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I had a classic one last week. UTSA is lined up to go for it on 4th and inches. They are in the formation where you know it’s a QB sneak and the backs are going to push the QB from behind. Guy behind us yells, “Watch out for the reverse.” I wish I had a picture of the look that had to have been on my face.

I’m not sure the team could either, that’s why I said we might not be in 11th place.

I’m not comparing to last year, I’m comparing to the other team’s schedules in the American. No other team has to play Tulane, Memphis, UTSA, and SMU. Trade out Tulane and Memphis for Charlotte and ECU and we might not be in 11th place. I wasn’t aware that there was a premise that we have been dropped into a world beater conference, but I would disagree as well. It’s definitely better than CUSA, but it’s also down from what it’s been in the past.

The fact is we've played the most difficult conference schedule and it's probably not even close. That being said, if we don't beat Tulsa and UAB, we will have earned our spot in the bottom third of the conference.

The Texas on the helmet would be much better if it were green instead of black.

Anyone else think these have a slight resemblance to the SoW?

I was never a fan of those. Never thought I'd be wanting that to be our helmet, but here we are.

Part of our issue has to be that every year when I look at the 2 deep chart I marvel at how young we are and how we only have a couple of seniors listed. At some point those young starters need to become experienced veterans.

In fairness, Frank Harris was injured against TX St and didn’t play vs Army or Tennessee. Also, since he’s been back they’ve been winning handily, though as you said, not against great teams.

Thanks for bringing this up as I feel like it’s been swept under the rug while we bitch about how bad our defense is. We outgained UTSA. As I stated in another thread, the 3 turnovers hurt us more than the play of our defense. Also, UTSA started two possessions well into our territory because of two of the turnovers. Those two plays were huge for a number of reasons. Probably the wrong thread for that HSO, but there it is anyway. We’ve been close the past three weeks against what I believe to be comparable teams. This week we finally break through. UNT: 36 SMU: 35

I thought the backup looked pretty good against Rice. Seemed like a good dual threat guy that could cause us some problems.

Fire Caponi?

And the two interceptions were both on tipped passes, the 2nd of which was very good fortune for UTSA.

Perception is not reality in this case. I can’t believe there were 4 games where we didn’t wear black. The sad thing is that I was at three of those games.

But the 3-3-5 is obviously the defense they want to run. An argument can be made that they should have hit the portal harder to get players to fit the scheme, but if you hire a 3-3-5 guy, that’s the defense he’s going to run. If Morris were following a coach with a run oriented offense, he’d still run his offense even if he didn’t have the personnel. It’s no different with a defense.

So 7 of 9 games we’ve worn some type of black. I’m just glad the players like it and it helps them play better. Can you imagine our record if we only wore green and white?

I’ve been saying this for a few years now about uniforms in general, not just UNT. I know, I know, old man yelling at the clouds. It’s ridiculous to expect teams to wear uniforms that are actual school colors. On a positive note, at least we use green as an outline color. Iowa St.’s uniforms this weekend were black and white. And this from a school whose colors are red and yellow.

Get outta here with your level headedness.

My hope is that we improve each year so that the number of teams we should beat keeps increasing.

Thanks for answering the question. Akin to the "Pulse of the program" thread, I'm interested to see how people are thinking and if changing the result of one mind-boggling loss would change their perspective given our results against the best teams in the conference. At this point in the season, I disagree, but that's ok. Now, if we lose to Tulsa and/or UAB I'll probably jump on board with you.

I've watched SMU a couple of times and they are on par with Tulane, Memphis, and UTSA. That being said, I know we often wet the bed against them. Maybe Morris can change that and we get a competitive game.

I gotcha. With lots of people down on Morris, I was just trying to say that minus the inexcusable loss to FIU, things seem better this year to me as a whole.

They can afford to do it. As has been pointed out, it doesn’t have to be a top P5.

If you’re going to hire your son, then you’ve got to be able to fire him. Based on your list, it appears that it does matter if it’s P5 or G5. Or maybe all the G5’s are just happy with their coordinators.

Show me where I said I was okay with losing. I’ve just made it clear that I’d rather lose by 7 than by 20+. My point of the thread is that had we beaten FIU, we would have won all of the games that we were supposed to win. That’s what SL did, except we got wiped out in several games a year in the games we weren’t supposed to win. We lost 4 games by 21+ points last year. I don’t enjoy losing, but I’d rather lose close, competitive games than get my ass kicked. My hope is that some of these close loses are wins next year.