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What do we need a bonfire for? if you want to watch something burn just keep following the football program:

What you all are trying to say is: "Although we are grateful for the new and improved facilities North Texas has acquired under your tenure, that is no longer the direction we intend to go. Now that we have the facilities, we need someone who can bring in and cultivate coaching talent in order to fill these stadiums, and replace the costs of our investment. You've given us a great direction to go, and we've made leaps and bounds everywhere but on the field. Unfortunately, we need to be improving our brand and product on the field. Thank you for helping us get to this phase of our growth, but as an institution, we're moving on to the next step. Thank you for your time at the University of North Texas..." "Oh, and Rick, Go Mean Green"

You see, if you follow sports, last week the New York Football Giants lost to the dallas cowboys because of conservative play calling... Nevermind.

No worries Billy. He'll jump on board after we beat Tennessee !

And here I was hoping it was some new offer. What was I thinking?

Welcome to the jaded side Harry.

Of course the entire problem isn't McNulty. It would be silly to think that's the only problem. The obvious connection is that it permeates through the coaching staff, recruiting and evaluation of players. It comes from a mentality that wants to minimize risk instead of maximize success. You never win a game playing not to lose. Ask the New York Football Giants. Coughlin is a great NFL representative of Mac. The defense spent a tremendous amount of time on the field. Our "uptempo" shit show only made our 3 and outs faster. That's going to wear real quick, especially if some of those guys are on special teams as well. We have a lot of problems, the biggest symptom is the QB struggle, but that's not the source. The reason the QB situation is so heavily hashed out here is because people see a potentially better option in the wings. At this point we know exactly what McNulty's ceiling is for division I football, and most of us want no part of that ceiling. You'll hit your heard.

So I like to think i'm one of the more chemically balanced people on the boards (I think we all rationalize it that way). But I'm in complete agreement that it is a bias. I'm not saying it's even conscious, but it is there. I mean look at how people operate at work, in schoolyards, etc. You pick your friends, the people you like and the people you feel respect/value you over others. There's only a handful of people emotionally cold enough to break through this, and usually they are sociopaths. And in business sociopaths tend to be really successful because they cut out the interpersonal value system for success. Mac to me seems like the type of guy who wouldn't start you if he felt disrespected by you. That's not the worst quality in a human being, but you could see how that would affect the decisions he's made as a coach. If you value respect and loyalty, you're going to get those out of a kid like McNulty. If you value football talent above loyalty, intelligence, grades, criminality you'll play the best player regardless of how you feel about them personally. How many of you got snubbed in High School/Little League for the coaches son? How many of you have seen big title jobs handed to incompetent suck-up employees? How many of you live in an America where politicians favor old friends and donating companies to the actual needs of the country they supposedly serve? It's not ridiculous to weigh in McNulty's personal relationship AND his good ol' boy, hard working, "do the right things" mentality. Mac is drawn to shit like that, even above talent he wants to "do it the right way" with guys who are also "doing the right things". You can hear it in his vernacular. Carlos Harris and Jimmerson sat the first quarter for what i'm going to guess amounts to disrespect. He just prioritizes things differently than uber successful coaches. Some coaches want to win football games above all (crime, drugs, "tutoring"). Some want to do it as what they perceive as "the right way". But this isn't a damn fairytale and the good guy doesn't always win.

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I'll take: Mr. James Gray from the ATL.

Andrew can't be a real person with these real opinions, right? I just can't rap my mind around this. How can someone be so committed to downvotes... and ignorance...

Two questions: Who do we play in the bowl? Do we win?

It's like we're trying to become the ultimate scavengers. Wait and hawk on kids who slip through the crack. IF (BIG If), we could have that be our specialty and really execute that plan i could see the benefits. We have some athletic talent at levels we haven't had in awhile, but it seems awfully dangerous to go in with a bare cupboard and hope the situation works out in the end. The only analogy I could see that fits this is that we are swinging for the fences trying to anchor a class on a big/notable pick up. But the best baseball teams i ever played on were playing small ball: hitting consistently and getting on base.

Solid offer list and an 8.34 YPC average in 2014. As i've said previously, it's good to see some realistic/competitive offers go out.

We should have been offering this caliber of kid all offseason, why is it we target ungettables all offseason and wait until now to offer kids within reach? Is there something i'm missing?

My two cents: - Goree over Kidsey is interesting - Pretty excited about the prospect of our defense (on paper anyway) - We're deep at linebacker - We still need a defensive playmaker or two to rise out of the bunch - James Gray could be that guy - Kenny Buyers always has and always will make me nervous in coverage but sets a good edge on the run - As deep at skill positions as we are at linebacker - Doesn't matter if we can't get the ball in their hands - Biggest questions are the o-line and the QB - Glad Whitfield is back

He surely wasn't pulled from the game by the coaches after the first illegal hit.

I bet that order came down from the coaches and the kids are going to get hosed for it.

Now Grandpa, let's get you back in the house before you start going off on conservative politics, okay? We know you don't want to go into a home, but if you keep acting this way you're not going to give us much of a choice...

Emmitt, I appreciate the thoughts. I felt the same way just watching the highlights and updates. Baylor gave them confidence to carry over from hanging in the first half, plus revenge and their absolute hatred for us this could get nasty. I think the key is to stay home and don't allow the big play and we should win. I really really hope this is McNulty's year but i just don't have confidence in that.

Came to be trolled. 10/10 Did not disappoint.

I'm in ESPN or Yahoo... i shouldn't do this i'm in too many leagues but i'm in.