BillySee58

It would be a good time to see what Berglund could do, but we'll see mcnulty

This is what a bowl team/conference title contending team does to a bottom 10 team. This may be the easiest game we get against USM as long as we're conference mates.

Oh okay. Thanks. See what you meant by the win over ECU, Matt

What is the first tiebreaker?

Tulsa has no offense either. Another team we can hold to two touchdowns or less. At least 20 or less. We might be needing a Rice win vs Tulane and a win by us against rice to set up a 3-way tie

I don't think he was slighting us as much as he was sounding like a major homer.

No. Because I've seen us play 7 games already THIS year. I've also watched a lot of CUSA games this year, including at least parts of a game from every team left on our schedule. Our defense may very well be the best in CUSA and it will keep us in every road game for the rest of the year. Couple that with Apogee and we should expect 3 more wins from this team at the least. This is a 7 win team. Not because of preseason expectations, but because this is a team that has shown through 7 games that they are capable of being different than teams of UNT past and can make a bowl game. If we can avoid pick sixes and giving up special teams (big if) than I don't see how we lose to Southern miss, UTSA, or UTEP.

No offense to you personally, but HELL NO! Don't lower your expectations. As a fairly new UNT fan who has suffered through losing seasons, you guys deserve to demand a winning season from a team that is more than capable of achieving one. If we lose to Southern Miss and/or don't make a bowl this year we should be upset. This team has shown that not achieving either of those two would be a vast disappointment for everyone involved. Coaches, players, fans, everyone.

I was making a dumb and dumber reference. Don't think I gave a verbatim quote though.

So you're saying, there's a chance?

Received his 7th offer from Nevada today.

I hate to say it for jinxing purposes (yes I semi-believe in that stuff when it comes to sports) but I agree with you. I just have too much confidence in our defense. As long as we aren't throwing pick sixes or giving up TDs on special teams we will be fine. That freshman qb has potential, but he has thrown a couple picks in his short time and I believe we will force multiple. That being said we can't, and the players won't, look past USM.

I don't think the coaches are either. They've brought in some qbs on visits. NT03 posted who those guys were in the thread about visitors for the MUTS game

I agree, but I'm not talking about putting all our resources there. Just recruiting a few guys a class like Cathey, who I really think could be a good Brelan replacement like we thought White might be.

Here's a plan B. Nikia Cathey, a kid out of Memphis. http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/player-Nikia-Cathey-139705 I really wish Mac would go after him. I really think we could out recruit Austin Peay (FCS), MUTS, South Alabama, and Northern Illinois for him. I've said it a couple times before, but I wish we would push Memphis more. It's closer than many realize and there are some good players who either don't quite get offered by SEC schools or do but get the offered pulled after the school fills up on recruits. Cathey was a former Miss St commit, not exactly sure what happened there. For reference, the schools Cathey is considering are 209 miles (Austin Peay), 245 (MUTS), 387 (USA), and 564 (NIU). Denton is only 489 but is also the fastest drive. I've made the drive in 7 hours by going about 5 over the whole ride. We also play a lot of schools that are pretty close to Memphis, so his family and friends could watch him play plenty. Whether you think recruiting Memphis is a good idea or not, do yourself a favor and watch Cathey's highlights. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CR14OlhpE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3De1CR14OlhpE

I thought I remembered more than a few first downs and I thought the touchdown came on a scramble. It didn't matter and it wasn't catastrophic, but we can do better than that. Our defense is stout.

Last two? What about the MUTS game? Grammar had over 100 yards rushing and over half were on pass plays were he had to scramble. Most of the scrambles were right up the middle to. He did it all game right up until Sed knocked his lid off.

Last year when thins got bad they started this true freshman at qb. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Anthony-Alford-118664 Kid had offers from schools like Clemson, Bama, and LSU but things got disastrous. He completed less than 45% of his passes and disgruntled fans were criticizing his play, which ticked his mom off and this happened. http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/10/26/ma-nooo-mother-of-so-miss-qb-arrested-at-game-for-defending-sons-honor/ She ended up getting arrested at the game. Losing seasons are tough on everyone and we've been there. Putting in another true frosh this year shows they have nothing to lose. Teams with nothing to lose can be dangerous, but if you get them down their frustration can grow exponentially. Get em down early and often.

It did. Huge play and great job by Zach! Nice to have some solid depth at corner

Was starting to think you were a fortune teller Tim

I've been accused of clinging onto Berglund and Trussell's respective jocks because someone didn't agree with me. Funny how personal people can get if they don't agree with your OPINION on sports. This season has a chance to be a special one. Anything that prevents it from being so is going to frustrate the fans who really do care and don't want to settle.

No, not just you. I don't agree with you about everything, but I do think it's ridiculous why you're getting blasted. So would fast starts hurt our team because we wouldn't be able to "wear down the defense" by pounding our heads constantly into 8 and 9 man front early in the game? Especially on first down. We still only scored 21 offensive points yesterday. We have this outstanding line that received as good praise as you can get from an opposing player, some dynamic receivers including chancellor and smith, and some darn good backs. Just because we are beating teams that are vastly (yes, vastly) inferior doesn't mean we should be satisfied with being down 10-0 late in the second and only putting up 21 points from our offense. People keep saying "just win." Of course that's all that matters. But what results in an ugly, "just win" type win against La Tech could easily result in losses against teams like Rice and Tulsa. And for those who haven't seen those teams play, we should beat those teams, especially since Rice is a home game.

Every time it doesn't work on mobile version. I go to the bottom left of the page and have to click full version for the link to work.

Exactly. Just because we are capable of getting out of these holes we are digging ourselves in doesn't mean we should keep doing it. Rice, and even Tulsa are games that it will probably be pretty tough to get ourselves out of a big hole, should we dig one.

Kind of hard to tell since A Johnson was being redshirted his freshman year. Really wish Abbe had been redshirted so we could have him for next year. He played o-line in high school so that year he could've really used a redshirt year while he was cutting weight and learning how to play defensive line. But, Todd Dodge was in desperation mode so he needed Abbe.