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Unless our secondary continues to improve, Harris is gonna to shred us. He's having an incredibly good year

It was probably Rick V's burner/personal twitter account, that out of sheer laziness/ignorance, he decided to change the name to the Light the Tower Collective instead of creating a brand new account all together.

Correct. Traylor is a legend at Gilmer and he has a lot of clout. Tommy Perry was the guy that found Wilson in little ole Elkhart TX. We haven't had a solid East Texas recruiter since. It's a different ball game out there, similar to West Texas. Unless you're a P5, the relationships with all these coaches in these towns spread out is key to getting quality players. You have to have a guy that knows the towns, the coaches, the culture. Feels like Littrell is doing that in Oklahoma with Cobbs and his own connections, but he seems to have given up on East Texas as a whole

Well yes, and the Mangino years if you want to add those. Kansas was trash at football until they hired the right guy. My point is we should be able to do the same. If we're content with Littrell going 5-7 every year then cut his salary and give it to Mac. Otherwise hire the right guy

This is exactly correct. Lets look at Littrell's record 2016: 5-8 loses HoD bowl that he go into because of APR 2017: 9-5 his best season, gets absolutely blown out in both the conference championship and bowl game 2018: 9-4 another solid season, gets absolutely blown out in the bowl game 2019: 4-8 Mason Fine's senior season, no bowl 2020: 4-6 COVID year, bowl game on a technicality, gets absolutely blown out in the bowl game 2021: 6-7, makes a bowl only because Brint Ryan paid for the entire thing himself, loses against the worst bowl opponent we've played 2022(so far): 3-3, beating bad teams, and getting absolutely blown out by good ones. He's 40-41 for his career. Take out Mason fine's best seasons (2017 and 2018) and he's 22-32. He may have taken us to more bowls than any other coach in school history, but he is not a good coach. He's had 7 years to improve, and he's shown time and time again that he can't. I would compare him to Rick Stockstill, but even Stockstill has some trophies in his MTSU career. If we keep him around, we're looking at mostly losing football, with occasional bowl games that we won't even be competitive in. With the resources we're putting into this thing we must expect better. Otherwise we need to pull a Kansas, and pay a coach minimal money with minimal expectations and funnel the majority of our athletic budget to Men's Basketball.

Meanwhile RV got our boys a lifetime supply of Jimmy John's *restrictions may apply*

Safeties coach for Dan McCarney. Last time I checked Marcus Trice and Laramie Lee were a pretty damn good tandem that year

I said bowl winner. Have to be .500 or better to get there (unless you're Littrell and you somehow get in on tree technicalities), gives you an opportunity to play at different places against quality teams, and because of talking points to recruits. Sure nobody in the majority of the public gives a damn about the HEB Buttered Tortilla Bowl Brought to You By Taco Bell Baja Blast in a Can bowl, but it allows fans to travel, allows kids to get rewarded with cool bowl gifts/entertainment, and fills the trophy case. Conference Champion still goes to a bowl, but even without a championship consistently winning one year in and year out is a pretty good consolation, and a solid floor for success in my book.

Aune might've had his third consecutive game with a pick six, but that thing was on a frozen rope!

@TheReal_jayD told me so

Wren's guy is Justin Fuente, who doesn't currently have a job. He's just saving money at this point

He's in his seventh year with two 9 win seasons under his belt. After 3 years of mediocrity, it's time to nut up or shut up. Were those 9 win seasons just a mirage created by Mason Fine and Graham Harrell? or are you a good enough coach to do it again? To be fair I wanted him fired last year, so there's pretty much nothing he could do that could change my mind. 10 wins and a conference championship/bowl win would be about the only thing to move the needle for me.

UTSA's program didn't exist 15 years ago and they won 11 and the conference title last year. What's Seth's excuse?

Well we have 3 losses, so 9-3 10-3 after a bowl win. No trophy, no extension. Of course he'd have to win the rest of the way to get to that point, which ain't happening anyways.

That is correct. The diehards here are so beaten down by Seth Littrell we have a countdown 40 days out from basketball season

I find it odd how much he's gotten away from the outside zone. I get that most of our backs (aside from Adeyi) are big downhill runners more suited for a power/gap scheme, but Jeff Wilson was so effective running the outside zone.

I'll check the final score, but I'm so beaten down by Littrell at this point it's hard to give a damn

Mason's coach was friends with Seth and told him about him. Harrell visited and offered him. That being said, Littrell owes his entire HC career to those two people. Only reason he had any success here worth mentioning

Memphis 49 UNT - 21 Aune plays the entire game despite it being completely out of hand halfway through the 3rd

Hell there are some guys on our defense that started at a D2 school! Who needs P5 transfers when you have the East by Southwest Rhode Island Technical School for the Blind

A system we seem to make look incredibly ineffective. Briles runs the veer and shoot we run the veer and shit

I'm not talking about statistically. It's a completely different offense. Littrell refuses to try anything different, just like McCarney did with McNulty. Aune is better statistically, but they're both medicore QB's that are/were firmly entrenched as a starter despite rarely doing anything to impress.

They won't. Aune is Littrell's McNulty

To be fair he beat Arkansas /s It's really sad that he routinely makes mid-tier G5's look like Alabama. I don't expect to win every non-conference FBS game, but at least make it look remotely competitive. I expect Memphis to win by 3+ scores

Based on Sagarin, we're going 3-9 this year. FIU is the only team left on our schedule ranked lower than us