BillySee58

Bringing Tee and Fonzale in would be a huge boost to our offense for next year. Read jnto the 247 crystal ball predictions as much or little as you want, but it's big that a Colorado insider predicted him to us since Colorado and Colorado state have gone after him the hardest right there with us. Goree has the speed to be a burner and is a pretty solid route runner for a high school kid. Hope we get him and his teammate Rutherford.

Speaking of Derek Thompson, shouldn't he be more of a dual-threat qb with the black jerseys?

They used to be MAC back in the Pennington to Moss and Byron Leftwich days. Anyone know or remember why they left in the first place.

I don't shutter at what our record might be because we've been much better than most of our opponents that we've beat except for Ball State, Rice, where DT didn't do much, and wasn't asked to do much, at all but we won. But I agree that it's silly and ridiculous to bash DT. I'm done saying critical things of his play in this thread, but just know that people being critical of his play is not the same as bashing him and calling for him to be replaced.

Honestly, both going the other way probably would've swung the game in our favor. That's what makes that game so frustrating, among other reasons. You never know either, since the pick six could've been a 14 point swing if we would've scored a td that drive. Just rough all around.

People say qbs get too much blame for losses and too much praise for wins. They're the most important position and there's a reason why their success is so directly correlated with the team's. The defense only gave up 10 points against Tulane. DT gave up 7 on the pick six. Also, no one blames the personal fouls because they were bogus calls and a sign of assertion from a lights-out defense. You're right that we shouldn't single him out, but that's a big let down for the team. He's also helped us win 6 games through 9 so there's no need to complain. That's why no one really has. Our receivers, running backs, o-line, defense, and special teams have been top-notch and as good as you could ask for. DT hasn't been as good as you can ask for but he's been good enough. That's why he's an "elephant in the room" and not a guy who we're calling for his replacement.

You're partially right, but as long as we have the Texas schools in CUSA west we should be fine. USM is a program that can be very successful, but I really do feel that we have the highest ceiling of any school in our division. Maybe even the conference. As for the East I hope Marshall stays in CUSA at least as long as we do. I could see us being the top dog in the west and them in the east, making for a good chance of us matching up in the championship game fairly often. Although MUTS and WKU are solid as well as FAU being in the come up.

Yup. One FCS win can count towards your 6 for bowl eligibility per year.

No hate for Derek. We all support him and are proud of the wins he has gotten us. As a critical football fan it's not hard to see that there is as much room for improvement at our qb position, the most important position in football, as there is at any position on our entire team. Doesn't mean he's bad as he is. We just have a solid team.

Great way of putting it. So was greenminer's statement on the first page. Am I the only one who wonders what our record would be if Berglund wasn't in the dog house and had been our starter all year? Maybe we lose the ball state game but I think we'd still have all of our other wins and would've won the Tulane game and maybe the Ohio game. All speculation with very little backing but that's what I feel. Those pick sixes cost us both games. I don't know if we'd be better with another qb on our roster under center, but I know with things the way they our we have a chance to win CUSA. We might be in an even better situation, but the situation we're in right now is pretty good. Even if DT isn't the main reason we're in this position.

Not sure you can call UTSA a trap game really. They're our best opponent left on our schedule and everyone knows that. Trap game is more so a game where a team overlooks an opponent because the next team or teams on their schedule are harder games. At least IMO.

49-0 we win. My one wish is that we finish drives with touchdowns. If we can get in the endzone and not settle for field goals then we'll win this one and the next two going away.

They might feel better when they see us win, but when they win they probably feel worse about it. I hope we're the only team that beats them all year. More good pub for us during bowl season.

True. At least depending on if they can keep June Jones and stay competitive.

Love that Ball State game. Was a great home test early in the year against a solid non-conference opponent and was still winnable. Oh yeah, and that was there only loss of the year so far. We need to be able to schedule more early non-conference tests like that. Easier said than done, but that proved it can be done.

They were home vs West Virginia. But yeah, I'd like to think we could've pulled out one of those games.

I agree. It is far enough. Still plenty of time to sort everything out before signing day.

Interesting. You would think mom would want him closer to home. Maybe Claude Mathis can talk to her about it and sell Coach Mac to her. Anyways, Moms are the second most important person to convince in recruiting and sometimes the most important. A running back from Florida named Alex Collins had his mom steal his letter of intent because she didn't want him to sign with Arkansas. Hopefully if your reports are true then Howard and his mom can get on the same page. For the sake of everyone involved.

Where have you heard that?

Nick Orr is listed as a soft verbal to TCU. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Nick-Orr-131743 Also, as Cooley has stated, I would like to see us go after the cornerback from DeSoto, Howard Wilson. He's committed to La Tech but it'd be cool to see us flex our muscles and pluck one of their commits away.

They did. Both came into FBS last year. I don't know why they would be bowl eligible and UTSA wouldn't be this year. Maybe something to do with UTSA being a start up and having their first season just the year before last.

We're finding out what the big boys have known for years. You have to take care of your business and leave no room for the computers in the BCS to screw you.

We've got depth and will have plenty of star power back next year IMO. Don't know if we'll be as good as we are this year, but we'll be fine.

Seems like Tulsa has no idea what they're doing at the qb position.

Even though they're "up-and-coming" I feel like UTSA will have a drop off next year with Soza graduating