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@WanderingEagle and I are back to discuss the Mean Green victory and game 2 of the home stand against Tulsa Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/S-XQ5RAU6pk

Never popped up anywhere else. Left summer of 2015 after his redshirt freshman season and never showed up on any other college’s roster after that.

If Chandler Morris plays: UNT 41 Tulsa 24 If Chandler Morris doesn’t play: UNT 20 Tulsa 27

Something to keep in mind with Spruiells is that he still has a redshirt available. Allen and Brice have already redshirted but Spruiells could take a redshirt this season as long as he plays in 4 games or less. Might be the smart play given the ramp up these guys will likely need to get back in playing shape.

Absolutely. One of those plays that it’s easy to overlook the athletic difficulty because of how good these guys are. Excited to see if he can top it this week.

That’s the spirit!

Exactly. It’s a great way to ensure you will be mad throughout the regularly scheduled entertainment. I don’t know if it’s more of a human-nature thing or just a scarred UNT fan thing but it is pretty apparent people would rather bitch about the team doing poorly than give them their praise when they do well. Especially with someone like Caponi who our fanbase has completely turned on. It’s one thing that this message board gets flooded with criticism when the defense doesn’t do well, and that we don’t give him much credit when he does do well. It’s another that we have stopped actually analyzing the defense completely. We can admit it will take time to earn good graces back while also paying close attention to what is actually happening, and be honest in our evaluation even if it contradicts feelings we have going in.

Oh, swing and a miss! That Wyoming offense only picked up 240 yards and only scored 10 points.

Ugh, hate that it’s even arguable we have another game as bad as Cal on our resume this season. Surely nothing more like that, right?

They’re better than 8 other teams on our schedule. Means nothing if we don’t start playing better but we absolutely are capable of winning a decent amount of games this year. Now let’s play like it and not be the team that South Alabama fans wonder how they lost to us.

@WanderingEagle and I are back, facepalming with our left hand and holding our talons high in our right. Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun84GP25Cs Audio Only: https://sites.libsyn.com/482808/mean-green-gridiron-2024-episode-5-wyoming

This is such a North Texas overreaction. That’s what led to McCarney, and what led to Littrell. Thinking that a coach who had failed by the end needed to be replaced by the polar opposite type of coach. However, these offensive-minded coaches need an AD who can push back on short-sighted DC hires. Both Morris and Littrell said they made their DC hires based on defenses that they felt were hard to score against. Obviously Dodge hired HS coaches because he thought a good coach would be a good coach at any level. These were all incredibly short-sighted lines of thinking, just like this post saying we need a defensive HC. Hire good coaches, and make sure they know what to look for in hiring the coordinator on the other side of the ball from where they coach. Beyond just “oh this coach was hard to coach against.”

And yet they put up 28 against Tulsa and didn’t have to abbreviate the 4th quarter against them. I think South Alabama will be one of the best opponents we face this season, especially offensively.

Will try and make it happen. Plan this year was to get the podcast up on all the places, with the first priority being YouTube. Will try and get it up on the other spots next.

@WanderingEagle and I preview this upcoming matchup featuring two titans of the 33rd parallel north. Youtube link: https://youtu.be/ab9Zt9MbbC8 Audio only: https://sites.libsyn.com/482808/mean-green-gridiron-2024-episode-4-texas-tech

To the point of @Matt from A700, who is paying for these guys to come in and produce nothing? Is it guaranteed type deals or are they being lured by contingency fees that they are not triggering? Hard to believe the people funding/in charge of these NIL collectives are just comfortable with paying big dollar figures to bring in bench warmers as a regular course of business expenditure.

That UTSA game has to be a W this year. No excuses.

Thank you! Your kind words are much appreciated! We do our best.

@WanderingEagle return to talk about the big victory and this week's home opener against SFA. YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/ZxRy7GZ1uwo Audio Only: https://sites.libsyn.com/482808/mean-green-gridiron-2024-episode-3-sfa

It is a GAME day! We have 12 of these scheduled each year. No more whining about NIL, or whatever sky is falling on college sports topic that consumes your mind, while the season is going! Either get with the times and help our University get where it needs to be in this era or save your moaning for the offseason! We have a real team to get behind.

I reject this slippery slope fallacy. It’s unsubstantiated fear mongering that you’ll only ever really see being pushed by people trying to curtail player power being gained through NIL. If a high-profile recruit can have some value in the private sector marketing product, for example, they absolutely should be able to. But we are not heading to a place where wholesale these high-school student athletes are heading towards a labor/compensation dispute.

Yeah, Grant Tisdale (Ole Miss/TCU) and Carson Woods (JUCO) could not beat out two true freshmen who Morris has described as inconsistent.

Yeah they are complete hypocrites and that should continually be pointed out. They had no scruples signing 8-9 figure contracts while their players were compensated with the equivalent of a $30k-$50k a year scholarship with no opportunity to earn more while the sport they competed in became a billion-dollar industry.

Well, puts in perspective how lucky we are to land Morris, a QB with Power 4 starting experience. Guessing he isn’t getting $1.5M from our NIL collectives.

Yup. Ethan Wesloski had a good quote in one of the media availability sessions where he said defense is all about knowing where your help is at and that they are better there this year. Hoping that leads to situations where even if there is a missed tackle, it’s missed in a less vulnerable direction for the help defenders. But yes, please less near misses.