BillySee58

Portland State isn't winning with a bunch of class of 2015 freshman. They're transfer heavy. And for the 2016 class, they made their move to extend their coach before the current season ended. Because they're an FCS school they actually don't have to do much recruiting prior to December, which is after they would've locked him up or chosen to go with a new coach. We do actually have to do a substantial amount of recruiting before December, despite what Mccarney was trying to lead people to believe. We also actually need to recruit high school kids, who wouldn't want to sign to play for a coach who may be before their first semester ends. Very different situations, and not really an applicable comparison.

I disagree. You aren't going to be able to recruit anyone knowing the coach is on a one-year contract. There are plenty of good options available. We don't need Benford or Mccarney retained in any capacity. Let's just hire good coaches for once.

No more bumping this thread unless it's because UNT has started recruiting him. Ben, if you want our current or impending coaching staff to know about this kid, email them.

I don't think any of those other new hires would bring Smiley in as OC. They'd bring their own guy in.

Yes, that has to be a huge consideration. A big-school hire at UNT is not a guaranteed fail, but they have to have shown ability on their own, ceteris paribus.

I'm not concerned that it's old school or not sexy. What I'm concerned about is that during the modern era of college football, the G5/non-AQ schools that have made the big splashes nationally (undefeated, BCS games, etc) had spread offenses. I think we're capable of that, and going the spread offense route is our best option, IMO. It's like college basketball. The mid major teams that win can almost always move the ball around well and knock down 3s. They don't have the size advantage, so they can't just dump it down low and ask their bigs to go for 20 and 10 against powerhouse programs. In college football the G5 teams aren't going to have an offensive line that can physically impose themselves on P5 d-lines. So instead they use the spread to create mismatches and hit passes, rather than try and pound the ball. Make that 5-star 315 lb d-tackle chase guys around without a breather, rather than let him stuff the run. There's a lot more to it than that, but that's a reason why it has happened that way. It shows you that translatability is more important than a good resume.

I was looking at Smiley's resume, and I noticed some interesting things. For one, he's been in charge of recruiting DFW since the late 90's. Second, very interesting professional reference list. That list includes Scott Conley, UNT director of football operations. http://www2.tvcc.edu/SACS/files/Documents/Standard/CS 3.2.8/CS 3.2.8 (81) Brad Smiley Resume.pdf

Got around to watching the highlights. It did look how I remember it, for Smith. Regarding his garbage time stat padding, the good news is it looked like he was getting in a rhythm with his receivers and he was making plays. The bad news, at least from a translatability standpoint, is that his throws late were not in tight windows, and he didn't have to throw his receivers open. He just hit them. Certainly better than what we saw before, but with that I expect some more struggling from a guy who was 9-26 against the first team defense. A good week next week for the offense and defense would go a long way towards winning the UTSA and UTEP games. Defense gets a good offense, but a true freshman QB. Hopefully they can frustrated him some.

Harris will be gone before the new coach gets here

It's only one game, so he hasn't proven he is a better decision maker, yet. I do think he sees the field better and he looks like the game is moving slower than Dajon made it look. Dajon wasn't ready for that speed. Part of that is that Dajon was a redshirt freshman, and Smith is in his fifth year out of high school. Smith also has a stronger arm, although Dajon had a good one too, and I think Smith is a better runner (don't know who's necessarily faster). Smith's accuracy issue is a big one, though.

That's an exaggeration. Like someone else said, no way people would've been claiming that many drops had Mcnulty made the same throws against their ones. Skladany didn't get here until after Mccarney's first season here. Yeah, it's a shame but on the plus side we have a shot (much smaller shot with RV) at getting a coach who could actually fully utilize Smith's ability. He's got a long way to go, but he's got 6 games to improve. Should be fun to watch!

We get Smith for one more year after this season ends. I think he's better than Dajon, but his garbage time stat padding reminded me of Dajon against La Tech and Indiana's backups. D Smith gets 6 more games, but 4 are on the road. He has to be able to come out and silence the crowd before things get out of hand, especially as bad as this defense is. He had another fumble late in the game that WKU recovered in the endzone for a touchback, but it was offset because WKU's player couldn't get off the field so they had 12-men called. He gives our offense a lot of potential, especially with our skill guys. As for Means, I think it's just inaccuracy. His senior year of HS he only completed 49% of his passes. That is very bad for a player set to make the jump to FBS ball. Since he's been here it's been the same, from the very little I've seen (none in person). 6-15 last spring game, threw bad balls on air in the short MGS videos from camp, and hasn't passed anyone up. I think that's it.

Yes, thank you for the exact numbers. If we're going to have a chance against anyone outside of UTEP and UTSA, he will need to be much better. But he obviously can be. He will get all the reps going forward, as he should. It was also really good to get Kidsy going. Given his speed and ability, it's disappointing Kidsy only has a season and a half left here and hasn't given us more production. Mcnulty never spread the ball out much, and Kidsy was not one of the few guys he targeted regularly.

I don't see it happening with Chumley. He was in the stands last night. But even before that, he just isn't a D1 QB. Great ability and potential. A move to tight end would really be in his best interest. Dillman may be a good tight end, but we need him at QB. With no QB commit this class, most good QBs already being committed somewhere, and only Chumley and Means as current underclassmen QBs it would make sense to move him since the next coach may do it for those reasons.

Head coaches getting hired away usually do, but coordinators usually finish out. I don't have stats to back that up, but that's how I remember it usually being. Tom Herman for Ohio State and Jim Mcelwain for Alabama continued to call plays through their teams' national championship runs almost a month after accepting the jobs at Houston and Colorado State, respectively.

Outside of that sick Hail Mary throw he really struggled against the first team defense. He was something like 7-21 late in the third when WKU pulled Doughty. He's obviously far and away our best guy, and he looked very good at the end (albeit against backups). Still, he needs to work on completing passes in tight windows. The passes he was hitting at the end we're not really throws where there was a small margin for error. If he keeps coming along and taking care of things off the field the new head coach could have something to work with. And while we're righting Mccarney's wrong QB decisions, can we move Dillman to QB and let him get reps there? I don't want to roll with Greer and Means as our backups next year.

Mid-term (JUCO) signing day is mid December. If we get a coach whose team is in a bowl game then he won't be done with his responsibilities to get those guys here in time.

NT Daily just got one upped by Vito and the DRC

Lol at the username of the person who voted no.

I don't see how that will change a thing. RV got rid of the "problem" and anything that may happen tomorrow or this year was because of Mccarney.

RV staying confirmed?

I can't give any real reason outside coincidence as to why that was, but I also like that Smiley is from Louisiana. He's from Natchitoches and got his Masters at Northwestern State in Louisiana. In between Baylor, TVCC, and Louisiana there lies our biggest recruiting advantage in East Texas. Hopefully the next coach recruits locally well, which I think Smiley will, but East Texas is huge. So many good players, but very spread out. Most out of state coaches will fly to DFW, get a rental car, and drive all across DFW. Why drive an extra 2 hours out East to visit 4 kids when 2 hours driving in DFW you visit that many kid per school in DFW? That's a major reason those kids have less offers, which is to our advantage.

Yup. I'm thinking 75% chance RV makes the hire

I doubt he has that power. It would be better for the long term, obviously. No way Cosh stays. Even if he was doing a good job, the new coach is going to bring in his own coordinators. KP could actually stay, although I wouldn't say it's likely, just much moreso than Cosh.

Perry has to be most likely, especially since that's the guy we send out to TVCC. I would hope he would consider keeping KP. I think it's twice as easy to recruit quality CUSA-caliber recruits to UNT than it is to recruit quality BIG12-caliber recruits to Kansas.