BillySee58

A QB coach who could get Austin Aune up to 64% completion would not be taking a QB coach position at North Texas with no OC title.

Hypothetical: Let’s say before the season we hired a QB Coach who had the traditional D1 QB Coach resume. Former college QB with experience as a D1 QB coach. Then I told you that QB Coach was able to get Aune’s passer rating up 45 points from outside the top 100 up to 27th in the nation, got his completion percentage up about 6%, got his TD/INT ratio up from 1:1 to 2.5:1, and had him at tied for 4th in the country in TD passes, what would be your takeaway on the quality of that hire? Wouldn’t we all be applauding those improvements and crediting the QB coach for getting those type of results out of a QB who looked a bottom quarter of the FBS guy last year? Instead everyone still seems insistent that Bloesch can’t do the job and that we need to bring in a traditional QB coach at the expense of Clements who has done a really good job with the OL despite two third-year starters going down. It seems like the stance people dug into on Bloesch isn’t allowing them to be impartial about the results that a QB coach replacing a fired QB coach would normally be judged on.

When it comes to player additions, we get wrapped in the transfer portal or how highly rated or recruited the high school signings are. So walkons get overlooked even more than they normally have. Right now, our leader in passing (Aune), rushing (Adeyi), and receiving (Burns) were all walkons who have been here since their true freshman season. Also guys like our starting Right Guard Febechi Nwaiwu, rotation Edge Sifa Leota, and our team leader in interceptions and the NATIONAL LEADER in passes defended Ridge Texada. We overlook them, but luckily our coaching staff has still done their work to bring in solid walkons, and it is paying off big time.

Kadren Johnson is 3rd on the team in sacks with 3.5 and Jordan Smart has been a solid receiver addition. On the P5 side, Enoch Jackson at DT and Jay Maclin at receiver have been good. Good players to be had coming up and down from the portal. Just have to get the right ones.

Aune leads the conference in TD passes, 3rd in passing yards, 3rd in passer rating. I would say anywhere between 2nd to 4th is pretty fair. Frank Harris is the only QB who you wouldn’t have much of an argument saying Aune is ahead, even though Aune has a higher passer rating.

I have gone from hoping we don’t actually need the win against UAB, to now just expecting that’s a more likely than not win.

I agree but whoever selects for the HOF isn’t going to put all these qualifiers on his stats the way fed up fans do. They’re going to be taken at face value. After the next 3-5 games he could be anywhere from a lock for the HOF to not great odds at getting in. We’ll see how it shakes out, but this stuff will continue to be an afterthought to the result of these high-stakes games.

He’s 11-10 as a starter. Thompson was 18-19. His record is not bad enough to be precluded from HOF consideration, based on the bar that has been set.

He’s 5 TD passes from moving into 4th in school history and is 9 TD passes from setting the school single-season TD pass record. Already passed Thompson who we just inducted two years ago. Also 2nd in school history in 300-yard passing games. Would be hard to leave out a player that entrenched in the record books at the premier position in the sport.

ESPN didn’t give him credit for the third TD pass to Ragsdale. CBS has a different stat line. Regardless, I think everyone summed it up pretty well. Made some good throws, missed a fair share, but played at a level overall that should lead to at least two more wins and a CUSA championship appearance. Also, 23 TD passes with maybe 5 more games. Fine’s record is 31.

Again, my point is that many on here weren’t evaluating the current team honestly. You want to make an argument that we should move on from Littrell or bench Aune, there absolutely is an argument to be made. But we have played like a CUSA title contender this season, well before today. I don’t think our own fanbase has accurately marked our team as such because they are so fed up with Littrell and Aune.

Between Aune and Littrell, people have let their scorn prevent them from accurately evaluating things. Aune is having one of the best seasons in CUSA and has a 300 yard 3 TD-0 INT performance in a huge conference road game and the team has been a legit top 2 team in CUSA since the Memphis game. This result is a little surprising, but we’ve been playing really good ball. Losing at UTSA in the last seconds when they’ve won 10 straight CUSA home games was never the nail in Littrell or this team’s coffin like people were acting.

He’s on the sidelines, suited up. Just seems passed on the depth chart and not in the rotation.

Exhibit A on this one today in Houston. 1-7 Charlotte up 56-23 on Rice.

Unfortunately it’s going to take a really good record to accomplish this. We were 23-4 and we were barely in the top 40 NET ranking, and about the same when it came to the top 25 rankings. Something like 20-0 is probably what it would take to crack the top 25, given our schedule. Or maybe one loss if it’s close on the road to St. Mary’s and they end up being top 25 quality themselves. Being in the American should make it easier to boost the resume, but our non-conference predicament makes it tough.

Yeah it sounded like he said he’s faster than Javion in addition to saying he’s a better shooter. That would be a heck of a ball player. I’m still not expecting him to be CUSA player of the year like Javion, but I am expecting him to be legit offensive weapon. Also expecting it will take some time to get up to speed at the D1 level.

I was really intrigued by how much he was talking up Kai Huntsberry. I was fully expecting Martinez and Eady to be starters and key players on the team, but with Huntsberry was just hoping he could be a solid guard off the bench. He is much more of an unknown as a D2 guy compared to Martinez and Eady, who were both double digit scorers at D1 schools, but it sounds like he has a really impressive offensive skill set straight from Mccasland’s mouth.

“If only the portal had been around when I was coaching in college!” - Todd Dodge

Just had no decent QBs to work with his Junior and Senior seasons

Thank you

I’ve been looking through trying to see who are our career leaders for receiving stats from the tight end position. It’s a little difficult since our receiving stats are for all positions, meaning the all-time lists are dominated by receivers. For TD receptions in particular, Andy Blount certainly seems like he’d be at or near the top. He had 12 for his career and two seasons with 5. Marcus Smith had 6 back in 2014, and Jason Pirtle had 5 in a season back in 2019. On the current roster, Gumms is currently at 4 for the season. Who are some of the top tight ends we have had roll through here who would be contenders for the top of the record book?

He actually came back to finish. Class of 2020.

Aune had received more garbage time reps in 2019 behind Fine?

Thompson’s was 18-19

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