Mike Jackson

CUSA is freaking cheating us. That was robbery again. They are trying to make sure LT ends up bowl eligible. Horse-bleep!

Defense playing about as well as they have been most of the year; mediocre. The offense really looks off today.

With all the mediocre defense play they probably should be trailing by more since the Mean Green offense is stopping themselves.

These QB draws need to be reduced. Fine doesn’t look right today.

It could also be taken as a compliment to the offense. Opponents know field goals could have them trailing against the Mean Green.

You can only redshirt one year without an injury waiver, if you are talking about Pearson. Actually I just would like a body at QB to take a few snaps if Fine and Shanbor go down.

This should be the case but networks have been making very irrational moves when it comes to sports programming (see Olympic and World Cup broadcasting contracts). It is the only Live broadcasting that really moves the needle because it is live. At this point it is all about what UT does. If they get good again (consistent top 10 finishes) then they are likely to do something crazy, like go independent. If they are struggling the LHN is dead and they might be open to turning the LHN into a Big 12 Conference channel and sharing revenue. If they were to do that some SEC recent additions might be on their chopping block. Missouri can’t compete in the SEC (and being in the SEC East increases travel cost for SEC East teams without bringing increased interest or ticket sales for everyone else). Arkansas is comfortable but how comfortable being irrelevant in the SEC West Division race for 15 years. And I don’t see them surging past Alabama, Auburn and LSU anytime soon. Texas A&M is in a similar position in the SEC West. Also CBS might be looking to reduce their payout to the SEC for the limited return they receive.

I saw that Mitch Cason and Delvin Isadore are no longer listed on the Mean Green Roster. Does anyone know why these QB’s are gone? Not taking into account talent, it looks like we have plenty of underclassmen depth at most positions. Am I wrong or are there other positions that lack depth like our QB position does?

Boo, Astros? I still say they are named after a cartoon dog with a speech impediment. Now they interfering with the Barbershop Podcast.

Probably the most important call you forgot to mention was the obvious hold on the first Kick Off return for touchdown. Jersey pull behind in the middle of the field. The game might have been a comfortable win if that holding call was made.

All that is just more evidence that SEC is just out of control with their expectations. It is like they can't give other SEC programs besides Alabama credit for trying and they look at a non-conference lost like we look a FAU hanging 70 on us. If Seth is smart as I think he is, he stays away from SEC jobs for at least 5 more years. Also I would stay away from irrationally impatient outside the SEC programs Nebraska, and the Whiny Orange in Austin. Hopefully he spends all that time with the Mean Green and I don't see a really more attractive situation opening up in G5 conferences. If he really wins big here, he can name his price at better P5 programs with rational AD and fanbases. I see him more of a Big 12 coach or ACC coach in the future.

This defense has been adequate. If we play legitimate G5 opponent instead of Lamar the numbers look worse. Defense had a very good game vs Iowa. Other than that they have been mediocre. If the offense isn’t scoring near 40 points a game this year we barely have hope of being bowl eligible by this point of the season. The ODU was only game were the defense really held up their end of the bargain.

Well speaking to the scenario presented most likely St. Petersburg and Armed forces bowl would make a trade. Either SMU vs UNT in the Armed Forces Bowl or SMU and Army’s *opponent trade places. *only if that opponent is not from CUSA by something strange happening like acedemic ineligibility or Some unforeseen NCAA sanctions.

Looks like it is still going on. But is is optional. I think it should be mandatory for all incoming freshmen and new transferring in sophomores in on campus housing. Quote from webpage below. Mandatory for all entering on campus housing freshmen enter summer or fall semesters. The same for transferring in sophomores who are living on campus. If sophomores or freshmen want to avoid it, they can start their semester in the spring.

The truth is we have a very small "fan base". We have always had a core of hardcore fans which is about 5,000 that will come to virtually every home game no matter what. You have another 5,000 that are generally loyal but can be discouraged and find other things to do for really bad weather, a really bad unknown opponent, or a bad Mean Green team. The rest are causals that are just like Dallas Mavericks fans. Meaning that when they are in a championship run and everything is virtually perfect surrounding the game day experience you will get sellouts. I absolutely love this idea and I would make a donation of my time, money, and other resources to get that going. Also this also reminds me the that Alumni Pavilion desperately need expansion. It was a little cramped even for this game that had very poor attendance. I think the entertaining floor space needs to be doubled. Also I think a full professional kitchen needs to be added. There is a culinary arts program that could use it for training and other alumni events beyond game days. http://baas.hps.unt.edu/about-baas/transfer-students/culinary-artschef-training-formerly-cula

That a combination of not having alternative things to do in the middle of Iowa in the fall. The fair weather fan frustrate me too. But we need a vocal supportive core that demands accountability too. Iowa was playing powerhouse Michigan and Ohio State every year probably with a non-conference power like Notre Dame thrown every other years. We don’t have a monster schedule loaded with schools bigger than our with storied top 25 AP ranking histories. And that 20 Years was probably preceded with a few prestigious Bowl game appearances too. Creating a following that is loyal like that through long droughts is handed down through generations. With one of those early generations enjoying success

It isn’t just losing it is an historic beat down in front a program so storied they had less that 7,000 fans there to watch their team crush us. If you were not long time fan of this team before this game, your fandom would waiver too most likely.

I loved the comment until I saw this. I understand aspiring to be the Florida Gators is unrealistic but TCU. North Texas has more untapped resources in the pockets of local alumni than any school in DFW area. If we got 20% of the money that local alumni spend on the Dallas Cowboys, Macericks, Rangers, and their favorite Big 12 or top 25 program the department might even turn a profit. We won’t get there cause vast majority of alumni don’t. I thought I read the statics that 1 our 1800 alumni donate to the athletic department. Imagine if that were to Change to 1 out of 500. That is why I complain about the lack of balance between passion and loyalty here. You can’t critique the program reasonably without being pooed out/down voted. “The person who informed you that you stepped in some shit and now some is left on the bottom of your shoes and it stinks is not the bad guy.” But here they are. Old Dominion isn’t going to roll over and play dead for us. But if we lose I don’t want to hear any excuses

The best predictor of future performance is past performance. The CEO of major Fortune 500 compainies change you don’t dump a stock or go all in on one just because that change. Historic beat downs by up start rebuilding FAU should not be passed off so nonchalantly. And rolling up 40 on ODU won’t mean much either. You should kill a team in their 3rd season of FBS. It is familiar refrain I heard when until the Portland State debacle. The past 15 season have impact on today. You can dismiss it but then give the coaching staff today a mulligan because of it. UTSA fans were pissed and I did not hear talk of “hey we are a young program” as they walked out Apogee. You show me a fan base that isn’t “knee-jerk” after getting made to look like JV squad to a program with 5,000 fans at thier homecoming and I will show a fan base way too familiar with losing seasons. I said Seth is a good offensive coach. The defense has been mediocre at best through season and a half. And just bad against FBS competition all this season. Getting a couple stops a game should just come from good effort and athleticism. So they aspired to be mediocre on a couple of drives so what? The most important defense play they made all year arguably was UTSA deciding not to go for it on fourth down to kill the game. I really did not mention the current AD in my comments. Because I don’t know who made the final call on the wives tag along trip but I don’t really care was just a bad PR move. Probably did not impact the game. My support of the Mean Green Club is a joke to many of the fellow alumni I run across and a few current students. It seems like we are the Cleveland Brown fan club with all the loyal but none of the passion and demands/accountability for performance. Losses a very understandable, a losing season while we rebuild is understandable, not competing in any phase of the game to FAU isn’t.

No going to a bowl game at 5-7 with one of those wins coming against a FCS team is unheard of. No clear progress is being made defensively and that is only side of the ball I advocated firing staff members from (only at the end of the season). So you tell me why the defensive staff should keep their jobs come season end if no drastic improvement is shown between now and Rice? If they give up an average of 35+ with teams like Rice and UTEP on the schedule that is unacceptable and that is not an emotional evaluation. Also I did not expect a winning record I just don't expect to be blown out against rebuilding program like FAU. FAU's record was 3-9 last year which is not far off from 1-11. The predominant theme on this board from a slight majority of you reeks of we are "lowly UNT look how bad we been over the years, be patient" All but one year since 2004 i have read and heard that. It is old!.... #OldDenton We ran off one of the most winning coaches in UNT history when he had crap facilities to recruit to. Do I think Dickey was some great coach HELL NO. We did give him time to get up and running based on the condition of the program he was recruiting to at the time. Those excuses are gone thanks in part to Dickey. Actually without Dickey demonstrating you can win here at the FBS level it is doubtful that we can hire coaches with legitimate resumes coaches like Mac and Seth without paying them hundreds of thousands more the we got them here. By the way exactly at 0.500 which is the measuring stick is NOT a winning record it is the definition of mediocre. Jim Harbaugh took over a Standford team that went 1-11 the previous year. (According to news stories he is a coach we could have legitimately made an offer to that might have gotten him here from from FCS program San Diego). In Harbaugh's second season 2008 their worse losses were to No. 15 Arizona State and to No. 6 USC (USC's ranking at the time they played was a legitimate; November 15th). Yes they had a losing record at the end of the season 5-7. But I argue that Stanford is academically the hardest school to recruit to in the PAC 10. When it comes to available resources location and etc we are in a better position to recruit to versus CUSA competition than Stanford was versus Pac 10 competition back in 2007. And the garbage that was allowed (and documented at USC at least) at other public PAC 10 wasn't tolerated at Stanford. Neither one of those big losses came close to the beat down we received from FAU. FAU, not FSU, USF, UCF, Miami, or Florida freakin FAU. I am absolutely sick of this mentality. Even if they play poorly (but not Boca Beatdown poorly) the rest of the season I wouldn't be advocating firing the head coach or the offensive coaching staff. However this nonchalant/patient attitude from half the fans pisses me off more than the actual play. Because I think that attitude is reflected into the culture of the program. One winning season since 2004. Now let look at 2001, 2002, and 2011. Don't know what those year represent? I will tell you those are the first seasons of football for FIU, FAU, and UTSA. All teams we have an all-time losing record against. And you are preaching patience? Man if the administrators overseeing those programs where just as "patient" as you are asking UNT Alumni to be we would have another bowl game appearance by default by now. But hey these upstart programs are not joining an exclusive (we are above .500 facing UNT) club. Out of the 13 other teams in CUSA we have an all-time winning record against 2. ODU can join that non-exclusive "above 0.500 versus UNT Club" next Saturday. If they do will you be preaching more patience? I mean ODU didn't just jump up to FBS level yesterday. ODU has a long rich FBS level winning football tradition dating back to when my first grader was in preschool. SMH

Can't say that Cr1028. You can't take an Epic ass historical butt kicking and have questions. Just be thankful the coaching staff is approaching 0.500 overall. I paraphrase a response I received earlier base on a comparison offered: [If we are lucky we could be like USM and have Seth go to the NFL after posting a 9-5 record in year 3]. More than that be thankful an FBS program with that has spent millions improving virtually everything around the program can beat FCS teams in that new stadium. SMU, Houston, UTSA, and Rice alumni aren't "thankful" for beating FCS teams. I guess they are delusional. Hey let's schedule 3 FCS games a year to pad our win-loss record? Who cares if they shouldn't have the resources to really challenge us at Apogee? #OldDenton

Combination of everything. They looked unprepared to respond to the uptempo pace. Even the coaching staff missed an opportunity to end a FAU offensive possession after a non-fumble was advanced for a first down with a timeout. Even if they lose the challenge they were prepared for the next play so they needed a timeout anyway.

Questioning is not the same as advocating for the firing of the whole coaching staff. However they have won nothing. Fans around here have been waiting for this program to stack two good season together since Dickey's 2003 and 2004 seasons. Great for USM's former coach but not very good for USM so I don't get your point. USM regressed the next year and they have a positive football culture and history to draw upon. It has been a culture issue in the past and I don't want that to continue. This program cannot afford embarrassing record setting losses like this still recruit quality players consistently and draw fans. We don't question enough around here in my opinion and that maybe part of the reason RV hung around as long as did and a high school coach was hired as our head coach. Most alumni don't care about the details they just disregard the program as whole when they see scores like this and can you really blame them? So caring enough to question is not a bad thing, especially if you are spending money on the program.

The Boca Beat Down gives all the fans the right to question everything that is going on in the program. Like I will restate over and over the staff is 9-11 and 2 wins are over FCS competition. So they are 7-11 for through their first 18 games against FBS competition. And the majority here are poo-pooing questions about the wives’ tag along trip. A more rabid fan base would tell the coaches all to kick rocks right about now. If you aren’t concerned and have never been intimately involved with other successful FBS programs conducting business this way I don’t understand you. Losing is one thing getting throughly embarrassed by a rebuilding CUSA school is totally unacceptable. This program has very little credibility. And if I were CFB fan with ties to this school and wanting to involved, this nonchalant attitude and down voting reasonable and mild naysaying comments would turn me off. Nobody I invite wants to come to games. The few alumni that support the program financially have a right to criticize. With fan attitudes like this from the core, I am not hopeful. How many alumni have this program lost with performance like these over the years? Questioning is not assigning blame it a step in process to find solutions. Maybe if we had consistently questioned passionately enough we could have gotten someone with Seth’s experience instead of Todd Dodge back when Dodge was hired as head coach. Or gasp someone with Seth’s experience and Dodge hired as the OC.

shhh, culture doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to mention that. In totally unrelated news. There is lost elephant walking around Denton named Fan Apathy Denton animal control hasn't been able to corner the animal to this point citing poor visibility.