BillySee58

@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.

Thank you. I tried to amend my statement a little after where I meant more that our defense probably won’t specialize in creating third and longs through a bunch of short yardage, 1-2 yard runs. Maybe it will, but I generally think getting a sack or TFL on 1st/2nd down with more frequency is what needs to happen to give us a better success rate on 3rd down this season.

Thanks! Yes, looking forward to seeing these guys for real on Saturday.

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/mQuqB67x6WA Audio Only Link: https://sites.libsyn.com/482808/mean-green-gridiron-2024-episode-2-south-alabama @WanderingEagle and I preview the much anticipated week one matchup.

Yeah I think it was a torn ACL. He missed the UAB game at the end of the season and was out for the offseason/spring (presumably surgery). Where he is at seems pretty consistent with a 9-month ACL recovery, given that he played the second to last game of the year.

This type of response is always funny to me because the implication is that we’re somehow capping ourselves by “only” striving for 6 wins. The original “Hit 6” season we went on to win 9, which is tied for a school record, with a bowl win and received top 25 votes in the final poll. That team certainly wasn’t held back by not expecting more.

Not sure how some of these guys are considered under-the-radar but definitely a good list of names that have consistently come up with praise in the media availability sessions this fall.

Jace Ruder is in his 7th season currently on our roster. John Davis just did with us last season. NCAA has become incredibly lenient. They used to require that a player missed the majority of two separate seasons before they granted one hardship waiver/medical redshirt. Now they’ll give it out after just one.

I like how you completely botched where Fine came from but then flip it on GMG_Dallas and make it seem like they’re the person who did something wrong or uncouth. Football season is so back!

@WanderingEagle and I discuss the team and schedule heading into the 2024 season. https://five.libsyn.com/show/episodes/view/32467792

You do realize that our official depth charts last season had 12 starters on offense, right? It‘s a depth chart. Not a proclamation of what formation we are going to run on the first play of the game. Sometimes we go 11 personnel, sometimes we go 10 personnel. If Blair Conwright is on the field because we’re in 10 personnel to start the game and we have no tight end, we’re not going to list Hammond behind Conwright on the depth chart when they play different positions.