Mike Jackson

If I were Seth's agent I would advise him to pass on Texas Tech unless he will be given at least the 3rd highest coaching pay staff budget in the Big 12. He will go from having a recruiting advantage against most of his coaching rivals to having a deficit. Texas and Oklahoma will always be able to get players they really want over you. Not to mention Texas A&M in the SEC. Seth should be looking for a better job than Texas Tech to leave what he has built here. Hell, if the Longhorns don't improve this year Seth could be on their wish list after the 2019 season. But only Seth knows where he truly wants to be. I would guess his dream job would be OU. But they are rolling with no signs of being in need of coach anytime soon. Lastly I believe there is still huge potential here at UNT to improve his salary and the program's income. I don't know how many deep pockets around the country has connections to Denton and UNT but there are a lot more that still don't contribute to the program right now. Get those people excited and invested with performance and loyalty, and the sky is the limit.

You are presenting a scenario in which PETA is torn between protecting cute little ponies at the expense of nasty little lizards. Is PETA going to stand by while the abuse of these cute animals gets repeated week after week?

Hard to market a potential rained soaked ass whip. Even the mayors of Fort Worth, Dallas, and a 1310 The Ticket remote pregame couldn’t beat that dead pony to life. Lol

No good defensive coordinator with competant defensive line talent is going to try 6 man blitz against this team (outside their own 30 yard-line). With a six man blitz you have to play man to man and no team outside of Arkansas on this schedule has the athletes to thrive against the UNT receiving core doing that. Now if they prove they prove they can beat some exotic zone blitzes and he starts to get desperate maybe. Also if the blitz protection isn't good Fine can make the right read but get hit while pulling the trigger.

Looking at CUSA and Sun Belt divisions it it become more apparent to me that their western and eastern divisions should merge into new conferences. I like the history and the cache of the CUSA name however I don't like its geography. There is no team in the East I would miss the opportunity to play outside of Marshall. CUSA West Division only need 5 teams to have a 12 team conference with 2 divisions. We could take all 5 West Sun Belt teams or only 3. The other 2 to round out the 12 could be Tulsa and Tulane. The Sun Belt East with CUSA East would be good conference also. And they could add Liberty if they wanted. I think they would benefit from having North and South divisions based on the locations of the schools. If you are like me I would rather reserve my big travel money to see more prestigious programs than the ones in the East. Also with our conference having more than twelve teams it is hard to generate rivals across divisions cause you see them so rarely. And the added benefit for it being better travel for all the sports that play more games than football does. If it weren't for the name and history of the conference, I think it would be a no brainer. In its current composition to me CUSA only makes sense because you are trying to create an artificial TV market. I doubt if you had any fans of the East CUSA schools are sitting down to watch UNT vs SMU or any the W-CUSA games against non P5 opponents. And casual fans aren't watching G5 games outside their region. If we can keep the CUSA name, what would your preference be? (Bowl tie-ins are so unreliable now for G5 conferences it isn't worth mentioning imo).

A win against Arkansas would be very nice. But I want that first CUSA title. If it is a choice between a narrow upset of Arkansas and CUSA title I am taking the title regardless of our record at the end of he year. Now if you are talking about a 17+ points victory with solid play in all phases of the game against an Arkansas team that ends up going to a New Year's Day bowl I am in.* A win like that gets Apogee sold out this year. If we have a true "buts-in-seats" sellout and perform well the rest of the year the program can get to the heights we dream of. *(the rest of this mystical beat Arkansas & SMU season would include no worse than a 2nd place finish in our division for me to take the trade off)

I heard one of Seth's late off season interviews and in I detected an effort not to overstate the talent he has in that receivers room. That being said I think the only way to have a prayer to stop this offense with a healthy Fine and receivers is to get pressure with 4 pass rushers or less. Fine can read coverages even better now. So if you give him time and he isn't pressing the make the big play it is death by a thousand cuts. Think they are going to see a lot of exotic zone blitzes later in the year. (if the offensive line and back pick up regular 5 man blitzes better than they did against SMU).

I was very pleased with the crowd but you are correct. Plenty of good seats available in the 50 yard line region on the alumni side. Maybe the club levels had higher attendance that what we saw. It might have been the biggest non-homecoming attendance level for students to.

I was a DD fan then. He could coach then and he can coach now. The AD and all the short sighted leadership at the University at that time are just as responsible for the Dickey's failed last season and the miserable seasons that followed. Happy for him wish it would it have worked out for him here. It will be particularly disappointing if he has a part in Texas A&M winning the SEC Championship cause that is the Texas region football fandom I dislike the most.

So that had me try to find his measurements. In one of the stories they listed him as 6-2 190 lbs. Hopefully he has grown a little for either the QB position or another position. When a player transitions from being a QB to another offensive position they usually bring a better understanding of how to makes route adjustments to help the QB.

How they could not find a decent QB out of that group and coach him I will never know. Greer made me walk out of Apogee in garbage time. When they put him in the game I said he was going to throw an interception. Well he proved me wrong for two plays by handing the ball off. The third play interception. That is when I knew the coaching staff had to go. The back up QB at Ryan or Denton High probably could have played just as poorly as that group. Still shocked that Conner Means couldn't get playing time at QB.

I make only one or two of these a year. And hopefully I will be at one or two of these road games in person. But for my two cents I think a move would be fine. Fuzzy's isn't that great. Even if you don't settle on this place there should be better options than Fuzzy's. This menu is certainly an upgrade. However I am concerned about the live music conflict. I would not want you to get caught up in a tug-of-war if a special band wanted to do a set that conflicted with a game.

It will be very interesting to see who takes over the starting QB position when Mason graduates. Now if we could get one of them drafted to the NFL it could be a game changer in recruiting for 10 years.

Up voted this for its accuracy. Love that English is coming back however we are still too thin on defense. English is great but we are not talking about a sure bet Blue Chip first 3 rounds of the NFL draft player. If you have a solid defensive team with just decent depth that is only kind of player you should hope for a 15 point a game impact from.

Regional schools are fine but not FCS schools. And I especially don't like basically 2 FCS schools on the schedule regardless of where they are from. My list included better known G5 programs and programs with a Big 12 connection. I did not mention Houston because I believe that when they are making their OOC opponent list we are near the bottom. Also I believe Tulane doesn't particularly like playing us either.

There is a pretty big gap between OOC world beaters and the likes of Liberty or Incarnate word. I would rather see teams like Iowa State, San Diego State, Colorado, CSU, or even Texas State. Yes you are guaranteed a bowl as conference champion but with this schedule we shouldn't get upset if one of our more competitive conference rivals end up in a better bowl than us. Also if we get in a bowl and get blasted cause we haven't face a team with solid P5 level athletes that isn't a good look either. One cupcake per year please.

I saw some mentions on the local news. It does not help when the UNT men get bounced in the first round.

If the students can’t get on board with still being below Texas State and UTSA in athletic fees..... Never mind I will stay positive.

Not quite that simple but very close. Don’t get me wrong it would be great to have another weapon for Mason’s senior year. If he comes on as a walk-on great. But you need to think about scholarships slots if he isn’t a walk-on. The Mean Green defense needs front 7 help. Needing score 38+ a game against G5 opponents to have enough wins to be bowl eligible is not a good posture to be in. If your defense rarely gets off the field without giving up points that is exactly the position your team will be in. WR is worthless standing on the sideline while the opponents offense is marching down the field eating clock on the way to 7 points.

Again 9,000 students in a community with a ton of other things to do and other school loyalties within families. So if you want to criticize the fandom go right ahead. I think it’s stupid because with the resources we have at UNT we have no excuse for not seating at least 28,000 every home game. Not giving any kudos to TCU.

Struggling

Unrealistic expectations from a blog post is revisionist history. Let me quote the blog posting you referenced. “With an enrollment of less than 9,000, TCU football games will forever remain a challenge to fill up Amon G. Carter Stadium's 45,000 seats.” I don’t know what you expect. But competing for sports entertainment dollars in the DFW area is hard. If UNT got the same percentage of local Alumni to buy in as TCU does we would have a nearly pack Apogee.

That is a good one. But the aren’t small by any stretch of the imagination, 33,000 undergraduates. They are THE school for the Moron faith like Notre Dame is for Catholics. The difference in size of the schools reflects the difference in number of people who have those respective faiths. They have huge buy in from the state of Utah. So there attendance is better and should be.

“Not good” is being kind

This scares the hell out of me. Because my experience with season tickets did not go well. I couldn’t give my extra season ticket away for most home games. Even though I attend every home game and our games on the road at SMU I just can’t justify buying a seat no one beyond the MGC, GMG, or Alumni Association would want. I am very worried about the long term viability of our FBS level program if we aren’t in a P5 conference or regularly getting Texas region P5 teams into Apogee. The greed in NCAA is pushing the envelope toward cannibalization. If you cutting off masses of potential fans who are future alumni of G5 schools with your competition rules it will destroy long term health of the game. The NFL is the league for casual fans. That is a league of 32 teams on equal footing. The NFL figured out that competition was good for the league as a whole and the more valuable franchise benifit from the parity as well over the long term. As these conferences have cannibalized each other and made it more difficult G5 teams to get P5 teams in their stadiums I have grown less interested in the game as a whole. The all SEC final was great for fans from the Deep South but 3/4 of the country don’t have a reason to care. And I a rabid College Football fan didn’t watch. And I bet I wasn’t alone.