Mike Jackson

Thank you and meanrob for the feedback. I discontinued my season tickets about 5 years ago. I always donate regardless but it was depressing not being able to get anyone to come with me or even give my extra tickets away. They definitely need better sales efforts if they aren’t going to awe fans with an undefeated or 1 loss season. Pretty certain that won’t happened with Seth here. A coach just on the plus side of mediocre just can’t do that here we don’t prestigious football history here or recent alumni who became NFL stars. The department as a whole is doing well but football is lame mule not pulling its weight.

Relative to their teams I think they were on par with each other. NEVER said I thought MiniMac/Greer were better. I just talent they face on opposing teams in the post Fine era is better. Fantastic Defense? Let me tell list the teams the FBS level teams fantastic defense held under 30 in 2014. The year before they stopped trying for coach Mac: FIU, FAU, SMU. SMU went 1-11 that year and Head Coach June Jones resigned the week after we beat them. 😂 Pretty Good receivers? Carlos Harris the best WR on that team doesn’t start here today or in 2021. All the WR on that team that could actually play were on the small side, especially when playing a pro style offense where DB get to press receivers more often And with his attitude towards the end I am not sure he doesn’t get kicked off these Seth era teams with deeper WR talent. The 2014 was only competitive in 3 losses poor or mediocre team. I think you guys are getting confused. That 2013 HOD Bowl team was lead by seniors that maximized every drop of talent they had I believe. They were gone when McNulty started in 2014. Thompson started in 2013 I absolutely believe if McNutly had played in the spread offense in 2014 and that what coached in 2013 also he would just as capable of throwing 50%-55% completions with 1-1 TD to INT ratio on his 2014 team against the competition they played that year. Because essentially that is what he did in 2014. 🤪🤣😂 Memories fade, numbers don’t. Go look up that 2014 team. Talent poor and leaderless from a player standpoint.

If those guys were allowed as many pass attempts as the current QBs were they would have similarly bad numbers. There were a lot of holes on that team and problems at QB as always just appear larger than they actually are. I believe the post- Fine QB play has let this team down just as much as MiniMac/Greer did their teams. I just think the mismatch personnel and conflicting offensive philosophies of that team hampered MiniMac/Greer more. I also think MiniMac/Greer would have had to play much better than Aune did last year to get that team to 6-6.

It lived down to your expectations I suspect, I was there hoping that somebody on staff would be there trying to sell me and others the Touchdown Terrace or Cabana experience. I wasn’t looking at what was going on the field much but when I didn’t see anything to make me hopeful about a Littrell coached Mean Green team. Not a full scrimmage and to their credit the marketing was honest about it not being an inter-squad game or scrimmage. A waste of time with very limited concessions. Like I said before, by keeping Littrell the decision makers have essentially decide to punt on this year and hope for a miracle. Maybe budget wise they thought the had no other choice. But eventually the marks who bought “My Pet Rock” realize they just have a dressed up rock. No matter how much they really wanted to believe it was something more. The uncomfortable truth appears to be only 50% popular here or worse. Anyone with a substantial disagreement with anything I said base on anything except green tinted hope? Anymore ‘marks’ want to vote my comment down? 😄

So now he is overrated 😂. When y’all irrelevant again (as long as you are in a lower conference than them you are irrelevant in comparison to them) don’t try to backtrack. That irrelevance in comparison to TCU is exactly why that overrated coach packed up drove down I-30. In the meantime please feel free to purge those inadequacy feelings in the gomeangreen.com and please patron the advertisers here. Whining from UNT Hater is music to my ears.

Well let me be more detailed. Ruder instead of choosing to compete for the job at UNC he entered the transfer portal. So that didn’t have me expecting much from him in 2021 but I wasn’t expecting a 16 QBR. And at UNC in 2021, Sam Howell while he was moderately impressive he hadn’t grow much since his first starting season. Transferring when the guy ahead of you is a lock to be picked in the first round of the draft is understandable. But Sam Howell isn’t that kind of prospect. Jace is bigger than Howell. Neither one of these guys (Aune or Ruder) is a Redshirt Sophomore who can’t order a beer at the bar. They’ve had plenty of time to develop. To have any legitimate optimism Ruder & Aune should be head and shoulders above the newcomers or one of the new comers should have blown everyone away. But it only sounds like there has only been moderate improvement that standard for any player staying in the same system for 2 years. And this team needs dramatically better QB play if it is going to achieve its fundamental goal of winning a CUSA title. Hell they might need dramatically better QB play for a winning regular season record.

The headline made me think that we don’t have a good FBS level QB and the coaches know it. And after reading the article my suspicions were confirmed. Compared to what we saw last year one of those 4 quarterbacks should look dramatically better than Ruder or Aune looked in spring 2021. I actually feel bad for Brett "Associated Press 2018 Star Sportswriter of the Year Award-winner" Vito. A truthful headline like “The 2022 Mean Green Offense will Probably Suck” would put his press pass in jeopardy.

I think Big Z might have a totally random drug test come Monday.

Because they know no one is likely getting an extension without a miracle season. Which is why retaining the staff appears to be a bad decision that looks worse daily. I know this donor will divert more of my donations to the Alumni Scholarship Fund instead of the MGSF in 2023 if they make another uninspired head coach hire.

Many have donated for years and have gotten very little on the field to enjoy from those donations. They retained a coach that hasn’t won a conference championship or even a bowl game against very mediocre competition. They have spent the “little money” they have received very poorly when comes to hiring, fire and retaining coaches.

Now what exactly the point in posting this? Our recruiting won't change until there is a coaching change or play on the field drastically improves with the same coaching staff. Unless you can guarantee this new running back will rush for 175 yards in Apogee Stadium come September (thereby allowing me to overpay to club seats by making a ridiculous bet) I don't care. And worse yet post like this attracts North Texas haters (also known and SMU fans with inadequacy issues who can’t legitimately smack to TCU without looking ridiculous) to post in our forum. 😂

Is Derek Thompson low key lobbying for this job for 2023? I will co-sign if he is.

Omg that was too funny. Lmao

Meh, I hoped for more. This is a top 60 team with a regular season title. I think should get you in. I have never been a fan of large bracket conference tournaments.

Touché most people on GMG aren’t old enough to remember Coach Fry leaving for Iowa. 🤷🏽‍♂️

They missed their opportunity being uppity. I don’t think either of those schools help them as much as adding Houston and another school from the state of Texas or Oklahoma. If I were one the leaders in those conference meetings before Houston bolted to the Big 12 I am pounding the table Houston and let them pick a “rival” to come with them. You pull Houston and a school that has heavy support in the DFW market would be huge coming to the media rights bargaining table. Now the PAC 12 is basically forced to stand pat. I don’t think defecting to the PAC 12 makes sense for any Big 12 team for the next decade except BYU. Anyone in PAC 12 leadership while Houston was still a “free agent” should be kicking themselves or scolding the rest of the leadership for not getting Houston.

You question is incomplete add “and keep their job” and it’s perfect. If Aune (or a QB equivalent to him) isn’t your 3rd string QB by game 1 of the regular season the QB room isn’t 1000% better. I hope they all prove me wrong while I am sitting front roll to watch.

I’m not falling for it. Because he won the job last year also but was so bad in games Seth stuck with a QB throwing 50% completions with terrible offensive production. 🤷🏽‍♂️

One of Stadium’s parent company’s is the Sinclair Group. They been broadcasting media over 50 years. So Stadium TV has old media DNA and infrastructure to build on. They had regular TV access from day one in some markets.

Par for the course and like I said I am not in favor of it either. I have moved past evaluating Seth. Once Seth was retained after 3 losing seasons basically for beating a coach in a clumsy bad weather game. Before that fluke game that has vastly outperformed Seth in a shorter amount of time with less resources. Therefore in my view Seth’s future failure here is squarely on Wren. And a Phil Bennet hiring to replaced him… Well he better win big else my criticism of the football program will start and end with Wren. Unfortunately it looks like we are on the low risk, low reward treadmill again when it comes to football. A Bennett hiring would be right in line with that.

It just sounds like throwing ¢ to save $ but it doesn’t make sense. Because since Mason Fine’s graduation, it appears Seth’s Competency getting offensive talent to play up to their potential (or beyond estimated potential) was overestimated. So bolstering/solidifying the defensive coaching staff won’t do much to help Seth save his job. Not only because of the departure of some key defensive players but it doesn’t look like we picked up any studs to replace them. All I know is that Wren better hold on to our basketball coach or hit a home run replacing him or Seth else many won’t see the value of him away from UNT and/or retaining him at UNT pass his current contract. I wonder what these hiring look like on the football coaching budget. All this only makes sense if Bennett is already viewed as Seth’s successor barring a massive collapse in defensive performance in 2022. (That isn’t something I am in favor of but it at least makes these moves appear to somewhat logical looking at 2023 and beyond).

Not to be nit picky because I agree but you didn’t use the best historical reference. If this isn’t a case of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic then I don’t understand the analogy. 8 wins? We are more likely to have 8 fans in the stands come our season finale than 8 wins or 7 wins hoping to get to 8 in that game. 🤣

Because that isn’t what I would need him for at this stage of his career. You have a whole staff more than capable of interacting with recruits and players. Whether they are right or wrong to feel negatively toward Briles, I am sure there are plenty of parents that would try to steer they son away from a coaching staff prominently featuring him. So I don’t feature him and recruit/player contact is totally unnecessary. ( And I bet right now GSU would like a do over to hire him as a consultant instead of OC because he was forced to resign purely from PR. ) Now does what I said make sense?

Has anyone here had tickets for the Touchdown Terrace? What is it like? How much does it cost? Is it a good value?

I just wish he held back 3 million off his bet on the Bengals to buyout Seth. If you going to throw money away🤷🏽‍♂️