reminds me of Jim Taylor who played fullback for the Green Bay Packers during the Lombardi years. Jim Taylor (fullback) - Wikipedia (September 20, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons, with the Green Bay Packers from 1958 to 1966 and with the expansion New Orleans Saints in 1967. With the Packers, Taylor was invited to five straight Pro Bowls and won four NFL championships, as well as a victory in the first Super Bowl. He was recognized as the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP) after winning the rushing title in 1962, beating out Jim Brown. An aggressive player and fluent trash talker, Taylor developed several personal rivalries throughout his career, most notably with New York Giants linebacker Sam Huff. This confrontational attitude, combined with his tenacious running style, a penchant for contact, and ability to both withstand and deliver blows, earned him a reputation as one of the league's toughest players.

There he is. Ronnie Shanklin, big play specialist for the 69 NT Eagles.

Hurt my feelings? Here you go trying to marginalize again. I have absolutely no personal connection to Shane Porter, other than his representing my (our) school with extraordinary effort. I'm sorry you can't seem to see that.......or value his effort on behalf of our alma mater. You forgot a guy by the name of Abner Haynes. And right after him was Bobby Smith (#25 on your program) who was drafted by Buffalo. But one of my favorites of that era (60's) was the rushing leader for the 65 & 66 team, an ex-marine named Willie Cherry (#33 on your program). His numbers were pretty pathetic (397 and 218 respectively), by just about any era's standards, but his effort to get those numbers was pretty impressive. He was undersized, but he bit and clawed and gouged for every yard he got. In a lot of ways, Shane Porter reminds me of that guy.

After watching the highlights of the North Crowley win, my prediction is that Jimmerson will come to NT to get his QB skills fine-tuned. Then it will be off to play for Coach Prime.

Sadly, one of the only North Texas traditions that make it from one NT generation to another. Wrinkled $100 bills are just as valid today as when I originally coined that analogy back in about 1973. TCU, has "RIFF RAM BAH ZOO" and we have "wrinkled $100 bills".

Well, if he only makes one big play to help us win a bowl game, or conference championship game, or any game on our schedule that classifies as a "big time" game, then he has (IMHO) "taken us to the promise land". OR to use the newest football term "tush pushed" us into the promise land.....😎 And another thing. Please tell me the name of ANY RB in college history that personally took their team to the promise land. If you'll remember, we once had not one, but two, national rushing champions on our team. Neither of them took us to "the promise land". Unless you consider the NO bowl "the promise land". It distresses me to see the level of marginalization that is being directed at one of the most fiercely competitive, overachieving, players that ever put on a NT uniform. After reading all this, why should the other players on the team bust their collective asses for "good ol' North Texas"?

Couldn't agree more about Cobbs. As to Ragsdale, my observation was that he didn't stay healthy long enough in any season to be a dependable weapon. I trust Cobbs to assess and then develop anyone available....either right out of HS or a portal transfer. Porter is the prime example of what I am talking about. He transferred "officially" as a WR/DB and Cobbs (probably out of necessity) developed him into a very viable RB for spring practice. It carried over to the regular season.

They didn't go to SA? I've gone to two games there and they had a pep band at both. Besides, there is a huge difference between driving to Lubbock or SA and Denton to SMU.....which (according to my outdated Bing browser) is 42.2 miles.