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http://angelosports.com/cumestats.aspx?path=mbball&year=2014 While i recognize it is San Angelo, his stat line is still pretty good. Leads the team in minutes, 15.3 Points a game and 5 assists on average. leads the team with 29 steals. Sad to see him go, but glad he's doing well. Do transfers out like this not make the coaching problem so obvious?

On the alumni side anyway. Students have made a rather good showing.

Shhh it's okay.

Yes i'd like to replace a Buyers, i mean buy a corner, i mean buy a vowel, damnit. Sorry Pat.

Jordan Williams introduced me to the kid this weekend. I asked him how he was liking UNT and he said he was loving it. It was pretty genuine. That being said, talked to J-Will a good bit about the team this year and how things look. He gave me the vibe that anything awesome at the PG position would come from our A&M transfer. Benford brought him up too when I talked to him, that pending eligibility could make all the difference in the season's potential. I heard the other PG option, drawing a blank on the name, is pretty good, until he's pressured. EDIT: One more thing, i went to a school that played his in High School. My school has been relegated down a few ranks of TAPPS, but i think the small feeling to his school and the general atmosphere plays in really well into what North Texas offers as a feel. Big school, small school feel. Going to one of the other giant programs could be overwhelming if he's used to that level of Private School attention.

Also, i don't understand how there are still more QB threads than defensive complaints. Are we watching the same game? I Hope Wade comes back ready to play.

+1. +2 if he subs players in and out during musical chairs.

I agree with this. I worried very little about our defense after Texas. My assumption is that after working really hard, mostly in vain, they got a bit apathetic. It's hard to grind it out and want to play hard when your offense tosses touchdowns to the other team. Or if it can't complete a pass. On the corner situation, we all loved Kenny B's play last year, but his coverage has been terrible this year. I don't have as many problems with it on the opposite side of the field. D-Line is just sporadic, with as many bodies as they role through, i don't feel like the players get a good idea of how to paly and feed of each other there. Akkunne is a beast, he picks up what the other guys are missing, but his back is getting pretty heavy from carrying the D. He needs help both in front and behind him. But even if Akkune was this years Orr, There is no Akkune to fill his role last year. Once you're pretty beat up mentally, and you lack a big time play maker: Lee hasn't been murdering ball carriers this year, No trice forcing fumbles, and no Zac Orr Scoop-N-Score, it's really tough to stay tough. It seems like everyone on the defense is just trying to do the minimum and no one wants to be THE guy. We need one of those. We need intensity. We need attitude. We need headhunters. We need ball-hawks. Someone has to step up or we'll be hoping we recruited one for the next season real soon.

Thanks for the overview Billy. As i'm semi new to this, where did you get all of this recruiting knowledge and experience from? I think UNT football is still truly on the rise, and i do think that all these setbacks are frustrating. But, I'm willing to wait and watch UNT grow. We will have tons of problems on our way to sustainable success. It's hard to rewrite generations of preconceived notions. That doesn't happen with one 9 win season. Even if we fielded a bunch of nobodies, i still bleed green.

To actually try and hold to Harry's challenge: 1. I like what I see in the depth of our RBs. 2. If we get in close games, our kicking game could win it for us. 3. Harris Jr. and Kidsey are also fun to watch when they get the ball in space. 4. #Hit6 is still possible 5. We aren't located in San Antonio

I really like his ability to read the play, his downhill step and his intensity. Kid looks like he breathes the game on big plays. I do wonder what he clocks on his 40 time.

I tend to think of recruiting as a sales gig. I work in the other recruiting industry, you know the normal non-athletic one. I've seen people plucked out of happy, well paying jobs at companies that are double and triple the size of the company they end up leaving for. There are reasons, the money, the opportunity, the structure of a company, the title, etc. Recruiting is to some degree what you have, but i'd say 70% of it is being able to sell. Maybe it's not all the product, and it's not all McCarney. Maybe it's the sales techniques, the pitch. He's an old school guy, with probably an old school pitch, and old school methods. At some level, almost every program turn around started with a shit hole situation, and likely a no name coach. There's an adage that people continue brand and company loyalty not because of what it selling, but because of why. I think Dan has a good why, but you still have to be able to articulate that vision and be charismatic enough to draw people in to what your selling even before that vision is manifested. There is a reason guys like Sumlin in a place like Houston (then A&M) and Kingsburry were/are so successful right now, they are still within range of these kids and what appeals to them. Everyone always wants to emulate the cool older brother, but if your dad told you to do the same things, immediate opposition. I honestly think a better approach to selling and the psychology of these things would improve it a lot more than the situation. Obviously consistent winning will help, the facilities and things help, but when you are in the competitive market we are in, and in the position we are in you have to get creative. Outside the box isn't exactly a McCarney moniker, and that's fine, i think he's a solid capable approach. But as a coach, you take your strengths and hire away from those. If i'm him, i'm hiring younger guys to help recruits relate to the program maybe even some former players. If i'm Kingsburry, I'm hiring old hard nosed experienced guys to provide the incites i haven't yet experienced.

Tough deal, wish him the best.

I now know what it meant when my father used to preach to me that a good Sunday with a Steeler's win OR a Cowboy's loss. It's a good Saturday with a UNT win OR UTSA loss. After i heard it was against the lobos...

I may show for this. And bring a friend.

I'm sure, being that this is independently done it has plenty of room to be improved on accuracy. But it is a pretty decent snapshot. I don't think it's anything to get all bent out of shape about if you don't think these are done to rigid specification you'd like them done to. You take the time to compile and organize this kind of information if it bothers you so much. I'll be happy to share your report with the world. EDIT: Here is how power was concluded: "Listed in the table below is every final AP poll that I have fixed, along with how far each team has risen or dropped from their ranking in the original poll ("IN" means that a previously unranked team has now been ranked). You can click the year above any top 25 in the table to open a full explanation for every decision made in repairing that final AP poll. So for example, if you are perusing the fixed top 25s below, and notice that 10-1-1 Iowa dropped 10 1/2 places in the fixed 1991 poll, and you want to know why, you can just click "1991" at the top of that top 25, opening the 1991 article, and scroll down to the "Iowa" subheading. It must be noted that the repairs I have made to AP polls do not reflect my personal preferences, but are merely the minimum changes required by cold, hard logic. My own top 25s would often look very different from these. Furthermore, in addition to fixing all of the illogical choices made in all of the final AP polls, I have made the AP poll consistent from beginning (1936) to end (the present). For example, before 1989 the AP poll only ranked 20 teams, and from 1962 to 1967 they only ranked 10 teams, but I have expanded all of those polls to 25, so as to be consistent with the 1989-present polls. In addition, the AP poll did not take bowl games into account 1936-1964 and 1966-1967, but I have fixed those polls with bowl results in mind, so as to be consistent with the polls in 1965 and 1968-present. If you are interested in an annual top 25 for seasons before the AP poll debuted, I am also working on fixing hypothetical AP polls for each season 1901-1935." And here's a link to those polls: http://tiptop25.com/fixedpolls.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/2hdchd/oc_fbs_teams_ranked_by_winning_attendance_and/ I thought you guys would really like this information. It's a pretty interesting look our how UNT stacks up. Pro Tip: CTRL + F, Type North Texas

Tone Down for What?

underrated... but mostly because like our games, nobody comes here.

Wait, tell me more about the Mean Joe thing. My dad is die-hard steelers fan.

Wild Dajon Williams

Same section and row for me. 18, 19 are the seats. Close enough to shoot the breeze with Jon and the two guys who sit behind me. Hopefully i'll see you next game

I was seriously frustrated, but unlike that group of individuals, i was thinking, you know, with my brain. I have never and will never live my life in a way that I do things "because others do it". I'm fine with intensity, big hits, whatever. I quit other sports to focus on football for a reason. But that's classless in my opinion. Maybe if you get "too frustrated" you shouldn't put your yourself in an environment you couldn't handle with you big boy emotions. I'm 23, and only drink in moderation. There are a ton of great people i've been fortunate enough to meet in this new section. Just a pocket of poor representation.

Like most of you, i've thought about this game a lot. I, like everyone think we have to at least try starting Dajon before we have to burn a red shirt or destroy all hopes of hitting six. That being said, I wanted to point out a fucking terrible point in this game where i was ashamed to be supporting UNT. This moment had nothing to do with play on the field. I sit in the young alumni section and i never leave early. I heckle, pick on opposing players all that ra-ra shit. But I was ashamed during the late third quarter where other young alumni began asking the LaTech defense to hurt Greer. I do mean physically take him out of the game. This continued until mid-fourth quarter where they stumbled away drunkenly. They are typically loud, they are rowdy, and all seemingly graduated from the same fraternity. I am totally okay with those traits most of the time. But whoever it is, that's despicable. That's not only a member of your university, and someone you claim to support, that's a kid, with parents and a future. If this is how we respond to losing, it's not a fan base i choose to be a part of. My years of fandom and sports writing were 09-13 (Pre 2013 football season). I'd rather have all of those seasons over again than be associated with that shit. /EndofSoapbox